The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-07-26 00:00:00

INSOLVENT DEBTOR'S (VITT, Jut.l.- 24.

ins 1:11win Midwinter, • young woman of fashionable appear-
, ance, came up to be heard on her petition to be discharged, and
was opposed by Mr. Harding, 131, Oxford-street, Jewell's, on the
ground of her having obtained goods from him on falw pretences.
Mr. Harding stated, that on the 31st of January last, the insolvent
came to his shop and accosted hint in a very familiar manner, say-
ing it was a lung timepiece she had the pleseureof teeing him ;

she duff sticed, that about time years heroic she Lad purchases:4
trout hint a sheer tea put, which she wtabeu tt, hat, engra..tl
live crest, and wished him to send to her house inlonni:tue-stre
fur it, fur that purpose,
which he prom:sett to do. :she prof ceded
to say, that she (tad nut bought ivy jewellery for on tote; and
' what she fool was become old-fashioned, and was out sat repair,
and she wished to purchase wale new, and to give him the pre-
fever. -. titer, chose an aniethy sr ring, the price of whirl. ca.:
. gnineas, ared said she would also t: aot other :ant,
f•tr hthiclt it ans Lot in tier power to p«y tit pres..o but relitzv,l
1:.•1/ for her punctuality to his neighlaitir, liulzh'its at al 101w,-
, own IV/:III'SS iu r 11.4;it, ILI
IL,l,bs,'lritt whom he I. sant that the insolvent Lau scud[ nu:, t a..
litr thre2 years., etas with a single except:on bad always Been pont -
tuai in her payliv.-nts. iViniess was Rerivetl: sat: ate! with this
arenui.t, and gave her the riiq; and a silver ring, fur which he
took her Eire, at :W4.1 months. at which tune she said the
quarterly payine'af of It. z income zooid be d.u.. She called on haat
trequently after tt.is purchase, and in about tin th.y. obtLiiiid*
er ring c• 11 tong on ereil:t, site said she at.ntid fair
tier 11,1):111.-r, 9/101 was going to the II est Imbts, cod for wlliels she
proinisetl to pity ill a fet,v days. After she ()hulloed tie: last ring and
mug,- she ceased calling at witneo's 1111111/, and on his iaspirips tyr
her ai the house in wattli she had lived to llontague-street,lie.
learned she kid run away 'in debt, and never Lw IE-T
till hearing that she secs lanolin up to Mari-la-bonne Police
ififice, on a charge of swindling, he went there, whare he rate her,
and obtained a Mifflin' of pawnbroker's duplicates, which were
found on her penion, amongst which were iitiplicates for the article
purchased from Win, which, it appeared, shelled Pledged Oil she
days of the purchases. The insolvent Sid not du.y arty of the facto
stated by Mr. Harding. but said she was induced coact as she had
done to procure a temporary supply to pay her rent, and was at hiss
seine time in daily expectation of reviving a sum of money whisk
would entibla her to pay .Mr.
It appeared, oq examination, that the affidasit of service of.
notice on some of the infolvene, creditors was not filed.
The CHIEF (0)4111SVIONEll arid, the affidavits net being all
filed, must prevent the Court giving its final judgment on die ease,
, but should nut prevent the expriusion of its opinion, which was,
' that a Case of Inure barefaced fraud and swindling never anin under
its consideration. It was evident a system ot deliberate had had
, been carried on by the insolvent from day to day by pretence"
equally false and plausible. Fur those revisited acta of prufhgat r
the Court would not then say how long tbp insolvent should be lett
• at the mercy of tier creditors, but it canainly was a case that re •
quircil to be visited% at. exemplary manner.
Janie. Seymour cami up to be beard on his petition, and was
opposed by Mr. Heath, oq behalf of a creditor named *Mall, who
had been a plumber at Cranbrook, in gent, and sold his business
and stuck to the insolvent, tiqing three bills In paymeni. vy hen
the first bill bec4,:e due, it was unpaid, and theisselvant being
arrested, gave bait sold all the property;spart4ipala ty tit a friend,
at a small part of its value. He dm • hi-discharge at
his bail, had himself removed to the king's Be , and inetaatly
commenced peuceedings fur taking the benefit of the laee.lvaot
The COURT said, it was plain tint insolvents conduct was a
digested fraud, the conseridences of which he probably supposed
he might escape, by cnming sway from the place whoi it had hen
practised, tt, take theheuebt of the Act—an expectation in which
all fraudulent insolvents would find dieineelvas mistaken. Tne
judgnient of the Court wr.., that the insolvent should be remanded
12 months within the walla of a prison.