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• INSOLENT DE TORS' COURT.

jaws &sada, a horse-dealer, was opposed by
James Malcolm, a gardener, at Brentford, who stated ,
twat he bought a horse from the insolvent at Smith-
field for £l6, which the insolvent warranted to draw
well: but on trying him in the market he found the horse
was a roarer, and not worth as many shillings as he had
given pounds. He in consequence returned him to the
insolvent, and demanded his money. The insolvent
refused to return the money, but said he should have
another horse; and he certainly seemed to have plenty
of the same sort. Witness finding he had no chance of
his money, took another horse, of which the insolvent
gave a high character, but on trying him he proved to
be a kicker, that would destroy the cart and kill the
driver ; of course he was returned. The insolvent then
gave him a third horse, which he said no man alive could
find fault with ; but the very first trial of him in the
cart chewed he was a sticker, that would not draw at all.
On inquiry witness found that some of these horses had
been sold by the insolvent fifty times over, and always
returned; still as he could get no money from him, he
thought it better to take the first; which he considered
the best, and asked the insolvent for it, who promised to
give it, and brought him to town on five successive Fri-
days to get it. At length, seeing no chance of getting
any horse, he had a writ served on the insolvent, who
immediately said to him—" Very well ; I'll soon pay
you ; go to prison for six weeks, and live on your
money, and.that is all you shall ever get."
The CHIEF COMMISSIONZE, in pronouncing the jade
meat of the Cpurt, said, it was highly necessary to ;hew
these fraudulent dealers in horses that they could not
escape se easily as the present insolvent seemed to ex-
pect, when he was defrauding Mr. Malcolm. TheTudg-
ment of the Court was, that he should be imprisoned
eight months from the dite of his petition.
Thomas Gosling) a Wiltshire farmer, was opposed by
Mr. POLLOCK for Joseph Pitt, Esq. The case had been
referred to Mr. Dance, the provisional assignee, who re-
ported that the insolvent, in his examination before him,
first denied that he held any property, either freehold,
copyhold, or leasehold, under Lord Suffolk, but that he
afterwards admitted that a lease was intended to have
been made to him in December last of two cottages in
the manor of Hackerton, Wiltshire; which lease, how-
ever, was not executed to him, but to his son, he (the
insolvent) having no interest in it whatever.
The insolvent was now examined by Mr. Pou.oCK,
and admitted that a lease of the two cottages in ques-
tion had been made to him by Lord Suffolk for three
lives, at is. 6d. a year, of which'he executed a deed of
release and consignment to his son in March last. A
receipt for £l4O, as the consideration received from his
son, was also signed by him. (These documents were
received by the opposing creditor, from Lord Suffolk's
steward.) In his examination in explanation, by Mr.
HEATH, the insolvent stated, that he never received any
rent for these cottages. He had signed all the deeds pro-
duced at the desire of the agent of Lord Suffolk, under
whom he was tenant Sit svill of a farm. lie never had
possession of the deeds, nor derived any interest what-
ever under them, ner received a far thing of the £l4O.
Charles James Forest, examined by Mr. PoLt.ocx,
stated, that he was solicitor for Mr. Pitt, at whose suit
he brought an action against the insolvent, on his pro-
missory notes for £lOOO, to which he put in five pleas:
amongst them were a plea of fraud in covenant; and a
plea of satisfaction. Mr. Pitt obtained a verdict in
March last, for £1,22.55. the amount of the notes and
interest. The taxed costs were £7O. The insolvent
since filed a bill in equity to stay execution, which wit-
ness understood was dismissed.

The insolvent, in a second examination in explana-
tion of this, swore that the debt of I.:1000 was due to
Mr. Pitt by the trustees of a tnrnpike road in Wiltshire,
of whom he (the insolvent) was one; and that Mr. Pitt
holds a bond for it from all the trustees, with a security
on the tolls of the road. Besides being a trustee, insolvent
was also surveyor of this road, and Mr. Pitt, who was
also a trustee, came to him in 1818, and said he wanted
to have some of the Wotton-Basset electors employed
on the road, to prevent their becoming paupers, and
that he would advance a loan of i.:1000 or £l5OO to the
road, ifnecessary. Insolvent replied that he would employ
them, if they would work as well as others. Accord -
ingly, forty burgesses of Wotton-B.tsset were sent down
to the road, which was forty miles distant; and Mr.
pitt advanced money as it was wanted, for which in-
solvent gave him Iris promissory notes. When the in-
solvent's accounts were settled before the trustees, Mr.
Pitt was present, and received a bend for his debt from
all the trustees, which he (Mr. Pitt) himself was going
to sign, until he was told it was improper to sign a bond
to himself. He and the insolvent afterwards had sortie
differences about making electors for Malmsbury. In-
solvent took the part of the gentleman who west down
from London, for which Mr. Pitt deplored he would
ruin him ; and for that purpose he brought an action
against him for £lOOO on the promissory notes. In-
solvent had expended 1:500 of his own money on the
road, for which he took the trustees bond, as Mr. Pitt
did ; and both bonds wire signed on the same day, in
September, MI&
The COURT held, that as there was no concealment
of actual property from the creditors, the insolvent
should be discharged. He should, however, insert the
freehold in his schedule. and then let the assignees get
at it if they could. They lamented that he had sup-
pressed the existence of the lease in his examination be-
fore Mr. Dance; but it was one of the demoralising ef-
fects of electioneering squabbles, that they made parties
quite regardless of their oaths. As for Mr. Pitt, be had
other securities for his debt.

Henry Pullen, another farmer, was opposed by Mr.
Pou.octt, for Daniel Warren and Sarah Holdman.
The insolvent states that he had held a farm in which
had a life interest; but wanting to raise a sum of
moneysupon it by mortgage, which he could not do un-
his son, who had a reversionary interest in it, joined
I im, he prevailed upon him to do so, and executed al
'mortgage for aso, aU of which he received. In con-I
s;deration of having joined him in the mortgage, he as-
signed over hit life estate to his son, who now lived on
the estate, in the same house the insolvent had occupied,
and his (iesolvent's) wire lived with him as his house-
keeper. H: had been sold for £5B, by M,
lete,

him that his Attorney would let him opt. Mr. Lee, they
observed, was a respectable man, but he would here re-
ceive a lesson, that this was not the way to do business.
Jonattina giestaves Foster, a Captain on the half-pay
of the Rifle Brigade, was opposed by several creditors.
The investigation of this case occupied the Court to a
late hour ; but the principal facts which appeared were
dieser—The insolvent had been a debtor fgr twenty-two
months in the Kiss's Bench prison, for &To last twelve
of which he was confined within the walls, having for-
feited his liberty of the Rules by going down to Mar-
gate in consequence of some domestic misfortune,—
While in the Rules he received a set of emeralds and dia-
monds from Mr.Clatke, one of the partners in a jewel.
lery shop in Cheapside, which he disposed of shortly
afterwards, through Mr. Phillips, for 2001. The insol-
vent's statement of this transaction was, that he was in
the habit of meeting Mr. Clarke at sporting houses, who
ell knew how he was situated, and that he was a pri-
soner in the Rules of the King's Bench. From him he
received the jewels for the avowed purpose of raising
money upon them, to supply his wants, for which he
was to give his bills, payable in twelve months, for 310/.
Having had them valued by another jeweller, who said
they were worth only 2261. he offered nearly that sum
to Mr. Clarke, but he refused it. He also tendered him
back the jewels, but he would not take them. He sent
them to Mr. Phillips for sale in July, 1822, having re-
ceived them in the preceding June, and Mr. Phillips
disposed of them for 2001.
Mr. Clarke, in his account of the transaction, denied
that he knew how the insolvent was circumstanced when
he sold him the jewels, or that he was a prisoner; but
swore that he let him have them on a representation
that he wanted them for his wife to appear at Court in.
It was untrue that anything was said about raising mo-
ney on them, and the sum for which they were sold was
5731.-,twenty guineas less than the price for which
they. were marked. It was also untrue that he tendered
theM back. •
It appeared from the statement of a creditor named
Watts;•that the insolvent's wife had hired a piano-forte
of him for three months, and after repeated calls, the in-
solvent at length wad him that he would either buy that
or another inAlrinent from him. However, when Mr.
Watts next called at their house in York-street, he found
a bill upon the window?. and the insolvent and family
gone away.
There was a great deal of eam*ation on other sub-
jects, but these two were the leadinA points of the case.
The insolvent had been wounded three times, and had
suffered much from confinement and protracted indis-
position. Besides a, wife, he had three children ; and a
pension which he had been allowed was withdrawn two
years ago, in consequence of the Medical Board certify-
ing that his wounds were healed.
The Cover, in giving judgment, weighed the proba-
bilities of the conflicting statements of the insolvent and
Mr. Clarke, and considering all the circumstances of
the insolvent's conduct, as appearing during, this inves-
tigation, declared that they were fully disposed to give
credit to the testimony of Mr. Clarke. Upon that
round, therefore, and for his conduct respecting Mr.
Watts's piano-forte, they felt themselves called upon to
withhold the insolvents discharge for some time lo3ger.
In consideration, however, of his long previous impri-
sonment by his detaining creditors, of whom Mr. Clarke
was one, which must be taken as a part of his punish-
ment, they would not protract his confinement so long
as they other.% ise would. The judgment of the Court,
under all the circumstances' was, that he should be re-
manded for six months, and be confined within the walls
: of the prison.

CORONER'S INQUEST.

• •11.

An Inquest was held on Thursday at the Nag's
Head, in Wandsworth-road, before Writ. Fitattsts, Eiq.
Deputy Coroner for the Duchy of Lancaster, on view of '
the body of Henry Long, a boy seven years of age.
This case excited great sensation in the parish of
Clapham, and rumours had been spread that the boy's
death had been caused by a young man immersing him
in a tub of water. In consequence of such a report the
parish officers directed that an inquiry should be insti-
tuted, they having previously ascertained that the Matter
was attempted to be hushed up. The deceased was la-
bouring under a malady that made him almost an idiot,
and he was in.consequence the ridicule of other boys in
the neighbourhood. The inquiry lasted seven hours,
during which the following evidence was adduced.
Mary Hayman, aged 13, residing in Matrimony.
place, Clapham, deposed, that on Monday, the Bth inst.
about three o'clock in the afternoon, the deceased came
into her father's house, and asked her how she did ?
after she bad answered him, he went into the yard, and
sat on a little stool. Joseph Stacey, aged about twenty
years, and two other boys, named Terry (aged 14), and
Crockford (aged 15), came along the alley ; Stacey asked
the deceased to sing a song, but he refused; he pressed
him still to sing, aid added that if he would not, he
(Stacey) would dip him into a tub of water. The de-
ceased still refused ; upon which Stacey laid hold of the
deceased, and dipped him into the tub; Stacey then took
him out again, and the boys all run off, except the de.
ceased, who was very wet about the shoulders and all
over his head, Witness told the deceased to hasten home
and get his clothes changed, and he went away. AU
the boys had desired the deceased to sing. The tab was
a large one, with a little water In it. Witnesiconld not
say whether Terry or Crockford held the dwelled In the
tub as well as Stacey. The deceased looked eery pale
when he went away.
This evidence was Corroborated by another resident
of Matrimony-place. The mother of the deceased de-
posed, that on Monday night he complained of his head
and stomach, and that on the following day he died.
in convulsions.
Two surgeons proved that the deceased had a ten-,
dency to hydrocephalus, and was suhject to epilepsy.
They were of opinion that the putting his head in the
tub was the exciting cause of his death, by bringing on
convulsions.

After the Coroner had summed up the evidence, the
Jury deliberated for a considerable time whether they
should return a verdict against Stacey for manslaughter:i
they were unanimous in their reprobation of Stacey's'
conduct, and expressedouch surprise that the deceased's
betray

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.

3111 AIL.—Another birch if Wert was brought before the Ma*
trues yesterday, fur offences against the New Bread Att, on th,
information of that indefatigable infonnet, Johnson, without 1444
able assistance, the said New Bread Act, and all the labeers or ta4
Legislature therein, would have been so much good parchtem
wasted, and labour expended in vain.
The office was crowded with the year, fraternity.--all steel,
and bubbling, and occasionally hissing, against poor Johnson, as a►,
grily as KO many pots of pickled herrings against the torments du
overheated oven. But Johnson, was as cool as a cucumber.
The offence charged in the informations was the having sold bled-
under the denomination of " hay quarters forme," instead at
weight, as required by the New Act—an offence which &Alm
the seller to an hamitigable penalty of forty *killing upon each }at
so sold ; but most of the informations failed, in corntequenee at
their not having the words of the Act set forth in them correct*
" If any baker shall sell, &c. any loaf, &e. under the descripticn
denomination of, &c." saith the Act; but Master Johnson had Fr
it in his informations, "description and denomination."
Sir liwito an lIIIINIE held this substitution of the conjunction, ate
junctive, for the conjunction disjunctive to be fatal; and the otko
Magistrates on the Bench agreeing with him in this opinion, tto
whole of the informations were dismissed—with the exception st
two; in which two cases, the loaves sold were of such weight at ft
come under the description of kay-quarlern loaves, and had also ben
sold under that denuminatiun.
In these two cases, the patties, Cady, in the Strand, and Moen,
in Great Queen-street, were both convicted in the penalty of oh
each, with costs; against whici conviction they both appealed ti
the Quarter Sessions.
Shortly after the Office had been cleared from the crowd inte.
rested in this business, Johnson came back, claiming the protiotioe
of the Magistrates for his witness, John Byers, against the violence
of the bakers, who, he stated, were grossly ill-treating hint.
Tile Magistrates immediately ordered the officers to rake any pon
son into custody who should presume to ill-treat or intimidate elan
the informer or his witness. .

The officers went out, and in a few minutes they returned,brlng.
ing in a stout journeyman baker, whom they found crying, " Go it!
go it !" and endeavouring, by violent gestures and otherwise, to ix.
cite a mob of operative bakers to assist him in putting the poor wit.
ness into a flour sack !
The prisoner, who gave his name Charles Perry, had nothing to
say in hi; defence, except a general iletii.d of the violence which
was attributed to him.
The Magistrates severely censured his conduct, and ordered bia
to find bail. .

A young Malay Indian who, when called upon to give Ma name,
said it was "Shok Brawn," was brought up by Dickens, on a
charge of, felony.
The prisoner, it appeared, was servant to a Captain Maxfield,
who lodged in the house of a Mr. Wright, in Southampton-row,
Bloomsbury. Two or three days ago he left the house, to ga
to reside at the Pulteney-Hotel, in Albemarle-street. After be
was gone, some articles of plate, several knives and forks, at{
some wearing-apparel were missed. Dickens went to the Puhaul
and in the roam occupied there by the prisoner, he found seveial
of the stolen articles. •
The prisoner, when asked what he had' to say, slapped his fete,
head with hit hand several times, and exclaimed—" I lay it all to
mine bead ; I mad, spite mad, when I do so."
The officer stated that Captain Maxfield told him he had dice-
vtred symptoms of insanity about the prisoner. Fully committed.
G UILDH A L L.

ltargaret Stewart, calling herself Lady Erskine's own maid, sal
whose frauds among the dressmakers were detailed in our Pape
of Saturday last, was brought up yesterday for final examinaties.
No less than twenty females were in attendance to prefer charges
' against her, nearly all of a similar nature. Of the cases which od
curred within the dry, that of 'Mrs. Penny, of Ely-place, appeared
to furnish the strongest proofs. She swore her shawl was on the bed
when the' prisoner was there, that she missed it immediately she
was gone, and that no other person had access to the room.
The prisoner, unlike her behaviour on the former occasion, was
evidently during the whole exambletion striving to keep herself
composed, but 23 the proofs thickened against her, her agitatina
increased, and her ter !wan to now. 11:Kling hope fail her, del
seemed to make a great effort to subtitle her agitation, and at length
delivered herself in the following mat;licr :—" I confess much that
lam charged with. I have done much to injure many of these
good people; but I deny ever stealing. I am an unfortunate wo-
man, without any friends in the world. I have neither tithe,
mother, sister, nor brother. I have have several very respectas
hie places, but I was seduced, and Lay-in of a natural child in St.
Giks's workhouse. My character was lost, cverithing 1 lamely"
pledged to support myself, fur the man who seduced' me could
nothing for me ; my constitution would not permit me to get my
bread in the streets, and distress drove me to de that which treitid
my education, my principles, nor my inclinatius would have Isfi
me to. But I never stole. That good woman (Mrs. Penny) ins
moving when 1 called on her, and her shawl might have been lasi
In her confusion. I never took that young woman's (Mrs. Lai
silk gown. No, I never stole, I never stole '—
Ikre her tears and agitation completely overwhelmed her.
This address, and the manner in which it was delivered, sensibly
interested every one.
The Alderman, though compelled to commit her, directed that
she should remain at the Compter, and have every attention pail
her, until the removal day,, previous to the next Sessions, and sba
was accordingly committill for stealing Mrs. Penny's shawl, valor
15s. The pectoris having other charges to prefer were internal 4
they might, if they thought proper, lodge detainers against her.
hI A R Ll3O ROUGH-STREET.

The time and attention of Mr. Conswr, the Magistrate, werems
terday occupied at the Office for two hours in the inveuigation el
a cue of fire, alleged to have taken place at the house of the Diem
ger Countess df Stamford, No. 37. Charles-street, Berkeky-sqinm
on the night of the 18th instant. The application was made on *
part of the Overseers of the parish of St. George, to compel int
Ladyship to pay the usual reward of thirty shillings to the keepd
of the parish engine, for his attendance upon that occasion. A
number of witnesses of all denominations, including turncoat;
sweeps, watchmen, &c. appeared to support the parish we, mall
prove that they individually and collectively saw smoke, spade,
dame, and all the other necessary attendants upon combustion, is
suing,from her Ladyship's seullery. On the other hand, a halt of
her Ladyship's household, consisting of butler, footmen,
maids, &c. and backed by one of the Bow-street patrol,
and swore positively that they did not see any such volcanic ensr
dons proceeding from the said scullery claimant but that it se
eared, as it ever had, a very well-regulated chimney. dinitistthil
conflict of opinion, passion, and vision, Mr. COMM decided, tint
those who saw a fire were much better evidence of its existence
than those who did not, and awarded that her Ladyship was liable
to the demand.
Her Ladyship's Butler said, that he was instructed no stale le
his Worship, in the event of the case being decided spinet het
Ladyship, that she was determined to appeal against it.
HATTON-GARDEN.
Benjamin Capper was fully committed, on a charge of perjury
it
a recent trial in the Court of King's Bench, of Leach e. Witch,*
which case he was a principal witness for the prosecution. &Wit
be recollected that, in the action above referred to, Dr. Leads, why
formerly held a situation in the British Museum, was plaintiff, ea
Dr. Witch defendant. The action was for unnecessary hank**
on the part of the defendant's servant, T. Richards, towards*,
plaintiff, during a period in which, in consequence of an akeratim
of reason, he had been entrusted to the we of Dr. Veitek.
witnesses for the prosecution consisted of the prisoner, and several
discarded servants, and it is for the evidence thus given that tke
Grand Jury have found the true bill.
TOWN HALL.
D. and IL Donovan, and D. Cleary, aU Irishmen, were chat
with assaulting two watermen, named Winton and Ohne.
Irishmen were watching, opposite &. Olave's Old Burial Ground.
as they had done several nights before, to prevent the disinterment
of their first cousin, when the watermen came by, and taking thell
for Resnrrection.men. asked what they did there? They rett
they were watching; but the waterlines understandingthe last
to be watchmen, and knowing that to be false, insisted on theit
going to the watcls.houst. The Irishmen thought this a trick *
get them away while their cousin's body was raised, and bid at en
the heads and bodies of the watermen with a:Walesa' slot t
rloasly. The cry of " murder" brought thiwatchnum, who sec**
the prisonern—Ordered to find bail.

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