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VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, I)tc. 12.

The Vice-Chancellor WAR occupied the entire of the day in going
through cues, none of which were of the slightest public interest.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH. GUILDHALL,
1110NDAY, DEC. 12.

Sittings in London before the LOUD CHIEF JUSTICE and
Common Jury.
The Court was this day engaged in trying cannel which were en-
tirely destitute of grnetal interest.
In consequence of the darkness created by the denseness of the
fog, the Court was lighted up with lamps during the greater part of
the day.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, MONDAY, Dec. 12.

steljvurned Sittings in London before Lord Chief Jrstice BEST
and a Special Jury.
The Ceurt was occupied the whole day in a cause which in.
volved questions of account that were very complicated and unin-
teresting except to the parties immediately consented.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, MONDAY, Drc. 12.

William Rodney Chambers, Esq. was opposed by Mr. Pot-
LOCK on behalrof Messrs. Galway and Son, and several oilier
creditors, principally resident in Ireland.
. _ . .

It appeared bj th'e it:solvent's petition, that doting the time the
debts on his schedule were contracted he had been attached to the
army, and resided at a number of places. The petition stated him
to have been formerly of Hyde-park Barracks, and of Spain and
Portugal,,Lientenant in the Ist Regiment of Life Ousrds, then of
the city of Paris, gentleman ; of Oxford-street, Cornet In the TM
regiment nf Light Myosins, no half-pay ; of New South IVales,
and Van' Merton's Land, Cqrnet in the 11th ; and of Crown-
street, WeifiNtilattii 'Cattle In the 21st regiment of Light
Arm& - r • ; ti..
Mr. Coon! (who held Mr. Pollock's brief) stated, that it was

not the intention of the creditors to have the itiinfvent etathiheti
before the Court nn the present oecasi on ; he (Mr.' Cooke) was
therefore instructed to apply to the Court, to hare the eV',
ferred for investigation before the Provisional 'Ark;gnee,
Chambers, in order for that
.gentlemsn to report upon the mallets
cmitained in the schedtile, on 'such day as the Court might be
pleesed to order.
The Court granted the application, and ordered the inset ilat tO
be brought can ageiu 03 the 110th inetant:
The Her. Henry I.lord. Doctor of Divinity, and Regius Fes.
inset of Hebrew in the University of Cambridge, was pr pee e
by a person named Jolly, who claimed to be a creditor for
591..78. 10,1.

Tge upprieing creditor stated that he is e compositor, end keopt
a boarding house in Bride-lane, Fleet street. In thecarly part of
February last the insolvent and Ills daughter came to his holm,
and engaged apartments at one guinea a week. including attends
an re, beyond which they were to pay for their board ad celo•rnt,
so much per diear.—(A laugh.) The insolvent inforthed •imns
that he enjoyed the living of Dareoham, and received an untolus
ment frpin hit Professorship at Cambridge, beyond which, witness
was gi•ren to understand that he received 401. a year from the Lord*
of the Admiralty for sacerdotal duties. At first the insolvent paid
regularly. but in the course of a little time be apologised tf7st ha
could not nay until he received some money from the Accothitasits
General. which had been decreed to him by the Gourt of Chancery.
-21siat-coo.plarkwithche former reprimemationa, intliieed the witness
to extend his credit. When he became printing fur money, the In-
solvent gave tibn two bills for 161. win ; but on the evening before
the drat became due, he sent a note, stating that he was going to
surrender to the Fleet Prison.

Cross-examined by Mr. HlATTl—lisle nut got the bill Of par.
liculars against the Insolvent ; but the aggregate of which was the
sum of 881. 6s. 10d. ; of which the insolvent had paid 28/. beyond
the two bills before alluded to. upon which some of the insolvast's
friends bad paid 281.; so that, altogether, he had received W.
The reason why he still claimed 1191. is. led. was, because he en-.
derstood the 231. was given ass douceur for the trouble he had been
put to in consequence of the insolvent's irregularity.
The Coeur expressed its surprise that such en idea s:tould hewn
rested in the mind of the complainant, for it was evidently a pay-
ment In liquidation.
The insolvent denied that ha ever made the representations at-
tributed to him relative to the living and professorship, for it was
notorlotie that they had been both sequestered seven! years ago.
With respect to the Chancery property, a decree had been made
that his daughter should have 1,500/. and upwards, and the Court
for some time past had allowed her 601. a.yedr for her support.
The insolvent declared that he had no power or control over the
ptoperty.
The evidence having been gone through, 31r. HIATif übmitted
to tho Court that no tan had been made out against the Rev.
petitioner, to induce it to remand him; fur by the complainant's
own showing, he had given credit upon representations made, and
dwelt upon a paper which he had produced, which instead of bein
a proof of progeny, was a proof of poverty, for it was a humbleg
petition to the Lords of the Admiralty, for a Chaplaincy of 401.
a-tsar._

'Mi.Commissioner. Bowtw said that he did not see that Mr.
Jolly had addured evidence sufficiently strong to warrant the Court
to detain the petitioner nevertheless, it appeared necessary that
tome information should be given relative to the Chancery property,
because it might turn out that the insolvent had a life interest in it.
The insolvent was then remanded, in order to file the particulars
relative to the Lord Chancellor's decree, after which, the Court will
proodunce him discharged.