The New Hampshire Gazette

The Philadelphia U. S. Gazette gives the following account of an imposter.

A person calling himself John Marouki, and a native of Poland—a nobleman too, who was released by the Austrians, after two years imprisonment—has been for some time publicly soliciting money, under pretence of raising a fund to send for his wife and family. He has recently been brought before the Mayor of this city, charged with being an imposter. He had with him a small volume of certificates—the first purporting to be from the British Consul at Baltimore, with his name and official seal, and the second from the Mayor of Baltimore, with the seal of the city. There appears indubitable evidence that these two are forgeries. The seals we think were cut from some other instrument, and pasted to these certificates. And then the name of the Mayor of Baltimore is S. Smith, and not J. Smith, as appears in the second certificate. The other certificates, with names and seals, from the Mayors of New-York and Brooklyn, and from some twenty judges, clerks and prothonotaries, are, we believe, genuine, but they are all founded on the two first. But what had mayors, and prothonotaries to do with such matters officially. Is it their business to sanction mendicity by their official station and seals? Surely this is wrong.

Fully satisfied that the man was an imposter, and that the two first certificates were forgeries, the Mayor committed him to prison.