The Sun.
London, England, 1804-05-15 00:00:00

he has allually attested Henry kennett for 400'
which he licib received under the" power of attorn
tarn Parll7,y, one of the assignees, None of t
creditors de• y their knowing Playfair's circum
,lances" at II e time of chasing him assignee, for,
vitit the exception of Mr. Henry Kennett, the onl.,
.:erson who makes any affidavit is Mr. Dickins,
The objea of all this is very eviaent:
'--Playfair has shewn himself determined to do his
iuty ; Henry Kennett and he
,have consequently
quarrelled ; and the former consequently summons
hese petitioners, who are tools of his, to conspire
io remave Pl,lfair, because he appears resolved to
.1) his duty. Besides, these very assignees .were
.(.-hosen by, the very creditors
,who now petition for
their discharge ; and may they not chuse, a second
pi•rson§ as olj-!itionable as the present i"
LORD CHANCELLOR.—"'I have fully made up
my mind not in permit dne of those creditors to
vote at all in future.'P

Mr: ittctimtps and Mr. CO6KE; for the other
assignee. Mr. Pariby, 'submitted the helpless, con-
dition of their client-, who had been prevailed upon
to sign this power of attorney to Henry Kennett,
but who knew nothing of what he did, or tcr what
purrse it hut been used.
Mr. ROM I I. LY, for IMF, the petitioning creditor
under the second commission.----" It has always been

thought, expedient, in the whole course of these pro-
ceedings, to attempt to criminate Mr: Duff; as being
a necessary step to exculpate the charader of others ;
but I think I am only discharging my duty in say-
ing, that, in my opinion, his condud has been most
meritorious, 'as well as thatof those creditors
,who
have stood forward, at a great expense and risk to
themselves, to detect a most infamous fraud. That
such has been" the case, is easily demonstrated :
.Robert Kennett the bankrupt, Henry Kennett his
son, and Brackley Kennett,- have always pretended
great hostility against Vincent Kennett, and under
this colour of family hostility they have duped all
these creditors. When the Court superseded the.
first commission 'against this bankrupt, it sas done
dittinEtly upon the ground of being concluded and
carried on in fraud. The .second commission was
sued out by the very persons who deteCted the_ fraud
committed under the first commission, arid then the
Kennetts contrive to get assignees of their own
-stamp, in w7iich they succeed for a time; but the
moment Playfair and Henry Kennett quarrel, then
the latter again takes into play these five creditors,
-to enable him, through their means, to destroy this
commission, and their own debts at the same' time.
But by whom is this application rmide ? N.A. one
of these creditors has sworn that he did not know
that-Playfair was an insolVent debtor at the.time
was elected ; hat Playfair has simply sworn that he •
did not know them. These creditors have been
called up in to make-affidavits why they chose such
men; 'and .why they permitted Mr. Henry Kennett
to the bankrupt's property under fictitious
names, Akihich has been actually done.
" Under an- the pecuild'r circumstances of this
case, your Lordship will judge whether some meet?
sive line of condud ought not •to be adopted, tc) pre-
vent such proceedings ever recurring again in ire
annals of bankruptcy."

Login CHANCELLOR.---" 'There are now three
pe:itionS before me.. ad of them. relating to a see old
cotnialis:iion of
_bankruptcy, which has been isken
out in conseqnence of a former one being siziCer-
Jeded by my order, on the express ground that it
was taken out, not for the purpose of preserving the
property of the bankrupt tor the creditors, but of
protetting and converting that property. to the use
of the bankru, t himielf and his family. This second
eommis;ion has been at tempted he destroyed .on
the ground of prior ads of bankruptcy ; but it is
proper that I should here observe, that on the atgu.
m,nt of the petition for superseding the first com-
mission, every ground, as to acts of bankruptcy,
was stared ; and, it is somewhat singular, that it
should be resorted to now. _ _