Star.
London, England, 1822-01-31 00:00:00

WSOLTENT DEBTORS' COURX, JAM 50.

The-following case excited great interests—Cap-
tain John Willieves, of the Royal Navy', who was dis-
charged under this Act in 1816, was opposed by
Messrs. Banat and. Mmma, wh.) appeared on be-
half of adtumber of creditors.
Mr. liou.oee, with whom
.was Mr. ITEnetr, ad-
dressed the oourt at considerable length, previous to
the examination, and observed that his client bad a
net income of £4OO a year, for services rendered to
his tourney. He was instructed to say,that Mr. Wil-
liams was rtady to ?ay £7O per annum but of his in-
come, towards the liquidation of his debts, which he
had no doubt the Court woirld think a liberal offer,
when it was Considered the insolvent had a wife and
eight children.
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Upon this a long discussion took place between the
Counsel for the opposing creditors, when the Court
suggested that, in their judgment, substantial justice
would be done to botts partier, by awarding £l2O a
year, which, .if acceded to, would prevent a public,
discussion. But on further conversation with his
clients, Mr. Andrews demanded the sum of £2OO, on,
which the Court observed, that it was not fairly dealt
with, after the length of time which bad been taken
to meet the wishes of all parties, andwhen they had
expressed their opinion oa the subject. This bring
the case, Mr. Andrews was desired to proceed in the
examination.
The insolvent then stated, that he was a Captain in
the Navy, on half-pay, enjoying a pension of £2.50
per annum, as a wounded Officer ; that his income
arising from his services was £441 a year, beyond
which his wife had a separate allowance of £2O from
a bequest of a Mr. Joel. That he had eight children,
seven of whom were under ten years of age, and that
the eighth, who was apprenticed to a surgeon, was
entirely dependent on him. He received a fracture
of his skull while capturing a vessel off Copenhagen,
under Lord Gambier, in 1807, and the orifice had
been open ever since, which required surgical as-
sistance, and cost £5O a year. He admitted having
been discharged in January, 1816, under the Act,
since which time he had contracted debts to the
amount of EGOO.

Mr. BARRY acquiesced, in some measure, with the
Court, but suggested whether the insolvent should
not allow £l5O per year, but declined examining him
or the witnesses. The case having proceeded thus far,
Mr. ANDREWS rose, and, at considerable length,
addressed the Court, contending that the insolvent
had used considerable artifice and stratap,eni,
un-
worthy the conduct of a British Officer, particularly
in postponing his present auplication to the Court till
the five years stipulated by the Act had expired.
Mr. PoLLock deprecated the epithets used by his
Learned Friend against Captain Williams, and was
well convinced they would weigh but little in the
estimation of the Court.

The COURT, in giving its judgment, lamented
much that the Learned Counsel had indulged in the
remarks which he had made, and was sure that they
flowed from a zeal to se• ve his clients, and not from
personal feeling. After having paid the strictest at-
tention to the case, they were sus e they should not Le
acting with false delicacy towards a meritos knis
cer when they declared that the epithets used weae
not at all applicable to Mr. Williams, who, with
bodily suffering and a large family, had not, although
he had been stated as extravagant in the extreme,
contracted debts to a considerable amount, and that
the Gentleman before them lay under no imputation
of that kind. Taking all the circumstances into con-
sideration, the Court adjudged that the insolvent
should pay El f:0 out of his half-pay, for the benefit
of his creditors.

hliatnortotron-sxnart.--Yesterday Ann H.rnby, Susan Dean,
and Frances Howl% were charged with robbitr;t air. Miller, of
Bond-street, of several pairs of shore. The prosecutor hail taken
the llnrnbys into his service out of charity, and for a length of
time he bad missed his property. The lodgings of the prisoners
were searched, and several duplicates, with bi.ots, trimmings,
&c. were found.—The prisoners were fully committed for trial.
Qoasx.sratrals.—Yesterday a " luring coupie," who have
proved that they have forfeited all title to "the flitch of bacon,"
attended before the Magistrate (ARCHIBALD WHITE. Esq.), the
husband to answer the complaict of the wire. The parties were
very young, good-looking, and respectably dressed; they had en-
tered into the holy state of matrimony but a few months, and
although it was proved that at times they were very fond, yet on
other occasions they appeared to detest each other must heartily.
The husband had at one period given her a blow, and she hav-
ing once felt the weight of his fist; was not at all anxious to have
a second experiment of the kind. On Thursday last he was ab-
sent from home till nearly twelve at night. and she scolded him ;
he threatened to chastise her, and she, to avoid it, ran away
from him, and took shelter, at her sister's, a very respectable
married woman, who has a large family. She remained from
her husband till Sunday last, rt+d then, it appears, that thinking
" a bad husband was better thous none," she went home to him,
and he chastised her with a cane, by beating her over her back,
shoulders, Ike. fur playing the truant. Fur the assault she ob-
tained a warrant, and exhibited the marks on her person.—The
husband said, that he thought he had a legal right to chastise his
own wife, provided be used a proper weapon. lie then produced
the cane he had used, and said, that although it made her smart,
yet it could break no bones.—The Magistrate told him that
wives in England were not slaves, to be beat and kicked about
at the caprice of a stupid fellow like him, and ordered him to
find bail fur the assault or he committed to prison.
Edward ditight, of Orchard-street, stone-mason, was brought
before the sitting Magistrate, charged with stealing a quantity
of marble and Yordand chimney-pieces, the property of Mr.
William Linton, of Vere-street, Clare-market. The prosecutor
stated, that he had a house and stotie-mason's-yard in Shoe-
lane ; he employed the prisoner some timet ago, but afterwards
' discharged him. A woman who is in care of the house, on Fri-
day last saw him corning out of the yard with a marble jamb and
chimney-pieces she questioned him, and he told her he was
again working for her master, and he walked off with the arti-
cles quite unconcerned ; but when she saw her master she men-
, Boned the circumstance, and he then missed several articles
from the yard. lie went in pursuit of the prisoner, and found
him at his lodging, but there Was none of the stolen property
there. The prisoner acknowledged having taken the two pieces
mentioned : he said one of them was at Walworth, and that he
left the other at a publit-house in Clare-market.—The Magis-
trate directed the officer to procure the article in order to have
them to produce at the trial, and the prisoner was remanded.
Thomas Mutes, a constable of St. Margaret's, Westminster,
charged Richard Pendlchstry, a man with one arm, having lost
the other at the battle of Waterloo, when- a soldier in the
Guards, with assaulting him in a public-house in the Broadway,
Westminster. The constable stated, that he went to look after
a person who had committed a felony, in the public-house, and
was abused by the prisoner; and when he requested him to be
quiet, he kicked up a riot in the house, and asked him (the com-
plainant) to chew his staff if he was a constable; he then took
out his staff, and the prisoner gave him a severe blow, which
cut open his upper lip, and said, " Take that :" he obtained as-
sistance, and brought him to the Police Mee. lie then called
two gentlemen as witnesses, who cot roborated the evidence lie
had previously given ; but it turned out that the two gen tleuwit
were resserreetion-oreas. The prisoner delivered' a strong phalli,-
pie against dead rubbers, and declared they wit.: e persons nut to
be believed on their oaths.—The Magistrate told the prisoner
that he should have kept better company,' and orchM hint •to
bud 411, tit default of which he was Conunittod. 4 •