Star.
London, England, 1802-05-03 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY.

On Satorday, Ilmrry Cod was indided for hav-
ing felonioufly made, forged, and counterfeited,
three feveral papers, porporing to be letters or
powers of attorney of William Storey, Efq. of
Chatham, in the county of 'Kent, deceafed. to
transfer feveral (urns of money in the Stocks or
Funds of the Bank of England, and for uttering,
publithing, and making ule of the fume, knowing
them to he fo forged, and thereby cheating and
defrauding the Governor and Company of the
flank of England, of the turn of yoools and up-
wards,. &c.
Phis
I • • from •
cafe, its peculiar nature, the number
of Witnelles examined, and the length to which
their examinations ran, neceffarily occupied the
attention of the Court a confiderable time. How-
ever, its lea,ling merits may be colleded from the
following conifenfed recital.
It appears that the Prifoner, who is an Attor-
ney by-profeCflon, was a near relation of the late
Mr. Storet, of Chatham, from whom be had a
power to receive the dividends payable upon cer-
tain property which he poffeffed in the Funds.—
Mr. Storey died on the 14th of Aegoft, aot,
leaving, as he imagined, certain turns in the three
and four per cents. and alto the Turn of yoool. in
the five per tents, which any:tied from memoran-
dums to that effed being found among his papers
by the executors. Mr. Storey had bequeathed
feveral legacies to different perfons, who in Tome
time after his death applying for them, it appear-
ed that a Mr. Jefferies, the ailing Executor, drew
up a plan for difeharging the fame, in which he
appropriated turns in the different funds fur the
payment of particular legacies, and among them
the property of 70001. in the five per cents. was
included.

copy of which was ptcdneekl in Court, was fhewn 1
to and cried by the l'amer, who .o led for the j
Executors in town ; hut Co far lion. .!ating to Mr. I
Jefreries that Mr. Storey's property i I the live per
cents. had been fold, lie wrote him two or three
letters, in ont.r to dilinade him frogs felling it,
until after Chriflmas, Char the le;;•arces mitzlt have
the benefit of the growing dividends. This was
agreed to by the Executors, and the trawler was!
pollponed till after that period, whets it was cic-
termined to carry the provifions • ( the will into
effca. On application being ma . to the Bank
however, for that purpofe, they ver._ aaonifbed
to find that the whole of the 70c;,. five per cents.
had been fold out at different ot.:lds, by the Pri-
foner, under the pretended aue-pCty of the forged
letters or powers of attorney, il.--:d in the india-
went, which he alledged bad ::.•,:n executed to
him by Mr. Storey, and that the lalt of it was
I transferred in tl -.latter end of Augult toot.

One of theft ‘..!s produced in particular, and
Mt. Jefferies abi . mentioned depofed, that to the
bell of his belief, ;:1- name fubfcribed was not the
handwriting of his lend the late Mr. Storey.—
The name of Mr. S.'s co.ichman was fubjoined as
one of the fubfcribing Wit nelles ; but, on being
brought forward, he denkd it to be his writing,
or that he lucl ever witneired any paper for Mr.
Storey.--The name of BAN), purporting to he
that of another fubfcribing Witnefs, and dekribed
as a Wharfinger at Colchetler, alto appeared to be
fi6litious, as feveral perfons from that quarter
Hated that no perfon of that name and defcription
had relided there for the laft thirty years.—To
prove the uttering on the part of the prifoner, and
his telling out the property in quellion, theTranf
ter Books were daily produced, and feveral of the
Clerks proved the identity of the Prifoner's per-
fon, &c. _ _

The prifoner, when called upon for his defence,
addreifed the Jury. He lamented his inability, and
the regret he fat that his counfel were precluded
by law the performance of that talk. He reminded
the Jury, that in this cafe no hope beyond their
verdia could be expthcd; that upon the event td
their decifion depended whether a fellow-creature
Ihould be reftored to fociety, or configned to in-
famy and certain death. He argued with confi.'
derable force on the evidence, and that the proof
of the difference in the hand-writing of Capt. Sto.
ref was no proof of its being a forgery, for that
they might well fuppbfe, as the fat% was, that a
man of the age of 8o years, afflicted as Capt. Sto-
rey had been, would differ in the characters he
made every time he took a pen in hand ; but whe-
ther it was a forgery or not, he contended that it
had come into his hands regularly, and that he
had acted upon it accordingly. That from the
confidence placed in him by the deceafed (which
had been clearly fliewn) he had given him the
aflthority over his property, and as long as he
kept the dividends paid, it was all the deceafed re-
quired of him, relying upon his honour to replace
the flock when called upon fo to do.
Many of the moll refpeetable perfons (among
whom were Sir Andrew Hammond, Mr. Alder-
man Price, and Mr. Mainwaring ) gave the prifoner
a moft excellent and exemplary character.
Lord Chief Jullice ELLENBOItOUOI4 flated the
evidence to the Jury, and taid it was a cafe of pe-
culiar anxiety, from the rank and character of the
prifoner: and there were few men what: charafters
could have been more. favourably or highly de.
fcribed—but charaCter would avail only in doubt-
ful cafes. After various other obfervations, the
Jury retired, and found the prifoner
The prifoner concluded himfelf with great corn-
pofure throughout the trial, and when the verdhll
was given, he bowed moll refpeafully to the Court
and Jury, and retired from the bar with much
firmnefs.

The prifoner is of genteel appearance and po-
lifhed manners, and his family and friends are of
the greatest refpeetability.
Four were conviFted of felony, viz.
Ifizach for healing a filver watch and other
articles, the property of J.
W. Wairfidd, for 'leafing a thin, the property of
W. Rooke. .

7. Gitltrutt, for flealing three pocket handker.
chiefs, the property of Elizabeth Alton.
J. Gillur, for ilealing a filk handkerefief, the
property of E. Butteidhaw.
And one acquitted, viz. yaw: Co!bar.
William Henry Smelter, a-genteel looking young
man, was indided fur having had forged ain't:
notes in his poirelfion, and pleaded Guilty. He
was afterwards capitally indiaed for uttering
filmed notes, but the Counfel for the profecutinn
Paid it was not the intention of the Bank to prole.
cute him on this indidment, from certain confide-
rations, which appeared to them to be proper.

At the Salons Houle Clerkenwell, on Saturday,
Sufannah Tourney was toiind guilty of knowing-
ly uttering a counterfeit half guinea, and fentenced
to twelve months imprifonment, and to find lure-
ties for her good behaviour for two years more.—
Two other perfons were feverally convicted of
knowingly uttering counterfeit money, and were
each fentenced to fix months imprifonment. One
of them pleaded gyilty.
At Chalet Axes Jofeph Stoneboufe, alias John
Smith, received fentence of death for forgery ; as
did Edward Woolley, alias William Radford, for
burglary; Thomas Butterfworth, for Reeling a
calf ; and Nanny Nightingale, and James Kip-
wood, for Reeling various articles out of fhops.
Thomas Rufhton was ordered to be tranfported
for 14 years, on fufpicion of forgery, and numerous
perfons were fentenced to other punithments ;
amongfl whom an American, named Sarah Bax-
ter, alias Sufannah Brickell, was ordered to be
tranfported for (even years, fot privately convey-
ing away the fon of George Bradwell, two years
old; and William Smith was ordered to be impri-
foned three years, for having married Martha
Holley, his former wife being kill alive.
A Coroner's Jury fat on Saturday evening on
the bodies of the two unfortunate men who were
killed on Thurfday, at the New Church, in
the Strand, and brought in a verdia—Accidental
Death. One of them, who %tab a very young