The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-04-21 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

The Grind Jury hate been sitting on the nnugually
large number of indictments which have come before
them, ever since the morning of Tuesday, the 1 Ith in-
stant.

Soon after two o'clock, yesterday, about 19 or 20
of the Gentlemen of the Grand Jury, with J. S. Haw-
kins, Esq. at their head, came into Court, and deli-
vered the last of the bills on which they had derided;
which hills having been severally proclaimed in the
usually way, one of the Grand Jurors stepped forward,
and addressing F. Const, Esq. the Chairman of the
Sessions, said, " Mr. Chairman, as one of the Grand
1 beg to make this presentment to the Court ;" at the
same time handing up a paper. Immediately after
which,
J. S. Ilawnixs, Esq. the POMO,. of the Greed
Jury, after calling the attention of the Chairman to
paper which he held in his hand, read therefrom as
follows :—" 1 am authorised by all the Gentleman of
the Grand Jury, now present (with the exception f
Mr. Farey), to say, that they totally dissent from :t:I
that is contained in Mr. Parry's inemoria/, nJw deli-
vered in.'

Mr. Faazy---`• Mr. Chairman. 1 have mesie4se 'Pt-
"wrist, that is me presentment," pointing Pt the saute
time to the paper which Mr. Uonst hi Id in hi• hand,
and from which paper he proceeded to read as fol-
lows, viz.—

" I, John Parry, of Howland-street, Fitzrov•square,
one of the Jurors of our Sovereign Lord the King as-
sembled at the Oeneral Quarter Sessions of the Pelee,
holden on Tuesday, the I Ith day of April, IMtlt, ..t
Hicks's-Hall, in and for the county of Middlesex, and
duly sworn and charged to make presentments, do
think it my duty to present as follows, viz.—That
the examination of witnesses who appeared before t'. is
Gram! Jury to support indictments against ceitai:i
persons (about forty in number), severally chargi .1
either with littering or attempting to utter (or pass).
'or else with having in their possession certain nuts
which were produced (about to the number of 120). the
same were, by the Bank Inspector, sworn to be fore.
imitations of 'Bank of England lodes; betiause (as 5...•
states!), such notes were not printed a from any ut '!:e
plates belonging to the Bank of England, or ca tte
paper used by the said !lank for the printing toi their
notes. 11 hereupon, in answer to further qiiessions
put to such Inspector, he repeatedly and distinctly
stated to this Brand Jury to the frilluwing eheet, vie.
that cart, and every one of she nutea which In had (so
as aforesaid) sworn to be forgeriesocere impressions (t:
copies) printed off from plates, with the existence et
which plates he was previously and well acquainted,
from having, in the course of his official inspection.,
'often before examined itupressious frbom these sa,i.e
forged plates; and all of which plates and notes he
(the I rispectur) understood, and wily believed to haw
been en.. raven and forged, iu ur near to the town of
Birmingham, in Warwickshire. On more than tine
occasion, the same witness stated to this timid Jurj,
that some particular person (or persons), residing in
or near to Birmingham, was very strongly suspected vf
being the engraver and forger of such plates and
whores; yet the further questions put to this and another
witness, on the part of the Bank of England, failed tit
producing evidence or information to this Grand J shy,
whether attempts had :triunity been made to search
for, and seize the tools and implements and the stock,
of the engravers and forgers of the many notes whi h
have lately been found in the possession of utterer' in
the county of Middlesex, and brought before this Orand
Jury, as aforesaid.
" Under these tircurnotauces I have deemed it my
indispensable duty, and do, in consequence, hereby
humbly pray the Court, that the Justices therein as
sembled will, wi!hout delay, ,a far as in their power
lies, caw the most energetic and efficient mead%
which are kaown, and the laws will by any means
allow, to be Weed and put in force tor fully detecting,
punishing, and altogether stopping the highly Meg I
practices of any Snell wholesale forgerwand first ut-
terera of forged Bank of England nut. s ; whereby the
strong and almost irresistible temptation which su:
first utterer, (and more especially
so dot ends-
series dispersed throushourthe country) daily hold
out to distressed and ignorant 'croons, fur ileihrin,
them to engage in the highly Mega) and mischlevous •
traffic of buying and uttering forged notes, would, it
believed, in a great -e, if nut altogether.
which

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from at_ had taken place in France, and "a" to engligw I•. •„• .••e-v ...,- --
•Truly,
The transisiter preserves-this Kyle throughout: it is the
intruage ot the teS2--- Croyaleat yle cog tout tri,p i.h- tr.itric of baying anti altering forged notes, would, it
I s f.7"ly believed, in a great wen use, if nut altogether.
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