Star.
London, England, 1821-08-04 00:00:00

POLICE.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—ALLEGED FORGERY ON
THE .PRUSSIAN BA N K.—Yesterday, the examination
of Mr. Goalston and Air. Newman was resumed.
when Mr. ALLAY attended as Counsel for the latter,
and a Solicitor for the former. Twelve o'clock was
the time appointed for the attendance of the whole of
the parties, at which time Mr. ALLEY punctually at-
tended; and it was expected that Mr. MAYNARD,
Solicitor to the Bank of England, together with the
Prussian Arnl.assador, would have attended, but Mr.
Mays/ can did not arrive until half-past one, whert
he came alone Prior to this time some dissatisfac-
tion was expressed by the Counsel and Solicitors for.
the defendants, as detaining them from their ordi-
nary business, and keeping the defendants in sus-
pense, they being all ready for having the case en-
tered into. The Magistrate, G. B. MA INWARING.
Esq. concurred with them in the unpleasantness of
being detained, when Mr: ALLEY, as Counsel for Mr.
Newman, appealed to the Magistrate as to the pro-
priety of holding Mr. Newman to bail, as he was a
most respectable man, and had been innocently led
into the affair.
Mr. MAINWA RING regretted very much that he
could not comply with the request of Mr. Alley__
Ile would pay the strictest attention to the interests
of the defendants, but in the absence of the Solici-
tor for the support of the prosecution, he must aban-
don the idea.
Mr. Newman's Solicitor thought it rather cruel,
considering his respectability.
The Magistrate could do nothing but postpone the
case for their attendance.
Mr. Foy, of the Bank, stated, that he saw Mr. May-
nard with the Prussian Ambassador that morning,
and they promised positively to be there at the time.
Mr. ALLEY thought that attention should be paid
to him as well as to the Bank, and it would not be
irregular to discharge the parties in their absence. It
was not because the Bank was affluent that they
thould be indulged more than poorer persons.
Mr. MAINWA RING could pursue no other course
than taking the evidence, until the arrival of Mr.
siaynard.
Mr. ALLEY inquired whether there was any evi-
fence to prove an intention to defraud on the part of
Mr. Newman?—Mi. Foy—No only as to finding
the articles in his house.
Mr. AL LEY then submitted that he had committed
•no offence. Ile was merely employed to print the
notes in the course of his business, and lie did them
hi an open and plain manner in his shop, from which
it was evident that he was not aware of the nature of
the articles he was executing, and consequently could
have no intention to defraud. Ire was paid only the
regular price for printing them. The only course for
them to adopt would be to allow Mr. Newman to be-
come a witness against the parties who employed him,
for the purpose of convicting them.
The men employed by Mr. Newman attended, and
stated that they had no idea what the notes were
for when they were printing them. Mr. Newman
and themselves were only paid for them at a regular
trade-working price, according to the labour.
By this time Mr. MAYNARD, the Solicitor for the
Bank, arrived. After some di-course with Mr. AL-
LEY, Mr. MAYNARD had no objection to allow Mr.
Newman to become a witness, but said he had been
guilty of a misdemeanour in ~rinting the notes.
Here it is necessary to rectify a trifling error which
crept into the report yesterday, in Mr. Foy's evi-
dence, which arose from the bustle which took place
at the commencement of it.

Mr. Foy now stated, that there was no suspicion
whatever entertained on the part of the Bank ..f Eng-
land that Mr. Newman was any way concerned in
the printing of other notes; on the contrary, h ren-
dered every facility in his power, on the arrival of
the officers in his house, to assist them in the pursuit
of their object, and the property seized was lying
about in the most undisguised manner.
The defendants were now brought in, and the evi-
dence taken yesterday was read over by Mr. Fitzpa-
trick, the Chief Clerk, when several questions were
put to the witnesses, to ascertain how far the parties
were involved in the affair. The foreigner said he
never gave instructions to Mr. Goulston where to have
the notes printed. Ile corresponded with LudJ.
Mr. MAYNARD, at the suggestion of Mr. ALLEY,
had no objection to take bail for Mr. Newman's ap-
pearance for a future hearing. He expected further
evidence. The Office was excessively crowded, and
the same persons who were present at the former exa-
mination were now in attendance.
The books of Mr. Newman were produced, to shew
that he regularly inserted the number of notes as
they were executed, and also the regular demand.—
The books of Mr. Goulston were also produced on
this occasion.

Mr. Newman procured bail, who were present in
the Office—himself in 0200, and two in .ClOO each,
nn condition that he should appear at the Sessions,
and likewise to appear at that Office in a fortnight,
when it is expected he will be made a witness in the
proceedings.
Mr. Gonlston was remanded to the same day.
Mr. MAINWARINO inquired of him whether he had
every accommodation in the place he was confined
in?—lle answered in the affirmative.
GuiLtinett..—CAUTION.—IMPOSITION ON PRO-
VESSIoNAL GENTLEMEN.—A young man of vet y re-
spectable appearance and good address was charged
with obtaining money under false pretences. Mr.
Crawley, of the Inner Temple, Solicitor, stated that
the prisoner introduced himself to him in the early
part of May, representing himself to have been re-
duced by misfortunes; that he was now about to get
himself entered as an agent to the Insolvent Debtors'
Court ; and that many respectable Gentlemen in the
profession, to whom he was known, had subscribed
to enable him to defray the necessary expenses. He
then produced his subscription list, and he (Mr.
Crawley) finding therein the names of several friends,
subscribed his own £2, and gave him the money,
Ile saw nothing further of him until the 21st July,
when the prisoner again called at his office. He
then said he had given up the idea of becoming an
agent for the Insolvent Debtors Court, and that he
had a case in hand, but was unable to proceed with
it for the want of a little money. Serjeant Taddy
had accepted the brief upon his promise of paying
him his fee, and a ftiend, Mr. Barker, of Gray's Inn,
had promised to lend him .C 4 for that purpose, but

he had, unfortunately, through vile mistake, gone
out of town without leaving the money. In corro-
boration of this assertion he produced a letter from
Mr. Barker, in which he consentA to lend him the
1.3.; confiding in this representation he lent him £5,
upon his promise of repayment on the Monday or
Tuesday following. On the Monday, however, he,
called, and told such a plausible story of his want of
funds to proceed with the business, that he was in-
duced to lend him another £5. Some suspicion
arising in his mind, he judged it right to call upon
Mr. Serjeant Taddy, where he learnt that the pri-
soner had delivered no bad' to him, nor made any
application whatever upon such a subject. Upon fur-
ther inquiry he learnt that the prisoner had obtained
from Mr. Herrick and Mr. Creedy, £5 each upon the
credit of the letter of Mr. Barker which had been
produced to him. • On this discovery he called upon
Mr. Savage, where the prisoner's letters were desired
to be directed to, and left word for him to call upon
him ; hut he excused himself by letter the next day,
stating his inability to walk, having been bit by a
mad dog ! He met him, however, on Wednesday
last in Lincoln's Inn, and, witoont making any accu- •
sations to alarm him, appointed him to call at his
office.the following day. In the interim, he (Mr.
Crawley) gave notice to two or three Gentlemen,
from whom the prisoner had also obtained money,
to meet him, and on his declinin!, to give any satis-
factory explanations of his conduct, an Officer was
procured, who took him into custody. Mr. Barker,
Solicitor, of Gray's Inn, stated that the prisoner
called upon him about six weeks ago, when he was
induced, by his tale of distress, to give him a guinea;
and, upon a subsequent application, had promised
to lend him £1 for the purpose of enabling him to
defray the expense of procuring his certificate as an
agent in the Insolvent Debtors' Court. He had in-
closed the money in the letter the prisoner had shewn
to Mr. Crawley, and sent it by his servant to the ad-
dress given him by the prisoner, N 0.2, Essex-street ;
but the servant not being able to find either the house
or the prisoner, brought the letter back, when he (Mr.
Balker) took the money out, and the prisoner had
since obtained the letter when he called at the office.
Mr. Crawley contended, that upon this evidence a
case of obtaining money under false pretences was
made out; every pretence upon which he had been
induced to advance the prisoner money being com-
pletely falsified. He had never given a brief to Ser-
jeant Taddy, nor had he ever applied to be admitted
an agent to the Insolvent Debtors' Court ; and at the
time he presented Mr. Barker's letter to him, it was
not the intention of that Gentleman to lend him the 4!.
The prisoner said, at the time he borrowed the money
of Mr. Crawley, he really had a case in hand, but on
examining the evidence he had thought it best to aban-
don it. The Magistrate being of opinion that the evi-
dence did not constitute such a fraudulent obtaining
of money as would warrant his committing him for
the offence, the prisoner was discharged. Mr. Craw-
ley expressed his satisfaction at this result, as he had
no wish to prosecute the prisoner, and was only desi-
rous of putting the profession and the Public upon '
'their guard against such practices.
Bow-STREET.--Yesterday, four men underwent a
short examination, charged with being concerned in
robbing the Dover waggon, belonging to Messrs.
Hanbury, , of property to the amount of £3,835.—
They were remanded.
George Suckling, a genteel young man, was charged
by Mis. Mary Ann Stamp, of James-street, Buck-
ingham-gate, with stealing from her person a red-
cule, containing a watch, silver, itc.—Mrs. Stamp
was proceeding along the Strand, and the prisoner
came running along the same side of the way, and
as he passed her snatched the reticule out of her hand,
and Was making off, when he was secured by a per-
son who had observed the transaction.—He was fully
committed for trial.

Mary Roache and Charlotte Johnson, two Cyprians,
were fully committed for trial, charged with robbing
and grossly ill-treating a young Scotsman, whom
they had inveigled into one of the dens of prostitu-
tion in Shire-lane, Temple-bar. Williams, the keeper
of the brothel, was also held to bail, on a charge of
joining the women in their ferocious assault.
HATros-GARDEN.—Yesterday ten of the persons
apprehended at the Belvidere, on Wednesday, at the
time of the ascension of the balloon, were brought
up, charged with picking pockets; when four of
them were discharged: and the following six, J.
Bragg, G. Mitts, M. Daly, WM. Pritchard, Wm.
Rowley, and S. Brett, were remanded for a week.
R. booth, a baker, and M. Gillam, a labourer, were
each convicted, the former in the penalty of 44)5. and
the latter in 10s. for wheeling a barrow on the foot-
pavement.
MA RIMA•BONNE.OFFICE.J. Frazier, a man of
colour, was charged with a robbery in the house of
Sir H. Lushington, in Baker-street, Portman-square.
On Wednesday afternoon the area gate of the prose-
cutor having been left unlocked, the prisoner went
down and entered the housekeeper's-room, where he
packed up a large quantity of linen, together with
three suits of livery, with which he was ascending
the area stairs, when one of the servants secured him.
Sir Henry, accompanied by two servants, identified
the property, and the prisoner was fully committed
for trial. This is the second robbery committed at
the above house within the present week, in a simi-
lar manner.

Elizabeth Ellis was committed, charged by Wm.
Thompson with robbing him. The prosecutor, a
servant out of place, was passing through Hyde Park
about nineo'clock on Thursday night, when he was
met by the prisoner, who endeavoured to entice him
to her lodgings, but ineffectually ; and, after they had
walked together some little distance, he perceived her
draw his watch and appendages from his fob ; on
which he seized hold of her, when she screamed out
" Murder r' M. Morris, one of the officers, happening
to be coming that way at the time, came up and se-
cured her, but the property could not be found.
F. Thelwall and 7 Whittaker, were charged by Mr.
Butler, of Paddington-green, with robbing his gar-
den, and assaulting him. The prosecutor was sitting
in his parlour on Thursday evening, when being
alarmed in consequence of large stones coming se-
veral times in front of the house, he went out to as-
certain the cause, and observed the prisoners run
away; being informed that they were knocking down
his pears; several of which were strewed under the
trees, he pursued, and apprehended Whittaker, upon
which the other came up and rescued him ; but a
person coming to complainants assistance, they were

both secured. There being no evidence to skew that
-Thelwall knocked down any of the fruit, he was held
to bail for the assault and rescue ; but tlie contrary
being proved of Whittaker, he was convicted in the
rpenalty of 10s. and committed for a fortnight to the
House of Correction.