The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-12-04 00:00:00

THE STA'

Again is our attention very strongly and painfully
directed to the case of the detected utterers of forged
Bank Notes. To-morrow four unhappy victims of
this description, and one of them a female, will, unless
the Royal 31ercv at the last hour interpose, he called
upon to expiate their offence by the forfeitnte of
their lives at the front of Newgate. Notwithstand-
ing the manner, as ere slimed last week, in which
these dupes may have been seduced, and notwith-
standing the preventives which the Bank of Eng-
land have long professed to be übont to use,
still are the feelings of the imhlic to be
wrong, and the English character disgraced. by
the sacrifice of another groupe of unfortunate fellow
creatures, perhaps, not depraved by immoral habits,
but impelled by severe dlstre,s. The facility tilth
which the destitute and unwary novices are precipi-
tately involved in what is termed a capital crime, and
devoted to a capital punishment, has been too fre-
quently exposed to require an illustration. The
net of the law we see spread out to entangle the
minor and the feeble prey, while the greater and
the more important are allowed to escape. Those who
are employed in circulating the tissue manufacture of
the Bank, which is well known to be easily forged, are,
without any proof of being harshened by progressive or
systematic roguery, punished with death, while thefer-
gm of that paper currency, appear, from the impunity
with which they carry on their operations, to be beyond
the reach of law. A sudden change in the fortunes
of the unfortunate dupes, and the simplicity of their
behaviour, appear to be generally the occasion of their
seduction, and the cause of their detection. In cases
of delinquency, every alleviating circumstance ought
to be taken into consideration, for the purpose of miti-
gating the doom of the delinquent ; and in every
case of the unhappy victims doomed to suffer, every
argument of re.,son, and every feeling of humanity.
plead earnestly and loudly in their behalf.

VISITORS AT BEAN PENN:MIR Hoorn YERTERDAT
—Hi• Koval Highness Prince Leopold of Saxe Co
burg, Lord Buncannen, Countess of Tankerville,
Lady Mary Rennet, Mr. Peter Moore, M.P., Mr.
Douglas Kiunaird, Mr. Sharpe, 11r. Hobhouse, M.P.,
Mr. Sheriff Waithinan.
The Res•. Robert ?Mown performed Divfoe &Mee
at Brandenbargh Rouge yesterday.
Between thirty and forty Addresses will be present.
ed to her Majesty this day.
Htu MaJourry's ATTORNET•GENERAL /OR IRELAND.
--.DURLIN, Nov. 2.—At an early hour yesterday
morning, the Great Hall of the Four Courts began to
fill, and, before half•past ten, the Court of Chancery
was crowded to excess, ostler the expectation that Mr.
U'esisismil world be sworn is. ala lake kis placsais

her Majetty's Attorney-General. This ceremony.
however, did not take plate, owing to the ron-arrivol
of the Patent, and which is delayed (we are informed)
only until the appointment of a Solicitor-Genera!,
when the Patents for both Ofu•ers will be made out
and transmitted together.
Air. Holmes, it is rumoured, will be her Majesty's
Solicitor-OeneraL

Respecting the rank which the Queen's Law Officers
are to hold with relation to the King's Counsel, the
Lord Chancellor, has, it is said, declared his intention
to be guided entirely, by the arrangement of the Eng-
lish Bar.

Tux Wirurnses.—Fime th..formial de Paris.—
On the 20th instant. M. 'radon, Police Officer, of the
Police Office, Bow-street, London, arrived at Calais,
under the name of Hereofle Somme!. He set out im-
mediately for Boulogne, in order to provide lodgings
for 32 witnesses, who bare bee heard in the pro-
cess against the Queen of England. They were ex-
pected at Benlogne, having set out from London en
the night of the 20th, in an English corvette. It
appears that the head of the Alien Office, and six Pu-
liee Officers, accompany then:.
The day before there also arrived at Calais one of
the heads ((Ay' dr /tercels) of Lord Castlereagh's
Office, with Barbara Krantz, and her sisters. The
Chef di Byron( returned to England the two others,
set off for Strasborgh. Mademoiselle De Mont, who
arrived the saute day, has, it is said, set out for
Paris.

Saturday evening his Majesty left his Palace in
Pall-641, in his travelling chariot anti four, with out-
riders, and an escort of the 10th Regiment of Light
Dragoons, fur Windsor.
The Recorder of London is expected to make snow
the, report to the King in Council, in a few days, of
convicts under sentence of death is Newgate. One of
those reported to the King in Council on Thursday,
has been reprieved, it liwriog been ascertained that *it
principal evidence against him was a lunatic. • The
man convicted will of course receive free pardon.
Sir Walter Scott, Bart. has been, upon the resignation
of Sir James Hall, unanimously elected President of
the Royal Society of Scotland,st the fullest meeting
of that learned body that ever assembled. This bombe,
which is the highest that Scotland has to bestow NI
literary or scientific eminence, was entirely unsolicited',
it is said, either by the distinguished personage who
has received it, or by any of his friends.
On Thursday evening, at seven o'clock, Messrs. Lewis
and Davison, who were convicted, one of publishing s se-
ditious, and the other of a blasphosiess libel, and sen-
tenced to two 'oars' imprisonment ',Oahu' Gaol, re
aired notice tbat they were M be No 4 the sametight
by the Leeds. mill They. mare pion* in a hackney'.
,
math to eptivOy them to tire Mill awl Meta, and
maxim piodeeed, and it weir lommteemi se link the priT
sneers together t they !Mai r Imitbses ageism it,
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