The Sun.
London, England, 1827-08-11 00:00:00

FORGED LETTERS OF CREDIT.

A system of forgery has been lately detected in
Portugal, where it has been carried on to a my
.treat extent, by a person who passes himself off in
-4ome places as the Hon. Mr. Howard, and in others
is. the Hon. Major Stanhope. When he adopts
the former name, he describes himself as the
nephew of Lord Howard de Walden, and says that
he is a Captain of the Lancers; when he is a Stalles
hope, he represents himself as a near relative to the
late eccentric nobleman. He has by impudence of
tddress contrived to get into his possession consider--
Able sums of money from some of the first firms in
Portugal, who believed him to he a gentleman of
rank, fortune, and character, until they found that
the recommendations which he presented to them
were all forgeries, and that. they were robbed of their
money. He managed to put letters directed-to the
houses in question into the Pest-offiee in London,
-ind to reach the destination of those letters as soon
As the letters themselves; and he contrived to be
the bearer of the duplicates, and to follow them up
oy an immediate application for cash. The letters
which he forged were to the following effect :--
London, 7th Eebruary, Oporto.
Sir,—We have this day given to the Honourable Mr.
Howard (a gentleman of the highest respectability, and of
noble connexions in this country, and who has been ad-
vised by his medical attendants to visit Portugal for the be-
nefit of his health) a letter of credit upon you for the
,um of 250/., which you will be pleased to pay to him on
11 our account, and which we hereby pledge ourselves to pay.
We are, &c. -
BARCLAY, TRITTON, and Co.

This depredator has obtained sums of money by
similar means at Lisbon, Brussels, Rotterdam, and
the Hague. Some of the London bankers were
astonished at receiving acknowledgments of the
letters presented by the Honourable Mr. Howard,
as the schemer designated himself. The police have
received orders to look after and the following
description is given of him :—A slight figure, be-
tween five feet seven and five feet eight, fair com-
plexion, very light hair, slightly marked with the
small-pox : has lost a front tooth, sometimes wore
mustachios, and is about 33 years of age.

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mercantile experience, and whose connexions
of barter,
between party and party, should have been so little adopted
in Mercantile .Arrangements. Our attention has been at-
tracted
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whi,l transactions in
of the advantages manner. As a proof
which will result from this mode of faci-
litating business, Importers of Wine will be afforded an op-
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establishedthisrespectability,
; and Shopkeepers retiring front business, may con-
vert such portion of their Stock as might otherwise prove
lifficult of disposal, into Wines, on application, personally,
or by letter, post-paid, to W.. F. SO, Nickolas-late, Lon.-
bud-gnat.