The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-03-14 00:00:00

)Fitelfklat 4NI &DAS.
Vesterility a meeting of Mowerd sod Gibbs' ere.
(Mora las held M the Court of Commett
Guildhall. The court was as -crowded am •art the
loaner ;meting*. mud several creditors printed their
debts.
The Commissioners, in all those cases, decided,
that where a settleinent of aucteauts had taken piney
leiWeett the haukrupis and the anouitints who had
beim credited iu their books foratinuitiesdae, though
sot received. and the bankrupts had pied the ba-
lance due on such seitlement, that then the GUMS
so credited should not be deducted out of the ha.
litotes upw due by the bankrupts ; but where the
creditors had siot received payment of SI balance
due on a subsequent settlement of accounts, they
were not allowed to claim on the bankrupt's estate
for the sums for which they had been credited in
their bookti, but which had not been received by
them.
Mr. Courteois presented an unpaid acceptance
of the baukrupte for 400/. for which ainouut he
claimed.
Mr. MONTAGTA, as Counsel for the bankrupts,
examined hint as to the consideration he had
given for this bill. Mr. Courteoia said he had re-
ceived it as a 'Tomtit of the bankrupts' accept.
once to a bill drawn on them by the Marquis of
Worcester, which he had malted for Mr. Gibbs.
Being asked what discount he had received from
Mr. Gibbs fur cashing the bill, he said he could
not recollect; he was asked was it 301. end denied
that it was ; lie was then asked was it 251., he
would not say that it wits not; he would not say
it was not 281.; nor that it was unt 291. Mr. Mon-
tague here remarked that though lie lid an un.
questionable witness in Court, tie person who had
paid the money, to prove that the discount taken
was 301., yet he would not differ with Mr. Cour-
teois for a pound.
Mr. Courteuie, in explanation, said, that at the
time he gave Mr. Gibbs cash fur the bill, he told
him he could not do it unless he, Gibbs, would lend
him 30f. which he wanted to make up a payment ;
that Mr. Gibbs agreed, aid after receiving the
amount of the bill, for which no discount was
charged, he then lent Mr. Courteoia 30/. which sum
Mr. Courteois now said he always consideied as a
debt, and meant to pay.
Mr. Gibbs was sworn, and declared positively
that lie had agreed with Mr. Courteoia to discount
the bill for 30/. which sum he had given him at
the time the bill was discounted, and never consi-
dered Mr. Courteois a debtor for it.
The Commissioners told Mr. Courteois he must
go somewhere else, and with such a claim it was
useless to make it there.

After receiving same further proofs of debts, the
meeting was adjourned.

We lately uoticed the case of a military officer
who her got into a scrape for giving. toast. It was
not a radical toast. The toast was " The Qat,:a."
We understand it is not likely to pass without ob.
nervation in • certain quarter.
A private letter from. the West Indies, mentions
the death of Colonel etAnze of the fifth regiment
of foot. He was the oldest man in the regiment.
The Marine Corps is to be equipped with a new
uniform, and a cap instead of a hat.
Extraordinary Trotting Match.—Lately Capt.
A—, R.N. and J. H---, Esq. of Bromsgrove,
made • match to trot each other's horsey for 50
trainees aside, from Broungrove turnpike-gate to
Worcester turnpike-gate, a distance of 11 miles.
which was performed by Capt. A.'s grey mare in
35 minutes, beating Mr. H.'s five minutes.
HAZARD and Co. respectfully inform the Public
that WSXT SATURDAY the Lottcry finishes, when
Three Prizes of Twenty-one Thousand Pounds, Money sad
Consols, said be drawn, as well as all the other capitais.—
Tickets and Shares are on sale at HAZARD sad Cu.'s; old
established and fortusate Offices, Royal Eiebauge-gate,ilS,
Corahill ; and 324, Oxford-street, corner of Swallow-street,
where Seven Capital Prises have already been sold in the
present Lottery.

We recommend our friends in the Country who
intend to adventure in the present Lottery. to lose
uo time is applying to the Agent in the Town they live i■
(or the nearest to where they reside.) or else they may be
disappointed ; for owing to the entire Lottery Anishieg next
Saturday, most of the Aponte well have to return their Nur
sold Tickets and Shares to the Contractor* on Fridley
Nee ; and by delaying their purchases, they may lose all
chance fur the three 21,0001. Prises, end other great Capitols,
whisk must all be drawn Next Saturday ; and even if they
apply directly they say be too late, for many of the Agents
have already sold all that could he spared from London, as
the demand is great, and the Wberl nnprecedentedly rich.

Tug RsTgospagrivs Revigw, No. V.—S nee
we took occosion to revert to the plan nod merits of
this publication, a new number has appeared, nn way infe-
rior to the preceding one in spirit and interest, and superior,
we think, ou the whole, in the selection and variety of its
article*. Our limits will only allow us to make a short ex-
tract, which, independent of Its intrinsic Merit, possesses
peculiar interest at this moment, when the people whom it
celebrates are hailing the dawn of political emancipation.
It is the conclusion of an article on a very early trasalation
of TASIO, by CAasw, a work which many of our readers may
not even have heard of, but which possesses no urdivary
share of spirit and fidelity.
" We have been induced to notice this early translation
of one of Italy's moat hrilliant productions, as our honest
Printer expresses it in his preface, for the delight and be-
nefit of theme Gentlemen who love that most lively laugusee.
and from a conviction that the treasures and sweets of
netball literature were never better appreciated film) at the
present day. The very name of that delicious land teems
with a thousand rich aesociaisuas. To the patriot it is a
livid of old mot usiperksliing glory, d fur there were deeds of
valour done,' which are still present to the spirit. To the
enthusiast of nature it is the very Eden of his hopes, and
he acknowledges how very justly the appellat is applied,
as his eye wanders over the Campogna I efirst. Tu the
scholar, Italy is a world of treasures, richer than all the
East ever poured forth, but in nu heart is the name echoed
with more fondues. than in that of the poet. To him it
reeals a thousand lofty names, a thussoid faseisating images
of beauty and power, it is linked to hi* spirit by the tende-
rest@ and the finest associations. From its cradle that
country has lid els the land of romance ; tint the rionamee of
ficinni, but of a high and noble reality. %Vithin its boun-
daries man has auffrie.l all the vicissitudes of which lo•
nature is capable—has exhibited the proudest and the
meanest •itrilinten of his being—savage and uncultivated,
then civilized and polished--then sinking from the height
of ;um, into the lowest abyssof vivo—a tiller of the earth—
a soldier, a citizen, a lyrist, nod a slave—rude and un-
lettered—then rivalling the most polished in knowledge and
in arts—the Vallgalsher of the earth, then the victim of
barbaric invader—the prey of superstition, and the vassal
of petty despote.—Amid these uninberless changes. Italy has
ever held the *red of noble action, and high thoughts, and
let us hope with Sismondi, that a lime may yet come, when
she shall assume amongst the nations kr ecru pre-d minent
station."