Star.
London, England, 1805-08-21 00:00:00

NfIWDAY, AUGUST 19.

EX PARTE WILSON, IN THE MATTER OF KATMAI.
Two bills werq taken by the petitioner from the
bankrupt, amounting to aboutlool. on a houfe at
Hamburgh; the bankrupt was the drawer, and Meas.
Claffin, Kirkouvre and Co. of that city, were the ac•
ceptors. The Hamburgh houfe failed, and entered
into a compofition with its creditor., but did not be-
come bankrupt. The petitioner, by his agent, figned
the deed under which tbia compofition was made•;
and the quaion before the Court was, whether he
should be permitted to prove the amount of thefe bills
under the commiilion of Portales ?

Mr. RICHARDS, .for the petitioner, faid, that his
client had applied both to the Solicitor for tht; Corn•
miffion, and to the affignees, and they had given him
leave to affent to the arrangement, and receive his
portion from the effe&s of the houfe at Hamburgh ;
fo that although the ordinary rule of law was, that
receiving any compofition from an acceptor exonera-
ted the drawer of a bill, yet this right was waved by
the underftanding between all the parties. On this
ground the Learned Counfel trotted that the Peti-
tioner would be allowed to prove the debt for theft
bills.

Mr. ROMILLY reified this claim. His Lord{hip
hat already decided in a cafe occurring in this very
bankruptcy ( Ex parse Gauchette), that this debt could 1
not be proved. The bills were on the fame houfe at
Hamburgh, and were ptecifely under the fame cir-
cumliances. It was truly Rated that there was tome'
communicatTon between the parties, and that there
was a miflake on all fides in fuppofing the Hamburgh
houfe had become bankrupt. Mr. Wilfon, however,;
should have informed himfelf better; hii Agent fhould
have been inftrated to Ggn no deed of compofition ;
the all, although no fraud, was indifcreet, and the
rule of law, in difcharging the acceptor, mull prevail.
The LORD CH•tiCZ This is an exceeding•
ly hard cafe, but we are not authorifed in departing
from the principle of law. It was fettled by my
Lord Thurlow upon great deliberation, that if a per-
Inn held the fecurity of a drawer upon an acceptor,
and fuch holder give the acceptor time upon the bill,
he has from that moment no demand againft the
drawer, whether folcent or not. My Lotd Thurbiw
said he had confulted all the Judges upon the fubjeft,
and laid down the law with great authority. My
Lord Rofilyn thought at fiat, that if the holder did
all he could to render the bill produßive, it could
not exonerate the drawer ; and in lonic cafes, I think,
he admitted dividends to be received againft the
drawer, after the holder had acceded to a compofi-
tion with the drawer ; yet the law had been long fet-
tled."

EE PARTE ELIZ. FINCH, IN THE MATTEL OF THOMSON.

This was a petition to prevent the fanflion of the
Great Seal to the certificate of the bankrupt, en the
ground of fraud.
Mr. Rommt.r, for the Petitioner, Rated, that fhe
paid to the liankrupeon on: occafion I Isl. I Is. 2d. to
purchafe tool. flock, which he pretended to buy, but
never gave the nod: receipt; and the fad was,while the
lady was fuppoiing fhe had this property in the funds,
the Bankrupt was applying it to his own purpofes.—
At another time he received from her lost. to loved
in an Exchequer Bill, which he likewife kept in his
own pocket, pretending that he could no: meet with
a (mall bill—that he had bought one for 5001. which
would remain with him, fhe having one-fifth interefl
in the (peculation. On a third occafion, he gave to
her his feparate note in return fcr about sogl. inllead
of the joint note of hitnfelf and his partner, which
Mrs. Finch incautioully took without examination.
On thefe grounds the petitioner prayed that the cer-
tificate might be flayed,
The LORD CHANCELLOR." If the Chancellor
were merely to examine the condun of the Bank-
rupt after the commiffion, it would often not be
a very laborious or difficult duty ; but-if he be to go
into the hickory of the individual at the Former pe.
riods of his life, it muft be both the one and the other.
—Perfons calling themfelves brokers, I have Peen
often taking advantage of foolifh women ; and I
only wonder they are not indifled for it. If a
man ailing in this way have a commiffion iffued
again( him in February, and obtain creditors to
his certificate in March, it would be a (hocking
thing that he fhould be let loofe upon the world ;
hut I do not fay the reprefentations now made are
true. It feems to me, that all the CommiflionErs do
their duty as well as I fhould do it, and fome much
better; but it is material they fhould attend to the
papers and proceedings with great care, and efpe•
cially to the dates when the certificate is figned
Here is at this moment before me, in the power given
from Edinburgh to fign the certificate for a debt of
Bosl. 6s. 6d. no date at all. excepting that, with a
pencil, the 7th of March is written ; then here is alfo
an affidavit, which was directed to be tranfmitted to
the Great Seal, and has not even been exhibited to
the Commiffioners. We had a cafe before us a few
days ago (ex parse King) in which it was evident, that
thetertificate was prepared before the commifllon
was taken out. I lend this back, becaufe the affida-
vit of the principal creditor does not appear to me
to have been exhibited to the Commiffioners."

IX•PALTE HOOJSR, IN THE MATTEL 07 ricictaiso.

This was alma an application by a principal Credi-
tor. to thy the certificate,
Mi. ROstist.ii Etid, that the comtniton iitued
&pieta Pickering, in August,, 18or, as a Dealer

in Wine and Spirit', when in fan it appeared. .1 ,t
he was an advertiling Money lender ; tti.icft burs.
nets he carried on in the name cr l'honivion ; a, ;
fo profitable was this fort of fpecolation, that a
Mr. NVhitewick (who afterwards arrelle.l him
r. 6001.) offered him a penflon of Coe!, a•year for
the concern. The Bankrupt produced n0b.,4.,tv
the Commifioners, except one made up. within a
month of the bankruptcy ; the fureties appeared to
be falfe, but the deception was never difclofed
til the Bankrupt was hardly pi-tiled by interrota.
tories from the Cornmiffioners. Among other tr,r.
Cre•-.ions Rated, goods were, delivered to rerlor,
of the names of Salle, Jones, Rigby, and anon.';
and these were recoverrd'hack, benig delivered ur..
der fraudulent circurnflantes. In anfwer to the
fidavits, the bankrupt laid that he formerly kept ti.e
Star and garter in Pall Mall, where he carried
bolinefs as a wine merchant, from the year
Afterwards he withdrew from that engagement.ai 4
went into money negociations in Eaton-Greet, Pim.•
lico. It was true, he admitted, •that (rinse advertile.
menu of his appeared, under the name of Thump-
fon. The learned Counfel concluded, that the deli..
very of goods in fraud of the general creditors woeli
alone, be a fufficient ground for this application ; bac
there was the additional circumftance, that certain
perfons pretending to he creditors, were not, in fad.
fuch creditors at the time of hgning the certificate;
and this. independently of the other objeflion, swam
induce his Lordfhip to fend it back to the Coot/nil-
ironer!, to afcertain the fart. A third ground might
be Rated, and that was, that no fatisfitaory accounts
whatever had been produced by the bankrupt.
Mr. JoHNsoN, for the bankrupt, laid, that in Ja-
nuary, rflos, Mr. Hooper petitiotied his Lordfhip to
be permitted to prove his debt for the exprefs put.
pofe of now difTenting from the certificate. The ob-
jeft of the petitioner was not to take any benefi. front
the effefts of the bankrupt, but to parfue him at kw.
Out of nineteen creditors, Marrs. Lucas and Co. and
Mr..Hmoper, were the only perfons who bad not
figned this certificate. The names objected to on the
certificate were in fad lanai& creditors at the time
of figning it.
The Loan Ctraticteemt—" This is one of the In-
fiances which made.the fay before, that it is very ma-
terial the Commiffioners Utould fee at what time the
certificate is figned by the refpeetive creditors. Here
the bankrupt was a money lender, under the name
of Thompfon, and a vintner, under the name of Pick-
ering. The reafon, 1 think, I ought to fend it back
to be reviewed is, becaufe many of the perfons fir-
Mg the certificate, appear to me not to have been
creditors at the time. Let it be fent to the Commit-
lioners, they baring regard to this particular."

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ITH.

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