The Sun.
London, England, 1827-09-06 00:00:00

EAST INDIA HOUSE.

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at
the East India House, when the following ships
were thus stationed and timed, viz.:—
General Harris, Captain Joseph Stanton, for Saint
Helena, Bengal and China; Dunira, Captain Montgo-
merie Hamilton; and Edinburgh, Captain Henry Bax,
for Bombay and China,—be afloat 19th November, sail to
Gravesend 3d December, stay there SO days, and be in the
Downs Bth January, 1828.
Thomas Coutts, Captain Alexander Christie ; and Sir
David Scott, Captain John 0. M'Taggart, for Bengal and
China,—be afloat December 3, sail to Gravesend 18th do.,
stay there 30 days, and be in the Downs 23d Jan.
Marquis of Huntly, Captain John S. H. Fraser ; Ber-
wickshire, Captain Frederick Madan; and the new ship,
(in the room of the Royal George) Captain Charles S.
Timins, for Bengal and China,—be afloat December 18, sail
to Gravesend January 1, stay there 30 days, and be in the
Downs 6th Feb.
Duchess of Atholl, Captain Edward M. Daniell, and
Abercrombie Robinson, Captain John Tones, for Bombay
anC. China; Marquis Camden, Captain Thomas Larkins,
for St. Helena, Bombay, and China; Earl of Balcarras,
Captain Bryan Broughton, and George the Fourth, Capt.
Thomas W.vßarrow, for Bengal and China,—be afloat Ist
January, sail to Gravesend 16th ditto, stay there 30 days,
and be in the Downs 2lst Feb.
Macqueen, Captain James Walker, William Fairlie,
Captain Thomas Blair, and Lord Lowther, Captain Chas.
Steward, for Madras and China,—be afloat 16th January,
sail to Gravesend Slat do., stay there 30 days, and be in
the Downs 7th March.
Castle Huntly, Capt, Henry A. Drummond; Orwell,
Captain W. E. Ferrer; London, Captain Timothy Smith;
and Canning, Captain Philip Baylis, for China direct,—
be afloat Ist March, sail to Gravesend 15th ditto, stay
there 30 days, and he in the Downs 20th April.
Captain Thomas Larkins was sworn into the command
of the ship Marquis Camden.

THE MARKETS.

ZET.—Sept. 5.
Walls End Newmarch— 365. Od.
Ditto Northumberland 35 0
Ditto Russell's 37 6
Ditto WalLar 37 0
Cowpen and East Percy
mixed 33 3
Tanfiel 1 Trader 33 6
Londonderry small 19 6
Russell's Hetton's small 17 0
Fordel Main 35 6
Hartley 36 0
Stone Coal Cox 45 0
Eden Main 36 0
Stobart's Primrose,..— 30 0
Walls End Hetton .. 38 6
Ditto Lambton ---- 38 0
Ditto Lyons— 38 0
Ditto SI ewart's 38 6
Russell's Hetton'sW. E. 37 6

sold, 42►,4-Unsold, 201,i.

SUMMER ASSIZES.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.-GLOUCESTER, S. 4.

John dlinbury, aged 20, was indicted for having
assaulted Henrietta Pewtner, on the evening of the
28th of August last.
Henrietta Pewtner (an interesting and intelligent
girl, who gave her evidence with great modesty and
clearness) stated that she will be 15 years of age in
November [next. She was apprenticed to Mrs.
Horsledge, of Colford, but resided with her brother
at Joy Croft. She was in the constant habit of go-
ing from her brother's house to her mistress's every
morning, and returning at night. Amelia Simmonds
always went with her, and sometimes her brother
came to meet her on her return. She remembered
leaving Colford with Amelia Simmonds on the
evening of the 28th of August last. They met the
prisoner and John Hennell, who said " Good even-
ing" to them as they passed : the witness made no
answer to them. After they had gone a little far-
ther, the prisoner ran after them, and took hold of
the witness, and said " Give us a kiss." She re-
fused, and struggled a good deal before she got
from him. He then left them, and went back.—
After they had got about half a mile further, beyond
Berry-hill, in the Forest of Dean, the prisoner again
came up to her, and took hold of her round the
shoulders, and. said, " Give us a liiss." She tried
to get away from him, and he threw her violently on
the ground.—(The witness then related sufficient to
show the object of the prisoner.)
Amelia Simmonds said—l am 13 years of age,
and remember meeting the prisoner on the evening
of the 28th of August last. She then proceeded to
detail the facts proved by the last witness, and added,
" When the prisoner was on the ground, I plucked
his hair, and beat him, and kicked him, and I took
his shoes off, and beat him about the head with
them. I then saw an old man going along the forest,
and I ran to him and caught him by the sleeve, and
told him to please to come, as a man had got Hen-
rietta down. He came part of the way as fast as he
could, but the moment the prisoner saw him he ran
away. When Henrietta got up, she was so weak she
could hardly stand or speak."
Mrs. Pewtner, mother to Henrietta, proved her
daughter making immediate complaint to her, and
described the torn and tumbled state of her dress.
The Jury found the prisoner " Guilty."
Mr. Baron VAUGllAN—Prisoner, you have been
convicted, on the most satisfactory testimony, of a
most brutal assault; as to your pretence that you
have not intellect enough to discern right from
wrong, it would be an insult to the Court and Jury
to dwell upon it for a moment, because I have with
care and caution watched your conduct during the
trial, in which there has been too much artifice, to
leave any doubt respecting your knowledge of right
from wrong. It is quite horrifying, in a civilized
country like this, that two young women—nay two
girls—cannot be permitted to walk along a public
path without being subject to such brutality. I
do not think I ever witnessed, in any Court, more
• proper demeanour—more true modesty—than I did
this day in the conduct of those little girls. It was
most fortunate for you that the little girl was pre-
sent, for her spirit and good conduct have been the
means of saving your life, by preventing you from
perpetrating your horrid intentions. The sentence of
the Court is, that you be imprisoned in the gaol of
this county for one year.
Prisoner.—Thank you, my Lord.
Mr. JUSTICE having applied to his Lordship for
some allowance to Amelia Simmonds, ass a token of

the approbation of the Court for her conduct, his
Lordship declined making any order on the county
for that purpose, but sent for Henrietta PeWtner and
Amelia Simmonds to the bench, and having appa-
rently addressed some kind admonitions to them,
generously dismissed them with some reward from
his own pocket.
The Court has been occupied the whole day with
the trial of causes entirely destitute of interest.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.-LANCASTER, SEPT. 4.

ATKINSON V• SHAW.

This was an action on a bill of exchange, drawn
upon and accepted by the defendant. The defend-
ant pleaded, that, at the time the bill became
due, he was a certificated bankrupt. The plaintiff
replied, that the certificate had been fraudulently
obtained. On this issue was joined.
The bill was admitted.

Mr. F. Potiocx, on the part of the defendant,
then put in a certificate of bankruptcy, regularly
signed by the majority of his creditors, and complete
in every point. It appeared that the bankrupt had
formerly been an ironmonger, and in partnership
with a man named Bateman, residing in Piccadilly,
Manchester. Two different commissions had been
sued out against him, severally and jointly against
him and Bateman. The former of these two coms
missions was dated in the month of March, 182 G.
Mr. Woodburn, an attorney, who produced the
commission, denied that the former was an accom-
modation commission.
Mr. BROUGHAM, in reply, would show that the
defendant had received different sums, for which he
was unable to account ; which, by sections 123 and
Its of the Consolidated Bankrupt Act, voided the
certificate. Secondly, that several creditors had
been induced to sign by fraudulent promises of pre-
ference, and promises of money. On this ground,
also, he had a fatal objection to the certificate. The
Learned Counsel referred to Phillips v. Dicas, 5 I
East; and a more modern case in Bosanquet and
Puller.
A traveller, formerly in the service of the de-
fendant, proved, a short time previous to the bank-
ruptcy, on coming off a journey, that he had handed
him 140/.
A clerk of the accomptant employed by the as-
signees proved the defendant to have ("barged a great
portion of his debits to his private expences.
Mr. Barker, the attorney of the plaintiff, proved
that the Commissioners were quite satisfied on the
first commission, but that no mention had been
made by the defendant, in his examination on the
second commission, of the 140/., or at least that he
had left a large portion of it unaccounted for. When
examined on the second joint commission, he left a
sum of 3,000/. unaccounted for. The Commis-
sioners adjourned on this.
Mr. Long, a trunk-maker at Manchester, a credi-
tor of the defendant's estate for 261., said, that
shortly before he absented himself he had called on
witness, and
asked witness to sign, he and bouht a portmanteau, price 21. 145.;
when he subsequently
re-
fused, as
he was indignant at the affair of the port-
manteau; he then told witness his estate would
pay 20s, in the pound, and he would give him the
money for the portmanteau. On this account wit-
ness signed.
Mr. Baron HurLocK would leave it for the opi-
nion of the Jury, whether the bankrupt, having
already the necessary number of signatures to en-
title him to his certificate, would promise to pay
2/. 14s- to procure the signature of a creditor for 261.
The Jury immediately found for the defendant.

. BRIGHTON, SEPT. 4.—Mrs. Langdon, the
friend Fox, which latter lady, it
will be bFeorrebde,s,was alias
thiVie friend of Mr. Fauntleroy, has
ben, here some days, and has a handsome equipage, con-
sisting of au open barouche, with coachman, footman, &c.,
all kept up in good style. These are the two ladies
who attained so much notoriety here last autumn, from
their connection with the " extraordinary affair," as it was
called, when a Brighton solicitor indicted the house in
which they lived, Mrs. Langdon may be seen daily, driv-
ing on the Marine Parade and Steyne,