Star.
London, England, 1828-12-18 00:00:00

FRY AND CHAPMANS BANKRUPTCY.

The third meeting for the proof of debts under this
Comm:ssion• was held yesterday, "at the Bankrupts'
Court, Basingball-street. It was niore numerously at-
tended than either of the precetiing meetings, though
still the amount of debts proved was by no means so
large as alight have been expected. Amongst others
who attended to prove were Directors of .the Per elvian,
the Brazilian, and the Real del Monte Mining Com-
panies, and the Imperial Fire and Life Insurance Com-
pany.
The question respecting the proof of debt on the part
of the Brazilian Company, was before the Commis-
sioners at the last. meeting, and a doubt existed as to
whether one of she Directors could be allowed to prove. i
The Commissioners appeaved.to haie contldered the
subject and made up'there mind; on it in the interim,
for thiapplication of Mr. Fr eshfield, that ,one of the
Directors should be allowed to prove on the pan of Me
others. as the money bad been- paid in their name, was
acceded so without observation.
The claims made to prove on the part of she Reel
del Monte and Peruvian Companies were similar, in
principle, and were admitted, it being asked in each
case whether she Directors or Trustges we;e tI4 only
parties known as the depos't pry and the only parties
whose checks would have been answeie4

The Imperial Fire and Life Insurance Company was
differently situated. By the Banker st book it appeared
that the money was deposited. and the account opened,
in the amen, the Company. Here the difficulty rise
—whether, as this was coca Company acting under a
chaster, or an Att of Parliament, it should not prove as
a pattnership concern? and if so, whether one of the
partners, proving in the name of the others, it would
not be necessary to set forth the names of all the co-
partners or shareholders in the .depositions?
• The Commissioners said that the case was new, hut
they thought that it would be •-esttemely inconvenient
to call upon the company to set forth the names of the
shareholders, in a company where there were 3,000
shares; and alter some short discussion, in which the
absurdity of such a mode of opening a banking account
was dwelt upon.
Mr. Commissioner SUITH said, that in this case they
must depart from the oaf) nal y mode of proof in cases
of copartnership, end allow one partner to prose „tur
the others, without netting forth their' names.
In answer to some questions put to the Solicitor or, the
Company, it was stated that the names of the pewit-
shareholderi would be f and in the transfer.books.
The Coosa' then ordered that those books should'be
produeed at the nest meeting, and being duly verified,'
the deposition shoold be allowed to stand in the name
of the person proving. and of the ether partners, .tat
Get forth in the trartsler-books produced.*
A creditor appeared to prove for 62.51. as a trustee
under a deed of arrangement. connected with the
petty of the Coburg Theatre. The Commissioners said.
thattheetiaititt of the co-waste* must be obtained before
proof could be allowed.. The debt was ordered to stand
over to the neat meeting. Y r.
. We noticed in our account of the last Meeting. the
case of the holders of 'cheeki drawn opon the bank fg
depositors, and not pocked before tbehank
It seemed to be the opinion of the Commissioners at the
former meeting, that the parties holding the checks.
could not prove under the commission; but they reserved
their decision to yesterday.
Several holders of checks under similar circumstances
appeared yesterday, and were ii•tormed that they could
not be admitted to prove for their amount ; but the
parties who had drawn them might, if the, pleased, add
them to the amount of the balances for which they bad
already proved, or might yet prove.
Mr. Pitmen observed, that in this case they would
be rendering themselves liable for the amount' of the
cheeks to the partial to *torn they hail paid them.
The Commissioners said, that the holders and drawers
of the checks might make any arrangement amongst
themselves they pleased. but the estate could not be af-
lasted by it. The drawers of the checks only could prove
4aiir the Consasissiou.
Soars parties then praverifor balances, including the
____ oldie checks they had drawn, bur it appeared
that in sevagat cases thee* was an understanding that
Anse to othoest.the checks were paid should receive only
the 4iliklepsl on their maim, whatever it might be.
The Doting then adjourned to Friday, when assig-
nees wilt be Adam

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• LITERATIME.
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THE FOREIGN REVIEW, Na. IV.
. &Arm, lobo, and &Ace.
The present number folly sustains the early pron-i,e
of talent with which this Jou n d was first intrOucert
into the literary world. The contributors are evidently
men of information and talent, who write more from
the abundance of their acquisitions, than, as is the cus-
tom with some celebrated Reviewer., from ransackiog
their common-place books; and the Editor's duty in
assorting and proportioning his materials is on the
whole extremely judiciously discharged.. Evidently a
work of this nature presumes a class of readers of a
higher order than our domestic Reviews—at leist as tr.
its critical articles. Bus. still, under the head of foieign
information, there is a deal of mater in which even au
ordinary reader cannot but be interested. Such is the
sketch of Jesuitism in the present number. The fol.
lowing extract gives an account of the present state or
the order in France:

" On Napoleon's accession, the owes societies of the Jesuits
gradually revived. In 1808, the congregation of ' The Invocation
of the Virgin,' a name ominously taken from 'the times of the'
league, was formed with regular officers, heads, and a president
of the whole. The system is now declared to be spreading
throb:A France to the molt .entraordinary anti most hazardous
Client. • It is said that en universal espionage fur its purposes Is
established, and that all classes are enlisted in it, from the cosh
dential servants of tile Throne down to the labourers of the geld..

The workmen are embodied and disciplined under the name of
the ' Association of St. Jurists;' every district of. Paris has a
chief, and the whole have a commander, Who is secretly a Jesuit
The common wine-sellers are incorporated, and even valets and
chambermaids are of the congregation. In the higher ranks this
strange influence is equally notorious; the officers about the coon
and the Garde Royak have pot escaped; and a curious cirettm.
stance is stared, that a Marshal of Fiance, who had long and vainly.
solicited a place of sub prefect for his son, ac last obuincd it:Apuly
'through the application a his parish Print to one Of the beads
of the congregation. Of Its members in the,Leslslature no exact
account is yet obtained. In the Claantbero Deputes, the mem-
hers were some time since variously estimated from one hundred
and five to one hundred and fifty, but they were unquestionably in-
creasing."
The autlinr proceeds afterwards to state very lot cibly
how the predominance of Jesuitism' i r France, which
banished- all idea of true religion; and the great ad-
vance of 'literature, which exposed the vile superstitions
that had assumed' her name, led inevitably to that dar-
ing iufi ielity which borrowed with a vengeance the
weapons of .the priesthood. There can be no rational
doubt that the cause of the Jesuits is hopeless in France;
they may plot and plot, but they can no longer steal a
march on ,the unwary, and there is nothing to appre-
hend that a nrtion alive to its interests will again sub-
mit to the yoke. The author is a little sore on the
score of the Jesuits being allowed to settle here—the'
reality of the evil is not clear, but this is clear, and the
remedy is at all times in our own hands.
Another article possesses n general interest for every.
scholar who has ever been guided by the learning and
exquisite taste- of the first of modern comnsenristors—
we alludp to atsketch of the life of Heyne. Born in
the very lowest station, he had to struggie through
every species of obstacle that povetty could throw id
his way. He lived during a very turbulent period,
when the affairs of Governments otten left his study. a
heap Of ruins: he pined under the chill influence of
patrons ; and at last his 'genius obtained 'for him the
higheit 'place in the University of Gottingen at Hann:l
yet, at the unsolicited recommendation Of a stranger,
Ruhnken, who possessed a kindred genifis, ancknhat is'
more, a heart above the suggestion, t f jealousy. Inde-
pendent of tile interest which any details of such a man
would possess, the novel circumstances ni his likrender
this sketch a very interesting piece of biography, worthy
to be placed beside Gifford s account of himself..
The following extract gives a'strikiiig picture how
armies array annoy such peateable and- harmless ani-
mals as Critics: - .•

" The Prussians advanced meanwhile. and on the 15th of July
(1710) the bombardment of Dresden began. Several night i I
passed, in company with others, in a wrens, anti the days to my
room; so that I could hear the balls from the battery, as they flew
thrmigh the street, whining past my windows. An indif rence
to danger and to life took such possession of me, that, on the last
morning of the siege, I went early to bed. and, amid the frightfullest
crashing of bombs and grenades, fell fast asleep of fatigue, and lay
sound till esid.day. On awakening, I huddled on my clothes. and
ran down stairs, but found the whole house deserted. I had re-
turned to my room, considering what I was to du, whether, at
all events, I was to take my chest, when, with a tremendous
trash, a bomb came down in the court of the house ; did not,
indeed, set lire to it, but, on all sides, shattered every thing to
pieces. The thought, that where one bomb fell, more would soon
follow, gave me wings ; .1 darted down stairs, found the house door
locked, tan to and fro ; a last got entrance into one of the under
rooms, and sprung through the window into the street.
" Empty as the street where I lived had been, I found the prin.
cipal thoroughfares crowded with fugitives... Amidst the whistling
of balls, I ran along the Schlossgasse towards the Elbe Bridge, and
au forward to the Neustadt, out of which the Prussians bad now
been forced to retreat. Glad that I had leave to rest any where
passed one part of the night on the Boor of an empty house; le
other, witnessing the frightful -light, of hying bombs, and a burning
city. At break of day; a little postent was opened by the Austrian
guard, to let the fugitives get out of the walls. The Captain in his
insolence called the people Lutheran dogs,and with this nick-name
gave each of Us' a stroke as we passed through thrgate." .

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CHRISTMAS AND New Yeast's Gters.—.The season
,kaving arrived wherein, by interchatige of presents, we confirm the
stability of friendship, all clamant she community who would
luccesduUyicultitate regard by acceptable oirsringsi -avail
themselves of ROWLAND It genuine }CALLUM& and Maeassaitht..
each of Infallible attributes. In the sustainment and creating
limuriatit and silken tresses, the Macassar Oil is highly applielated
rank and fashion, and patronised by all' the Sovereigninf
utope. Rowland's Kalycbir is a preparation of Utmarldielet en.
e,acy,in purifying the skint 'ln:steel's" fit from ,ivelensent wean*,
and eharacteriting 'the complexion 11th transcendent brilliancy.—
No present can prove more reemumendatory, or more now io
genus' requisition. • •
IUsTEn, Dec. 13.—A melancholy case of pau-
Ferism came under the notice .of the Mayor and Siitiog
Magistrates a day or two ago. An. elderly man, . with•
long gray hair, and the scanty remains of a coat that
hid once been black, with a careworn•countenanee and.
a palsied hand, approached the Bench, and Making a
very respectful obeisance,' intimated that he was firced
by hare necessity to come to swear his settlement.• He
stated that his name was Beckett, and was 63 years of
age. He entered the navy at the age of sisteea. in the
capacity of midshipman, served in America throughout
all the last war, and was reduced at the peace of 1814,
after having served 38 years without promotion. Being
only a petty officer, he was not 'entitled to any half
pay, so that he was absolutely worseoff than a man
before the mast. The poor fellow answered with great
modesty.the questions • put to him from the Bench re-
specting the eugagemeas he had been in, by which it
appeared that although left to pine in inelgencv.and
neglect, "he had done the State some service; A
brother who was also in the navy perished in • Alexan-
dria. He proved his settlement to be in Ne*ton, a
township adjoining this city, where he was born, .end
his father formerly occupied considerable propertyeaa
He, together with a wile and two children, were coos*,
mined to the care of the overseer. Besides the hard-'
ship of this poor man's case,• it is further worthy of rea
mask, that he ii great nephew of Alexander Pope.

LAW INTELLIGENCL

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COURT OP 11111011.8ERCH, Worristweraa, Dac. 11.
Tilt ICINU v. GEOROC RlDDituvor.
This was an indictment against an ettorneybf Cle•
menu's foe, for silt& and corrupt perjerys
Mr. Gummy (with whom was Mr.Gotn.anett) stated
the case (or the prosecution. The piosecotor. John
Alexander M'Laren, baying, in October, 1826, been
arrested at the suit of Reuhen:Martin, the 'pugilist, for
a sum of 501. which hadJbeen.depesited in M.Laren's
hands as one of tine stakes on a wanking match. applied
kis' the defendant to pin in bail above, and defend the
action for him. The prosecutor had had no previ us
'a,quaintance with the defendant, ,and was taverna
mended to by a person of the name rf Han-
bury. who was a client of his. The defendant un-
dertook to put in bail to the action, but required
an advance from the prosecutor of W.. 51. which sum
was paid to him ; but the mnaceutor having of entrants
Awe reawfl to be dissatisfied w ch:the defendant's con-.
Ilea, declined to allow. him any longer to conduct his
business, and went to another attorney..• Mr. Hanbury
a as also dissatisfied with the defendant's conduct, and be
therefore resolved to take his business out of his bands.
For that purpose a Judge's order was obtained fir the
delivery of the defendant's bill of costs on Mr. H misery,
and undoe.that onto the defendant made out his bill; bat
to the great surprise of Mr. Hanhury and also if the
prialecutor, the costs incurred in the action at the suit of
Reuben Makin, wbich the prosecutor had employed
•Iteddaway to defend. were charged in this bill to Mr.
.Hanbuty. ' The total amount of the bill was between
.1411 Andl3Bl.•' 'On vexation. it was reduced to about
M. the Master:begin disallowed the costs in Martin's
action against the prosecutor, and some other costs which
he' did not conceive Mr. flanbury was liable to pay.—
An application was then made to the Cr nit of Common
peitspq the pan r f the prosecutor, fur the purpose of
comrllio# thedefendant to make out hiebill on hint.
tuft nisi was granted, and in the affidavit made by
itedefendant and his clerk, Walter Tyler, ;he perjury
in this case was assigned. In that affi lay.t the defendant
swore that at the first interview wt,ich he had with t e
pis se mar and Mr. Hanbury, he stated chat he would
nit undertake the defence of the action at 'the suit of
Martin unless Haubury was to be considered his clients
and would undertake to be answerable for the costs
incurred. He swine further, that Hanbuty expressly
desired him to defend the action at his (llanbury'e)
own expense and risk, stating that the money for
which the action was brought belonged to him„ and
that the prosecutor was .ff cted by the action merely as
a nominal party. He also positively swioe that lian-!
bury said to him, st I employ you; I am your • pay-
master, and will pay your costs.' Upon this
the statement in which was confirmed by ire
Tjlet, Who joined in Vie Ada• t the rule ,A jai was
discharged. Th prose-aver, cleaning the statement t f
the defendant tote A Ise, hid thought it his duty to pre.
le, the prevent indictment. The only anparer.t mr cis e
for the defendant's false swearing seemed to ee this—
The defendant having in the fist instance, r-u- in bail
for the ptosecutor in the wrong Court, hid occa lotted
an expense to the prosecutor if upwards of 121. and
had promised to deduct it from his bill if costs; end
up d iubt I is of jest in making out his bill upon Han-
busy, instead r f the Frosecumr, was to avoid making
.an allowance of those expenses. The Jury. howevet,
would be the best judges of the defendant's motives.
when they had heard from the witnesses all the facts
which he (tle Leaned Counsel) should lay before them.
A- clerk, from the SecOnclai its' office. produced. she
several affidavits made in the cause r f « Marcia tr.
M•Laren,” in the 'Court of Common Pleas, and they
wereput in and read.
• e prosecutor, John Alexander M'Laren, was
-called, and depose 1 as folio.. se ide at No. 1.
Lawrence-street. Mgt.-strict, St. Giles, slid am. a
housekeeper. I was formerly in the publii
In October, 1826, an action was brought against
by Reuben Martin, and in that action I. was
held to bail. I applied, on the secommendati:n of
Me. Hanbury, to-Mr. Reddaway,-the defendant, to
lend the action as my atorney •Hanbury• accom-
panied me to the chambe.s. of the defendant on. my
nut application to him; I told him that I had bees ar-
rested as a stakeholder for 501. and explained betides
patticulars bt the Case';* he un 'en() .k to defend OA
action. for n.e, and told.a.e it would not be netesaary to
cute any steps immediately; that is 'would be some
weeks before Lail could be put in, Ind chit I.e would
*cite to inform me Wien it would benecessaiy- tot him
to see me again. Mt. fratibury told the 'defendant that
I, was a re,p..ctable person, end. competent to p .y, or
otherwise-be wont I not' have introduced. use AO him;
Ake. defentdant's clerk, Tiler, was
.riot preitte; the de-
-feculent waft by himself; it war on a Sunday ; 1 did
nor see-Tyler -till some weeki efterwatds the witness
then proceeded to' negatire 'the allegations made by.
the defendant in his affidavit. The defendant did
not decline to defend the action .unless Hanhury was
to be considered his client, and answerable for his
costs. Hanbury did not le,ite him to defend the ate
lion at his tisk and expense, nor did Hanbury say
that the.money for 'which the action was. brought
belonged or appertained to him; and that I was-affected
only nosainally by the action. Hanbury did not say
,to the ,defendant—ok I 'employ you; I mu year pay.
anasterodadavilt"pay your'costs nor did he use any
language to that effect. The defendant snag/antenna
to ilifornteee that it would' be necessary to- pupia
I cheats/int taribis.office. I think his clerk.. Tyler, was
then preemie.- That was the first time I had seen Tyke.
The defeadant-then informed me, that as I Alas a
stranger to him he should requite me at first to pay bit
Goats as thishilaineis went on. He then told me'thht if
would.bireeceekary to have an advance of 11.'54. fur
the perenseeirttiai in bail, and I advanced hilts that
sem • We thenseeent to. Sergeant's Inn and put iiithaila
'sad the defendant :afterwards requested me to In n.sh
him:with the namegeof two persons to justify. I went
to him the nextirnorning and gave him the two
names, and 'then Weihis request 1 gave hint another
pound.-- Bail was put in inn= the wrong Conn ;' In
consequence of which proceedings .were taken, and
I had to pay twelve pounds costs on 'staying the pros.
ceedings. A person of the name of Furzmau was one
of my bail to the Sheriff. On .the preceedings being
taken against me and Fineman ou the bail bond, we
went together to thedelendant's chambers. We did DOI
see the defendant then ; but I petit again done, and '
then informed him that we had been all seed With
ants in consequence of 'bail having been put in in
the wrong Court. He expressed his surprise, arid
said he would see into the business. ' He made an ap-
pointment to meet the same evening at the house of
Mr. Furzman, who is a publican, in Smart's buildings.
Holborn. I dent there and saw the defendant. whom
I reproached fot hit negligence, and putting us, as I
thought, to unnecessary expense. He request d ire n t
to scold him, and said he would deduct the expenses
omit of his bill of costs, so that It should be nothing out
of my pocket.
•-Cross-ezatnined by Sir J. SCARLETT—I ceased to be