The Sun.
London, England, 1812-09-26 00:00:00

OLD r):CLEY, SEPT. 25.

ye4terclay...evening, and until three
o'c'tock this -iatorniiig,,..-was occupitni in the trial
of ThanraslT:Juis-ent, the nijir;,ey-lender, and two
per.oAl, of thq name 'of Folicard; fUr
sa epnviraeV ;
and r 'lmre imnortant or interesting case has sel-
.
clort occtirred.

the leading Counsel for the pro-
secution, iiian eifapicnt speech, stated the facts
Co the Jury; a's they afterwards• appeared in eVi-
deoce,.cf w!li'c'..; the following is a brief outline
The defendant;:John -Foikavd;carried on.busi-
-nexs-as,n silversmith and jewelter.,,inthe Surreyr:
road, between roar and free years, and wais-ap-
posed to he. f,onrishirib-r and. StteceSsful. until Jar
nuarylast, When to the great surprise of Many • of
his -creditors,..lre appeared in the Gazette:as a
bankrupt. FrOm some circunzstances of suspicion,
the ereditors saw it neeessHry tO
unite together 'to- get sovie of thentSelves chosen
assignees.; instead of others Who Avere propotwd
the banVupt and his friends: after • a ,c7,-e.:e
struggle they were eaccessfut, and :`,l-es. Powi;;
Hennui,ng, a'd.rraylot; were chosen. Tll6'ts.A-,
sinees; lookinp-,- over the list of delfts prOved
'by per*ons who.vOtd for the bankrupt's frie;l4,_
'saw several which they suspected Were fietitions.3.-
and conceiyiAg..itt their duty to invesfigsateolhe
claims, callc4, on the supposed creditors. One
',who was described as a bullion dealer on Lad-
gate-bill, \vas ;no where to be found another,
naiied Bond, whose 'debt appea,red to be US/. for
goOds sold and money lent, was a poor shoe-
Fleet-lane : others %vere" insolvents re-
cently .discharged' from 'prison, and so, far irons
having the ability to give credit, or' cash bills,jas
'as pretended, were in the 'u:.-:-.!ost poverty. '/$!;t:
assignees Waited on some of thiSe ,people, and in-
sisted'on having the partietda::s of their deinands,
. and threatened to prosecate• them if guilty el
fraud ; when a y,,pman called the BarOnc.!:
witz,--being alarmed on account of the part si,e
had taken,' vent to the ro'signees, and (:;sclosc(F
the gross frauds- and artful contrivances that bad
been practised. From her they learnt, that Thos.
i•;fugent; John Folkard, the bankrupt, and Win.
Folkard, his brother, bad hired several persons to
prove debts under the commission, in order to se-
-cure the choice,of their Own friends to he assignees;
and after.vardsobtain the bankrupt his certificate:
that bills bearing, date many months back, were
fabricated as evidence of the debts, the stamps of,
which William Folkard prelvidet:', and to avoid
detection, took care to have old Ones, because, as
he said, the Stamp-office put a mark on their
stampi every month ; appeared, tha't the
people employed to perjure themselves by proving
these false debts received a one-pound note, each
and a dinner : that after the conspirators were de-
feated, and .finding the accounts would be strictly.
investigated, they, in order !to account• for the
eilfects, detetunined. to enter goods to people who
never had any dealings whatever with. the bank-
rapt ; and the name; of those who'had left the
country-or were runaways not to he found, were
selected, Valuable'articles were entered as if sold
to them, and the bankrupt was thus to endeavour
to blind his creditors, and secret his property.
These facts were all Most'satis'lactorily-proved.,
by parties concerned, in the conspiracy ;
,confirtu-
ed by .%liittiesits. and many corroborating circum-
stances ;• particularly by accounts which John
Folkard had written for two .of the pretended
ditors to copy, and give to, the assignees as the
'particulars of their debts and also two' letters,
which although , dated at the distance of, three
mouths fram each;other, evidently, appeared to
have been -written on -two halves of one and the
same sheet of foolscap paper.
After an investivation of ten hours, and a very
able and impartial, summing :up by . the CommoN
SERJEANT; the Jury, without '• hesitation, pro,-
nounced John. Folkard, Folkard, and Thomas
,Nugent--=Guitty. •
This evening, (Friday), the Court passed Sen-
tence ou the defendants as follows;—That John
Folk,a'rd be- imprisoned two years,'andi during that
litne„ stand 'twice. in and up fin the pillory; that
'llioni:AS Nugent be itapri.Toned eighteen months,
and stand ..once in the pillory ; and that ,
Folkard be imprisoned twelVe months, and stand '
once in the pillory.

OXFbRD, SEPT. 213.—0 n Sunday last the follow-
ing Gentlemen were ordained at Salisbury :

. .
DeacOns-I.Villiam SI-atter, M.A. Merton College, Oxford;
Joseph Fletcher, A.B. St. Edniund Hall, Oxford; Jas. Paley,'
A. B. Magdalen Col Cambridge.; Charle.; Griffith; A. B.
Wad b lin Coll '0 xfOrd ; Ch%rles Awctry, A. B.' St. Mary Hall,
Oxford ; John Wills)), A. B. I-in:amid 6oliege, Cut-Aridge ;
William Colton, St. Mary 11411, Oxford; Jclnn Hemus, Bar-
rister at tar,' ; Cornwall Smalley.

Prlests:—Benja:nln P.:xi:Amp, A.M. Lincoln College, Ox-
ford ; fienrr.Bowytr., A. 13. Christ Orford; Edward
MI Souls College, Oxford;-,Torn Cooper, A.B.
Trinity'-Hail, CitlAbrldge; Henry Taylor, A.B. Bahol Col-
lege, (:)xfutrd; !3:1111,_:(.1 Ward, A.B. College,
Thomas P: den, John's' College, Cambridge; William Ai-
lel;, Pembroke College, Oxford; Chaklei Coleman, St.
mand-1.1411, Oxford ; John LiilwOod, Magdaleo-fiall, Os-

C2o4.l3iniDG, SEPT. 25.—Varions extraordinary
misiiepresentat ions lortv6 appeared in several news-
papers respecting the -Mastership of Dow ping
College, We are therefore authorized to .say that
the Chancellor has made no order, and expressed
no opinion upon the subject ; except that when he
had perused the petition against the late election,
he observed in the public court, that it contained
arpallegation that-the nominatinn of the Master
Was vested in him; he should, therefore, follow
the example of. Lord Tbuilow, who, having to
hear a suit, which by one tnode, of decision would
give hint the patronage 0: a valuable living, ,took
-to his assistance sonic. of the Judges ; so he, Lord.
Eldon, had pet-:onaliv such an intJrest in the pre,-
,sent Petjtlon, that he would rekoctst t:wo P-f 'the
chief, or the'Master of the ltoli, to sit with him
at fate lie liillti.

The Chancellor will proliably appoint -a`day in
the next. terui for the hearing of the petition,
when the Yarions objections against the .late el;ze-
tion will be fully beaM and investigated: •
On SuridaY last his GraCe the. Archbishop of
Canterbury held his.annual ordination at the Ca-
thedral, when' the Gentlewen of this
University were ordained :7--
De34cons—Frincis Dawson., B. A. Trinity College; George
Simpson, B. A. Tritiity College.
Priests—The Rev. John Baker, Z.L. B. S. Job r2s:Collese ;
the Th0...;41.3 curti, B. A. reliow of