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mot have been a nui•take; hnt certainly Ilia sche-
dule contained Is statement of all he owed and all
that was due to him, though a particular date nuir.; t
be wrong. He had clever received a note for the
payment of 4,0001. front Loud lirancliamp and Mr.
Stanhope, hut he had ;.,riveti a hood of Lord
cfnalnp'a to Mr. (;torgePesithind, a roach-maker,'
with whom he had had large dealings for rarsiogea
of different descriptions. This bond of Lord lii-art-
champ's was for 7,7001. Mr. l'elstland had timely
other notes and securities of different kinds ;
had paid hint, from time to time, a great d7:11 of
moiler; he rlud not know whether Mr. Pu othiml
woluid give up this 114,11(1 or oir, hot In: knew true
well it would never he paid, fair Loud Bronchium p
was wider age, and the amount for which the band
was given. was for losses at play. There way, in
Tact, an injunction already limed from the Court of
Chancery, restraining all proceedings under thus
bomb He owed a Mrs. Groves, of Clapham, the
widow of• stock broker, 500/. for a horse, for I °int-
ers, spaniels, guns, &c. ; the price of the horse was
150/., he had sold lion to a Mr. Harvey, but was
never paid for him. The debt of 500/. mentioned
in his schedule to Mr.. l'eare, of No. 12, Upper
George-street, Bryanstone-square, was certainly for
a consideration. She was a Lady of fortune. lie did
not fed himself bound to give any other explana-
tion respecting this debt,. except that it was a note
he received from Major Warner, and euudore.l over
to her.

Mr. Astuauses insisted he had a right to know
What consideration Mr. Tysvoclets received for this
debt of 500/. which he acknowleged to be due to
Mrs. Pearse.
Mr. Twysden appealed to the Court, whethk r
he had not already given a sufficient answer.
Mr. thATR end Mr. POLLOCK contended, that
the Insolvent, having admitted the debt on the far..
of the schedule, was not called upon to state the
specific nature of the transaction, unless 51;; An-
drews appeared for Mr,. Pearse, and wanted to
!hew that some fraud was mixed up with the admis-
sion of the debt.
The COURT thought. that in saying it was a note
of Major Warner's' which he (Mr. Twysden) en-
dorsed over to Mrs. Pram, he had disclosed enough
for the present inquiry. It was for the assignees
hereafter. •in the event of this gentleman being
diScharged, to sri.utiisize the claims upon his
estate, and put in a train of investigation ally
diluent' wlkli they thought inadmissible.
Mr. Twysden said, he had no wish in conceal
any thing reipeciing himself, but he thought lie
ought not to be pressed to answer irrelevant (pies.
bona.

His examination was resumed.—He believed that
Plrs. Pearse was not now to be found in Upper
George-street. She now resided with him iii the
rides of the Fleet, though he thought the Learned
Conosel ought to observe some delicacy nit such a
subject. Mr. 11'irrille, of the King's-roarl, held a
post obit bond of his for 700/. as a security for 50/.
He owed Mr. Keels 180/. for which Mr. K. told
bilk to the amount of upwards of 2,000/. Mr.
Medwin, the son of the attorney, owed him 1,05(4.
but it was a debt conte.ted in Chancery. Mr. M.
gave him the bill for money won at play. Mr. Wot.
Harvey owed him a large sum, hot part of it was
for play, and part for horses ; this was a good debt.
Mr. Carper owed him 250/. brit it was H &ribald
debt; as the mun was dead. Mr. Charles (Ilkley
owed him 1.850/. he was a diplomatist in Vienna ;
part of this woe a gambling debt. Major 'Varier
owed him 1,500/. part for u gambling debt el-o.
Mr. ANDREWS submitted to the Codrr, that the
great Hominid amount of credits which appeared on
the face of the schedule, now appeared iu its pro-
per light. All those credits were connected with
gambling transactions—they appeared as good
debts on the face of the schedule. but, ma Grittier
inquiry, it came out that assignees would hare
no legal recovery. He contended, that the schedule
should have explained more I ully the nature of
these debts; as it now stood, it did not convey
frill, just, and proper account, and therefore Air.
Tivywlen, if even entitled to his discharge, could
not take the oath under the schedule, as it now
stood.

Mr. POLLOCK and Mr. HEATH contended that
to do this would be to ditclose u defence to his cre-
ditors, if they wished to resist his demands, and
involve the assignees in litigation.
The Cut RT thought that it would be better to
leave the particular investigation of the debts to
the assignees. if it should in the end appear that
Mr. Tssysden was entitled to his discharge. For
the present inquiry, the Collet thought enough of
the attune of the debts appeared on the face of the
schedule.

Mr. Twyaden. in his further examination, sti;d,
that it was in 1809 hie debts first commenced—he
was then of age, and not a resident in his father's
house. Hr derived Ins income at the option of his
father and friends.

In answer to questions from the COURT, he said
he was the eldest son and heir of Sir
Twysden, Bart. of Kent. His father had a real
property of above 7,0001. a year.
Mr. l'wysden, in his explanatory examination
by his own Counsel, said, that he had paid more
than 13,0001. of the debts he contracted since
1809, the vouchers for which payn►enta were now
iso Court, and he had already paid nearly the whole
of the principal to his annuity creditors.
The exu iii i tuition being now conclude►!,
Mr. APlDsews contended that he hail established
the grounds of his opposition. He had sl►ew►r that
the arrest of Ambrose was collusive, from the cir-
cumstance of his detainer for so small a sum, his
intimacy up to this hoar with theilnsolvent, his
appearance in Court as is witness for him, and his
suddenly flying from Court when he found the
opposing Creditor wanted to examine him relative
to the collusive arrest. The. Learned Counsel
contended that he had also established the fact of the
several defects in the schedule, wherein debts were
stated as good, though in the examination it clearly
appeared they could never be recovered, from their
being composed ol; or mixed up with, gaining
transactions. It was equally clear, he thought,
that the Insolvent load obtained credit without any
visible means of paying his debts, according to his
contracts, and that he had profusely squandered
the property of his creditors. Under all these
circumstances, the Learned Counsel contended
that the lusoltent was disdained to the benefit of
the Act.

Mr. Por.Loc •nd Mr. FIEATX were hestd iu