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IlkitirC,l. Ext,aeis from the ,Vezz , Foi k Papers, r,b. io. .FOR THE PV.OPLE'S FRIEND; ..A Correspondent sencts you for republicatian'the following Letter of Lord GRENVILLE, in answer. to I'lr. LisTON, on BLOUNT's ionspiraty, taken. from Pes.-errfrn's IVeckly Aspebtor,• of Saturday Wt. It is presumed that the bold and unsupported charges of the agents of France, DoANE, &c. will: fail of their wicked effeCi in casting the odium of BURR'S treason on 'Britain, notwithstanding the disingenmins abridg tnent made °Hite President's. last CiarrimUnication to Congress, which would'inSinuate, '1 that it migh' be inferred .she. was to :support the traitorin his diabolical views. :of dismembering the,Union." Is it Probable that the British Government would agree to assist BURR, whom they knew, by 'reputation, for s 'unprincipled spirit of intrigue, when it turned a deaf ear to the long-continued and personal solicita tions of MLRANDA, who was at length obliged. to depend on individual enterprise for carrying into execution his schemes against the Caraccas ? The Policy Of Great Britain, .in remaining inflexibly aver -seta every plan of revolutionising the colonies of her, enemies, is obvious, When it is considered that the greater part of 'her wealth and territory consists in trans;marine possessions,' which would, be continually endangered by the . spirit of revolt and the desire of becoming independent. " Nothing but her' apprehension of the consentences of this Trinciple operating on her own colonies prevented ,her from proposing to, and assisting, the Spaniards . on the River of Plate .in establishing their own Go vernment, independent of the mother country.— This plan would have succeeded much better than Conquest, in detaching for ever that rich and immense ountry front its dependence op any European Power. Seeing the subjugated state of the Conti nent of Europe, it is much to be. regretted,' that Ing,land (instead of weakening berselt at home in. this moment of danger) had not begun the syst em of revolutionising, rather drat of attetnpting to Conquer, Spanish America; she thereby would . haVe" Made every mat interested in preventi ng t h ese. vain suable colonies from falling under the dominion of BONAqAIiTE, which. they must do in the event of a peace. :With such an immense' acquisition of wealth and commerce, what can arrest " t i‘e work's great foe from speedily reali s i ng ' his ai.;antie views• of universal d o mi n i on ? 0 0 , " Downing-Street, April 8, 1806. 4( Sin --In answer to your dis'pa'tches , Nos, 2 and Jt 3i I have to inform you, that the prOposals which 'lave been. made to'you by Mr. (as , men-'' honed in those dispatches;) for endemourinsy to Wrest the two Floridas from Spain, has been taken intO Consideration by His Majesty's confidential tti'vants, but it has not been thought expedient to accede to it, or to adopt any measures for carrying it into execution. '` 'Without entering into a detail of the various ennsiderations that have led to this decision, I think It merely necessary to observe, that exclusively of the inadequacy of the means to the end proposed, the two objeCtions which have occurred to yourself, the necessity Qt employing Indians, and the imprO- P, Or Originating, withi n t h e U n i te d S tates , any nnostile expedition against a nation with w hi c h th e y , Peace, are 'of sufficient magnitude to connter ;.ralance the advant a ges w hi c h a r e likely- to result °ln the execution of such a plan. qe ". I have, therefore, t o s i gn if y to you th e Ki ng ' s a3 ure that you take an early opportunity of in orrniur,Mr. his-, that you have submitted de;ignr t t w fits Majesty's Government, but that it ha s not been thought advisable to affordany 13 'stante from this Country towards carrying: it into ea s ed. I am ; with great rospe6t and re l ;ard; " Your most obedient humble Servant, • (Signed). CC GRENVILLE„," 10 Robert Liston, Esq. 'fee " New Edition of a very Old Book has just been I ' l4l 4lll@d at Paris : it is intituled, " Eve r l ast i ng th ° Phecies, from the year . 1521 t o t h e ' en d o f I , v - -e . World." Tfie 'Author is JOSEPH JUST°, of "a Nes: The Academy of Sciences, at. Paris; is alcl to have transtnitted this little work, of 54 pages, 1 0 the Minister louvois ; arid what is still more, ,to have found 'it invariably correct for - the last 140 Years. Of the year 1806, it is said : " Let Pco- Ple procure a supply of oats and commodities, fn- at the end of August commences a great war, which e xtends to many regions. The People suffer death, a nd'great calamities." ." lii 180, a greatquantity of allo w will fall in the beginning of February . ; many i ratudati ous ." The most important prophecy relates th e year 1811. "It will be ditlicultto preserve Cattle through the severity of th e winter : from Year a peace of a whole century will be enjoy , lt bhristendom ; bread, wine, and clo a thi ng , w ill tilzu b cheap." inaaivity of France against Sweden In the Present campa i gn gave ripe to various sp.:-..culations s t P'eral mo n th s ago . I t was not easy to exp l a i n why ; 0 1 4 of Sweden, who, of all Monarchs, has.`,"tle most to merit th e resen t men t o f NarotEot,4 ' 1 "ILI be treated with such singular lenity. , it was P r ierally b e li eve d, t h at t h e tar di ness ev i nced in the lliv asion of S we di s h P omeran i a was occas i oned.by Z h re t negotiations attempted with thatMonarch 77 t o e i l io:ritcur did not scruple, in very distin& terms, r:!,-dte--" That a certain Nvrthern Power had now °Pportunity .of regaining the posses s i o n s w hi c h • ei1 0 ‘ , 414 , Wrested iron) her long since, were s h e w i se 1 . t , 11 to join her fate to that of the favourite of NIA..ocEoN the Great?' Whether more di lic~ diplomatic att e mpt s were made upon the tiour, of the valiant and worthy successor of the usl'Avus's we know not. Certainly- .we should never hav e ' have been anxious concerning the issue of such .111achinatiorks. Among • the othe r treasures which have been pur ri aed from Italy, s i nce i ts R evo l ut i onary degradation,, Y be mentioned the Chinese Manuscripts, which , r '9ed a very curious article in the Library of the a"C"n " The y have ibund their way into this coun try, and are now upon sale ; but although they are , ,tn a •certai n d egree, objects of curiosity, th e y w ill not, we should imagine, from almost an universal I glior of • . :ince thew language autonc , us, become ob -0 le§ of research. "8.../T`I'LlE OF AI,E.VANDRM, lioi. The Arlniverary of the abOve day •a's - celebrated in the Garr son of Cork, on the 21sr of Mai oh last, by the 23d Light Dragoons, and both Regiment (the Only twO Corps in that Garrison), who shared . , ih,s glories of the British achievements on the Plains of Egypt; it having been previously agreed to, that not only the Officers of those Corps, but others on vari ous employments in the district who bad also served in Egypt, should be requested to jo4l the comme nn-anon. The company, amounting to sixty, sat down to a most sumptuous dinner in the Mess Room of the 'soth RegiMent. The room was fitted out for the occasion in a style of superior magnificence ; over the centre of the • table- were placed well-executed transparent paintings of the two ever-to-be-re gretted Heroes, Lord NELSON and Sir RALPH ABER CROMBY. A sphynx and crocodile had a pleasing effeel among other embleMatical figures placed in a tasteful manner. The Standards of the 23d Dragoons, and the Co.! lours of the 50th Regiment, displaying their respec tive trophies, were conspicuously placed, and had a most striking and happy died. Brigadier-General HOUSTON, commanding the Garrison, and who commanded the gallant 58th in Egypt,. was in the Chair. Major HAVEN, of the 50th Regiment, Major-General 1-Irm., another Egyptian Hero, and commanding at Fernioy, also honoured the meeting with his•presence. The . following Toasts" were most rapturously given in succession : • The King ; Queen ; Prince of WaleS; Royal Family; Duke of York and Army ; Mr. Grenville and Navy; Me mory of Sir Ralph Abercromby, with three times three.; Lord Hutchinson, with three times three; the Ijeroes who tell on the 21st of March, 1801, - with three times three ;. the different General Officers who servedin Egypt . ; Memory of Lord Nelson, with three tithes three; the Allied Armies; Lietit.-General French, and the Cork District ; Loql• liar ringon, and the Army of Ireland; Duke of•Berlford, and Success to Ireland; Hon. Lieut.-Colonel Lumley, and 23d Light Dragoons; Major Haven, and soth Regiment. • - An excellent Military Band performed ,various martial and appropriate pieces of wusic. The wines being of the choiceot kinds, stimulated by the happy Occasion of the meeting. • SEIGE OF DANTZIC. Our : own times have seen a commercial city dis-t_ tinguish itself by courage and fidelity, I mean Dant, zic, when besieged in 1734 by a vast army of RUS , scans. King Stanislaus had with him 8000 regular . ' troops, and the citizens, to the number of - 20,00, armed themselves to oppose the enemy ; five hun-, dred - men wrought night and day to fortify- two passes. The Russians, in order to compel theM to a speedy surrender, fill to bombarding and firing red-hot balls, but in vain ; no sufferings could dis hearten the' Dantzickers, who, having invited King STA NISLAUS . thit her, were determined to stand by him to the utmost ; and the Russians making a vigorous push with the flower of their army, against the most iniportant work of this City, were obliged, after a sharp dispute of five hours, to retire with the loss of 3000 men. Every day produced signal testi monies'oftheir undaunted valour. But the Russian fleet, of fourteen large men of-war, arriving in the road, and their army being „thus supplied with am munition and artillery, renewed the bombardment «itlt the utmost fury, in which the chief magazine of gun-powder in Dantzic blew up. This, with the '.capitulation of the French auxiliaries; brought the Dantzickers to a necessity of submitting. Yet this they never would have done, had not King STANts- LAus, in compassion to their bravery, withdrawn himself - out of the city, as the surrender of his per-, son was- the first article demanded by the enemy, -and which the Dantzickers had rejeCted with disdain. The fidelity and resolution of this city cannot ha ve .a better vindication . than from Ki ng STANiSLAUS,IOr, whom they fought, who thus expresses himself in a letter to Cardinal nEURY : " I am sensible that it has been thought in Prudent in .me for scontinuinv in that-city till it was reduced to the last extremity; but, when acting • from principles of conscience, of -honour, and our country's love, may we be allowed to arm onrselves against danger, and to prefer the se curity of our persons to those three principles, which constitute the man of honour.? For,Hbesides that I expected succours daily, and a hasty.retreat would 'have put me out Of condition to receive them, I should, by my leaving Dantzie, have opened 'the gate of it to the Enemy ; the Magistrates . balding out the siege from no other motive than to defend me. Thus, laying aside the vanity which a consciotiSness of resolution and intrepidity might inspire„:l•Was obliged either to continue in the citr, in order that 'the expected succours might have time to arrive, or bury myself in the ruins of it, with th ose b rave citi- ' zens, and those dear Polish friends, who, with their wives initl children, shared my fate. I persisted in this- till the infamous surrender of Witeilta Munde, the capitulation of which forced the Dantzickers, with my 'consent, to provide for their otvii safety upon which occasion, finding they were going to change their Sovereign, I thought myself bound in gratitude, not to - expose them to the grief of aoan-, 'cloning me, but to dispense with their-fidelity, by'my leaving their city; which, however desperate a re sistance soever had been.made, could not :lave held out any longer ;' not to mention my being solicited by:all the Polish Noblemen, who made ,their. safety consist in my• preservation." Having mentioned . , ithe red-hot balls fired by the Russians into the city, cannot omit the strange eifeet of one, as contained in a letter from a Burgher-master of Dantzic, in the Opere di Litterati : " During the last siege of our city, whilst a young woman was examining what damage had been done to a shop by a_ carmen .bul let, which had gone through it, another bullet came; this threw the poor girl into a swoon, that at first she was thought to have been killed by the bullet; but no damage being perceived 'on het clothes,• she was blooded and brought to some sign's of life ; 'but, -,upon putting her into a bed, her shift was foUnd be full of little slits, as if done designedlr; and the girl herself had on her back and breast several' livid spots and contusions, as if she. had been cruelly beaten. The shop consisted of cutlery and hard ware; a dozen of knives tied up in a' paper, Wrap ed together with, the handles of them, were melted together into one lump, yet the paper and pack thread untouched.; whether this bullet was heai.ed or not, is unknown,; but this fact happened: after the enemy had begun to fire red -hot balls again s t th e 1- Obi! - OXFORD, ArRzL. Yesterday Came on the eletlicin . at Oriel College, when Mr. Grey, of University College, was chosen FelloW of that Society. 'On Saturday .last the Rev. W:' Bayley, M. A. latd Fellow of New College, and one of the Assistants at Wilchester SehoOl, 'was eleded Master' of Mid burst School, Sussex in the room of the • Rev. Dr. Wooll, who is appointed Head Master of Rugby . . . School.. • A .Dispensation has passed the Greai Seal to ena ble the Rev. George...Bigga,. MA; - and Chaplain = to the Right Hon. Williatn Henry Lord. Lyttleton,. to hold the Reelory of Upton' Warren together with the Vicarage of Hales Owen,' both. hi •the dioCese of Worcester. The Rev. J. W. Grove, B.A. is instituted to.the ReEtory of Strellsham, Worcestershire, upon the pre sentation of .the Rev . . Treadway Russell Nash, of Bevere, D. D. . , HiS Grace the ArabiShop of Canterbury has pre? sented the Rev. Henry J. Todd, M. A. Re&or of Allhallows, Loinhard.street, London, and late Fel low of Hertford College, to the Iteagry of COulsdon, Surrey. His Grace has also presented, the Rev. Win. Van Mildert, M. A. Reelor of St. Mary-le-Bow; London, and late of Queen's College, to the Vicarage of Farningham, Kent. A very extraordinary anecdote is retailed in a pri vate circle in Hiszh Life; which deserves from its sin gularity .to be recorded. A young man of .some distin&ion lately lost, to an Honourable, a sum of money which he could not immediately command'. .To pay this de,ht of honour. he applied to a/rim!, who observed, that he could not advance the nee4fill himself"; but he would ask a particular friend of his to accommodate him. • This friend, who remained in the.back ground., agreed to lend the 4001. wanted,. provided the borrower would give his Bond for 10001. to be 'paid at the death of an infirm and near rela tive.. •This proposition wasfagreed to, and when the. deedwica ,done, the money was advanced. Since thi s arrangement, the winner and the lender turn out to be one and the same' person. A fu r th e r 'develope rnent has sinee - taken place, the particulars of which walla due time be stated. HENRY HOLLAND,. E. is appointed line of the Police Magistrates, in .Southwark, in the room of RICHARD CARPENTER SMITH, Esq. resigned. The - Earl' of DERBY turned out a . deer yesterday, for the last time this season. It was started. at Hayes Common. His Lordship Arrived on 'the .ground at ten o'clock,. and ...there never was wit nessed a finer field of Sportsmen. The deer' took a-head for Bottle Hill, and made for •Lirisfield Com-^ mon, then' ran over the Common, . and made head back for Linstield, where he was taken, after a .run of one hour and ten minutes. It was allowed by the Sportstnen to be complete racing. After the hunt, the Gentlemen partook of a grand dinner; at the Greyhound, at Carshalton, where many' loyal toasts were drank, and the Noble Earl's health with three times . three. The only circumstance. which damped. the day's sport, was occasioned by one of his Lordship's whippers-in, who was thrown' from his horse, against a wall, and was so much hurt, that he was taken to Linsfield,' in a dan gerous state. - • A farmer, near Cambridge, has 'engaged to run forty miles in tiye haurs, over Newmarket Heath, the second meeting. The. bets are 6 and 7to 4 against .him At Chester 7 le-street races, in The county of Dur ham, a few-days agO, one of the horses fell, by which. the rider ,was thrown, arid bruised in such a dreadful manner that he died in a very.short time. A few days since, a sow, belonging to a farmer at . :Mock, in the county of Nort humberlacd,• was actu ally delivered in. one litter of twenty7ont4 pigs !: • Tuesday last as John Couldry and James Davis were employed in repairing a well at Frilford, in Berkshire, a large quantity. of sandyearth fell in up on them, by which _means they were killed. J. eouldry .was ..nearly exiticaled, excepting his lega, when a fresh quantity of earth slipped in, and quite overwhelmed, him. Two.bther men were buried in assisting to get.ilie poor men out, and it was with the greateSt difficulty they w'ere,sayed. ,D a vi s h as left a. wife and 8 children. • At the late Assizes at Lancaster, a cause came on to be tried-, wherein . Messrs. .COLLIER and KNUT- : TON, of Manchester, cotton-merchants, were the Plaintiff's, and Messrs. ) GOODALL and. BIRCHINALL, of Macclesfield', cotton-spinners, were the-Defend ants ; and,- as it solved. a cause -of . ..considerable . importance to the commercial.world, but to cotton : . merchants ourrch umanntsin rolu)as e tti:u a t s : Le N t t;e h g e leave to report it Plaintiffs sold to Defendants, in September last, a lot of 17 bags of West India cotton, at the price of is. 1 od. per pound, amounting to the sum of 50,71. its: 5.d, The Defendants, at the time, of purchase, saw the lot of cotton, as it lay in the Plaintiff's' warehouse; ap proved of the article, and requested it to be weighed and forwarded to their works at Macclesfield. 'The cotton was accordingly delivered ;. but to the sur prise of the Plaintiffs, was sent back by the Defend ' ants, who alledged, that it was unclean and not mer chantable, and that, theretbre, they h a d right to return it, and were not bound to make payment; but having made use of a part of a bag, they Offered and tendered to the Plaintiff's five guineas, as a compensation for the small . quantity used. This was rejected by the Plaintiffs; and when the usual credit- for payment was expired, they felt themselves called'upon to commence the present aEtion. - ' On the trial the Plaintiffs produced. several . respe6table witnesses, consisting of cotton-merchants and cot tonfr.spinners, who all spoke to the quality of -the cotton and as to the price ; all *of them deemed it a fair Merchantablei.rticle, and well worth the Frice' sold ,at. The Defendants also produc;ed several witnesses, cotton spinners, who gave it the contrary character. The Learned Judge, - Mr. Justice ,BLANC, who tried the cause, gave it as his opinion ; that whatever qUantity of cotton the purchasers were buying, if they saw one bag,' and 7 approved' of it, and the whole were submitted to the Defendants' view, it was their own fault if they did not examine each particular bag; and by -their neglect in so do.- ing,. they were bound to accept, and pay for the whole: After a trial of upwards of four-hours, the Jury gave a ver.Y.ia for the -Plaintiffs, for the-- fall :tKAA:71 . N...471'021r of diVIDREiga. Ik our fohnir statenierit , Of a few of this p~~isoh' exploits, as they,6;me out on his examination the Magistrates at dueen's- sq na re Othi e, we ventuic d an observation (pat his progress in is m eans threw inttyeelipsetvery thing that had been 'done by any of his prOycessors. The foll Owing, which i s t he substance' ai7,oA ; ilunt her testimony which came out upon his third o.aruibation yesterday, will, we think; illustrate Our remark Mr. Andrews; who was not fully committed for trial on. Friday, :because he had prornised to bring forward, on his next appearance, ample testimony for his exculpation, was y'..sterday. brought up- again : but instead ohadducingyvidence. i n his defence, th:. Magistrates wait' Occupied five hours and a half it. hearing fgthey . ,eviclence to his crinhination. Mr. liotkr& a:f . :Aferchant Of Leadenhall=street, (whom w e . trieptionOtefore as the agent of Mr. Harris, jun: , and Who, - at the instance -of his father , in-law, had . gone -to Mr. Parker, pawobroker,• in Fleet-street, and released the box of plate ziledged . to have been. stolen and pawned . there by . Mr: An drews, or. his .agents, for 221. los) attended, and stated, that while the elder Mr. Harris was a prisoner . in the - King's Bench, the 'wife' of Mr. Harris,. his friend, came to him and him that .the box of plate, her husband's.-property„ had been stolen ironi 'her father's house;.• but . She did not then know by whom. In a few days afterwards, he .received a note . from the elder Mr.„Harria, acquainting him the goods were pawned atMr.'Parkeris by the per . - 'son Who had stolen thelai.. He went thither,, And explained to Mr., Parker 'the circumstances of- the :transaaion ; and Mr. Parker knowing, him to be a Man of property- and - character, offered to surrender the goods to him, on his_ paying the principal and interest fur which they, sttiod pawned, and indem nifying him from any injurious consequence. TO this, Mr. Young acceded, - and - received the . goods: Shortly after Wards, he reCelVecl a :shrill - nobs toat 'tend the Magi.itrates,,at Ghiiethall, to answer a com plaint for having received these goods from Mr. Par ker under false pretences. 'He attended according- • but-no persokCame forward to sustain the pre tended charge, nor could. he_ ever learn the names of the persons . who had made it. Mr. Edward 'Warren ne;xt. appeared, and said he was a Pilot, residing at Ratcliffe, and also an Officer on board his Majestyos yacht. He kneW the Pri; soner about SiXteen years since, but had note seen him from that time until about live years ago, when .he was again: introduced to him_ by a Mr. Hill, an Attorney, ontOod-Lne. The •Witness was Wen owner of a small vessel trading to Rotterdam, and Mr. Andrews wisho To:mak:his passage to ,Rot terd-arn on .board' this . vessel ; and also •to . ship a 'quantity of tobacco, which he purchased here; . to trade. From some cause or - other, Mr. An drews. changed his , purpose; but immediately pre vious to • Warren's sailing, he received a note con veying to him the compliments of Mr. Andrews and Mr. Hill, and "requesting the -.favour of his company, at the King's Head, on ToWer Hill; upon particulan, busineSs attended them ; and, after a short conversation, Mr. Andrews stated him self to be - extremely distressed for money; and in treate-1 hint earnestly` to accept' a draft, in his favour; for a month; offering hiM, as security, a gold watch, value about six guineas, which he produced,•and the duplicate for a box of plate,' which, lit said, he had pawned at Mr. Parker's. Warren , conl6Vi t wn the pro- . poSal fair, accept e d t h e d ra f t, dated 20t1 ' : August, 1802, and sailed upon his voyage, Above three months afterwards, on his return, finding the. Bill not paid, ,as Mr.c7Alkdrews -promised, he sent a friend to London with the' duplicate, td , secure the . Plate own' indemnification : but he was soon informed that'the plate was surrendered to Mr. Young and ; that Mr. Andrews had not obtained it by'hO,ttot, Means. He applied to the Magistrates at:,duildliall for a summons .Young, but was afterWards' informed bysonie of his friends that he could gain no redress without g•tat trouble and exp'ence, and; theretbre he let the matter rest. He never saw Andrews until three y ears a f ter . Wards, when fie,Mothint on Towel- 7 hill; and upbraided ~him with his dishonesty. Mr.' Andrews very humbly apologized for hiS Misconduct, protesting that Mr. Warren would be the last man he would injure. He promised.to make him anip,le restitution : they 'to the shop of Mr. Webb, a butcher, the neigh- bourhood, where Mr, Andrews gave him an order to receive a horse and chaise, his property, which were aZ an inn, kept by a Mr. Smith; at Northfiect, in Kent, and which would be delivered to him on pro ducing the order. Mr. Warren sent this order by a friend of his going down to Gravesend, who, on presenting v credentials to Mr.: Smith, the, latter expressed much satistaation at 'getting - rid of his- Charge, and receiving 451.. fo'r which the horse and chaiSe'rentained in durance, ,I).esides .the keep for some weeks: Not judging this a very eligible bar-• gain', he declined the claim, more especially as the chaise might be liable to another claim from a Mr. Mumford, of whom it had been bough( by Mr. Andrews, but not paid for. - He understood the horse and chaise were afterwards let to hire by Mr, Smith, to repay some part ofhts loss, and the horse died in the service., .Next came forward" Mr. 'Harris . senior, formerly mentioned, a ven i erable old. man, above bo,• br.,keri in spirit as well.Rs.thealth, 7 and the' victim of Mi. Andrew 's ingenuity. He slated, that though he him. been so many years..in prison, at the suit of t. e holders of those -securities which he, bad been in duced to sign as a . when ,intoxicated with wine, .by Mr. A. and his associates,' he never•recek•ed. any value Whatever for them, nor Old be : ever know the names or persons of thoat . whose suit be wa; arrested. While he was-in pci.son 'he was informed by a young man, named Warren Hastings, an assistant in his shop, since dead, •tiKit in a few days after he was sent to.prison, ;I:1d broken open his drawers,• and hiken i*;•oimtlicnce a Valuable snuff box„twelve.table,pd eighteen'tea,gpoons,,Vith a Va.' riety: of other articles it, pike and. linen.to,Above value of 146 l; He was informed by Ha s tings, that Andrews had the - 4,4 - less•t•o),l. , lievdle Vindut.of sol, in bills and money 'received iii a profeSsional way from his. patients.; and that the property lie:l6.J' by, Mr. Andrews, exclusi~ e of the dent fot which he was, iipprisaned, was cap!. in the wreck of firs 'all his goods and' furniture were sold •under execu tion, upon the fictitious securities, re l duc.'d'hitn from a state of comfort and independence to 'abso lute. ingpry . in lit, old age, so that, on his.liberation,