The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-01-12 00:00:00

LOND9N:

TUUDAY. JANUARY 12, 18 9.

This day three victims have expiated their Jelin•
wades by the forfeiture of their lives in the final
of Newest.; and an old emaciated utterer of forged
Bankneotes would have been added to their number,
had net the accumulated operations of @fluids, de-
bility, and age, which were not arrested by the skill
of an Edinbergh Police &maven, prevented the igno-
minious termination of his &stance by the eccelers.
lion of natural death. To-morrow the Session is to
commence at the Old Bailey, and no small portion of
the public attention is again directed to the number
and the mature of the charges to be tried. It is not
now so much the enormity of individeal atilt that
appals our minds on these occasions, as the facility
pith %filch thr• careless noviciates in site are pre-
cipitately inspired in *bat is technically termed a a•
pital wimp, and devoted to a capital punish-
ment. It is not that we now are shocked mote
than formerly, by the detection of systematic or
progressive roguery. or the perpetration of deed.
of darkness and of blood, bet that we are shocked, as
we noes, to be, by perceiving the temptations and
seductions to which the needy sod unwary are im-
posed, and by which they are punished as for the
COOloliSlion of the most bejewel of offences. The net of
the law we see *Feud out, and all ate rearmed fish
that are caught in ita trammels; but like the spider's
web, it is are to entangle the little sad the feeble prey,
while the greeter and the stronger game escape. Again
is our concern awakened by the victims w ho have been
ensnared by the tissue manufacture of the Bsnk; by
the fate of those unhappy dupes who are charged with
stlicring Bank of Englaod notes, while the forgers
of that paper currency appear, from the impunity
with which they carry on their various operations, to
be beyond the reach of law. The poverty alone of
most of the miserable b►ings who have been subject
to the charge appears to have been both the aces-ion
of their seduction anti the nese of their detection.
Poverty alone, as a Correspondent of der's, to-day,
has judiciously suggested, presents appearances,
which, its every doubtful charge of felony, adds deadly
weight to suspicion. Ems a decent man, possessed
of property sod credit too, rfferieg a Bank-note sita-
rist(' of being forged, was, because he was 43 a
'Wage where be oar unknown, at Hackney, roe.
peeled not long since of uttering it with a guilty
knowledge, and paraded for two oribree riles like
a Moo to the Police-office, whore the innocence
of the man and the authenticity of the Note became
confirmed. Bet every suspected utterer may not have
the like facility of proof et hand ; and every Juryman
most he convinced that a guilty knowledge of For-
gery, when 6'lo and supported by suspicious cir-
cumstances connected with poverty, cosset easily be
repelled by proof. But it is not only necessary to bring
►ome that guilty knowledge to the person so wined,
but to prove that the Note so charged is the identical
Note which be warmed, and that it could not have
been substituted in place of that which he had uttered
In many case•, as our Correspowdent bas observed,
tech a substitution may be possible; and water
doubt can rest on sects a charge, the Prisoner is un
questionably entitled to its benefit.

By another @Friuli from Trinidad we have received
letter., and a variety of Gemini', bet they are not
an late as those we had previously published to 14th
Nov. from the same gunner. The following Is the
substance of the viontenications thus received :
" General NABISCO has moved from Maoris
lapoo Convene ; his army, consisting of 2,000 men,
linstched on the 10th alt.; and General Butatunci,
itls a detachment of about 100 men, proceeded,
lifth the gun-boats under DIM, to join him at the
Port of Esmeralda, and alarm Rio Caribes and
Carspaso peeviowsly, and divert the enemy's forces
in that quarter. In a landing at Rio Caribes, be
haul a smart skirmish, lost three men, and the enemy
Ibeing reinforced with Iwo bundled men from Care.
pano, be re.embarked. We have not learned bis
subsequent motions; bet I understand Mu moo
would dislodge them from Rin Caribes and Cars.
nano, previous to attacking the capital of Cumin.
by sea sod land.

" My last letter from Angestera is dated the sth
ult. General BOLIVAR was then going to set out
for the army ; he had appointed a Conseil Jr Go.
bierne for foreign relations daring his simmer. This
is composed of the General of Ditision t•IIDANETI,
the Director-General Don Ito.cio, and the Intend-
sot Pasat.vcst. Writs we'll alsos to he issued for
assembling a General Congress of the Provinces, end
it was hoped it would be installed In Cowen. 10
ease of Jolty in oceopying that city, they are to
meet at Gospels, or rather Angostura. We have
arrivals from Geayana within them two days, but
they being nothing of any importance, except fine
fat cattle in abundance, which we are not likely to

want. while Coln is in the hinds of the Patriots,
and the Gulph thereby secure. Colonel Wivon
suited in one of these •esselt. He wet, 1 ender•