The Sun.
London, England, 1835-02-10 00:00:00

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.

Mr. James Montgomery Serymgeortr, an artist, was op-
posed by Mr. Ch ADWICK JONES on the part of a Mr. George
Peters. He was supported by Mr. COOKE, with whom
was MT. WOODROFFE.
Mr. JONES remarked that the conduct of the artist was
painted in such colours in his brief, that he should endea-
vour to bring him within the discretionary clause.
The insolvent had painted the portrait of the opposing
creditor, who is a plumber at Epsom. He charged him
fifteen guineas, but Mr. Peters considered he had made him
a present of it, and he defended an action brought against
him for the recovery of the money. The matter was re-
ferred, and an award was made in favour of Mr. Peters.
The insolvent was now imprisoned for the costs, and was
examined as to his various paintings. He had painted

" The Vision of Saint John," which was in the possession
of Lady Arundell. He estimated it worth, when finished,
2501., and her Ladyship had advanced him money on it.
Her Ladyship had enabled him to petition the Court for
his discharge. He had recently sent to the British Gal-
lery for exhibition, " The Death of Haidee" (from " Don
Juan") and " Moses and Aaron before Pharoah." He had,
since his imprisonment, sketched " Byron's Dream." It
was contended that the paintingS, with the exception of the
one in the possession of Lady Arundell, should be given up
for the benefit of the creditors.

The COURT was of the same opinion, and the case stood
over to a future day.
The insolvent, it was understood, would be discharged.

COURT OF REQUESTS.

A. master sweep named Lilly, whose countenance, be-
decked as it was with at least a week's professional glean-
ings, partook but little of the blonde of his vegetable name-
sake, appeared to answer the complaint of John Groves, a
juvenile 'squire of the scraper, who made his debut before
the Court disguised in a clean shirt.
The COMMISSIONER having demanded the nature of the
debt, Groves said he had been hired by the defendant, at
the rate of one shilling and sixpence a week, as his acting
aide-de-camp, when, after three months' active exertion in
the work of cleansing and purification, he found that he
could not procure any money from his employer, and, fear-
ing that a longer stay would result in his gaining a loss, he
accordingly discharged himself on one fine morning, imme-
diately after the conclusion of his first quarter.
Lilly—Wasn't I the first person who gave you a decent
profession, and taught you how to rise in the world ?
Groves—Faiks you taught I to rise high enough and
often enough in the people's " chimbleys," but it's little I
got by that.
The COMMISSIONER—Did you make the agreement he
has mentioned? Do you owe him the eighteen shillings?
Lilly—l hadn't no agreement with him. I gave him board
and lodging, and clothing and washing.
Groves—Oh, your Worship, he gave me no clothing but
one shirt, and that I left behind me ; and your Honour
knows that a sweep's washing is like what the Hampshire-
man shot at, and that's nothing at all.
The COMMISSIONER then took complainant's oath as to
what he had stated, and made an order in his favour, con-
sidering that the sum demanded was but a moderate remu-
neration for such an employment.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

G UILD-HALL.

Yesterday Willie; --Taylor, a journeyman-smith, was
brought before Sir CHAPMAN MARSHALL, charged with
burglariously entering the house of Mr. Bradbee, who keeps
a trimming warehouse in Newgate-street.
Mr. Bradbee was alarmed about five o'clock on Sunday
morning by Miss Sweetlove, a young lady who sleeps in the
front room on the second floor, and who aroused him with
the information that she believed a man was trying to get
into her bed-room window, though it might be hat she had
mistaken a scaffold-pole for a man, as the front of the house
is undergoing some repairs. He admitted her to his room,
loaded a pistol with small shot, and then went, accompanied
by his wife and Miss Sweetlove, to search the room on the
second floor. The ladies entered the room first with a
light, he following close to them, but they immediately
turned about and retreated without saying a word, leaving
him in the dark. There was, however, sufficient light in
the room to enable him to see something moving, and be
instantly fired. Fortunately he only aimed at the shadow
instead of the man. In the meantime the ladies raised an
alarm at the back of the house, and Lawes, the patrol, and
some watchmen coming up, burst open the outer door, and
secured the prisoner on the stairs.
Miss Sweetlove was alarmed by hearing the window fall,
the prisoner having let it slip from his hands on his first
attempt to open it. She then saw him at the window, and
immediately left the room to awaken Mr. Bradbee.
Lawes, the patrol, said the prisoner's face was very black,
like a sweep's, and he had been troublesome at a fire in
Newgate-street about half an hour before. He then said
he was a smith, and that he had no lodging to go to.
The prisoner at first stared stupidly, and made no reply
when the Alderman put some questions to him. The Al-
derman doubted his sanity ; but it appeared that though be
had been unwilling to answer the officers when they captured
him, he had-conversed freely in the Compter on Sunday.
Sir CHAPMAN MARSHALL asked the prisoner again what
his object in entering this young lady's bedchamber was ?
The prisoner did not know.
Sir CHAPMAN MARSHALL asked who he had worked
for ? Prisoner said, nobody in this town. He had come
up in search of employment from Gainsborough only a fort-
night ago.
The Alderman committed him for trial.

by it, detained him and sent for a policeman, when he said
that it belonged to his brother, who had been in the employ
of Messrs. Storr and Mortimer, the goldsmiths and jewel-
lers, of Bond-street. The policeman went there, and by
directions of Mr. Mortimer the prisoner was taken to the
station-house.
John Hunt, clerk to Messrs. Storr and Mortimer, said
that the prisoner's brother was assistant-clerk in the count-
ing-house, but absented himself about three weeks since.
Lady Brudenell was one of their customers, and he believed
the top produced to he the property of his employers.
The prisoner was then remanded till Wednesday for the
attendance of Mr. Mortimer, but on the application of Mr.
Humphreys, the solicitor who attended in his behalf, he
was liberated on finding good bail for his appearance on
that day.

MARLBORO UGH-STREET.
Thomas Davis, an ex-policeman, was yesterday brought
before Mr. CHAMBERS, charged with having imposed upon
Edward Chamberlain, Esq., of No. 7, Norfolk-street, Park-
lane, by means of a false character.
The prisoner was fined 201., or committed for the full
period of three months.
A gentleman named Mead, residing at No. 10, South-
street, Park-lane, brought one of Ady's circulars to Mr.
Chambers, which had been addressed to him, offering, as
usual, on payment of 20/., to communicate something to
his advantage. In order to make the bait more attractive
the circular was indorsed " 107/. 9s. 3d., by death of a
near relative." As the circular was dated on the day when
Ady took his trial he conceived there must be a gang of
impostors who were still carrying on their tricks, and there-
fore it would be but right to put the public on their guard.
Mr. CHAMBERS said the public had been cautioned on
the same subject, and he thought it almost impossible such
a trick could again succeed.

TOTAL LOSS OF THE SIR THOMAS

NIUNRO.

We have been favoured, by a commercial house in
the city, with the perusal of a letter from the Captain
of the above vessel, containing an account of her total
loss an the night of the 10th of December, on the Va-
randhivo Reef, at the west end of the Island of Bona-
vista, one of of the Cape de Verd Islands, and of the
arrival of himself and crew, and passengers, at Ply-
mouth, in the American brig Maine, of Boston, Cap-
tain Williams. The following is Captain Carver's ac-

count of this disaster :
" At 10 a.m. on the 10th of December we made the Isle
of Sal to the S. W., and at 3 P. M. made the Island of
Bonavista, bearing from S. by W. to west the wind being
well to the southward of east, and the weather very hazy ;
and finding that we had been driven considerably to the
westward by a current, and not able to weather the N. E.
point, we bore up to run to leeward under easy sale ; at 6
P. M. saw a reef with breakers on the starboard quarter,
which, myself and officers supposed was the Leton
rocks and reef ; the weather being so very hazy at
the time, it made the land very deceitful, appear-
ing much farther off ; we hauled up to the southward to
give this reef a birth, the west point, which runs out low,
not being visible, on account of the haze ; about 7 r. Ai.,
the ship struck on a coral reef ; the sea being very smooth ;
did not perceive a breaker until the ship struck, when we
perceived ourselves surrounded on both sides ; all hands
being on deck at the time, as well as myself and officers,
and many of the crew on the forecastle, looking out ; al-
most immediately the rudder went, and took with it part of
the stern-post, and stove in the counter ; sounded the
pomps, and found the ship making water very fast, striking
uery heavy, and forging further in shore with every roller ;
lowered the quarter-boats down, fired signal guns, and
showed blue lights to attract the attention of any inhabi-
tants—if any—to render us assistance, since it was useless
to attempt to carry out an anchor to heave the ship off, as
the lower hold was then full of water, and the wind and sea
having considerably increased ; and the night coming on
very dark, we with much difficulty got the launch out,
the ship rolling very heavy at the time ; the scene now
on boird was dreadful: with the pa,sengers, wo-
men, and children—easily for you to imagine, but

difficult for rue to describe : my greatest appre-
hension was the wine and spirits, the loss of life it
:night occasion, and it required, I assure you, no trifling
exertion on my part to prevent its fatal consequences.
About Bh. 30m. P.M. we got first the females and children,
then the male passengers, into the launch, with a part of
the crew, in charge of the boatswain, wish the surgeon,
and ordered them to anchor to windward, or clear of the
ship, in case the masts should fall, which I was very ap-
prehensive of ; the cutter was in charge of the second,
officer, and the jolly-boat of the third officer ; put some
provisions, water, clothing, two chronometers, sextants,
quadrants, ship's papers, and what things we could
hastily get at into the jolly-boat, which, soon after she
shoved off from the ship, swamped, and everything
was lost except the chronometers, which were lashed to
the thawls, and saved by the cutter, which was sent to
pick up the boat's crew. Towards midnight, seeing the
impossibility of doing anything further, the • surgeon
having returned to the ship from the launch, stating it
to be the anxious wish of the passengers for me to join them,
and myself, chief-officer, and those that remained, expect-
ing the ship to go to pieces, the 'tween decks knee-deep
in water, myself, chief-mate, carpenter, and four of the
crew, being all that remained, left the ship and joined
the launch, being in all 66 persons-56 in the launch and
10 in the cutter, the jolly-boat being lost. At day-break
we slipped from the grapnel, it having hooked a rock, and
pulled to windward, to endeavour to land the passengers.
The wind and sea having increased, I dispatched the chief
officer with the cutter in-shore, to look for a safe place to
land between the breakers, which were very heavy. At
noon she returned, having effected a landing, when she took
us in tow, and pulled in-shore ; at 2h. 30m. P.M., with the
assistance of three fishing boats, got all the passengers
safely landed ; anchored the launch off with a large stone,
and hauled the cutter up on the sandy beach, and issued a
small portion of provisions to each person. At 3 P.M.
launched the cutter, and sent her with the chief officer
carpenter, boatswain, and four of the crew (who volunteer-
ed) to the wreck, followed by myself in a shore-boat, to
endeavour to save what was possible. At 6 P.M. I re-
turned on shore with the cutter, with some provisions and a
few articles of clothing ; the sea having made a fair breach
in the 'tween decks, sweeping everything away—all the ca-
bins,, bulkheads, &c. I left the chief officer with the launch,
to look after the wreck, with instructions to hang on to a Por-
tuguese schooner, which had anchored close by, and supplied
him with a boat's anchor and cable to keep clear for the
night. Next morning the American brig Maine, Capt. Wil-
liams, came down from English roads, and anchored close by.
When I returned in the evening from the wreck to the
shore, Hound that Captain Williams, with a humanity
that does him infinite credit, had taken all the female and
male passengers to a village about four or five miles in the
interior, and procured them lodgings. In the morning I
went down to the beach, attended by the surgeon, consi-
derably before daybreak, and found the sea making a com-
plete breach over all—the wreck at times not to be seen. I
then deemed it proper, after consulting with my officers,
who were with the crew that remained in charge and guard-
ing the beach, to proceed with the surgeon to English Port
to make a report to the Governor of our. melancholy and
destitute condition, and implore his assistance, the passen-
gers having lost everything but what they had on their
backs. At eight P. at., the chief officer returned on shore,
having been swamped with the boat's crew in landing ; he
had found it impracticable to go near the wreck, on account
of the heavy breakers. About nine o'clock I returned, with
orders from the Governor to send the passengers up to
English Port, and with assurances of every assistance and
attention possible. Next morning I dispatched the steer-
age passengers, under the care of the carpenter and two of
the crew, on donkeys, to English Port. Myself and offi-
cers went to the beach, but found it impossible to launch
the boat to go to the wreck, on account of the high sea,
the boat having swamped several times in the attempt.
Dispatched the third officer, with what baggage there was,
on donkeys, with two of the crew, to English Port.
" The next day (Sunday) myself and chief officer went
to the beach, and in a hired boat went off to the wreck,
and made an appointment with the captains of the Ameri
can brig and Portuguese schooner to meet them the next
day at the Governor's to arrange with them about saving
any of the stores of the vessel and cargo, and the amount
of salvage ; myself and chief mate then returned on shore,
leaving part of the crew on board the Portuguese schooner.
At six P. at., dispatched the greater part of the cabin pas-
sengers, under the care of the first and second officers and
a part of the crew, to English Port, and next morning I
took the remainder up, and the governor provided us with
accommodation in the different houses, and treated us with
every kindness and attention up to the time of our ern-,
barking in the brig Maine, and I beg particularly to notice
the kindness and unremitting attention of Captain
Williams, the whole time we have been on board, to all of
us ; no person could have possibly devoted himself more
effectually for our comfort than he has done."

SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—We regret to state that as
- Rothschild, jun., Esq., son of the eminent banker, ac-
companied by his groom, was driving in a tilbury down Ox-
ford-street yesterday morning, on his way into the city, the
horse be'came unmanageable at the end of Bond-street, and
galloped off at a furious rate, and the tilbury coming in colli-
sion with the Champion, Shrewsbury coach, was overset, and
Mr. Rothschild and his groom were precipitated to the ground
with great violence. Several persons immediately ran to their
assistance, as they were lying apparently senseless; but on lifting
them from the ground, it was discovered that neither Mr. R.
or his groom had received any particular injury. The horse
was secured, but the tilbury was broken in pieces.