The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-05-21 00:00:00

consider me as an alien and an of
your tender regards which hay(
the thought is agony, but the
alien from you for ever. Oh,
your mother and Emma will
leave them, but give them all
and trust you will be confirm(
Gibson will now be a disgra(
I must expect his curse upon
it now in the agony of my ml
of returning and throwing m
, but I could not, for
immediately transpire on 'Chi
and my situation lost : could
odoueri
hngotrh, the wrehvool el
voefd lastove
rnai
and over
for I
againdi not sleep
at I ourao°:.leti
but the horror I felt in being pointed at by ;41 in collet'e'ilo
of my bad conduct in respect to Steel's business, Una
me on the course I have done. I shall leave this , to
rectly and proceed to some port in America; Perlrre 11
you receive this I may be on my way thither, ‘VUt:,
end my days in misery and wretchedness. .17_10.01
return and throw myself on the mercy and forgir..ejt„. vi
creditors. I owe Messrs.
I sincerely regret, considering the uniform kin • situ°
has always shown me. cannot think of ni)orsi,
and yours without a feeling of deep regret and!elidlt!
in the forfeiture of all my family comforts ; I%ot'
taken more money but I could not, and shoul hailV
taken what I have but from absolute necessity.. 1b
get into some way and endeavour to procure a hv113505'
and trust your diligence and attention, which has al te,
so conspicuous, will enable you to do what, alas. °t
it out of my power to do, and that the name wlin ear,
you. I hope andemploy r:4l -01 I
in' their books, you could do it without interfering •,
situation in the bank. • AO
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It will be seen, that, in the above, letter,
stance which appears to have weighed on
mind was his inability to make up his accounts,
the estate of a person named Steele, who 1,1!
bankrupt, and under whose commission he a'
accountant ; and he says that he did not su
self to be indebted to the estate more than X
but he found, on searching the different ent
cash-book, (not being able to find the book 01
regular account was kept,) that he was indeb
larger sum, which he was not prepared to_pay,
would subject him to heavy penalties. We
fact turns out to be, that his impression as
being only £3O or £4O, was perfectly corral
mainder of the money received under the
being now lodged in a bank; and he must,
have laboured under some strange delusion WI
posed. that the debt was much larger. The I
seems to be (being, as was tolerably well kill,
of indolent and procrastinating habits,) he it 01..!
the making up of his accounts relating to the
estate until immediately before the meeting,
to take place on Wednesday week, and being '
pelled to search amongst a great number of
general cash-book, without any clue to guide.,
had formed an extremely erroneous opinion °-
amount of his liability.
In the long letter addressed to the relative t'
have before alluded, he says,
" I had no conception of the magnitude of my
I could, years ago, have remedied it; but when
mistakes I had committed, I was thunder struck,
then any means of retribution. * * * I am
the circumstances of my leaving the office yesterdi
I did not contemplate it, and left without even
linen, but resolved to meet my destiny as a man, all,
result of the investigation, and have acknowledge''
quency; but one of the -- my declared elle,
have sounded through the exchange, wifai exultal
feiture of esteem and confidence. What could I
The committee of the S. B. viewing my conduct
diCed eye, would have said, that, as they could
my integrity, (and justly so) I must resign. Who,
have trusted me? Not one; and I must have fallen
the high notion of public estimation, and have 1'
staring me in the face. * * * I might have
but. my remaining spark of principle would not aIV
returned bank notes to the amount of £5O, to Will'
hope he has received. Poor fellow! what must
to be an outcast from society for the crime of his
With respect to the statement in the above
he might have taken £lOOO if he had chosen,
it is perfectly correct, as money to a considerabl
was lying in different banks subject to his or'
checks would have been honoured without Ilk
the bankers. What he did actually take awn
sent uncertain ; but nothing is known of excel
belonging to the savings' bank ; and of that
to have returned £5O to his son, no doubt for
the family.
We come now to the case of the son, whose e
appears, at present, to have been of a much more
nature than that of the father. When his fitg`'
carrying off the £630 received on Saturday w3s
covered, officers were immediately dispatched ,
shire, where he had recently been on a visit f°`
days, and where it was thought some informal
be obtained respecting him. Nothing, hower
covered, except that there was a young man 11
with whom he was on terms of intimacy, and
proceeded to him to make inquiries. The ,
said that he had not seen Mr. Gibson, jun.,
had beard from him ; and he produced a letter
him by Gibson, and which he stated had been
him by some person whom he did not know.
the following effect :

Liverpool, May ,
To Mr. —.—l would yesterday have addressed
dear friend, but now I am not worthy of. that name'
I think when I left on Friday last that I
life would have had such a turn. Ye-sterday morfl'
a letter from my poor deluded father, stating in lt,
the country to end his days in a foreign land, an
settle with his creditors as well as I could, and to
wife and family. I, poor cowardly being, could "
this, but must follow his example, by getting P'
little cash, and leaving my poor mother to do the
in the world—l•hope it may not break her heart. I
be prosperous in life. May God bless you. I dare
your friends at —, the thoughts of their kind
me. Perhaps you may never hear of me again:
1
late sincere, but now degraded and-wretched frien;
Wivl. G 1.13:",
The coolness with which the writer of the a'
speaks of his wholesale robbery as « getting
of a little cash ;" and of " leaving his poor
the best she could in the world." presents a
trast to the heart-breaking anguish.which pet
every line of the letter written by the father.
Although the savings' bank will not
from the misconduct of the Gibsons—(the -
they have carried off being more than coi ered.l
curity given to the bank)—the committee sti
it right to make' every exertion for the a'
the offenders ; and police officers were
London, Liverpool, Hull, Glasgow, and ese'
which it was thought probable that either 01
have fled ; but hitherto, we believe, no tau.
discovered of either of them. The officers, t!'-o.
main at the different sea-ports, with the 11e
cepting then if they should endeavour to leave,
which it is believed they have not yet succo
complishing.
We understand that arrangements have—.
carrying on the business of the bank without
and we are glad to learn that the occurrence'
have related do not appear to have created
amongst the depositors. Indeed any suell
be perfectly absurd, as none of them will
slghtest loss on the occasion. From the Inaao
the funds of the bank are kept, and the Iva,' 11::
accounts were checked by, other parties, it wa-
for the Gibsons to get possession of any 11" i
the balances known to be in their hands;
not leave falsified the books:without:acertain'
detection.

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