Considerations on the Alarming Increase of Forgery on the Bank of England, and the Neglect of Remedial Measures; With an Essay on the Remedy for the Detection of Forgeries, and an Account of the Measures Adopted by the Bank of Ireland ... (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1818 edition. Excerpt: ...afford to those who are now charged with the production of similar-effects- Can the Bank of England offer any thing like this? can the public reasonably expect any thing more? Let us pause here for a moment, and ask what further is wanting to prove that a remedy may be found to secure individuals from loss, the Bank from censure and great useless expenditure, the lower classes from an additional and powerful temptation to crime, and finally, the public from the distress of meeting daily in our journals the details of police examinations, with the long etcetera of prosecutions, convictions, and and executions? The mortification felt, when this degrading catalogue goes abroad, where the severity of our criminal code is already too prevailing a reproach, can be better appreciated by those who have had occasion to combat the degrading inference drawn from our sanguinary laws by foreigners in every part of the world. _ always in a hurry, and frequently by the light of afarthing candle; yet in daylight not one has ever been taken. Yet the Governor of the Bank of England thought that the Bank of Ireland had done nothing, and this on the ips-e dimit of the most interested man in the community, his own engraver; who, on looking at a proof impression of the Irish note in the most careless manner, and declaring, almost without a second glance, that he could copy it, settled the question at once, that nothing had been done. On _the impression of the Iri_sl1 note, accompanied with observations on the facility of detecting forgeries in Ireland, being shewn to the late Governor, the writerwas surprised to find that gentleman, instead of being forciblystruck with the paramount and commanding importance of the facts detailed, receive the...