denomination, was not a person on whom the Jury could place any reliance. He had assumed a distinction to which he was by no means entitled--he had affected all the arrogance and importance of a man of rank and fashion,--whereas he was the son of a pawnbroker in the refined locality of Brick-Lane, Bethnal Green! Endowed with much impudence, clever in imitating the manners of his superiors, and well versed in all the intricacies and subtleties of the world, this possessor of assumed distinctions--this swaggering imitator of a class far above him--this adventurer, with fascinating conversation, ready wit, amusing anecdote, and fashionable attire,--this _roué_ of the present day, with jewellery about his person, and gold in his pocket--allowing ever an engaging smile to play upon his lips, and professing unmitigated disgust at the slightest appearance of vulgarity in another,--this individual--this Mr. Chichester was the principal witness whom the counsel for the prosecution had brought forward. But no English Jury would condemn a fellow creature upon such testimony--the testimony of one who was compelled to fly ignominiously and precipitately from Baden, on account of some rascality at cards, and who left his domestic in a strange land, pennyless, ignorant of the language, and surrounded by the odium which also attached itself to the name of his master. The prisoner had no motive in passing forged notes, because he was wealthy;--but Mr. Chichester had a motive, because he evidently lived far beyond the means which his father could allow him. The learned counsel here related the manner in which Richard had been induced to change the larger note, and had become possessed of the smaller. [Illustration]