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• littbirtitts a. sitacettott:
env a prefteettion against the Defeeffant; for
frehditteelly appropriated to the payment of 41":itpencei atiendive twb indictments on which
warttied semis timeArs, certain sums of money,
bite riled, of the pdtilli of St. Matthew, Bethnal-
.
saidOM'Uotie to state a very heavy
Charge tai intlividaat; wit* hydroid influence,
ftwm prislidety. sod counrtitiag, in the perish OW.
Matthew, Bethnal-green. Thss perish wee regeletille-
**derail Am erPertiement, *Weir tirade all the 'nee'
canary oppelnelbelle onweadhlepenegireeters,
,Tbe Dfsfenifinc was a env erbrstwour wet- Aiiiiteed;
'faun, eristeipal Commissioner of .ee Sewers,, and'
Treeturtie elite podr of the perish. Re held other
anises betides, which added to the authority defined:
from those situations ; so that his influence and in.
terse were molt considerable; and it was natural le
imogine, that he mast bate taken • an important lead
he all %s-ram connected with that perish. It might
Inge been etpected, that some reposed confidence its
4611pabffe etindect of an individesl. for a long time
siceepying situations of sech resposibility ; and that
those Who did not think him infallible, had not many
erf them cattalo to declare it, in consequence of the
power he possessed of making them repent their inter-
position.; for the perish might be said to be in a state
of subserviency to him. Thee, were some; however,
who doredlo entertain certain suspicious, and had
courage to embody them in a legs! fors. The event
was an acquittal. The evidence was not produced,
end it was to be presumed either that the charge was
groundless, or that the proof was deemed insufficient.
Whatever might have been the rinse, the law e!-
peons amounted to 9141. and a fraction, according,
to the estimate produced in the Defendant's book.—
The charges against the Defendant stele, that he
saving possession of the Poor's Rates, bed been in.
dated to alter the sums assessed upon different houses
in the parish, raising them in some and diminishing
them upon others : of the latter class, were those
in which he bad himself a particular interest. How
the parish could have been supposed to be respon.
Bible for the payment of the expenses attending the
two prosecutions—for the sum of which he had
spoken referred to two indictments—could not pos.
sibly be imagined. It was then to prove that the
Defendant was guilty of imposing on the parish, and
by fraud and collusion, applying to his own use this
money, which he had taken without the authority
given by the Act of Parliament, that he Ansel(' coil
witnesses. The Learned Counsel then described the
particular regulations laid down in the Act with re-
spect to the pariah, which stated that it was the duty
of the Treasurer to receive all monies for the Go-
vernors, Directors, and Masters of the Workhouse,
and to pay such sums as the Vestry or the Governors
or Directors, or any five of them, should order.—
The Treasurer was thus in fact the banker. The
accounts kept by the Treasurer of such monies as he
received and paid away, were subject to the inspec-
tion of the Vestry at large, and it would be seen
whether the amount of the two prosecutions hid
been paid from the proper fund, from the testimony
he had to bring forward. If that was the case the
Defendant stood acquitted. It had been provided by
a clause in the Act, that the sums received and paid
should he entered in a book, which was to be ex-
amined, before it was audited, by the Vestry Clerk,
and assigned and lodged under his care. The De-
fendant had not complied with this very necessary
rale to the letter. It was handed over to the Vestry
Clerk in order to be copied out, hot on: before it had
beet audited—in other words, the private honk of
'Mr. Merceron was seen by nobody until the accounts
be had entered were audited. The practice pursued by
the Defendant was similar to that in other cases
of fraud the most likely to deceive. On the
16th of August, A vestry meeting was held for pot.
poses wholly different from the essmination or audit-
ing of the 'rressurer's accounts. Some differences
took place at that meeting which rendered it necessary
to fix another day for the discussion of the business
of that. The e3d of August was the day to
which it was postponed. The meeting consisted of
about a hundred persons, in whose presence the re-
gular affairs of the vestry were transacted. Mr. May,
the clerk, was present, but not having the most re.
mote idea that any Indolent plan was in agitation
amongst the friends of the Defendant, left the room
when the crowd began to disperse. At length only
six or seven persons remained in the room, and they
brought forward two Resoletions, which they called
unanimous. The first expressive of the grati6ca.
cation felt at the acquittal of Mr. Merceron, and
the horror with which the meeting viewed the base
object of the prosecutions ; and the second, to which
the attention of the Jury was particularly called,
stating that the espences incurred by the prosecutions
of the late Officers of the parish should be defrayed
by the parish. One would think that if an innocent
man wished to exonerate himself from all suspicion,
be would have taken the opportunity of dein so in
as full a vestry as possible, instead of waiting till all
were gone, eacept the Minister of a chapel near the
pariah, who was a parliceps criininis, and a few
others, who were actuated by an impulse not less dis-
honourable. Now was it not evident at the very
first mention of this nee, that no vestry could be
found that would call upon the parish to pay such a
sum, and upon such an occasion ; and most not every
honest man condemn such abuse of public trust. It
was universally condemned. The idea of indemnifi-
cation for espeuces incurred ender such circumstances
incited the utmost discontent; and several indivi-
duals determined to watch that no bill -should be
passed for the payment of the law proceedings di-


it was, or whose writing, or whether the initials,
" J. M." to it were the Defendant's writing.
Cross-esamitied by 11r. Torrima.—He received
his instructions from Mr. Merceron. Was not quite
clear whether he had received the papers from Mr.
May, but was sore that Mr. May was originally con-
cerned for Mr. Merceron, who afterwards em-
ployed him. The bill contained other charges besides
those upon the I wo indictments which he had defended.
J. May stated, that he was Vestry Clerk at St.
Matthew's 30 years. He knew Mr. Merceron, who
he believed, resided there 50 years, and was a Ma.
gistrate and Treasurer of the Poor's Rate.. (The Wit-
ness here mentioned the duties of Treasurer, as they
were stated by the Counsel for the prosecotion.)—
There were some or,:ert paid by the Treasurer with•
out the authority of the Directors, but they were fur
specific, and never for indefinite sums. All bills re.
leave to the Pour Rates passed through the hands of
the Directors at the quarterly meeting,who authorised
him to draw a draft, signed by five Governors, upon
the Treasures. That order the Treasurer kept until
his accounts were audited. The utmost regularity
was observed. After the auditing of the accounts,
the Defendant's book was sent to be copied ; witness
bad no access to it until it was copied, and
it was not exhibited until audit day. A
meeting was held on the 14th of August, 18t3,

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book was
not himself
signatures,
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Commons,
mittee of
Messrs. Dal
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the book
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the Defend&
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part of At
from Mr.
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the sum 91
on the par'
mittee.
audit.
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the parish
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sum of 9251
very near.
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