218 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1817. 



1816. He immediately forwarded 

 it to Mr. Fourflrinier, wholesale 

 stationer in London. 



Mr Charles Fourdrinier proved 

 the receipt and delivery to Henry 

 Hunt, his clerk. 



Henry Hunt received the note 

 from his employer, and marked it 

 as received from Mr. J. Price, of 

 Leicester. He took it to the Bank, 

 where it was stopped as stolen 

 property. 



Mrs. Scarborough (who bore 

 this investigation with great com- 

 posure, that might have credited 

 her innocence), gave in a written 

 defence to the following effect : — 

 "She tiusted in her deliverance 

 from the present charge, which 

 she did not blame her prosecutors 

 for instituting against her. She 

 could only lament, that she had 

 fallen under it through the most 

 strange and unhappy circumstan- 

 ces. She trusted the honourable 

 judge and the jury who tried her 

 would allow her to know herself 

 incapable of such a crime as dis- 

 honesty. She had held her situ- 

 ation for 30 years, and for '20 

 years as innkeepei" herself, since 

 the death of her husband. She 

 had brought up a family of sons 

 and daughters in respectability, 

 all of whom, except the one who 

 sat beside her, were well mar- 

 ried, and themselves had families. 

 Many tliou-ands of pounds had 

 passed through her hands in carry- 

 ing on an extensive Imsiness; and 

 the first faniiHes, iiicluding nobi- 

 lity, were in tiie habit ,of using 

 her house. These would not sus- 

 pect lier of dishonesty, much less 

 that she should have coramitied 

 such an act a^ that with which 

 she was now charged. She had 

 ii.o knowledge of this letter. Let* 



ters were frequently left at her 

 house for strangers, whom she 

 knew not further than their in- 

 quiring for letters so left with her. 

 The 201. note she gave to Mr. 

 Bond she received of a stranger 

 who came to Stilton, and changed 

 horses, only a day or two before. 

 She had no means of finding out 

 who he was} he sat on the dickey 

 of the coach, and her servants 

 would prove the fact that she so 

 took it : biit she added, she did 

 not believe it was the same note 

 \vhich she was charged with pay- 

 ing to Mr. Bond. She lamented 

 that the gentlemen of the post- 

 office, who were in fact both prose- 

 cutors and witnesses against her, 

 had thought proper to bring her 

 to trial. All she could rely upon 

 for her defence was a character 

 until this time, not merely unim- 

 peached, but free from suspicion. 

 She regretted the absence of tiie 

 Lord Bishop of Lincoln, and of 

 John Hodgson, Esq. as they would 

 have added to the honourable tes- 

 timouy she Should produce in 

 favour of her general character. 

 She trusted to the favourable re- 

 ception she hoped to receive from 

 the court and jury, that she and 

 her family might be once more 

 restored to happiness and peace ot 

 mind; and that which alone could 

 restore her to society and the re- 

 spect of mankind, which she and 

 her family had so long enjoyed, 

 was a verdict of Not guilty." 



The prisoner's counsel called 

 her servants. 



Thomas Standlsh, a waiter, said 

 he returned this letter to Cox, the 

 post-master, by desire of his mis- 

 tress. He did not put it into bis 

 hand, but laid it on the table of 

 the kitchen, where Cox thea was. 



Her 



