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A letter from ati Officer on board his Majesty's COURT OF CHANCERY, AUOUST 19.
Fe- treaters. ritoitisos, &c. IN Tilt SlArtilfi ilk cattstatit
ship the Lots. of 64 guns, dated Boinbay,
brusry 1, says-0 This ship left Rio Janeiro on the Astia GASKELL.
tBth of September, arrived at the island of Ceylon This was a new case. Co son and Ga-kell had d,--
posited ,20,000 worth of gtw).ls with Heyaiaal kbl
on the 19th of December, 1810, where she took in a
, supply of water and fresh provisions. Ou the 29th Co. Heywood and Co. adv 'need them settlaao
upon the deposit. They soon ofitr sold the g .t‘d.,
of the same Month the ship east anchor in Cochin
£s,ooo's worth to a stranger, and .£ls,ooo's worth
roads ; was supplied there by the inhabitahts with
back to Carson and Gaskell thernseivks. Carson :/..d
abundance of poultry, fruit, vegetables, yOung bid- ,back
became bankrupts; and the question Wa‘i
locks, &c. She arrived on the
.11th January. On our
whether they had originally transferred the legal right
arrival here the PIeRSIAN AMBASSADOR received a let-
in the property to Heywood an! Co. ; whether the
ter from the King of PERSIA, signifying that he had
conferred on him the title of Khan, which is the high-
consequent sale was a good one ; and whether Hey-
est tank next the Royal Family. All the Persians wood dad Co. should prove in thp commission under
the original debt of the 110,000, or under the Lila of
and Parsees at Bombay came off to the ship to pay
their respects to his Excellency ; after which seven the Rls,ooo's worth of goods ! •
boats, with a band in one of them, came off to con- This is a short analysis of the case ; but the whole
duct him on shote. On leaving the ship, he was sa-
is so extremely interesting that we are induced to I.sy
luted by us with 21 guns, and received with a like the statement of Counsel before our Readers:
salute on shore. The Commissioner, Captains, and Sir SANIUSL RoSIILLY :rated it to be au applicatiort
on the part of the Assignees of the Bankrupts to have
Army Officers, afterwards came off to pay their re- on
debt of R6OOO, and-another debt of £l5O, which
to Sir Gone OUSELEY, who went on shore in a
had been allowed to be proved tinder the Commission,
superb style ; Sir GORE in our barge, with the stan-
dard of Old England flying, followed by the different in the name of Heywood and Gladstone, expunges!.
The Learned Counsel admitted that this was sortie-
Captains, &c. with a band playing ; and he was sa-
what a singular case, but he trusted his Lord,hip
luted by all the ships with '2l guns. The men in the
would be of opinion, that the Commissioners, in al-
yards were all dressed in white, and standing. On
lowing the proef of the debt in question, had acted
landing, Sir GORE was received with 21 guns and the
military were all turned out. We are to sail in a few t under a mistake. The bankrupts having a variety of
days for the Persian Gulph, and are in hopes that we cottons, sizars, coffees, &c. to dispose of, proposed to
shall not remain there more than 15 days. if so, we consign them ta Messrs. Heywood and Gladstone, to
be
hope to be back time enough to go with the expedi-
by them soli, they remitting to the bankrupts
tion against Java." three-fourths of the market value, in bills payable in
London, the goods to continue under the key of Hey-
be

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The Algerine Ambassador will return home in the
MeNeLaos frigate, Capt. PARKER.
AJvices have been received from Tenerife, dated
the 15th ultimo. The ship conveying them w.ts sup-
plied with clean bills of health, and has not therefore
suffered a moment's detention. The malady with
which a part of that island has been afflicted has
wholly disappeared ; but the intelligence of a com-
mercial nature is by no means favourable to the
views of the trading adventurers.
Within the last ten days, an alteration has been
observed by our cruizers to have taken place among
the enemy's ships irs the Scheldt. It is ascertained
that twelve sail of vessels, including two-deckers,
Isloops, brigs, &c. have proceeded up that river from
the situation in which they had previously been dis-
'covered. Whether this movement has taken place
for the purpose of inducing our ships to relax in their
vigilance, is not known. A three-decker which has
been some time building at Antwerp is now com-
pleted, and will speedily be launched.
It is rather a remarkable cir,:umstance, that ever
since the occupation of Barcelona by the French,
which is now more than three years ago, we have
had little or no account of the internal situation of
that unfortunate city. At one period it was supposed
to contain a population of mere than 100,000 souls,
and was one of the most commercial cities on the coast
of the Mediterranean. What it is now, under French
occupation, we have no means of ascertaining ; but it
may be readily conjectured to have greatly declined. I
—While France, however, by her wanton aggression,
has heaped innumerable evils on the once-flourishing
cities of Spain, her own commercial towns, by a just
reaction, have declined from their ancient prosperity.l
A Gentleman, lately arrived from Bourdeaux, states,
that on a recent census of the inhabitants of that city,
it was found to contain only 72,000 souls, though its
population was formerly estimated at 110,000.-
I'hough no troops had lately passed through Bordeaux
for Spain, yet since the commencement of the Spanish
war the inhabitants had suffered most grievously from
the numbers of troops, on their march to the Pyrenees,
that had been quartered on them.
Friday evening three Foreigners, of genteel appear.
ance, were apprehended at Dover, on suspicion of
being French officers broke from their parole. They
represent themselves as being foreign merchants re-
siding in London, and came by way of Margate for
an excursion along the coast : however, after having
been examined for a considerable time by the Collec-
tor of the Customs, acting under the Alien Office,
they were remanded back to the King's Head Inn,
where they still remain under the guard of some Peace
Officers.

wood and G 1 idstane till sold ; the proceeds then to c.
imputed, in the first place, is payment of their ad-
vances to Messrs. Carson and Co. of their expences,
commission, ice. and the residue, if any, being to be
paid over to the consignors ; while, on the other hand,
if there should be a deti:iency, it was to be made up by.
them. This proposal being agreed to, Messrs. Carson
and Gaskell consigned to Messrs. Heywood and Glad-
stane, goods to a considerable amount, on the secu-
rity of which they received an advance to the amount
of £24,000. Ot the good's so consigned to them by
the bankrupts, they made sales to the amount of
£13,000, and upwards; and they parted with them to
Sit and Co. whom they knew to be the brukers for
the bankrupts, some of the goods to the amount of
£lO,OOO, and another parcel t o the amount of k 6,000,
for which latter sum, having received a bill, they had
proved the same under the commission, but the proof
of it was now asked to he expunged. The only debt
which Heywood and Gladstone could be admitted to
prove under this commission, the Learned Counsel
'contended, was to the extent of £24,000, which
was nothing but a loan, for which they had the
'security of those goods, with which they were not
bound to part but where they pleased. They
could not here be regarded as pt.rting with the goods
to the bankrupts, as buyers of them, but only as re-
storing to them part of the goods received --. a secu.
rity for the advance made.
Mr.Motrracu,on the same side,stated. that the q act-
don here was, whether Hey wocrd and Gladstone were
entitled to prove to the extent of £lO,OOO, being the
sum remaining clue on their advance to the bankrupts.
I or, if they were entitled to prove for between £16,000
;and £17,000, till they had received full payment of
!their advance of £lO,OOO. Messrs. Heywood and
Co. were originally creditors of the bankrupts to Our
amount of about £24,000. They had sold of the.
goods consigned to them by the bankrupts, to stroll.
gers, between £13,000 and Xll,OOO. They had pav
ted with goods to Sill and Co. on account of the
bankrupts to the amount of upwards of £lO,OOO
'these sums amounting together to more than the gum
for which they were creditors. What fight then had
they to retain the X 6,000, till the bill for £lO,OOO was
paid, unless they had some special agreement to that
effect ? Having parted with their security, Messrs.
H. and G. must stand as any other creditors, and
must come in and prove their debt. They had par-
ted with their security on the property consigned to
them, and had taken the bankrupt.
Mr. Hater and Mr.CuLLEN, on the other side, con.
tended that this was 1 fraud against the creditors for
whom they appeared. They were to have right to
the proceeds of the goods. This very bill, for which
they were told they ought not to be allowed to prove,
was part of these proceeds; they were not by tho
agreement to be accountable for more than the net
proceeds, and this bill, till paid, could never be reck-
oned as forming any part of those net proceeds.
The LORD CIIANCRIAOa was of opinion the debt in
question must be expunged. Heywood and Glaistaoe
agreed to become simple contract debtors of the bank.
rupts for X 24,000, and that they should have placed
in their hands in security of that sum, certain goods
on terms agreed on. One of these terms was, that
the goods should be sold ; a term which implied that
they should be sold to some other person than the one
depositing them. The reason of this was obvious,.
If it were not so, a person about to become bankrupt
might give a security to the am aunt of at:10,000 where
the debt was only £20,000, thereby defrauding all
his other creditors. If this were to be regarded as a
sale, the evil consequences resulting from the enter-
taining of such a notice could not be conceived.
The proof of the debt: was tl ctfore ordered to be
expunged.

Saturday morning an alarming fire broke out in
the premises of a coal-merchant in Brick-lane, which,
together with a part of the furniture, were consumed
in a short time.

A most alarming and destructive fire broke out, at
ihree o'clock on Friday morning last, at Mr. Zacca-
riah Pigott's, Mucking-hall, Essex, which entirely
consumed a house, with 21 calves, two pigs, a large
barn, with the produce of twelve acres of pease, 1150
fleeces of wool, and three stacks of hay ; the sparks
communicated to a large granary, containing a va-
riety of farming implements which were .all destroyed.
The flames at one time threatened the whole of the
premises. At seven o'clock a fire-engine arrived,
which happily saved a large barn full of wheat, a gra-
nary with wool, and a stack of wheat adjoining. Two
nun who slept on the premises with difficulty saved
their lives. The property was insured.

Sunday morning, a young lad, about fourteen years
of age, was drowned- off Westminster Bridge stairs,
while amusing himself in a boat. By some unskilful
management it overset, and he was plunged into the
stream, in the presence of several spectators, some of
whom swam after him, but unfortunately too late to
save him.

AUGUST TO.

EX-PARTE COLE 1N THE HATTER nr DOYLE.
This was an application to prevent Doyle from
being declared a bankrupt. T:te act of bankruptcy
on which it was attempie,t to issue the commissis n '
was 1112 alledged writing of letter in which D, yle
confessed his absence from his creditors. The inter
was, however, writun beyon,l SP ; and it was
tended by Sir S. RONIILLT and Mr. MoNr.koug, t'at
the writing of a letter out of England was not An act
of bankruptcy. If a mut should say in France, "It
is true, I owe money in England, but in order to avr d
frl f creditors, I will not rtturn thither;" even th .t
would not be an act of bankruptcy. In order that a
man may be legally declared a bankrupt in England,
it was necessary that the act of bankruptcy should be
committed in England. For the troth of this state-
ment of the law, Mr. Montague referred to the case
Ingles v.prant, Fifth Tertn Reports. • :iv
The Loan CHANCELLOR salt', that the writing dr
such letter was not an act of bankruptcy; but, c' n
netted with /tarok evidence, or other peculiar ct,rrc ocs•
rating circumstances, it might become so.

A man, who keeps a kind of office for selling charac•
ters to servants who are in want of them, has been re-
manled from Marlborough-street Office, for recom-
mending a fellow of the name of Mott, to the service
of a Gentleman in Wimpole-street, and giving a
false character. The character was proved to he in
the prisoner's hand-writing, who represented hinis?lf
to be a Captain Mason, to whom Mott had been
groom for two years. The said Mott had robbed his
master of £lOO, and decamped, which gave aile to
this inquiry.
MARS.-LANs, AVOMITAL-11.0.41.11y we Lave but few flesh
' arrivals-of Wheat, and again not much remaining supplies, t alt-
bog arrethda, few Sales are made, and thew tally at Monday's,
lleslisiiii...-13arley in abort 'apply, and somewhat darer—Malt
and White Peas fully maintain their prise, not many of the lat-
ter—Grey, and Baum of each dem lition, also keep their price'
—The Oats on hand, with a few arrival•, form a miedling sup-
piy,and sides thereat at little fluetuatioa—Flour at late prkt s
paced.


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