The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-11-20 00:00:00

FIESCIII.

With regard to Fieschi and his accomplices, the ministerial
Moniteur do Commerce mentions a curious circumstance, which,
it says, the instruction has established. On the 27th of July,
the culprits rehearsed the sanguinary drama which they were
to enact on the following day. Pepin, on horseback, represent-
ed Louis Phillip, and, at the moment he moved before the win-
dows of the famous house on the Boulevard du Temple, Fieschi
pointed his infernal machine. He is further alleged,to have
had with him on that day one of the republican 'leaders
that have escaped front St. Maxie. -Fieschi has been, during
a great part of his confinement, in such a state of mind, brought
on_by the dreadful wound indicted on his forehead by the burst-
ing of one of the barrells of his battery, which has made it a
matter of very great difficulty to elicit from him any facts that
could serve as materials for a very long accusation. So much,
however, is evident that none but Morey is' deeply implicated
with Fieschi. Morey is accused of having stood on the Boule-
vard on the opposite side of Fieschi's window, and of having
made signals to his confederate of the immediate approach of
the king. On his doing so Fieschi took aim, and when he first
applied his match to the powder, had the machine gone off that
instant, the king and his sons would in all probability have been
killed or grievously wounded. It happened, however, providen-
tially, that the match, having been lighted several minutes pre-
viously, in order to be in readiness, was covered with cinders by
the time it was applied, so that Fieschi found it necessary to
blow them off and apply it a second time. The act of doing so,
though it took up a lew seconds only, allowed the king,and his
son just sufficient time to get beyond the range of the battery.
A large portion of the bone of Fieschi's forehead was-carried
away by the bursting of one of the barrels, and the brain lbw
remains concealed only by the skin with which a skilful sur-
geon has managed to cover the wound; the slightest blow upon
it would kill the man instantaneously. He is far from having
recovered his strength of body or energy of mind, and he labours
under a continual depression of spirits. The nature and extent
of mischief of which he has been guilty are known to bim, but
he thinks his punishment will be the galleys for life, though
nothing has been said to him regarding the sentence which
awaits his case. Pepin is only suspected of having supplied
Fieschi with money to put his scheme into execution, and his
participation in the deed by such means remains, it seems, to
be proved.

LONDON LAW AND POLICE COURTS.

KING'S ISENCH,_MoN6AY.

THE KING V. -. Howl, Esq.--Mr. Law moved that the
rute for a criminal information against the defendant for send-
ing a challenge to Henry Winchester, Esq., late Lord Mayor,
be made absolute.

. After hearing Mr. Thessiger and Mr. Adolphus for the de-
fendant, the rule was made absolute:

MANSION-HOUSE, MONDAY.
Mr. Bernard Angle, a prisoner tbr debt in the Fleet, was
charged with forging the acceptance of Mr. Joseph Longbot-
torn, for the sum of f„i80 ss. '1 he case was heard at great length,
after which an order for the detention of Mr. Angle on this
charge was issued against him, and lodged with the marshal of
the prison. •
BOW-STREET, MONDAY,
EXTENSIVE FORGERIES LYON TIIE AUSTRIAN AND POLISH
GONEIINSIENT BANKS.—Thomas Halls, Esq., the presiding ma-
gistrate, was engaged nearly the whOle of the day and up to a
late hour in an investigation of the most important description,
relating to forgeries to an enormous amount, which have been
committed iu this country, of Austrian and Polish bank-notes.*
Two well-dressed men, named Robert Balls, an engraver, and
Thomas Harris, an aged Polish Jew, were brought forward in
the custody of Ruthven and Fletcher, the officer of'the esta-
blishment, on the charge of haying been engaged in the com-
mission of forgeries of Austrian and Polish notes.
Mr. Bodkin said ho had the honour of aspearing otY behalf of
the Austrian government for the purpose of prosecuting the
prisoners, who stood charged with forgeries to an immense
amount. The Austrian government had long since discovered
that an immense amount of forged paper was in circulation
throughout the empire, and it being ascertained almost to a cer-
tainty that the notes were forged in England, that government
despatched a confidential agent, who was principal accountant
and cashier to the Imperial Bank at Vienna, to this country,
with the vieweif possible, of tracing the criminals. That gen-
tleman arrived in London in August last, and Ruthven and
Fletcher, the officers, were, by direction of the Secretary of
State for the home department, employed to endeavour to detect
the forgers. After very extraordinary and meritorious exer-
tions on the part of the officers, they succeeded, on the 9th of
November, in apprehending the two prisoners, and a third per-
son, whose examination would be gone into after the present,
under circumstances which he believed would leave no doubt
that they had been participators in the nefarious traffic Which
had been so extensively carried on. The two prisoners were,
found, as it would appear by the evidence, acting in perfect
concert, and engaged in one common purpose, and that he ap-
prehended would be sufficient to fix them equally with the guilt
of the transaction. In cases of coining and uttering forged
notes it was alway ruled that if a person was near enough to see
and know what was going on it was sufficient to identify him with
the charge, although there were no positive proof of his taking
an active part in it. These remarks applied chiefly to the pri-
soner Harris. Ruthven, who had been watching them for some
months, had repeatedly seen them together in the streets and
at other places, in familiar conversation. The learned counsel
then went on to state the circumstances as they will be found
described in ltuthven's evidence, and added that he charged the
prisoners under a recent act of parliament, passed in 1830. it'
was the 1 Win. IV., cap. 66, sec. 19, and far the information of
the magistrates he would read the clause—" And be it further
enacted, that if any person shall engrave or in any wise make
on any plate whatever, or on any wood, stone, or other material,
any bill of exchange, promissory note, undertaking, or order,
for the payment of money; or any part of any bill of exeleinge,
promissory note, &c. &c., in whatever language or languages
the same may be expressed, and whether the same shall or shall
not be intended to be under seal purporting to be a note or part
of a note of any foreign prince or state, or of any minister or
officer in the service of any foreign prince or state, or any body
corporate or other body of the like nature, constitute&or .tecei-
nised by any foreign prince or state, or of any person or cotn-
pany of persons residing in any country not under the dominion
of his Majesty, without the authority of •such power, state, or
body corporate, the proof of which authority shall lie upon the,
accused person, or if any person without such authority to be
proved by the accused, knowingly have in his or her custody or
possession any plate, stone, wood, or other material upon which
any such forged bill, note, &c., or any part thereof, shall Its en-
graved or made, or if any person shall without sueli authority,
to be proved as aforesaid, knowingly have in his or her posses.
don ally paper upon which any part of such bill, note, &c., shall
be printed, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and in the discre-
tion of the court may be transported for any term not exceeding
fourteen years, norless than seven years, or imprisoned for any
term not exceeding three years, nor less than one year?! Mr.
Bodkin then called the following witnesses:—
George Thomas Joseph Ruthvensworn.—ln August last he
was employed by Mr. Salzman, the .chief accountant of the
Austrian bank, and on the 9th of the ;present month he went,
in consequence Of information which he had obtained, to the
Flying Horse, in Crown-street, Finsbury-square, where he saw
the iirisoner • H arrie and another person, not. in cuttodv, to-
gether. They left there and went into another publiAouse in
an adjoining street, where they remained about a quarter of an
hour, acid then carne out with the prisoner Balls, and went to
the Star Coffee-house, in Crown-street. Witness bad been
watching them since August last, and had seen them frequently
together. He suffered them to be there for six or seven mi-
nutes, and then went in with Mr. Salzman and Mr. Fletcher,
and found the two prisoners and the third person alluded to
sitting in a box together in the coffee-room. Witness took a
seat so as to have a full view of them, and he saw a pocket-book
on the table which Balls took up and opened. They were all
engaged in a whispering conversation at that time. Witness
then saw Balls take out some pieces of brass front his pocket
and hand them to Harris. They were the same, he believed,
which be now produced. Harris looked at them, but witness
could not say that he took them in his hand;. but he was near
enough to have done so. The whispering continued while the
brass was being examined. The brass was then returned to
Balls's pocket, and in about ten minutes he got up to go away:
Witness, however, stopped him and took hint into custody, and
took Harris also. The thfivvf person went away. Ile searched
Balls and found the three pieces of brass stow produced upon his
person. He also found eleven pieces !of paper, upon which
was engraved or written parts, in imitation of an Austrian
note, as witness believed. There were four other pieces which
he believed consisted of portions of a genuine Austrian note.
Ile bro-ught the prisoners to this office, evil with some keys
which he found upon bins he went to Belle's house, 18, Iron-
monger-stieet, St. Luke's, and searched it. One; of the keys
fitted the lock of a portmanteau, and he there found a frame,
containing engrated wood with letter type and eight pieces of
paper in a tin box, with a stamp marked on each in imitation of
that used on the genuine Austrian note.
A genuine Austrian note for fifty florins was here put in by
Mr. Bodkin and compared with the stamp and with the brass
plates and wood types, and found to correspond.
The prisoners were remanded for another examination.
Mordecai Moses, an old Polish Jew, was then put to the bar,
charged upon the following evidence. He was attended by Mr.
Yates, asolicitor.
Ituthven deposed that, in consequence of information, he
went, after the apprehension of the other prisoners, to the
Strand Coffee-house, near Temple-bar, and found the prisoner
Moses in a box alone. Witness knew hire before. lie had a
parcel eu the table, and witness went to the box and put his
hand towards it, upon which the prisoner drew it towards him-
self and said the box was engaged. Witness seized the parcel
and took the prisoner into custody, and found in the parcel 101
pieces of paper, now pee.duced; with three engraved copper-
plates and a thin brass one. Ho searched the prisoner and
found four Guernsey notes not filled up or signed. When wit-
ness told the prisoner what he took hunt for, he ssid "Then 1
have been eeld."
This man was alsa remanded.

THE REV. R. J. M'GHEE'S LETTER TO DANIEL
O'CONNELL, ESQ., M.P.

Nullane
.perjuri capitis traudisque nefanda
Limos era 7
Sir,—The subject on which I address sou forbids the cere-
mony of any lengthened preface.
There were two great obstacles in the opinions of most pro-
testants to-the concession of volitical power to the, church of
Rome; the first was the intolerance, the next the perfidy of her
principles. The former, it was asserted, would lead her mem-
bers to use all their political power to invade and subvert the
liberties, rights, and religion of protestants ; while the latter
precluded the possibility of any security, that articles or oaths
could offer to prevent it. Religion, which in the ease of other
men presents a barrier against crime, was thought only to in-
stigate the church of Rome to its perpetration—her 'highest
virtue being to advance the interests of her domination—her
greatest sin to heiitate at any means for the attainment of her
object. Under these accusations, drawn from the experience
of all past ages, you, in conjunction with your bishops and
priests, smarted, you fretted, you writhed, you fumed, you de-
nied, you abjured, you professed, yon agitated, you convulsed,
and—you succeeded. Thqse laws which you called penal, but
which we now feel to have been but protective, were repealed.
You are now, in spite of all denials, abjurations, professions,
obstacles, and oaths, at the head of a united compact body of
members of parliament, steadily persevering to carry into effect
lull that was ever anticipated or feared from the intolerance and
perfidy of your church.
You have procured the antichristiansuppression of the Word
of GOd in national education. You have achieved the confisca-
tion. of ten protestant bishoprics. You have purchased by your
support from the British minister his best endeavours to procure
for you the annihilation of a vast number of prote,stant parishes,
and the withdrawment of the parochial inioiatera .frona their
flocks; and because the House of lenTds resisted this conspiracy
of plunder and persecution, you &Oa ;j4o.eturned from a tour
of seditious agitation, through the nortlfiff England and Scot-
land; for the purpose of exciting the people to subvert one of
the estates of the realm, and to sacrifice on the altar of popish
persecution, not only the established religion, but the great and
glorious constitution of the British empire.
-You have been triumphing thus in the undisguised exhibition
of the worst crimes of your superstition, and through' the too,
generous confidence of the very men who framed an oath for
the protection of the protestant religion, you have heeu permit-
ted to this day to do so with impunity. But it is high time to
try whether or not all sense of moral principle is extinguished
in the breasts of Englishmen, and whether those who have been
making their boast of their civil and religious liberty, are reduced
after all to the degraded condition of connivers at popish perfidy
and slaves to popish persecution.
You know, sir, and you tremble to know, that it has pleased
Divine Providence at length to bring to light the long-concealed
standard of that guilty superstition, in Which you have been so
carefully and so successfully initiated. ,You yourself have been
made the unconscious instriuneut of lodging in evidence before
the orange committee the infallible documents of your own.
priest's directories, by which you have placed in the hands of
England the proofs that all your bishops have been secretly
setting up as the guide for their priests, fox twenty-seven years
past, all those iniquitous principles of intolerance, of (Perjury,
and persecution which you and they have been so loudly abjur-
ing—you yourself have lodged, from the hands of your own
priests, the proofs that while Dr. Murray was giving in false
standards of popery upon his oath to the parliament. in 1825, he
was drawing his diocesan conferences, signed with his own hand,
from the infernal stores of Dens's Theology. You yourself
have lodged in the possession of England the fire years' con-
ferences of the whole province of Leinster. in which your
bishops and priests (Dominion' Dens auctorem sequentes) have
been laying down as the laws of their church, that our worship
was not to be tolerated, but extirpated—that we are to be com-
pelled, whenever it might be expedient to enforce it, to embrace
the superstitions of popery by corporal punishments—and to be
visited for our heresy with confiscation, exile, imprisonment, and
death. You little dreamt what you were doing when you got
these documents from your priests ; they little knew the fact of
their detection when they sent them to you; but now you know
the whole—therefore, sir, you did not dare to meet us in Exeter
Hall—therefore you (lid not dare to meet the case before a select
body of both houses of parliament. You thought it wiser to call
us mountebanks in the House of Commons, where we could not
be present, than to attempt to encounter the facts where wo
challenged you to meet us. You justly concluded that liberal
professions of universal toleration, and liberal speeches after
dinner, in a tour through the north of England and Scotland,
would come with a bad grace from a gentleman who was incom-
petent to disprove the persecuting intolerance of his church,
and who, if brought to the test, must either have renonnced his
liberalism or his religion.
But it will not do, sir,—there is a power, a mightyPOwer in
the plain simplicity of truth which no jesuistry can evade, and
no audacity outbrave. England is beginning to awaken—facts
have supplied a stinotlus to rouse her from -that lethargy in
which the falsely soothing professions and oaths of popery had
lulled her demands, which it is not possible for us to comply
with, are being madei in every quarter to lay the facts of the case
again, and again, and again before the nation.
Now, sir, mark me!—you dare not hitherto meet these facts.
Your bishops and your priests dare not meet them. The public
press has conveyed them with all the proots of the accusation,
and the still more forcible proofs furnished by the iMpotent ef-
forts of defence which Dr. Murray and his secretary have at-
tempted. The nation is convinced of the adoption of Dens's
Theology As the standard of your church's faith and conduct.
Little more need be said upon that head; it now only remains
to drag forth its principles into the blaze of day. And, sir,
while the freedom of the press and liberty of speech are still pre-
served in England, you shall know that there is a power supe-
rior to the profligacy and the perfidy of any popish demagogue;
that power is to be found in the principle, the justice, and -the
religion of the people of the British nation—to that I shall now
appeal—before that tribunal I arraign you. I give you notice
of the charge, and I give you an opportunity to meet- it.
I cannot impeach you, sir,'in the House of'Commons, though,
were I a member of that house, it should be my first act of legis-
lative justice; but I can and do impeach you before a more
august tribunal.

fu the name then, sir, of the God of truth, the God of
covenants, of oaths, of all that can secure and sanctify the force
of metal obligation among meta, I impeach you before the prin-
ciple, the virtue, the justice, the morality, the religion of the
British empire, and I charge you with the crime of deliberate
violation of your oath. I charge you with •the crime iu every
sense in which, in a promissory oath, it can be committed, in
your efforts to subvert the Protestant Established Church of

There are three senses, sir, in which this crime can be perpe-
trated in this case.

First,—lt a man violates the plain letter of the oath, accord-
ing to the ordinary use of language, which no honest man can
be supposed to mistake.
Secondly,—lf he violates a promissary oath in the sense in
which the persons to whom he swears intend and understand
the words and meaning of the oath—in this case he is admitted
by every christian and heathen writer to be forsworn.
Thirdly,—lf it can be proved, not only that he violates the
letter of the oath itself, and the meaning annexed to it, and in-
tended by those to whom he swears ; but that he hirasself knew
how that oath was meant—knew how it was intended, and vio-
lates what be knew to be its plain meaning, and its true intent,
than he is guilty of all that the deep deliberation of the crime
can accumulate.

• Now, I impeach you in the face of the British empire of a
violation of your oath in all of these senses. You have violated
the plain letter of your oath, which nothing but the iniquitous
audacity of popish jesuitry could even dare to misconstrue and
pervert. You have violated the meaning and purport of that
oath, as understood and intended by every party in the pro-
testant parliament, and by every protestant in the empire, when
it was framed as a security for our church in your relief bill.
You have violated what yeti knew to be that meaning--what
you know to be that intention—what your own previous
speeches and publications prove you to hiive anticipated, as a
security for our church. You stand charged, and you shall
stand convicted of the crime in every sense in which that-
crime can stand, proved as to fact,, and designated and branded
as to guilt.
Now, sir, I give you this public notice, that you may stand
forward, if you are able, to meet this charge before the nation.
I take warning from Sir Hobert Inglis, and I hope, sir, you
cannot now complain, as you are reported to have done in the
House of Commons, that you are "accused of perjury in a
humdrum manner." I give you this charge in pledge ; and I
`promise you, it' it pleases God to grant me health and strength,
in the name of Him who can if he pleases, support and use the
weakest, meanest instruments to vindicate his truth, that I
shall redeem my pledge upon any platform where you are able
to meet the charge. And now, Sir, I give you your choice of
any place in England or SciXand, which you choose to name,
and I will bring forward my charge against you on these condi-
tions. Select any four gentlemen resident in the town or city
,as a committee, and I shall select tour others to join with them
—the tickets of admission shall be divided between them, and
each shall choose a chairman. One rule must be observed, that
every man, on both sides: who gets a ticket, must be pledged
by the committee to listen in perfect silence. I an not able to
outbrawl a mob—bta I trust I tun nut afraid to debate before
men about the moral obligations which have ever been held
Wilding even upon heathen nations, and in the perfidious vio-
lation of which, as you have violated them, the whole frame of
civil society must be released from all the ties that hold it, and
be dissolved and annihilated for ever,

I have no fear, sir, of any honest Roman Catholics—l speak
not and write not to wound any honest man among them. 'I here
are thousandS, I trust tens and hundreds of thousands, who are
honest men, and who would individually blush to be identified
with perfidy like yours, or crimes like those of Dens's Theology.
You recollect, sir, with what integrity Mr. Eneas APDonnell
Las exposed.yoUt. you cannot forget, sir, that Mr. Devereux,
one of the delegates of the Ronmu Catholics of lieland, wrote
to your bishops to redeem themselves and their church from the
charge of perjury, which you know and they know was proved
by me in a former letter against you; but your bishops were
so interested and so identified in the commission of the crime
that they would rather cherish than expose you in its perpetration.
I shall proceed, sir, in this order—if you venture to come for-
ward I shall put it to yaw to admit the adoption of Dens's The-
ology as the standard of your bishops and priests; if you deny
the facts I shall go through the -proofs of the case; I shall put
into your hands the questions 'of conferences, printed and
authenticated from the very directories which yon yourself
lodged before the Orange Committee. if you read your ques-
tions, I'll read the answers from Dens; you shall hear the au-
thorities of your infallible councils for the doctrines, and then
you shall stand up and gull an English auditory with your
sophistry, if you can, and come back to Ireland and account
your triumphs over the fully and credulity of "the Saxon and
the stranoer."
If you do not venture to deny Dens's Theology as the stand-
ard of your bishops, thou I shall show the doctrines of your
bishops on rows, contracts, p, ensures, laws, and oaths, and I think
it will appear that all that ever has been stated of popish per-
jury, is warranted by the actual standard of the present theo-
logy of your church—and that men might as well make ropes
of sand upon the share, as oaths to bind the consciences of men
who are under the:guidance of such principles.
Lastly, sir, I shall adduce you as an illustration of the prin-
ciples of your theology', and prove the full case of that with
which I charge you. lam aware I subject myself to an action
at law ; lniug it, if you choose, to try whether twelve men are
to.be found who care as little for an oath as you do.
Some persons I know will he ready to blame a minister of the
gospel for cdnunitting himself with vou, sir, on this question;
they will say this is political and out of place. If the ministers
of Christ are ree to bus guardians of the morals and religion of
the nation, I know not who is to arm himself in their defence.
If the violator of oaths is to stand up to trample Christianity in
the dust, are we to sit down and smile at the atrocity? In
statesmen such passive pusillanimity is dishonour, in ministers
of God it is a crime.

I care not what you do—l care not whether you come forward,
or are afraid to do so. If you come, you shall prove your guilt
by the impotent temerity of your defence; if not, you shall
prove it by the conscious cowardice of your absence.
You shall learn that truth is mightier than either popularity
or power —than either the false swearing of a demagogue, or
the profligacy of a politician. So far I address you in the cha-
racter of an assailant, who feels called on to testify against
your crimes committed in a public capacity, and productive of
disastrous consequences to the established religion of my
country.
Permit me to close in that of a man, who, •while it is his of-

flee to testify against sin, it is also his office, and 4 trust his in-
clination, as being in the same evil himself, to compassionate
his fellow-sinner.

Let me callon you, sir, to consider this case in reference to
something more than passing temporal concerns. If my charge.
against you is indeed false, it can only rebound upon my own.
head; but if you so know it to be true,—if you so fear to en-
counter the proofs that you dare not meet it before a number of
your poor fellow-creatures,—let me call upon you to consider
how you shall answer for it when you steno at the bar of God
before an assembled world. Depend upon it sir, a religion that
can instigate to crime of which conscience is afraid, cannot be
the religion of that Redeemer which can. cleanse both the con-
science and the soul. You cannot find• the remedy for your
sin in that foul source where you find excuse for its perpetra-
tion. You can find neither truth, nor peace, nor pardon, in the
lying► superstition with which your priests supply you in the
Church of Rome; and be assured, though I feel it necessary to
deal sharply with your crimes, I sincerely hope you may lind
refuge from them where I look alone for refuge for my own
soul--that is, in the free and full salvation of the Lord-Jesus
Christ.

I am, sir, a faithful opponent of the perjury and persecution
of the Church of Rome, and a faithful friend to the best in-
terests of those that are deluded by them.
Nov. 10. IL J. &Mims.