BUNGAY: CLAY AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS. S. & H.
[1] Report of the Committee of the House of Commons on the police of the metropolis, 1816.
[2] Sir James Mackintosh on the state of the criminal law.
[3] Wade, p. 1056.
[4] Evidence of Alderman Harmer before Committee on Capital Punishment, 1819.
[5] A remarkable diminution of forgeries at once followed the abolition of the £1 notes.
[6] See post. chap. vii.
[7] “If Dr. Dodd does not suffer the sentence of the law,” said Lord Mansfield to the King in Council, “then the Perreaus have been murdered.” The Lord Chief Justice held an opinion in common with most reflecting men of that age, that death for forgery was indispensable to protect commercial credit. Lord Campbell, in his ‘Lives of the Lords Chief Justice,’ states that he heard a Judge say, after passing the death sentence for forgery, “May you find the mercy above which a due regard to the credit of the paper currency of this country forbids you to hope for here.”
[8] See vol. i. p. 380.