The Sun.
London, England, 1819-09-20 00:00:00

KEYS OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND.

.Eiszabeth' Dunham was then pat to the bar,
charged with stealing two keys, the, property of
the GOvernor and Company at the• Bank of li.lng.
land, on the 28th•of August.
The prisoner pleaded guilty tl the fact of taking
the keys, but would riot admit that it was a theft.
She was respectably dressed, and While Mr. Bo-
sanquet was. stating the ease, ap;)earcii to pay
great attention to him, lie said the only object
at the Bank itt bringing.forward this prosecution
was, that the prisoner might be sent to a place
where site could Ie taken proper care of. It ap-
peared that when her room was searched, there
were found not less than 4,000 keys, Arnong
them were the keys of the Church Missionary So.
ciet y, of the counting•bouse of
the D‘tke of York's School, the padlock of Green-
wich war ch•house, the key of the College of Phy-
sicians, of tire Royal Exchange. the Temple
'lairs, coon! y prison, Maidstone-gaol, the Council-
loom, and many others. They were
all ticketed, and the d'a'y carefully recorded on
which,they were taken. Ir, Bosanquet having
closed the case,
" Shack well, the porter of the Bank, was called
for the purpose of identifying the keys, which
Lasing done, the prisoner requested that they
Might be Rot into her hands for the purpose of
ascertaining whether they ere the same found in,
her roots. This being allowed, the moment the
poor woman got thtm into her possession, she ex-
claimed, with to air. of high satisfaction and
Iriamph, 6t Now I haFe got them, 1 sisal! hold
them for the rights of my King, my country, and
myself." She then Wrapped them tip earefislly in
a pocket handkerchief, and said nothirt.g should
inittn‘e her to give theM op but a free pardon from
the. Prince Regent.

The constable whO searched her todgiogs was
then examined. Ile stated that I,e tOt;nd there,
not less than 4000'keys,ali of which were labelled,
ex-pt about 200;
Be,,ng cal:ed upon for her defence, she said that
she had done all this ; that she bad (alien all the
keys for her own tights, which she could not
otherwise obtain. She thought that by doing so
she would secure her own rights as well as those
of her country, as the persons %I to own them
would thereby be obliged to come forward and do
her j9st ice.
I`dr..l,)stice RI:.:HANDSON.—Have you any wit-
nesses ,t o call ?
Prisoner-71 don't know that I have ; I see no
witnesses. 1 have got many relations, but no
friends.

The Jury,under the direction of the Court, ac-
vitted the prisoner upon the ground of insanity.
She was, however, deta;ned, for the purpose of
beiug,talccpihe proper.care of which her hittiation
rupired.

IRGE OF RAPE.

Samuel mills, a nun (it gentletnithly appearance,
Caemaio in the Atmny, was emit to rt,e bar to take
his trial on' an indictruCtit, charging him with vio-
rving the persittir flitimah Whitehtiro, n spin-
:;ter, Chf:ls'ea; on the 29th of July last.—
Wliftehorn-, the proecottrix, an. inte-
iesting looking, girl, tn-mrs• put ,into the witnesses'
b9x and swm.rn., She stated that alter-teas

sfreen years oregi, "find went to lire r ith the
prisoner as servant on the 28th of.Tidv. She they
%vela un to.describe the circumstances which pre'
ceded and followed the violence of which site corn'
planted. In the coarse of lief' eximinitinn, bow'
ever, she made such disclosures as deafly provell►.
that if the offence had been at all c,,mmitted,
had been herself a consenting agent, and did not
make the slightest resistance, nor did she make
any disclosure until the 1211. of Angust of tvhAt'
had passed, although she bad repeated opportu-
nities of doing so.
Mr. Baron GARROW said, it was imptißsible to
give credit to such a witness, and the prisoner "214'
insranily acqui!ted.
Mr. Baron tißattam, under all the eircumstanreg,
was of opinion, that the whole rasa foul impu-
tation on the character of the Gentleman at the
bar.—Mr. Mills bowed and retired.

Mary Ann limiter was indicted for stealing four
bottles of wine in the dwelling-house of Sir.
Robert Seppings. The prisoner lived servant with
the prosecutor, It was observed that wine was.
frequently stolen from the cellar; but not witl,stanrif
ing the utmost vigilance, the (hint remained nip-
discovered. At length, on the 3d June, the prisoner
and the footboy being in the house alone, the htret
detected the former in opening a wardrobe door,
in which the keys of the cell ir were deposi!cd,
by means of a piece of crooked wire, with which

she drew the bolts. .The boy rerhonstrated with
her on what she was doing, upon which she said,
she thought it was no s7n to.fob hfr r mistress, at
she was none of the best of mistri'sses.' She then
took the keys, :vent to the celFar, and took otat
foor bottles of wine. She afierwaids twinned the,
keys to the plifce from wheoce she had ,alc,:o themsl
re-!astened ..he door by the same means tS ith which

site opened it, and on returnitt;:t to the kitaeo,
drank one bottle of the wine.—Guilty:

MIDDLESLX SESSIONS.

FORGERY 01V THE BANK OF DRONTHEIn.
Saturday Peter Molfer, a tor.:ltfroit-r; vke, i. ctect
for teksnionsly eittleavout tug lii iv ocurt- H. C. i
coprt plate block to be el+ 4rvil and .d... to.
repre4nt the promissory notes of st,e ;tf.'
DronthriM, in Norway. The indictment coot oilica.
fifteen counts, and was fr,med according to the;
*emotional form, agteetl upon and embodied, hi
(4-sent of the Soverei;4ns of Europe.,
Act, Arlrick received their sanction at the CongrcaM
of Vicuna, .

Ms.
,REYNotms stated the case to the
Mr. Robert Scott, engraver, residing in the Strand, s!ateda
that on the 27th of last lay the prisoner calif d nt. n
and inquired it he could execute sonic curious eagrarii,,,, tor
him, fur which he would agree to pay.a large sum of moneyi
if they were finished to his satisfaction. Mr. Scott agreed to
make atretiat to please his new costumer, and desired to be'
furnished with :the necessary instroctions respeiting
curious engraving whith the stranger wished to have done..
Tin, latter said, would call in a few days, and bring old!!
him the pattern wh:ch he wished to have eopie,.. Accord':
ingly, in a few days, the prisoner c tiled a second that'
and presented -to Mr. Scott what struck him at the in-.
stant to be a foreign bank note, desiring h m to make
plate exactly resemblitig the copy he bad shown hives
and saying, if the copy was -wel done, he would pal
handsomely for the work, and neii:::;,s have further hosinesi.
for the engraver. Mr. Scott agreed to undertake the wink,
but said, he merely Aid so with a view to detect the parts'?
whom he strongly suspected at the time to be eonteMplatinit
stnnething that was Ins& He therefore kept the note erhietv
.the prisoner presegted to him as the copy for the new engra-
ving, and which, on'subsequent inquiry in the city, he
tanned to be a genuine promissory note of the Bank of thou.;
tbeim. in Norway, and payalila for a sum of about 355. LL-it ists
currency. The prisoner said he should want aboutfitloo.copie*
o! the new engraving struck off: and Mr. Scott also understood'
on so large a scale was this work arrangiog, t hat two other fee'
reigners. were endeavouring to engage artists in the atetropoljk.
to make engraved copies from genuine notes, purpoitingfo tie
of the same bank, and the orders which these parties had 'tr.!
ranged, if they had succeeded their olfeet, would hare eiWg'.
each of the three, ir the course of- one month, forgeries Of'
the Drontheim Bank-to the amount of 8000!. sterling: the-,111"
tinaate operation of which, if thrown into circulation ir, Nor°
way, would Mire: been most fatal to the;N:essii,gilin trader*
on the coast. Mr. Scott said, that the moinent he had of to.
the bettom,.as he thought, of the prisoner% r:•a intenti o?
he had determined to go on with the work so far as the egj
cution of the plate, not to deliver it to the prisoner; brit to
detect and bring him-to public justice. Vie there:ore
molested with Baron Sternit, the Swedish Envoy, ao''
apprised him from time to time of his •progress' in the
plate, and of his repeated visits from the prisoner
Mr. Scott was not aceurztely informed of the Itr,,ceetlioste
of the other two.fureigners, who vv,ne endrarouring to r'":
cure prates, the SaVedigh Envoy wrote to Drontheim, to Pn:
the bank there on hs guard, atrd to secure the 'violets again"
the extensive fraud which was contemplated. As soon, !:ov.'
ever, s.s Mr. Scott had got all the infatuation he coniii-froa
the erisoner, and kept the engraving on his hands as 104
as the patience of the latter would hold out means were 000
take!) to secure him, and destroy his whole scheme of coil"
templated fraud.
Two witnesses proved the translation of the note, as srs
forth in the indictment, to be correct, and the note given bc
the prisoner to Mr. Scott to be a genuine one of the Bank
Drontheim.

The prisoner's Counsel made an attempt to quash the itr
dietment, by ,urging objections against the iurn of the notes°
applicable to its description, as set forth in the indictment,
but they were over-ruled.

The jury found the prisoner 'Guilty, and the Court Woe*,
diately sentenced hint to one year's iniprisownebt in the Hass'
of Correction.

ASSAULTS.

A fellow, named John Clfford Easha, was convicited of
most brutal as,ault upon a poor woman, whose head he back
cut in several places with a poker, so as to fracture her
and in one place to obtrude a part of the brains. The 00%
woman would, in all probability, have died of her wouroft#
were it not for the care which. had been taken of her by 117
summit.

i ire prisoner, after rectirint; a severe lecture, front 'ale
Court, was sentynced to twelve months' imprisonment in thif,
of Correction. and then to find security to keep the'
peace, fur seven years.
lIHRACHES OF THF: PEACE.

A stupid looking old fellow, named Crampton, whowisabt
tired in tattered old black clothes, was put to the bare arid airLs
tides of the peace exhibited against him by a.tadrof vast
Sloane-lit reef, Chelsea, who had been annoyed by hitwfor qty
time. He was in the habit of takimg his station in'friint cif t'_,„2"
lady's horse; .and following_ her wherever-she went,
of love and piers-. She was at length obliged 'to take ants.
mode .of getting rid of the pions exhortations and aniorets%
attentions which the old would-be-protector was so liss:istl:
obtrinling upon her. He was a colder, who resiidOd
neighbourhood, and about twice at least the age of the
The (:14siitsiaN asked him how he could'think of ininoP
a lady in Ali* manner, and presume to continue his VligN
ance for month atter month, notwithstanding the nieinslb
hart been taken to get rid of him.
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The prisoner pretended to he deaf, but persons whoknell
him said he had very convenient auricular organ of wb'eW "
pleased. bi
The Court desired. one of the prison-keepers to ten bird .A
must enter into sureties, himself in 501. and two ntheWol.
1t)1. each, to keep the peace for this year, o. in default
finding liken) he twist go hack to prison.
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The prisoner then appeared suddenly to fall into fiestelear*
of his hearing, and sold he now knew he bad coMmitt,
great error, and he was very sorry for it. He also Wit
assure the lady, who sat with her mother and sister ore
bench, that be-would desist from his visits in future. ess
The Court; hots-every-ordered him to enter iuto the De.
sary sureties, or bet emanded to prison.______„4o,

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