Alexandria Gazette

The Baltimore Forger.

Mr. Bromwell had been long engaged in business, and had heretofore borne a high character for probity and fair dealing as a man and a merchant. For some time past however, his business affairs had been in an unprosperous condition; and it appears that he had been in the habit of fortifying his applications for funds and merchandise, with the paper of country customers, lodged as collateral security. In an evil hour, and no doubt in the vain hope of being able ultimately to restore such paper without detection or wrong to any party, he resorted, it appears, to the criminal act of forging these securities.

When once commenced, the course to ruin was swift and sure! In such a career there is no stopping place, and nothing scarcely short of a miracle can enable the unhappy actor to escape detection; and detection in such an act, with whatever motive or delusive hope of repairing the wrong, is, to a sensitive mind, the most grievous and heavy punishment. O! then, let men beware of swerving even for an instant, and on any pretence of necessity, or allurement of hope, from the straight line of rectitude; and let them be sure that once to depart from this is to lament it forever!

The amount of the forgeries in this case, are not perhaps yet accurately known, but are reported as being upwards of sixty thousand dollars—Baltimore Patriot.