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Show Unique Indorsement of Check. Perhaps the greatest curiosity the Bank of England1 posseses is a nof of 1,000, the sum Lord Cochrane paid as a fiae for his connection with a fraud1 on the public, with which he really had nothing to do He indorsed the note thus: "My health- having suffered by long and close confinement and my oppressors having resolved to deprive me of property or life. 1 submit to robbery ' to protect myself from murder, in the . hope that 1 shall live to bring the de- ; linquenta to Justice Cochrane." He ; wrote from the grated chatTber of King's Bench witsaa, |