Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1822-11-23
COUNTERFElTERS TAKEN.

their sole dependence TO support lite.
$500 [Hsrald.
COUNTERFElTERS TAKEN.
FRspsRlcKsBuRe VA. Nov. 20.--Two
| men, young and of genteel appearance.
were brought before the mayors court on
| Monday las, under strong suspicious OF
being counterteiters. Ii appeared IN evil
| dence, that on Saturday they arrived at
| Occoouan from the north, WI they PAS
sed counterfeit ten dollar note on the
Farmers Bank of Alexandra to the tavern
Keeper at that place, who, discovering
! soon alter their departure that it was .
spurious bill, pursued them, and being
| joined at this place by several gentlemen.
overlook and arrested, them on Sunday
night abouI Jour miles from town, on their
way to the south. On searching their per-.
| sons iorty-od6 dollars were found in Coun-
lsrfeit notes en- the Farmers Bank OF A.
lexandra. which, with small sum in good
money, they declared was all that they
had But on searching their trunks in the
mayors Office, e'ghty-s,r 20 dollar coun-
terieited notes on the State Bank OF North
Carolina, and two hundred and thirty one
counterieiled 20 dollar notes on the Branch
at Newbern, making together $3.50,
were found concealed IN one OF their
trunks by means of false or double sides.
| The notes were fresh from the plates and
remarkably well executed. After tho
! rough search and examination, they were
FULLY committed tor trial The punish
| ment for his ohe ce in Virginia, is con
! flnement in the peni,entiary tor term not
less than ten nor more than twenty years.
although there is reason to believe that
there are many others engaged in the same
nefarious business of which Graves and
Clesry now stand charged, and proceed
ing from the same hive; yet the detection
OF two such agents with the seizure OF so
large sum of counterfeit notes, must be
matter for public congratulation. These
notes differ from the genuine mostly IN The
quality OF the paper which is very thin.
The false notes purportlng to be on the
Farmers Bank oil Alexandria are not well
executed, as will further appear by the
! following article from Baltimore paper,
the note referred to in which was proba-
bly, passed by the above named gentlemen,
as the description exactly corresponds with
some notes found upon them here
Ten Dollars and FaDe Dollar, of the Far
mers' Bank of .alerGndria.
We have seen one of the Tens, letter y,
dated Nov 5, 1911, and payable to John
'Jay-the general appearance OF the note
we'll calculated 10 impose on the unsuspec-
ting, but will not bare scrutny--tbe pa
per is thinner than the geDnine--the S'g-
nature of the cashier, John Hof. is tolera-
bly, well initiated, but that OF the presi-
dent, Rlchnrd M. Scott, and the filling up
are badly done. Herald.
| CHARLESTON, Nov. l6.-By the Sarah
we have received Havana papers to the
| 9th inst. They contain an account OF an
attempt made by lturbide to seduce the
garrison OF the castle OF ST. Juan de Clloa,
which as unsuccessful. This castle is the
only possession held by Spain in Mexico
and it entirely commands the city Of Vera
Cruz ;-llurbide is therefore naturally
very DESTROYS 10 gain it, The following is
the substance Of what took place on this
occasion-but some allowance taust be
made for the channel by which The intel.
ligence comes.
There are two proclamations dated Sep.
tember 81, from Don Pedro Pablo Velez,
Lieutenant Colonel &c. in the imperial
army, whose object was to excite an in
surlection among the troops in the castle
OF St. Juan de Uiloa. In one he offers to
the Sergeants who may bring the troops
over the r nix OF Captains in the army, and
1000 dolls. each for The purchase Of uni,
forms, and leaving it 10 their direction to
state the amount that the soldiers shall re-
Ceive who Join them besides giving those
who are worthy of it rank in the army ;
and that the fortress once surrendered, and
The Imperial flag 6ying from it, every per.
son who on the assertion OF SERGEANT, CO.
operated in It's surrender, shall have the
honorable title of defender OF the country,
and shall have preterence"in civil en-
ployments and the military shall have
that rank which their long service may
have acquired tor them under the King OF
Spain. In the second, he promises, that
every soldier who from i'll health, or de
sire 10 leave the military service, or any
other cause, wishes TO retire TO his home,
shall have honorable permission 10 do So
and twenty ounces TO pay his expenses
that those who wish TO continue a military
lie, stall be considered as having served
eight years longer than the time they have
heen IN the Spanish service, and the TWEEN
ty ounces OF gold also and thirdly, that
those who wish for employments in the
i.