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London, England, 1816-09-27 00:00:00

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e Post- at Finchliy. Ins clutrge4 with ,steeld
isig gra fetoniansly abstracting keen 11 01 on the
td of May, a one-pound Bank-note, sent by a Mr.
Flailt to a Mrs..lionyntan.
Henry Flack, Teacher of an,Academy at Soho, is
.acquainted with Mrs. Honyman, who lives at Col-
ney Hatch ; is. in the habit of .weekly sending one
pound to her. Always does this on a Saturday...,
Oa the 30th of April, or Ist of May, received a let.*
ter from Mrs. Honyman, requesting he would send
one pound, and on Thursday, the 2cl of May, be
enclosed the said one pound to her in a letter, of
which be took the number and date. The number
was 32,965. and it was dated '2sth March, 1816,
and the sum rtl. and addressed it to Mrs. Honyman,
at Culney Hatch. Friers Barna. County at Middle-
sex. Sent this to the Post-oiliest, with a son of his,
in Gerrard-street, Soho. In a day or two heard the
letter was miscarried, on which he gave information
to the Post-office arid Bink. • Recovered the note
from the Solicitor to the Post'-office.
Cress-examined.—When he s olds letters to a di.-
tante. he always takes the number. Took no num-
ber of any other note that day.
Charki ismei nick, a boy, sand the above, re-
members his father sending him to the Post-office
with a letter to his aunt: Heard of the letter being
lost. but does nor 'recollect the titrte Always put
in the rsost.office every letter his father gave him,
without lo,ing any time. He always did so in the
Office in Gerrard stteett and none.of theta ever were
lost. b-fore this.
George Moss is the windownian (that is, the per-
son who takes the unpaid letters oat of the box) in
Gerrard-street. He remembers distinctly Mrs. Lio-
nyman's letter, 5:1.11t by Mr. Flack, being lost, .and
he also remembers having seen that letter, or one
to it, about a week before he heard the letter
Was lost. He: thinks the letter was put in on the 2d
of
.May. .He remembers the letter from 'it having
been remarked to him by one of Mr. Flack's scho-
lass, that letters so directed by Mr. Flack went
through every week.. Knew the .hand-sTriting.oo
from seeing a similar direction oh another letter to*
weeks before. He. delivered this letter to the usual
it Anoper,of letters. ,
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*n McAndrew? stamper of letters in the same
Chace, was on duty on the 2d of May, and received
the letters as usual from last witneqs, which. he after-
waids banded to the usual Illb•gOrtert a Mr. Thomas-
. John Oakley, Clerk of the North Division, Gene-
ral Post-office, received the usual bundle from Ger-
rard-street en the 2d of May. He every day placri
the letters of the North Division in their respective
boxes, and• then takes the valise of them, as a check
on the minor offices, and then gives them to Baker,
the stamper, who affixes the usual seal of the Office

t.' them.
George Bradford is charge sorter and letter carrier
at Finchley ; four loners are in his district, of whom
the. prisoner was one. Smart is letter-carrier for
Colney Hatch.
Cross-examined.—Letters to Mrs. Honyman are
not. in the prisoner's district, and must have come
into his hand by accident. His character always
unblemished.
lt..G. HAttersley, another sorter, saw no letter
addressed to Mrs. lionymi a on the 2d of May.
Thomas Smart remembers Mrs. Honyman ap-
pip% to him respecting a letter she was to have
received from London, and which had not come
to hand.
Mrs.. Honyman received always every, Saturday,
one piton(' from Mr. Flack ; made a request whim
on the Ist of May. to send one, pound to her on a
Thursday. . On the Thursday. she expected an an-
swer, but got none.
Sarah Bros n, grocer, .at Finchley, jtfentifies the
note now shown her, on which is' written—" Mrs;
Hobey." The prisoner gave her this note, sintsp,
wrote these words on receiving it, as
.the prisoner
told her he had taken it from Mrs. Holley, of Whet.
stone. She also wrote Taylor's name an it, accord.
ing to her usual custom. About the lath of May;
she paid it away to Fi Mi. Avant,. • ,
Wiillitsos Evansproved,his having received the colt
lapaPtusilt.of slp a count train Mrs. &own. . ,
Edwaad Jah?son, comptroller Twopenny
Post.olice„ questioned the, Prininite..qk the subject,
and (brand, on laftiniathan ir.oto
,b4fzirlack, the note
had cbtue into thellatik. Went co Mrs., Brown with
the note, in company. ibis...the prisoner. Prisoner,
said be had,received, ie from a woman in Ballard's-
lane,,,,Finchley, who bad a basket on.her arm, and
the appearance of a .pedlar, who so* bins counting
hit sillier.; and thii woman said,--441C0u have a great
deal of silver, and as. I wish for change, will you
give it to case ?'' He said he was glad ,to get rid of
his silver, as the Collector was very particular about
it, and be gave her eighteen in silver, and
two shillings in copper t and she gave him this. note,
and said her name and residence were, is Mrs. Hobey,
of Whetstone.°

Cross-eaamined.--Prisoner still continued on his
duty,.and did not ab►cord.
Ptisoner, in his defence, gave a similar statesient
to what Mr. Johnson had, and protested he was in-
nocent. Mrs. Brown, he said, had wrote his name
on the note by his own desire.

Mrs. Brown being again called by the Judge,
stated she bad wrote the name by Taylor's desire.
A great number of witnesses of the first respecta-
bility were then called. who gave the prisonei a-most
eacellent character tor honesty, subtlety, and the
strictest integrity. • One of these witnesses knew the
woman Hobe'', who was in the habit of hawking
with a basket through. the-touutry. She is a female
uf the most notorious character.
Baron GRAHAM summed up, and the Juty retired
for an,lwur, And found the prisoner—Not Guilty.
p Rickard Bremer was neat put te the bar, accused

of :forgery. . . ,
Charles Colville, keeper of Joe's Coffee•house,
Mitre-court, Fleet. treet, .knew the 'pri boner
,in'lBl3,
~orloa woe ilett.en Attetney in Chancery. In that
"pre tbe. prisoner offeted bin a. I.iU tur £l2 95.. 3d.
aptyweace of several witnesses, cod sec/rimed him
.to give cash for .the same. Witness got knowing the
.pepoo la Or. Hollbion) who had accepted tha.bill,
i.lanitated veg. muck to take *hen pnsower
;14 ho Allot of thine, a very .good Whew, .living
aiackbeoth. end .110sive you:st bait of.. Irian tg*
j discount it." The bill (Which be my produced)

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