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DOPER, Sarum's). 14.
Amend the late arrivals it, and departures
Poen. York Horst. ars—
Pry Li...—Tbe De sod Dothan of Amyll sad voile,
Mr Georyta sad Lady Warrsoder, Mr. said Mrs. risky and
etasiliti Mr. and Mrs. We. mid Mrs. Steveases, Gle.
send Adam; she Miss Mr. sad Mrs.• Reeves, Mr.
aadlMs. Arhatknatt, Mr. and Mrs. Mara and ?easily. Lard
Istirolent. Mr. spit Mrs. Lash. Mr Preach Wills, -- Dsyley.
Bop Biala, Baty. Mr. and Mrs. Barnard and family.
Dr. &ad Mrs. Drake and family, Ur. mid Mrs. Betts and
Mistily, Mrs. Williams, Lady CArlyille, Captain Dawkins.
-- Arraign, Esq. Mrs. Joy, Tarts& Goitre, Eaq. General
-and Mrs. Ilsersusoo4 *Mr. and 'Mrs. Basset, Mr. and rs.
Jae" the Coaster De Canvey sad suite, Mr. Maio
Mr. Feller, Sir Henry WilletrOdry, Mr. liyhdad, Mr. Brews,
Wilfests, Mr. *pm, Mr. Adeaa, 111r..Adstas,ta4
Teo*, Mr. wad lark lialtatita, Baron Ges,p, K. Da
and Maim Alseditiillass, Mr. and Mrs. Braolueasit, Mr.
"wad Watscia Taylor. E. sod Lady,,
Lady 'hsyyllasrr sad suite, Mr. Med Mr.. Wall, Mrs. potter,
He Ma. Mr. aid Mn. Wahine, Colette! and Mm. Charchill,
Lard sad Lady ineisimiro mad sidle, the Non. Mainwarlai
mow, Lady Maria inilaw, Mrs. Ilietiniker, Mr. asA
hirs. Pear, Mr. bed Mei. Welt and family, Mr. /bodes and
Yana) Boss, his Moneur Tier-Clan-
Mr, "" Mks itl'"

Lard
Alardeabermili, sd timilf, Cc.
' Sir Isms Cm* Jul. &man.
add Lady Temp%down 'or. Miss Up-
ton, Air. sad Afro. Jtmaisas, Earl suit Commas
haus sad sully, Mammy Dames P.n. sad
.famoily, Colonel
and Mrs. ail" Lletlisam.C•lMiel Mamas's; Mr and Mrs.
Drummond, kr. Glee, Kr. sad Mos. Odle, Mr. sad
Mrs. Williams and lbe lifargravise of Aissiaeli and
melte, Colossi °nisi, Mr. Joyce, J. L. Ikuo4 Esc Miss
Atkins, he. he.

VRIMSBY, °MIMI 10.

A Court Leet was held here last Tuesday before
the Mayor and Bailiffs. by Mr. Nicholson, Deputy
High Steward, for the election of new officers to
serve the ensuing year, when some eltercation took
place respecting the elettion of a Coalmen, or
Freemen's Serjeant, in the room' of Thos. Wharton,
demand: After a good delil of minecesserY rows,
pros sad eons, with reepett to the constitution*)
triode et ugillakoffiges„, , r. Them. fletla
was elected. iis efignagemm to 'the voice of the free.
meu at large. We .alsink there is little nemwsity
for disputing on the mode of electing officers ;
were the duty only •of every officer More properly
amended to, and the affairs .of the Cotporation
messaged somewhat differently, and 'Wield any
assistance beyond the lordship's line of circumval-
Wien, which we hope sod tenet will ere long be the
case. The amount of the annual revenue of the
Corporation, and the particulars of its application.
is certainly an armaulo, which the elect zealously
preserve : indeed the great body of the freemen are
as completely ignorant of their own accounts as an
ass of the extent of its ears. The accounts have
lung been kept a profound secret, not only from
strangers, but alto (we repeat it) Irons the bur-
gesses, which, if it do not encourage corrup-
tion and misapplication of the funds, certainly
affords strong grounds fur suspicion. This dark
and unsatisfactory mode of proceeding is ex-
pressly prohibited by the charters of Henry VII.
and James H, if we are net mistaken, by which
taro Auditors are directed to be chosen yearly
to examines!! the acts of the Chamberlains for the
time being, concerning the rents, revenges, and
profits of the town. and to make thereon a antis-
factory report to the Mayor and Bartsester. But
the Additors, we sire sorry to say, of late have lost
sight of the obligation of their oath, and mostly
without examining either bill or receipt, they
merely beer their clerk or the general accountant
read—sign the book—eat their shilers; and so the
business closes. We limpid •ask, have not dl the
arrears due to the Corporation a right to be laid
before these Auditors, and by them closely to be
examined, before or previously to siguing the book?
Certainly. Although the arrears do not belong to
the accounts of the current year, yet the Auditors
have no right to sign until they are brought for-
ward. The office of an Auditor is important, and
ought to be Ailed with turn that will act *Ph arm-
lifts, judgment, and independence.

A letter from St. Helens. tr the last arrivals,
states the prices of sundry articles of provisions as
follow. viz.—.4l turkey. 42 guineas, a goose 455.
a duck 10.. a dozen of eggs 54.. 'pork 184. per
pound, beef 14j.....very good wine ut bd. per
• •
SHIP LAVIIICII.--Yefleriday the To/aver., of
74 gnus, was launched from his Majesty's Yard,
at Woo/wich, amidst the acclamations of some
thousands of spectators. Precisely at two o'clock
a military band struck up " Hearts of Oak."
when the vessel was strut* off her blocks, and
glided into her element in a grand and majestic
style. No accident occurred.

We are happy to announce the return to work
of the miners in the employ of Colonel Busy-
mow T. —(lVetocruile Paper.)

AcclDENT.—Yesterday morning, about nine
o'clock, a man who was employed to clean some
windows at the house of No. Is, Craven-street,
Strand, in consequence of having nothing but a
slight hand-rail to liy 11.104 it
.gavi,,way. and he
uai, precipitated to the plaolliaid, mut injured in •
dreadful usauuer. Hemel,. MO ger& its a hackney-
coach to the Westuijotter teriaw, without hope
• •
of rrsovery.
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INSOLV&VT DEBTOR'S COURZ
1111711SDAT, OCToBER 13,

coNTonesstoy THE CQVRT OF CffeNetaT.
The application of *Mr: John Mellows was op-
posed by Mr. HUTU ow -thelollowing *Mused :
The Learned Coeesel stated, that the Insolvent
had, so far. 'neck as the time of :the late Mr.
Serjeant.Palmer, applied for the benefit of the
Act, and been remaarMasta the Court. The fact
. •
was, be then end new committed for • con-
tempt of an order of the High Court of Chowcery,
by which he wit, teqitired to pay iuto the (Ace of
the Acconiptane-Cituteral a BUM of Hit/. Ifs. 3d.
in the per Coate;-.4sot hotting eomplied wit that
order he still remained in custody fur the Contempt,
and his cue,was kknuly out of the juriadictiou of
this Court.
Mr. PotLoti, oo the part of the Insolvent, con-
tended that his ease was strictly within the jurischc-
iion of this Court. unless it could be supposed that
the Learned Serjeent *rho, presided would one day
contradict the course be bad deliberately taken oft,
the preceding. It wee so later than yesterday that
the brother of this Insolvent was discharged from
this Court. although he stem( committed with him,
by an order of the Court of Chancery, fur the seine
contempt. How COOlll he then have Spero ditelliartf•
ed if kn case was not within the Learned Serjentit's
jurisdiction ? The emiterupt consisted in a refusal
to transfer 16.11, in the 3 per Cents. ; the Insolvent
and Int brother were conjoiutty involved in end
committed for this refusal, but the brother was yes-
terday discharged •by colorist of the Plaintiff's
attorney, on his paying a sum of 701. The original
contempt had been therefore, compromised by the
Plaintiff for a pecuniary cousideratiosi, and the pre-
sent Insolvent merely stood as a debtor for his share
of the traosaction. The ewe being thus reduced
to a mere question of money by the Plaintiff, and
the contempt severed amid commuted, the Insolvent
wag, hr contended, strictly Wttlsiu Ilse lurisdietion
of the Court.
The CouaT—" The contempt arises out of an
order from the Court of Chancery, desiring the
lu-
solvent to transfer stock to a certain 'mount into
the hands of the Acconiptasit-gelieral, that the
Court might have a control over that property."
Mr. AnuLettus followed ou the same side wills
Mr. POLLock. He said, that the Insolvent and
his brother were joint trustees for some property
iu the 3 per Cents. This property was .vested in
them for a persou of the. name of Williams end
his wife, who charged the trustees with hoeing
sold it out. The late Mr. Serjeant Pallier re-
minded the Insolvent, because lie stood committed
far a contempt of the Court of Chancery. in not
purchasing au mooing of stock similar to that he
was alleged to have sold, and placing it in the
name of the Accomptant-General. Titus the con-
tempt originally stood against the Insolvent and
his brother conjointlio,assbey were the co-trustees.
But What lesd bees desse.sinoe ? The attorney for
the Plaiatiff enemas- a pecuniary compfnution
free one of the co.pirties, and consents to his dis.
charge yesterday; the cootempt. therefore. we.
purged by this compromise, and melted doWn into a •
mere pecuniary question between the parties.
which wee clearly within the jurisdiction of this
Court. If this were not the inevitable effect of
the compromise, let the Court only lee the
mauifest injustice it would be the means of
inflicting on the Imsolveril. Justead of standing in
his original situation as • participator in the opera-
tion of the contempt with his brother, lie would
now stand us having it solely upon his own shoul-
ders, with the great additional disadvantage ahoy-
ing to content( with his brother fur the amount of
money paid by the latter out of their common
partnership fund. to rid himself of his share of the
effect of .the contempt. The Court bad clearly a
full jurisdiction where the contempt in the higher
Court had been merged ieto a mere question of
money, as between the Pieintiff and co-trustees.
Mr. Hprrn, in reply. maintained that the origi-
nal cootempt stood in full force so long as both
trustees refused to concur in the transfer (for with-
out the concurrence of both it could not be made),
according to the order of the Court. He contended
the contempt had never been removed in the higher
Court, and that this Coos, could not touch the case
of the Insolvent as the question now stead. and
while the original cause of the contempt remained
still unexplained and unremoved.
The COURT lamented that it should be called
upon to pronounce its adjudication open au ussfoi-
tunate person who had been more than four years
its custody. It appeared that. among other causes
of detention, he was committed by the Court of
Chancery for • contempt of the order of that high
Court, requiring him to make a transfer of certain
property, of which he was a co-trustee, in a branch
of the public funds. This contempt remennol
clearly umiitissfied, and this Coen could not exer-
cise any jurisdiction over it upon the facts Dow
dis-
closed. The contempt had never beets merged
ints, a mere pecuniary question, iu the strict pease.
The higher Court merely called for the contras
ever, not the actual disposal of, certain property in
the 3 per Cents. and that control so demanded had
never been surrendered as required. But it was
contended the co-trustee had compromised with
the Plaintiff. and therefore reduced the contempt
to • mere question of money. This Court could
not look at the matter in such a light, and what-
ever arrangement had been made, be it what it
may, alone remained for a Court of Equity to con-

sider and decide upon, it was not. as the case now
stood, within the province of this Conrt. The de-
cision was, that the lniolvent be discharged from
all other grounds of detention except the contempt
of the Court of Chancery.
NEGLECT OF CERTAIN ApENTS IN THIS COURT.
Air. Wm. Tisysdrn. a young Gentleman, who
has moved in a high sphere in the fa.hioaablo
world, was a second time teMended. owing to the
negligence of his agent in complying with the
forms of the Court. He was formerly remanded
on the 116th August for an informality on the face
of his schedule, and he was now a second time
sent back on the objection taken by Messrs. An-
drew. and Bassett, thet the liisolvent's schedule
described him as a prisoner in the King's Bench.
though the fact was, as the order of Court pro-
perly set forth, he was a prisoner in the Fleet. For

this 'variance between the schedule and .order of
the Court as to the place of custody, the preseut
order for hearing the Insolient was disclplarkt
The Act ItisOlvents to retain ho 'oh of
certain necessitrjes wider the mine of 2.01. in their
_total ossount‘ anti they are technically.deuomitisted
" excepted. Oficial." In the case. of Fredericks
tallness, this merging. die Agent inserted under
•the head wt. "'scepter! articles." 14 choirs, 'four •
tables, and some Other foreiture. Thi Court die..
mooed the josolveut's utpijiou, on the retied that
Ms endue reservation of neceisariee was set forth.
The petitionsfJohn Leseeeleywasdienslased, he-
catice,:linder the head of ".excepted article'," the
following keine were foand as necessaries-f“ a
mare"—•• twelve sheets."'
WA*MANT Or Arcoßiotir. •
Phloem Thorne was remanded for au undue pre.
ference to a particular creditor, it skewing that
lie gave hint a warrant of attorney to the injury of
his other creditors.
After the remand took place, Sarritiel Barnard
came forward, and said he appeared in Court as
the Secretary of a-Friendly Society, called the Be-
nevoleot Brothers, Which was held in ttishoptgate.
His object was to state to the Court, that the Insol-
vent was a joint trustee fur' the custody of 1061
of the society's funds. The society,. in yirtue of
the power vest's( in •its members, had appointed
another *metes in the fOOlll of the Inisoltient„ but
the latter refused to concur in the necessary gringo.
ment to make the transfer of the trisst available.
The society did not mean to oppose the Insolvent's
discharge, they only required that he should make
the proper assignment, now that he vies divested
of the office of a co-trustee. The Court said, that
the Insolvent was already remanded, and this ques-
tion could not be entertained.
Wm. Henry Shinlgeit, a clerk in the sccompt.
ant deportment of the Excise, was discharged on
milking an assignment of au/. a year out of his se.
lorry. No person came forward to oppose this Gen.
Orman, hut he acceded to the terms of the Court
in a inauner winch the Learned Serjeaut considered
very creditable.
The order for bearing the Petition of Mr. Ed.
ward Ambrose was discharged, it being evident to
the Cann (rum his manner that he was too much
indisposed to give an answer to the necessary in-
terrogatories.

be.

Tire lissolvent declared, he was very unwell, and
at the moment rather unprepared. to undergo 'en
esamitsatign.
Denierniniluglies was discharged, after air exa-
mination respecting his affairs leads his brewer, sub-
ject to leo excepted debts.
!behind Wright, wise was discharged last Au-
gust, wad again brought up for a (Other hearing of
his case, the opposing creditors ben% prepared with
evidence to contradict the statement which the In-
spinal matte of Isis property at the time he had ob-
tained his discharge.
Mr. l'ota.ocit produced Frederick Writers Lul.
hat°, who raid he was • lodger in the house of the
Insolvent, at Newington-causeway, where there was
a stuck mild property which he believed was
W right's, thoughiOseesed wader the name of Anne
Itahinstsa's, who lived there. The witness s.tid that
the Insolvent paid and received meneyt and cur.:
eisrd what appeared to him to be acts of ownership
oil several occasions ass the house.

The Insolvent underwent s long examination, in
the course of which he denier( having exercised any
such acts, in which he was corrobonited by Anne
Itutiosou, who kcet the house. They imputed to
Latham every species of ill-will fur his conduct on
this occasion.
The debts of the Insolvent amounted to 7,0001.
his bad and disputed debts were nominally coati.
derable_t but the good debts were little more than
201. His profession was that sif arr Emit India
broker, in the course of which he stated he hecenie
liable to heavy debts from the defalcations of his
prineipele.
The Court saw po view cause to alter the gronodp
of its former decision, and the Insolvent was an-
cordiogly dischaegeel. .
In the coarse of the day a man of the name of
Hymn's ineffectually opposed his owq son for • debt
of 301.
T:tere were • numher of trivial cases which oc-
copied the Coqrt until five o'clock in the even-
ing, bet they were devoid of general ititerest.

The LORD Clissicem.o• has for some time heed
eitjoYing the sports of the field in the country. He
he., with his usual gond humour, cot 1111 l unimited to
his neighbours, that they are not to consider the
game on his Manor as IVardi of Chancery, and that
they are welcome at tiny time to • day's shooting.
Ills Lordship is now considered the best shot in
Westminster F4all, lifter Sir litcwwv (31aws, who was
always highly celebrated in the Annuls of the
Trigger.

The following are some detached extracts from a
letter lately received by the Honourable Captain
Narita, lt.N. fsorn on hoard the hubella. one of
the ships employed in the Northern expedition.—
The letter is divided into different dates: 3 nly 12th,
18th, 22d, sod 25th. Accounts have been received
as late es the ht of August, but every intelligence
from this expedition must be interesting :
" .1113.11 am now more sanguine of getting a long
pay Worth sod West than I was at thr first of the voyage."
.11.0 m IS, 1.1.1.74. 43.—The compasses fur sonic time
have trarmerd very sluggishly; this we suppose Is owing to
the Merman of dip. 3 Walt it not at all 'improbable that
as the terrestrial 'magnetism begins to set inure Maimed to
the compass needle, it will act with less force; the inn of
the ship still acting at the same an draws the 'Keene to.
iodide the mitre of the ship, which causes this great devili-
lion of the-eompass; end should we rem* the place wlfere
Ike dip is 00, I and' the compass will stood always North
sod South by the nisgeetisas or the d,ip."
" JULY 12 —Yesterday we got an opening which brought
as to the 75th degree. The land ice extends three or four
les,gsses off.!'
rJuLyg6, let. 75.4 t. loos. 60 slut.—Gut here this morn.
ing, sod now see more deaf wain. gum we have wee fur
some days past. We most now be crossing the nugoetie
Pule fast, as the variation increases so mach. It is pussliag
to And out exactly how the ship is steering by the compass;
whist with the 'great variation and error, arising trim the
shijes' attraction and the steenbok traversing of the coal-
passes, we must coasider some time before a course or wie4
can properly be named. The temperature of the water to-
day is 36 degrees higher than it has been 54 some weeks ;
we see laud bearing NW. by W. true." ' N
The Hy ansa storeship, commended by EL L.
Hicks, miter R.I. arrived at the Cape of Good
Hope on 4th August, from St. Helenef all well;
and remained there pa the itth. 4ogust, when
;lie Daphott laded.

Gerseral Slade and
cellar, Edward Bannier, Esq. Mr. Mrs. and Miss Hart,
Csutain Jennies, Mr. and Olin Goslings, Mt. dad Miss
Martino**, Mr. CaMt, die Hon. Mr. Pinch, Mr. had Mrs.
Dwyer, General and Mrs. Hassey, Mr. and Mrs. Mostiterby,
Raika, ilimq. Mr. Ind Mrs. Lich, Mr. aid Mrs. Byte.,
Mr. and Mrs. lie, Mr. and Mrs Webb, Mr. Pollen, Mr.
and Mrs. CbrisEe and runily, Mr. and Mrs. Forbes, General
and Mrs. Croablir, Mr. and Mrs. Brace, Mr. and Mes.Nitaisit,
Mr. and Mrs. Meebhans bad fatally, Sir John Cos Hippis.
ley, Bart. Lady owl onkel Mr. and Wm: Arnestromg sad ra-
mify, the Miss CeCenaors, Mr Woe. Slily, Mr. and Mrs.
Nugent, Mr. and Mrs. Corea, Mr. !Hades, lir. Tyler, Mr.
and Mn. Hayes, Mssor Earringtolt Colonel and Mrs. White,
Mr. sod Mrs. Goodrich, Mr and Mrs. Slieddod, illiteral Si(
Cedar/ sad Lady Jam, Mr. god Mn Masters, Mr. Jones,
Mr. sod Mn. Arthur, Mies honey Mr.aud Mrs. White.
head, Mr. sad Mrs. Poem!, Mr. gild Mr.. Noy, Lady Carr
Glyn and Mr. Glyn, Mr. and Mrs. Mania sod fanny,
Mr. Dunglass, Lord Clenseat, Mr. Stride, Mr. Dent, Mr.
Wright, Mr. Walpole, Mr. aid Mrs. Maspratt, Ole Hun.
and Lady Carolina Ponlett and suite, Mr. and Mrs. Mook
and tastily, Mrs. WMttleworth, lie. &c.
Par Frames—Lady Sahrlyter, the Hon Charles Stewart,
W. Wars...oder, Esq. Mae Hoe. Captain Perry, Lord Molly
areas, the Hon. Mr. Molloaaan, Lord Crank's., .
Twisdale, Esq. Lord Palseestion, Shoe, Esq. Mr. and
Mrs. Illardenhoroesit Mr. and Wm Johem and flimsily, Cc.
metal Mr Sasses Kemp, reablery, Esq. Sir Julio &OWN
Lord sod Lady Templetown and snit., the Hog. Miss Lip.

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