The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-08-25 00:00:00

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ilherustsple •astd Sinehmolton New Light Post Coach, every
Nesday: Wednesday, and Friday mornings, at 7 o'Cloot.
. The ' Rockingham.(' Inds Light Post Coach, sets oat
efrlt Afternoon at Telt PA and passes through Baldoatc
litgglestvade Eaton, -1110#doss, Stine*, Woodard, Stan'
ford, Greed; an,. Grottiest% klarante„ Tossford, Markham,
Naar,' Re(ford.Rastry. pimp-after, ,and Ferry-bridge, ar-
rives at the Guide's Lieu Akg Leeds, nest Afternoon, at
3 o'clock, in time far the beithfited. Manfax, Skipton and I
Ituddenviteid Coaches, at reduced Fares::.-Driven through'
svitisfaur coachmen oply.—Luggage and Packages only 2d.
per lb.—Notwithstanding the uncommon expedition of
this Coach, it is allowed ,to the • the. moat agreeable and
complete peddle conveyance on•thit. Mai Road, being
unequalled by any other. • 411 .
Itarrotorste and 'Ripon Yew Light Pat: Coaches every
Afteesoltn, al 2, lr S inine Morning.
' Glasgow, Longlown, Gretna-Greta, Ammo. Dumfries,
Brownish, Thornhill. Nitrupthar Kiln. Cassock. Kitty&
well, and all Parts of Scottaad, a Light 4-inside Post-
Coach-Daily.
Bridgenorth, Waists:, Shrewsbury, Salop. and Ilolgke.ad
New Light Concise-every Afternosta, at reduced Fares.
The "Rapress." to-Vork, Scarborough, insitby, Shields,
Ssusderiand.Newtaatte anti Sdloberges a New Light Magri
lie PAst-caaeh. Ai* a tavern throsalutsit • • sets oat
every Morning, by logy of •Neworilt. Belford; Dosscasser,
Ferry-bridge. 7adeaster, . Darlington. Narthallerltm,
Mirka*, Morpeth; cad Berwick, and arrives at York rho
nest Morning at 12 o'Clock, at reduced Fares.—Driven
ilitiugh wills 4 coachmen oily.—Passengers finding them-
tetra fatigued on the journey, may rest what lime they
please, and then proceed **hood any additional fare.
1 Marlborough and Swindon Four Inside Day Coach,
Ildbourn, Reading, Lansbourn, Parton, Lydingtots,
'Pewee', Wootton Basset, Raatsbury. Hangerford, New-
bury gad Maidenhead.—Driven through with one coach-
.man only•
The New Rood Patent Mail, Boston and Loath, thro'
tkoystom, Cambridge, Ihsatiagdon, Wino*, Petcrboro.,
Drepiasy, Spalding, Sphsby, Alford. Grimsby
Stewing, at half-past 7 o'clock, Sunday, at a quarter
before 1.
The gnaw,'" a New Light Four-Inside Post Coach
to Carlisle. Pearitk and Wisitehaven ; with a Guard all
the way ,•' pasties through Appleby. Drough, Bowes, Greta-
'fridge Ricknuaul,Catterick. Bormeghbride, Ferry-bridge,
Doncaster Newark, Bantry, Grantham. Stamford, Gree-
than. Stilton, Digglestrade and ikatiock. Sets out ia the
Morning, and performs the Journey with the greatest Pa-
wky. .41. REDUCED PA eye.
Passengers detained on the road, by business or plea-
sure, have the peculiar advantage of their scram briny se-
cond in the aext Coach.

NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Lairrsit, AuotiST 22. •

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' .: • . • LOAN AND CAINVOITLHARIDD.ET. RRICLIPALL.
This was an action to recover from, the defendant the
suss of 1,000 t., the ansonnt of a Bank of England note.
*blob had been lost on the 3d of April, 18121, and tim:ed to
the poesession of the defendant, in June Mt
Ile. Tirana:A opened the pleadings. ' . • • .
Mr. Sea ahrrT stated the case for the plilatilfe. ,he mid
that tke *WITe were respectable solicitors in London
and the defendant was a sort of half and half banker inial-
verpool ; not a banker in the usual way, but one who
suited with it the business of a general merchant ant}
brewer, dealing also in the tea and spirit trade. On the W
of April, ISM, the plaintiffs had to pay a large sum of money
into the Bank of England, and sent a check by their clerk
to the banking-house of Messri. Snow and 'Pawl for the
amount, which he there received, and went with it to the
Bank ; bet on his arrival there he found that he had lost a
10001. mete, which he had received as part of the money in ,
payment of the check. An advertisement was. mmediately
put *PAH' the principal Newspapers to stop the note,
east selheieg a reward. In a yeat and three months after,,
the 00t4twal mopped in the bask, being paid in by the
hanktterhoese of Messrs. Jones, Loyd, and Co. An
,imtiry was immediately set on foot, and the note was
traced to the possession of the defendant. 4.'ew notes of
such large amount were in circulation, as would be found
from the reports of the Hones or Commons, and even
those that were in circulation hardly ever exceeded twelve
months. Notwithstanding, this note was nearly two years
in circulation, and of such large amount, it would be
found that the defendant received it without making that
inquiry which it was his duty to make under such circumstances.
Though, In cases where notes were lost, and found in the pos-
session of other persons, the ones of proving how they were
got lay upon those who received them, yet in the present in-
stance be would go a little farther, and show that this note of
1,00111. came into the possession of the defenda it under the
most suspicious circumstances. If the defendant was the loans
fide holder of this note, and if he were a fair, honest, regular,
banker, he would be ableto account, by the production of his
books, what consideration he gave for it. But if a person who
called himself a banker should not be able to show that he bad
Oven the full value for the note of 1,0001 , and if, in addition,
lie (Mr. Saarlett) could prove that the defendantlead received
this note from a Jew in Liverpool, of that character and situa-
tion in life, which ought to bave'exeited his suspicion, and
induced him to Inquire how he got it,. he submitted that there
was strong ground for believing that the defendant was in
corrupt collusion with the Jew, and had not git...n the fuil value
tot the note, and was therefore liable to repay it. lie would
put it to them, if such a man had presented so large a note to a
Loudon or Lancaster banker, would not that banker have mode
every inquiry about him ? Would he hare received a 1,030 f.
note from a low Jew, keeping a slop-shop, and who, a few
months before, he had known an Insolvent, without asking him
how he came by that uote ? No respectable or honest banker
would have done so. But if he should prove that the defend-
ant had so acted, was not the fair inference that he was in col-
lusion with the Jew, and received the note under eircusestauces
which could not bear the light? And, if so, his Lordship
would tell them that the plaiutlffs were entitled to recover.
l'harles Gubbins examined by Mr..l3aoucussi.--,Am clerk
and cashier iu the batik of Mesirs. snow and Co., London.—
The plai.ittel in their joint nainebauk with them. Their clerk,
Mr. Wilkie, came from them with a check drawn on Know and
Paul to the usual way, on the 3d of April, 1821. It was his
duty to pay that check, which he did. The amount of the
check was 7813% It was paid in seven notes of WOOL each,
one of 5001., one 3001., and one 401., and three of IL each.—
They were Bank of England notes. I enter the notes sepa-
rately where they are not running numbers, and then, to save
entry, I circumflex them. it is the practice to enter all notes,
save It. it/ this way. They take the date and number of all
notes down to U. I took the date of the notes paid to Mr.
Was down to It. There was amongst the 10001. notes one
dated the 12th October, 1820, No. 1661.
Ge-ege Wilks was a clerk in the office of the plaintiffs, who
are solicitors in London. I act as clerk and ceshier, and have
lived with them tea years. Recollects receiving from the
plaintiffs the check upon their hankers on the 3d of April,
1821. The money for that I received in notes and cash from
the lest witness. I counted them with the clerk, and put them
into my inside pocket. 1 then proceeded to the Cashier's Office
in the Bank of England. The notes were to be cancelled there,
because the money was to be paid into the Chancery-office to
the credit of the Accountant-General. I arrlvedeed the-Bank
between eleven and twelve it. the morning. When I arrived
there were several persons, perhaps ten, near rue in the office
at the time. When 1 first went the offices were so busy I could
not transact my business. I took them out of my pocket for
the first time in the office and turned the face down that 1 might
write on the back of one of the pound notes the date, the
amount, the number and the name of Messrs. E. and Co.—
There might have been four or the minutes between taking
them out and delivering them to the clerk. Ile asked me, after
counting them himself, what I made the amount. I said 76431.
He asked me if I were sure, for he could not make them so
much. I said I had no doubt that was the amount. lie counted'
them over again, and said he could only make 6,8131. of them.
I counted them again and was surprised to tied they were only
6.6431. He delivered them to me back, and refused to cancel
them. I sent back to Mr. Gubbins's office, not knowing the
'number of the note missing. 1 there examined and compared
the numbers and found I had all but the number 1601, 12th Oct.
1820. I gave notice at Mr. Best's office of the loss of the note,
that it might be stopped, and paid for the entry.
The newspapers containing the advertisements that th e
mute wits lust, were then put in and read, offering a reward
of 10t .1.

nut ONLY DIRECT COACH TO CARLISLE.
The Nem Royal Patent Mail. Cambridge (lira' (Pare.
Bantingford, Ruckland, ir Royston, Evening, at hall-past
7 cee:crek, Sunday, at a smarter before 7.
Kendal, Lancaster, Preston, Kirby. Lansdale, Bolton,
Charley, &stairA and Garstang Light Post Couches,
every Afternoon.
The " Royal Express." Nem Light Four-Inside Post
Coach, to Liverpool, in 214 Hones may. thro' Warrington.
Prescol, Coughlan, Lawton, Newcastle. !lodge/I. Knuts-
ford, Stone, Stafford and Litchfield. fonEy (Me Night on
the Road,) every Afternoon; arrives at the Saracen's
Dead Inn, Date-street, Liverpool. next lerening, at 8.
The advantages to Travellers oho honour this roach with
their preferehee arefarsisperior to any other on this Road,
'as the "Royal Express' is driven throsigho44 with 4 coach-
men only (S less than any other roach to Liverpool)—a sa-
ving to fussengers too evident to require Comment ; besides
the additional advantage, especially to commercial inter-
ests, Of ye:fanning the Journey in less time than any other
coach; and, notteittistasuling its cheapness and expedition,
the Proprietors pledge themselves that for safety and ac-
commodation it is equalled by fem and shall be surpassed
by non*.
Wakefield 4-Inside Post Coaches, every Morning and
Afternoon, AT ANDUCED PARIS&
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Chester, IVeteport, Whiteehmrek, Tarporleg, Nampi.
wick, Northwieh and Middienick Light Post Coach, every
Afternoon.

'Sunderland, Stockton and Yarm light Post Coach erery
Morning, to Ike George Inn, Sunderland, ar REDUCED
FARES.

Mountain's " Express," to Manchestet., Winston, Con-
glelon, Newcastle, ;Valera, Wolverhampton 4- ilattrford,
Nea Fair Inside Post Coach, ever!, AnCTAOO4. Onig
ORE Night on the Road. AT REDUCED FARES.
Sheffield and Rotherham new Four Insid- Post Coaches
every Morning, called „The Express," and also •• The
Rockingham,' every Afternoon, AT REDUCED PARES.
The "!loyal Express," new Birmingham Light Fart
Post Coach, sets out every afternoon, carrying 4 Inside
map. passes through Warwick, Leamington. Sonthans,
'Vadat. Darentry, Stoney-Stratford, and Toweester, la
the Saracen's Head, Bull Street, Birminlham, early the
nert morning.—Driven through with two coachmen only,
(two less than any other coach.)
7Ae •' Express' a New Light Post Cootie to Holt, Lin-
coln, Nortlscave,' Harden and Doncaster, every morning,
at eight o'clock to the Cross keys, Market Place, Hutt, and
also tke " Rockingham" is the afternoon at 2 o'clock.
The Hertford,. Ware, lloddesdon and Cheshnnt Coach,
A9' REDUCED FARES.

aLi E dotonlon Coaches daily al demi, htd f-
pact two, five, and eight o'clock.
•.• At Reduced Fares, to Leeds, York, and Doncaster:
Luggage and Packages at only two-pence per lb.
S. A. MOUNTAIN and Co. respe,x'ully acquaint their
Friends and the Public, that they will not be aecountthle
for any Parcels, Passengers' Luggage, Writings, Plz.tr, eze.
of idore thou Five Pounds value, if lost, stolen, or daina;ed,
unless entered as such, and the Insurance paid for a.•cord-
ingly, at Sus Saracen's (lead Inn, Skinosr-ttreet; Sac
London.

Mr. WiWaal Williame.—Am clerk in the Bank of Eng-
' land in the out teller's office. 1 received the note in (pies-
time. (The note was here produced by the witness.) It is
now cancelled. I received it on the 231 July, 1822, from
the cashier of Jones, Loyd and Co. It was paid me in part
of a sum above 46,000/. 1 observed the date ; it is dated
12th Oct., 18120. I took the note to the examiner, he said
it was above twelve months old. This is the constapt prac-
tice. Thousand pound notes are very rarely out so tong,
and( don't know any other note now out so long. I found,
on showing- it to the examiner, that it had been stopped,
and I went to Jones, Loyd and Co., and demanded a thou-
nd in place of it, wh:ch they refused: Notice
was given to Messrs. Egan and Waterman from the bank.
William Cooper.—Ani clerk in the house of Messrs.
Williams and Cu. The defendant keeps an account at our
house, and recollects receiving a remittance from him in
Jane, 1822.. 1 have the letter enclosing the remittance
from Liverpool. (The letter was here put in and read.—
It was addressed to Messrs. Williams, and elated 2:lth June,
1622, enclosing 1,.1121.). and I know that it contained the
sore of LOJOI. in question.
Cross examined—Am seven years in the employment of
Messrs. Wilfiams. Mr. Tberlfall-has done banking fur near
five seers With their house. They do bhsiness to the amount
of 2d0,0001. a year.
James Lowe.—Am a solicitorin Liverpool, and know the
defendant. Ile is a banker, general dealer, spirit de eler,
brewer, and tea dealer. I believe be is also a bill broker.
I received in July, 1822, a letter from Messrs. Egan aed
Co. iu consequence of which I called on the defendant
the same day, and found hien at his own counting-house,
I read him the letter in order to inquire how be had got
the note. I asked what he hisd given fer it. He said lie
discounted it fur a Mr. Isaac Henry. He said he was a
'lowlier residing in Pool Lane. I asked it it was not
the Isaac Henry who now lived io Water Street. I men-
tinned to dlr.Whreifall the trade lie carried on; that he
was the kreperj of an American tavern in Water Street;
atid lee sill that be be:lend it was !kr sainc toil. He

.FROM SATURDAY'S GAZETTE.

BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED.
H. Welchman, Loug-acm. Middleuer. aims-dorm, from
Aug. 20, to Sept. IS. at Basinchall-street.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERREDED.
Rey. T. Bnim, Much Nlteu!ock: Shropshire. manufacturer.

BANKRUPTS:
J. snd H. S. Graves, Longbourn 'Chambers, London, mer-
chant, to surrender Aug. So, Sept. 6, and Oct. 4, at Basingbali-
street. Attorney. Mr: Fisher, Ruck',rebury.
J. Hunter, Halifax, iforkablre, dealer. Sept. S. 9, and Oct.
4. at Lb* office of Mr. Bcatcherd, Halifax. Attorneys, Mt. E.
Waller,Kxchequer-office, Lincoln's Inn-fields ; and Mr.Scatch-
erd, Halifax.
J. HowellAlanelly, Carrnarthenshire,linen-draper, Sept.lo,
11, and Oct. 4, at the IVliite Lion Inn, Srist•,l. Attornrys,Alr
W. L. Clarke, Bristol ; and Messrs. Jenkins, James, sod Ab
bott, New lan, London.
W. Barnes. Newhall, Chacdey, Worcestershire, ciw amt
cattle dealer, Sept. 15, 16, and Oct.-L, at th,SSwan 'l', wkes-
bury, Gloucestershire. Attorneys, 51r. R. W. Jones, Tewkes-
bury; and Mr. W. Windus, Bartlett's-building-1, Llndon.
K. Hill, Stull-ord. silversmith, Aux. :19, 30. sad Oct. 4, at the
Hen and Chickens lio:el, Birmingham. Attorneys, Messrs.
Clarke, Richards, and Medcalf, Chancery-lane; and Messrs.
Tyndall and Rawlins, Birinin.thain.
W. Mitchell, Norwich, silversmith, Aug. 26, Sept. 6. end
Oct. 4, at Btsingliall-street, Attorney, Mr. Gale, Basinghall-
street

T: ox. Great Surrey-street, Ellackfrines-road, woo!len-
dram, Aug 20, Sept. 0, ant Oct, 4, at Hasinghall-street. At-
torney, Mr. Bolton, Austin-friars.
T. Gartwrishi, Kluwer. Staffordshire. sictualler, Sept 14
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It and Oct. 4.41 tue Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Attorneys,
Mr. Farlow; E.)-placo. Holborn; and Mr. Flemington, Oty-
Miry, Shropshire.
T. Cogger, II.) lIIR rice, Middlesex, glass:Dan. Aug. 30, Srpt.
6, and Oct. 4, at B AtiughaC-streett Aftniney, Mr. Youug,
Mark-lane. (Dili:Luis, To-fuorrvv-.)

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said be bed received it on the 24th June, 1822. 1 went to
Henry. in consequence of tbis ,couunnnic.tion, to Water
Street. What 1 learned from Wary !communicated by let-
ter to Mr. Egan, and he came ,to Liverpool. 1 accoto,
ponied to the defendant's to introduce him as the
gentleman who lost the note. This was on the 10th
of July. Tlerelfall said that he. bed discounted the
note for Wary in cash find bilis at one eighth per cent.
1 saw the note, being dated the 12th October, 1820, and
for so. large a sum. Did you mike no inquiry of Henry
how he got it? :I'tr -1411 said he did not—ho saw the note
Waa a good one, and that was enough for him. • Mr. Egau
then seked for more particulars of the note, and Mr. Threl-
fall gave lAN a memorandum. From the memorandum
there appeared to be a tisficieory of 3001. and on asking
him how be had made up, be said in Bank notes null cash. He
;shed for, the particulars of the notes of the deficiency, and
he said be .cuold givmhone. 1 said, surely Mr. Tbrelf ill,
you can tell as how fou make up the balance and you'
ca; refer es to the
,eutriea in the book. He answered, his
books contained no information whatever on the 'object.
There ere some small notes in tireolsitiolt at Liverpool. but
sot so extensively as formerly. He said he had paid henry
in his own c.4lltiog-horse and nobody was by. Ac thin
times:crew suing Henry for W. 0e.131. for Y brewing
coocern, of which Mr. Threlfall was a partner. It was for
ale. Henry was not in a capacity to pay it. Weltered 11
cognosit. Henry had failed, and takewthehenefit of the
Insolvent Act sit or eight months before that. There were
font- banker, much nearer to Henry than Mr. Threlfoll.
There were three banks within 500 yards of hint, Messrs.
Leland', Moss and Co. and Haywood and Co.
Cross-exautiord.—Knows Mr. Tbrelfall was a partner in
the brewing concern, because 1 brought actions in his name.
Au officer from the In‘olvent, Court proved that Henty
was released under the Insolvent Act on the 28th of Octo-
ber, 1821.

Mr. Wilk. was recalled, and produced the schedule of
Mr. Henry, from is hich it appeared that 31. 0). Gd. was due
to M . Threlfall and Co. for'spirits.
Mr. Lowe was recalled, and deposed that Henry was
summoned by the plaintiff. Henry was before the Magis-
trate.. He came at the invitat;on of an attorney and too
police ofhcers; hut he said he would not answer if he
liked. He could not be a witness, and we did nut con.ider
him a criminal, but something between both. He was not
examined on oath.
Mr. Edward Watkin Jeffrey.—Andclerk to Messrs. Loxe
and Co. the solicitors. I went with Mr. Egan to the de-
fendant's fur the .purpnse of checking a list of bills that the
defendant bad given Mr. Egan the day before. Mr. Egan
asked for the book in whjch the transaction had been ril*
tared, inaarder that the balance between the 7001. and the
1000!. would be paid lilt. Tbrelfall said he hail nu bo k
which would show the transaction, further than his hilt
book. Mr. Egan observed upon that, that it was usual for.
bankers to have books wherein all their transactions were
entered. Mr. Threlfall said that was the usual course, but
finding it not to answer, be had left it off Mr. Egan asaed
what commission Mr. Threlfall had charged, and lie said
either an eighth or a quarter per cent.
Cross-examined.—lle produced a bill !oak, with which
Mr. Egan checked the bills.
Here the plaintiffs' case was closed.
Mr. Sergeant Caoss then addressed the jury for the de-
fendant. He reminded tkem that in the very ingeniwts
opening of his learned friend's (Mr. Scarlett's) statement,
great parade had been made of the rights of the
but not one word had been said of those appertaining to the
defendant. It was nn that account his duty to be the more
particular, in impressing upon the minds of the jury that
part of the ektilis which his leatned friend had, no doubt for
good reasons, omitted, and, to apprise them that the law
respecting, the retaining possession of the currency of the
country. was materially distinct from that which applied to
any other deicription of property.. Were it a horse or a
trunk that any man had lost, no matter how many transmu-
tations either the one or the other had gone through, the
original owner was invested with a summary right of re-pos-
session, unless the property could be proved to have been
purchased in what the law called a " vitzrket overt." But
it was different with respect to the legal currency of the
land, for in that the party was entitled to retention, no mat=
ter how the money had become diverted from the original
owner, if he could prove he had duly received it in this
regular course of his business. In his support of his opinion
upon this point, be begged to refer to the case of Sir J.
Lawson v. Weston," in which Lord Kenyon had held, that
a bill of exchange, although the party presenting it was
unknown, was binding upon the acceptor; if, with a know-
ledge of the hand-writing, he had advanced money upon it.
Lord Kenyan on that occasion referred to the case of "Mil-
ler v. Race." in which Lord Mansfield'had held, that an
innkeeper on Bagshot-heath, who bad changed a note fora
highwayman who had taken refreshment at his ian, was mai' led
to recover the amount, although that note had been before taken
by the highwayman fromatraveller. It wsstrue that Lord Maus-
fie d had accompanied bisopinion with an observation, that if
there were the slightest idea of fraud or collusion between
the highwayman, or the innkeeper, the case would be dif-
ferent. He should clearly establish in evidence, that his.
client had received and given value for the note in the fair
course of business. His learned friend had talked of thy-
practice of London bankers. Why, Lord Kenyon, in the
very case alluded to, had said, that the practice of certain
bankers, whatever it might be, constituted no general rule:
and with respect to the present case, Ibis was MI action not
to support any specific rule of business, but to subvert a
wholesome practice, and to recover a 1,0001. bank note
from a man who had fairly and openly become possessed
of it. The Learned Sergeant then dwelt upon the danger-
ous consequences of establishing such a precedent in the
pecuniary tran.actions of the country, and complained of
the cloud of reproach Which 'the Learned Counsel (Mr.
Scarlett) had endeavoured to cast over the defendant. Nit
-content nith his general tirade, he had endeavoured to
depreciate the honest details of the defendant's occupations;
he was deaeribed as bring a brewer, a grocer, and this,
and that, and the other thing. It was new among Eng-
lishmen Nl' hear the extension of a man's commercial
transactions converted into so many moral taints upon
his character. A brewer, forsooth, was to be a term of
depreciation ! Did his Learned Friend never hear of a brewer,
who was not only the first in his tine of trade, hut also the
great manager of what were called the Opposition in the House
of COIIIIIIIOUS ? nay, further, the nraniger of Drury-lane thea-
tre? (Mr. Whitbread.) Whoever heard of that distinguished
man. the great mover of the impeachment of Lord Melville,
having been upbraided for his private pursuits? Why did his
Learned Friend set the impolitic example of making those dis-
tinctions invidions,which,so far from being matters of reproach,
were subjects of lionouraole notoriety ? Was Wore auy tiling
more remarkable in the same person being both a banker cud
a brewer, than in the same person being both a Lawyer and a
senator ? Indeed, he believed that he had Learned Fileude
near him, who looked forward not only to great pre-etui.tence
at the bar, but to a gleaner leadership In the senate, however
distinct might appear the two avocations. Why, tk.tn, mentioo
them in this invidious manner, were it'bot to endeavour to ex-
cite a prejudice iii the aphids of the Jury, by ini27stat'ng 'and
overcharging the various occupations of '.n intelligent and io-
dustrious man f Why excite auch a prejugice, and for what
purpose ? For nothing really connected with tins amuse, but
tor the prejudice of it, and nothing else ; and merely as an ex-
periment, to try how far the plastic imagination of his Learned
Friend could work upon the credulity of the human understand;
log to promote his ciient's purposes.