The National Register.
London, England, 1821-01-07 00:00:00

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT,

MONDAY, JAN. I.
Thomas Prince was brought up, to be heaketton his
petition. His dischaigc was omesed by Mrotieath, on
the panes( Anis Chapman.
It appeared from the examination of the insolvent, who
is a Lieutenant in the East Middlesex Militia, awl of
his opposing creditor, that some time in the month of
August last he' went to the Gate House, at Highgate,
where he lived for two days, at 11 that on the second
night he was refused a bed, at then appearing that he
hail not money to pay his hill. In this situation, Ann
Chapman, • who had long been cook its the house, tool
oompassionton hint, and lent him almond note, whico
he promised to repay the next day.; Isom that time she
oontinited•to supply him with money foe tight weeks lie
lived in the house, during a great part of which lie was
sick ; and on his leaving die house, her advances to hint
amounted to NIL which lid. promised to pay with nuhtey
• -Ite•was to get frost his fa.herr and -with pay that was
doe to him; butt she hearing that he was about going to
the West bodies, had him arrested.
The Insolvent admitted that he had no pay due to
thim, and said lie did not• know whether his lather lived,
but believed he was tiv.France; Intim admitted that he
was about going to the West Indies at the time he was
arrested.
Mr. Heath saiilehe could-sot mist his own feelings to
• offer any observation to the Court on the Ins. ilrent's cot.-
duct—that a person cd • ' g to be a gentleman should
take advaistaue of the compassion which a poor servant
had felt for his (limas, •to ileotive her of the fruits of
her lalaisious industry,. cull, sinquestionahly, of ;peat
ft ugality, was a case of great cruelty which happily the
Court was not often cello' to decide ',oh..
The Court said, it was lomecessary, as it would be
tpainful to_give any expression to its feelings on this case,
but hoped the sentence of the • Court might obtain jus-
tice for the much injured creditor.
The-Court thei*declared that the Insolvent should not
be discharged for six months without the consent of his
opposing creditor.
TUESDAY, •JAN. 2.
Charles Frederic Brutlerson was brought up to be hoard
on his Petition to be discharged.
Mr. Heath opposed his discharge on the part of several
creditors.
The Insolvent is a 'Swede, but speaks English intelligi-
bly. The facts disclosed iii his examination were of suck
a nature as strongly to excite, at once the risibility and
abhorrence of the Court. He stated that lie had been a
merchant and agent since the year 1812 , that he had
previously been a traveller for three or four years, but
that he had ',ever been a waiter at an Inn : that he left Co-
penhagen in the year 1817, from whence he went to
Ilhoulunrgli, where he staid SOW time, and then went to
Paris, limn ttlueuice he came to London. He said since
he emus •to I lois he had accepted I Bills for the
acct tento•lation of his brother Coinages, and that lie had
also drawls several hills fur his areiinitoodai ion on a per-
mu who had kept a shop is the florough. tie mounted
that as the .1 inse of drawing and accepting 1:10 bills, he
had hinnedraio Me. •is whatsoever of paying any part of
Awns, bet-shat lie entirely depended on his brother's pro.
tiding for Wir111; main gls that brother bad just before
been discharged trader the Insolvent Act, his prospects
were very peat. Being asked what the nature of his
bioiker's was, lie said he expected that a lady of large
1.11.t0e wool" mug ipini; hot she disappointed I • .
if.: said the lady was a native of Ham-urgli, am' that
when its Lcmuloo site lived at Hammer x•!ulare, and that
he had tire ,:uu.litly met her at his brother's lodgings.
Autoe letters, written in the Swedish language, dated
from Paris, and addressed to his ....other Cosmos, but
without ally signature, were here 'hewn to the Insolvent,
and lie was asked whether they were leis wallet P lie said
the seeking was like his t but he "could not say it was his;
neither lie swear it 04 not.
Mr. Heath said be soak, endexvoar to being the letters
to tae losidtent's reeollectimi, •tty reading part of their
caste • 4, and accordingly read irons a translation several
esti acts, of his drawing kills fruoi Paris, itte.
hr 1n extract of a letter was read, in search lie said to his
bridln.r—" I will draw on you for .301. fr which I am to
get pendulum patches. I will draw ii.e till in the name
of William Cresco. I will lIIVW ens the sight band and
the left. If 0 nulerstood the language, all things would
go on well, 'mu you, know Ica give my confidenee to
Noy. Ile sure yon let me know when it will be necessary
fin inc Z. 'll and I will quit ...aril with the great-
est sec. ; but if a biU should COME pack itefore I am
• off, 1 .its) be brought before the Ltd sent to
loam., for li e.
Atwitter extract front his letters was read as follows:
" The bill fir 1301. is returned, because your tame is not
in tin. 'etury. IVrite me proper mercantile letters,
with your name at fall lengths flat for Heave'''. sake
give me notice when it is necessary :a start, as the people
here are toot to be fooled. Yesterday It persons were
sent to prison because their bids were not paid."
The Insolvent, atter the reading of these extracts, still
persisted i. saying he could nut he certain whether the
letters were written by hint or nut.
Mr. Polito k addressed the Com t on behalf of the pri-
soner: lie sukonitted that the letters shoohl be entirely
pot out of consideration—they had no sigoaturer--they
were not proved by any witness, nor ii.iiiiittcul by the
Insolvent t slid, even if gen oo ioo e, there was no proof that
the frauds nietitioned in them, N. contemplated, had ever
been committed, and the Insolvent denied that they had,
the presumption therefore was, that, on reflection, he had
repented. The Insolvent haul also sworn, that his brother
expected to marry a lady with a considerable fortune,
'Aid! would have enabled bins to provide fur the bills;
and although he had stated, that his brother had been
married to a ottoman still liviiig in Sweden, yet in the ab-
sence of any evidence to the coutrary, the Court must
intend that he had ',tell legally divorce d, and in mai tying
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another, hr, of course, Will out d g sit soulawisel act.
The Court highly complimented Mr. Potluck on the
ingenuity of the defence lie hail mode for the lissolvent,
but said it way iterosailtle to doubt that at the time of
pas►ieg the bills in question the Insolvent had not any
seusouable expectation of being able to ply—there could
be se doubt that the letters produced wcre written by the
Undying, but putting those letters out of the case, it
tw ender that