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MISS BYRNE. The following; statement seems to he Pq conclu sive o n the sullect at issue, that we will not weaken ilo ti T,,,t by (aerial: a word of obwrvation upon iI ir,rewn•t's Juneau/4 0,4. PROPR I ETOR of the FREEMAN'S JOURNA L. sto _11,,,.,.5yr great my repugnance to obtrude myself r r oom,. . 4 ,, ration, yet, in the instance which forms of my 1411 , 0'11t statement, I peraonse t o h o pe, that , t rymignance I shall Ma iaeur the charge of rr114,011/110•• 11,1 .111i11 1 1 iOn. AN truth, were I (awe the „ Iwo 0 w.1.• of dismissal from the theatre, in Mt .Nll.lllll of this day) to remain silent ender the ~..ion w jemice and oppreasion of the Patentee of Crow. Th r mer, I might he supposed to adroit joist caner for ( wore on his part; and this apprehension now impels ise to r•-pNt leave, throngh the ineelitim of yonr valuable s of I, t, amity known to that public, whose approbation and irxanu2 on has been my sweetest solace tinder all the difficultly., of theatrical life, the treatment, illegal II untragtoits, which 1 have rsperieuceil from Mr. 1 AW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY. Lincous's•lms, MombAv, Amur. 19. fur a bankrtopt, after ,ruing to the cspense and trouble. I entrant litlp baying, that it a to the credit of the bankrupt here that he Iwo invited over sod over again the tovestigettott by Jury, boot the Monet to he led away (min its practice by the wishes of oily hohvidurl. Toe Court WWI he sure it is right !wrote it graffiti, the certificate. Ai to the evidence given on the trial before the Jury, I do Hot know that I 611.11 call for it, for I rho not !we how fraudulent concealment of properly could in fluence the question before them. We hove here the bankrupt and his father on oath, stating err tain facts, and another son of the same father on oath contradicting them ; and then we have tote IWfllOlll who .upported that Boo's evidence by affida vits, contradicting their own affidavits when exit :blued its the Court below. I will call f o r th e Learned Judge's notes who presided on that loon, not for the purpose of assisting nor in my dein. stun, but to .hew to witnesses, of they wilt route into this Coosa and make affidavits to mislead it, that they shall not escape with imintstity. T 11.4 circum stances of this vitae are most important, not only 1.4 they relate to the parties before sue, and the politic, but ohm as to the principle* of the Bankrupt Laws. I .sill give it every contioderati .... iu my powrr I 'dor'. ly decide it, mid when I think I Lave brought lily mind to a proper conclusion on the subject, I wtil appoint a day fur giving my judgment." SIAS is the matter of SIAS, a Bankrupt. • The I.OIID CHANCELLOR eat this day fur the purpose of hearing further argument its this case, so as not to interfere with the !twine.a of the *sit tings. The bankrupt had applied for his certi fieste, and his assignees had petitioned to sissy it, on the ground that the bankrupt had fraudulently secreted his property from his creditors under the commission. It appeared that the assignees had given up to the bankrupt certain articles of furni ture. on a friend of his paying them 100/. but af terwards when certain circumstances came to their knowledge, which they alleged to be fraudulent, they re-entered the bankrupt's premises, and voiced upon the furniture and sold it. The bankrupt brought his action against the assignees for this trespass, and it was tried at tile last Assists for the ei ttttt ty of Essex, when a Jury gave a verdict for the Plaintif f (the bankrupt). damages 340/. The merits of this petition liiid been discussed several times before his Lord.hip, and also before the Vice- Chancellor. The Lord Chancellor postponed giv ing his Juilionent. fretful that it might influence the proceedings iii the Courts below. The bank rupt, on eetting the verdict in his favour, applied In his Lordship before the frCrllsi for hie judgment ; this wee opposed by 11r. Motstegue, Counsel fur , the assignees, on the grimed that the verdict of the e - tee e olliol—loon myself, accept any best wishes, t Jury die not bear oil the titles • before the Court, and ailete me to be yours most truly, Whether the bankrupt wan or was not entitled to e Ft. etitNYGitelEßY." ! 0, , ; 9ce ;lino ale. Ibis l.urdahiip eppointed this day to 11 „ ~ „ e h n e se irst em o tions of indigestion nue tee'. I hear butter toratimesst. The Kinn, on die prosecution of JAMES BROOKS w•lnn..., , het I peruser, ibis teller. In the etigazrinent . „. .. ~. , . . . . Mr. Alor. rA GU E was lo ard at considerable lengths I wed OTHERS, V. W. FIRTH, JAMES TAIT, 9. H0D ;1.,. I, I in ale by letter with Mr. Taylor, acting oil the pant el Ile .lea. A, whilst I was in England last Octribrr, no ou lhe lent of 111 * assigner'. Si ETTA. JAMBS 11110 W N, J. LAW. JAMES SHIA , . rotten s -ea mole of nay being preventeil ft assisting at The bankrupt advocated his OW:I case in npropria WOOD. JOSEPH TA ir LOU, WM. BROOK, D. Vit.:OES, e .nrit o, atilioiszli in *very other rl flot fl Mr Taylor's letter pervona. and J. SHAW. ~,..d. ~... rifle, and minute. Oss my arrival here, how- The I.OILD (711ANTELI.OR—" I thought it my Mr. PULLER opened the pleadings. This was t.... ~., I lit le was sent to me to sign, in which I found that duly •t to let the I business f the sittings ass indictment preferred agAiiist the Defendetes for t see le• hiliiivil from assisting nt any musical e ntertain_ -Ito.e Oil Ilitlry u sleet esthete she permission of Nlr,Joitra. I s ue : it oh- lie disturbed on auTaittut of this 'petition. Before a conspiracy, al trig to sue out a commiosino of eeei to ties rime. ; het Mr. Taylor assnre , l me was a 1 cline ludo Court I knew I could not decide it this bankruptcy agninst one John Smith—mid also for „.:0!..r ref form, and that he Was colivilaired Nlr.Jones would d ay , part i cu l ar ly as I knew a great deal would he forging and fabricating divers bilk of exchange, es.r r: fore pet mission if applied in. tinder these eireuni- Pool on both sides, that would not bear on the guess- l and account's, for the purpose of melting the *aid v, met v,an•l lino 4 ling to resort to hank measiirie,l *it ne.l the tam,. lat present lay out of the question all that Jules Smith appear indebted to them.—(Shaw had se.. i.. serum , after my benefit, Mrs. Willis appbeil to me to i we , 'hoe nsv humble t•lforts its and of her rostorfit Convert. relate* to the plate, wine, lace. dresses, Ike. and suffered judgmeist to go by default. Sherwood t ia‘i stilly nia.le applical . to Mr. Jolitt, lout was refused. confine myself to he circumstances of the farm. and Brown dill not appear. The other Defendants e e.,., lams sre iniimateil to me, that, except for Mrs. 'this petition came before me in the shape of an were iu Court.) welt, I S4OOlll he perlailleol Ist avail myse lf of the advan- a1 ,,,, 0 , 4 I the dect„io„, of the Vice-Chancellor, Mr. GURNEY elated the case. " GPOLIPOWII, " f... 4, .4 LiCere.M from orchestra singing. A few weeks subse t It imputed to the bankrupt, Thomas Now, that said he, " the statement of my Le:treed Frierel, ,;oral to En: transaction, Messrs Percival, Panora)°, and who has just read ass abstract of the thatiettnetat, itsoisoo. mud Master ettwoort, proposed eugsging ine for he had secreted his property, ou of the great import. vs he was the owner most have folly arised Po ir is•vpi•et ire Cum - eds. Wishing then a definitive ale of a certain farm iii the county of Emex at the pp y ViVel, Will aware of the delay oft. IS allealalll on epistolary tune of his beiskruptcy, although it was in the pop- I atom of the cause which y d, ou th are stow weh edict' ins to tote cutest. I telltale m (' a g ent Iroein, a frolot of our (emily, . sr - ,l iin of Isis toothier George. The bankrupt try. It has been observeat, as ave ad s. watt see Mr. Jimell and ir-k his permisNem to stog for , . . th e vof C g ; I 0 hat- vanced in civilizetints, crimes are tea marked by air I v oils mess I bare named. .My (fiend called at lino- • sae. '" I t w i la prop. e rt. , leof - - e - ell( le , Lae, trot an interview wills Mr. Jon'es, an d " v erde.' In inc - ter 11- 111 semis it was ow property of the bankrupt. that degree iir violence and sorority by which th e y %sub this ans.: rto my appliCallaii, " Oral 1.. assist at l The Vice-Chancellor thought it was right to send were formerly distinenisherl—end, tttt witlisimulieg Mr. Hodson's Concert he is. re mpturily refused, hot that he iitto n Jury, for them to decide by their verdict the autos. wel"ocholY e`teePtio llll to that tole. I But bad Ito Os:leftism to soli singing fur the 1•1104 S, 1110Villeil ! right of ownershie, letiving out of the question the really to admit :hit it IV generally ' true. It usual, that their Concerts took place Oil nights for a hirh vu I .• , . . tir,o . fr . sisosiit es of the wine, plate. &: c. .It certainly however, be allisistett, that other ochrous have very (Opera Was anttetinceil al the Theatre" I neroullte:ly scot I to Mr. Plaleaam:, is, inform him I had Ire • .i„,, h ow i would make no consequetice, w h et h er tne itatiotrtipt mods iliereased. I allude partieulsrly to those Mr. Jae . . , and toy mime was come g auntly roi 111111 l irrsi isi ! bad secreted property to the amount of 5,000/. Or offences. which require snore dart and enntrivinice, all the 1.! Ile I'mwis, I. r 11:3 Concert. If Mr Julies even : ee_s e s t el le r wo uld be sufficient for the purrot- of in their perpetration—and by which individuals : u s . ries..ssits ar m isirsi g raolissz his permission, whey ant semi : star ," _ a i g 1114 certi fi cate. His Honour, however, have, of late yeara, beets defresitleil to a very great .me 50 ..a5 M „? /tense publicly announced fin. eight day., : 1 . : , I gist. if the bankrupt could get rid of the extent. There are some frauds that eau only be ys I Ile *Jim., t.. 01.: so no n c e , asol it was mit until litleeliihr. . r.fl.r, Ilia, ir,ll 111 l il and I.ITV imi• intimalmu, I reiTiVeil, by ! ownership of the (arm. it would put an mid to the carried into execution, by means of creole !•:. 'tsetse M... Nliaatz 1111 l ery's letter. i .Lositil also mean 111 l , ; other charges. Its my 40 years experience in this racy—and it is wholly out of the pewer orally one 111.. t dose . ~as ma Opera ansiolince.l tor the night of Mr. i Court, I never knew an inatance before of an issue individual to commit that species of Nutt which v. '"°""'" (.."''''''• "that Mr. Jo"' tiers Perm i • ' i "" being thirtieth to a Jury, to ascertain whether ai tis my dut y this da y to bring solder your costal lo .. , 0 an eel, Si I.:els lie immeitiately afl..r a E'r r• ts 10 eoli•Iller I. certiticate rhombi or should slot be granted to a deration. It is a fraud of the mom foul descrip. as a ioo, .•1 my put. or my rumen. iii. The injury l leallkrUpl. Mr „low, mow se. k • io do me, no Its than h% tweaking that 1 It was but justice to the bankrupt host, because it is founied oil an abuse of the law. cue...es merit. lo i:eorive me of aIL refit asereill limp, and a , here to ma, ilea he was NOXIOUS amid WIHOlor, It makes the eery law itself, which ass ietended fir,' Ft 1.• 111 ti Cork, i'• of foo arrlChlv. rtar %trio" a rial"te, h to have met the case even in that shape, but that I fur,the protection of i the sultbje i ct m . the instrunient of mil 10 le.'a. me Its 'eke Ire el we . '"r"' fur "' l i e ". if it I was no reason why this Court should ley down ers injury and °more/on. s ill more foul in r "" i°r for the law so IP:" our; but if I dill take "" ' bell a precedent. It is the duty of the Court to i another respect, because it could only lie carried cf.. dings a:Oust Mr. Juliet, 111 what Mallatse could 1 be i hem filed ? , Imiiect • bankrupt. and by directing all issue,, if into execution by means of wilful and corrupt per- You eel pardon rae, Sir, fur having t r espassed so much 1 the verdict of the Jury was against him, the color- Jure. I am sorry to say, that I will have In pre. on you ; ism when it is emelt to mime me in a quarter I , qu en ce e to him m ight be dreadful, as a capital in. i Brut to you,. this (ley, such a mass of guilt mud hoist ~s.c.sc M in at.nri 1 .1 Meat, amonest toy (*M o w-citizen., Mime l dictmeut against him for felony might follow. peeling, as I believe lets been seldom !Mil before a i nee for my earnermem in termite any Iw i r seems. !eerll.il against my professional fame. That fame ! deli , ant speaking of Juries. let it be understood Court, even orcriiiiittel jurisprudence. 'the bank i. toy all . and cheer ful ly en I commit it to the protection °(I (list I have as much respect fur them as others who rupt laws were etiacted for the benefit of the I 1111 l rot these atm have Inver ceased to patronise m e ; a nd a s t u na i speak a great deal more about ',hem; but iii this creditor, amid let me also say. fur the welfare of the a;sisy reeshee e 'e n e m ote menu t h eir emmtenanee,so "Wig 1 iiistaiice, by sending it to a Jury, it would he de- honest debtor. They evidently have that rffeet. esses my lac .11 tell me will Mr. Jinies's attempts to oppress wiring a mall of his own evidence. It is to the I If they are carried into execution to the full extent aim 'reuse me prove ineffectual and unavailing. I credit of the bankrupt that he has been able to find for which the y were - designed, the effects of the ns i a, so, your obedient Servant, M. BYRNE. ' ( riends to enable him to try this action. But I bankrupt are fairly distributed *monism, his home Ihope in God. sitting where 1 do, that I shall never fide creditors—and. if he act justly tool correctly, l du any thing that I should afterwards regret having Ihe is protected, by his certificate, from any future done. It hat' always beets my study to try to du i trouble or ennoyenee. In noes where the bank , justice to all parties who come before one. The blink- rupt conducted himself properly, I never knew the i rapt, therefore, must not think I mean any thing certificate to be withheld by his creditors. I speak I disrespectful to him when I say I must look into the after lovg experience on this point—and I will vets ! minor points, which did not seem to the Vice- tore to say, that thought I have seen many frauds'. i Chancellor to be of any importance. As to the Ilent debtors I have never met au inetence of a 1 trial which has taken place. and the verdict the erciless Cr , editor. The preeent rase exlehits a I bankrupt h a s o btained, I cannot see how they beer melancholy picture of the manner in which a its tat, lon the ti n es tio n b e fore me ; for if the bankrupt originally honest, gets into the toilet of depraved Iparted with his ownership in this farm before the Icharacters, and falls a pacrifice to their ierainous I commission of ba n k r uptcy, and it went through machination. The affairs of on itelentluel become i four or live h an ds, and then came back to him emberraeaed—he gets iOto difficultiete-lie sees nu I again honestly and fairly, before lie obtained Isla mode by which he can extricate himself. Ile Ims i certificate, sell it would be the property of Isis too the courage to act as he ought to do—lle null I.ll `siglieeS, for such is the d o ctrine of this Court.— not call Isis creditor* together, and stele to thesis 1 It' the assignees sold the funsiture to the bankrupt I the situation of Ina affairs. If lie does that, the fur less than their value, without the consent of t he i i c el is never male so vain : Skid . I wish that all 1 I body Of creditor's, th e y could make the assignees debtors would pursue a course so ior and humour. 1 account for the difference. it has beets mated, dist able. Instead of proceeding thus', he falls into the a-sig n eev i n te n d to a pply to the Court below the company of persons who wish to make him their to h a v e th e ver dict o btai n ed by the bankrupt art tool—he reposei confidence in them—sod that con deity, and a new trial grouted - . This they Mil 16elesce they make use of, in order to tempt him do—and the Court below is the proper place to I to do wrung. They tell him. that ' creditors are deride that question. It cell have. however. no I hard-hearted—that the law oT nature calls on a man influence over me in giving my detision. Much to protect himself in the first instance—that he may lias been said of r e moving the jurisdiction in bank- easily be made a fictitious batikruptin short, that ruptcy from the Coati of Chancery. I ain justified this fesudulent system is !twilled every day.'-e. in saying. if it is removed it must be put in a se. This last Isaid Mr. Gurney) is, I believe, the miler jurisdiction; for he must be a bold man that slierpest meow in the whole 4111111er. These harpies w o uld s ay, after the long experience of those laws, 1 return to the charge. meaty mid agains-the attacks that they must not be placed in the like jurisdiction. are repeated with redouble, Fracity—the tusfortu- As to amending the laws, alt I cats say is, if people hate man at last agrees t d the ecliettfez-and from will not take the protection of them aS they are, the I that moment he is completely in their toils—he Court cannot oblige them. 'there is a greet power cannot melee from the close web which they have given by the hews, as they now stand. to creditors, I cut around him. By fear, as well as by hope, he for they can refuse to assent to a bankrupt's certiti- is wrought on tie engage its ruing out a false coin cite without assigning a cause for their dissent; anti usimion of bankruptcy-eta acknowledge fictitious these very creditors who template of the inefficiency debts—ood to Mapped the perjury of those wretches of the bankrupt laws, in Moe cases out of ten I ey Is hi sown. How. then, wil I the conspirators proceed t give their assent to the bankrupt's certificates Why, they will make up a petitioning cretlitoe's before he has ever opened his mouth before the I debt—they will marufecture all rotes of dotes. Commissioners. Some of asy predecessors did mettle. How is the process carried out A bill of mike an order that a bankrupt must give twenty. • radiant is fabricated--the stamp bought where one days notice in the Gazette before the Court l the party is unknown—lt it antedated—drawn to. will grant him his certificate, Dad a petition may day. and appeers to be peptide 10.1110frOW. It is be protected in the tvieuty-Ant day to stay rubbed said creased a little thouoaredo make it 100 c k old-. -. the certificate. This certainly is a gnat hardshiphip promoted lir payaita--slis. of oons ,I ass last I received the fall owing letter true ylr Muntvam ry, the pimanavr T. It . C ly ro M wontoeet, 10th April, ISI9. .1 M N glean M ‘i/AMSOirattilite% I have to write you pe ,so• aool I hoped never to do 'otherwise.; hot I •h.." •:oo doom lays on me, will excitor nse, person. opolom. I have it in direct' foolll Mr. JOIN', yeti, Olt he understands you rive your vocal M, Panormo's Conceit, on Saturday evening 1..1 If 'I,. tow. he le;ect• to say, he is, in justice In the „fi n; oust ..operty, ohlizeol to consider your l ie .1. v 041 0 ,41, and to hook on you :14 Ito longer • 14 , 4 414;4 4,1 the Como our Hr can oeitlwr afroorol, nor dorm he 1‘.,1; p+ e , 144 14 iv and support Performers to assist to o vi iis lilt sthat oppose the rr,oolar isittrtsl4 of the 00. COURT 'OF KINGS BENCH, GUILDDALL, MONDAY, APRIL 19. Jejournert Salton: are , r Hilary refill, before Chit( Justice AitsuiT and special Juries. CONSPIRACY. I, Caprl.streel, April 14, 1819. Yesterrhy the London Sessions commenced to. foie the LORD MAYOR. RECORDER, nod bi lull brildi of la g istratts.—No case of soy interest W - t lift., 41. The Speedy packet, arrived from New York, saw, on the 39th of March, in lat. 45. 31. Imig. 44i. -20. an island of icr, the summit of the peak wli;ch wav, on a moderate calculation, 400 1 . ...4 'those the , orface of the water ; awl in Id. 4.5. 36. luov. 48. W. passed two more, the largest of which Wit% .250 fret from the sea, and three quarters of a hide 1,• 1.41.4111. EstiGnstiou..—aThe Augustus packet, and Jessie, of Dumfries. are now lying at the Cate, ready to sail for North America, the former for St. John's, New Brunswick, and the letter for 31irsiniclis mid Prince Edward's Island. No less thou 517 persons. of all ages, from children at the breast to men of GO years and opivards, have already gime on board as passengers, and it is even expect s-d that this slumber will be augmented before the final clearing out of the vessels. From their va rious dialects, and Dimly character, it is impossible to classify with accuracy these emigrant', but the great propottion of them NM believed to come born Cuiniserlaud, Annandale. Dumfries, %Vega inwiirliire. slid the stewartry of Kirkcudbright. We have heard it slashed % thiat not !eta that 18,0001. -sill be carved out un tins occasion, and supposing t..is sous to be distributed in any thinv like equal proportion', it will leave a considerable capital to ratio individual.—(Sests Puper.) KILLING IVIROVON FERfoUS Ditiviso.—An honest was twill on Mooday the 12th inst. at the house of Thomas 'Wright, White Brat', Iladl. y, hefort Thomas Sterling, aso the body of William Slantwise. three years and a dialf old, aim of Mr a. Matthews, of the same place, aho was rues over by a pox, chaise, through the carelessness sf Slur driver, lie In log out the wrong aisle of the road, •mil raring with two oilier ebonies. After towing evi dent", the Cor.mrr gaol, he was folly of opi oo .in that the di:vev; had been negligent ; but begets! the Jots, urn r a minute consideration of the case, to Eire a virdiit to t h e lest of their lodgment so the pretest Lily 't hr Jury wired furs time, and returned a veldiei Wia/rorokter against GeorleGiddons, nowt,: Thirsiserue. Nrir s nuel t let. The Coroner accordingly wow.' Ina v.. 14111 for their appiebrusion, iu trader that they P.q takL wait - teals. and then the ennapiretore proceed to a solicitor Apostle. The agent 'Air . the Yorkshire ere . diinrs (.one respectable 111314 in order In elude auspi. went to Little St. Thomas the Apostle, but ~ eine), who• is directed to rue out u commiesiun of ,'Mr. Hodgettise could be found there. Ile did bankruptcy. When the creditors meet, the you. ! indeed discover a paltry little ahoy, where Show, *Orators tyke rare to Il usouGulure NHS suf f icient who had suffered judgment by default, nfir to overwlietfli the hene . freie debt*. and the rouse- ' sided, and be teemed that,Vee petitioning creditor, quence is, that th-y claim mid exescise the right of llorigetts, acted as his poi's.... It is nut nolikely appoiiiting the essiverea. 'Die property is then , that they performed muter end man, in turn. like either sleeted lamovo them all, or it is spoor- Archer and Aimee !in the play—." You %hall lie tio .rd to pa. ticider 11011(10 ils—e tttle bring re- master at Lichfield. mind I will take that situation at served, in ouster to esishle the bankrupt to begin i Northampton." 1 died certainly be able to 'hew, age'''. Meek. G -eit honest-11w tegeilier.ty of the that this warehouse., as it was called, win never strode *poem. Each actor in the Court. Isee his prior. A use of except lot the reception of articka that we eel. petitioning creiliter cim lie procsired for 101.—nn eluded in and out with si 'nos? etispicione repidov. 1 borigure for 10/.—he who oeueves se cousiderable Another of those •credirers reeled himself a fl ew . 1 debt under the c 1111 l tiii•sieut receives el—the man factor. The tiger& went to Vaeithall to seek InV • who proves a minor debt 11.—and every. sodividual hint; and there lie found this Auttr.fictor in a little who big°s the rertifirale. receives 1/. Ti, perform shop. containing about a dozen quarters, loaves. 1 these salmons duties, inns like the Defendants Mr. Brown went under the denorniention of a ties -1 may be hired any day iii the ciuy of feniulum, while i her-merchant, and displayed a brasitiftallyeeneraved the bona fide eredituite are de.poiled of their pro- card, bearing the iteteription. " Jerrie* Brie i. petty. In this case. C.'lltlettletl, the supposed I carpenter and builder, Old Ford Wharf, Old Ford." bankrupt is Mr. J. Smith. formerly a clothier. of This was till • fallacy ; there was no such thing. i Holinfirtli, no Yur:ol9e. The yriti, 1816 and 1817 lii slmrt, the agent searched far all the pauses wok ! were extremely trying. let ill matinfecturees, but par- I toted success—not • mean of them was to be' l.,tpial. : lietharly these who were t mili-iell to their capital— j The aeo, heard, indeed. that two Gr three of throe , awl, iii the autumn of tale, Mr. S tittli was obliged haul lived in the pieces desciihed by then,. hoe Cuee to Mine up te Lotelmi, pertly en acceent of err- c had 1 eeerrewd for debt Wog helots.. Tic ages: i tarn bills of exclosege that were dishonoured, end acquainted his correspondents is Yorkshire semis ! partly fcr the porriense tf iliaposieg of some cloth, i these circurnatences. and prep oretioni we're made lin order to etielble lens to get out of his difE cutting. to oppme the conspirator. , at the third iiiretnie. A creditor in Loriellei attached the cl:lth, and thus But. before it arrived. the plan was pesferisui, ; got the pr.feressee of the oilier orrilitors. At thin l the mock *soignee' hevirig berme appeiiiiret. Nit. time .Ir. Smith, soot loilog a solo of delicate habits, I Assignee Brown went immediately to Voikshiic. 1 ! 'floor,. , at a etililie.lirisrae, where he met with the sod pot up to isle all the goods of Smith. Tie b , Defendant, Firth. Saiiile, who down to this hour. t were purchased by the bankrupt's son, who pent lug had borne nu irreproachable character, began to them by hills the: were never taken up—see the i discourse with Firth on the situation o f his a ff a irs. bankrupt's bona fide creditors, never received a Firth, who was sin strasiger to the manufacturing shilling. They were, however, (letertniiitil to fur. fraudulent commissi 111 l s. told him that nothing thee' the end. of public joatice, aldiseugh et au eit. I mild be of service to hien, except a commission of pellet. ',ln t rust, us large in s 111111 l lit as their stria., H e el, 1 bankruptcy—and, nut unfolding hie scheme at once, therefore, they bud instituted tibia prrewrivion. At but d ibc h ising it I c y i l rgrres , her ti nn ily pr o cured th e the third nseetisig, the agent of the l'os k•liire vie.. i consent of Smith to his plan. De told his victim, that ditcra informed Mr. Assignee Iledgett% tl,:it lie jhe would field a petitiossing creditor. assignees, and wished to have stone expiation 1111 l on a eieste‘y of 1 every agent necessary to carry on the fraud. l'he poilits. ' You rely,' observed hr, • that %fill Hie ' first point was. to procure a petiii 111 l ing cre ditor — n eeteineleemen and reside in Little Se 'Ehottere 1 and • person of the waffle Or LuptonWits applied the Apostle—wherealmists is 3 mar hoti-e ilii , e ?' to, who immediately relused to have aisy thing to —' o,' answered Horleetis, •at No. I.'—' WI v ,' Ido with the husitirool. This individual 1 will call rejoined the agent, ' that is Mr. Shaw'..'—' We Ito confirm the teat' yof Smith. Such confirms- are pertiters,' continued Iletleetts. Ile was, Idon you will perceive, Gentienneo, is necessary— however. immediately contorted with the permit because Smith comes betore you stained with a to whom the house belonged, sued he was l„peee re -1 particembott in that guilt, which Firth originally cognised to be M r . Shaw'. p orter. Nfe teeureed protested. Smith, however, liar been brought to a 'Friesitl. Mr. Puller, attended seyorel tn.-elm : 0 Of sense of what is aloe to Isis creditors, and he has j Stnith's creditors , end , at leeigeli succeed. d in I developed the whole.selitorie. After this 'refusal, it eliciting thin truth of the etre, as it will be tine l was settled that Mr. Hodgetts, another of the day detailed is, evidence. 1 willsell the sispecemd Defendants, should act the inert of petitioning 'bankrupt Sundt before you—lent. as I berme- mat creditor—and I b eg the Jury to mark the ed, I will abundantly confirm his testimony. First. i sort of salvo for the conscience to which indivi. as to nudged.' debt, which is said to have liresi she duals sometimes have recourse when they are fully value of a sack of fine Saxon wool, when he sensible that they are punning 14 career of vice. If was quretioned on the ruhject, he rand, the bar a fictitioue bill uf exchange is to he drawn, the per.. gain had been concluded at It public-honer, stud sots who is to prove it, under the commission. as en- that the wool was sent by a poster to the Hodder'. dorsee, is not to he present in the room, while it is field waggon. We have made inquire , set all the forming, lest he could not readily answer the gum. Huddersfield offices, mid no such thing had er. those which might chance to be put to him, on his rived at shy of them—tied Smith's oppreistic e examination—hut he took care to be in the adjoin- would skew. that no such wool was received et ing room. Thus if he were asked. at the medium; ' Holmfirth. Lupton was applied to, to draw a hill of creditors ' Were you, Sir. present, when this for 100/.; • fact which be will this day prove. But bill was drawn ?' The answer was i No, Sir"—• I have other evidence—evidence of so marmot which was true—hut then he was in the next rem, oature, because it to under the hand of (HIV of the and was perfectly mime-met with the whole transom- Indies, The last meeting of creditors was sp. lion. In this instancy, the note, in consequence of pointed for the end of December; but, in come. holding which Mr. Hodgetis wee made petitioning queetce of the itiquiriei that were set on foot, it was Creditor. was said to hillst been given for ' goods adjourned. Brown, on the ed of February. 1!slo. sold'—narnely, for • peel( of fine Saxon wool, alluding to those inquiries, wrote to the bankrupt's Should some inquisitive creditor ask how the trans- wife in these terms : action tool piece? ' Oh!' says Hodgetts. ' 1 " Mr.. Smith-1 saw your letter to Mr. Smith, and sin sold the wool by rumple, ut such a public-house r-- simprisrul Ai its contents, 1 bee of you not to mold idle ' Pray who wits present i s- '—' Mr. A. B. or C. was reports - -:eke no notice of ili.m. The Hwdder.fie:ll room •re completely beat, and . every thiiK is goiort on a s well se preeetit —and said it was tine wool, and worth the - it can, under all the areum.taores. I am sorry to hear money ;' end a lock of wool, procured for the your win is not ening on well; telt him I have the rower to occasion, was . liatcly exhibited, by way compel him, and will exert it. He mast send tip some of sample. Agent. can you imagine, Gentle- money—for we cannot do unless Mr. Smith hint Innoty to men, how fictitious debt. as if for money lent , i s pay his people here, to get his certificate signed. von may a rest steadied that tio ether sale shall take place; but do not trumped up. Thus it is in the present case. A I forget to send more money." 51. a 2/. and a If. note are pioduced. Mr. Hod " This," said Mr. Gurney, " is a direct aihnise grits heeds these crier to Mr. Smith—the latter Sion of what was going on iii London. First, and give.' them to another confederate, who returns them middle, and late, the cry wits for money. ' Put to Deedgetts—aud he aeons p a e..euts them t o S m ith, money in they purse,' as logo says. I will bring The twit . ..eine notes, by thee ingeniour contrivance, home the facts to every rune of these Difeedents. were mete to answer to a In en of 771. All things 1 will chew you what they were from first to last.... beieg premed, the tE.stie. Geoid their way to Mr. I will prove their miserable 'intuition—and demon. Pullet'. a highly respectable attorney in this city. strate that they could not have been creditors of to ahem 1 would ant he doing; common justice it I Smith for any sum whatever. I will prove that del Hot state, that lir had tint the remotest idea that they never had any dealing wish him—and, wisest be was employed to site cut a fraudulent commis you see them ',roving bills fur 501. and too/. you 1:1011. 'Elie p etitionleg creditor's debt wits sworn must suppose them to be the conspirators who coo t% Stuith surrendered, sod received his protection trived this ilifiamous plan. I have 'sturdier cen.firina sit the Mot meeting. The cominission was sued lion out of their own a 11111 l ths. When men are taken out on the lof November, 1817, and the up they sometimes talk a little. and let out a fe w first public meeting of creation was on the 20th, of their secrets. This seek the case here. Those At the first sarong revere' of these Defend• Patti", when •Plne ants, Hodgette, James lbown, mid others , proved llendetts ifinigillnlli flirt they deeply learned in the law of couplet hey, fan. their fictitious debts. They were elated with the were tied they must escape. •0 !' said now, " they success of their plan, and. when the meeting wit lave made a blunder in the indictee-tit. They over. they lead a ti . rat the Ho as rns public-house, have charged us with • conspiracy to our not a ifitt• in Hand-court. Thutnestreet. They here learned dulent commission—why you know I lead toottnog from Sinith the mi e- nuet of his debts. Which was to do with the business till alter the commisniou was soinewhete about 1,300/. and they manufactured sued out.' Another observed, • You Lemma wove notes below! that stem, to prevent the chance of an an overt act spinet me in London ;' mid a third adverse ammeee ben* appointed. I must here ob. serve. that a gentlemait attended the meeting at declared. 4 No person knows where 1 euueliwwd the Guildhall, ou the part of the bona fide creditors stamps.' I do not want these admisvions tie stip iu Yorkshires and be, with another respeteable P o . " m y cuse' It is sufficient for me 19 "'" tile itolibiduals applied Id he emiguess. It struck this abject tend miserable state of poverty in which they Gentleman. mid alio Mr. Pullen', es very r ages were, when they proved the different tlehts.• Th it nary, that Smith kept 'Aloof front the agent of his alone would skew that they were meting (means Yorkshire creditor% and associated only with thaw lent[ —and , if so, the Jury must comet them -..e permute who proved bills of exchange, itad who P er j ured men ' " were very mean-leaking fellows. Oct the following Mr. John Pulleh. Solicitor, deposed that Ilse day thisbantleman went to Mr. Pullen, end me t ed bankrupt carne to him. on the Seth of °avert. for a list of the proofs. which was immediately 1817, fo consislt on the state of his affairs. 'flue granted. The conspirators. however, took care, bulk of his property had he raid been stenciled by that the two Gentlemen to whom I have alluded I a Mr. Ryder, s merchant in Loudon, Neil mimeos should not be ehosett as essigeoes, they pitched told him the best thing he could do *um. to 111111111 Upon Meanie. Hodge'''. g rown . an d Sh erw ood ; bail sous to pet rid of the atiochment—but. it' he The agent for the creditors in Yorkshire haring could toot do that. then his only alternative was. to procured the list of proofs. proceeded to leek after Mee e docket Mock against hien. Abase • week these worthy Geotlemew. who hod proved bile of laseeenteds he called Mewl. ape' mid be had ren" .l ., " exchange to a considerable aesemet, solar ISIS Waged with his crediterrettwetif. _,,_____whgaw "ski . tit nine' 111 l . Hodgetta a debt of Ira Brews 10111. "t40"0". Ow the 611 " u..b. ' I .'gr ill • h. 'l7 le " rereermsterl Mewl( to bre • ~Mae Sherwood 961. with • lees be of et .0101,10. le apitke or Ilseltb's sillatra, and witness advises' s ems. proving a .tabs wider a eauterbeirw of beekesptey, w it t i la t' t "we" l " be ie. tl m thwa r. • H t udeve hlt PtY stased a keil dliali kiamo r be It s : e b e lie t ' L idiai . 61.71,,,...7....,—.1,1-,•iww46lll.l2ll"cireredilstteer:sesirbeuetotoo.wak,ALittrt.tiotitse. was We alldant. TM 1111.13'.6J..-. warebewasetee. residiet is Little St. Themes ski 1. -