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WARWICK ASiIZES, APRIL 7.

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prisoners, Bingley and fintton, were parties to the
transaction. Itingtey, he should prove, went op to
London wittt Peacock, and, beeanse they would not be
seen to fre on the same coach together, 'Bingley, when
he was told by Peacock that he had taken bis place
to go by the Aurora, sir o'clock coach, sent him back
to the coach-office, to got his name transferred to
another coach also called the Anrura, but which waft
from the somas office an hoar later. Peacock did eel
ctia,ho te withfrankec,Nkrioctotwo.hkaae;ssetio iv iris
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pet containing
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brother,
riade London,.l
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Bingley but desired him, and proceeded to Londonl
and not
the least imputation lay upon his chanteter, in cons.-
queoce ofill!y paqhe bad taken in this transaction.
tieorge Peep Pik the bunk with him to his Web
k:;:intr, r,Gani„eni :kpirengtage:
ther's bctiv4, and deposited it under a sofa in the par-
lour, where he slept that night. On the 9th, Clearge'
Pm actok was taken into custody by the Police officers,
when the p •rtnianteau n•as found under the sofa where
he had placed it. This portmanteau, on being search-
ed by the officers was found to contain some linen, a
watch, anal two brown moo. p ircele. These parcels
contained lnl one-pound furred
tOll
notes. The 5/. forged note w 1:1:111 kof
edt heEn lld
subject
of the prerent indictment, and in the whute, 1151 notes
which were intended to be thrown into the hoodoo
twirket. 4hi George Peacock being takeout into cost°.
dy, liingley became very uneasy at his absence, and
wrote a letter to Thomas Peacock, whi,.h shored that
lie was well ac,ptainted with the contents of th • port-
tnantean. On the Jay following a n••te was put tinder
Thomas Peacock's door, desiring him if he had any
thing, belonging to his brother George Peacock, to
send it to some friend's house out of the way, and he
sure not to let the officer., if they spittle 1, U. get pos.
Sescitin ut it. These letters, hr believed, he should
prove to h.• in the han Ityritiog of Bingley. Another
letter was reri•iecil by Thum is Peacock, ofesiring him
to nie-t his b:attier', friend at a public"' ots•• in Coe
neighbourhood. When he got there Itineley W. 14 one
of the persons who met bias. y had some enne..r-
sation alo.nt he portmanteau, when liin,le said the
two brown pap •r t•areels in that portmanican het otgell
to him. tto Pea• a-:,:tr.; what they contained,
Ilia, ie: seid n • anon in E ;gland knew ?lint hut him-
self, a no man shoot! know, roe an•l Christmas
were concealed in Thomas Peacock's !otiose, having
some s 11.111 h des bored in a partititei next his work-
going forward between Peacock
s:ity, to see what was
and liineley when the latter came about the part-
nutmeat', Bingley caine to Pea.... •k's house and was
taken ua Cie w:okshoy. Binglev said there was a
some plated wire in it, but that did not
belong to hint. He nest said there was a watch, hut
•lid not want that, hat the two brown mow par,
Peacock said 4te he statue guarantee for
let:inr a strenger opal his brother's trunk, awl take
away the thinal.• Bingley sail be would eive him
one, and wrote a note to that effect an I aaye it to Pea-
cock. The trunk was then placed on the table, and
as Bingley was c• ing to open the ulieers came out
and asked him what he was going to do with that
trnnk. lie said noshing. Ile w:.% token into custody
attml then he said it was a bad job. Ilingley was then
taken to Marlharonlbstreet, and after a arils to 1A41.-
1).16-fields for further examination. Here. Binaley
ma le a confident of a person of the name of Council
This man was employed by Bingley to i•ar.y a
menage to tleorge Peacock. 11:11.41ey eitid, Cmat.
thew could do to IL Peacock would be to tranvort
hitt that he, Binaley, was afraid he shotild be hinge". ,
—The Learned Connect now prime: AA to state to
th-
Jnr. the circumstances attending the apprehens!on of
the other two ptiennera, De?fon and fttiCo, and how
th" case stood with respect to them. The evidence of
George Peacock, on whom, certainly, there resteddearee of suspicion, chiefly applied to laratron. Pea-
coca's evidence dill not implicate Botk'n. Peacock
would tell them that the date lines in th' forged notes
we.-e pat in by Ringley, and that the eionatures were
wristni by Ibitton. ahe M. forged note fowl !in the
trunk, nas np by Bingley and Ilatton in this
way. before it was packed ap in IlirnsinOtatts.—
When the officers went to search the honse of li iti,in.
who lived in Freeman street, liirtnioehant. they found
Rhgley, aged 31, Williams Dillon, 36, and i t his house the very plates from which tt:e notes were
William &akin 40, were arraigned at nine o'clock in taken that were found in the truck. The plates were
the morning, charged wi h having feloniously forged, found concealed in the roof of the house, and a ta.ve
at Birmingham, in this county, a si. Itaak of Begland quantity of paper, and notes in part finished w •re formel
nose, with intent to defraud the tioverimor and Coto- in &cereal parts of time premises. A press was ales
pauy•of the Bank of England. The indictments can- round on the premiss-s, as well as several other
tained several other c.onts, but as the prosecution thine% df a very stsepirions description. lion. Harkin
Wag 'confined to the above charge only, we consider it camel become innocently in possession of these plates
quite unnecessary to particularise then. On the in- i: was for him to save. Waidee the pi:l.es fnmi whirls
dietnients being read over by the officer of the Court, the notes he had before stated hail hoot tAten. there
and the prieimer, being called upon to Oead, they all were found ro:mrrak:t in time 11103.10' of [Catkin, a
answered Nut Gui..ty. b:ass plate wii;cli was made to imitate the waged
Mr. Serjeant VAL:CI:AN, as Senior Conneol, stated !Lies, same metal plates, pieces of sil :. and other
the case to the Jury. The Learned Connsel said,• he I things which he unclerstosA to be a:1 necessary
ha I the honour to address the Jury on behalf of the imi the manufacture of breed (Can't Ele!anal notes.
prosecution against the prisoners at the bar, who were With respect to Dutton, who Ilyed in Cot:owe-street,
charged with having forged a Bank of Eng:land note I they would be tufa by tieur‘e Peacock, that he sop-
of the value of 51. with intent to miefrana the tioyernor of ' plied the si:natnres, that is, he wrote the eamee of the
Coe Bank of England. This otfence waa one of the mlifferent clerks who 'ivied the real notes of the Beni:
mint serious description, not only with respect to the of Eraiand. There was also found in his honse s..use
pristine ,rs but also to time public. In the performance hits Am: scraps of notes, which h
and been burnt on the
of this painful duty, he should conflate Isioiself to the al tr n being given, lint still he was led to understand
plain and simple facts connected, with the case, and there was enough of sonic of those notes remaining
leave the detail of those facts to the different witnesses to ?roee satisfactorily that they were a part of notes
olio would be called to substantiate the charge. The similar to those fowl lin the triink, and that they were
first witness who would be called before theno was a a1.,0 taken fro a one of the plates found in the house of
person of the name of 41eorge Peacock, whom, he con- [Catkin. Some paper, likewise out of a hiCh other'
feseed, was on accomplice of the prisoners, but he pieces bad been cut, and which pieces hail been found
shoals! not call upon the Jury to give alms further cry- uu the premises us Batkin, were also found iu die house
At to his testimony, than where he was borne tint by of Vanua; this circumstance would tend to shew the
umber witnesses, upon whose evidence there could not connection between these two prisoners. On search-
he cast even the least shade of amapicioit.—On the 7th ilia the home of lieur ;•-e Peacock, who lived in Cheap-
..f November last, Peacock, the witness to whom he side, neveral other articles were (onto). This house
had betwe Alaska, took a place at the co teliontie:e at 'hail been taken by Peacock, in conseiptenc.e of an
the Neleun Inn, in Birtninglsain, to go to Lothians by agreemeher andnt between
sister him,
Dutton Dutton, and Bwithingleyeacock i.
sand
the Aa erd coach, at sin' o'clock the nest mornina.— mtho mot ee heed pn
ile was to take ,along with him a trauk, containing the house. There was a table fuond in the garret,
1131 forged Bank of galghlad notes. The two Abet the pert of the house occupied by Peacock, and where

M1P011T.1.17 TRIAL OF row; FRS OF BASK
OF EAGLAND NOTES.

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this manufacture was chiefly carried on, the top of
which bore eiident marks of the impression of so-ti-
words osol letters, made by_ iispresiing the date 1.".:1!,,a
and Rainbows, on the forged notes. This table had
been brought from Dutton's souse, to the house of •
Peacock, after the forged notes were completed at the
house of the latter. The particular' of the sylm!e
case, as it affected the respective prisoners, would lie
detailed to them more minutely by the witnesses he
should call before them, and It would be for them to
say, whether the prisoners, or any of them, were
guilty of the offence laid to their charge. The pri- •
loners, as well as the public, expected justice from
their hands.
Thousas Team+, the first witness, eras examined by
Mr. ADE A. He deposed to the particulars stated by
Counsl.
Crom-esavained by Mr. Dexisitt.-
mas, the officers, were secreted on purpose td see whit was
going on between *tithes, and prisoner. He WOW to
Preslifiell and Key's, Solicitors to the Hank ; if he
had not gone the officers told Lim they should put
him under an armor. They told hlm, his brother was
gone into had comp any. Ile did not tell them if they
ivould let his brotllier go he would inform of some
miter persona when. he was told the trunk contained
had notes, he knew some suspicion would wrath t,.
hint, if be hail not delivered up the tenni., and told
all he knew about it. Ile slid 1101 tee his brother 'a!;••
any linen ou: of the trunk, nor dill hr see him pot any
thing into it. He knew I:is brother had opened the
trunk because he had changed his linen.
lie-eaaminel he Mr. 11satorst. He did not know
the contents of the pvrtmantean till it was opened
by Ply.
John For examined by Serjeant Varcitax. law
(slier odicer ofMariborough-street. In conseipretre,
of S'Allt! information I had received, I went to the
!swiss. of :lie last witness on the 10th of November
Thomas Pear Irk him a letter and he read it. 11.,
then tool: Thant Is Pr it..,ek with him, and left Christ-
ni.is in the house. The portmanteau they found he-
n. Alt the sofa. I drew out the nails, and examined
it : it contain.ds uric linen, a watch, a parer! of plated
rote I wire, and two brown paper parcels: our parcel
4J:; 1/. forged notes, and one for M. The 1/. n stew
were rolled up in scores, except one parcel, which con-
taine I Ifi If. notes, an I one Irr 31. The other parcel
eon:Ailed tire 10/. notes, 20 fives, and MA ones. l
lrft the house, and returned again about four
when George Pear.. •;,; cause. and I took hi:n into rut -
tolv. l took It:uu to the Office, and he was commit 1;1
to Col Lliath-tiella prison for further exasuinati.m. 1
sv,!at to watch the honse, on the 12th and 13h. I
saw Ilin;hry and Oxford (a man of colour) pass the
house more than once. Oa the 13th he and Christi:. is
were secreted up stairs. Thomas Peaces:* breath;
Mintier Tnto Me workshop. [ the witness then ',elated
the to:militias I.7tween Peacock and Bingley, nearly,
but its a more paniotalar mano.tr, as the last witness,]
When !Kugler had wri•teu the note, Iles began to draw
the nails .nut of the trunk. As he was dra•slay;
the third nail, I went softly beltini hint, and I-:3
" What are you doing with that portmanteau?" Ile
said nothing. I told him I hail a ware int against
for forged tauten. Bingley said "It is a bad job.'
I asked l:isu wli,we he tired, ail I he said in Biranitt:-
ham. I seentsolown to Birmingham on the IGth. a, I
assisted to search Peacock's lodgings in Liseapaide.
Cross•examitied by Mr. ADA3Ig. It was after her :t
the Itandenlfs on Wrigley that is sail it was a had
There was nothing remarkable in !Tingley and t
other man walking by Peacock's house ; thousands .;
pe,.,..e t%.•re passing at the time. lie was present, .it
!iv. imination of George Pea. ork :no itidacetne:it
tray to hint to hint to confess.
("toe:es Christmas, 11-p-etor of )tes t t'.e
Hank of England, was with the last witness when t 440
portmant..au was broken open, at Thomas PeacoWs.
Ile insp•cte.l the two parcels of notes? they were .. 1
tom,,(. Ile was shewn the 51. note found among tl.e
ones in the trunk : it was a forgery throughant ; ti:e
paper. printing, water-mark, waved lines, nutube.•,
dater, signatures, were all forgeries. The ones w 7.3
all from one plate. All the tens were from the sa !.•.!
plate.—All the twenties were from the same tiler.
There was a defect ill the stereotype in the date lint.
The r..nr,iging part of his testimony was similar :o
that of the last witness.
Cross-ircamired by Mr. Oc-bnounsr. Nodal .g
worth notice resin-eti from his cross-examinatioa.
' tleorge Peacock, examined by Mr. Serje
Taucttatt.-siThe evidences for the prosecution had pre.
Stione.y been ordered out of Court ; and on this witne s
being asked if he had heard what the other witnesses
had sail, he answered " Sot tiistinetly." Mr. Del-
man complained of this to the Court, and the renia'..n-
, itm witnesses were nr,leted to withdraw to a greater
distance. 'I he examination then went on.) I SRI a
ananitfac;irer of plated ware; I did not hear any thing-
sal lb, the other winesss 9. that I can mention now. I
bare kmorn Misery 13 or I I years, and Dutton abo tt
two years. Dutton man-lied Bingley's sister. I hose
known HAIG two or three years; he was a copper-
' plate printer, and live,: in. Foreman-street,in Binning-
haus. Bingley eArr;e4 on the plated wire business.—
' I* the beginning of Jon.. last, Bingley proposed that
I should take s erre things to London. I understood
th •s, were forg..d notes. It was agreed that L shoal I
take the notes to Lo don, and he would pay me fair it.
de !va' to par my expenees to London and back, not
to bear my expellees while I pls there. In conie-
qn..nce, 1 went uses to London with a parcel in the be-
ginning of June.
[ 1l r. Denman objected to this evidence, as his clients
hail received no notice that such evidence would be
brought against them. The Judge made some obser-
vations to 4,11 r. Den nan's objections, bat in so low a
voice. that we could riot hear what his Lordship said.
The examination was then continued.]
I carried a paintl of forged notes to Ldirlos for
Marley in Jane. The next time I went Was on the
7th of November last, wises I
,took two parcels of
'forged notes in that. portmanteau which lies on the
table. •It was engley's tiunk. I and Dalton selected
the notes, and paned them in the trunk. This