The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-08-23 00:00:00

GENERAL PICTON.

The first stone of a monument, near the town of Car-
marthen, in honour of General Sir Thomas Picton, was
laid on Tuesday last, with great pomp. Beneath it were
placed specimens of all the gold, silver, and copper. British
coins of the present reign, together with the Waterloo
Medal of the late Sir Thomas l'icton. They were covered
with a plate, bearing the following inscription :
This,
The First Stone of the Column
Erected to the Memory of our Gallant Countryman,
Lieutenant-General SIR THOMAS PICTON„
Knight Grand Cross of the Bath, and of several Foreign Orders,
Who, after serving his King and Country
In several Campaigns.
Died gloriously at the BATTLE OF WATERLOO,
Was laid by
The Right Honourable Frances Baroness Dynevor,
Assisted by
Sir Chpstopher Cole,
(Knight Commander nt the Bath, Captain in the Royal Navy of
Great Britain. Member of Parliament for the County of
Glaihorgan, and Provincial Grand
Master of Masons for
South Wales,)
On the 18th day of August, 1825.

At the Commission of Assize for the county of Merio-
neth, held at Dolgelly, before Mr. Justice Raine and Mr.
Justice Kenrick, there was not one prisoner for trial, nor
was a civil cause entered.

An inquest was held at Lydd, on Saturday hat, on the
body of a man named Carpenter, who was accidentally
shot on the night of the 1 lth inst., by Lieut. J. Milieu,
employed at the coast-guard station near Dungeness,
when a verdict was returned of wilful murder.' On the
verdict being given. the Coroner said—" Gentlemen, be-
fore we separate, and your verdict goes before the world, I
take this opportunity publicly to mention my total dissent
from the verdict you have just delivered. Not one tittle of
evidence has been brought tot ward which can justify it."—
Ha wpshire Telegraph.

15 MISR ,Irt:IVT OP PRAUDULENT &SOL:
VENCY IN THIS UNITED STATES.
At the het March Term of the Court of Common Pleas
of this county, John Brannon petitioned for the benefit of
the Insolvent Laws. It appeared, on the hearing of his
case, that in May, 1824, he dpeeed a store at the Corner of
Second-street and Carter's-alley, for the sale of dry goods,
jewellery, and hardware, where he carriel on business un-
til the 22d of January last, when he mode an assignment
purporting to convey all his property to two of his cre-
ditors, one of whom was his brother-in-law, in trust, first
to pay certain favoured creditors; , secondly, to divide the
residue among each of his other creditors as cherish', within
a specified time, release their debts. The debts due by the
petitioner at the time of executing this assignment, and
which were all contracted within about ashes months, for
goods purchased by him, amounted to 35,438 tillers. The
property which passed into the hands of the assignees was
valued by himself at about 14,000 dollars, and produced
about 9,000. The Court, after hearing the evidence on
the part of the opposing creditors and on that of the peth
tioner, supported respectively by the arguments of Coun-
sel, were unanimously of opinion that there was a strong
presumption of the petitioner having fraudulently concealed
a part of his property, and therefore they refuwd to dis-
charge him. At his own instance he was bound over to the
succeeding Court of Quarter Sessions, to be prosecuted un-
der the Acts of Assembly relative to insolvent debtors. At
the late Session of that Court an indictment was found, to
which he pleaded not guilty. After a patient investigation
of two days, the Jury retired, and shortly after returned a
verdict of GI/11(y.
The charges preferred in the indictment were fitraded
on tire Acts of 1816 and 1820 ; the former of which directs
that the offender shall be punished by impallonniewt merely,
ties latter lay imprisonment at hard 'show. On the Bth
instant Branson was brought up to reeerdessetuente, when
his counsel presented to the Court a certificate from a re-
spectable.physician, expressing a belief, 'that the state of
Bramson s health was such, that confinement at hard la-
bour would occasion his death. Upon this, the counsel
for the prosecution, at the instance of the creditors, re-
quested the Court to pronounce judgment owthOse counts
only which laid the offence against the Act of 1816. Ac-
cordingly the prisoner was sentenced to suffer imprison-
ment for one year.—Philadelphia Gazelle.