The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-08-21 00:00:00

THE. BANK.
MANSIOIt•SOV9I.--Yellteidtay, Mr.
•smart
Jeweller and dealer in Coins, at 55, Prince's.ettee,'
okesteriguare, applied to the LORD Mavog for
&deice under the following circumstances:-_
In the coarse of huskies., his son had taken'
Batik Post Bill for 501., in pay Merit for vino. Re
.neglected 56 ask the name or address .of the pereo,
who paid the bill, and upon preqeotiog it et lee
Bank Of England for payment, it was declared to he
one which had been lost dr st,.lett some time before
and of which payment had heel, stopped. The on:
gins' owner of the bill wlti Mr.N.ir!is, Novotny, is
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the Old Jewry; and when the •41 of ii Os; discover.
ed, application was made to 'he Bulk, sad the
amount of the bill was paid by thelatt'er to °loosen
upon his giving a bond of isidemiti6Cation. Thecteri
of the Bank, grief starting thole cirronotances, took
the bill from Mr. Smart, and refuted to giviit
These were the facts which had given the to theepi
plicatloo, and he (Mr. Smeri) wished 1.. know whei
titer the Lord Mayor had power to compel the Hook
to give up the bill, OT what other remedy he had?
The LORD MAYOR.--1 Cannot take tech a 0..0
the present ease. 'I certainly, do hot think the Beek
have acted criminally. and it appears to mother you
have no other remedy than to enter an actieklergest
the Bank for the ret4otery of, the hill. unto., yolk%
find the person of whom your"sotr received it.
should not have taken a bill for such en ago*
without knowing the name and address of the piss
who paid it.
Mr. Smart.—The ides of contending at law Oho
powerful abody.as the Bank of littitiond is so tip.
palling to an bumble individual like myself, that I
would Coulter submit to the Inas than commence as
action. Ide think', however, .that my cassrls
one of excesbire hardship, end that the conduct s(
the Bank is opprp.sive and unjust. •
The LORD MAYOR twee with you petrel*
that the case is a hard one • bot,for my own pad I
think the conduct of the datik quite judifiahle;mte
amount of the hill having bees, !Aid h. Bee lb
the owner. 1 cannot its any way interfere.
Mr. Smart withdrew.
Yesterday awning a respectable looking woo*
called at the Jerusalem Coffee•house, St JANA.
square. Clerkenwell, and ordered half a dozen of
port wine to be sent by the porter, in company with
her, to a house near Temple.bar, where be should
he paid for it on delivery. The urine was packed up
in a basket and delivered to one of the waiters, who
received private orders from hi. mistress Sty wet means
to part with it without the money. The **Won.
companied her to the Sun poblir.hoose, its Bovereea.
court, Strand, where she told him ai tit• door lode.
liver het the wine, and she would go ha sod get Ss
money for him, as she did not wish him le besets.
Ile delivered her floe twine, but followed her, knew.
ing there was a thoroughfare throogh rile seine jure
Eases-street, and fintlieg that theca was a* Wm.,.
dared, he took is from her and brmitthelbeilotil•
tody to the Police-office, Illatton.garders, where%
elated to the Magistrates.- that a moo obi/wined a
dozen of port wine a few days benne teem als. P.
Hodgson, wine.mercheer, in Little Biistalbeatte-ood
ordered it to be sent th• pees, to' VW %, is
Deverea s-coset,w hereby received is fesesitki 'Poster,
leaving him staoding at the door own he make ate
is ilk the money, bet the ass passettltrbegtt thehoure
and escaped.
The M A.OISTRAWS ilia be roold sot "arrant elms.
milting the, wountris, as she geur up the wine;if aliewas
permitted to go with the wine nut at tie back deer,
she might be charged with stealing it.
The porter retieettrod that " shii" might he. rietaisted
till a...eh n'cliork in the evening, that Ms. (Wyss
might attend, as he bellowed she was connected with
the man who defrauder! Mm not Ilse dosea of pots

wine.
The woman gate her name Kitty Carrigtml end
that she lodged at the house of owe Larkin, a watch-
man, in Field-lane.
'rhos request was complied with, and the woos
was locked up whilst Mr. Hodgson was ;int fer.
In shoot two hours afterwards a man of the mums(
Timothy Murphy called at the r.lisre, requesting*
see the woman that was locked op for the nine; is
the mean time Mr. Hodgson and hls porter csseints
the office, and recognized this men to be the person
who had defrauded him out of, or rather stole the
dozen of wine a few dayskefore from Aix pine", the
charge being token, the man was committed for ow
initiation, and the woman was discharied.
11Satoistovowrroavr.—A watclvisaose charge of a nova
nature IA as heard here in a complaim simian Captain T. D. by
a man, who sta,rd his name e Mama.. for k ticking .hist
don it, near the Church of St. G Hanover•square. M
half pa-t eleven o'clock on Satordas evening. The AO-
trate dismit.sed the case, and pointed out to the jured.partieS,
the manner iu-which redress could be obtained at. the,Qsaster
Sessions.- •
LIGHT BREAD.
rihyrott, •Eb aft el--Tltunkday John Leach, a seller of binds
residing In circus-wee., M Bohm., apreared so same
mons on as liformation,ehargei by James B smell. of Roil.
White Liou.street, Clerkenwell, labourer, with Whig mishit
quartern loaves of fresh bread. defirleut i 4 usacessm4 Ara •
quartets, and twelve half-qt•ar erns of fresh 'bread,
20 ounces and one qoarter, of the weig t ordered by Aetm
Parliament. The charge tieing made out, he }vas coevicird le
the penalty of tiveshillings an ounce for 45.otinces,jscinA 111.1 b
He Intimated him' intentn.n io appeal,
Joseph Tuner was fully . omaii.ted for trial. chanced
passing a forged Bank of England note to Id.. J. I. JO*
Nnr•h-place; Gray's Inn-lane-read
John Lewis was ennstaitted to N. ~gale for trial: darted
stealing a pair of trowsers, the property.of Edward 14
aerkeuwell-green.
FORGED NOTES.
LA vestrw-rrazirr.—On Thursday, ileajumin Tatiana
a young man of most respectable appeurauce,.aas•liosienill.
ironed from the Hulse of Corrections to %chi,
tees committed 'three times Since his being taken into east
fa examination, charged with being at utterer hove
gawk of England notes.— lie waseolomitted for trod.
Snaower.x.-:On Thursday, Ric+ Bird Pidder, baker, of NW-,
row-street, Limehdase, and Wi4lians Wins, of High-s•reel.
Poplar, were convicted in the peralty of live porn s modem's,.
for having in their poiewioucontr •ry to the Statute, a quilintiqi
of Mum. fir 'the purpose of mixing with Boni to make into.
bread, Which they paid, and were diecluirged.

DIED
On the nth-inst., his 82t1 year, Mr. James klatAtilt
Romford, Essex '
Ott the ISiit-inst.. -111aekkeatb, John Pascal Larkins, EA*
in the tiid year of his age. -
On the 18th inst., at tin house in Well-street, Ilackney, Johth
De Keiser, E.s9, at as ad:nored age.
Ott the 16th lost,. at Brighton, Jolla Palmer. E.q• of the City
of Bath, late Comptroller.Geoetat of tie Mint OLT.
011 tRe 19th inSt., at Clayton, Middle-ex, Mr. It irhordLyittl-t,
On the 18th taut., at Chelsea. Met. k aged 13.

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