Alexandria Daily Advertiser

COUNTERFEIT BANK NOTES AND EAGLES.
Virg.

Extract of a letter from Lexington,
dated September 10.

"Yesterday were apprehended in this town, for passing counterfeit notes on the bank of the United States, John Ramsay and Andrew Lattimore Love, both from the county of York, in South-Carolina.—

The notes are very well executed, and no material difference can be perceived between the president's name of the genuine and those of the counterfeit. In Simpson, the cashier's name, the letter O is too high, and if strictly examined the initial G is too clumsily formed at the end, as it ends blunt and not curving out like the genuine. The Eagle is imperfect; its head and legs being so faint that they are scarcely visible. They are all dated in 1799, 1800, and 1801 ; and some of the latest dates are affixed to the smallest numbers. The aggregate of the notes found in their possession, including those they had passed in the neighborhood which were immediately recovered, amounted to 1050 dollars. They are all 10 dollar notes, except two or three, which are of 5 and 20. Five American eagles were likewise found with them, but the fraud may be easily discovered; they are in the first place too light, weighing only about seventeen dollars and an half; and their being somewhat thicker in the middle than the edge, together with the badness of their execution, contribute to convince a person immediately that they are counterfeit; if these are not deemed sufficient proofs, by taking a needle or some other sharp-pointed instrument and scratching the gold on some prominent part of the coin the copper will distinctly appear."

A court will be called on Saturday the 17th instant, for examination of the above mentioned persons.