The Sun.
London, England, 1802-08-24 00:00:00

INYRRNE6:S.SHIRE ELECTION,

REmoirro as we are from the scene of aaion, it
is imposible for us to ascertain. the merits of the
contest, by any other means than as they arc- com_
municated by the friends cg either party. We give
place to the following account as readily as we did
to the article to which it alludes.. •

Being informed that a misstatement in regard to
the Inverness-shire Eleaion, appeared in the. Stnr
of the gth
,inst. it is presumed you will be glad of
having it correaed -by the report of a Freeholder
present.

There were neither Coalition nor Desertion of
parties, as represented in the Sc:., Each of the three
Candidates went separately to the Poll with his
whole original strength ; and the numbers
,were as
follows, viz. for Mr. GRANT, IS;Mrt.FRAS7a
of Lovat, i r ;• and for Mr. Fokeispf Culloden, 6..
An Attempt was made, which faired,',Of uniting the
two latter parties ; because it was found that some
individuals of both, had been engaged against each
others Candidate in favour of Mr. GRANT, in .the
event of such a Coalition, and that his success most:
have been equally certain by a like majority of
four. The .Election, however, , being
_keenly con-.
tested, some objelions were siarted -the part of
Mr. FRASER, against the adMiSsioni of new claim+
ante to vote,in the interest of Mr.' GRAVT ; but
theseolijeCtions were over-ruled as frivolous, by a
great, majority of the old Freeholders promtscousit
attached to all the parties respeCtively.

'• It is farther- asserted, that three-fourths of the:
Landed interest of the Coorrty, opposed the success.•
ful Lanctioare: t 1 pet ts,- supptoing trio
Coalition Stated to have taken place,that about three..
fourths- of the Landed Interest. of the County mast
have voted with the returned Member; but with,•
nut suchl Coalition, as was truly the case, upwards
of one-third of the Landed Interest went with the
successful Candidate (one of,.three),---and. -certainly
not one-fourth with hirn who most keenly contest
ed and lost the Eleetion.

We have received the following Account of
the visit Of PRINCE WILLIAIc4 of GI,OI.IOESTIX
to she KING of SWEBF

iiis Royal Highness arrived at Sweaberg in
Finland, the t6th of July, 'and- was received by'. •
Admiral DANCEIVAR Dr and .Colonel Count CRON..
STEDT ; the Pxrxcs disembarked the following '
day, and was welcomed. by a-Royal Salute, the
whole Garrison drawn up en Partuir, and each Regi-
ment in its. station. •
Admiral CRON,;fEDT, Commander of the For.- -
tress of gweaberg, who had attended,•the King
during a part of flis Majesty's' journey through.
the Northern part of Fiuland, was dispatahed by
his Sovereign to receive.- and congratulate the
PRINCE on his arrival. Qat -the -17th, .after dtC
.visit of ceremony, he concluded his Royal High-
ness to view this remarkable Fortressl which ap
peared to give the PRI NCr great satisfattion. Ua
the :Bth Prince • WILLIAM. proceeded to Fie' sing-.
TOrss; and was also there received with Royal-.
honours this and the; two: ii?llowing days were
passed in -a minute inspeelion of the Fortress : oh •
'the ziSt the PRINC E pursued .his 'journey to Abos
attended by Admiral CR oNSTE DT, having Mr.
HAMILTON- and Mr,, 133,KER, in his suite. During
the expelation of the return of their Swedish
Majesties to the Capital of Swedish Finland, the
PRINca 'amused himself in viewing every thing,
remarkable at Abo. The King and Queen arrived •
in the evening of the i3d. On the i4.th Prince
WILL lAK paid a visit to- their Swedish MaPs'
ties ; none of their attendants were present at the
first interview ; after which His Royal Highnes6
attended the ceremony of the King's laying the
Foundation-stone for a new Universitr; the
PRINC C. dined with -Their Majesties, and irt_LlA
afternoon there was to be a Drawing-room, and
Ball .in the 'evening given by the Town to tho
Royal visitors.

The next day the King and Queen accoill'
partied by the PRINCE were to set out' for Heising-
forss, and it "was believed triat:His Royal Hightess`
would 'pass several days. theme .with Their Ma.';
jesties.

Tuesday last, being the-anniversary of the MO'
tion of- hostilities between the English and
Freocit
i-n Egypt, the Officers and, Privates of the-3oth Re'
gitnent of Foot, who were at: that time-inMoo"'
dila, dined together-atthe Barrack-yard at Sundl
land on the ooccasion,ln-_the evening; that hartthe Barracks inhabited by them' was,iliuminate.ol
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LATHROP? MUILRAY'S DAIMIttII-TCY.

Tuts Petition was called on at ten o'clock, when
IVIr. PENIBERtON requested it might stand over till
twelve, in order that Mr. Gill, the Petitioning
Creditor, might make an Affidavit. Mr. PAtitt-
soN, the Solicitor, he said, used every endea..
your to-find him, and had flirtunately met with him
yesterday. The LORD CHANCELLOR adjourned
the Petition for two hours, but Mr. Gill's Affida-
vit was not forthcoming.
The SqIOCITOR GENERAL (Mr. Stittort) opened
th Atbem, which prayed
.on the part of La.,
throp Murray, that the Bankruptcy might be su-
perseded 'at the exvence of the Petitioning Creditor,
Gill, and the bond assiglied, and that he might
also pay the costs of this application. The Soli-
citor General then stated from the Petition, that
in February last, John King opened a Bank in
Portland-place, and that the Petitioner, Who was
an inexperienced young man of good family, and
possessed of an estate in Shropshire, was about that
time introduced to him; that King frequently invited
him to dinner, and entertained him in a Must sump-
tuous manner, with French wines, and all kinds of
luxuries ; displayed a superb sideboard of plate, and
by his style of living, induced the Petitioner to
think he was a man of considerable fortune. On
one of these occasions, after the bottle had.circu-
lated pretty freely, King called the Petitioner into:
bis stony, and expatiated on the immense-profits
of Banking. Ohierving that the Petitioner placed
faith in what he said, he proposed to him to
come a Partner with him in a Bank at West,Fel-
ton,'in Shropshire ; and he drew oett art agreement
to that erred, which the Petitioner signed. A day
or two afterwards King talked openly of the Peti-
tioner being a Partner in the Bank at Portland_
place, upon which the Petitioner remonstrated
with him upon the impropriety of his conduct.
Icing asserted that the paper he had signed was a
regular Partnership Agreement, and authorized,
him to issue Notes, and further, that if the Peti_
. boner refused to enter into Partnership Deeds for
twenty done years, he would ruin him. Terrified at
his threats, the Petitioner consented to sign them,
19t he had since discovered, that at the time of en-•
tering into such Partnership, Notes had been issued
under, the former agreement, and had been disho.
?I(34`".'aild that Levison Prescott- had taken the
belAk4pan Insolvent At. He therefore deter-
#ll yea lo` iit an end to the conneCtion he had im-
prudently 'engaged in ; but King, although no
Ilanking business had been done by the Film, had
issued Notes in their joint names to the enormous
amount' of ±36,0001. He had delivered many of
them to Mr. Gill, a linen-draper, of Oxendon,
street, to whom the Petitioner, on his private ac.
Count owed a debt of :31'. The Partnership ho.
ing been dissolved, King proceeded to effect the,
ruin of the Petitioner through the medium of Gill,
who, though conscious the Petitioner was only in,
debted to him in .the sum of z3l. thought proper to
swear the spm of 3001. was due to him upOn ;fry-
difFeren t notes of band drawn by the Firm. Nor,

'withstanding he had before..caiied upon the Peti-
tionet, and told flirt% that, except for: the Y3l.tit
Ito no claim whate' 'upon him, be ilk; tajcen
Cl{ p Commission of` Bankruptcy founded upon the
Partnership debt: A eoniiderable doubt might he
raised, whether there had been any trading at
13Y the Firm, which commenced in. March and
dissolved in April, without ever having done any
business but that of issuing, its own Notes ; but
that was nor the ground of the present Application.
The Petitioner contended there was no Petitioning
creditor's Debt; that the bills Gill had received
Were a fraud on the Partners, and that Gill knew
• it, and was pricy to the fraud. This unforttinate'•
. young man had • been dazzled by the French
'wines; - the.sideboarci of. plate, and Lady Lanesbo.
rough .at the head of the table. He thought that
tite!,,,ittport of such prnan as Mr. King, he,
alight ativianogeously carry on a Banking-house
in-Shin-litre; in which County his estate lay, but
• he nevee.: originally had an idea of becoming a
partner in the Portland-place Bank. Soon after
• be had been frightened into, tire Partnership, King
applied to him to sign a security in order to re-
deem his sideboard of plate, which had been taken
in execution. This the Petitioner had refused to
do. Mr. Solicitor-General added, that Gill Was a
mere creature of King's, employed by him to dis_
.. count and negotiate his Bills among those who
were so silly and brainless as to attach a value to
them beyond that of the slip of paper on which
they were written. It was admitted that Gill had
supplied the Petitioner with Irish Linens to the
amount of 131, for which lie applied to the Peti-
tioner, and afterwards to his mauler, atating that
it was the whole of his demand, and that if she
Would pay it, he had nothing further to do -with
her Sun, but would extricate him from King, who
was in his power—whom he held beiWeen his finger
and his thumb. The Learned
.Solicitor .General
therefore submitted, that there was no Petitioning
Creditor's debt sufficient to ground a
_Bankruptcy,
and that the Commission ought to be superseded. '
Mr. CooKE, on the same side, said it was ad-
Thitted that Gill was not a- Creditor beyond 4-31:
otherwise than as the holder of partnership notes ;
• and it had been decided, that Such a debt could not
be made the grounc'. of a Commission against an in.:
dividual Partner.
PEMB E %row, on the other side, said, that it
Vitas in vain for. the Petitioner to hope that the po-
. Pular prejudice against Mr. John King would serve
. " this Court, into which such prejudices never
: Onto • :in speaking of the Petitioner, he really for.
:_,_;ilol);!iitiliat name 'he was to call him—he had had
fahers, grandfathers, and rich relations, all
leaving him estates, which obliged him to change
• his name, that he was quite at a loss by what name
to ball'him now. (Ili: Lordship told him that his
description in the Pleadings was Fenton Brown Clark
Latbropp, claiming to be a Baronet). Mr. PEMB ER.
TON, in repeating this description, by mistake, said
claiming to be a Bankrupt, and proceeded to comment
in severe terms on the audacity of the Petitioner,
%?119did..pot.Lcruple to come forward and represent
himself as an innocent young man, a dupe to the
practices of artful men, and who knew nothing of

the transaeiiOni of tills Pattriership, although
had been clearly proved at Guildhall; at the time
this Commission was granted, that Many of the
notes which for Med the Petitioning Creditor's bill
were in Lathropp's hand-writing. It was true, that
Mr. Gill; who stied out this Commission., Was pleased.
to keep out of the way, and not to support the Com-
mission he had obtained ; still, the other creditors,
Who had proved their debts under it, had a right to
support it as a valid Commission, and prove the Pe-,
thinning Creditor's debt. He then produced the
affidavit of a Mr. Bitch, described as cif Monkwell-
street, Merchant. This affidavit stated, that Mr;
Birch had proved a debt.under:the Cothmission, of
15061. for articles furnished to4Wflartnership, par-
ticularly for Pantaloons. Thi-Staleirferit occasidn-
ing a laugh, the Learned Couritel admitted; it
was the praEtice of the Portland-place Bank to
get as many articles of every kind as they . could
procure credit for, and to make use of those ar-
ticles as capital for their establishment"; but it
Mr. Gill had really furnished the linen, and they
had sent it to the next pawn-broker's shop to taise
money upon, still Mr. Gill could prove such a debt
as warranted him in suing out this Commission.
This affidavit also stated that Lathropp had, in a
conversation with Mr. Birch, acknowledged Gill's
debt.

The SOLTCITOR GENERAL said, this Mr. Birch,
who describes himself as a Merchant in Monkwell-
street, was searched for in vain .in that street ; it
was true, that in the neighbourhood there was a
man of the name of Birch who lodged in a garret.
The present Petition was presented in the name
of Robert. William Felton Latbropp Brown Mtirray
Clarle, claiming tobe a Baronet ; and it was stated
that he had assumed the naines of Brown and Clarke
from having married a Lady of the name of Clarke,
who was entitled to a considerable estate from her
Grandfather, whose name was Brown.

Mr, Gill did not appear. ' He was disavowed by
his Counsel, and even by his Solicitor.

The LORD CHANCELLOR.—" No one can see
such a scene as this proceeding has exhibited, with-
out shuddering at the idea, that there should be
persons in the world so wicked and so foolish, as
to present themselves under such disgraceful aspels
in a Court of Justice. I am at a loss how to aa,
when I see that the Public have been swindled
out of such a sum as 136,0001. by the Fi4titious
Notes of a pretended Bank. lam not inclined to
assist any -of the parties by the authority of this
Court. If people will entevioto so nefarious a
speculation as that of setting tip a Bank by buy.
ing Pantaloons, what right haVe-they,'after they
find themselves involved in difficulties by their
villany, or by their impudence, to come to
the Court of Chancery t' set them right ? My
difficulty in interfering is this—upon what prin.
ciple of duty to the Publicrcan I' relieve those who
arc either wicked, or even weak enough to engage
in so abominable a •transaetion as this is, with re-
gard to all the parties implicated in it ? In a case
where the world has been so grossly deceived and
imposed upon, I do not conceive there is the least
injustice in refusing the extraordinary interposition
of this Coutt in superseding the Bankruptcy.
Let the party wits has brought himself into this
predicainent iiy his own folly, if he really was the
v 7 aim of imposition, appedi to the Courts of Law;
which are open to him—let him bring his Aetion
against the Assignees, or the Messenger who took
r possess* of his property. ,I do not think I ought
to afford him any assistance."
It was stated by the Petitioner's Counsel, that-
neither the Assignees, or the Commissioners Mes-
senger, had ever possessed themselves of any pro-
perty, and therefore there was no person against
. whom an aaion could be brought.
LORD CHANCELLOR.—^" I can make no Or-
der now. I will consider what I ought to
The business thus ended for the present. His
Lordship will. no doubt declare his opinion in due
time. r • - •
This proceeding, on account of the notoriety
of the parties, excited an uncoinrtion agree of pub-
lic curiosity. The Hall was croulied4ith'Auditors.

EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY.—A circumstance
as singular and extraordinary as it is wicked and atro—
cious, occurred on Wednesday last, in the Parish of
St. Andrew's Holborn ; it shews that some dark
deed is working, which probably this publication
may defeat :—A young woman, genteelly dressed,
went to the Workhouse of St. Andrew's Parish,
and applying to the Overseers, desited to know,
whether they could provide a Wet nurse for a Lady
of considerable rank and fortune. They informed
her there was a young woman- who had just lain-
in of a fine healthy child. It was 'sliewn her ; she,
praised its beauty, observed it was a lovely infant,
and that the mother of such a sweet child was, no
doubt, exaaly the person the Lady wanted. She
said she would inform the Lady, and call again.—
She returned in the evening, again kissed and
praised the child, and requested permission to take.
it to chew the Lady, who was waiting near the
place in her carriage. The child was intrusted to'
her care, but she never afterwards made her ap_
pearAnce with ir. Every search and•inquiry was
made, but-without effea; no clue preSenteditself to
the discovery of who she was, and the whole.affair
is wraps in mystery and conjedure. The unfortu-
nate mother has ever since been in a state bordering
upon distrattion.
A novel kind of funeral took place a few days ago
at itiyleigh. Mr. J. Downs, a farmer, who died
at the age of 6.4., ordered that his. body should be
drawn on his own waggon to the place of inter-
ment, by four of his own horses; they were led by-
four of his workmen, clothed in new leather jack-
ets, and each wearing a pair of hetigivg.gloves.
Died on Saturday evening, in B:eptrord-square,
Mrs. LE VERTON, wife of .11Wi1L114ERToN archi-
te&, in the 56th year of her'ageianti., the 36th of
their marriage. After suffering a lingering illness
of more than two years, she was on Thursday
morning last struck with -a palsy,. which, notwith-
standing the exertions of the most eminent of the
Faculty, admitted of no relief, but rapidly brought
on her dissolution. Her loss is much-and sincerely
lamented by her family and friends, to whom her
domestic and christian virtues were at once an ex-
ample, and a theme of admiration and praise.