Excerpt from Pierce Egan's Account of the Trial of Mr. Fauntleroy, for Forgery: At the Session's House, in the Old Bailey, on Saturday, the 30th of October, 1824, Before Mr. Justice Park and Mr. Baron Garrow Humanity teaches us to pity the unfortunate; feel for the distressed; and to console and cheer the wretched victim of justice: but, in the present case, we feel totally at a loss to offer any thing like palliation, in defence of the conduct of Mr. Fauntleroy. We should not wish to be accused of harshness and cruelty towards him: but the plain and simple truth is, that Mr. F.sinned with his eyes open; it was not the impulse of the moment that hurried him to commit the crime of Forgery; but it was the cold, deliberate result of years. In a commercial country like England, forgery is a crime of the greatest magnitude 3 and the mischief is distributed to a most alarming extent, before the evil is traced to its proper source. A single instance did not satisfy the appetite of Mr. F.;but Forgery after Forgery was committed by him, higher in amount and consequence; and yet with all the routine of business. Unmindful that by his nefarious conduct, the hopes, happiness, and prospects of hundreds have been nearly, if not quite, ruined, and without the chance of recovering their losses. Since the time of the Perreaus and the days of Dr. Dodd, no case of forgery has excited such universal attention. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.