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RATHBUN, THE GREAT FoRGER.-The BufIa-
lonian, speaking of this individual, utters the fol-
lowing languages:


"The feeling here is universal, that they are
determined to crush Rathbun at all hazards. and
if law will not do it, foul means must be resorted
to. Thank God, he has jury to stand between
him and combination of such scoundres."


We know not what especial claims this indi-
vidual can present for public sympathy, for a
more extensive system of fraud has not been per-
petrated by any man in this country or Europe,
excepting by the famous Fonteroy. Had he been
some obscure and friendless individual who had
committed some petty larceny, perhaps to feed a
starving family, an ''honest, upright, conscien-
tious jury would have turned him off, almost
without leaving their box. But being magnf-
cent villain, rogue upon grand scale, male
factor by wholesale, whose operations might ruin
thousands, he has friends and sympahes in abun-
dance, and Jury can scarcely be found who will
far violate ''respectability," as to convict him.
He is, indeed, convicted and sentenced, but,not
until after two trials, and will yet probably es-
cape. And the Buffalonian denounces, as "a com
bination of scoundrels," those who endeavor to
enforce the lava against him!


! Fontleroy had his sympathizing friends, who
made every exertion to save him from conviction
before his trial, and from execution afterwards.
The London jury was combination of "scoun-
drels' who thought Fontleroy's plundered dupes
as much entitled to protection as their plunderer
to sympathy, and SO convicted him; and the Bri-
tish Privy Council having no sympathies for such
unfortunate gentlemen, and believing that the
salvation of the laws, made for the common good,
was more important than the salvation of knave,
would not permit the king to pardon him. His
sympathizing friends, finding that they could not
cheat the gallows, tried to make SAINT OF him.
We imagine that they found the devil as imprac-
tlcable as the jury and the Privy Council
Ledger.