Daily National Intelligencer

FROM THE WESTERN SPY.

CINCINNATI, MAY 17.

The Swindlers.--In addition to the information given in our last respecting the issuing of notes at Philadelphia, and other places on a pretended bank in Cincinnati, we have now the pleasure of informing the public that four persons were apprehended and put in jail at Harrisburg, Pa. on Sunday the 28th April, for passing these notes, viz : William Hunt, William Cummins, Thomas Collier, and James W. Donalds. On examination the sum of three hundred and twenty five thousand dollars of this paper was found in their possession! Two men, viz: John Speer and Joseph Sutton, have also been arrested and sent to jail at Lewisburg, Va. for passing these notes; it is said that about fifteen thousand dollars was found with them

Most of the persons known to be implicated in this affair, are known to be the founders of the swindling scheme at Lexington (I. T.) They succeeded in that scheme too far for the credit of the western country, but in the present some of them are, we hope, in a fair way to receive justice. Some of the leaders, we fear, will escape the lash of the law ; circumstances are, however, in train that will at least expose them to public indignation.

We copy the following article from the "AURORA" to show the manner in which they got their plates engraved.

We consider it a duty we owe to ourselves, and to society, to give publicity to the following facts :--We were applied to in the course of last November by a letter dated October 20th, 1815, from Cincinnati, in the State of Ohio, to engrave various plates of bank notes, for a banking company with the following title:-THE OHIO EXPORTING AND IMPORTING COMPANY." It now appears from very respectable information, that no company of merchants, or other persons, bearing the above title, now, or ever were publicly known to have existence, in or near the town of Cincinnati; and that no such company, do, or ever did exist:

" The plates were engraved and paid for ; but as our names are annexed as engravers, we deem it proper to warn all persons to be cautious in the reception of such bills in future, as we are fully impressed with a conviction of their spurious origin. Being in the habit of receiving and executing orders relative to bank notes, from distant parts of the United States our suspicions were not awakened respecting the pretended " Ohio Exporting and Importing Company, until informed, by gentlemen of undoubted veracity, resident in Cincinnati, of the non-existence of any such company.

" We hereunto annex a copy of the original order according to which the notes were executed; together with a certificate signed by respectable inhabitants, attesting their entire ignorance of the company named in the order.

TANNER, KEARNY & THEBOUT,

ORDER

The bearer, Mr. B. W. Hunt, is hereby authorized to apply to any recommended engravers in Philadelphia or N. York, and procure for the Ohio Exporting and Importing Company, one plate, according to the above form, of from ones to tens, and another plate, of from twenties to five hundreds-with one thousand impressions on each.

" The said Hunt is hereby authorized to make any unimportant alteration or amendment on the above form, if consistent with the convenience of the engraver.

WILLIAM HAXIER,

President.

Cincinnati, 20th October, 1815."

Since the above was in type, we have been favored with the following report of a committee appointed on behalf of the Banks of this place, on this subject.

REPORT

Of the Committee on the subject of Spurious Bank paper.

Information having been received that a gang of Swindlers were engaged in various directions in circulating spurious Bank paper, purporting to the notes of the Ohio Exporting and Importing Company. and signed Z. Sharp Prest. and J. Lance Cashr.-

The Directors of the Banks in this town believed it to be their duty to take some measures calculated to detect the villains and guard the public against their schemes.

For this purpose they appointed a committee from each institution with power to take such steps as to them might seem proper.

The undersigned in pursuance thereof deem it proper to state that no such Bank exists. or ever did exist, and that they have made every exertion in their power to discover the persons concerned and to obtain such evidence as should enable them to give their names to the public. From all the information received it appears—-

First—That the villains engaged in the making and circulating the above described notes, are nearly the same gang who composed the " Indiana Manufacturing company of New-Lexington," by which the public have been swindled to a large amount.

Secondly-That they procured plates to be engraved in Philadelphia of from one dollar to 500 dollars and that the sum of $670,000 was struck off and delivered to them.

Thirdly--That the persons named below belong to the gang :

Benjamin W. Hunt, of New London in the Indiana territory, who is said to be on the Mississippi.

William Mansur, whose route is unknown to the Committee

William Carpenter who is unknown.

William Hunt, brother to B. W. Hunt.

James W. Donalds, late Cashier of the Indiana Manufacturing Company.

Thomas Collier, unknown.

William Cummins, brother-in-law of Wm. Hunt.

The last four are said to be in Harrisburg jail, Penn.

George W. Hunt, cousin of B. W. and Wm. Hunt, now or formerly of Trenton, New Jersey, who has been employed in passing the notes, of which conclusive evidence is in the hands of the committee.

Joseph Sutton and John Speer, now in jail in Lewisburg, Virginia.

And the committee has been informed by one of the persons in jail, that Gen. Wm. M'Farland and Thomas Donalds of the Indiana Territory are stockholders in the "Ohio Exporting & importing Company."

This is all the information which the committee consider it necessary to give to the public at present: they will, however, persevere in their efforts, and if aided in them by persons who may have knowledge of any material facts, they hope to put a stop to the further depredations of as desperate a gang of villains as ever infested society.

All printers of newspapers are requested to publish this paper.

JAMES FINDLAY.

Committee for the M E. Company

WM IRWIN,

SAML W. DAVIES.

Committee for the F. M Bank

WM. CORRY,

DAVIS EMBREE,

Committee for the Bank of Cincinnati