State of crime on opening new gaol--Newgate full--Executions very numerous--Ruthless penal code--Forgery punished with death--Its frequency--How fostered--Some notable forgers--The first forgery of Bank of England notes--Gibson--Bolland--The two Perreaus--Dr. Dodd--Charles Price, _alias_ Old Patch--Clipping still largely practised--John Clarke hanged for it--Also William Guest, a clerk in Bank of England--His elaborate apparatus for filing guineas--Coining--Forty or fifty private mints for making counterfeits--Always at work--Town and country orders regularly executed--650 prosecutions for coining in seven years--Offences against life and property--Streets unsafe--High roads infested by robb…
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