The Sun.
London, England, 1830-01-05 00:00:00

BANKRUPTCIES ENLABGBD.

George Pricstnall, Stockport, Cheshire, silk-spinner,
from Jan. 12 to at nine, at the Warren Bulkeley
Arms Inn, Stockport.

Edward Kelly, North Wharf-road, Paddington, scaven-
ger, from Jan. 12 to 15, at twelve, at the Court of Com-
missioners.

BANKRUPTS.

Phillip Marcu4 Preis and William Donna, Park-ter-
race, Regent's-park, wine-merchant.
Edward Oki., Falmouth, tailor.
John Fraser, Bath, Somersetshire, perfumer.
James Goodchild, Reading, Becks, grocer.
Samuel Crawley, Hemel-Hompstead, linen-draper.
James Hendrey, Great Newport-street, Long-acre,
linen-draper.
John Peters, Hoxton, ale-brewer.
Joseph Rattail, Kilburn, Middlesex, carpenter.
Robert Moody, Romsey, Plumber.
Edward Davenport, Bristol, grocer.
John Tliackeray, Manchester, cotton-spinner.
Rees Howells, Llandovery, Carmarthenshire, shopkeeper.
Joseph Wright and John-Davies, Liverpool, grocers.
Samuel James Buckingham, Liverpool-road, Islington,
victualler.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, JAN. 4.

Thomas Smyth, who described himself as a
deputy purveyor of the forces on half-pay, cleat to
a wine-merchant, and general dealer, was opposed
by Mr. CRESWELL, on behalf of Messrs. William
and James Sharp.
The insolvent stated, in his examination by Mr.
CuEsWELL, that, independent of his half-pay, he
had also a pension allowed him by Government.
The whole amount of debts now on his schedule
amounted to 18,762/. ls. 6d., of which his own
private debts were only 621/., and the remainder,
18,141/., consisted of liabilities in having put his
name to a number of bills to that amount, for none
of which he had ever received a shilling considera-
tion. A great number of those bills he accepted
for Mr. Flaskett, a wine-merchant, in Gracechurch-
street, to whom he was clerk, and the rest he had
accepted for other persons, but they were all accom-
modation bills. He swore that he was merely a
clerk to Mr. Flaskett, and not in any way connected
with him by partnership. One of these accommo-
dation bills for 1411., at two months, he accepted
on the 20th of Septerr.ber, 1828, in Mr. Fla.kett's
&lice, and by him (Flaskett) paid to Messrs.
Sharp, the opposing creditors, for money which
Flaskett owed them. Mr. James Sharp was in the
office when the insolvent accepted it, and he con-
sented to take it, and he was of opinion that Mr.
Sharp knew he was only a clerk to Mr. Flaskett.

Tile CHIEF CommtsstoNEß said, however ba
this system was, yet it seemed that Mr. Sharp took
this bill with his eyes opeti.

Commissioner BowEN—Yes, and he chooses to
take the acceptance of a man of straw.

Mr. James Sharp, one of the opposing creditors,
stated that Mr. Flaskett owed him and his brother
144/. After repeated applications for the money,
Mr. Flaskett asked the witness one day, when he
called at the office in Gracechurch-street, if he
would take a good bill; upon the witness answering
in the affirmative, he called the insolvent up stairs,
and the bill was drawn by Flaskett, and accepted by
the insolvent. When the bill became due, it was
dishonoured. The lower part of the house in which
Mr. Flaskett's office was, was occupied as a patent
ink-stand manufactory; and, as the witness had fre-
quently teen the insolvent in the shop, he supposed
the concern to belong to him. The witness never,
until this moment, heard of the insolvent -being a
clerk to Mr. Flaskett, or of his having accepted a
number of accommodation bills ; if be had been
aware of either of those facts, he certainly should
not have taken the bill in question_

The CHIEF COMMISSIONER said, that respecting
the bill held by Messrs. Sharp, the Court were of
opinion that sufficient caution had not been used by
those gentlemen previous to taking the bill. The
Court, therefore, would not remand the insolvent
at their suit, and they must take the consequences
of their own want of prudence.
The COURT then ordered the insolvent to be dis-
charged, and apportion 30/. a year out of his half-
pay towards•the liquidation of his debts.

An action for defamation, we hear, is talked
about, by a gentleman who carries what an inveterate
punster calls " a pugilist's name." If we were to tell the
story as certain evil disposed people Lave told it, we sus-
MODERN LATIN I T Y.—The Italians pride pent that some friend to the Press would make a new
themselves vastly on their Latinity, and laugh at our at- effort to protect its liberty, in a way that would not be to
our taste, so we. only giro the outline. A celebrated son
tempts in this way. Granted that the modern Italians
of Harmony, a short time since, visited one of the prin-
excel us in this particular, and it must also be admitted
cipal watering places on a professional speculation, and by
that they make a very unnecessary and prodigal display of a most unaccountable forgetfulness, omitted to leave at
their accomplishments. Lest I should condemn, how_ home with his chere antis I,liss- lady wife) provision for
ever, without adducing an instance, you shall judge. On the butcher and baker, who might, during his absence,
entering the inn at Ferrara, I was surprised to fad twenty call to pay tl4eir custcmary compliments. These rapacious
or thirty coats of arms emblazoned in fresco on the walls. people, not having their demands instantly complied with,
These were the bearings, crests, &c., of the King of seized upon all they could lay their hands on, and, among
NAPLEg, the Emperor of GERMANY, the King of Faussra, other treasures, upon a billet dons from a tuneful Bell
the Emperor of Russia, the Duchess of WußrEmasau, to the before-mentioned great borer, (who is said to be
and our Duke of SUSSEX (as well as I remembor) ; each " old Nick" himself in gallantry), breathing all love and
of whom, with half a dozen more crowned heads, had, at devotion, and declaring that the lovely writer could not
some time or other during their mortal lives, breakfasted, exist without him. The lady, who, in fact, had not the
dined, slept, or lunched in the house. Under
.the arms of least idea that more than one love could be cherished by
Austria it was pompously announced that the Em entoa, any human being, waa now most furious. While the
Prandium et jentaculum sumpsisset ;" and the excuse happy swain was harping on far different subjects, and
assigned for putting up the inscription was, "et in tetcrnum the fend fair one, unconscious of the dreadful expose, was
fulgeut memoria." The Emperor of Russia, whom the contentedly warbling " Charlie is my darling," all at once
inscription indicated to be " Seculi nostri ornamentum et that occurred which changed the tune from allegro to
decus !" was graciously pleased to sleep under this for.. penseroso, and Harmony fled frightened by the growl of
tunate roof ; and the inscription was comi,osed, "Ne tern- i Discord. The injured consort printed the melting epistle,
purls longitude, felicitotem ! obliterat." If any tutor or and gave it a wide circulation, which brought the gay Lo-
head of a College in England penned such trash as this, Mario, half distracted, to town ; when who should he
he would be sent straightway to St. Luke's ; but it is the I meet but the father of the belle, who, to add to his vexa-
vogue in Italy, where nothing is natural, and every thing tions, threatens him with an action, which caused him to
—even religion—dramatical. A man who would write sing, with musical pathos, a tune something about a
as he feels here would not be read. Jt is necessary always " pretty belle, whom he loved so very well," and "Roses
to be on the etreteh.—Morning Paper. have thorns.".—Sunday Times.