Star.
London, England, 1829-10-02 00:00:00

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' Ci-IC; T,-0,,. 1.

OITTING Ur ANTI-C•THOLIC PITIfItiN,.
William Earle, who described hirnsel as a propriect of raf'.
road. came up to claim the benefit of the Insolvent Act. lit •
opposed by Mr. John Easterby and Francis Sparrow.
Mr. NICIIO!.LS appeared for the insolvent.
Mr. Easterby stated his claims against the insolvent to he the
amount of a hill of costs, which was upwards of 401.
Sparrow said that his claim was 591.105. 501. of which he lodged
in the insolvent's hand for a situation which be was to give him,
and the remainder was for wages.
Mr. Easterby, in reply to Mr. Mello:1s, said that be had oh.
tained judgment upon the bill of exchange passed to him by the

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insolvent
Mr. P.asterby then examined the insolvent.
Eisttrby—liad you not some property at Glasgow?—No,

I had not.
Mr. Easterby—Did you not obtain various sums of money for
the purpose of promoting an anti-Catholic petition ?-1 never did
get various sums of money (or any such purpose.
Mr. F.a.t,rby—Did you not say that you did ?—No, I never

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said that I did.
CH/XF Cuytttsstott►a—Yost are. I believe, a projector of rail-
roads, not of petitions?—(A laugh.)—l am.
Mr. Easterby—Dld you not say that Lord Kenyon, the Bishop
of London, Lord Eldon, the Marquis of Cbandus, and whets, bad
subscribed 8,0001. for the purpose of getting up anti-C ttholic peti-
tions ; at:d that you were appointed an agent to disseminate those
reitt •t:s?—l believe the parties alluded to did associate mud sub-
.ci We a certain sum of money with reference to a great public
question ; but I never said that I received a single shilling of that
money, nor did I, in point of fact.
Mr. .gasterby—Did you not advertise for young men for the
purposes of " promoting at:d selling" those petitions?—\o, 1

did net.
lira Easterby—Did not a number of young men deposit with
you 501. each, in consequence of the advertisement to which 1
allude ?—Never.
Mr. Easterby—Were you not present when the 501. were paid,
and when the engagements were entered into?—l never received
any money, but I was a party to engagements made.
Mt. Easterby—To what amount uf the monies paid by the young
mt n were you present?
Cuter Conatustostea—finless you can prove that the insolvent
received the money, your interrogatory will be without effect.
Mr. Easterby-1 understand upwards of 500/. has been received
by the insolvent front young toe::, whose duty it was to go about
and " promote and sell" anti-Catholic petitions.
The Insole lit d, tiled 11;:seit.g eve r received any money spots any
such account.
Francis sparrow ss. Ore, was ex :mined by Mr. EA ,ThUuY.
—He deposed that he was steward or bailiff:o Mr. %Vinci:. of Sher
perton. In the Lit er I.:rt of Juts, I 8•28, he saw an advertisement in
the papers, in misters: nee el which he %sem to No. 5.2, Aldeim
bury ; he there saw the insoliesit, :did a person named Wm. Leech
the insolvent said that the person. they were in want of were to ti
icl about with petitions, tor :he purpase of getting signatures to them.
which petitions were to be k-resented so his Majesty, against grant-
ing any further col:cessions to the Unman Catholics—(Loud
laui,hter.) Each person so engavel to travel was to deposit 3Of.
in Mr. E trie's hands, for which he was to be allowed 5. s. a-week.
beside,. traveling carcases. lie hesitated for some time betore he
paid the money : previous to his doing so, the insolvent said th t
his father had a splendid estate in Herefordshire, and that lie
(witness) and insolvent should go don n in September, and have a
day's showing—(excessive 1-ughter, in which the Court joined).
Paid 5.:51. into Leech's Lands ; to the hest of his rec Ileciion thr in-
solvent stated to hint, that • certain Noble Lord. hid subscribed
8 COW. to g. t up the petitions previously alluded to, and intimated
that he was officiatitie as the agent of the Noblemen in question.
Cuter Commissions:a—And you believed this as well as the
shooting excursion ?
Winces—Yes, I disl—(Liughttr).
The witness here handed in the tollowing paper
" August 18, 18'28
" I do hereby engage Mr. F. Sp iriow to act as agent in obtain•
ing a petition to the King against any further concessions to the
Roman Catholics, and in the dispersion of copies of said petition,
in such parts and places as he may be commissioned to go to, and
under such instructions as lie may ttom time to time receive.
" I also agree to pay, or cause to be paid, unto the said Mr. V.
Sparrow, the sum of cos. per week, to be paid weekly, and every
week, from and after Monday, the 18th of August, when his en-
gagement will commence, and also to pay. or cause to be paid, all
reasonable and necessary ttavelling expenses as may be Incurred,
and to allow of the same being deducted front the money us his
hands.
•` And it is agreed betwe n the parties, that le, Mr. Wm. Earle•
and Mr. F. Sparrow, that in caw of disagreement or defalcation or
duty, that either party should give to the other nue months notice
to vacate and dissolve the agreement.
(S.gned)

•• WILLI AM EARLE.
" F. SPARROW."

The witness Sparrow, in continustion said, that seven or eight
young men were engaged to circulate the anti-Catholic petitions.
Cnttr Comatiss3UN6.3—Were they all to go a-shooting ? (A
laugh).
Witness—l don't know. lie circulated 56 of the petitions in
London. Shortly after he paid his money, the insolvent and Leech
left town—the former for Ireland. the latter for Scotland. DO
not see Earle aft.rrw ads. until he saw him in the lock-up-huuss.
When he asked him for money, be replied that he hid none, hut
that he depended upon the rail-road company ; have notice to Mr.
Earle and Mt. Phillips that he declined going about with the pe-
titions.
Air. Nit:mitts cross-♦itantined the witness—lle received from
.LOO to 500 oi the petition►, out of which l;.! sold 56 ; tht rrmaiodrt
are at Alu.•rmau• ury. Did not return them to thr insolvent. Ist -
cau-e he did not know where to find laugh).
Oster Compassion's—Tut projector had gone—(Laughter).
Coss-examination continued—Had sworn upon his oath th.t he
paid the money to Earle ; and in support r f his oath, there wss
the security given to hint for it by the insolvent.
Whims. handed in a paper to tile Court, which was read. Tit
following is a copy :

London, Aug. 18118.
" One month after the date of a novice in he given to Mr. W.
Earle, and to be saved on Mr. Horatio Phillips, honksearr,
(haring cross, by which Ur. F. Sparrti.v ..green to surrender up
his agency to the Petition to the King against any furc:,er ounces
stuns to the Roman Catholics. and al-o t.• surrender all hooks and
pipers, and such mmWs as may at that time be its his hands, and
upon a se:dement of his account., we jointly and severally promise
to pay unto Mr. F. Sp.irtow the suns of irdo value received. tin.
'MC having heels lo.lge I in the hands of WiNiam Leech at the
day and date as above, and as a -ecurity for such money and ac-
counts. (Signed) .4 W M. EARLE.
" WM. LERCH. •

The insolvent had handed in a paper, which he said was a sut.•-
ment made by the other persons concerned in ilibtr:buting the pe-
titintiv, exculpating hint from any impropriety of conduct with re-
terence to the money depuvited by them.
The Cocci objected to receiving the paper, as nut affect.rg the
question which they had to try.
The CHILI, CuMMitisturi[ll said, that although very improper use
had been made ut the names of certain noble itidiViduilill,rral means
used that had the ellect ot tricking the young that were unwary,
and the old that were ,tepid, tall, as it had not been proved that
the insolvent bad rewired any ot the money paid for the liberty ot
disseminating the Anti-Catholic petitions, he eliould jive biro the
benefit of that want of proof. l-le therefore ordered that the in-
solvent be discharged. lie was discharged accordingly.

CORN—EXCHANGE, MARK...LANE, Oct.
We had rather more demand (or Ant 'armpits of Wheat TM+
morning than on la-t niarket-day. when fii.e Wheat Itily sup-
ported Monday's prices. Barley appears no the decline, the ar-
rival being large ; some bile samples, however, übtvitted
quotation. Oat. were also in the same state..—.sllonday's prices
were obtained for 6ne fresh Corn.

IMPORTATIONS SINCI MONDAT.
Wheat, English (qrs.) . 5,600 Batley, Foreign
Iri-h . . ; Oats, English .
Foreign . 5,4001 Foreign
Barley, . 3,0L0 II Irish .
Irish • . Flour (!arks)
SMITHFIELD MARKET, Oct. 2.
AAAA B AT MARKIII.

. 5,3.:0
. 4,700

65u
. 4,600

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Beasts
Sheep and Lambs 6,090 ' Pigs l7o
Beef ss ttd to 7,4 8d Veal ........ ..44 04,1 to is 6d
Mutton 4l Od 45 4d 1'urk..........4. Ott 4i thi
Lamb Os OJ Os 01
Bay per load, 42 10s. to d 4 104 Clove ,C. 7. 15, to f 5 104.
Straw .C 1 16s. to .C 2 164.
COAL NIARKET—Tuts Oar.

HALF-ran 0311.—The supply of Sunderland and Newcastle
Coal at market today was very plentiful, much greater than the
&mind; 65 ship. have arrived since Wednesday hit, 'making on
the week's arrival a total of 163 ships. There were not many
buyers at market to-day.
Ships arrived daring the month . .
Best Welland C0a15.... 36,. Od. 365. 6d •
Other sorts OJ. 35s Od.
Ships at Market

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I'S ANTIDOTE.
York Osserassi.
celebrated Orientalist. Mr. Buck-
, series of Lectures at Whitby, la
undertake to show the faffat7 of Mr.
Shipping Interest. These Lectures
as effect upon the minds of his me-
ntors, which is calculated to unsettle
politics, notwithstanding the vividness
A contemporary has thus noticed

at Whitby was just after the dinner
the town was almost exclusively
with which the latter gentleman
practice of the free-traders and pa-
, moment was therefore thought peculiarly
successful reception of Mr. Buckingham's
iliat tree-trade which Mr. Sadler
misrepresent, as well as to decry.
, that a highly respectable Magis-
Richard Moorsom, had issued a small
pamplet, containing an address to his fellow townsmen, and em-
bodying his views as to else shipping interest, and the general mis-
conception which attributed its depression to Mr. Huskisson's mea-
sures; which pamphlet, opposed as it was in every respect to Mr.
Sadler's notions, was rather uncoorteously treated both by this
gentleman himself, and by those of his party, to whom it was sent
for previous perusal. Mr. Beckingham having been long since
known to Mr. Moorsom, by correspondence, arising out of the
similarity of their commercial views, became, with that portion of
his family who accompanied him in this part of his tour, Mr.Moor-
som's guest. This was another circumstance which it was thought
might operate unfavourably at the present moment, for the popular
reception of Mr. Buckingham's views; and, altogether, the pros.
pect was considered to be unusually discouraging. Notwithstand-
ing this, however, Mr. Buckingham issued, in addition to the
usual announcement of his Lectures, an especial invitation to the
shipowners and merchants of Whitby, to whom he pledged his
readiness to prove, to their entire satisfaction, that they all suf-
fered great injury from the continued exclusion of their ships and
capital from ports under the controul of the East India Company,
where foreigners resort freely, though British vessels and British
subjects are shut out and that it is not by free trade, but by the
existing. obstacles which ate still interposed to prevent that free trade
being extended to all parts of the world, that the depression of the
shipping interest has been produced.
And what has been the result? Why, that the Lectures of Mr.
Buckingham, held in the very room in which the dinner was given
to Mr. Sadler, have been attended by nearly twice the number of
auditors which that gentleman had, though such powerful interest
and such especial pains were taken to collect them in the one case,
with the attraction of a sumptuous dinner, and excellent wines
superadded ; while on the other no step beyond the ordinary an-
nouncement by advertisement was taken, and the fare to be sup-
plied was wholly intellectual. Mr. Buckingham's audiences in-
creased in number each succeeding evening; and on the third, the
last to which our information extends, not only was the room en-
tirely filled, but a number of persons, for want of room below,
occupied the music gallery. Among the auditors have been seen
the principal merchants, ship-owners, and gentry of the town and
surrounding country. Our worthy Member, Col. Wilson, (who,
strange to say, happens to be Mr. Buckingham's next door neigh-
bour in London) was observed to be amongst the audience. It is
to be regretted, that the Hun. Member for Newark, Mr. Sadler,
did not himself remain either to gather new laurels by his expo-
sition of Mr. Buckingham's errors—if errors they be—or to yield
the palm to his truths, if, upon examination, they should be found
to deserve that characters. for either the one or the other, at least,
they must be. That he was duly apprised of Mr. Buckingham's
intentions, and even urgently pressed to attend them, we happen
to know from good authority: but, the tranquillity of Redcar
appeared to have greater attractions for the Honourable Gentle.
man than a further sojourn in Whitby—flattering as had been
his reception among the inhabitants of that place. To be sure,
there might have been some disadvantageous comparisons
and contrasts, between a speech upon the shipping interests,
by Mr. Sadler, who despises all theorists, and will admit of
no evidence but that of practical men ; but who at the same
time can really know nothing whatever of ships or seamen,
except as a theorist—having been all his life bred and occu-
pied as a trader in linens, in an inland town, and never having
either performed voyages by sea, or lived amongst those
who had. We say, that a speech en the shipping interests
front such a man might perhaps have been rather disadvan-
tageously contrasted with a speech on the shipping interests, by
..r. Buckingham, who went to sea at nine years of age, who
commanded a ship before be was twenty-one, and who has visited
almost every part of the globe, by sea and land, as a navigator, a
merchant, and a traveller. The shrewd shipowners of Whitby,
most of whom have themselves been sailors—could not fail to
distinguish the wide difference between a man speaking of that
which was perfectly new, and scarcely intelligible to himself—and
a man explaining to others that which he had been familiar from
his cradle, and which had formed, indeed, the principal object,
and as it were the natural and professional pursuit of his life.—
Yet this is just the distinction between Mr. Sadler and Mr. Buck-
ingham, as speakers or writers on the shipping interest; and we
really cannot help thinking, that if the shipownets of Whitby or
Hull—of Whitehaven or Newcastle—of Greenock, Liverpool, or
Bristol—think it essential to their interests to have a Represen-
tative in Parliament, or an advocate at public dinnet s—a seaman
and a navigator is a more appropriate person than a farmer or a
linen-draper, and who unites to theory the most extensive cape-
rience and practice—a better man than one who is destitute both
of one and the other.
Mr. Sadler may be a very fit and appropriate person to repre-
sent the Duke of Newcastle in the House of Commons, his
Grace himself being confined to the narrow limits of the House of
Lords; and he may very adequately discharge all the important
duties imposed upon him by his Grace's tenants and retainers
in the borough of Newark.upon-Trent • bat we repeat again,
that on any question connected with shipping and commerce, Mr.
Backingham's practical knowledge and multifarious experience
Must render him a much more appropriate representative of the
shipping and mercantile interests of this great maritime and
commercial community. As to the other qualification, the power
of communicating vividly, clearly, and agreeably, his own
thoughts and feelings to others, it is admitted on all hands, by
the universally concurrent testimony of writers on both sides of
politics, and by auditors of all parties, that Mr. Buckingham is
pre-eminently successful in its display; and the most striking
manner in which we can show this, by comparison, is by
saying, that while Mr. Sadler, after all the comfort and ex-
citement produced by an excellent dinner, found it difficult
to preserve the sustained attention of his hearers for an hour
and three quarters himself and the whole party halting
twice on their way to refresh themselves with a glass of wine
(that detestable foreign production, which by the mischievous free-
trader has been made to supplant the home-production of pure
water springing front our native wells, but which there is no sin
in drinking, though the political economists who encourage its
importation ought to be exiled for commending)---Mr. Bucking-
ham, without any such aids, and without a single pause or inter-
ruption for even a moment of time, so completely rivetted the at-
tention of an audience of double the number, at the same place and
in .the same room, that during a period of more than three hours,
the silence might be describsid as almost breathless, and its conclu-
%ion was,,in each instance, terminated by a burst of applause,wbich
%efficiently indicated the feeling universally expressed • from all
quarters if the room, that the auditors could have remained for
three hours longer, without the least sense of weariness or fatigue,
so deeply had their feelings` and their judgments been interested in
the facts, arguments, and illustrations, by which Mr. Buckingham
supports the very opposite position of Mr. Sadler's policy, and
shows, that in proportion as nations have encumbered their inters;
course with each other, by restrictions, they have declined from
their high and palmy state, and become powerless and wretched,
while in proportion as they have made that intercourse free and
unrestrained, they have become wealthy, powerful, and happy.
THE LATE WILLIAM HUNT, ESQ.—The will of this
eccentric old Gentleman was proved on the 24th ult. and the pro-
perty sworn to under £250 000. The testator expresses great
anxiety not to be buried alive, and also to escape the resurrection
vies. An advertisement, cut out of a newspaper, of patent self-
closing and unopenahle iron coffins is gummed on the top of the
first sheet of his will, and he directs that he is to be buried in an
iron or stone coffin, but not till undoubted signs of putrefaction
appear upon his body. Other characteristic marks of peculiarity
of opinion are scattered through the will. One legacy to a friend
is afterwards revoked, on account of the said friend's " extreme
bigotry and ignorance in burning the ' Philosophical Dictionary,'
of Voltaire, because he could not refute it." The principal testae
of the will, however, is the magnificent bequest to Guy's Hospi-
tal, being the residue of the testator's property, after a few legacies
to executors and friends, and other charities' and estimated at
upwards of £200.000. For this be binds the Governors to build
and fit up accommodations for one hundred more patients than the
original founder provided fur. To St. Thomas's Hospital, the
Refuge fur the Destitute at Hackney, and the Philanthropic Gila.
rity, St. George's fields, be has left ,21,000'each ; with other con-
tingent benefits in the very improbable ease of the Governors of
Guy's declining to comply with the conditions of his bequest to
that hospital. The vault at Guy's Hospital be selects as the place
in sepulture in lieu of &whin-fields, on the ground that his late
brother, Theodore Hunt, who had used Mm ill, lies there above
their two uncles, and he is determined " not to mix his bones"
with those of the persons alluded to.

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In our last we stated that the t
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the coarse of Mikis he would um
Sadler's views respecting the Ski;
I have, we are assured. had an el
lightened and respectable auditor
'heir faith In Mr. Sadler's politic
of that gentleman's oratory. A
Mr. Buckingham's Lectures:—
** Mr. Buckingham's urivdat
given to Mr. Sadler ; and while I
occupied with the denunciations
had assailed the principles and p
!Weal economists. The moment
unfavourable for the successful
views, as to the advantages of tl
had jut taken so much pains to s
" We mentioned in our hat,
trate of Whitby, Mr. Richard

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