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keep her or iece—pt—
Other pidures in lien of ber:,,,The
Defendant accordingly had taken the Wise . TAn's
Offering, and had most unfortunately given a check
for the money ; and by that means, said Mr;
Erskine, he has check-mated me, and I have nothing
mere to say in his delmce. Verdid for the Plaintiff.
SLACK V. PENNY;
Mr. Easie:Ne stated, that tiiis was an action
brought by the Plaintiff, a tailor, to recover a sum
of thirtv-six pounds of the Defendant, a clerk in the.
house of Messrs. Prescotts' and Co. ; the sum of
twelve pounds had been paid into Court, and with
regard to the rest, the minority of the Defendant
had been set up as a defence. He inferred, that if
a tailor found a young man in the respeEtable si-
mat:on of a Banker's Clerk, he was justified in
trusting him with such cloaths as were becoming his
situation in life ; he was not to ascertain with
nicety, whether one coat, more or less, was neces-
sary for him ; hut if he gave him credit to ass
amount, which was not extravagaie with regard to
a person is such a situation, he was entitled to re-
cover his bill.—The delivery of the articles was
proved.
Mr: GARROW took up the cause of the Defendant
with a very laudable degree of warmth and energy.
He maintained that the Plaintiff had no pretence
whatever to demand a shilling mole than what had
been paid into Court. It was by the condud of
such tradesmen as the Plaintiff that young men like
the Defendant were brought to ruin ; they gave
them credit for dress far beyond tbeir sphere in life,
or their means of supporting it ; and thus young
men, instead of attending to the duties of their bus:-
ness,too frequently found theirway to the Play house,
Hyde-park, and other places of fashionable resort,
and their means not keeping pace with their extra-
vagance, they were obliged to have recourse to
ads of dishonesty, which but too often were at-
tended with the most fatal consequences. Tile De-
fendant, he said, was the eldest of sit children of
the Parish-clerk of Cheshunt, who, by his industry
and labour, had decently brought up his large fa-
mily. The Lady of Sir George Prescott, observing
his laudable exertions, had recommended her hus-
band to take his eldest son into his banking-house ; a
situation in which, had he conduded himself pro-
perly, and not have obtained that credit from the
Plaintiff, which had enabled him to resort to scenes
of extravagance and dissipation, would have opened
to him the road to fortune, and made him, instead
of a burthen to his father, the support of the younger
branches of his family. The Learned Counsel
stated, that although the Defendant had been guilty
of no alts of criminality, affecting his liberty or life,
yet he had so inisconduded himself as to re der it
impossible for him to remain in the situation is
which he had been placed. It appeared that the
Defendant, independent of mourning for Sir George
Prescott, for which he was allowed ten pounds, had
had, in the short space of a-year, six complete suits
of cloaths. Mr. Garrow trusted, that the Jury
would not, by giving the Plaintiff his bill, encourage
tradesmen to bring inevitable ruin on unthinking
youth.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH said, he should presume
that the Plaintiff knew all he might have known
respeßing the Defendant, if he had made enquiry
into his circumstances. Had he enquired, he would
have found he was a clerk at only a salary of twenty
pounds a-year, and consequently, that in giving him
credit, he was committing an at of imprudence.
The Jury retired for near an hour, but on their
return pronounced a verdic for the Defendant—a
verdid which every one in Court seemed very much
to approve of.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, May 3

&Van UPTCIES SUPERSEDED.
Richard Maddock,, of barge-yard, BucklarNbury, brok2r.

BANKRUPTS.
William Brewer, late of Rochester, coach-master, to surrender
May 7, 17, June 14, at ten, at uildhall, London. Attar-
ney, Mr. Hill, Rood-lane, Fenehureh-street.
George Matthews and Thomas Turnbull, Budge-row, mer-
chants, May 14, 17, June 14, at eleven, at Guildhall.
Attorney, Mr. Liversedge, Fore-street.
Hugh lbhetson, Pocklington, York, spirit-merchant, May 14,
13, June 4, at eleven, at the George inn, Kingston-upon-
Hull. Attornies,Mes.srs. Sykes and Knowles, Lincoln gins ;
Mr. Martin, I I ult.
Henry Gardiner, Thames-street, seedsman, May 14, 21, June
14, at ten, at Guildhall, Attornics, Messrs. Wilson and
Bread, Southwark.
Edward Baynes, late of Rochford, shop-keeper, May 14, 21,
June 14, at twelve, at Guildhall, London. Attornies, Mr.
Cuttine, Bartlett's-buildings; Vanderzee, Rochford, E.sex.
Shirley David Beare, Kensington, Middlesex, distiller, May 7,
at twelve, 17, at one, June 14, at twelve, at Guildriali,
London. Attorn-ty, Mr. Fier;, Richmond-buddings, Sono.
John Courtics and John Stephens, Pomp), Cornwall, shop-
keepers, May 7, at twelve, 25, at eleven, Juno 14, of
twelve, at Guildhall, London. Atro.nie..., Mr. Be-rdon,
Corbet-court, Grseechurch-street ; Mr. A Yours,-', Falmouth.
Souning, Ft.nks, butcher, Mar 9, 10, June
14, at elev, n, at t' 81a..k Bear- nn, Reading. Ait,arti.e:, Mr.
Waldron, Bead:ow; Mr. Smart, Staple', inn.
Thomas tir.inork, Walsal, Staffordshire, sadder, May 24, 25,
June 14, at twelve, at the Stork tavern, Birmingham. Actor-
nies, Mr Jesson, Walsall; Messrs. Kinderley, Lung, and
Ince, Symond's-irin.
DIVIDENDS.
May 27. Richard Bayley Jameson, Droitwich, Worcester,
miller, at cloven, at the G. irge inn, Dontwich.
May t 9. Thl7litS Dornford, Prtirpot-lane, wine-merchant,
at one, at GiI:I.RWL
May 23. Joh , Henry Enunott, James Browne, and Francis
Soo one, Old Jewry, wine-inerchants, at one, at Guildhall.
June 1. N i nant Kay, 13,rnainglot.an, fa.:tot, at eleven, at the
Sakesperre-t.vera, Llironingharto.
Ma! 24. John Chettney, Oxford-street, linen-draper, at
twAva, at Guildha I.
May Yu. George Andrews, 1101) bourne, Hampshire, taruler,
a: eleven, at ...id:shoal', Landon.
May Y 4. John Carter, Kennington-common, cow-keeper, at.
one, at Guildhall.
May ,Z 4. Joseph Hopwood, Long-Acre, locoman, at one, at.
Ria) 1,). John What:lt., anik• ill, Southwark, colour-ina-
!intact...mg, at ten, at Guildhall.
Mac 27. Ja rtes Ho'gate, Manchester, manufafinrer, at three,
at the W idgewater arms, Manchester.
May VG. Chalks Watt, Warrington, Lancas't.
at twee, at the Cadets and Hors 2s inn, Matt. heater.
Mae 27. Betty Needham, Doncast,r, York, sacking manu-
lactor.n., at eleven, at the Red Lion-iiin, Doncaster.
May 24. Booed Gilbert, of Reading, draper, at Melte, as.
Guihlliall, London.
CERTIFICATES, M 4 Y 24.
Thomas Nelson Atheism, of Liveri.ool, merchant.
George Carelets„ of Bamirigharn, grotto:.
John Macaulay, of Liverpool, merchant.
John Wirropenny, of &hind, in the par.vn of York,.
ionkciteer.
Thomas Spence, of Wad:born, shopkeemer.
The estimation in which tots present favourite
amusements at the Royal Circus stand, particularly
the new Grand Serious SpeFtacie, aria thwoneter—
ful Tight Rep Daskrr,is unconunorlrgtrat. The
attra:tion they create hat a strong huid wits the
priblic, and is plainly nianifested. tt the: crowded
hoasc~ deg nightly expert-ace.

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