The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-04-19 00:00:00

FOROgRS.

CIRCUIT COURT, DeIIFRIES, •PRIL. 9.
The Circuit Court of Justiciary was opened here tlis
day by the Right Hon. Lord Al ILIDOWHANN
'John AtKana and John and William Richardson ac-
cased of uttering as genuine, false, forged, and cone ;Q. -
feited notes on the Ship Bank of Glasgow, knowing !he
same to be false and forged. The indictment walaid
only on the uttering as genuine, knowing the notes to
be forged.
The evidence commenced with proving and readiqg
the declarations of the prisoners, from which it amearo
that M‘Kana and Joseph Richardson went to Dublin in
the beginning of August, 1822, and with the as,ivtatto:
of st person who resiaed in the Hay Market there, Cu
whom M'Kana said he had four years before parch.-ta
500 forged notes on the British Linen Company, employ-
ed an engraver, whose place of residence is at King tt
Court, about 40 miles to the west of "Dublin, to en gr..s
on two plates (one for the printed part of the note, t! :e
other for the ornamental part of the note), a one-guinet
bank note by Carrick, and Brown, Glasgow; and that
the plates being presented, they bought paper, and bat
threelmndrell notes thrown off in Dublin. In this work
they said that they were occupied from two to three
weeks, and that it cost them—
For the two plates
Engraving, t 2 2s. per hundred
Signing
Paper
Stamp

ill II 0
6 ti U
3 3 0
5 0 0
. 015 U

In all, .e 26.13

Joseph Richardson returned to Scotland before Cie
notes were finished ; M'Kana waited till they were tea :y,
and took them with him. Two hundred were eivcn :o
Joseph Richardson. one hundred whereof were meant f.,r
his brother William, and the third one hundred
himself kept. Seventy-two of the forged notes were
found in the possession of M-Kana's wife, and 163 in .a
bush on a turf dyke, which inclose Joseph Ric'hardson.s
stack-yard at Gilmour Bank. The remainder of the 311't
forged notes, except a few which were destroyed, a e:e
altered by !Whams and Joseph and %Villiam
son, in Dumfries-shire, and iu England; to the north of
Carlisle.
In support of the uttering and of the possession, so for
as it went to prose the prisoner', knowledge of ttor 104-
gory, several-witnesses wereproditeed, and the proof being-
concluded, the Jury were addressed by Mr. M•Neill,
socate Depute, on the part of the Crown, and by Mr. l rv-
Ing Henderson for the prisoners, and the case was
summed up by Lord Meadombank.
The Jury returned an unanimous verdict, " findinz
the indictment, as limited, proven against all the panel:,
except is so far as regards the third charge (the utterin
at Dumfries), which they find not proven against 3 o.e;da
Richardson." _ _ .

MBADOMB4NE, after a feeling and impressive ad-
dress to the prisoners, during which the prisoner, Jn-
seph Richardson, fainted, sentenced them to be es:scaled
id 'Notaries on the 14th of May next.

HORRID MURDZIL—DEAL, A PSI 1, 17.—The n •iel
boartiood of Drill hes this day been throan into tte
greatest consternation, in consequence of an aroci.,ltA
murder having been cm:indite(' un one of its ini,ah
a Mr. Joseph Orli, residing in the vicinity of the tows,.
The murder was committed-about sine o'clock last uven-
thottafortenate man was sitting at t,u;e,
loaded gun tired from without side the window of the!
room in whieb 'etas: Three persons hare been arreste.l
ens 'suspicion' ((me 6f dein the Only son to the decra.r.t;
aged abut* nineteen teal), abd are now wider
Inquest• riilf be held ors the hods.
immediately when a Coroner can he obtained,
further details of this melancholy affair will In