The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-16 00:00:00

THE WCW CLUB MOUSES IN WATER'
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John Hunter, e . man apparently about 28 years
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of age, of respectable appearance, was indicted for It generally understood that ,Mr.:Nash, as the
canting and procuring to be forged an acceptance to Architect of Regent-street, was intrusted. with
a bill of exchange for 501., purporting to be the the designsdesigns of the internal elevatiOd'of the'UAite
acceptance of George Henry Hunter. Service Club-house
. as well as that of the;Athi-
'lleum Club, which. 'were .to be. as much, as pol.':
Mr. James Morley resides in Sidmouth-street,
Gray's-inn-lane, and keePs a grocer's shop; had
!, Bible symmetrical and uniform.; .. Withlespect tb ' known the prisoner fox many years; .he called, on
witness .hi Noieinbecia‘t, 'and -milked him if be the internal arrangements, Mr. Nash had. -th6so
knew of a house and shop-to be disposed of; gavel of the tnited Service Club-lionii.onlypi4iiice4
him the addreis of one he bad in the neighbourhood. to his charge.: while Mr. Burton,. was, ,_Select-as •
He went
,to look ;at it, and returned. the same slay, the Architeet of the interior of Atha'
Viii.-i,tness.,o,..- first' 'inspected Mr. Nash's design's; ' they" were
and said it would exactly suit him.. He theta pro- nmum,• and of its external- decorations -only}
posed to give's-lAll of exchange. for 40i., the amotih_nt. When the building committee of the-latter Club
which- witness asked for the. shopr .
. struck' with the absurdity of a propopm..
jected to that mode of payment, • and on his saying - . ,
portico,-
that the bill would be the acceptance • .of his' cousin,
George Henry Hunter, Esq., a respectable merchant
whichN was. to be attached. to the . sideL next ta
'
in Cateaton-street, city, witness told the prisoner he Pall all of each building, having the .ettnie
would prefer seeing Mr.. Hunter before he took the proportions and dimensions, .althotigk the, front
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bill, and prisoner thereupon proposed that they. age towards that street of the 'one- be jiiaili
should go together to his cousin's the neat morning, double that
.of the other building. At'a :bon-
Witness accordingly went there, and saw the prisoner ference with the CommissiOners of Woods and
a
at the door, and was informed by him that his eau-
Forests, this incongruity being pointed.
out by
sin was not then at home. They proceeded to-
noble Lord, well• known-for his-taste' in .
of the buildingcommitteo
the arm;
gether into the counting-house, and on the pri-
was- ob=
.
sorter's asking what time. his cousin would re-
and an active member
turn, some person in the office said, " Not be-
of, the Athenteuna,-a positive- promise,
fore one o'clock." Witness returned home, and, saw tained from Mr. Nash, that the portico should be.
the prisoner again in the afternoon, and was in-. doneawayaltogether in theelevation of biatlx ehabr, ,
formed by him that he had seen his cousin, and houseS., Some .little delay having occurred. in
the clearing of the ground belonging to'the
ins
Athenaeum, the-erection!" of the Unitted'Service'
that he had agreed to accept the bill on the follow-
ing morning. Prisoner then proposed to get a
Club.:house was proceeded in tong enough hefpre:
stampiand that witness should drawon Mr. Hunter
for 504 instead of 401.2 -as he wanted the difference,
that of the opposite Club; to show that its Ar-
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chitect meant not to adhere his promise ; for
and• he offered to take it and get accepted himself.'
to • ,
up started that. delightful specimen of double
'Witness drew the bill and gave it to the prisoner,
who shortly after: brought it back With an accept?
ance upon it, purporting to be that of Mr. George .portiCoi (where none was to have existed vvhich.
Henry. Hunter. Witness gave him the 101.. differ- the public have been- staring at fur the last few .
ence, and said be would give him possession of the months; while the Pall-mall front of the Athe.
shop in two days. Before the prisoner -ment away, .
nmum exhibits no such decoration. Enamoured
he assured him that, the bill was accepted by his of his own conception, it is possible that Mr.
cousin, whom they had called.•to sae on the morn- Nash had not the courage to suppress that fea-
ing before. Witness then asked the prisoner to in-
dorse the bill. He requested him to: put his mark in
ture his own building which he had beet
on it, as he could not then
:see to write,: Witness compelled to relinquish in that of the Athenaeum;
'passed the bill to a Mr. Hale, in Judd-street, but and thus has he departed from the assurance, •
it was returned to him as a forgery. Witness then given at the Board of Woods and Forests to my
caused the prisoner to be apprehended. Lord L— and F—, of strictly preserving
Cross-examined by Mr. CLARKsON--Did not the uniformity of design in the two buildings
know that the prisoner was blind. He could not have which are to form so conspicuous an ornament
been so, as he saw the money when he placed it on to the termination of his own street. That Mr.
the counter. '1 he prisoner is a musician, and he Nash himself must now' regret ever having
upon
de-
knew that he was near-sighted.
agreed. , we
Mr. George Henry Hunter examined—ls a ware- viated from the plan originally .
house-man in Cateaton-street. Had known the pri-
feel perfectly convinced; for most assuredly the.
soner at the bar many years; was a third cousin of .presence of such a pair of porticos not only
his. The acceptance to the bill of exchange now pro- exposes him to the damning pasquinade inter-
duced is not witness's hand writing, nor did he give rogatory. of old, " Care colonne cheflie- ma p" -
the prisoner at the bar any authority to accept the but has damaged -the architect's reputation As a
bill in his name. _ man. of taste. • •

OLD BAILEY, JAN. 15.

Cross-examined by Mr. CLARKSON—The prisoner
has not been blind since his biith, but he has been
very near-sighted, and obliged to grope his way
about. He could not read nor write, and was
brought up as a blind musician, under Mr. Purkis,
I,vhois also blind. He thought that from his man-
ner of life he could have had no knowledge of bills
of exchange. .
Mr. Jos. Jackson
.lives at No. 102, St. John's-
street ; the prisoner applied to him the beginning •of
December, to write his name across the bill for
him, as he was nearly blind; asked him his name,
and he replied " Ceorge Henry Hunter." The ac-
ceptance on the bill of exchange produced is wit-
ness's handwriting : had written something for the
prisoner before.
The prisoner, when called on for kis defence; ad-
mitted.tbathe had got Mr. Jackson to accept 'the
bill for him; but said he did not knoir *hat beyias
doing at the time... • • •
Ishe Jury returned • verdict of Not Guilty.
• Robert Richardson, aged 28, was indicted for
stealing a waistcoat, value -10 s., the 'property of
Mark Benjamin and Co., clothes-salesmen, iu

We would fain now say a word or two to Mr.
Burton, the clever Architect of the Athenteum,
respecting the frieze or fascia of has reliefs,
which he has introduced in that.building.. That
it is totally misapplied, is not the worst _part of
the transaction. Its position, at an elevation of
nearly, fifty feet from the pavement, when it ii
notorious that the original was wrought of such
dimensions as would suit an elevation of not
quite thirty feet, under - the portico, of the Par-
thenon; bespeaks a much greater want• of judg-
ment ; and must alone mar the intended effect
of so beautiful a production of the imaginative
genius of Grecian sculpture.— Weekly.".peview::

SHIPPING INTELLI9ENCIL

LIVERPOOL
WI DN DAY,
_JANVAYY. 1 C.—Wind N.1L.,•-'-e-TAg4
water 49 minnteS past ; .frec.,-..,Arrii-sd the Reit;*
lvri froM lierbics;. A:znyiti;3lk.. E.Y.S.zus, from Now
York ; Henry Tyke,. Blimp' from New,',Orktausf,:Coral,
—, from New Orleans; 'Oarolioe; Lore, from Buo-
no Ayres;. Draw, —7,--. from Baltimore; Trantiet
, from Newport; Vlaarding Hoop, Vslitt frost
Rotterdam.

Maryleborn;.- • •
The Jury, without hesitation, found the prisoner
Guilty.
At five o'clock the COMMON-SERIEANT informed
the Jury, that in consequence of the Recorder hav-
ing gone to Windsor to attend his Majesty's Coun-
cil; to make his report, the Court must be adjourned,
as Mr. Sergeant Arabin would preside in the Old
Court ; and it was adjourned accordingly until nine
o'clock to-morrow, this day.

Sailed—The Ceres, Miller, for Leghorn';: Belle.
fur New Orleans ; Sir James Kettipt, Martin, fur &wan-
nah ; Wilberforce, Dench, for Trieste; , William Macdo-
nald, M'Leod, for New Orleins ; Heary'Kneeland,
for Nevi:York ; Kremlin; Wood; for 'Ftoilton ;"`
die, for Derbyhaven; Ats/anto, Cubblzi, rcir-Derbyhavea
Al'lntoah, fur Genoa.

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