The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-12-08 00:00:00

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11-TE STATESMAN

TRIAL IN FRANCE FOR MITRING
-FORGED NOTES.
On Thursday last (the 3d inst.) the Artie. Cook
of St. Omer, condemned to five mix forced labour
in chains, to branding, and public expesure, Alex.
Sinclair (otherwise lilulgrave), for uttering forged
Bank of England notes in the neighbourhood of St.
Omer, Donkirk, end C.ltali. The Prisoner repre-
sented himself to be a British naval officer, connected
with the Dork-yard of Chatham, and was accom-
panied by a Scotch Inman, whom he represented to
be his wife. He arrived at Wale, it was said on the
Wet, with •pwards•of 80 one pound Bank of Eng.
land notes, among among which there was hot a
single good one. The nomber he distributed was said
to be shoot 40, and these were in the possession of
five or six individuals, so that no one was defrauded
to any, great amount. The person who suffered'ltiost
was an English officer, who exchanged 15 of the forged
notes for French money et Dunkirk. The crime of
the Prisoner, his altering the forged notes, with I
guilty knowledge of their being forged, for the por-
pose of defrauding those who received them, was
proved by a great number of witnesses.
The fact of the forgery of the nolos,wes establitds-
ad, not as in ibis coaatty,.. bUbe adance of one
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of the Inspecting Clerks of &MG teat by an
affidavit or declaration, transmitted hear the Bonk
of England to' the Bit* of 'Gilgit. ,ttesting the
forgery. The evidence appeared to the Jury to be
irresistible, and the Prisoner, though ably defended
by an Advocate appointed by the Court, was sen-
tenced to the punishment above-mentinned. lie goad
aot speak i word'of French ; but when he was told
that he *as Andemnell, emphatically exclaihted
English, to the amusement of the Dieu and andi.
once, "for win( ?" It is rather singular, consider-
jog the facility with which Bank of England *Mei
are received at Calais, Boulogne, Dunkirk, and,
other places on the coast frequented by the English,
that this should be the first conviction for passing
forgeries, and that so promising a field should have
been so long left unoccupied by the escees of 'Oven-
(firers who crowd the dock of the Old Bailey. The
Court at St. Omer, aware of the importance of
checking a crime which might be to destructive,to
the commercial relations of the two countries, passed
the most rigorous sentence on Sinclair that the French
law allows for fraud; their criminal code viewing
the offence of the Prisoner in no other light.—The
forgery of a note of the Bank of France is punished
with death.


_ 11UPPLEMLNI TO THE
_ LONDON GAZETTE, Dn. 5.
aIIORT 11latll4SOR-SFENERAL SIR U. MANUA,
TUE ADZIJTANT.GEHERAL.
Camp, April s
• On the 46th instant, I did myself the honour
repotting to you, by mains, the success of oer
rations against the town of blondish, and in

plicate of that commenication, dispatched um.
ing, I had the further satisfaction of anoctuntiog
onaooditiosal sorreoder of the fort, end of the t-
thet garrisoned it.
I now proceed to lay, through you, bele.
Eacellency the Most Noble the Commander-imCb
a detail of the particulars of those operations.
The materials for the batteries were cooplf

the 25415, notwithstanding the loamense-nami
oblong, fascioes, &c. that were reqeired oe .
of the many batteries to be erected, end of the
tinily, of some of the enetny'S poi, that twee
intended points of attack.
00 she night of the 25th, the whole of the
and miaisrs, aisteri by almost every Sepoy
mated tit the lissekeitere employed on the important
work Oresselistst efiseteaUer ice, which, highly tv
eedit, wire al% (saadest, and the gens on tbpir p.
C.4etwor before diry-loroisk-. The enemy lired mech,bet
fort 'male'', the metWilkofjoart .t the week Vi
ed deellectke der ksiiist pi the VW., MI.,
. lopp•ogid. • ~...,- ,
cI- et *tell cal
in tie
Olson in this IA if t
*Wee e strongest terms of eppito
merttorievre croiduct of the Officers of the
,dirsgc
ill'lmieeellit. 4. Co plain Tickell, Liesteoasos
and Cheapei'laselges Colvin and Irvine, and
Warlowl.theieltigh spirit of devotion to the
their iodefatigellle overdoes, which only ceal
,the fall d.the written, their during recosio.
in all quititers to obtain local knowledge of a
extremely difficult approach, watched too i
missing jealousy by the defenders, the sciero
lions they selected, and the able manner i
they eroded their batteries thereon, cons;
marked the meritorious conduct of the Office'
' names I have here considered it my duty to _
the knowledge• of the Most Noble the Commander-,
Chief,
As soon as day-light 'efficiently broke,
(cries opened, and were instantaneously ens
a spirited fire from the whole of the eiteiny'
Our guns were served with a vivacity, and
a precision worthy of the scientific charact
tit, Bengal artillery has always maintained, sad
progress was very encouraging. At two o'clock P
it We, intimated to me by Lieutenant Pick,
Deputy Assistant Quarter Master-General.
bad personally examined the breach, and
such* favourable description thereof, foot
observations made on the spot, that in ti
couple/I hours more battering would rends
ties got the division under arms, and
with liiirectly across the river, at the farm
ofiraisc4rg the arraegenseuts I wished to i
steelling the enemy's works.
It is but justice to Lieut. Pickersgill, ti
, the above circumstances which led to the
I adopted of crossing the river at once;
breech could not be called practicable. that. .
' AtilArtewiles, -mosceittiog dee po o erfot ea._
which the enfilading a ► had most likely plow
duced, went with his hircarrahs, and by their as-
sistance, with the utmost intrepidity, mounting ti
the top of the breach, made his observations, en.
then clone over to my camp with the intelligence be
had thus obtained.
The troops arrived in the rear of the investing
post, at a quarter past three, P.M. but were Italic
by my orders about 1200 yards lit the rear of it.—
They consisted of a storming and a supporting co-
lumn, the former composed of (our companies, 2d
battalion Ist Native Infantry, snider Major Mid.
winter ; eight companies, 2d battalion 13th Nativs
Infantry, under Major Thomas; and three comp'.
tries, Ist battalion 14th Native Infantry, wider Lieut
Lewis; the whole under the command of Brigadif
Dewar. The latter was formed of live companies
the 211 battalion Bth Native Infantry, under Mej.
Manley, and eight companies of the 2d battalion
28th Native Infantry, under Capt. Wrottesley, the
whole under Brigadier Price.
Both columns were placed under the direction and
orders of Brigadier-General Watson, C.B.
The rest of the infantry continued in their posts of
investment, and two companies were sent to protect
the park end stores remaining on the other side.
1 In this disposition 1 halted, until about half-past
five, when, to the satisfaction of the eager troops,
Capt. Ticket!, Field Engineer, who, with some of his
officers, had examined the breach personally, gave
the preconcerted signal, that the troops might ad-
vance. Brigedier.General Watson, most judiciously
concluding that no time was to be lust, moved for-
ward at once to the assault, with some pioneers, and
a party of 50 or 60 men of the Ist battalion 14th
Native Infantry, under Lieutenacts Lewis and Ait.
chison, followed closely by Captain d'Aguilar, of
the 13th, with three companies of that corps, arid
what remained of the detachment of the Ist battalion
14th Native Istantry; the main body coming op
in double quick lime, joint el the assailants without
loss of time. The breach, from Wog occupied
by the enemy, was instantly mounted and carried,
our troops rushing along the ramparts, and up the
principal streets of the town, driving before them the.
enemy, who now endeavoured, when too late, to
maintain themselves, sod Suffered very severely in
their retreat towards the fort; the town was soon kr
oar possession with scarcely any loss ; such of the
fugitives as attempted to escape to the fort, found the
gate shut against them, and fell in heaps under the
destructive fire which now peered upon them from
-Captain Luke's battery. Annund Shoe, Commandant,
en old officer of the Rajah of Berm-, and the most
violent instigator of the resistance we esperietsced„
was said to be slain at this spot. About 250
of the fugitives had col4ected in the corner forth&
from the breach ; these on the approach of OW
troops along the ramparts, made some resistance,
but at length adopted the fatal resolution of rush-
lag outside through a small gateway : they were
observed by the investing parties, under Major Com-
mies and Capt. Sterling, of the 7th Cavalry—these
Otlisers instantly moved leeward, and after chasing
them from one quarter to another, drove them at

RECORDER'S REPORT..--Monday the Recital!'
made his Report to the Prim... 3 Regent in Connell
of the under-mentioned convicts ceder sentence el
death in Novigate, who were convicted last Sapless'.
Sessions,
William Gracey, for forging a promissory note for payeseetrar
51. George tiracey, for forging a promainty ante for payment
of two gut:mos.—John Jones, Richard Bennet, Jobs Driscoll.
William Weller, George Cashman. John Flood, Thomas Wi-
liam Smith, Wtlligm Byrne, Jeremiah Bryan, Sarah Ward,
and Elizabeth Brooks. for uttoriog forged Bank Aotes.-'-
James Higgins, Wm. Mitchell. David Heenan, Edw. F,eteber,
Henry Mears, Isaac Samson. Wm. Sanders, Elizabeth Jong,
and Sarah Butcher, for meuling in datelling-houses,above the
value of forty raillorg4.—Jamer Lawreace. Root. F. Thomp-
son, and John Burgess, for Morse stealing.—James Nike.
and Thomas Webb, fur shrep•stenling.—WiLiamt Wbile and
Richard Hart.• tp, for housebreaking.— Margarit • Beading.
Rebecca Gould, Mary B:tandem, and Edward JacEstia, foe
privately stealing in a slap.—Jno. Thos. L. B. Williams and
Hugh Lynch, fur burglary t—what the following. sig. John
Driscoll, Wm. Weller, George Cashman. and Jaffa Thomas
Littleton Burton Williams, were ordered far execution on Tea&
day nest. The others were relished during his Royal Higinamei
pleasure.
Randall arrived in London On Seterday eight,
and 'Turner on Sunday. The kttet esistbils markt
of a most severe beating, bet Living been 1;411 Whim
ed, he reviles it off in ttleteit *Danner.
On Friday the Commissioners of Hackney:curiae
convicted the drivers of the following coaches and
chariots :—The driver. of No. tilt h the penattfot • 4
10s. for election ; the driver of 771 in the pontiff•
et 10a. for exaction ; the driver of 088 in the'pemillp .
of nos. for giving very abusive taspage to the cote-
Irlaierant, whir interfered in behalf el a Lhdy, of
whom the coachman was Ondeavoaringtoettort Mora
thee his legal fate; the driver of fail in two po.
Deities of 10s. each, on We separate itHripitints of
.41action.

Three hundred
atriprd from th
Thompson, Col
to be carried ewe,
were detected b?
Last Thunder
board the Imprev
carpenter of the
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length into the Nerholdsh, where they all perished, t
wept about 50 taken isrlsoners, many of them badly
wounded. The enemy moat have lost 500 ',leis ia
RATA. TO the mutt and occupation of the town.
As soon as the town hetsine ours, the tioefilisieVi i
,pri•l M. pushed forward es neer as poiiibli to the 6Ps 1 Iliti ..
DnOar of established thernseliei.
oar ope- - At midnight Cipt. Black's advanced poste obseiund ~
in a do- a small boat crossing the river with frier persons, sod
it morn- by good Mariageteent contrived to Spike thestes-they .
sciog the landed. They were conducted to Copt Sisk; isnd
is troops one of them proied to be Saheb Roy fir.ogereei tilt. -.1
leder of Childish; who, on being discovriedi de. . i
!fore his clued be bad come over to treat for the mice odidowei
its-Chief, surrender of the garrison. Ile *al, of Conrail' dit-. . t
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deed by At illy-break of ilia 27th, the garrison; Oho hart .
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ober, of so completely lost coerege that they bad not dared to +
1 accoSht • 114 a single si:admit* the eight, came out ituarasedo i I I
he ltosalt,'freaded by Muthoo Usti flootarhe, Mid quietly see. •
'll pa nett nudered themselves prisoneis, to the Miming of 100G4
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• . or 1200 persons, halides 4or 500, who wire out of
pioneeri I military- character. t
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thug IrlW Thus closed a series of Operitloni in which Wit ii
mportant Single miechance occurred to ilissispOint the eipects:
yto their , 'lions we had fooled. The tinesithas beep severe!, •
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heir plat...frputtliked tisk ids temerity in opfabehnit the Aritiki: • i
anchfbast 'twit, Whiln'esf Sur skin not in .0113itir hairbeit: • .
ras Gish- touched, sod simitoss is confined to thitte killed-Mit
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witeby out 14 wounded: - . • ... i'
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• Having eitalllibed iproper gartioCin-f4 Bei-plias ' -'•
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1g dit71149 oil* 4my hut pramillttngs Wit to 11t10114011111 Itriy .
Avsodoiltoo Ram lie telly at Wore., Memo
iile the id
Engineer
Genets! Drom.-heatl,Ceurt-Martial on thuthiferginrif . . i
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Its Pocket rebellion and treachery, deducible from the
resilt.--•:4--,....t.. •'• ''•
Cud Cadet ante to' the orders of the ,Nsepore GoverstMent,stitt 'l'.
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le service, their attack no Major: O'Brien; the result has iii . *:- ••'
!awl with ;their acquittal • ; and they harelwett made .ever tai.. . I. ,`, e
ic.i.a inces Mt. Malone, Commissioner of Ike District. scab tiles. ~
a Placrof others, against whom nothing trauttitited to Judi ii . I
with sib- me to tuit.g them bkfore the ob see Transmit. * t
iiific posi- •Th erebring no &Alit a the loin& of the Court, tent the 1
in which p!•coerel writ Heal% under !Well. a the l'ingporeGaeffilletir,
ipicuouslv and Hotter ihr re,i,onti Rod reerritio'of Chief- (o,r,tufattran- 1
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.' weird Sol), pot.' by the kapott Gut', ...sem to iwairoul the .ere whose tirtmgkers iold eislolie uloediltlOte to thous ortleito
o bring to
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ItIIDDI.M.SEX,SESSIONS; Ow. 7..'. ,
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, oer bat- - s
stowed by Thomas tole was convicted of hissing II his poe.
s-ssion 20 pieces of base metal, in imitation of the
's works. ;;
lai•I with col rent coin of Om realm, called shillings. • "I i
cter which Ile was semenced tosia months imprisonment ;ti 'i.' t
d.. A„,4
.the mitigated punishment, the Cif lit ttaiXa raid, itt costae.. .11
dock P.M. queocis of the good character given Mei.
aitkertgiii, Several persons were convicted of littering cmintee.i
a, that he felt shillings. In rifle cafe the Jury thought it tie.: I
dhe gave emery to „Letstomend a female-to meaty.
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,m his own The ChlAtitstax regretted that, es tilos not I 14111, ,
the hope a at colnmon law, it•wag out of biota** to niftfgats , I ,
the rigour of the preteribed p.*4116140, • - s
leprroietePedrilec.
d In a trial for am smarter, One of the wittiest*
t..-' needtoimpte en-
fo 1 smtsot:id,hatdhnbet
etnh:efsarldishtiradtereceasilitifero
awdberabothe •01.... '
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le " fight it oat." 1 •
to mention 'l' Ise C1141111114N immediately slid, Mk ,
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resolution who advised that mode of decision might have beam a '
while the 64 .34alletrate." but he certainly Was weitio " Jaldie
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hat witcoak,p9l.-04 PIP"." • • . •
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erfel deal" I•o44444llleaster Was-i•dis.**-ftelMin ' -"'• - :4 r,
likely prow . Nu,. ii
bad ahipregs,andhavisigothers in her possessido.ano . ...., .. . ~ :,:,
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1 their .s. 1 enuniogly. towlerrd to a shopkeeper a good 11.astet :
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amutionntsi:igand It . s, ..
to lin minima fol.sorne goods, end received ss. 6d. i
then seemed to recollect herself ea.&
elligence be I cdheionlyge,.;ind illee
purchased some other articles, for which r
she paid with shillings drawn from the same pocket /- ,
into which she had put the good change given to bet
to
ere !, i i
by the shepusen ; the imposition was detected by 1 I
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ear of it._ Alf. Drees, t
sington. he prosecutor, a linen-draper, of Ken-
porting co- Upon being charged With having Oen bad
opsnies. 2d money, she said she had taken it at the turnpike at
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Major Mid-
Kensington.
13th Native Ile Prosecutor having proposed to go with her
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hree co
to see her righted, she objected, saying her husband
ender Lmiupat.. with • cart. She afterwerde was waiting for her
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,f Brigadier changed her story several times. A quantity of bad
:ompanies of I 10011ey WWI foetid upon her. ' The good mithey givers i . .
ender Major
Li battalion to her at Mr. Brees's shop was also found upon her.
GuittN of altering and having base money in her
meshes,. the ,P"seshiun•1-otie year's imprisonment. • „ ,
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ed wiled of fad was a fast titbit ago
the roof of the dwelling-brOOMI of M.
it
Isy a Court. Martial too place Oil
tmtnercial-road, and rolled , ready
way by the robbers; forte y Hwy
I tho ottehman and taco i •
egnable, at Plywood:4 oft . it Bora* I'
be Cyrus, for droatianeii, srbuillii
his Msjosty's Noy. ,' 1 •
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