The Sun.
London, England, 1826-08-15 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

FROM LLOYD'S, (THIS DAY).
rat.stortrit, Auc. 13.—Wind S.—Arrived the Frolic packet,
fats America, $3 days from Halifax. Also, the Fanny, from
London.
Poaramoortr, Aug, 14.—Wind W.—Arrived the Commerce, Lindsay, from Sierra Leone ; the Cameleon, Anderson, from Got-
snburgh ; Norfolk, Preston, from Havre ; Dutch frigate Eena_42l4 trout Curaeoa in b 3 days ; and his Majesty's ship Briton,
Sir Murray Maxwell, from South `America. Sailed the Onyx
transport, for Valparaiso; and the Charles Wright, for Gibraltar.
Ltvznroor., Arlo,. 13.—Arrived the Waterloo, Rayne, from
.t. John's, New Brunswick; Betty, widgwerd, from Trini-
dad Charlotte, Sloane, front Quebec ; Hardware, Eberalt, from
Rotterdam.
' Mary Ann, from Mediterranean ; and Rose, Ellis, front
Such, for Brazil ; Harding, Her-
atotteriarn. Sailed Douglas,
„till& for Jamaica ; Blakley, Badger, tin. New York ; Delos,
,1110411, fur Boston ; Lord St. Helens, Ellen, and Ale on for
"14. Pta ab h Christian,for Gibraltar . and Jamesand .1 ,
, 4 r ttrg ; , en),
or Seville.
Gitanylismsn, Auo. 13 and 14.—Arrived Hasseren, Gibson,
treat the Cape ; Para, fluter, front the Cape ; Portsea, Lane,
ft°4l Calcutta ; Ellen, Paterson, from the Isle of France. Sailed
,1114, Pike, for Calcutta; Susannah, Clappeson, for the
s.'"Pe ; Victory, Farquharson, for Calcutta.
e,l'lrDz, Attu. 12'...—Arrived the Ilavannah, from Lisbon ;
71arr Stewart, from Charleston ; , Ocean, Pitt fro
h, ; and
:from Mirunielti.

tAW TVTEtti6ENCE.
COURT OF CHANCERY.—(Tins DST.)
His Loanssur requested that the hearing of the Lunatic Peti-
tions might be continued, otherwise 'he thought he never would
get through them.
COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.

COWST HARRIS.
Mr. H. hoped the Court would excuse his wishing to know
whether he was to understand that his Lordship did or did not
make the order in this case, calling upon the receiver to pay into
Court the sum of 19,7141. the amount reported by the Master due•
His LORDSHIP understood that there was another petition pre-
sented in the case.
Mr. HART observed, that the Court had intimated that it

would not allow that petition to be advanced, if it was meant to
interfere with the order calling upon the receiver to pay the money.
His LORDSHIP said, if it was not to interfere with that order
the parties would take the order.
Mr. HAAT said the petition went directly to the order.
His Loansnse then desired to have it, because it was impossi-
ble that the Court should he led through the scenes of this case
every morning.
Mr. SHADW ELL opened the petition. It was the petition of
Messer.. Kemble, Willett, and Forbes; and it prayed that they
might be at liberty to deposit in the Master's Office certain secu-
rities, equal to the sum Mr. Robertson might be ordered to pay
into Court, and that those securities might be considered sufficient
to be received in lieu of the money. The petition stated, that on
the 11th of March, 1822, the petitioners entered upon the conduct
and management of the Theatre, under an agreement of that date,
entered into between themselves and Mr. Harris; and that they
continued in that management until the 17th of May, 1824. That
when they took upon themselves that management, they found
the theatre in debt to the amount of 66,6711. 1411. 3d. ; that the
receipts during those two years amounted to 124,7234 and the
nightly expence of carrying on the theatre in the course of the
same time, 119,94.5/. I9s. 2d. After stating details of account+
the petition set forth that 23,000/. and a fraction, was the differ-
ence between the receipts and the payments. It stated, that
when the petitioners became the managers, in 1822, they gave
bonds and bib of 'exchange to tame of the creditors, and that to
the discharge of those, the whole of the 28,0001. had been applied ;
that other creditors having pressed for the payment of their claims,
the petitioners, out of their own private resources, raised no less
than 21,0001. which they applied in the further reduction of the
66,000/. and a fraction ; that the securities for the aunt of 21,000/.
had been transferred to the petitioners, and were what were now
proposed to be lodged in the Master's office. The petition further
stated the order of the Court of the 17th of May, 1824, directing
a meeting of the proprietors, to agree upon a way of managing
the concern, and applying the receipts. That the proprietors ac-
cordingly met, and directed the items of payment, which the Mas-
ter had subsequently disallowed, by which the balance against
the Receiver, appeared due. They submitted, that under that
order they were authorised to give the directions they did
that the Receiver having done as they had required of him, he
was not to blame; that in honour they were bound to protect him,
and hoped this explanation would he satisfactory.
Mr. Lowxers was on the same side. His clients considered
themselves having the full authority of the Court to direct the
application of the funds, and they felt absolutely bound to protect
the receiver from ruin, which would follow an order upon him,
without being backed by the petitioners, to pay the money into
Court, lie having only a salary of 4001. a you.. The Court, on
a former occasion, stated that the decree made by his Honour the
Vice, prevented the Court's selling the Theatre, bet thapetitioners
were now anxious to state, that that decree was appealed from;
that they hoped they would get rid of it; and that they had no
objection to its being advanced, that the Court might be enabled
to make an order for the sale of the property, which the peti-
tioners were most anxious for, because they saw nothing but ap-
proaching ruin to all parties concerned, if the Theatre continued
to go on as it had lately done.
Mr. HAAT appeared fer Mr. Const, and opposed the petition.
He considered that the' petitioners now began to feel the un-
righteous stipulation they had inserted into their deed of 1822,
w;th* view4r4sust Mr. Const of his right, and, that according
the co of this country, justice, if steadily pursued,
cons every man's door. The petitiouers' case was,
that they the Receiver out of the hands of the Court,
and convertialMin into their serving, snaking him obedient to
their otenittliiltis entirely. Rather than consent to the substitu-
tion. Mr!. OR ADWE L I, now proposed, he (Mr. II.) would }fray the
Coureto.dissnias the motion against the Receiver.
Mr. SRC DEN was Counsel for Mr. Harris, who, he considered,
had been very harshly treated, though he hail more interest in
the theatre than all the three petitioners : his share was seven
twelfths. He hoped the petition would he dismined with coats,
because a more bold and improper one be never saw presented.
Mr. Snanwatx, in reply, did not think Mr. Hartle dissent of
so much importance as his client's dipent, in the Master's Office.
He had there assented to a goat many of the items of payment.
Mr. Harris bad, indeed, dissented, but thit disient had been re.
ceived in the Master's Office, per letter, too late to be effectual.
His !mensal, intimated, that whatever the petitioners eopsi-
dered the order of the Court of the 17th of May, 1824, to mean,
the real meaning of the order clearly was, that at the meeting di-
rected tottake place, the proprietors should propose and agree upon
items of conduct, and that then, before they gave their directions
to the Receiver, they should apply to the Court for its sanction,
but they never came near it. This was, upon the first blush of
it, the most hopeless application that could possibly have
been made. It was utterly impossible for any man on
earth to suppose, that the Receiver could be allowed to
deduct out of the receipts what be had thought proper to pay in
discharge of the bonds and bills of Exchange. The Court was
much surprised at the petition ; it would, however•, take the affi-
davits made in support of it, look into them, and all the other
Papers between this and to-morrow, with a view to know whether.
the Court could model the order upon the Receiver in any way,
with respect to the taxes, and some other items, the non-payment
of which might have occasioned the shutting up of the theatre.—
The whole struggle here had been to set the Court at nought.
Mr. Stranwett thought it one of the most just applications
that had ever been made to the Court, whatever technical diffi-
culties might stand in its way. He had been consulted upon it.
and had advised it.

His Lottnsnir had no doubt, notwithstanding what he had
said, that if he had been at the Bar and consulted upon it, he also
would have advised the presenting of the petition, but he thought
no Counsel could ever have advised the application of the receipts
of the house to the discharge of the bonds and bills, without
the
,Court's express directions.
Mr. SIIADWXLL considered it impossible to look at this case
without bearing in mind the obstinacy and refusal of Messrs.
Curia and Harris to do any thing in a case in which it was ab-
solutely necessary for some persons to act, that the concern might
go on.
His Lonnixte's opinion was, that theatrical gentlemen would
have to learn as well as any body else, that when a Receiver was
appointed, be was to act under the order of the Court, and no
one else.

judgment would not he dela* beyond to.
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morrow.
His hoped
His ',ormolu assured him it should not.
The Court went on with the Lunatic Petitions.

CORONER'S INQUEST.

CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER.

Yesterday evening at
„seven o'clock, an inquisition was
taken before I'. HlGGs,sq. in the Committee Room, at
E
the Westminster Hospital, on the body of William Bass
a pauper in St. Margaret's Workhouse, who was killed by
being rum over on Tuesday last in St. Martin's-huie, by a

d u waggon.
The Airy returned a verdict of Manslaughter against
"ham Murray, the driver of the waggon.

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AWFUL JUDGMENT ON A DAlLirr.—A writ
against a person living near Vauxhall Bridge had been lodged with
Towhee/Id, one of the Sheriff's officers for Surrey, and by him
transferred to one of his men for execution. The man accordingly
repaired yesterday morning to the residence of the party, knocked,
powiarvn tlli,eheaentleonf
men, as
cminagy hbies
and no suspicion exieting, was admitted. Ile immediately ad-
vanced to the object of his pursuit, produced his authority, and
n the shoulder, when he dro t down in a fit, and instantly ex-
pcaption with the usual familiar taps
un-
expected occurrence, to make good his escape. Information was
transmitted to Mr. Carter
supposed, availed himself of this ,
of the event, by whom an
this afternoon be held.

STREET ItoßnEßY.—Between the hours of one
a
and twwas o o'clock yesterday morning, a gentleman residing at Ful-
hne, robbear the Bell and Hornsovereign as, at Kni wbc, escaped with the
g
nd 10s. in silver, by a women'
htsbridge,
amd of
with two of the Bow-
street patrole, Warren and Smithery, to whom he mentioned the
circumstance, and from the description given of her person, they
this morning apprehemded a female in Tothill-street, 'Westminster,
property. Soon after, however, he met
4m suspicion of the robbery, and found on her person a shawl and
other articles, which she had recently purehaaad, Warren also
ascertained that she had changed a sovereign to procure the shawl.