Star.
London, England, 1817-04-24 00:00:00

KING. CATTL!, AND OTHERS. V. OhNENAL Jong

MASI/MI:IAN VOX ESCIZI-It.
Mr. ANDaaws appeared on behalf of the opposing
Creditors, who, lie stated, bad suffered considerably
by the fah* representations and fraud of the prisoner.
He doubted not that it would be disclosed to the
Court in the examination, that the person then be.
fore them was nothing better than a swindler, and
had rendered himself subject to the punishmen pro-
vided in the last Insolvent Debtors Act, for those
who went about contracting debts without the initia-
tion or the ability to discharge them. '
Itappeared, by the answers of the pri_lloner, that
ae canoe to this country in February, 1816, and put
at Mr. King's, fhe sign of the White Bear, in B
singhall-street. He had served under Moro, in Italy,
and in 1814 had signed a treaty, effarsive and de-
fensive, for the protection of the Neapolitan terri-
tory, with the Ministers of some of the Continent.d
States. On the restoration of the Bourbons he was
obliged to leave France, for his own safety, as he
had long been in the service of Napoleon. He
brought with him to England some papers in a tin
case, and others in a porttolio, which he represented
to be very valuable. All the money he had was 110
Napoleons, but he expected to receive large remittances
by a frieod-who .bad been authoriatO to eolleit ea-
; rieus sunk shohiti to him from btother4ceri,-Which
' amounted in 'the whole to .a considerabie stun. He
assumed the name of St. Preux, telling Tifs 'retrain:4-
tbat he must remain keep as a discovery might be
wry injurious to him from the part he had taken is
the Cantinentil revolutiohs.• No further explanations
were demanded, though be was then getting into
debt. He afterwards removed to Mr. Cottle's, in
Windmill•nreet, Pancras, wherehe !Old much the
same story,
.and continued to live there till Septem.
ben, with his wile, whom he martied shortly atter he
first went to Mr. Cottle':.
.. He stated' that in 'lBO9,
he wastakas prisoner an English vessel, and car-
rjad itito.Malta where he became Icaoint:to the ire-
Pheilinfrgle:..itiett Hap Gtorgeßose ; and that
upon his removal to tneatis clife'r.e.Veler he
was intredbodel to Sir 'Unlit A tUtiegitithogh the
instrumentality of a Mt... Mendoza and a Mr. Soil,
that he was also kn.overeto tiro Hon.. G. Nevin-
had seen,shvriiiike 'of -Saxe Cotsourg,
doubt his Highness Whole! recollect h.m,.
.pied ever having said that the Prince
Captain's-commission.in the regitrient.Ot
rounded., He acknowledged that the
change lox 1186, drawn on the 6th of Ai
three weeiro after date, was his, but the
stamped paper in the form of a promissory
for the same amount, was not his, it was •
ototandum of Mr. Cottle's ; be had
on it at, the request of .Mr. Cottle, as it
Will of ALOange, viz, General Sir W. Eci
the addition, Count de Ferrara," the
distinction of his family, which Mr. Cotr'
apprised of when be was married, at
him to adopt his family name., He leas 4
the Sib October, and his wile on the same
posed of a quantity of pawnbroker's cluoli,
which she received AS, and she had
other money. He bad said that his
gained valuable papers, because they were
for the debts due to him in France. I
presented that Peregeaux and Co. of P
bankers; they never held a farthing of
The letter, dated the sth of April, Addeo
Cottle, stating that the writer, which
kdged was himself, had £58,000 in
Mesirs. Peregeaus, was drawn cut at then
Cottle, Ind was intended as an assurani
his friend Colonel le Due, then in slum
about to enter upon his apartments, war
Witted a but he believed the Colonel h'it
money in the hands of his bankers as thi
tented. This letter 'also stated that he
bill for his account, which, if nothing
him, in a certain time might be sent
through the medium of a Lau ion loaf
Cottle was to wait till the last moment, ._
lure disclosure might lead to hii title witer't
—The amount of his debts was 5t8'28..•
brought him no fortune, and he Isoty,ow-
the maniage tees from Mr. Cottls. H.
bow many dresses bis wife had ordered s.
son—he bad paid her £6, but deltitti
requested tit not to appear,' and 'on the-,
deckred-that he had sent to her, -paishi'
presest'at his examination.. The
under kitchen bk..AtundeP,s, ConL
t old music, .andhatl been buried- 6y
binako, vf,Eo sttripose d'dtey wire Obi
higheit Irrotessing.isi
prisomecidriallinxissealp sows' Ikeri
prolbernyAnong inktrainiA for
.any of !,1
Mr. poltocap, wfio apfeared -is
Counsel, re-examintithim. tie tbak
lag for his friend, Colonel Lapatie, who
the daighter of O'Orady. the Cralqael
brigade in tbe French ber*4l.4lNfil
of his father-iirkw. The Colonel:teal
therefore the promissory notes Whith
snit him, on account of the deborowi
toner in France bad never reached here.
once seined his papets, and kept them'
before they were returned to him.
that. all the sums stated in bis sc,hedule
bin wool., be paid, except three. The
Robinson; an Eni,lislintAnA to
,10411
money, while in unarm in:Flatfeet •'
lett the country without re:tuning •
owed Cottle only £4O bi,,
g;ven, on tlr.a, promise that when it bEr
more than was owing should be dent:
petted his friend on :i.e 80tli of April,
reason the bill was made to fall due (~
Mr. King was then exat..:ned
The prisoner calks! biossalt Gene,.
&bard, and said he was a man of
owed him ir2B, and when he went ass•
-
how a tin case, which he 'ben prod'
tube closed at the ends. about sixteen 4._
'tour is diameter, opeuing in the suidtlle,

b, ana pot
inn., in B
at, in Italy,
ire and de-
lolitaa tent-
Continental
bons he was
afety, as he
ool4on. He
pen in a tin
represented
bad was 110
:remittances
o cohort va-
ciii,—vihich
e sam. He
Gis landlord"
ry might be
had taken i 2
explanations
getting into
Cottle's, in
Id much the
till Septem.
ortly atter he
bat in 1809,
isel, and car-
ien:to the pe-
ase; and that
.n•request, he
o the
a Ivir. ;
Neville. He
and had no
ss,. but he de.
had held a
Ouch he vim.
: nal of Ex-
ipilt payable
the slip of un-
tory note, and
is a mere me-
put his name
t stood on the
Echard, with
the•territerial
Ade had been
as he wished
ss arrested on
same day•dis-
luplicates, for
1 rtceiveti no
portfaio con- •
re the vouchers
He never re-
Paris were his
I his money.—
dressed to Mr.
It he *anon.-
the- hands of
request of Mr.
ice to him that
Less, who was
as a than to be
id not so much
his letter repre-
e would give a
gTtas heard of
to loy payment
1
thliVr; but Mr.
/est a prema-
liter's) seizure.
828.., His wife
owed money for
le did not know
!d Of Nisi Pear.
tied* thet•he had
theocontrary he
ships. her to be
ix buried is the
Rained' nothing
iy Mr. Arundel
iu limns. of tie i;
a mord, fur t!.e
nf il.caseut his
•
i die '•pritoner's
k.Cottfee ludg.
Ow had married
tel of. die Itisii
mimed the name,
'as arrested, and
he was to have
wing to the pr:-
're. had
m for six weeks
He considered
uk as owing to
rheie was a
04 We had it!: t
oiltrafietwar's
the Itoan. Es
Wide due, no
1r;...1ed. • He ex-
1, VlllOl was the
• the 29th.
• ANDRAWS.
air Ittch.tri
I pr. perty.
y he Celt bchird
laced. It woe a
inches long and
uidille, to whic:
•
•

four padlocks were attached to make it secure. The
prisoner lived moderately, and did not take a pint of
wine the whole month he lived with witness. He
told him that he had had the hooour of commanding
a legion in which the Prince of Size Cobourg was a
Captain, and did not doubt that he should be able to
bring him a time or two to the witness's house. He
left clandestinely, but had sent bim one letter re-
, 'prating his account before he had been thrown into
the King's Ben:h.
• In answer to questions from the Court, the witness
stated that the prisoner came to his house first in
company with a Mr. Maclaurin, an American Mer-
chant, who, about a week after, told him be knew
nothing of his guest.
Mr. ,Hannarr, the Attorney. for the creditors,
stated that he had addressed a letter to his Royal
Highneis the Prince of Saxe Cobourg, to know if his
Royal Hig,hness was acquainted with the prisoner, to
which an answer was returbred by Cclonel Gardiner.
Mr. Pot.cocx obixted to the production of this
letter, and the Court decided that as the band-writing
could net be proved, and the letter nut being from
the person to whom the other lend had been sent, it
could not he regarded as evidence in 11,e case.
William Cottle stated, that when the prisoner came
to his house cn the 13th of March, he left his watch,

which he said was gold, as a proof that he intended
to come again : l►e was to pay a guinea and a half a
week for his apartments. lie releired him to Mr.
Wells, of the Strand, who gave a satisfactory account
of him. A few days after, he asked witness to lend
him £36 to release a friend of his (a Duke) who was
detained at the Bedford Coffee house. He did find
him the money, and it was for that in pa►t that the
Bill of Exchange was given. He' told witness that
the Prince of Cobonrg had shook him by the hand
snore than once. The watch turned out to he ametal
one and was not worth more than eiC3 which, with a
few other trifles, reduced his claim to about £l5O.
The prisoner had told him that the contents of the
portfolio were worth half a million of money.
In his re-examination he admitted, that prisoner
might say Colonel le Duc, when he understood him
to say his friend was a Duke.
Mr. flerjeant RVNNINGTON here addressed Mr. Pol-
leek, remarking that his case might take a course not
to be desired by his client: he suggested to him the
propriety of proceeding no further with it.
Mr. FOLLOCK replied, that he understood the sug-
gestion Ft *le Coon, but he was so satisfied that his
client was involved iu debt from misfortunes only,
that l►e was disp.ised to proceed even at the peril which
had been tainted iron, ti.e Bunch.
Mr. ANDMEWS and Mr. ADOi KRA expressed an
anxious desire to proceed, because they felt confident
that a further investigati.,n would bring the prisoner
under the provisions of the last Insolvent Act, which
inflicts five years, imprisonment on dishonest debtors.
Mr. Serjeant RUNNINGTON observed, that if the
debts of the complaining creditors' were excepted,
upon the prisoner's petition for his discharge, be
would then have to pay every farthing of them be-
- fore his release, or be subjected to live years' Ml-
prisAmient.
After some (either discussion, it was agreed that
'.the debt of Miss Pearson should also be included,
amounting to upwards eh ICI®, for dresses had by

the prisoritir's war in the course of three months.
Report states, thit the prisoner is a natural son of
Napokm Bonaparte. This, perhaps, may have
arisen from the circumstance ef his features very
strongly resembling those of the Corsican. He ap-
peared to be *blur 25 years of age.

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Monday morning, a young man and woman took
a boat at Cuper's-bridge,to cross the Thames ; when
about the middle of the river, the latter got up in the
boat, and being in a state of intoxication, clasped the
young man round the neck, and precipated both into
the water t the n.an was saved by the boatman, but
the woman was drowned.
A dreadful accident happened at Inskip, near
Garatang, a few nights since. Between twelve and
one o'clock; the neighbours of William Miller were
awakened by the cry of 46 Fire ! Fire !" and a young
woman, bursting open his door, found the cad men
and his wife (each about 80 years of age) all in
flames. They had gone to bed late, and, it is sup-
posed, that in putting fhe candle out the curtains had
taught fire, as they and a part of the bed were
burnt. The old man was able to relate, that '
he
• pulled his'wife out of bed, and got dolvo stairs, al-
though he had not been able to walk without crutches
for some years. The floor and walls were marked
with blood from their hands and feet. They were
so dreadfully burnt, that the wife died next day, and
the husband the night following. Art Inqueg was
,takes oa the bodies, and they► were bath interred in
utte VIM.

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