TRIAL, &c.
WILLIAM BOOTH was put to the Bar for Forging a Note, purporting to be a Promissory Note of the Bank of England, of the value of £1. against the Statute of 45th Geo. III.
Mr. Jervis, on the part of the prosecution, explained the facts as they were disclosed in the evidence.
The first witness, Dorothy Ingly, wife of Richard Ingly, deposed that her husband used to work at the prisoner's. She saw the officers of justice at the Boar's Head, Perry Barr, on the 16th of March last, and proceeded immediately to the house of the prisoner, and acquainted Elizabeth Chidlow, prisoner's servant, with the fact.
John Linwood, one of the constables of Birmingham, in consequence of some information he had received, went to the prisoner's house on the 16th of March, with 10 special constables and 7 dragoons—stopt at the Boar’s Head, Perry Barr, about a mi-
