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London, England, 1818-03-30 00:00:00

tORGERt

7.• bvs ago we laid before our Readers a Copy
ttiicate, dated sth April, Ear, signed by the
:ngt avers in London, stating that a specimen of
nivented by ALEXANDER TlLLocii, calculated
to lessen, if not prevent entirely, the forgery
1k Notes, Bills of Exchange, &c. &c. had been
e.,1 to them ; that they had examined the same,
:lared each of them for themselves, that they
lot make a copy of it, nor di,i they heave that
id be copied by any of the known Arts of
; and that they thought it highly deser-
t attention of the Bank of England, as
•:'zd to amwer the purpose for which it was

t'erjficate alluded to sva signed by BAnro-
-11 EATIt. FITTLER, LANDSEER,LOWRY, SHARP,
llottcwAy, &c. &c. &c.
:e that time we have learnt that some people
ted with the Bank have stated, that the pro-
-1711:1 was rejected by the Bank, because their
ver had made a perfect copy of the Specimen
to the ilank ; and because Mr. TILLOCH him-
td ado that his Art v.-as not perfectly ap-
le to their system.
latter assertion is absolutely false : he has al-
mai:ital.:oJ that his invention was perfectly ap-
:e to the business of the Bank.
be nhya decisive answer to the former state-
we insert the following certificates:
" Lospos, btu Jell*, 1797.
whose names arc hereunto subscribed do hereby cer-
wc were called, on the 4th July instant, to examine
!. 11;3 le at the Bank of England, to produce afire simile
Specimen of an Art invented by him to pre-
; that two Imitations, the one from a Wood-cut,
:r izom a Copper-plate, were then produced by Mr.
thcliark Engraver ; that the one from the wood-cut
;like Mr. Ticcomes Specimen, that Mr. Trusty
Kae..your to make it be received as a likeness, but
or it; and that the one from the copper-plate which was
7cd Ai a Copy, was so far from being an exact Copy, that
to: even executed in the same manner; Mr. Tlttoor's
fatal front the sarfece of his work, by means of the let-
; but 3lr. TLIMY'S from the &wont of his, by means of
Tress.
declare boides, that, in other respects, the Imitation
finlike tLe Original, that we believe it by no means pro-
.at any per,on, in the habit of taking Bank Notes, would
the one fcr the other. We believe that one of Mr
Imitations would be easily detected among a thousand of
n's Specimens ; and that one of the latter, put among

cumber of the former, might, from its singularly pr.
effect and very superior execution, with equal facility be
tol.-,n from among th.:.m by any person of common discernment
Tary's bring not snore like to the Specimen, than a brass
tc.::,:tr, with the kings head upon it, is to a guinea.
We think it but justice to Mr. TILLOCIA Invention to add,
••wt if once the public eye were habituated to Bank Notts exe-
:;c,l by h:s Ar., the security against Forgery would be infinitely
p.‘nr than thc Bank Directors, with whom we were at the
vii.daation, seemed to have any idea of. This declaration we
• Ise, mu from any personal acquaintance with Mr. Titcocu,
'hit bis which may sometimes be supposed to result
f'. a Ulna of intimacy, (for the greater part of us never were
company, or knew any thing of him, till the moment we
scfc desired to give our opinion of his Art), but we do it as a
ilt.ty which we believe in our conscience we owe to the Com-
mirky, who ought to be secured, as far as possible, against the
losses to which they are subjected, by the facility with which all
tilt Bank Notes now in circulation may be, and, as the Direc-
:la:natives confessed, are, frequently forged.

" JIMES HEATH. " WILLIAM SHARP.
" JAMES FITILEIL. " WILSOIS LOWRY."
" Wiulam BYRN&

" LONDON, 6.ni JULY, 1797.
" vi.ose names are hereunto subscribed, not having been
r. the Dank to witness the comparison there made on the 4th

ii.!. t.itween )lr. TERRY'S Imitation and Mr. ALEXANDER. Tic-
IND't aimen of an Art invented by him to prevent Forgery
ail not h.ving seen the wood-cut Imitation, can say nothing
P.siecting a ; but we have examined the copper-plate Imitation
th produced by Vr. Ttiativ, and we hereby declare, that we
pr iwly agree in opinion with the Gentlemen who have signed
laeirding Declaration of this date respecting the merits of
.•!:-.Tn.u3cit's Invention—the security that its adoption would
the Pudic, and the great difference between his Sped-
the Copy produced by Mr. Tertay. And we further
-.:.-.. we gi:o this testimony from the same motives that
the who signed the preceding Declaration.
" Fr.exets BA RTOLOW, • " ROBERT DUNEARION,
" J•stES BAZIRE, " JOON ANDERSON,
" *.i ARIAN.) BOW, " TIIOMAS I lOLLUWaY,
MELLAM Si: LILTON, " J. R. Smnu."

oar d.) rot allow 113 to enlarge upon this
s;:!*ct to-,Ly: but it is high time that the Public
thou: ,1 be right?: informed on the means that have
been willed to the 11:cik fur the lessening, if not the
peect:i.,n, of a crime which has doomed so many
%..c,rti to de-ttlt. To-morrow we shall lay same-
t;:in be::re our Readers on this interesting

cieLlt.)n.

A Gentleman, who is now engaged on the Mid-
Circuit, v.-rites from Leicester:—" Such is the
-eri: to whiA the circulation of forged Bank of
In7land notes has now arrived, that during the pre-
:.t Spring the .elicitors of the Bank have had to
on this Circuit, no fewer than sc.: prosectit-
as. In this Town and County, nine of this class
offenders were ind:eted a:;,.1 convicted. Such is
e wlah 11* t -;_eiving Bank of kng-
tad pdy?r, that very few wish to receive it, and all
±!:e note:, of Local Ba,,ks. Enough has already
the necessity of the adoption of some
correcti•-•:, ( f this evil."
~Irt of Assizes at Lancaster, was occupied,
part of Tas lay, and the whole of.
in the Bank of E:,l-,,land prosecutions;
which days, Pr,` mond Raw, a miser-
-41, !I,.oking ho:', 19 years of ai;4, was convicted of
-atering Bank of England to,tes, knowing them to
;Aged. When the vctdiet of Guilty was pro•
Mr. Tormr. ,aid, I,c was desired to re-
..he prisoner- t..) the mer,-y of the Crown, as
rcasua to yipn:yss: that he was an instru-
rt dr: hands n; ,a! hers. 11i.; Lordship intimated
same hay' urred to hini, and that the
z'olut?.ndatiun would ty.., attended to, but that the
mus ex?nt to be sent cut of the cou:Ary.

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