The National Register.
London, England, 1811-02-24 00:00:00

TIIE NATIOIVAL REMSTEit.

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TUESDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED:
John Mills, of Holywell-street, Strand, merchant.

BANKRUPTS.
Richard Phelps and Thoma. Presdee, of Newnham, Glou-
cester, linen-drapers.
Richard Woolley, of Lane-End, Stafford, potter.
Samuel Benjamin Haniand, late of Plymouth, linen draper.
John Barber and Thomas Hatton, of Macclesfield, Chester,
liquor-merchant.
John Holder, Kington-upon-Hull, tailor.
Wm. Whitwell, Bethnall-green, soap-manufacturer.
John Stott; Failsworth, Manchester, cotton-manufacturer.
Thomas Foster, Doncaster, butcher.
Samuel Gosling, Bramhall, Stockport, Chester, muslin-ma-
nufacturer.
Robert Sowter, Kingston-upon-Hull, and Thomas Henry
Payne, Cullum-street, London, merchants.
John Blease, Dover-street, Hanover-square, upholsterer.

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Richard Rowney, of Hattonlarden, perfumer.
William Lea, of Deptford, ironmonger.
Crawford Mollison, of Tavistock-place, merchant.
Thomas Jenkins, late of Prescot4street, Goodman's-fields,
upholsterer.
Janes Jones, of Basingball-street, Blackwall-hall-factor.
Cal,:b SNwer, of Paternoster-row, printer.
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CERTIFICATES—MAacit 16.
Edward WeStall, ofilungerford, Wiltshire, tanner.--Sarnuelk
Tipper, of Leadenhall-street, bookseller.--John Sl,orples and
James Sharpies, now or late of Andertou, Lancashire, cotton-
manufazturers.—William Laslibroulte, of Sou -hampton-build-
isms, Chancery-lane, wine-merchant.—Willia►n Ramsey, cif
Bury St. Edmonds, Suffolk, cabinet-maker.—Thomas Lea, late
of Walshatn-lc-Willows, Suffolk, innholder.—George Alderson,
jun.late of Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, printer.—Henry Foiadti-
nier, of Cannon-street, paper-manufacturer.—William Higgins,
of Great' St. Helen's, wine-merchant.—Joseph Dudley Webb, of
Liverpool, mere hunt.—William Kc:eling,ol Coiigleton, Cheshire,
batten—Richard Acton, of Manchester, corn-factor —John
Birch, serf. and John Birch, junk of Manchester, comm-mer-
chants.—Michael Thu-rough, of New Sarum, Wiltshire, banker.
—Enoch King, of Bateman's-row, Shoreditch, payiour7—Fa-
muel Jameson, of Reading, Berkshire, dealer.—Wil:isin Eilsort
of Bath, grocer.—Thon)as Hewlett, late of Southborough, Kent,
powder-manufacturer.—James Payne, of 'West-quare, South-
wark, Surrey, arniy-contractor.---William Dorrell, cif Colt:hea-
ter, Essex, plumber.—Joshua Evans, of Bolton-le-Moors, Lan-
c:ishire, cottotl-inaufact►firer.—Charles Robert Chadwick, of
Grosvenor-Mews, Bond-street,iron-plate-worker.—DavidAlex-
andix Lindo, of Great Winchester-street, inerchant.—James
Stedman, late of Hare-street, Spitallields, baker.

LAW I?ZPOR7'S.

COURT OF KING's BENCH, Fes. 20.

SITTINGS AX NISI MU'S BI:FoRE LORD ELLENBOROUCIIJ AT

IVLS STEIL.

WILSON AND ANOTHER, ASSIGNErS OF DEVAYNES,
DAW ES, NOBLE, AND CO. V. JOHN BALFOUR, ESQ.
This was an action of Troyer.
Mr. Attorney-General stated, that this might he a severe case
as far as it related to the defendant, but it must be a short one,
as it related to law. The mere question was, winaher certain
bonds, which had been the Brankrupes property, and which
they conveyed over to the defendant at the time they were
insolvent, and only the day before they stopped paymeit,, weie
to remain with them. It was almost unnecessary for him to
state, that the Bankrupts formed the firm of the great banhi;:g-
house in Pall-mall, which stopped payment on the .let of July
last. The defendant was a respectable gentleman of fortone,
who intrusted the Bankrupts with the sum of 16,3001. to pur-
chase stock for him, which they did, in the Navy 5 per cents. in
the name of Mr. Noble, one of the partners, who, on the house
being pushed for money in the month f May, sold it oat
again without the knowledge of the defeadrot, which
put him again in the situation of a cornmon crec!itor; but
Mr. Nobl!, he would not say fraudulently, but certainly un-
lawfully, although he might be actuated by laudable motives,
and a wish to make a recompense fur his bra ach of trust, did as-
sign over to the defcndant two bonds, to nearly the atnonnt of
the five per cents. He had however made over one bond 4.,f the
Earl of Oxford's, and the other of Captain James Umpstead.
This was what they could not do for another creditor; and his
loordqhip would info-m the Jury, that the law would allow no
favouritism. The defendant was not informed of-the ciretn-
stancqs until the lione of Dev,lynes were in the jaws of bank-
ruptcy at the time, fur they inelo,ed the bonds on the 30th of
July, and absol.itely stopped payment on the 31st.. They were
accompanied with a note to the following etlect :•-
14 Having made true of your Navy Five.per CentF,• we inclose
you bonds for security, as to-morrow we will be obliged to stop
our usual payments.'
" July 30, MO."
This note, in itself, said the Attorney-General, was sufficient
to entitle the plaintiffs.to a verdict, for the defendant was not
entitled to a grater indulgence than any other creditor. The
defendant had given notice that -he would dispute bankruptcy.
A late Act of Parliament required that the notice should be
given, and no blame could be attached to him for so doiog ' • for
it must be allowed that he had been hardly dealt. with, and had
a great stake at issue. The Learned Gentleman then proceeded
to call his witnesses :
Edward Howell deposed that he was cashier to Devavw-s's
bank; that Mr. Devaynes died on the 29;.h of Novernb.!r,l6oc?,-
, but the bank w..s carried on afterwards 11;s naon- and La. In