The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-01-06 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. --- . r beset the doors of the banking-house, so much so, armed with the powers of --ease— [The verdict of th e J ury appo i nte d to try that it became n ecessa r y t o a pply to th e p o li ce esta . ruptey ; a Tribunal nut rompae _ blishment for protection ; and it m ay be we ll i m a g i ne d, end just execution of proper autholity int o f orce .-- lowing case h a s a l rea d y been stated , thefol. as also that the what woeld have been the consequence of admittingan The third case was that of Sir Li weenre Cfairrs.4 Bankinptcy of the respectabl e F irm in question has , infuriate rabble into the ho u se o f b an ke rs w h o h a d Ba n k— no t a creliies paid—tot a dividend maths'.— been •stderseded. Th e m i nu t e o f t h e trial which we stopt payment ; but though the mob was excluded col.. These were the three solitary instances in which thee subjoin, avid which ee regret we cannot give more lectively,yet partictilardirections weregiven, to admit Bankers' Act had been preferred for tee benefit of amply, contains matter of the highest interest to to them any individual, who wjshed to heave access on the creditors. it might be beneficial to after gone commercial nee.] subjects of business. There were good reasons which ration ; hut to creditors wanting the means of sub- KI ‘'lf s HENC!I, DUBLIN, Use. 15. must have induced the partners to as an act of sistence, it would hold out lett a vrry indiffereitt THE HON. CHARLES PFRENCII AND CO. V. NICHOLAS Bankruptcy. In ordinary cases a Commission may kind of consolation indeed. It slendti be admitted, MAHON, E'Q. be the only means of distributing the property, and that under the administration tit the It:lel:nee /sews, 1 Mr. Mitete opened the pleadings. protecting the person of the individual : but in this great expenccs and great eases %Pl.! ii:currcd, hut ! Setjeant Joe slated the rase for th e pl a i n em s ,_ country there is the Bankers' Act, Charles Ffrencle Henry under which, if .he would . ay, that in almost .every case. it Serene Martin tne IN Iluet LIFE . — On Monday last, the They were . the Hon. Ed. !a banker stopping payment executes a trust deed of ' from the tomer, ateable resistanee by the Bonkrupt to j os t. at Senham, in the county of Durham, by the mund Tnaffe, Miceael Morri s , Willi am K eary , t h e I all his property he is from that moment released from to the operation of the law. Give liim the honest and the Hon. M ar ti n Ffrenclelall demands whatever. l' he. Jury must ha v e h a d t oo I3ankrupt, willing to surrender MI effocts to the fair w e . Twines Note, Itac,or of Kirkby Mallo r y, th e lion. Thomas Ffrench, The case, as it appear e d u p on th e record, was one of ' Bi g ht lion. Lord Beane, to Miss MILBA N ICE, sole much experietice of the effects of a Commission not creditors, and where was there room for delay, or Laughter and heire s s of iir Hume Muleteer, Bart. the mist trilling, whilst, in reality and truth, it was I -to know, that any thing was preferable to that mode litigation. If 'be should be a dishonest character, one of the most important that ever was submitted .of distributing an insolvent's estate. The enormous Taere were present only sir [teem and reek MIL to n Jurr , ts heeler considering the rank of the per-' and forced to submit to the law, he will struggle, he !se m the Rev. Mr. WALLIS, Rector of Seahem, expense and litigation, that throws so much money will excite litigation ; suppress property, and. cm and JOHN Honnousie Esq. After the ceremony the sons concerned, the m agn it u d e o f t h e property i n- ! into the p oc k e t s o f hi mse lf an d hi s l earne d co l - h arrass hi s cre di tors. But, hewould ask, in such it volved, or th e iMo or t ant d ec i s i on w hi c h woul d so ; h i ppy couple left Seaham for Ilannaby, in York- leagues, and in case of a banker, whose expellees case, which tribunal was armed a Hit most authority shire, intimately aliect the i n t eres t s o f t h e commun i ty. T he :. %ve t e do u bl e d w ith t rus t ee meet i ng o f C omm i ss i oners, t o pr event f rau d— t h at w hi c h can send the knave kr liwestione hey were to try un d er mere f orm o f c l a i m o f &(••• &P' But 'Er u st ees ac ti n g un d er t h e net, deeeased (she who was considered as the most property was, whether rte Plaintiffs, all arid each of of the Lord Chancellor, without reward, are anxious ht all. therm del, at or belie ve A ug . 3, , 1814 commit an act to have their trust c nut fat woman in England w hen the Potentates honestly and speedily determined ; • erre hero), mid "ho eceoratannitel her mother and of hairkrupfcy sufficient to sustain a c omm i ss i on .— : and, therefore, as honourable men, tho s e partners - • father-in-law to Vienna, is married ala main gauche . it was notorious that on th e re t b o f J une last, the must have been anxious not to commit an act' of , • to ]'since At:el:Sees of Pitumet. hanking.house of Preece and Co. suspended their bankruptcy, but to have their estates fairly and • pro - • j• that since that peri o d th ose p a y men t s perly mtniiiiistered, to have those obligations con. VERY LATEST ACCOUNT FROM Rnatte The following has appeared in the Mondettr, as an ' payments; "'I had not beett lesumed ; th a t a C omm i ss i on o f Bank- of a totter from Glient. It is curious , as it traded by them discharged, to have that confidence We have been just femme]. with the peruse: of a Letter teem an Official Gem/Cretan of Authority Its reptcy had is against them on the 3d day of reposed in them held sacred and inviolate; and not tenth; to show tee view which the French (Govern- that City,, of a much later dee thee that which we Attgust last; and that the Commissioners had de- to retire from life loaded with the execrations of meet. pm hays, the article being given in the only of saw on Monday last. The following iiiterrient s dared them bankrupts. An application was made may be implieitly relied epee :—Ton Poet Is Mos. fitial Paper) wish to promulgate of the state of our those whose confidence they had betrayed ; this was to the Lord Chancellor by the I- laintiffse complain. of great consequence to men of feeling; and as such TILE TO THE Vero.—lle sees that he eill make no crelit : " It appears that since the setith of Nnvember last, ilit,t of that Commission, denying that any act of bankrtiptcy had been committed to sustain it, and P they presented themselves to the Jury, not claiming property for themselves, but a right distribution of arrangements.—Qaarantotti's Rescr7o is not noticed, h except with contempt and indignation. It UM pros tht• Commissioners of the United States had begun • seeking that the Commission should be superseded ; , their estate; and, therefore, if an act should appear •to he persuaded that En g land, this time at least, ably vever tie rescinded or condemned, because it a question of fact was thus raised, which the Lord to them equivocal, they should construe it according wished tomato peace. Embarrassed in bet finances, ohinfol con.. C:iancellor '‘sits incompetent to decide, and he, . is t considered nd authority. Doctor Minter lum she lend hetet forced to some great andto what must have been the nature of the person. cnnstetuently, referred it to the consideration of a • t ordered to remain at Rome until the nrrival et' lessiotts. The headers , or the bankers, to whom she The Learned Serjeant then entered into some de- .. e Court of lets and a Jury, to he brought forward in moor Poynter, who has been sent for, it is thought, to give some explanation or his cceidect.-- -bad recourse, will have said, ' You demand once tails of the conduct of the partners after the stop. •again three millions, but how will von repay them ; the shape of an action of 'Prover—for by di s p u ti ng page at the banking-houses connected with 'the firm, ; - the right of the property in the Plaintiffs, the ques.. As a proof that no change is intended, the Pope his already confirmed the Postulations from Ireland to you have c•lotractrd engis7olionts with all the Pm- and at meetings of creditors, to prove that they had tioti of heel:wiry was put in issue incidentally, evinced no inclination to shun publicity, and that ' ropean Powers, which ruin you ; you have on your ' The Commission issued was a joint Commission, they acted in a fair and open manner towards th e I fill the vacant Sees. . Our Readers' will now see what credit is to be lewd, this war with America, that exhausts you, end and under it each person mese have cemmitted a dia. public. He concluded by observing upon the ope. i which ene wilt not put an end to.' A Noble Earl time act of bankruptcy. limy shohaid see how im- given to the Papers of the Party who so confidently mat have interrupted the speech, and protested theration of the Bankers' Act, 33, Geo. 11. chap. 14, imitate it was to have the iinetes of all the parties and cited a case from 3d Ridgeway's Parliamentary I affirmed, that flit l e Rescript was confirmed that Dr Murray 'uitted in disgust, .and that lir. hilliest: pacific sentimeets of the Court of St. James's ; more familiar to their minds, as it would be necessary to' Cases, where it was decided that in consequence of I the q field in a rage : whilst others stated thtt positive essurneces were necessary, and the very next entertain a question relative to the acts of each indi. to spend the remainder of his days day we learn that the Treaties of the Government of that statute, a Banker stopping payment could not kept t Lord Fingal!. victual Pit . 0, ft 'rif tuey should find that any one eti ' i afterwards commit an act of bankruptcy, so as to he was g ni " the United States, not respected hitherto, ore re - antongot the' Monks ' What will of them had not committed an act of Bankruptcy en ground a Commission of Bankruptcy. Ile 'then my spected—the day after bets arc; opened and coutinue or before the 3d of August last, the Commission •and the Seceders do ? We trust they will return to ! their posts and the i enple—witnout whom they said, that they would he cautious ' how they would ; . join , . inapt egression favourable to peace—One sees that V. ould fall to the ground. Ile knew, from conveys.. establish by their verdict, a Commission of Bank- I areth e y a re this toted not escape the sagacity of Mr. ALBERT ! ing with many men of excellent judgment, that it ruptcy, from which so much mischief and litigation nothing—with whom every thing. Germe lex and his colleagues. was a received popular opinion, that every stoppage I • The Government Prints state the nominations to would ensue. Ile Would commit the case, not of his , . . " in was lint four days afterwards that, upon the ; of payment was an act of bankruptcy, particularly• the vacant Nees of the Irish Catholics in nhout five Clients, but the Creditors, into the hands of the . would :They Lines, inn which there are tes many gross blunders. demand of the British Ministers, en intertiew took payments were not resumed— if that was Jury, satisfied that whatever verdict they that it was the Propaganda pestelated. place at the Chartriets. The following, according if thos e the notion of the Jury, he had distinctly to combat find, would be the verdict of twelve honest and he- 1 This is false—the Irish Dioceses postulated, add to I.l:sto: , t, took place on the 2311 at the lintel of it : that eas not an act of bankruptcy recognized by , nourable men on their oaths, invstigating minutely, I Isevcrideeheta, and there, with unexpected celerity , that College reported the postulation to the Popp. on , the statute. The acts were explicit—the statute gnu- the ;sickles were agreed upon. The next d ,y, and deciding with impartiality. h . av , e ,. givt . .n . the list accurately long since.— mesattel them ; and the decisions upon the statute • Mr. Spirant JOHNs'TON slated the case on the part W ,f Ch l ist mas ese, nt half-past four, Peace was signed att (Lore unronicie.) gave them additional weight, and therefore, be would of the Defendant. The question before the Jury the thee-hett, in the sailor place v. here M. I.IEVEN request them to disengage th e ir mi n ds f rom an y e ff ec thad already been decided by an able and competent Bat rtes.. one of oer fellow-citizens, intraticed the which the stopp ag e o f p a y men t—th e s h u t t i ng t h e . tribunal, the Plainters having been found Bankrupts , On Thursday, pursuant to public notice, a Meet. 6t41 PAL ,I IOI wolltmen and En gush machinery, erected the lira coffin machine and thus carried off from ' Bank doors—amid other things of that nature, might by the mode adopted by the wisdom of the bankrupt ing of the inhabitants of Boston and neighbourhood Fit ?Mei tioluvre an imp . naturally excite. • laws. The case hail been heard beforethat tribunal; ; was held at the Cross Chamber, for the purpose of ortn , nt branch with which he e l .cliail his remelt', and which all Europe will Ile would explain t o the m now , h ow th e B el k- and after a patient investi g ation of many days, and taking into consideration the propriety o f p e titi on i ng e hasten to stall he r salf o f." ing business wa s carr i e d on ; an d th e s it ua ti on o f hearing the parties on all sides, that tribunal adj u dged Parliament against the continuance o r r e n e wa l o f th e ' the Plaintiffs p rev i ous t o th e mon th o f F e b ruary all and each of th em b an k ru pts. Th e y h a d bee n t o ld Property Tax. Mr. Jonte lhoweeNn being called It is a practice, we understand , in Manchester, last, when, althoogh all were partners in point of that the Chancellor had sent the question to them i to the Chair, stated the object for which the company for the tradesmen to offer a handsome premium to the : law, yet all were not acting partners, even before because he nes incompetent to decide it. No, for were assembled ; after which Mr. Joseett SMITH sub. cenchmati and guard that bring the first intelligence ' that time. Mr. Charles Ffreech finding his health the action might have been brought without any in. 2mitted, without preliminary observations, several of pence, for the purpose of hastening the arrival injured by his attention t o b us i ness , d e t erm i ne d t o terference of the Chancellor. As to the ope r ation i Resolutions, as the sense of the Meeti ng , an d w hi c h thereof, that they may he thereb t enabled, as much discontinue: and he did accordingly in the month of. the case under the Bankers' Act, they had nothing j were unanimously adopted. 111 r. Glen then read the as 1,0-11.11% lo Willi! against the London sharpers.— of Daoember 1813 give notice that in December, ,to do with it; , , whether the Plaintiffs could by law be •• draft of a Petition to the House of Commons In censequ , , , ence of this premium, the Manchester 1814, he would cease to be a ►partner. Mr. Martin •bankrupts or not, was not a question for them. The .founded on those Resolutions, which, after some R•fianco. as tt e have been informed, drove, or rather lah rench gave a similar notice. Tee notificaticut was petition which the Plaintiffs presented to the Chan- slight alteration, was agreed to, and ordered to be few from Leiden to Derby [126 titles] in ten hours accepted by the House, arid a deed was executed in ceder did not rest on such a ground ; it did not seek, engrossed. and a (palter, not w itlistaielieg it had been over- Decemher, 1813, whereby Messrs. C. and M. that .because being Bankers who had stopped pay- A Meeting is called at Winchester to Petition turned. ' Ffrench ceased to he any longer partners in mete, the Commission ought to be superseded, they against the Property Tax. A great number of trnesports have been discharged h i t e House, and as they were nn longer to have not being capable of committing an act of Bankrupt.. Madame de STAEL is said to have left Paris in dis. • out of the Covet [intent service this %seek, in cense- t any noise ceocern or management in the affairs of cy, and they had obtained from the Chancellor an gust. It is said she offered to write a military his. velem of nearlt all the steles having bees; brought . the House it was agreed, that all share of profits order by which the Jury were to try, if all and each tory of the reign of BONAPARTE, but that her ►pro. home from the Coteinent, in which service they have ' should be abandoned by them, and they should lof them committed an act of bankruptcy on or he. posal was rejected- by the Government. Marshal lame 5. been employed. i haveno interest in the concerns of the House, ex- fore the 3d of Almost last. If the Plaintiffs could suut't complimented her on the enterprizing spi r it it ens repertel fast eight, in the west-end of the' ceps as to an indemnification from the notes out. not have committed an act of bankruptcy at all, which dictated the undertaking, but recommended to to -.711, that the Earl of letretroot. had left town for standing in their paws. That was an important i could the J ur y s u p dose a' Chancellor need have sent her to qualify herself by the experieuee of a few Beth, after {levee; di tented cAmpliance with' a wish ' fact to show, that the Banking-house ceased to be them such a question, as to try whether they had or campaigns before she commenced it. She and Gen. •xpresseil in a cer tain quarter, to bring forward in a la t. of residence to either of them. Mr. Mar- had not ; he might as well send at; issue to try is he- Settaiztat are highly indignant at the neglect of their' Parliament a revasere of a domestic nature, in which : tin Ftrench having determined to turn to another they a man who was a trader, and could not by law services. They each claim the merit of having sub- Oh elottlious lema!e, now upon the Continent, is l line of life, he proposed •to the partners to retire jbe a bankrupt, had committed an act of bankruptcy. versed BoNeeente; he, by his plans; she, by her ii:.(se:l , , , intereAttl, I altogether : it was agreed to, and from thencefor. But it had its answer at once upon the fact, that at pamphlets. Wo learn t by an nffedal notification from the Cone- I wee! issued : and from that moment Mr. Martin the time the Bankers' Act was passed, there were no Yesterday Thomas Bolton, the man who was shot tai Post-of Tice, that the Demme s of the East India : (.'french teas to have 'lto concern in the House. le Bankrupt Laws in this country, and it Was deemed in the cheek some time ago while attempting to rob Company 1a....0 ittiintaied to the Postmasters-General , was true, • lie House had agreed to indemnify him, I advisable to provide a special remedy to the case of Mr. Haaunond's'shop, corner of Dover-street, Pic. this &Renee:llnm %shish we announced sonic time: but as a partner, and subject to the losses, he was hankers stopping payment. But now by the 11th cadilly, died in Newgate, after hating suffered can. since, use to antes the tottess •;dilressed to belie, and • completely free. and 12th of Geo. 111. bankers by name as well as siderabte pain, as the ball could net be extracted. paid fur et the Post-tiltit•e under tie; new Ship Letter I . Tile Bank business then was thus conducted ;_.. 1 other traders, were made liable to the operation of The waters round Eton anti its neightiourhood. Act, to be fere reeled. as formerly, by the Company's There was one ;tease in Dublin and one in Team.-- the Bankrupt Laws. have been, and still continue ivy high. In many of sliipt;, as the Adnenittiatioe of the Post-office pro- ; Ttiere was also a Discoteit Office in Galway : that i The Jury had been called upon in this case to put the cellars in Eton it is above three feet deep. posed. The letters hithei to de;n:.ited and paid for nt I was not a Blinking-tiouse ; because the discounting i the stoppage of payment, the slutting the doors, the In the night of Thursday se'imight, a fire broke the Post-ethic° for coesetance to Item will, there- might be taken up or left off at pleasure. The busi- I exclusion of the clamorous multitude out of their con- out in Bradley Water Corn-Mill, on the south side fete, with Vie consent of the Lords of the Admi. ness of the House in Dublin was conducted by Mr. sideration; bet on the contrary, although he ad- of the Tyne, occupied by Mr. George Irwin. The relty, be forwarded by his hdajpet •. 4 ship Cehu;switist t Morris -mid Mr. 'Pantie : that of the House at Team netted, that those circumstances were not in them- mill, with about 4001. worth of corn and flour, was under orders for the Ineia II station ; and a skitter dis. iby Mr. Keary', who resided there. Mr. Thomas , selves acts of bankruptcy : yet he called on the Jury totally destroyed ; 3001. only was insured. The !taw!' will be made by every ship of war proceeding • Ffrench had no particular department, was mostly .to nttentl closely to them, because they all feuded millers were working at the mill till tee o'clock nit to that desert:Heim Bat as ships of war trill not be resident in Galway, and occasionally visited one !to explain the motives and conduct of the indivi- Thursday night, drying oats, and on !caving their bent out fur the mere CviiTCy lttrf? of letters, and the , House or another. Inehis way, things stood upon : duals, to whom lie imputed acts of bankruptcy. They work, they put out the,fires, but it was seen about colleidetice of their being ordered out is ill seldom ' the `_7th of June last. 'the Bank had gone on with ! were properly told that in giving emir verdict, they two o'clock on Friday morning, by some pitmen on furnish opportunities adequate to the exigencies of • considerable success : some losses had occurred, but ' should be satisfied that each of the individuals did the other side of the Tyne, completely in a flame. The the correspondence, it is further allowed by the not such as would vitally affect it. Waist of foie. ' commit an act of bankruptcy. The Commission was roof fell in very soon after it was discovered. Post-office, under the sante Ship Letter Act, thistly ' sight appears to be the cause of their embarrassment; joint, and such was the law, and it was wise in that re- A few days since, as Mr. John Hoe ken, of Al. person paying one-third of packet-postage shall be . they had reason to expect a large t o d gn i en t on a poi- spect, for looking on an act of bankruptcy a, a crimi. brighten, was going to ShifitalL, near Leeds, to pay nut liberty to Gwynnd letters, marked as so paid for s cuter day, which made them neglect providiwg re-' nal act—a man should not be made a bankrupt by the in his assessed taxes, of which he is the collector, he by any conveyance that he can himself find, taking sources. They were disappointed; but too late to pro. , act of another. Tine Jury had been told that most was attacked on the road between Mr. Steamy's Lodge tare, at his petil, to pay the postage in-land to the vide a remedy ; anti at a quar te r bef o re th re e, when ' powerful reasons operated with the house of Ffrench ' and Upton-common, by two -footpads, who, after place of shipping. ; the runners from the different Banks came in, they t and Co. to resent the imputation of having committed ! having violently assaulted him, cut off a part of his I%lEl.o;c:tory Accirwv-r.—On the 31st ult. an In- were unable to satisfy the demands. When the • acts of bankruptcy, because they were !Ott that the . left ear, and robbed hini elthe taxes, in .bills, to 2811.. quest was held by T. PATTEN, Esq. Coroner, on the credit of a Bank is once blown upon, it is never provisions under the Bankers' Act, would tie more ; the amount of • • • Moditto of fire young men who were killed .at Mount retrieved. It differs in this respect from a Mer e ', beneficial to the creditors. He knew oh but three ....C ‘ o v e h o .2 - , - t e..x i c in u a o r si k, ( . ; t e,.e n t l m i. .6 b .— „ m e . r its i et i . h t e lein , g ie rt e. g i r l e m itt n ci n a i n , h a ty . Alcor Colliery, that morning. It appeared that as cantile-house ; their bills . may he protested to- I instances of the Bankets' Act being put in force, ' hnt Ismer piiies Waiild he taken ilrati • n ti!e r etay. if there wet,. •eiele persons were ascending the pit, the atilt. slip -' day, and to-morrow they may pay it .--- But; and Inc would call their attention to their effecte-- 7 I_o l e emeo m_e ss e y a t e 11,(1i.w cif from is. in '2 , .. art .teit: pet] from the rope, by which Robert, Stewart, and the credit of a Banki n g-h o u s e exists in the most 'The first was the cased Burton and• Co.• whose cre- ;I • per quarter . — Pest. MA Brans doll wale, at Nlonday't mice, Win. Simpson, three brothers ; Wm. Davidson AA perfect and compleat Confidence ; and every thing • ditors have remained unpaid after a lapse of forty L SMITHFIELD MARKET .- JAS. 2. Thos. Smith, were precipitated to the bottom of the that shakes it, - acts with ,a double effect , - . Its years, whose flair; were still ' is fieri," still in; in slot tke Otral, per ; , our of BD, ir,N.,4 ut Cattle this gay, tanft, and killed on the spot . The other three es- funds consists in lodgments ; and part of its occa - • litigation, and proceedings still continuing un d er Beef ....ss. Ctd. to 64. 91.1 wilimo ..m. ve. te 6.. • 4d. Ilewt. 4 . .i . t sped death by haying hold of the rope above the sional resources in the assistance of friends, who are' that Act. The next was that of Hayden and [beers, eye ....7 4. ;,.t. m ., ti.,. Nl. s heep . hill Pork .....6 , .. Qt. tr• 71. 64 (naves . . eaain, T h is accident wa s merely fortuitous, and 110 ready to accommodate them, when danger approaches ;of Waterford; in which case the amount of . one . La - ui b ;..IH. Od. to 1.11. Q': PIM ...... ... i '''"r•e whslerec attached to any of the managers from any pressing demand. Any thing, therefore, of costs was 16,0001 . . that was the tribunal to ItAY-MARKET. of the colliery. Yet dict--eiccidental Deat h .—The that blows on the credit of a banking-house destroy!' which the creditors were sought to be turned round : a tributial over which the Bamkers them- Bey Clover " 7 ;''''l °I . the !mothers were interred at Gateshead, those resources, and the bank must sink. Slailay la s t, 4 1 one grave . A When the batik stopt, a large crowd of persons selves must Dave every iutlueuce; a tribunal not . Straw en. MEAL, JAN. s.—Arrived and ~ ailed for Ike River, the Dia dem, Charlton, from N'llanditre.—Came down from the River and,a;led, the NAY tw. Lee, from the East Indieti.—Sailed the 31ercuritts gun-brig, to Dieppe I and Ditlvhio store _Ai p , to the Rker.—Remain the rest anis Maji-A)'s ships as per la.t. Pouvssorrit, 5.-Ivent eut of quails - amine his Ma ie.:%% shi l l ( - marlin nod the Lime iran , port.—The ;:e stiff detained under quarantine: Silipont, Splice, Duke of klesander, and :larmi.iny tran , porli; and two ves,els b 111111 In II c River. _..~,_ NO I'ETU. ~~ ~V new never y tut rescinded or coneemned, because ;t . , a question of fact ivas thus raised, which the Lord to them equivocal, they should construe it acco'rding is considered of nd authority. Doctor Miliier hes 1 . sad ill her finances, at and painful eon. , Chancellot• 'arts incompetent to d ec ide, a n d he, .to what must have been the nature of the person. been ordered to remain a t Rome until the arrival a kers, to whom she consequently, referred it to the consideration of a • The Learned Serjeant then entered into some de- ! Court of 1,1%y and a Jury, to he brought forward in thought, to give some ezplanation othis cieidoct.-- ! Doctor Poynter, who has been sent for, it is Coil demand once tails of the conduct of the partners after the stop. the shape of an action of Troyer—f or by di s p u ti ng page at the banking-houses connected with the firm, : I von repay them ; - the right of the property in the Plaintiffs, the ques. , and at meetings of creditors, to prove that they het already confirmed the Postulations from Ireland to As a proof that no change is intended, the Pope h,s • With all the Eu. . . tire' of heel:reply ) ! was put in issue incidentally. l evinced no inclination to shun publicity, and that' • you have on your . !fill the vacant Sees exhausts you, end 'lle Commissiou issued was a joint Commission, they acted in a fair and open manner towards the i . ' • ' . • Our Readers will now see what cre d it .' A Noble Eat! and unde r it e ach person mese have committed a dis. p ublic. H e c o ncluded by observing up o n the ope . i is to be , . given to thePapees of the Party wh o so con fid ent l y and protested the !Met act of bank r uptcy. •i tie y s hO e id see h ow ins- ration of the Bankers' Act, 33, Geo. 11. chap. 14, St. James's ; more pot taut it was to have the min: es of all the parties and cited a case from 3d Ridgeway's Parliamentary I affirmed, that the w asa co nfirme d, tht . ,and the very neat familiar to their minds, as it would be necessary to ' Cases, where it was decided that in consequence of I Alurray quitted i ßeseript st nd that Dr. /li a nn D et. . . . the Government of entertain a questi on re l a ti ve t o th e ac t s o f eac h i n di. that statute, a Banker st o ppi ng payment could not kept the field in a rage : whilst others st a ted, that hitherto, ore re- vidual Plaietiff , for if they should find that any one afterwards commit an act of bankruptcy, so as to he was going to spend the remai n d er o f hi s d ays amongst the M on ks! What will my Loud Fin gall ened and continue of them had not committed an act of Bankruptcy on ground a Commission of Bankruptcy. Ile Then ace—One sees that Or before the 3d of August last, the Commission said, that they would he cautious *how they would , end the Seceders do ? We trust they will return to , their posts and join the People—without whom they •••• - T of Mr. ALBERT 1% ould fall to the ground. Ile knew, from convert.. establish by their verdict, a Commission of Bank- ! ing with many men of excellent judgment, that it ruptcy, from which so much mischief and litigation I are nothing—with whom they are every thing. . , The Government Prints state the nominations to rds that, upon the ! was a received popular opinion, that every stoppage would ensue. Ile Would commit the case, not of his - • an intersiew took lof payment was an act of bankruptcy, particularly Clients, but the Creditors, into the hands of the ' the vacant Sees of the Irish Catholics in about five • . . " lines, which there are tts many gross' blunderc. lowing, according if those payments w e r e no t resume d— if th a t was Jury, satis fi ed that whatever verdict they would d at the lintel of the notion of the Jury, he had distinctly to combat find, would be the verdict of twelve honest and ho- i They state, that it was the Plopagenda pustulated. This is false—the Irish Dioceses postulated, add nexpected celerity, it : that eas not an act of bankruptcy recognized by nourable men on their oaths, invstigating minutely,l The next d.y, on , the statute. The acts were explicit—the statute ems. and deciding with impartiality. i that College reported the postulation to the Pope. ! : We have given the list accurately l ong s i nc e.— . 'eace was signed at meiattel them •; and the decisions upon the statute Mr. Serjeant JOIIN;TON stated the case on the part ' ' (Cork Chronicle.) %here M. loeyee • gave them additional weight, and therefore, be would of the Defendant. The question before the Jury . e !us, introdoced the request them to disengage their minds from any effect had already been decided by an ably and competent • machinery. erected which t he stoppage of payment—the shutting the t ribunal , the' lende On ,rs having been found Bankrupts , pursuant to public notice, a Meet. .' ; 1 s carried off from Bank doors—aed o th er thi ngs o f th a t na t ure , m i g ht by the mode adopt e d by the w i s d om of the bankrupt ing of the inhabitants of Boston and neighbou r h oo d . i naturally excite. laws. The case had been heard beforethat tribunal; : was held at the Cross Chamber, for the p ur p ose o f • nth with which he r all Europe will Ile would explain to them now, bow the Bunk. and after a patient investigation of many days, and taking into consideration the propriety of petitioning hug business was carried on ; and the situation of hearing the parties on all sides, that tribunal adjudged Parliament against the continuance or renewal of the . the Plaintiffs previous to the month of F e b ruaryall s tud ea ch of them bankrupts. They had been told Pro p ert y ' Tax. Mr. Joust Roweasin being called 1, in Manchester,. , . last, when, altho ug h all were partners in oho o f that the Chancellor had sent the question to th em 'to the CI • tam, stated the object for which the company me premium to the * i aw, yet all were not acting partners, even before because he was incompetent to decide it. No, for were assembled ; after which Mr. Joseett SMITH sub- • ; P first intelligence , i that time. Mr. Charles Ffreech finding his health the Action might have been brought without any i n- rmitted, without p relimi n a ry observations, several tening the arrival •• , enabled as much injured by his attention t o b us i ness , d e t erm i ne d t o terference of the Chancellor. As to the operation i Resolutions, as the sense of the Meeti ng , an d w hi c h •• ' , ondon sharpers.— did accordingly discontinue: and he of 1) . .oember, 1813, give notice, that in December, ,to do with it ; whether the Plaintiffs could by law be j draft of a Petition , to the House of Commons, 1, the Manchester ISI4, he would cease to be a partner. Mr. Martin • bankrupts or not, was not a question for them. The ! founded on those Resolutions, whi:•h, after some al, drove, or rather • ? Ffrench gave a similar notice. Tee notificatian was petition which the Plaintiffs presented to the Ch sl i ght ht ••' an. ig eiteration, was agreed to, and ordered to be r ;• '. miles] in ten hours accepted by the House, amid a deed was executed in cellar did not rest on such a ground ; it' id not seek, engrossed. it had been over- • i •• Decemher, 1813, whereby Messrs. C. and M. that .because being Bankers who had stopped pay- A Meeting is called at Winchester to Petition i• I ' Ffretich ceased to he any longer partners ill Meld. the Commission ought to be superseded, they against the Property 'fax. ye been dischar g e d ,• e the House, and as they were fin longer to have not being capable of committing an act of Bankrupt- Madame de STAEL is said to have left Paris in dis; . t i 3 week , in cense- ! a n y . !-• active ceocern or management in the affairs of cy, and they had obtained from the Chancellor an gust. It is said she offered to write a military his- vine been brought the House, it was agreed, that all share of profits order by which the Jury were to try, if all and each tory of the reign of B • bu t t hat ' ONAPARTE, h er pro. 1 t service they have' should be a bandoned by them, and they should of them committed an act of bankruptcy on or be- posal was rejected- by the Government. Marshal 1 . 1 hare no interest in concerns ie west - end of t h e , . theof the House, ex- fore the 3d of August last. If the Plaintiffs could tiutwr complimented her on the enterprizing spirit i had left town for cept as to an indemnification f ro m the n o te s ou t. not have committed an act o f bankruptcy at all, which dictated the undertaking, but recommended to . - $ 1 . taieling in the i r paws. That was an important could the Jury supdose a' Chancellor need have sent her to qualify herself by the experieuee of a few A sore with a wish' . fact to show, that the Banking-house ceased to be them such a question, as to try whether they had or campaigns before she commenced it. She and Gen. • bring forward to I a pla,e of residence to either of them. Mr. Mar- had nut; he might as well send an issue to try as he- SAItEtiIIN are highly indignant at the neglect of their' • nature, in wh i c h . tin le , trench having determined to turn to another ther a man who was a trader, and could not by law services. They each claim the merit of having sub- •-" . 9 the C en t in e et a " ' line of life, he i !altogether :it was agreed to, and from thencefor. But it had its answer at once upon the fact, that at pamphlets. . 1: ' on from the Gene- I ward issued : and from that moment Mr. Martin the time the Bankers' Act was passed, there were no Yesterday Thomas Bolton, the man who was shot of the East India : French teas to have 'no concern in the House. Et Bankrupt Laws in this country, and it Wes deemed in the cheek some time ago while attempting to rob' stmasters-General , was tru e , 11! House had agreed to indemnify him, advisable to provide a special remedy to the case of Mr, Hamniond'ishop, corner of Dover-street, Pic. Zr autmel some time • but as a partner, and subject to the losses, he was bankers stopping payment. But now by the 11th cadilly, died in Newgate, after hating suffered con. •,i - I 2 sled to Inilie, and • completely free. and 12th of Geo. 111. bankers by name as well as siderable pain, as the ball could nut be extracted. I l o new Ship Letter i Tile Bank b • • esiness then was thus conducted ;_._ other traders, were made liable to the operation of The waters round Eton and its neighbourhood by the Company's There was one (lease in Dublin and one in Team.— the Bankrupt Laws. have been, and still continue eery high. In many of i a Pest-office pro- . ihicre was also a Discount Office in Galway : that i The Jury lied been called upon in this case to put the cellars in Eton it is aheve three feet deep. I ed and paid for nt was not Banking-louse ; because the discounting the stoppage of payment, the slutting the doors, the In the night of Thursday se'unight a ere broke $ iif • lotlie will, there. might be taken up or left off at pleasure. The busi- I exclusion of the clamorous multitude out of their con- out in Bradley Water Can't-Mill, on the south side i' u -' , . ,rds of the Admit nets of the House 'in Dublin was conducted by Mr. sideration; lest on the contrary, although he ad- of the Tyne, occupied by Mr. George Irwin. The , ofle: 'c s ship Ceruulliss ! Morris -lid Mr. Taaffe : that the Hnt Clouse at Tua tainted, that those circumstances were not in them. mill, with shout 4001. worth of corn and flour, was ;I• i• and a siw i tar dis- iby Mr. licery, who resided there. Mr. Thomas , selves acts of bankruptcy : yet he called on the Jury totally destroyed ; 3001. only was insured. The '1 war proceeding Ffrench had no particular department, was mostly .to nftend closely to them, because they all feuded millers were working at the mill till tee o'clock oi l 1- if war trill not be resident in Ga lway, and occasionally visited one !to explain the motives and ronduct of the inditi- Thursday night, drying oats, and on leaving their $ , l f letters, and the , H ouse or ano th er . In-this way, things stood upon : duals, to whom he imputed 'fiefs of bankruptcy. They work, they put out the,fires, but it was seen about • 1 I out still seldom ' the `27th of June last. •th B. e auk had gone on with 1 were properly told that in giving their verdict, they two o'clock on Friday morning, by some pitmen on I t ' • the exigencies of • considerable success : some losses had occurred, but ' should be satimfiod that each of the individuals did the other side of the Tyne, completely in a flame. The ' f • allowed by the not such as would vitally affect it. Want of foie- ' commit an act of bankruptcy. The Commission was roof fell in very soon after it was discovered. . Si 'lto' Act, OA allY . sight appears to be the cause of their embarrassment; joint, and such was the law, and it was wise in that re- A few days since, as BA's. John Ilan keg, of Al. ;I epostikge shall be • they had reason to expect a large lodgnient on a parti- spect, for looking on an act of bankruptcy HS a CAMi. brighton, was piing to Shifnall, near Leeds, to pay V 't act as so paid fpr, cular day, which made them neglect providing re- t nal act—a 108.11 should not be made a bankrupt by the in his assessed taxes, or which he is the collector, he - i -• ' 4 iiself find, taking sou rce s . They w er e disappoi n ted ; b u t t oo l a te t o p r o- , act of another. The Jury had been told that most was attacked on the road between Mr. Slaney's Lodge . 4 - s I ;e in-land to the vide a remedy ; anii at a quarter before three, when powerful reasons operated with the house of Ffrench • end Upton-common, by two footpads, who, after SI IV 1 the runners from the different Banks came in, they t and Co. to resent the imputation of having committed ! having violently assaulted him, cut off apart of his ! 1 to 31st ult. an In- were unable to satisfy the demands. When the , acts of bankruptcy, because they were told that the left ear, and robbed hini of the taxes, in .bills, to • . Coroner, on the credit of a Bank is once blown upon, it is never provisions un d er the B a nkers ' Act, would tie more ; the amount of 2811.. 1 , . • killed.at Mount retrieved. It differs in this respect from a Mer e ', beneficial to the creditors. He knew of but three ! ('out-exceeNGE, JA'N. 6.—There being a great crinnt;t% . i. ' ' appeared that as contile-house ; their bills may he protested to-i instances of the Bankers' Act being put in force, ; r .? 5 1 5 :i. h :e n : I lie m eg a ti t ila i h n e l t u rle b „ l 7l7 . „'l i , l n he lell r „ l l e l e ;:i i r th n „ . 7l7e li r: it, the chain slip-' day, and to-morrow they may pay it.—But end he would call their attention to their effects.—, &al) , demand.—Blriry at .t &cline 441 from is. in ‘ - .. 1 / 4 .. a:al ,01$1: • ' , rt Stewart, and the credit of a Banking-house exists in the most I The first was the case of Burton and•Co.' whose cre- , Is. per quarter.—Peas anal Brans dun sale, at ttl.oiday's price-. 1 ; . ;, j ) .—.....-- n. Davidson ned perfect told compleat confidence ; and every th ing • ditors have remained unpaid after a lapse of forty L sheITIIFIELD MARKET. -JAv. 2. -,1 ' I: he bottom of the that shakes it, acts with , a double effect.. its years, whose affairs were still " is jleri," still in , 1 o slat she 01rol, pc r ottur of Mt.. le this day : ! other three es- funds consists in lodgments; and part of its occa- • litigation, and proceedings still continuing under 5 m e .1 e , f .00 ......Z . . iit. t, 6•. Ct . 5 . 1 4 1 . . 1 la r i u r . r; 041 „t One 96e ill , ! rope above the siotial resources in the assistance of friends, who are' that Act. The next was that of Hayden and Rivers , oe , o _l7, ~i . t . to s ,. : 1. I s heep • 4 'Ph . i . , i . • Pork .....6 , .. Qt. tt• 71. 64 : (7:aces . . t ortuitous, and 110 ready to accommodate them, when danger approaches ;of Waterford; in which case ' in, amount of one hill . Lola , ; —Oa. od. to 1.3 t. oft Pi ts ...... ... ... :ow of the managers from any pressing demand. Any thing, therefore , •of costs was 16,0001. that was - the tribunal to At . i t(al Dealh.—The that blows on the credit of a banking-house destroy! ' w h ich the creth e o •• • t rs were sought to be turned ItAY-MARKET. ~,. - ' Now 'd at Gateahead ) those resources, and the ba n k m u s t sin k . round : a tribunal over which the Bamkers th em- Clover 4 When the batik stopt, a large crowd of persons: selves must have every influence; a tribunal not . Straw 4 • ~., . • , . . • i .. ..14 : 1 t • • ' • 'e l • 'TRENCH'S BANK. I . r rHE STATESMAN. 4 \ • f s 3 Commlssimi pr. DlA- ati;)le td rift cpf.i'dy us of N. b• )1". e. II it 11. II ly re be he he 1'... ;il 11. 3t iy 3t! s -11 5• 4P at Id