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',Urea by the Coati sis in eviiiettes etatisfloutinient
desire to avoid giving no'ice In those creditors who
Were lierhstis most interested in °Minting his dma
charge. He had also omitted to stole in his eche.
dttle, that he had pawned a silver tea-pot
10/. which he had bought with one of iliore
aChommodation hills • few days previously, fir up-
wards of 20 guineas. this omission appeared to the
Court very suspicious, for the Inso!vent bring the
son-in.law of a roan Oho had only a few months since
taken the benefit of the Act, and haviiig bees, I -
sell discharged under informer Act in the year 1811.
he Could not be erosion' of the iii•,•essity that exist-
ed 'if inserting in his shedule a full account of all
Isis property. Under thaw circuiliihnces, the In-
solvent was remanded, that be mss amend his
schedule, with the intimatiots, that when this Was
done; the Conti should then proceed to pronounce
such judgment as the nutife of the case might
warrant.

HORSE-CHAUSTING.
John Howe, a dealer in horses, wee apposed by
Mr. Pollock, Mr. Andrews, Mr. Tancred, soil
Mr. Manning, on behalf of General MackaYi Mr.
\Fright., Mr. Chapman, and several other Gem.
Berrien, on the ground of gross frauds practised
towards them in selling unsound horses, with war-
runty as sound and free from vice. From the evi-
dence of these Gentlemen, it appeared, that they
had been severally induced by flaming advertise-
ments in the public papers of horses to be sold,
" the property" as the advertisements for the
part stated, " of a Gentleman goVg abroad,"
or of "a Gentleman giving tip keeping horses,"
to purchase horses from the Prisoner, with air
engagement, that if the horses did nut please
the purchasers the money should be returned.
The horses uniformly proved to be unsound, mitt
were returned within a the or two; but the Pr:.
goner, after prosnising on the return of the hm.e.
to deposit the money on the following day in some
banking-house, took care to keep out of the way.
and the parties received neither horse nor money.
The Prisoner very freely admitted all these facts,
but added, that be had no interest in the• trans-
actions, further than n compensation for Isis
trouble its the sale of each horse of five per cent. ;
that all the horses belmiged to another person,
• notorious horse chaunier in the west ciitt
of the town, and that this person always receiv-
ed the purchase money. lie also stated, the.
it was poverty which drove him to the commission
of such acts. He had, lie said. some years ago
owed upwards of 2,0001. to different persons to
England, and, among others. a large sum to Mr.
Wilson. one of the Members fur the City, and is
Mr. Kaye, the Solicitor for the Bank. That he
left England and went to Canada, where, by in-
dustry and care, he collected the sum of 2.900 t.
with which he returned to England ; that on his
arrival he advertised for all his creditors to rime inn
for payment of their debts, and that he had pai•.l
them 201. to the pound, with interest, fur the
years or his absence. This act of justice and of
extraordinary honesty reduced his funds very
low, and he wits obliged to embark what remained
to him in business as a horse-dealer. ilis partner'•
debts here fell upon him, and he was compelled
again to go to Canada. Eutenug the. River Saint
Lawrence, he suffered shipwreck, and lost all his
property. He with difficulty returned to England,
having obtained a passage from the charity of a
merchant in Quebec, and on his arrival in London
without a vhillittig, was compelled to resort to 'he
first means that offered of obtainiog a shilling for
his immediate support. It was his misfortune to
meet with the individual alluded to, and lie could
not resist the temptation.

The COURT viewing all the circumstances of the
.case, considered it so pregnant •icith fraud, that
they felt themselves bound to mark their sen;e of
it by enforcing the severity of the Act of Pasha-
ment to its utmost limit. They lamented that
the terms of the Act did not enable them to
deprive him of the advantages he might derive
from enjoying the benefit of the rules of the King's
Bench, and to shut him up within the walls of tie
prison ; but such power as the Legislature allows('
them they should exercise. 'They therefore declared
that John Howe should not be entitled Lithe benefit
of the Act, nor he discharged from custody until he
shall here been in prison at the suit of his oppos-
ing. creditors for the space of five years from the
date of filing his petition.

POLICE.

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