The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-04-21 00:00:00

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done at at the house I took in l'heapside, were
ri-
he 4
f tile-ante
were townufactured. Mrs. Dutton, mother ot p
s.wer, and her daughter, lived in the same house.
ems lodged there. 1 took the house in the beginoing
•of July. Bingley Dutton, and myself, agreed to pay
the rent amongst as; and Duttou's mother au3 sister
were to lire there. The motes were made in the garret
where I slept; the mother and daughter slept is the
room below. The toots were brought to his house
from.Duttotis, in Coleurore-street ; they were brought
J'y Dutton's apprentice. When I returned from LOU-,
dun in Jane 40,1 went to Dutton's house. Dutton
invited me up stairs. where John Bingley aneWilliana
Dutton were in the act of putting the war marollers,rk into
some notes. There was a large pair of steed
and a piece of oak board, on that board wasn
a note,
laid the
aver-mark-plate, o* that a piece'd silk, the
then a piece of sill,. and so on alternately, to the
number of fire. The silk was sometimes black and
sometimes green; a piece. of woollen cloth was put
at the top, and then a plate of block tin; then they
were passed through the rollers altogether, and then
the One and the fords Bade of lio;laad at bottom
Appeared. The date aas put on aftt retards. Bingley
asked are if 1 would go and fetcti a ream of Bank
Post Parr, fad'
gave rue il. 15s. to pay for it. Whet)
I brought the paper it was cut by Dingh and u-ed
in soy presence. Bingley cut the paper by a board
about the size per note. The water-mark or maker's
name in the p was sorted from the other parts
and not used. Ii id sot stop there long. We agreed
to take a hous^, d 1 to ili one f:sr that purpo.". I
saw Kittery put the date line into sortie notes, which
1, added after they are printed by the copper-plate
p: inter. The words put in by Bingley, were hondon,
11th ANA .: t, 1820. (A note was put into the hands
t,r the witness.) I saw thedate-line of that netts put
i•, hy John Wrigley. This date.line was found fault
rt itts, by purehaers of the notes, and it was put by,
and another dateline was put in instead of it by
sonehody e 1... 4 saw Bingley put in this and other
date-lines, as I was always there when they were done.
The first time I sate this done was at Wrigley's house.
Vii,en the parcels which I took rsa the ith of Norm-
het were paehlag ep, to go into the portmanteau,
Patton coutpl4ltted that there were four totes wanting
to make tip the score of ones. Polon then went to
the cupboard, and lartittOtt wit a five ponnd note.
flattop said there wauted four
cite pituds, and he
...mild put its a five, and th-r. the phrchaser would not
};:unable, at be would, hive twenty-out: instead of a
tin o, e. Bittgley was not present when the notes were ,
lapped up. Dutton autl witness lapped the all
keeps,
I hriieve there were in all about 1)50. gle
& public-lorry-. Dutton saiti, after we had lapped up'
ti.e notes, that I twist go to London the next winninake toy`
al.si I went to the Nelson rnach-offiee to t
place, to go by the Artro:a Coat is at nix o'clock tin
i. ,t rt.orstir,7. i.l number of circuttistancets were
t.l.e» (let:tiled sot tni,oratio.; ir hat had tuttu place in
Lorolon.?
William Gonne% examine.: by Mr. READER.--I am a
710 , rney man I.oaCit n 1 alt cr ; I was convicted some tinsel
erg s of whit was relied a conspiracy, awl !enteneed to
lz months imprisonment in Cold dad' neltls and to
a free of 'Atli.; the term is expired, and l' am now
confined beraose I cannot pay the fine. Mr. Denman
r ii, speak to that if he pleases. tleorge Peacock andto
ILngley were brought thore in November. I
l'earocli by the ris..s.tre of Bingley, wire wislwd me to
IA e },e.; him },e. had nu family, aWd that he (Wrigley)
1.0. Al's they could do to I'eacock would be to trans
I:.rt him t anal they might hang hits (Wrigley), if Pea-
r ~• k would take all urn himself, and not implicate bins,
1.,' would pay all his expencrs and give lout lOW. I
r..ide thi. roinsontaication from Wrigley to Peacock.—
Peacock said, lie wished to have a note front Itingley in
Lis own hand, us he would nut trust to his wool. I told
Ili
this, who s..id he would seeldto d----d first.
lie could net write, as he did not kuow whet use might
be. made of it.
Cross-examined by Mr. Ali *s
in
doh not expect to
be liberated for giving evidence in th ourt. 1 shall \
go bath to the House of l.:orrection as I cannot pay
ney
the
huge.--Q. At all events you had a very pleasant jour
here? .Io not hink it a ver ple thing to be
trial hr tun in opent y Court that lam aprisoners n Cold'
Iltth Piehls. Peacock said if lied a knife I would cut'
so:, throat. I had no wish to come down here as eel-
. tknise agaltel the prisoners.
Oeorge Iletiferu examined by Mr. Reanett.-1 am
one of the constables of Birmingham. In Noreinb
list I went with some others, to search Dutton pre-
u,i,es, iu Colmore-street. Dutton's wife said h
eteas
nit at home. I saw Batkin's daughter there, and in
c nisequence. leaving souse others at Dutton's, I called
on Mr. Atkins, and we went to Batkin's
herohouse in Freel
-
won-swot. fl 'thin was at home, and
It id rote to search Isis house for forged notes. He
said there were no forged notes there.
par elegyU eacthe
b .41 in the hel.ehassiber I found two paper
contatining 50 blank Rotes, with a piece of blank paper
I)ing between each ; there was a communication from
h•s bed-room into the work-shop. I took Batkin to
the prison, anti theta returned to Dutton's house, and
t milt him to prisan. I returned to Itatkin's again.
The officers hail remained there. la the cornerin of t
he
I f
sloop I found fire paper parcels, each containgound
blank Bank notes. In the drawer in the 'kin,
sonar blank pieces of paper of the size of a Rank note,
damped. I found whole sheets of paper like bank-
p thee. 1 found two pair of copper plate rollers in the
working-room ; I saw Evetts take out of a bole the,
roof of this room 4 plates, one plate fur 101.; one for
frt.; and two plates for IL each. Griffiths then got
sip to the bole. and took out of it a parcel containing
a brass plate orimitate eared lines, four tin plates.
sante pieces of silk, ou one of which appeared the ins-
presides of a bank note. Ou some of the notes there
were the words BANK 411? BP4ULAND is the water-mark.
Some with waved lines, and some blanks. Ewetts
-Ind two paper parcels in the shop, with 50 b
lanklan
in each, and plain paper lying between 1
found on the table in Batkin's shop some
t paper. The 13 pieces of paper I found in Bat-
shop I conspired with 13 other pieces of paper
found by Griffiths, at Dutton's. They seeme
ker'sd to hwe-
ave
• cut from than ; the contaised the ma
ter-mark,
.and were of dikes!** description of paper as
sates. (Mr. Redfers4detidied all the plates and
*otos be had friend) 1 search** George Peacock's pro►
wises in Cheerless. Anietigir.k great gustily fif
tinder 1 loved w°» bile ."ed priPer which exhibits/
parts of • forged rite. The. pans were quite Flab
curses to say so.
Crirmottainised by 1111rilknialiepw..---1 do aot kerne
what family Dalton has; I.bithisie he has a wile aid
or three children, aad a servant. Badtia, 1 be-
lieve, has a large family. 1 sever saw Peacock at

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BaAti o's howe t Ido not Irnow whether lie put the
things under the hen.
The minor part of tht case war proved by different
ultnest:o.t.
Willlaus Ilawtry, principal engraver to the 13ank of
Buil...land, WAS sliewn the five pound plate found at Bat-
Lin's. lle raid it sras a for .•1 plate, from which the
uote ((mud in tike trunk was teen.l
William Ilrewer, paper tnaker to the Bank of Vog-
/awl, !oohed at the parcel Of notes
ates f marked No. 12.
The :::1b:. had been used with the plur-
pose of preseut;tig them from cutting through the

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paper.
Mt. Batrtry said, the effect of pntting plain
v paper
httwern notes orwir printed, would he to preent
them from settin., off, el.! the ink front one note black-
ing the note whis.ll was Wel next to it. In the usual
wa:-., the printed notes were hung up to dry.
This cite.tei the case for Lime proseention.
Here Mr. DENMAN suggested another exreption in
favour of the prisoners, partienlarly on the part of
Batkia, who, altimagh he midst harp heal affected by
'having in his possession tie: plates and paper found in
!his house, hew
vet wits no eeitknee atall to s that
he had been t oneectetherei with the other prisoners in pro-
ducing • his pat titular note.
The Judge e.bsereed that doting the trial eha
turned over !,evi rat times, the same point in hhis ownd
mind. Bib Warn it was i•tearlv 'hewn that the very
plate was found in Datkio'y house, ftwu which the
forged 51. ante had been taken, and from all the
other cirounstanees of the other plates bring foisted
in his pletnit.rs, and the paper found in
ti his shop, be t
must say, there was quite sufficient pt d agains
him, to seed his case to the Joey along with the other
prisoners.
Bingley the.' said he had nntlsin_. more to say.
The Officer of the Court then seal the letter sent
to Mr. They'll. % Peacock, rautiouing him to take rare
of the bunk. It concluded, ‘. Yonr.s respectfully,

elellbe name.'
The Officer then read the letter addlei.sell to 0.
Peacock, at bis brother's. It stated" that no Inurwase
things were 'early to be sent up. That all
right at home ; and that the Mack devil had wised a
good thing for the tiist titer.'
Dutton said he had nothing to say.
i ilatkin said 'the plates and paper found in hislionse
I were liz.ceglit there on the sth May by a person of the
' name
ewohratl't°l"secy. weliree,dit'illlnotitiektqtlas "I\''otivtlegib:rf, twill:ell:1
they were found ; and he told Mr. Adhius and the
Magistrate) the same. ',met. was seen in Birmingham
on the dal he was taLen into custody, but hr had not
been sten since.
Several persons spoke to the former good character
of the parties.— The defenee Elwell here.
The Judge then went through the wliole of the evi-
dence ill a very clear awl impartial manner.
The Jury, alter consulting, about eight or ten
`minutes, returned a verdict of Guilty against ad the
prisoners.
The List occupied tile Coot ten lotur).—The pri-
soners were all condemned.

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inn to anv Particular ship. The bo dies of odr- 1
tuner %aims were thrown into the tarte thinerer, tated wio th
every itidignity, and were afterwards at sight, Lv ordnr
of the government,. carried to the sea shore, buried in-a I
heap, Without.the shadow of a ieligious ceremony, or a
1
*iv:to mark their graves.
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. ix Mare persons, (F,oropeans), names unknown.
Eightyave Chinese are known to have been murdered;
hot it is snpposed there were many more.
Three Spain:tills are alm stated to have been killed by
utiookv, but it is doubtful whether any of that nation
safer& on the occasion.
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THE FIRE 47' SURINA,

(*CRIMES IPA iiTicr:LARS VROIN A rem YORK PAIP6R.) 1
Ily the brig Cynthia, Captain Holmes, arrived
the
ac
Salem, in thirty-two days from Surinam, we h
following additional particulars of the dreadful fire at
that place, from which it appears that the damages have
been much more extensive than at first reported.
Captain Holmes states, thit the It coittraenced about
one o'clock on Sunday, the '2lst of January, and cos-
tinned Inirtting about twenty boars. The most popu- ,
bus part of the town was laid in ashes. The destruc-
tion involved altstost all the public and elegant build-
ings, among which svere two *mirth churches,
Roman
Catholic and Dutch, together with 394 dwelling-houses;there
in the whole, including stores, stegro-houses, lkc.
were I:01 buildings consumed. it conassenced in the
north-east trarter of the town, (directly to winaward),
iand made a caniplete sheet, in some streets 40 feet wide.
The engines were perfectly useless in a short time,
owing to 'the scarcity of water and the hose bursting,
when they were left to the devouring element. Many
of the inhabitants, instead nf trying to extinguish the
flameq, Were oh their knees praying for rain from

&leaven.
The Jews were the greatest tufferers. It orig
souls
inated
accidentally iu a cook-lionse, and about 10,000
were tints driven naked into the streets
pouring in from
Vdilt quantities of provisions were
the country, and a number of American vessels loaded
I where alp" there ; bnt in tin one instance was there any
I extortion, the (novel-lament being very strict lit preventing

Three English vessels arrived here with provisions,
found no market, and sailed in company w:l.'' Captain
Holmes, bound to other ports.
Great thanlhs Wrie given to the Americans for their
spirited exertions in suioduing the Manes, aud saving the
property.

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