The Sun.
London, England, 1813-02-08 00:00:00

PA=Y'S BANKRUPTcY.

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On Saturday second meeting was- held at
Guildhall of the creditors under this comnii don.

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Mr. SHAMS? ELL, as Coiniset for Mr. Dellastet,
offered to deposit sesurity for all the property wit :::b;
had been obtained of the bankrupt Parry, sutn!,e-
gum to the forgeries.
Mr.-"MorrAou, Ili" Counsel for the Petitioning
Creditor, suid he was extremely anxious teat it'
should be, understood; his intention :u the last
Meeting was neither directly nor indirealy to say '
any titling to the prejudice of Mr. De Tabtet.—The
present cdnaideratiou was As to the propriety of
appointing him Assignee under the
Now, in his understanding, an Assignee ought to
be a person uninfluenced by his own interests, so
to enable him to -be the faithful trustee of the other
creditors. it had been stated to the Lord Chan-
cellor, by Mr.ShadWeli, that at the last meeting
the Commissioners rejected the proof of Mr. De
Tastct's debt ; 'but the fact was; • that they rti'vre.'
ly Said they were not suflicientlt advised on the.
subject. There had since ,beeii a paition pre-
sented, without any application or notice gi reit
to the provisional assignee,. or to the' petitioning
creditor, Under such circumstances, an es parte
order had been obtained ; and it was now for the
Commissioners to say whether they had any reit-
son to deviate froiu the invariable roles in all
Commissions of Bankruptcy throeghout the king-
dont a practice, too, estt Whet! by Lord Thur-
low, and particularly applicable tQ this ?4slittra-
ordirlaVy Otlse. The practice wa4,,,,ieWiebtz
a creditor obtAined property . from a bank-
copt, subsequent to. or 'on the eve of his ' act
of bankruptcy, the Commissioners would not let
'him prove his debt, or Vote in the choice of assig-
nees. On the 24th nit. Mr.i)e '!'sestet was in his
counting-house with Mr. Parry, when he was 'ac
costed by Mr. Macden, who said, " You have got,
I understand,' re bill on us for 24,0001." The an-
swer was, " Yes."—" Then" said Mr. Martlen.
" it is a forgery ; who drew it ?" 'To this Mr. Da
Tastet answerede Mr. Parry, who stands there"
It was quite evident, therefore, that he knew the
situation in which Parry stood. The transfer of
the goods, which took place after this, was of such
a nature, that if Mr. De T. were allie.ved to choose
himself sole assignee, no weak individual creditor
could contend with
Mr. SHADWELL observed, that Mt, Montagu.
had assumed that Mr. De T. would; if chosen Sole
. assignee, act in a manner detrimental to the in:
terestkof the other creditors. That was not exact,
ly consistent with the declaration which he made
as to the responsibility and integrity of Mr: De
T. But ifMr. De T. were even inclined to do so,
an application against him might be at any time
made to the Lord Chancellor, By the of
Parliament, the creditor to the greatest amount
should be chosen assignee..
Mr. Noss, oneof the Commissioners, ssia
that be felt considerable anstiety on thii occasion,
as in his practice Of thirty-seven years lie . bad.
never known a culae like the. present; hati'
beard nothing ist either of the examinations which
could stamp the smallest impropriety on the conduct
of Mr. De ',stet. He perhaps might have laic.
hold of tile man, when he petcrred securing his
own property it possible. Mr. De T. was a cre-
ditor to the amount of 86,0001. ; -and..kto
dereti that Mr. De T. ihOuld be snowed to prove;
and if so, ho suspected the. Act of' Parliament eras
imperativeon them, so as that they could not pre•
. vent hint Ilion voting in the choice of Assignees..
Another of the Commissioners was of a similar

Opinion, joi fur 04 we could hear; but Mr. Vesey
(the tititql) held, OA the point of practice was as
had been stated by. Mr. Altnitagn ; and uftersome
conversation, it was ,agreed to .refuse Mr. De T's
debt for the present ; and in .the mean .times- that
the point of practice should be argued before the
Lord Chancellor.

The day fur appointing the Assignees was ad.
journed till Frittay next.

The .Gazeite of Saturday contains two Order;,.
one Continuing for six ,months from the Bth inst
the prohibitions against the exportation of atni,
and jail kinds of naval and military stores ; end
another, prolonging from the same date, and for
the same period, the permission to import hides,
tallow, &c. in foreign ships.
The fall of stones from the atmosphere
this year, been remarked by' one of the French
Generals, DOSSENNE, in Catalonia ; and by M.
PICTET also, aboard two ships at sea—a cir-
cumstance probably new in this department of
science.