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London, England, 1818-10-17 00:00:00

INSOLPENT 110113TORS' COURT, O. 16.

John Robiatea; a poor ntariner, .was discharged.
lle.had been in'prison sznce the fth of lastlune, and
the Whole Of his debts-only amounted to seventeen
popnds. - •
lleday Cooley was opposed by Mr. Nowa, on
the part of Mr. Houlditch, for clandestinely remov-
ing his goods to avoid a distress. for rent.
the Court overruled the objection, and the Insol-
vent was discharged.—The whole of his debts
amounted only .to £29.
George lies was opposed by Mr. HEArit. The
Insolvent stated in his examination, that he lived in
Long-alley, Moorfields, and carried on the business
of a butcher. His wife had, from August Isl 7, to
Marc) 1818, a hotel in White Lion-street, Coo&
man's-fields. She now lived in Church-row,
chapel ; there were a great many beds in ;he hotel
kept by his wife, but the Insolvent denied that any
of them were ever his property ; he believed the fur-
niture had been removed by the landlord. He denied
that he ever stated the hotel cost him 400 guineas.—,
Ile knew a Mr. Naves, who certainly sold him a
horse, but it turned out to be a bishop'd mare, "never
no older than six years, and never no yovnger. That
Apt was the fact," said the Insolvent. Ile owed
LAT; money, which was lent to•his wife. Levi got a
bill of sale for this loin, and afterwards had the fur-
niture on account of it. This occurred about Christ-
,
mas, 1817. The Insolvent acknowledged the sort of
hotel which his wife kept, and said that Mr. Levi,
who advanced her the money, was a Sheriff's Officer,:
hut he denied that he was a proprietor of certain
hotels in Go,xlman's-fields.

The Court conceived the whole transaction be-
tween the Insolvent, his wife, and Levi, to be frau-
dulent, he was therefore remanded.

John House was opposed by Mr. ANDREWS. The
Insolvent stated that he was an upholsteier, and that
all his furniture had been sold by the landlord to
pay arrears of rent. He was discharged.
James Philip Devenish was opposed by Mr. John
Prosser, a creditor, on the ground that the Insolvent
had given a power of attorney to him for £tlo out
of his half-pay. The Ins ,lvent had subsequently
given three other instruments of the same kind—he,
however, alowed the witness a certain portion out
of the first quarter's half-pay. He had not, however,
paid any thing since. The half-pay amounted to
4254 a yezr, and the opposing creditor applied to the
Court to appropriate a part of this pay for the pay-
trtent of his debt.

The Insolvent was discharged, except as to the
debts of Mr. Prosser (deducting the costs incurred
upon it), and another which he agreed to pay in
two years.
Michael Reynolds was opposed by Mr. Pottocic.
The Insolvent stated, in his examination, that his
wife lived in George-street, and was a dress-maker.
She worked for the Duchess of Leeds, Lady Am-.
herst, and other Ladies of distinction. The insolvent
admitted that before he went to prison, he pledged
four pieces of fine muslin and two silver cruets, but
they had since become a forfeit to the pawnbroker.
The debt for which he was sued by the opposing'
creditor was contracted by his brother.
Mrs. Lady was examined.—She said she knew the
wife of the insolvent, and had seen a variety of arti-
cles of dress and some bales of silk stockings in her
room—some of these she offered for sale to witness;
they ww•ere expensive articles, and Mrs. Reynolds re-
presented them as her own property, at least so the
witness understood the business.

The lusolvent stated, that his wife never had any
stock of her own, but had occasionally dresses of
other dress-makers, which she sold on commission.
This evidence was confirmed by Mrs. Husband,
who said she often intrusted Mrs. Reynolds with
goods to sell on commission. The Insolvent was
then discharged.

BOW-STREET.—The premises of Mr. Mills, who has
a very extensive establishment in Holywell-street, St.
Clement's Danes, in which between four and five hup-
dred persons are employed in making stays, have lately
been robbed of upwards of five hundred pair of stays
at different times ; a great part of which have been
found at the pawnbroter's. The wife of a porter em-
ployed by Mr. Mills, has lately been detected in
pawning a pair of stays at Messrs. Page and Co.'s
pawnbrokers, in Long-acre, by a false name, and
she having received them from her husband, he was
taken into custody. The Magistrate, before whom
the business has beeninveEtigated, has very humanely
hesitated at making the wife a witness against the
husband, and she appearing with a child at her
breast, allowed her to be at large, and she has vo-
luntarily attended at the Office, when desired to do,
when the charge has been under investigation.
Daniel Longhurst was brought to the Office by
Salmon, charged with breaking open the pigeon and-
dove-houses of Mrs. Snow, at Sunbury, and slealing
four dozen of pigeons and two dozen of doves, sup-
posed to be the finest collection in England. Infor-
mation of the robbery was sent to the Office, and
Salmon traced the greater part of the pigeons and
doves to the house of John Stephenson, a dealer in
dogs, birds, and beasts, of various kinds, in the New
Road, near Battle-bridge, except a few that had been
killed by being. smothered from close package. They
had been received by Mary, the wife of John Ste
phenson, during his absence from home, from the
prisoner. Yesterday the prisoner underwent a se-
cond examination, and was committed for trial.

MANSION Housx.—Yesterday John Po:veil, a re-
spectable man, was charged with the following act
of fraud :—His father, an old infirm man, was con-
fined in Whitecross-street prison for debt, but has.
ing £1375 in the 3 per Cents. Reduced Consols, he
gave the prisoner a power of attorney to obtain the
dividend, for the purpose of dividing it among his
sons and daughters. Instead of this, the prisoner
changed the power given him, and made it a power
over the whole stock, which he transferred away
from the father. The sum he paid his poor old
dying father for the Last half year's dividend, was
but £3. 19s.—The LORD MAYOR obtained the assis-
tance of a person from the Bank, who was of opi-
nion that the prisoner and those who witnessed the
deed, might be prosecuted for a conspiracy to de-
fraud, but not for forgery.—His Lordship advised the
prisoner to re-trans: the stock, or he roig,ht expect
the most exemplary penishment.—The prisoner he-
sitated.—He was remanded.

Gvu ntma...—Yestecday E. Jones, charged with a

series of cruelty tovratds his wife, and threatening he
life, was-by Mr. Alderman WAterwaitti ordered back
to the CoMpter, from whence be would be removed
to his parish, where strict care should be taken to
afford him every comfort and attention he could re-
quift;...., The duty (said the Alderman) I have thus
imposed on me is painful, and I shall only rejoice
when you can again be entrusted with your liberty."
HATTos Gam:res.—H. Moore was charged, yes-
terday, with letting off fire-works, about 12 o'cloct:
the preceding nightd•near the Shakspear's Head, in
Perceval-street, Clerkenwell, to the annoyance of the'
inhabitants. The charge being proved, he was con-
victed in the penalty of 20s. which he paid and was!
discharged.
UNION HALL.—Richard Sparks, the President .of
'the United True Britons' Benefit ociety, appeared
yesterday to isummons,for refusing to pa,y the sum,
of Its. weekly to John Symes, a free member of the!
Society, according to the articles of the Institution.—
The Magistrate therefore adjudged, that the com-
plainant should be paid the sum of, C 7, that being
the amount due to him for ten weeks, at the rate of
14s. a week.

WOltsHlP•.STßEET.—Yesterday Henry Roles, a man
who was recognized by the officers tube an old often.
der, was brought from Hackney watch-hou ie, charged
with breaking into the school-house belonging to Mr.
Scoffield, in Stoke Newington, known by the name
of Prospect House Academy, yesterday morning, with
an intent to commit robbery. The prisoner is a de-
' crepid old man about 70 years of age.—He was fully
committed for trial.

Yesterday morning, about three o'clock, an alarm-
ing fire broke out in Mr.CooKe's hat manufactory,or
a large stable belonging to the Blue Coach-office, Ips-
wich. Both the' premises were destroyed, and it
was with difficulty eight horses, belonging to the
Wickham Market coach, were preserved from the
flames.—Several fire-engines speedily arriving, and
there being a copious supply of water, the devour-
ing element was, by the praise-worthy exertions of
the townspeople, prevented from spreading beyond
the above premises. The idantage is estimated at £4OO.
Yesterday morning a fire broke out at the York-
shire Grey public house, in Cheney Walk, Chelsea,
which, by the timely arrival of the engines, was got I
under, after having nearly destroyed the interior of
the bar, and the lower part of the house.

A few days ago a bricklayer, named Robert Mar-
tin, a man with a large family, was at work in taking
down a high wall at Newington-green, and as he
was stooping down near the foundation the wall fell
upon him, and crushed him so dreadfully that he
died in consequence of the injury he had received,
at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, at which place an
inquisition was taken upon the body yesterday, and
a verdict was returned—Accidentally killed by a wall
falling upon him.
Yesterday an Inquest was held at the London Hos-
pital on the body of Mr. N. B. Compton, First Mate
of the ship Fame, now lying in the Ldndon Docks.
The deceased on Saturday last was on cleat, while
the riggers were on the foremast, w hen the spars
with which they were getting it in broke, and the
mast fell, and pitching on the deceased's head dashed
it to pieces. Verdict—Accidental Death.
An Inquest was held at the Barley Mow, Shadwell,
on the body of W. Elder, aged SO. The deceased
was a shipwright at Wapping, and while at work on
a plank, his foot slipped, he fell off, and was killed
on the spot. Verdict—Accidental Death.
An Inquest was held at the King and Queen, Wap-
ping, on the body of W. Amos, a labourer in the
West India Docks. The deceased was at work at
No. 1, Warehouse, and while walking backwards he
fell through a trap door, and pitching ou his head
was killed on the spot. Verdict—Accidental Death.
An Inquest was held at the King's Arms, in Brook-
street, Ratcliff, on the body of J. Wiliiams. On
Wednesday night, about eight o'clock, the deceased
was sitting with his daughter, when suddenly a quan-
tity of blood issued from his mouth, and he fell back
in his chair. She made an alarm, but he was quite
dead. The rupture of a blood vessel was proved to
be the cause of his death. Verdict-Died by the Vi-
sitation of God

Yesterday morning, abut tleven o'clock, Mr. Wil-
liam Taylor, carrier, of No. 23, lirownlow-street,
having placed some bird-linre on the tiles of his work-
shop, for the purpose of catching birds, in conse-
quence of one pf them entangling in the lime, Mr.
Taylor, in attempting to climb on the tiles, unfortu-
nately trod on a rotten water-spout, which broke, and
he pitched head-foremost to the pavement of the yard,
by which his skull was fractured in three different
places. He was carried to his house with little hopes
of recovery.
Yesterday morning. a young man named JoFn
Smith, was founddrowned in the river Thames, near
Fulham-bridge, he had been missing several days;
he was employed in a barge, and it is supposed that
he accidentally fell into the water.

A low days since a boy, who had been keeping
hogs for Mr. J. of Gitton-hill Farm, near
Dartford, suddenly disappeared about noon. Much
search was made after him in vain until about nine
o' clock on the morning of the 13th the boy's mother.
who was still employed in looking for him, fancied
she heard a noise in a chalk hole. She went to the
mouth of it, and calling loudly, to her great delight,
was answered by her son, who said he had fallen
into the hole but was not hurt. The woman imme-
diately got assistance ; and a rope being let down to
the boy, he fixed it round his body, and was safely
taken out from a depth of between .50 and 60 feet. •

PLOUGHING !Mx/rm.—The Bath and West of Eng-
land Society had their annual trial of skill in plough-
ing at Felton, Gloucestershire, on Tuesday, when IS
ploughs started, drawn by two horses each. The
prize was awarded to Mr. WILLIAM CuLLlmoer,
(chief tenant to Dr. NewmAx, at Thornbury Park,)
whose ploughman, Robert Screen, quite a lad, finished
his half acre in one hour and 43 minutes, the belt
and quickest work known to have been done in that
district.—The second prize was awarded to John
Hemmirg, ploughman to d. BUCKLAND. Esq. of Lea;
three other ploughmen, viz. William Beans, Mark
Harwood, and James Mitchell, having evinced con-
siderable merit. were presented with 7s. 6d. each, and.
the whole of them afterwards dined at the Hope and
Anchor.—lt has rarely occurred, where so many
ploughs were engaged, that the work was peribrmed
so well.

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