The National Register.
London, England, 1819-12-27 00:00:00

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IThe Bill for the relief of Insolvent Debtors, pm.
posed by Lord Althorp, hits been printed by ur
of the House of Common::. It prohibits officers cf
I the Court from taking gratuities. The petitioning
creditor mav compel the surrander of the insulvenrs
property, which shall vest :n the provisional assigner.
Examiners are to be appointed by the Commissioner
they are authurised to compel the attendance of
witnesses, and are empowered to allow or disallow
claire; of creditors subject however to an appeal to
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the Commissioner. The assignees have a power of -
making compositions with credinn-s. In the country;
examiners may be appointed by Justice.-of the
Peace at Quarter Sessions, nod the Commissioner of
the Court in London may direct prisoners, in car-
tain cases, to i.e examined befine Justices at the
Quarter Sessions. Prisoners after dischari. • be-
coming prestressed of public funds, or any other ',pe-
cks of property, and refusing to convey such pro-
perty, the Court may, upon petition in a summary
way, order such persons to be again arrested. No
person is allowed to practice in the Court as attorney
or agent, unless he shall be regularly admitted is
an attorney or solicitor in one of the Courts of
Westatinster. List of the names of all persons
discharged by virtue of this act, with their play st
of abode before commitment to custody, shall f: oat
time to time be published in the Gazelle. The
designees shall account to tl:e Commierion for their
receipts and payments. Of' effects of Oifieers in the
Army or Navy, or of Clergymen ; It shall be law-
ful for Assignees t,, obtain a sequestration of the
profit of any benefice fie- the payment of debts of
any Clergyman , the order fur such discharge to Ls
a sufficient warrant fir granting such sequestration,
without any writ or other proveedings to au:Lodes.
the same. Such portion of the pay or halt' pay of
any Military or Naval Officer, as on commuaicati. n
from the Court to the Secretary at War, or the
Lords Commissioners of she Admiralty, or the Court
of Directors of the Ueited East India Company, he
or they may respectively cousent to, is to be applied
in payment of his debts, and fur that purpose to be
paid to his Assignees.
WEVNIOUTO, Dec. 20.—0 n the evening of tl.c
16th inst. his Majesty's brig Hind, commanded be
Sir Charles Burrard, sent two „Tallies from Portland-
melds, to cruise during the night in search of smug-
glers on the coast, between three and Live miles to
the eastward of this piece. In the course of the
night it came on to blow so hard from the southward
dint both boats endeavoured to gain the harbour fiat
shelter Oae of them succeeded ; but the other,
commanded by Mr James flail, Admiralty Midship-
man, was struck by a sea off Radcliff-point, wheir
that gentleman was washed everboaril, and was never
seen again. The coxswain, who had been carried
overboard by the same sea, was, by keeping himself'
above water, saved by the rest of the men, who
beached the boat soon after, about a mile from the
Esplanade. Mr. Hull was 26 years of ago, haul
served between 12 and la years in the navy, as a
midshipman, and passed fin a lieutenant upwards of
six years since : he was an officer of great merit, a
perfect gentleman, a warm friend, and a thorough
seuman, and is deeply lamented by his shipmates:
Other afflicting events have taken place during the
late violent gait's. On Thursday last the smack
Hope, of this place, from Bangor to Lynn, Deeding
muster and owner, was totally wrecked off Swanage,
and himself, two sons, and a Still Mill, consigned to a
watery grave. His loss is deeply deplored, not only
by his sorrowful family, but all those who were
acquainted with this truly worthy and respectable
character. Added to which, yesterday, a boat be-
longing to his Majesty's Admiralty cruiser Gray-
hound, coming from that vessel, in Portland roads,
to this pert, was upset, half a mile from the shore,
by a sudden squall, when the chief boatmen and
titur men met with the same disastrous fate, except
the chief boatman, who was picked up by the exer-
tions of a boat's crew from the Greyhound, but ao
exhausted, that he died shortly after being landed,
and every exertion hod been used to restore anima•
tion, leaving, with himself and four comrades,
widows and large families, in all 17 children, wholly
unprovided for, to lament their severe km A sub-
scription is set on foot thr these distressod families.
Leiters lotre been trout CAIIIOI the 1-i lust. TWO
expeditions were ordered by the Spanish Closerntot nt
mo be out immediately in preparation. The one is to
carry out 5,1N/0 troops for (;,ot Morilln; and the milt er
it teas said was destined our Beenos Ayres, and tvotti.l
take from 10,010 in 1.5,001) turn. As theme were out a
snlficient number in ttansltorts en,a-a:ted (naciothog these
t tkeit tilt m Env.: Ind sod Franc.) to carry the whole of
th se fitters, the Coalmistitoters load receded makes to
hate Several more on the saute terms as t:te others were
chano-red.
Two new Judges have been appointed to Ceylon
in the n oni of the late Chief' Justice, Sir Aex-
ander Johmatone, who has retired, amid the late Sir
William Coke. Mr Justice Gillen', the late Ad-
vocate Fiscal at Coluudso, is appointed to the i'Lnaue.
Justiceship.