The Sun. — 1827-04-10 (London, England)

THE BANK OF IRELAND.  (From the Dublin Patriot.) The unfortunate persons accused of the late embezzlement, were brought up before the Magistrates of the Head POliee-office yesterday. Several additional witnesses were examined, and after a most anxious investigation, the bench committed William Davis and Peter .Lilanpin, for trial, at the next commission, on informations, for having feloniously embeceled money entrusted to them, by the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland. This offence amounts to a capital felony, and involves the lives of the individuals, should the counsel for the Bank think proper to frame their indictments to meet the capital offence. We believe that the Act, or rather rider upon the Bank Act, making it capital to embezzle any note of the Bank of Ireland, was passed shortly after the great fraud committed by Malone, on the present aggregate corporation of the Bank of Ireland. The trial of this important case must be in the recollection of our readers, and the point made by our present Solicitor-General, tending to show, from evidence, that an issue beyond the charter had taken place, and the embezzlement of money or notes might have been out of the over issue, saved Malone's life, and occasioned as we believe the present penal enactment. His life was consequently saved. Previously to, and since that period, the bank has acted with singular mildness towards the persons accused of the offences against their establishment, always preferring the minor charge to the capital. In the present case, however, it appears that some features of a most striking nature were disclosed, and the Magistrates were obliged, in pursuance of their duty, to coinmit them on the capital charge. The third party, George Gourlay, stands committed for a fraud and embezzlement in the house of Messrs. Gibbous and Williams.  The persons who have made their escape are named Scott and Harvey. The latter signed his name at the hank on Monday last, and was seen in the city some hours afterwards. The former w•as the person to whom we alluded in .‘ r last as hating hien supposed to have committed suicide.  m It is generally supposed h a that ishm, enent ruinous schemes connected with certain Joint Stock Companies, which induced a draft upon their purses that could edh embarked these unfortunateiin som e of thoseanl , hitherto respectable not be legitimately answered, and that in the hope of ultimate success, they involved themselves in a complexity of fraud which overwhelmed thern. The trial will take place at the next Commission. (From the Dublin Evening Post.) The manner in which the alleged fraud was contrived employedt obe e managed, asone :—Arsuubnatearnsceofasthfeolelos‘tvabla person, wor in n the tered into a league with a person holding a subordinate situation in the cash department, to return the Bills actually collected by the former as having been handed over to the Notaries for protest, as if the same had not been paid. To carry this scheme into execution, it was necessary that one of the clerks of Messrs. Gibbons and Williams, the Notaries, should be in collusion with the other parties, and whose receipt was given for the Bills returned, as if unpaid. By this plan it was contrived to defraud the Bank, of a sum approaching to 2000/. The Securities are left to answer the defalcation.