Star.
London, England, 1807-09-24 00:00:00

MARGATE, SEPT. 22.

This morning, about (even o'clock, the feamen of
this place, proteaed by Fencible Tickets (who fo
gallantly volunteered their fervices to a(fift to man•
ring and conducing home tl e fleet), to the
number of 80, embarked on board a frigate. appointed
for the purpofe of taking them over. Before the
boat in which they failed to the frigate left the Orr,
they gave three cheers, which was aufwered by their
comrades and hundreds of fpea +tors on the pie-,
who came to fee them go off. They were all fine
young men, under thirty-five year of age, and excel.
lent feamen. Never was loyalty, on any occalion,
difplayed fo much as on the prefent ; out of go men,
So immediately volunteered on r:ccipt of the order.
It is ruppofed that this (mall place will furnifh more
men than all Kent betide.

The volunteer feamen from Deal, Sandwich.
Ramfgate, and Broad[lairs, who were not very nu•
merous, embarked about an hour after the Margate
Volunteers, from the North Foreland.

WEYMOUTH, SEPT: 22.

Yeflerday came on the el:Etion of Mayor for this
Borough and Town, for the year enfuing ; when
RICHARD 'TUCKER STEWARD, Eiq. one of our worthy
Reprefentatives, was unanimoufly chofen.
The Mayor cleft, the Corporation, and a large
party of Gentlemen, were invited to an elegant enter-
tainment at the Crown Inn, by our late Chief Magi-
(lrate, WILLIAM Warms, Efq. Every delicacy that
she feafon affords, was produced ; many loyal and
conftitutional toafts were given; and the maned hila-
rity prevailed to a late hour.
A gale of wind from the Well ward blew the whole
of lalt night, and caufed feveral of his Majefly's
cruizers to bear up for Portland Roads, where they
remain, together with his Majetty's chip PLuro.
Portuguefe Ichooner, from Amsterdam to Oporto,
with wheat and cheefe, is detained and fent in here
by the SPRIGHTLY cutter.
Notwithltanding the violence of the gale, no inter-
ruption has been given to the invalid, in bathing.
The machines have been fully occupied ; and the
abatement of the form has this morning increafed
the number of pedefrians on the lands. Their fine
texture, and ferenity of fea in wefiern gales, are ad-
vantages pre-eminent to the bay of Weymouth.
This day being the Anniverfary of his Majefty's
Coronation, the guns at Portland Cattle were dif-
charged in honour of it, and returned by the tbips of
war lying in the Roads.
The Barracks are preparing to receive a regiment
of cavalry and infantry for winter quarters.

Yefierday Lord HINNIKEIL arrived in town from
Broiadftairs. To-morrow his Lordfhip will leave
tote; for Burleigh Hall, near Stamford in Uncoln-
thire the,fcat of the Marquis of EIETEZ.

Apfley Hook, Hyde Park Corner, has lately been
pnrehafed bythe Marquis WEI. Lane r, who parpoies,
after its cosaplete repair, to quit Camelford Houfe,
and reticle there.
• It is already known that Parliament lately purchaf-
ed Lanfdown Library of Manufcripts, for the
Britifh Mufenm, at an average of the valuation made
by three parties, being 49251. Mr. Planta, the grin•
rips' Librarian of the Mufeum, has eilimated their
'valne in the following manner:—
The Burlsigh and Cecil Papers. Ito lots, at Vol. each C 1200
Sir Julius Casfar's Papers, so Volumes,.at rol. 500
Original Regiftcrs of Abbeys, sy Volumes, at tot. syo
tco ditto, at I. 750
985 ditto, at al. 1970
Forty Numbers of Royal Letters, at 51.
200
Eight Volumes of Chincre Drawings t go

Malting the whole Value c 4970
The elegant watering place of Bognor Rocks, has
been more nnmeroufly attended flits fummer than on
any former frafln. A concert under the direegon of
Mr. pENNRTT, of Chichetter, was attended by all the
beauty and fafhion: of the place and neighbourhood,
amongft whom were Eatl and Counters of Naw.
SURGH, Lord SELSET, Sir THOM•S and Lady
PEACHEY, General and Mrs. Cantina, &c. &C. The
performance gave general fatisfaetinn.
Mr. RIViTT, long known as one of the moll adeve
of the Bow ttreet Officers, was on Monday morning
conveyed to a mad honk, with - but little hopes Of
recovery. Doftor Ma AD'S efcape from him in Ireland,
is flippnftd to have preyed upon hi, mind, and he has
been fince that event in a defpon,,i4g way.
A worthy cit, remarking that the prefent Lottery
Plan wasvery fingular, an Irtfh gen!lernan replied,—
" Very ingular ! as it poffefres two Schemes; and far
,ware Capital Prizes than were ever befnre known
with fo few numbers to draw !" Although this
I fotinds likes be, it neverthelefs contains irrefutable
faits. The Irifh gentleman might have added, that
the Scheme is fingukr alto, from not having Two
Blanks to a Prize!

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OLD RimEr, SiEPT. zz.-

DEFRAUDING OF CREDITORS.

The following cafe molt he peculiarly intereflinj
-0 the mercantile world, both on account of its me-
Docholy Kite, and the unfrequency of its occurrence:

James Bullock, whole entisludt has been more than once noticed
in the public prints. on his apprehadloti, and various examinations
In the police office, was put to the bar, charged with the above
capital offence. 'f•he imiliameta charged the prifoner that he.
having been duly declared a bankrupt, under the Great Seal of
England, and a commillion of bankruptcy having been in confe-
it:eine duly 'Molt againft his ettate and effects. did wilfully, frau.
(Intently, and frionimifiy conceal and embezzle property in his
poffellion, to the amount of god with intent to defraud the affig-
nets, under Paid ffatnte of bankruptcy.
The trial occupied the Court from ten in •hr morning till font
in the afternoon. The profecution was carried on at the inflance
of the Apices of the prifoner's bankruptcy. The Count'sl for
the profecution were Mr BOLLA NU and Mr CUP Ivry, the for-
mer of whom opened the pi-exec:dings, and the latter Rated the
cafe to the Court and Jury ; in doing which, he expatiated at
length, upon the heinous nature of the offence charged again ft the
prifoner—an offence. of late years. fo frequent and alarming in its
eonfequences, to the property of honelt and inch:artist's men, from
the enormous frauds which bad been fo long pradtifed with im-
punity, by diflioneft debtors, who have contrived ►o elude the vi-
gilance and feverity of the law, by various devices, in as materially
to Stake the foundations of commercial credit. Some effedlual
check, therefore, became necelfary to pradtices of this fort, as well
to fecure the property elbow-II men, as. by a Raking example, to
deter others from the repetition of a crime, which mutt Strike di-
realy at the very root of commercial confideoce. The eircum•
fiances of the prifnner's cafe were briefly theft :—He carried on
the bonnet' of a wine and brandy merchant, in Scot's yard, Bufh.
lane. Cannon-greet, for Come years; and at length his affairs having
became emba reared, a docket was Itruek in the u foal form, and a
commillion of bankruptcy Wised again!! him. He furrendered to
his of igners at Guildhall on the fir and fecond days required by
the advertikinent in the London Gazette, and underwent two ex-
aminations ; but on the third day, which was the aBth of July, be
%V tei milting, and never attended ; and it was fhortly afterwards
found he had abfconded. and never made any communication to
his creditors as to the place of retreat, nor gave them any fur-
ther account of his Pilate and effedls. Snfpicions arofe that he had
retorted part of his eft:As. An advertifement was publiftted by
the aflignces, offering a reward for his difeovery and apprchcnfion.
It appeared that the prifoner had fent off I coufiderable quantity
ofproperty,packed in Cenral chcfts, for Leith, in Scotland, diredted
far John Browne; and it was alto difcovered, that the prifoner, a
s'ay or two previoufly to hi. difappearance, had himlelf in per-
fon lodged in the bank of Sir Robert Movies and Co St. James's-
freer, a fum of Bxl. in the name of John Browne, giving a (Ole
addrefs ; which film In: drew out in two days after, Ity two drafts,
fired Browne, in one bank note of 501. and the other for noel.
her circumltances naturally excited a fufpicion that the prifo-
ner ha 'taken his flight towards Leith. whither be was followed
by Anthony, the police officer. from Bow Inset, who went to the
place where the goods were direded for Mr. Browne; and, after
waiting there for flame time, apprehended the prifoner in the very
adt of coming to demand the packages. in the name of John
Browne. The clefts were broken open and &arched, and in one
of them were found the two identical bank notes, for Soot and
aocil Hilted by Hcrries and Co. to the prifoner, in payment of his
two drafts in the name of John Browne. This font of ficaot was
the ground of the indidtment ; and Mr. Gurney argued, from there
eireuneftanees, that the intention of the prifoner non have been
to dettaud his creditors ; otherevife. why abfeond in the manner
be had done, and withhold from his affignees all farther account of
the effedts which he had difpofed of to fo eonGderahle an amount

John Holahan. clerk and cellar-man to Mcffrs. tolnt and George
Cowell, proved againft the prifoner a debt to his employers of
14171 for goods had and delivered, for whirls he had paired him
his acceptances, but which never were paid
Thomas Ward, clerk in the banking hook of Prefeott and Co.
proved that ant', acceptances puffed through their bottle, and were
duly prefer:nil for payment, but not difcharged. Actin time the
prifoner pa;. •d thole acceptances, be had credit at the houfe,
kept cafh there ; but they rIW-ontiuued thenceforward anfwcring
his drafts. having no effeet, of :is.
George Skotc, a notary': ck k, proved the due proteft of the ac-
ozptaee-s.
William Bryant, who had been a traveller, or out door clerk,
formerly in the fervice of Mr. bullock, proved feveral at to of the
prifoner's infolvency. Some ohjedlions were made to his teltimoily,
as having been a creditor, to prove the prifoner': bankruptcy, by
Mr. Ar LRY and Mr. Con sr, the prifoner's Connie!, but they
were overruled by the Court.
John Tracey. who bad been a carman is the Prifoner's fervicc,
and James Mabbs, who had hew his gardener, at Dulwich, prov-
ed fcveral circunulances refpeeting the declining Rate of the pri-
foner's affairs for nine or ten months previous to the month of
April laft, and his becoming leis frequent in attending at his
eompting-houfe, until the month of May, when the name of
BuUock was taken from the door, and thole of Lang, Wallace,
and Co fubfliti4ted. The former bad been the prffoner's cellar
man and porter, and the latter his clerk. After this the prifoner
feldom called at the compting-hook. Mabbs Paid, that between
the t ith and t 4th of May, the prifoner left his book in Dulwich,
and removed to apartments in Chelfea, to which the witnefs and
the carmen had his directions to carry force boxes of goods. • One
cart load was taken, by fobrequent diredlimis, to Huagerford-
market, and left at a public houfe there chafe to the water fide ;
the load matted of half a dozen trunks full of goods.
Tracey, bring again called, corroborated the steftimons, and
Paid, he had ;he prifoner's orders over night to go to Dulwich,
with the cart be ufuaUy drove, and having brought one load to
Hungerford market, he went back to Dulwich for another; and
on his return through Blackfriar'sroad, he was met by the -clerk
of Mr. Cowell, the wine merchant, who afked him whence he
came and whether he was going? He gave the belt anfwers he
could ; and when the clerk lett him, he difpatched Mabbs to
Dulwich to apprize the prifouer of the circunaltance, and to deflre
his further directions. In the mean time witnefs was met
by Mr. Atkinfon, the prifoner's nephew, who fometitues anted
in his uncle's cellars, and he gave the witnefs orders to drive the
cart to Bouverie Brett, in Fleet Pant. On his way he met the
prifotier, who came in confequence of his outrage, and confirmed
the orders of his nephew. The cart, he laid, contained fix or (even
boxes, which, by the prifoner's orders, he afterwards conveyed
to Dulwich. He had been funononed to attend the Commiflions
of Bankruptcy. hut was afterwards told he need not attend.
'the commiffinn of banktuptcy againft the prifioner,.was put
ire; and Mr. Acura on examining the document, found it was
upon an eighteen-penny Ramp, upon which he objedted to the
legality of the inftrument ; but the Court overruled she objection,
as the iultcument was under the Great Seal of England, she
fountain of all anthority.
Jofeph Spencer, a meffenger of the Bankruptcy Commiffioners,
raved the fervice of tee 'notice of furrender at the prifoner's
iip ufe , in Scott's Yard, on the 6th of June :aft.
Mr. Newman, the Keeper of Newgate, produced the warrant
of Lord Ellenborough for apprehending the prifoner, in conk-
qa mee of his negket to furrender for his tinal examination
pinta Garnet, Solicitor for the AOgnees, proved the fignatures
of the Commiffioners under the Great Seal; and proved the
names of the Affignees to be George Medley, John Cowell. and
Richard Pettit; be proved alto the two attendances and examiva-
tions of the prifoner before the Conunifiloners. and also a eonver-
Anion be held with the prifu tier privately, the day after hi:. fecorid
examination, touching the state of his agates; in which the pri
faun fold him that feveral funs of money were due to him; and
he particularly mentioned a Aim of toil which he bad borrowed
or a Mr. Griffin Jones. He proved alto the prifoner's failing to
Lurrender on the day aopointA far Gnat examination; although
the Conuniffioners and Affigliees wahad for him until pail twelve
a: nieztit.
William Anthony, the Bbw-ftrett Officer, Rated the 'dram.
_Dance of his having gone to Leith, in purfnit of the prifoner ; and
his having apprehended him at a wharf there, where he came, in
the name of Browne, to enquire about feventeen packages front
London, fent there for him. The prifoner made no reflftaucc, but
tbewed the whoa' a bankrupt's protection from *nett; but this
being of no authority apinft a warrant for a criminal charge, he
was apprehended and brought to London. At tholy found on
enquiry, at the prifonerh lodgings, that he went by the name of
Browne. On their very to town, the prifoner told Anthony, be
had left London at four o'clock on the afternoon of Saturday the
18th July, being the day appointed for his float lernmder, and
that on the tollowing Wed-owl:lay be arrived at Edinburgh; that
the packages he had taken away with him, did not contain value
exceeding s. L But on a rubfeq.tent converfation be Paid, he had
received about 4C31 from a banker in London, which was eon •
Wiled in a le 511 box, with the patkagcs at Leith.

Mr. Griffin Jones fail, be had been fortnerly in the army, bet
wan now retired on half pay; he had known the prifoner many.
years ; in May and June WI, the withefir had lodged alternately
in Dartmouth-Itreet. Weßminaer, and in Stratford Place. He
frequently law Mr. Bullock in that time, at his lodgings, and la ft
in Dartmouth hoe. in June. The painter, who vffited him as
a friend. then lignilied to him that his eireumnances were ember,
raffid The stitrefs did not with to hurt his feelings, by any ob-
fcrvatione. The prifoner preneeded,ansl ettiltavuurcd to perfuade
the wltnefs that *ot, the prifoner, had borrowed of him toot!.
whidt herald he *nsdd honourably re, pay, as loon as he could.—
%%Inure did not underhand what he meant, and hour,: pofitively
that he never eithei borrowed or lent any money from or to the
prifoner, beyond tome triling change at a coffee-houre.
Matthew WI de and W. Martiu, Clerks in the Bank of Eng-
land, proved that the prif, iner kept et& there; and that a fum of
abr ut sool. was paid on the 6th of June, being the balance in his
favour, except a mere trifle.
A clerk from the haute of Meifre. Prefeott and Co. proved,
that the prifoner afro kept oath there, and had drawn from the
boufe, and that the left balance in their hands for his account, was
paid in two drafts on the Bank of England, via. No 1383, for
Sc. I dated Bth May, and No 698, for gaol. dated the sect April.
Thomas Farquhar, Efq partnet in the honk of Harries and Co.
St. Janies's-Preet, proved that on the reth July the prifoner came
to their haute, lodged 8001. there, and wrote his name in the entry
!look, " John Browne, rt, Chapel-fired, Park lane ;" the bldg.
nu-nt confined of the identical drafts mentioned by the left wit-
:iris, and the prifoner told the witneti he was going out of town.
Witncfs never again law the prifoner uutil in cultody. But
JVIr. William Smith, a clerk in the houfe, proved that he had
entered thole drafts to the priloner's account, and that on the 13th
of July the painter came again, withdrew the drafts, and doted
his account; raying, he was leaving town, and lorry to hare fo
Own a dealing
It was proved by Mr. GARNET, folk-heir for the comntiffion,
that noted and monz-y, to the amount or 8:-.01. were found in one
of the packages addreffed for the prifoner by the name of Browne,
at Leith.

Tie evidence for the prolieution being elofed, the prifoner, in
defence, addreffed the Court and Jury, in a fprech of confiderable
length, force, and feeling.
He began by regretting that it was his misfortune to be preclu-
ded, by the forms of the Court, from the advantage of addrelß,g
the Jury by his Connie!: but he trulted, that whatever difadvan-
rage might arife to him on fo awful and critical an occafion, from
his own deficiency, under the preffure of harraffed feelings, and
an agitated mind, he would meet an ample indalgence in the itu•
inane and eonfidtrate feelings of the Court and Jury. He com-
plained of the cruel principle of the bankrupt laws, which fubjed
ed the unfortunate trader to a capital punifhment. in addition to
all other Mks, to which other debtors were not liable; from, per-
haps, an erroneous endeavour to voted hit property, and the
means of his family's esiftence, agaiolt the claims of c^editors,
often cruel and implacable, as well as rapacious and unfatiable
Other men, from the highelt slats of nobility down to men in the
lowcft rank or proleffion, were at liberty to protedt their property
by the heft means in their power. without being liable to the fere-
rity of the Laws, and the ignominy and cruelty of punilhments
which levelled the molt refpeaable trader with the vital felon or
murderer. At the time the preteen commilltnn rrasiffnedagainft
him, he Cad he did not confider binffelf in a Rate of infolveuey;
and he confidered the commit ion to have been ailed upon grounds
at once illegal and unennititutional, as being granted on the evi
deve of a creditor who might very naturally have Isom fuppofed
li-
able to give partial telliniony. Impreffed by the confederation of this
circumftanee, and the advice of his Solicitors, men of eminence
and refpedtability in their profeilSon, as well as from his own in-
formation, desired from the perufal of eminent profeftionalautho•
rides, he felt the ftrongeft convinion that the commilion was
illegal; that he was not bound to fubmit to fuck an arbitrary
proceeding, and had no doubt of fuperfeding it. ft was not until
he was aftured of certain conditions, that he at firft agreed to fur.
newsier; but when he found thofe conditions violated, and that af-
! ter being hunted and purfued like an outlaw, from one corner 5e
another, through every part of the town, he at length cameo the
refialution of doing what he conceived to be inflict to his hdpiefs •
infants and his aged parents, by refeuisig from tke gripe of his
perfs.cutars the fmall remaining pekrtion of property he poffcffed,
to protedt his parents and his children from famine. That this
property was large, he did not mean to fay, for that would he to
acknowledge the crime imputed to him; hi. intentions were not
of the criminal compkaion imputed to then,, fur he tufted under
the fulleft convidlion, that the commiffion of bankruptcy was
'fried spina, law, which would have inevitably curried away his
laft tilling; and never conceiving that he could have been introl
red in the cot-Sequences of a clime created by law, under a corn-
ntifTion iffued agaioil law: the feelings of nature, and of filial duty
to his children and his aged parrots, prompted hint to devote the
fmall means he polliffed in adrniciftering to their immediate wants,
rather than A:pander it in an expenfivelawfuit, whichwould have
fpeedily abforbcd the lalt farthing. He did intend firmly to fur.
render himfelf to his creditors in the coming November, by which
time, he indulged the hope, their animofi,y would have eouled.--
Nothing remained for him now but to fuhmit his cafe, and throw
bighted( on the confideratejuftice and feeling of a humane Jury of
his fellow citizens, upon whore impartiality he relied with the melt
' confident reliance.

Mr. ALLAY and Mr. Comr now reurged their former objec-
tions to the teltininny of Mr. Bryant, as not legally admillible,
and they fupported their ohkelions by various precedents, which
they argued to be in point; but thofe oblations were overruled by
the Court.

On the part of the prifoner, John Charlotte, Under Secretary
in the Bankrupt's Office, proved that the docket againft the pri
Lilts was !truck on the 3oth of June, hut no further proceeding
took place thereon till four days after, when the commilfina
illued.

George Wallace fworn, flared, that he lived clerk with the pri-
foner, at a falary of 2001. a•year. The docket was !track wktn
the prifnner was out of the way to avoid arreit.' He had frequent
intercnurfe with the prifuner during his fojournment at Dulwich.
Several creditors came there to demand payment of their Bills;
and h;s anlwer was, he would come to town in a few days, and
fettle matters to their fatisfaetion.
On the eras examination. he Paid he lived with the prifaner
finee the loth January. and that there was 1871. due to him for
falary,for which he bad lodged an attachment in the Lord Mayor's
Court. The prifoner, he fad, had alßgned over his !lock and trade
to his porter Lang, the wither*, and the prifener's infant fon,a boy
aged fix years, in conilderation of their acceptance for 2=41 The
witnefs raid his own age is 20, and the new firm was Lang and Co.
A Mr Le Coint (wore he wrs employed to Infptct the prifo-
ner s Rock in trade for valuation, snderitanding that the bufinefs
was to be difpofed of.
Mr. jUlliCe REAM then fummed up the evidence melt impar•
tially. '1 he Jury retired for the fpace of fiva minutes, and returned
a vtrain. of GUILTY againft the prifoner, who, upon hearing his
fatal alo,nt, retired in 'Hence from the bar, confideratily affeded, he
having apparently all along entertaited confiderable hopes of an
acquittal
*rac prifoner was a refpedtable looking man, about 46 years of
age.

ECCLESIASTICAL PROMOTIONS.

The R ev. George Shepherd, M. A. Fellow of Ilniverfity Coltege,
Oxford, ha. been prefented by the Lord Chancellor to thc reetory
of St. Bartholomew, near the Royal Exchange, London.

. - -
The Rev. Robert Field is inftitutetl to the vicarage of Sutton, in
Suffolk, on the prefaitation of Lord Roos.

NORWICH, Styr. 23 —At a General Ordination holden by the
Lord Ilithop of the dlocefe, in the Cathedral on Sunday Wt, the
following Gentkmen were ordained:—

The Rev. Thomas Andrews. M. A. is elefted to the Mater.
Gip of the Free Grammar School at Burton!, Oafordfhire.

ben co ws.—F. S. Bevan, A.M. and J. Smith, B.A. of Emanuel
Col.: J. P. Chambers, 8.A.; and N. R. Dennis, B.A. of Corpus
Cbrifti Col ; J. Day, B A. St. Mary Magdalen Col ; M. G Fdgar,
B A.; W. Okes, M.A. Fellow, 'l' H Siely, B.A. and H. R. Wil
hams, BA. of.Caius Col,; W. Gibbs. B.A. (Aldus Col E. Hogg,
B.A. of Peterhoufe Col ; J. R. E. Nelfea,ls A. of Chrift's Col.; P.
Pawfey, B.A. and H. Raikes, M.A of St John's Col. ; G. W.
Poky, B.A. of Quern's Col. Camb.; J. Mndd.

Pa it sr s —.J.C. Clark, A.B. and J. James. A.M. Fellows of St.
John'. Col and T. R. Spence, A.B. of Trinity Col. Orford ; J.
Cooper, M A.; C. M Donne, A.B. R. F. Fiwin, A.B. and B. G.
Purvis, A.B. of Calus Cols; R. Field. A.B. of Sidney Col.; C.
Stannard. A.M. Fellow of St. John's Col.; and F. Singleton, A.B.
of Corpus Chrilti Col. Cambridge; M. Irving. A M. of the Da-
lverfity of Fdinburgh; S. Cautherley, and R. W. Tummy.
Monday laft, the Rev. C. M. Donne, A. B. was inftitnted to the
Rs:dory of Town Sarni:ll3am, and to the Vicarage of Hempen%
Iboth iu this county, ou the prefentation of John Throat. Mott,

BIRTH. • ~•
At the Manor Houfe, Hires, Weld!ere:, Mrs. Walker, wife of
Mr. Walker, Lederer In Aftromuny, of e. fon.
The Lady of Walter Campbell, of Cerra&ll, Efq. of a fon and
heir.
At St. Peteriburgh. the pit July (t). S ), the Lady of Robert
Bulk, Efq. Engtifh merchant there, of a fon.
At Hampftead. Mrs. Brown, Ruffell fquare. of a daughter.
e Lady of Joleph Timperen, Efq. of Upper Harley ftreet.
of a fon.