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<p>Second Count. For uttering and publishing the same as true, knowing it to be forged, with the like intention.</p>
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. On the 29th of January the prisoner came in and asked me if I would give him change for a one pound note; I gave him change; he had something to drink, and then went away; I paid the note to Mr. Whitbread's clerk, about a week after I received it, (produces the note); it was returned to me as a forgery. (It is read).</p>
<p>No. 1067. Portsmouth.</p>
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, in London, the sum of 1l. value received, the 15th day of April, 1798.</p>
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<p>Q. Are you sure the prisoner is the person that brought you that note? - A. Yes.</p>
<p>Q. How soon after you had paid it to Mr. Whitbread's clerk, was it returned to you? - A. In the course of a week.</p>
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sworn. - I am a clerk at Mr. Whitbread's; Strange paid me this note on the 5th of February; I wrote upon the back of it the day when I received it; I am sure it is the same note; I paid it to Down and Company, bankers; it was returned to the house as being a forgery, and of course I returned it to Strange.</p>
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sworn. - I am clerk to Masterman and Co.; we have no such an account with us at all; we know nothing at all about it.</p>
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sworn. - On Monday, the 18th of February, I apprehended the prisoner in Whitechapel, and made some enquiries concerning these notes: I went to Mr. Strange, and found he had got one; I desired him to attend at the Public-office, Lambeth-street, which he did, and swore to the prisoner as the person that he took it of.</p>
<p>Prisoner's defence. On the 20th of January, I think it was, I was going over Smithfield, and I picked up six of these notes; I was going on board a ship, and I went and bought necessaries to take with me on my voyage; I wanted to pay a man some money that I owed him; I went in there to get change.</p>
<p>Q. (To Strange) Had he any body with him? - A. Yes, he had a man with him.</p>
<p>Jury. Q. Did you see him pay any money? - A. No. <rs id="t17990403-1-verdict6" type="verdictDescription"> <interp inst="t17990403-1-verdict6" type="verdictCategory" value="notGuilty"></interp>
NOT GUILTY </rs>
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<p>Tried by the first Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Baron HOTHAM.</p>
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