The Sun.
London, England, 1816-07-11 00:00:00

INSOLVENT 'DEBTORS' COURT.

SINGOLAR CASE OF COLLUSIVE ARREST.
itnaiNsfiN V. WHITP.HEAD.
I.llr. PRIXCII SMITH opposed the defendant,
Whittbedd, Itobiilwa, tale :letuitling

creditor, upon the ground of collusive arrest.—
be hml contracted dthts 16 a
cobsitivravitt7 ;litioit.nt, awl I.vihii6 to ifir-,tv
seif into the Bench, thiv Eye mig-1:t he released
from them by tAting toe bet,clit the Insol-
vent Act ; a short; time before he formed his
plan; he contracted considerable . He.
11QW call Mrs. Robinson, %% ito acc.o Jingly
stated in evidence, .that the prisoner borrowed
18/. 155., of her, unkhown to her husband, and
promised to, return it in a few days. lie came
in a,few.days after, and, said he would pay, her the
money if she would make adidavit of the debt, as
he had money to receive thencx:t day from his,
mother's executor, a Jr.A Chester, in Westmin-
ster-road, and he would conduct her td him the
next day, "hen. she might make an affidavit of ti: Fe
debt, and receive
.the money. She accordingly
went the next day to the house of Mr. Chester
he.told„her thrit,%he must give him 21. tor stamps,
or she could not receive the money ; she gave hint
21. and then went with the prisoner Whhehead
and Chester to the King's Office in the
Temple, for the
;purpose, as she supposed, and.
as they informed, her, to rake affidavit of the
aebt, tlnd to ,be paid it. She made an affidavit.
and was told by them 'that she could not e
paid the money till,next day, as it was a holi,
day with the Oohs at the Office. The next
day, instead, of, licceivink the money, she re-
ceived a fetter, *high stated that he should pay
her the money in a few days ; Hut what was her
surprise, when, instil of receiving the money,
she learned that 'tile p;-isoner was arrested At ht 4.•
snit.

Mr. Setleant ;ad you no Inten-
tion of arrest.ing the Fisoner when you went ‘titii
Whitehead and Chester to the Temple ?

Mrs. Robinson—l bad t►t)t t►a►y other itl but I
rues going to be paid the mut►ey, nf:er giving an
affidavit o the debt.

?4 r, Whitehead sworn (exatriined by the'Court)
said that he never went with Mr. Chester
and Mrs; Robinson in his life, to the Temple.
Mr., Rubinson positively swore to the fact,
and said, that the said Mr. Chester was au attor-
ney, instead of his mother's
.execntor.
Mr. SCricaW Z..UNNIISTOTON said, it was a roust
infamous transact mu as ever came before the
Court ; and the sentemce of the Court upon the
prisoner is, that he be finally rernatnied fur base
and collusive arrest, and it is the opinion of the
Court be is guilty of most gross perjury. ,

FRAUDS..—TA Banking-house in the city htte. re
cently met with eonsidenible losses frourthe Iran-
dtdent conduct of two of their Oct k's. o.le,
then, after huviug embezzled to the amount of
1300/. had the good fortune It) escape out of c.t.,
country, and i 3 supposed to have sailed for Am..-
rice.

This cit cnmstance imlnced the house to he
none train .t,he alert in sertitiinizing the balances
tip every melt by the clerks, wheu'it ,OKs
funml, it few nights ago, that the balance 'Alder-
stood as correct Was entirely false, .and that the
solo or about. 17001. referred to as in the posses.
sion of the house, nI been Inken away by the
clerk who bad given in the false statement, anti
thereby imposed upon the rest of 1,16 collea,;iirs.
On Tuesday morning, wlitn the clerks were ait
at breakfast, error in the balance was ctu
nonuced, and an iininedi e enTiiry into the of air
was ordered : hot', before the in‘.esiigati,lp 11•4%
gone into, the person who had pat h,tned the incs.
ney made his escape front the house. 41u Otlif.:er
was immediately obtained, and he was instrtictet;
to search for him, as directed, at the west end of
the town. The young man was found ditoger-
oosly in bed, having taken a tinantily of poison)
with the intention of destroying himself, hot
'which failed in its c Pet. Medical assistance
was ailoideti him, and although he continues se-
riously indisposed, the probability is that he will
recover.

Saturday Arco companies of the Royal Arta..
lery marched from liron►pton. Viarrack• to the
head-quarters at. Woolwich, at which place they
are to remain.

A -riport prevails to-day that the Rev. Dr. lIRR.•
BRRT NlAssu has been recommended to succeed
Dr. WArsos on the Episcopal Bench.
The distress -for want of labour in the mannfac-
tilting towns of DevolhHre,' exceeds all Harmer
precedent, at least within the memory of its oldcst
inhabitants. The India Comp inv, who, for the
last 20 yeats, have bought about 2,10,000 long
ells annually, have for the last two or three yeirs
Fitt consequetilce of the high price of wool) re-
(ince(' their purchases of this article one-half.
We observe It erroneously mentioned, in some
of the London papers,, t hat the principal connec-
tions of Messrs. BRUCR, Simsos, FaEt.:ltis
MACIU:NZIII', Were in Scotland, which is tint the
c&'e, RS we have acetss to linoty that only thiee
Banks in Scotland had at any time 11CCOUTItS with
then) ; aria we are leappy to say, that none of
these will be at all affected by the nnfortnnate
failure-of tlNe above respectable house.—(Edin-
burgh Courant.)
Ott the Ist of July, the foundation-stone was
laid of a column erecting at Alitwiek, by the
Duke of NoteraumßEßLAso's tenants, to perpe-
tuate the many acts of his Grace's benevolence
and generosity, when a great concourse of people
collected, to see the ceremony. it is'called the
Percy Colurrin

The calendar at, the Old Bailey is not very-
formidable this S,.ssion. There are 126 erv,es its
he tried for Middlesex, and 34 for London. There
are only two on the charge of murder, one for torx-
get y, three for cutting and mitiming, anti one
for bigamy.
Last week a mad dog entered the .shop 'of
Messrs. KIRKLEY' and CLaun,drapers, of South,
Shields, but luckily was so tar gout itt the disease
as. to he easily desttoyed.
On Sunday, as the son of Mr. Broitksort, or
Dolley's beef steak-house, Queen's Ilead-intssakr,
Neweate•street; was bathiog.oir Kcw,hrittge, he
was unfortunately drowned. Every effort was made
to sive !still, but without etleut. It is S'opoose dhe
was seized with the eratiip, or that he was arawic
into scone of the ((cep holes ist that pdirt of Ole
river front whenee !I:05 been
the N4vigittion body, w3* tomtit in
about half an hoar, hut too kte to auhr,4 hop;
of resuscitation by the usual' maims.