Star.
London, England, 1802-12-30 00:00:00

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MR. 7011 N BAWKRUPTCT.

The commillioners under the above Bankruptcy
met yeftercla' y at Guildhall, purfuant to their laft
adjournment from the Fleet, when. a niiriiber of
perfons came forward to prove debts; many of
which were rejieted.. A Mr. Pugh, and another
perfonjoined with him in the claim, who wanted
to *pro* three feparate bills, drawn by Mt. King
upon John Wales, alto a Bankrupt, to the amount
of t5Ol. and upwards, were of the latter dais'.
the Commilioners, after leaving 0.'0(11101,
adjonrned to the Fleet, in order to take Mt .
examination. Here Mr. King rendered up to the
Commiffioners a flatement of his accounts, by
which it' appeared that he had fccurities- to the
amount of upwards of 90,0001. 40,0001. of which
he believed to be good, the :tett he could lint an-
fwer for' and on his debit fide, the account was
8000, and fome odd hundreds of pounds.

• A Solicitor for one of the Creditors salted Mr.
King what had become of his plates Mr. King
anfwered,it was Rd in Portland-pl Ace, and pra •
duced upivards of wool. which money was dh..
pofed of to pay off fome executions then on his
premifes. He was further queitionecl, whether
a quantity of ,late was not in the poiTetTion of a
Mrs. Carter atter that Cale King anfweted there
was a frpall quantity—it was tald.—(The price it
fetched was here fpecified.)

Q... 64 You had gill fome plate when the affair
r happened at your h6ufe in Duke-iireet !"—A. " A
very trifling quantity; it did not exceed 51. worth."
Here was fome little altercation, when a Gentle-
man, who we underftand to have had rsinney vetted
in the.Pislandtplaceßaisk,begged to a tic the Bank-
rupt nfothis oath if' the quantity of plate in his
hot& tik Dake-ftreet did not exceed Sot. worth ?
Mr. King atifwered, sg Nothing like it ; but if the
CommilLinets will give me leave, I will explain
what appears to me to have occationed this idea.
—When I fiat in France, a Gentleman there beg.
ged of mete bring over tome trinkets to MefTrs.
8-rsta, Srat4ll; and Co. bankers. When I' was
diragged froth My hones 'tome executions were
carried into it, Which f*ept all my apparel, tad
even my favouritir Mi. When this giforniatioq
was conveyed tlrrfie,l wrote to Lady Lim es so-
novo a to let eyety thing go, to be*
with patience, but to" tits ol•the ftinketS
which had been confided. ter the,' that they shight
be delivered conformably tO the direttiona, which
they accordingly were."
A Gentleman then got 'tip' and laid, he. knew
the'Feench alludetto, who'had; flocs
arrived in London, Scovered his effeas; ana.
pteted his aftonlikment at the fidelity of the ptt-
(tin baatupt. " •
The afOgnees of the elate of John Wells, alto
a prifoner in the Mimi reApeapd w stamina Mr.
'King, relative to a 'debt of upwards of 4 whiel)
appeared in his Ir9k.s.agaitot the eftate.Or King.
The Commiffictnertalowever, thouglitit deceffary
to examine Welle hiosfelf upon the fUbjea.,-figells
(wore to a debt due from King to him of t 261. for
goods delivered to him and .BarroreAbringlas.—
' This *is as ftrongly contradicted by Mr. Kinr,
ishu then related the nature of the connection be-
tweet' him and: Wells. Wells Tame to him, laying
he had vol. of goods; to &pore or, Would 'King,
become a purchafer, or advance upon, the*
King recennmended Wells to amass. orthe nam
Of Putfe, in Cloak-lane, to whom Ogee& Were
!Told.; Wells receivbfg -the money. • 'Fits -thee
afked, Why Wells tiaa not, is he tad' been delircd
to do, brought forward Porte, or any other perfnn,
privy to the circupitance of King's receiving the
money r A paper was then:produced, which ha'
confetfed eii'have lived, but laid, he was to drunk
at the time, that he did .not know what he was •
doing. 'The Commtainers thought' 'the claim ~
not fubtlantiated. . .•

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• A Gentleman Prefent (aid, he was- a holdsr of
bill of Wells's, drawn on King i there -*etc up-
wards of a cool. worth of them, For which no value,
had ever been hi hand.
A number of other perfons alto put Tome, quer-
dons, which appeared to be fo irrelevant, that the
Commiffioners did not think the Bankrupt bound
to anfwer them.
Mr. King laid, he fhould be glad to antwer
every one of them, that the greater invelligatinn
his affairs underwent, the more thould he be vin-
dicated; that his charader through life had been
mifreprefented, which made him rejoice at any
difetaffion that brought him fairly before the world.
Many quertions were put by various Creditors
and Solicitors, and though Mr. AGAR attended
there as Counfel for the Bankrupt, the ingenuity
of the latter was inch, that unai.led by The aLle
profeffional advice he might have retorted to, he
did not hefitate to anfwer, him-felt, to all the in-
terrogatories. This frank and open conduct ap-
peared to have made a ftrong impreffion on the
Commiffioners, who obferved that they believed
no one could have any more to fay ; for which
reafon they thought theY might then look into the
fecnrities, which though, perhaps, not all valuable,
amounted to at leaft sio,oool.
Mr. Hamilton (an Attorney) raid, that though
he was adverfe to Mr. King, he thought him a
man eerily robbed, as hc knew a Clergyman who
had obtained tool. in a very eafy manner.
The Commiffioners luerlioned Mr. )~Ting:S'as' to
the independence of his wife (Lady Lane rhoroiigh).
Mr. King laid, the had her dower of 600. perann.
• IQ-Had he ever been in this unforiunate titua-
tionl.efore ?—A. About fifteen years ago, when
he raperfeded the commilifion, and paid 20$. in the
pound. There was ie,oool. which he had been
adjudged to pay in the caste of Lord Sandwich,
Lord -Felkland, and Mr. Speed. Mr.. Speed had
lately become a man of property, and had offered
to pay 41. in the pound of that 15,0001. This was
not in ;he general account, but might be looked to.
There being no more demands to be made, nor
queftions, Aced, the Commiffloners, who as well as
many others, probably expeited a different vim..
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