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iNSoLfrEkt DEBTorts' cOukf.

OLD BAILEt, FRIDAY, Aubori 31.

E. B. Engles; a Marine racer, was opposed by
various creditors.
The Insolvent's lithe? died iii 1814. leaving a
property of 50,000/. of which the Insolvent be:::
(lone polarised of a projiortiooa►e share with his
brother and sitteri. fje bad sold to his brother the
w,lio/e of the interest which he derived tinder his
father's will, ext•epting en annuity for his life of
1401. per at 11111 l ti, payable out of the rent of a
form iii Muittnouththire; proilded he did net cii-:
i•utnber it, which. with his half-yay of 801. per
annum, was all lie hut to live upon.
Mr. Curt*oon consented on the pint of snnie
of the creditors for whom he appetite-11, to naive all
oppo,ition to the Insolvent's discharge. if he would
imert in his schedule ell the iot.rest which tie de•
rived under the will of his Gather.

Mr. HEATH, ou the part ur the losulrent, readily
coorented to this. •

Ale. D. Powicst, on the pert of certain ere-
- ditors whose debt: had been contracted in 1914
and 1815, opposed his discharge, on the ground that
he had, at the time of contraviing them, no reuson-
nble expectation of being able in pay. lie had, in
1814, left Rochester in debt in the amount of
4681. from thence he went to Beth, which lie left
236/. in debt. He then went to Abergavenny,
where lie contracted further debts to the amount
or 490/. Thr Learned Counsel contended, that
being an greatly involved when he quitted Roches.
ter, he could slot have any expectation of paring
the debts which he subsequently contracted. The
Learned Counsel also complained that he had put
his clients to expense in defending two actions un-
necessarily, and as a proof of hie intention to liti-
gate, he read part of a letter which lie had written to
his wine-merchant, who had proceeded against him.
He cautioned him of the inutility of throwing
good money after bad. and stated the expense lie
might put a Plaintiff to by sham pleas, writs of
error, Ste.

Mr. Haven, for the insolvent, expeeted, from
the solemnity with which his Learned Friend had
read what •as merely an extract from what hod
been long in print, that he had something to state
against the Insolvent besides his hewing merely
pleaded the general issue to actions commenced
against bun. He had expected he would have
proved that Mr. Eagles had made his (Mr. Pol-
lock's) rheas starer some of those evils which a
Noble Lord (Erskine) had humorously detailed,
oinicluding wilt,t the taking of the Plaintiff's t!".4,47„„,,
for conterrept of the Court of Chancery. The
letter, lie said, was a salutary caution, which he
regre'tird his Learned Friend's clients had not at-
tended to. He contended that, under the present
Act of Parliament, it could not be objected that
Mr. Eagles had not reasonable ground of expects.
tion of paying certain creditors, because he was
itsiebted to other persons by whom he was not
pressed.
The COURT had not usually considered the plea
of the general issue as a vexatious proceeding, and
the letter which had been read did nut induce the
Commissioners to put • different construction on
that plea in the present initatice. The Court
thought differently in the other and mote material
point, and could nut agree with the construction
put Upon the Act of Parliament by the ingenuity
of the Insolecnea Counsel. The Court thought
he neither had the expectation, nor indeed the
honest intention of paying the debts which he had
ectlititicted.

tiIiATH begged the Court would give Min
permission to ask one question of the Insolvent.
The Court gave leave. The purl)°, tof this addi-
tional examination was, that thee losolvent had ex-
pectation of a legacy of 4,0001. fume his uncle, John
T. Warm, E4q. of Taunton, but lee had died about
fifteen mouths ago, leaving him nothing.
The COURT did not think this sort of expects.
tion, depending, as it did, on the caprice of an in-
dividual, and which might be years before realiza-
tion, even if ever realized, was of a nature to very
the ease. The Court could not but advert to the
circumstance of the time which the Insolvent had
remained in prison (two years). during which time
he had received 460/. great portion of which might
have gone amongst his creditors. The judgment
of the Court therefore was, that he should not be
discharged till hr had been twelve wombs in prison
at the putt of his detaining creditors, from the dine
of filing his petition.

ft is a proverb among the hospitable inhabitants
of the Isle of Man, that, .6 when one labor man r,w
hese, another. GOD himself tameless for joy." Pour
isles, and most other parochial rates, are un-
known ; and there is not in the whole island either
hospital, workhouse, or house of car F.etwo, though
in early parish there is at least one charity school,
and often a small library. A collecssou is made,
as in Scotland, after the morning set vice of every
Sunday, for the relief of sash poor of the parish rs
are thought deserving of charity. The flosta!ion
optional, but it is usual for every one to give some-
thin.
On Wednesday, the 22.1 August, Mr. ROGER.,
of Abbott. itipton, having occasion to call on Mr.
SHICLTON, of Park-house, Ili the value parish, hung
his horse to • gate, close to whir It stood u row of
bee-hives; being much teased by the thus, tie bed
came restless, and in twisting about overturned one
of the hives, whets the swarm settled about his
head. On seeing this, Mr. SHELTON blipped off
the bridle, in hopes that when at liberty, the es.•
'operated insects would soon cease torturing the
poor animal ; but, unfortunately, in dashing off
he overturned about a dozen more hives, the couse-
quence of which was, that he was litrially covered
with bees, which stung him to that degree that tit
his agony lie rushed into a pond, where, alter rolling
once or twice over, he crawled cut and expired ad
the bank.— (Cambridge ('hromie le.)
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