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• tjj.••tiiiintr OF CHANCERY, Aucbsr BB! *.
rEEL Patera D IN MATTER tis ;ANSEPH•
lit!thit7e-xtraordinary matter of bankruptcy, Sir S.
suliportid-by MT; MONTAGU, made an ap-
plitiitkOor an issue to try whether the act ci bank.
ruptcy r ab not the result of a studied preconcerteel
plan of fraud an the part of the-bankrupt, and hie
frienls groupding their case OR affidavits flied in this
mnftearts which stated many unaceountable .circum-
stanas *tending the proceedings from the 12th of
July last till the 30th of the same month; when the
bankrupt, against Whomia commission was issued on
the 110th of that month, bad committed suicide.
`Mr. LEACH, supported by Mr. PARKER, opposed
the apiiication made on behalf of the petitioner, one
o(the crcditork, on the ground of an affidavit filed by
the son of the bankrupt, stating that he had abscond-
ed through fear of arrest, not with the intention of
being shade a bankrupt, but owing to great tender-
ness or agitation of mind on finding his inability to i
meet the demands against him, and denying his fa-
tikes Insanity at the time of the suicide.
Sir S. RouILLY, in reply, clearly stated, that the
sans affidavit went merely to the'negat;on of his fa.
ther's insanity, without meeting the charges of the
petitioner; of which opinion the Lone CHANCELLOR
expressed himself to be, on consideration of all the
circumstances detailed; but from the peculiarity of
die case, desired him to read the affidavits before his
fin .41 judgment.—Judgment was postpimed.
EXPARTE CUTHBERT IN THE MATTER Of STEIN. .

The LORD CHANCELLOR observed, on this cause be-
ing called, that the petition being extremely long, was
not sent to his Lirtiship in due time tn be read in the
present Sittings, and of necessity must starlit! over.
The Counsel, however, on both sides, agreed to
take an act:on to try the great question of account
pending between the bankruptcies of Stein, Smith,
and Co. and Kensington and Co. with liberty to move
to change the venue,tn good grounds, from the city
of London, lest any partiality or undue influence
should prevail —Action granted.

PALACE COURT, AUGURY' 96.
At the cittings this day, an action was brought to
recover ril3, paid for a blind horse, which did not
answer the description given at the time of sale. The
Plaintiff had purchased with a knowledge that both
eyes wercblind, but when the horse was.sent home,
he foutill7hat his blind gelding had also the infirmity
of incurable lameness. The unfortunate state of the
horse was proved by a farrier, who saw it' when it
uarnelc the defendant. There was no defence.
Mr. ItEr.coLns, the Judge, said, this was an extra.
brdinary case, as neither himself or the oldest man at
the bar, had, perhapi, ever-known a horse cause unde.
finded•; however, as the. evidenie stood, the Jury
were hound to find for the plaintiff.—Verdict for
thiintiff—Damages £l9.

• ' Bow-Smarr.-.—Yesterday, W'sgum Stiles and Nib
Rams Hader were luny committed, the former charged
with stealing. thelatter for receiving six pounds of
Candles. William Stiles, portals to Messrs. 'rreacher,.
Of Holborn, was seat-with-420 dozen of candles to the
`Duke of Northumberland's. The shopman, having
li!ng. inspected that Stiles had been pilfering, em-
-14 ed a be/ Vo!watch Isiah- who saw him stop the
Thick at the end of it eintrt in Si. Martin's-lane, and
'take one of the buys nut ofethe.truck into-the court,
where he unpacked it, and put about 61b into a
basket, which Heider head, and direitiy went away
with it towards Long Acre, when Stiles went to the
Duke's and delivered the rest. In consequence, on
his coming home, he was taken into custody, when
he confessed that he had eisier, them to Hodder, who
kept a shoemaker's stair,. in Stonecutter's-passage,
Lincoln's Inn-fields; .and had promised, that if he
sold them, he should have part of the money.—
* Ruthven, the Officer, proceeded to the stall, when he
found Hodder, and five candles banging on . a nail,
and a little basket, greasy inside. Hodder said, those
candles he had had a long time ; but could not re-
collect where he bought them, as he dealt at many
shops; but, on his examination before the Magistrate,
be said, he had tome shoes .to mend for Stiles, who
offered tp pay him in candles; end, thinking it the
porter's perquisite, he took them ; part of them he
sold fo a man at the top of St. Martiu's-lane, for ss. ;
and those found in his shop were the remainder.
,Merestote-House.—J. Harvey and W. Gazlie, were
chareed with stealing three bullocks, the property of
Mr. Mots, a miller, of South Weald, Essex. The
prisoners were seen p tssing through a turnpike, with-
in a mite and a ball of Mr. Moss's house, on the
Innrri:ng the cattle were stolen. A short time after-
wards t'.ey were seen driving three small bullocks
through the gage. Mr. Moss sent information to
6mitt:fii Id, where the prieeners had sold them to a
man named Churchyard, the prisoners were shortly
atter ds secured, but some of the witnesses necessary
to rec, gir zc them being absent, they were remanded.
J. firobauon,clinged on a former day with stealing
two silver-spootis from the Ship Tavern, Leaden:tall-
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etteeet, wal'again brought up, when several coffee-
keeffers reeognised him, as havingJsken ita their
/waits Fr. iriouilo the lost of spoons. One person,
named Hale, ;wed,, that he lost 14 silver spoons,
and one sailer Toili. in the course of a few days.—
He suspected the prisoner as having taken a part of
theta, but he could not swear to the fact. The pri.
soner mean most pathetic appeal to the
.humanity
• of his prosecutors, but they were inexorable, and he
was fully cenintitted.
Vennt-HALL.--0. licUe and Jonah Niel, %ten:
charged with stealing a•quantity of fe.h, the property
of the Surrey. Canal Company. Tuesday last, about
three nicks* in the morning, the Bermondsey Patrole
met the itisoners tong,lane, cne with a bundle
and the other with a bag. Having some curiosity to
see what these contained, he insisted on examining
them, and in the bag he found a large drag net, an.t
in. the bundle a variety cf fresh fish, apparently caught
• only a short time before. The Pairele questioned
them as to where they had been, and they at length
confessed they had been fishing in the Canal. Upon
this confession the Patrole detained theta, and they
were the next morning taken before a Magistrate,
and these faits being
.proved, they were each fined
295. and costs, and the fish and net were condemned.
Hes Toe GARDE..—Yesterday, titan, seemingly
deranged, applied at this Qffice fOr a warrant against
Johanna Soktheoit. The charges were of such a na-
ture, that the Magistrates could not take notice of
theta, 14e 44 as many followers as Jcbantia her if.