Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-10-15

A GREAT MAN NABBED.-The great forger, | who swinded Messrs. Brown & Corre, has at last
 been fairly captured This arrest was brought about l by Lewis Tappan aided by the Mayor of New York.
 From statement published in the New York jour
 nals by the former, il appears that time in 1s4O paragraph was published in the Cincinnati papers, l which stated that Col. Monroe Edwards, of Louis | iana, had emancipated in that city between and two hundred slaves Shortly afterwards he arrived in New York; and presented himself at the store of l Mr. Tappan, with note of introduction from Morrls
 Robinson, to whom he was introduced by a letter
 from gentleman in this city. According to the sto- | ry which he related to Mir. Tappan, he had made
 immense sacrifices to his convictions in favor of ab-
 otionism, the fruit of which was the aforesaid man.
 unisslon of his slaves. He farther stated that he l had large number of slaves in Texas from which country he anxious to bring them. but the laws
 would not permit it. Subsequently he England,
 for the purpose of influencing the government of that country urge change in these laws so as to meet
 this difficulty Of course he unsuccessful To.proye the truth of his statements, he exhibited one or two deeds of emancipation MT. Tappan,
 however, from circumstances, doubted the sto.
 y and for the purpose of asceranng the truth, to Cincinnati. Before reply received, Edwards
 sought to borrow money from him for the purpose of
 visiting England the errand above stated, and of-
 fered security in the shape of real in this city, (Mobile) In the meantime, the letter arrived from
 the west, and the whole character of the swndler stood betrayed We let Mr. Tappan tell the rest of the story:-
 con receiving a reply from Dr. Bailey, called upon Edwards at his lodgings and informed him of the contents, in part. He after me d note
 of rather abusive style, to which replied, and he
 then requested the return of his previous notes, which l thought proper to decline. 'Here my acquaintance with Mr. Edwards ceas- ed. No recognition took place when met saw him about town for weeks, and at length saw it announced that he had taken passage m the British steamer from Boston. l had previously wre
 ten friends in Eng gand to be their guard should
 he make his appearance there. The very day think, of her departure, person called on me, whom had known some twenty years before Tn Boston, and made
 some enquiries about this Munroe Edwards. He said he knew Edwards in Texas-that the pretended boy,
 Henry, d gir-that Edwards himself had pur- chased the emancipadOs in Havana and introduced
 them into Texas-hat he had been indicted there for
 forgery. having, by chemical process, taken the
 contents of written paper with the exception of the signature, and then written note contract over
 the signature, which he demanded payment, &c. On receiving this, wrote to Joseph Surge, Eng
 
 happened that he received my letter in season to send it to Sir T. Powell Buxton, who communicated its
 contents to member of the British government the
 very day that had been designated for an interview
 with Edwards. Thus he was bafled in,his attempt to impose upon the British government.
 "l went, and recognized young persen in woman's
 apparel. to be the person wbo had attended Edwards,
 in boys clothes as Henry. She had mulatto child
 in her It appeared that sine had arrived here,
 last March, accompanied by white eourtezan under d.uurd had t,t., i,
 Destitute of means she taken into the amshouse, where she confined. Edwards soon after arrived here, and to Philadelphia, and the girl followed "Not long after this related to the Mayor the cir constance of Edwards sending the girl back to this country in such destitute condition and throwing her the country for support, &c. On Mir. Browns conversng with him, respecting efforts making to
 rest more persons suspected of the forgery
 mitted his house, that vigilan officer remembered his conversation with me, and immediately suggested
 that Edwards might be the forger himself This led to an interview with Mir. Brown at the Mayors office "a comparison of the letters from Edwards to me (which had provdentiay refused to return him) with the forged papers-and conviction that the hand writing of all these papers was identical. messenger was despatched to Philadelphia with this proof but before his arrival John N Caldwell, alias Hugh S. Hill, alias Munroe Edwards, had been rested by Mir. Lowndes, who had got scent of him at Boston. Forty four thousand dollars it appears,
 were found in Edwards trunk. Mir. Lowndes has gone to Washington with an order for trunk con
 iaining letters, &c. that may throw light upon
 Edwards villanes, and possibly be the means of de- tecting accomplices."
 The arrest of this consummate rascal was made in Philadelphia, and in his possession was found SAC, 900 of which 12,000 in gold. The mode of
 his operations is thus described:
 | A letter was written, signed Mauncel White and Co.,, dated at New Orleans, addressed to J. Glib
 bourn, of New York, agent for Mir. Corre, stating that J. P. Caldwell (Edwards) had in their hands | l,0l1 bales upon which he would draw on them
 for the money.
 | Mr. Clibbourn, the agent, at first hesated to ac-
 cept dra but after showing the letter to his prin-
 cipa, Mir. Corrie, 1000 were forwarded to Cald-
 well, chiefly in Bank of America, New York money.
 A similar amount also sent by Brown, Brothers
 & Co.,. upon the faith of letter worried like tie
 ther, and upon the same kind of letter paper, and from the same firm as that received by Mir. Corrie, jr. from New Orleans.
 The Philadelphia Chronicle gives tho following