The Sun.
London, England, 1829-08-17 00:00:00

FORGERY.

A very important investigation has been going on
for several days before Sir RICHARD BIRNIE, the
Chief Police Magistrate of Bow-street office, re-
specting a very extensive forgery which was recently
committed on the Bank of England. The discovery
of the forgery took place some time ago, and it was
ascertained that nearly 2,0001. had been realized by
the persons who had committed the offence, but no
clue was obtained that was likely to lead to the de-
tection of the guilty party till a few days ago. The
transaction had been managed with such skill and
adroitness, that the money was paid at the Bank of
England without the slightest suspicion being enter-
tained of the genuineness of the instrument upon
which it was obtained.

The forged instrument was a cheque or warrant,
purporting to be an order of the Commissioners of
Customs, for the payment of 1,7901., and it was in
the usual form, and the signatures affixed to it ap-
peared to be those of the Commissioners of Customs.
The cashier at the Bank of England paid the money
to the person who presented the cheque, in notes of
1001. and 2001. value.

The Commissioners of the Customs were of opi-
nion that the forgery had been committed by some
person connected with their establishment, and some
inquiries having been made, suspicion fell upon one
of the clerks, named Richard Hughes Junes, who
was in pecuniary embarrassment before the forgery
was committed, and immediately afterwards was
observed to be in the possession of large sums of
money. An officer received orders to take Mr. Jones
into custody, and when the prisoner was apprehended
he was brought before Sir Richard Birnie, at Bow-
street office, where he underwent a private examina-
tion on Saturday evening.
The Solicitor of the Customs and two of the
Commissioners attended on behalf of the prosecu-
tion, and an attorney appeared for the prisoner. lie
is a young man of gentlemanly appearance. The
evidence to implicate him in the transaction was not
only that of his recently possessing large sums of
money, but it was stated by the gentlemen who ap-
peared for the prosecution, that on a future day they
should be able to produce evidence tracing the pos-
session of one of the hundred pound notes which
was paid at the Bank of England, when the forged

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cbeqtie w.ts presented, into the prisoner's possession.
The gentleman who paid the money at the Bank
of England admitted tint the prisoner was not the
person who presented the forged cheque.
Sir R.BuL.Nanobserved, that it was not likely that
the individual who committed the forgery, the ad-
vertisement of whose description would lead in all
probability to the detection, would' be so insane as
to present the cheque himself for payment..
The solicitor for the prosecution said, that if the
prisoner was remanded, the witnesses should be in
readiness on a future day.
Sir R. BIRNIE ordered the prisoner to be re-
manded, and to be re-examined iiext week.

NEW'$ FROM THEAEATRE OF WAR.

. BERLIN, AUG. 10.—The Journal de St. Peters-
burgh gives the following report addressed by Count
Diebitsch to the Emperor from the ramp at Der-
wish•-Jowan, 21st July.,-eespecting the passage of the
Kamtchik. In addition to the account given by us
in our number of the 3d instant, it says that in the
action which General Roth's corps had on the I9th
July in passing the river, and the subsequent taking
of the Turkish camp, Ibrahim Paella, who com-
manded there, was killed. The conclusion of the
report says—
" To-day, the 9th (21st), the corps of General
Rudiger is in Aiwadschik, and his van-guard in Ser-
ketsch ; General Roth's corps is intjerekisdere,
and his vanguard in Paliobano and &Mine, se-that
the summits of the Great Balkan areitt -our hands.
The corps of Count Pahien is advancing. on the
road of Aiwadschik, and will halt ttp-44 little river
Fonduklidere, where it is intended:to have the
bead-quarters to-day. The enemy has attempted
nothing against the corps ".ri General Krassowsky.
. On the 7th (19th),
-rhe Grand Vizier, with .5,000
cavalry, appeared., on the heights, upon the right
. bank of the I];crie river Jerekli, in sight of the van-
guard Of Tieutertant-General Prince Mudatow, b'it
did '-attack him. Having made his observations
7.--this point for some time, he left some outposts
on. the right bank of the Jerekli, and returned to
Shumla."
The St. Petersburg/2 Gazette gives a very long
account of the battle of the 11th of June bet teen
- Coetnt Diebitsch -and the army of the Grand Vizier.
His Majesty the Emperor has sent the insignia
of the order-of St. Andrew, in diamonds, with a
most gracious rescript, to Count Paskewitsch, as a
recompense . for his late victory over the Seraskier
of Erseroum.--=Prursian State Gazette, Aug. 10.
kyruto the Nurentburg Courier of Peace and War.)
BISTRITZ, JULY 22.—The Pandours in Little
Wallachia have succeeded in making themselves
masters of the town of Lom, below Widdin, and
have kept it in spite of repeated attacks of the
Turks. This corps of 3,000 men has already proved
itself so useful, that the President Soltuschin has
issued orders for increasing it by 2,000, and for that
g.lyurpose to relieve an equal number of the inhabitants
of two districts from taxes, and enlist them for the
military service. During the last month the Turkish
army has lost many men by the plague, arid this cir-
eurnstance may induce the Sultan, more than any
diplomatic 'representation., to listen to the proposals
for peace made by the French and English Ambas-
sadors at Constantinople.
VIENNA, AUG. s.—Metalliques 991; Bank Share,
Zeitung, Aug. 10.
JASSY, JULY 10.—The march of the Austrian
troops from Dalmatia towards &snick and Sernlin,
where, it is said, they are to take up their position,
has given rise to various reports. We believe,
however, that the assemblage of these troops at
thoseloints has no other object than to strengthen
the sanitary cordon, a measure which is the more
prudent as the contagion still prevails in the adjoin-
ing countries. Our city and its environs have not
suffered much hitherto, which is the most form.
nate, as the weather is at present by no means fa-
vourable for the extermination of the evil.
TEE HAGUE, AUG. 11. —The Grand Duchess
Helen, Consort of the Grand Duke Michael, con-
tinues to visit the public establishments, and in
general every thing remarkable in this place.
The English Admiral, Sir Sidney Smith, who is
. tow here, will make a trial to-morrow of his appa-
ratus for saving the lives of persons shipwrecked,
in presence of his Excellency the Minister of Ma-
rine, at Scheveningen.
The Count de Saldanha, Chamberlain, and the
Countess of Hagapipe, Lady of Honour to the
Empress of Brazil, arrived at Bruges on the 9th.—
Brussels Papers, Aug. 14.