The Sun.
London, England, 1819-04-21 00:00:00

OPERA.HOUSE:---WATEZS V. TAYLOR.

Sir ARTHUR PIGGOTT moved that Mr. Waters
should pay into Court, on or before the first day
of Easter Term, the sum of 81451. as part of the
purchase-money for the Opera, pursuant to an
order of the Vice-Chancellor, or; in default,
thereof, that he should be committed. The Court
bad made rwo orders for the payment of-the mo,
t►ey, and a reference was made to one of the
Masters, to inquire and report what sums should
be allowed to Mr. Waters for the incumbrances
of the Theatre, and for other expences incurred
by him in the management. To that Report
three exceptions were taken, which, after a long
hearing, the Vice-Chancellor allowed, and gave
judgment it; favour of Mr. Taylor, thus ordering
the money into Court. The present was an ap.
peal from that judgment, and he, on behalf of
Mr. Taylor, moved that the
.0(1p-ill:IA should be
confirmed, no.grounds being shewn for the pro-
priety ,of the appeal. On a former occasion the
Court had declared that it saw no reason for.the
order of the Vice-Chancellor being altered in

any way.
Mr. HART said the Court bad made no such
order, as he bad written on his brief at the time
that the Lord Chancellor had ordered the case to
stand for judgment.
Mr. HEALD contended that Mr. Hart's memory
was not accurate, asijudgment had certainly been

pronounced.
The LORD CHANCELLOR—I do not recollect
whether I gave judgment to that effect or not ;
but this I know, that when it was last before me,
1 said that the more 1 heard of it, the less I un-
derstood it.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL was about to reply to
S:r A. Piggott, when he was interrupted by
Mr. HEALD, who said he was Counsel along

will, Sir A. Piggott, and should insist on being
beard. He was anxious the case should go on in
a regular manner, and in what he should state be
would feel it his duty to allude to some recent
occurrences.

Mr. HART hoped the Court would allow the
f►►rther hearing of the ease to stand over t:11 to-
morrow, as he was anxious to look over his briefs
to refresh his memory.
The LORD CHANCRI:LOR saw no objection to

this, and said he should also that night look over
the papers he had at home. His Lordship,after.
'Wards said, be doubted whether he could commit
a party in a cause for not paying money._

Sir A. I'IGGoTT said, *that the committal was

the only alternative of not paying the money.

'the Loan CHANceLLOR-2—Yes,but then it is a
very serious alternative. I would suggest to you
the propriety of rather moving for a writ of exe-
cution than a committal. We must go on har-
moniously with this Opera;
Mr. HEALD stated, (hat he had the affidavit of
Mr. Tarraut, the respectable solicitor' for Mr.
Taylor, in which that Gentle than stated on oath
his Laving heard the Lord Chancellor state, that
he saw no cause to alter the order of the Vice-
Chancellor.
• The LORD CHANCELLOR wished the whole to
stand till to-morrow, and he would then dispose
of it if he could.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Aran, 20.

CONSPIRACY.

THE KING V. KINNIER, MEYERS, AND OTHERS.

This was.an indictment whiCh charged dig de-
fendants, John Meyer, Lewis Levi, -Moseley
"%Vole, Montagu Levoy, John Kinnier; and se-
veral others, with having conspired together, and
by certain contrivances assumed the characters of
merchants and men of property, for the purpose
of defrauding divers wholesale manufacturers and
others of goods of the value of 50,0001, and up-
wai

Mr. GURNEY, previous to stating the facts of
the case to the Jury, entered a nolle prosequi as
to three of the defendants, namely, Reeves, Lee,
and Wheeler, who were in consequence acquitted.
With regard to Meyer and another the Learned
Counsel stated that they had absconded, and
.others had not appeared to plead. Those only
who could take their trials on the present occa-
sion were—John Kinnier, Lewis Levi, Moseley
Volffe, and Montague Levoy, and to these per-
sons the evidence which would be called would
mainly apply.
Mr. GURNEY then proceeded to state the eir-
cmustances under which the indictment had been
preferred, and unfolded an organized system of
fraud, such as had scarce ever been paralleled in
the commercial world. In effect it appeared, from
his recapitulation of the facts, that the defendants
being, in point of fact, men of no property, had
set up the appearance of weal►hy firms, and by
playing into each other's hands—by paying cash
to a comparatively small amonnt-by opening ac-
counts with different Bankiug•honses, and by other
contrivances, obtained credit for various inannfac.
lured goods in Manchester, Glasgow, and other
places, to en amount not less than 100,0001. Part
of these goods were dispoSed of in London, at 30
and 40 per cent.. under prinre cost, and the re-
inairofer were'shipped for the Continent, and for
In the end, when these goods came to be
paid for, the whole plan was divulged, and the
ueta!ions combination completely exploded. The
different firms which were formed became bank-
rupts,. and the _assets recovered scarcely amounted
to sufficient to pay the expenses of the respective
Commissioners.

To prove the case a vast number of witnesses
were called, among whom were Reeves, Lee, and
Wheeler, who it seems were the tools of the more

designing kn;rves, and participated but in a very
trifftog degree in the profits of the conspiracy.
As, hokv ever, the case for the prosecution alone
was gone through, and as the defendants tiave not
yer been heard in their defence, we do not feel
ourselves at liherty to'enter wore fully into
The Court did not adjourn till t welve o'clock,
and will. assemble atz,ain this morning to pursue the
invest igat io .—Pforning Chronicle.)