Star.
London, England, 1817-04-19 00:00:00

DEAL, APRIL 18.

Sailed the whole of the homeward-hound vessels
for the River.—Arrived and remain the Ella DIP•
NALL, in 102 days from Calcutta ; Mary Ann,bnev,
from Cork ; and Diana, Toosmox, from Leghorn.
—Came down from the River and sailed the Reso-
lution and Youleme, for Teneriffe; Samuel, fur St.
Michael's; and Elba,-for Sierra Leone.—Wind NE.

GRAVESEND, APRIL
Soiled- tins-Lord Wellington, Crabtree, foe Cadn ;
Baxter, for Youcatan ; Scipio, Henderson, fur Prince .'l%vard's
Island; Alen, Colville, for Madeira and renal& ; Princess of
Wales, Stewart, for Calais; Hereules, Hayek, fur St. Peters-
burgh; Two Bra. Len, Wright, for kotterlun; and the Con.
cord, Win atly, tier 111.ineur and Rijn.
CIJSTOMI-HOUSE, APRII. IS. .
_ _

Suits 'HT Ea co INWAaos hi:Venerable, George, from Li-
merick ; Ebenezer, t;inberg, from Copenhagen; Free
fi-
ler, from Waterford ; Bross-.tons, —, from Wulgast ; William,
Brodger, from Por:smouth ; Agenoria, Beguon, front Cork;
Vtow Alberdina Leozi, f-um Groningen ; Peter and Ann, Rhode,
from Norway; Sceptre, Nicholbon, from Bourdeaux ; Edward,
Germaine; and Ci-trence, Marshal, from Jamaica; Amolier,
Williams, front St. Domingo; and the Eliza (boy), for Plymouth.
OUTWAADS.TiIe Supper.. Massey, for Waterford; Abcona,
Lloyd, for Rouen; Levine, Artis, 'fur Hamburgh ; Edward and
Louisa, Christensen, for Eitinore and Copenhagen ; Lord Sid-
month, Gunner, for Bombay; Strenuous, hennett, for Ostend;
Malvitia, Barrett, for Gibraltar ; and the Henrietta, Ptchbren-
ner, for Amsterdam.

• The Criterion, REID, from Mobile to Liverpool,
having sprang a leak, was, on the 17th February, in
lat. 49.59. long. 54. 25. bearing up •for the West
Indies.

The Northumberland, private ship, arrived in the
Downs from Bengal, spoke the ship Lowther Castle,
bound to Bombay, on the 19th February last, under
the Equator, all well.
Yesterday the dispatches were closed at the fast
India House, and delivered to the Parsers of the fol-
lowing ships, viz. Dot setshire, Captain N. TURNER,
and Royal George, Captain C. Li. Timis, both for
China.—Passenger per Dorsetshire, Mr. Joss sr Raivas,
for China.

The great French actor, TALNA, has left Paris fur
Lisle, whence he intends coming to London.
Thursday two petsons belonging to Manchester,
were taken into cusdody at Dover, on suspicion ut
being concerned in treasonable practices. They
were endeavouring to procure a passage to the °pp°,
site coast.
Nothing of public importance occurred in the Court
of Chancery yesterday, the whole of the forenoon be-1
ing devoted to the do.cussion of petitions respecting
contested bankruptcies. In one case, in.which it ap-
peared the party had kept a stud of horses and a
pack of. barriers, be had been made a bankrupt on
the ground of buying horses and selling their skins.
It appeared that he sold the skins of 'Lis dead horses
to his collar.:maker. Mr. MONTAGUE and Sir SA-
Reistua doubted whether this.was sufficient
to constitute a trader; upon which the Loan CHAN..
cetton obsessed, that it was the description of a
very substantial dealer who lives. at the bottom of
Gray's Inn-lane.

- .
• Corrata.—Yesterday morning the extensive public
sale by the East India Company was brought for-
ward, consisting of about 11000 bags; the whole west
of freely, and-at higher prices :—Bengals at 10td. a
120. the Surats 140. a 1511. Three-other sales
were afterwards brought forward ; the first, consis-
ling of about 60 bags Demerara, went off at U2i.f. a
23id. the second, consisting of 200 bags Bowed
Georgia went at moderate prices—prime at 24d. a
2141 the remainder at 191.1. A 20F1. the third sale,
consisting of 280 bags Bernice and-Demerara Cotton.;
chiefly of prime quality, went off at high rates—the
;best 2s. Id. a Ys. lid. the remainder23J. a 2s. 01.1.
a few lots 22d. a 22V.

Lear INTSLLMBATZ.

COURT Or Krltiree SENCR, APRIL
YENNING 1/. Mmes.
This was an ism tram the Omit of Chincel.e, di:
rected by the Lord Chancellor, in try whether a cern
tain Commission of Bantropicy, issued against James
Taylor, was not obtained by colinsien between the
stid James Taylor, the bankrupt, and Anne Stevens,
the petitioning Creditor ? The following is an
outline of the case (which occupied the attention of
the Court for about sit hours), as stated on the part
of the plaintiff:—
The bankrupt, James Taylor, had carried on the
business of a soap-boiler, in Gloucester•row, White:*
chapel. He had been appointed the executor of the
husband of the petitioning cred tor, who was entitled
under her husband's will to about resoo, which awe
rte./ had come to the bankrupt's possession. He had
;tattled the sister of a persiat named Eagle, and in
the year 1811, having become embarrassed in his
aff sire, his creditors were called together, and a deed
of tomposinen was entered inio and s geed by all of
them, except the defendant, Anne Sevens; and his
brother.in-!aw, Mr. Eagle, having undertakan to pay
the creditors is. in the pound, he assigned over td
Mr. Eagle certain leasehold premises, by way of
secinity for the advances made *for this purpose,
which assignment was afterwards mortgaged to Mr.
Venning, a respectable merchant and Sp cial nine.
man in the City. Subsequent to the adjustment cf
his affairs, the bankrupt was arrested in conSequlncs •
of the failure of Y tax gatherer, for whom "lie 'had. •
become secutity, and was lodged in the King's Bench
Prison. Benne his Confiatment he had abandoned
his wife, and lived in a state of open adultery with
Mrs. Anne Stevens, at her house in Patriot-row,
Betlinal-green; and the einceited Coll./mission ,if
Bankruptcy imputed to the defendant and the batik•
rupt was of this nature. In the month of May, ISI3.
whilst-in confinement in the King's Bench Privin, he
emote to his brnther.in-late, Mr. Eagle, acquainting
him with the ciicanstan, • id his confinement, and
recommending him to (rake up. his mind whether he
would or would not make-him a bankrupt,• because
if he did no:, s ime one rb ad; and acquainting hint
that he had ito disposition to remain where he was;
and adding, that by so doing, his brother:in-late
would enable him to make a general clearance from
his existing difficulties, and at the same time save his
painter (named Lorkin), with whom he had been
engaged in the soap business, a considerable sum of
money. He desired his brother-hi-law not to give
the snbject any harsh consideration ; but to look at it
ferly, and ask himself whetter the danger would
not be greater to the security which he then held, by
suffering another person to act on the occasion, than
by making him a bankrupt himself ? After the
receipt of this letter, an interview took place between
Mr. Eagle and the bankrupt in prison, where, after
some warm altercation in the presence of Anne Ste-
vens, Mr. Eagle positively refused to make Lis bro.
ilier-in-law a bankrupt. The defendant, Anne Ste-
vent, then left the apartment, saying that she would
do every thiop, in her power tn assist the bankrupt;
and went off to Maidstone, in which town her rnothet•
kept the Sean public-house, far the purport!, as is
was said, of Inducing the letter to become a petition.
ing creditor, fox suing out a.Commissism. But ehis
being refused by the mother, the bankrupt applied to
two others of his creditors for the s tine purpose, but
these applications met with the same fate. However,
on the I•2th of March, 1814., after the bankrupt had
obtained his release from confinement, hits. Anne
Stevens, with whom the bankrupt was then living in
a state of adultery, sued out a commission as a peti.
tinning creditor, for 4490, which was accordingly
awarded. The persons proving under that consinis.
sion were Mrs. Martha Taylor, his mother, for £216 r
his brother, Edward Taylor, for stlflin; and his
sister, Min. Martha Moore, for 109 ; and the only
other creditors, not part cf his own family, who
proved debts, amounted to about three in number,
whose claims altogether were under £9O. It was
'fated as another circumstance, to shew that this was
a concerted Commission, that the evidence of the
act of bankruptcy, by denial to a creditor, was given
by a person who was since dead, and who contra
quently could not be called as a witness. It appear.
ed, that at the expiration of a month atter this com-
mission was sued out, the baokrifist obtained his
certificate without paying any dividend. having, in
fact, no property whatever it, divide among his cre-
ditors. The bankrupt, whilst in confinement, had
threatened, that it his brother.iii-law did not make
hint a bankrupt, he should '4' turn the tables upon
him," by procuring sante other person to site nut. a
commission. It appeared also, that after his release,
he had declared upon 'Change, that lie would pi:rse-
cute Mr. Eagle till death, unless certain conditions
were cumplied with. Another circumstance urged
in proof of the concert was, that Mrs. A tine St,nrLor,
*the petitioning creditor, although she knew of the•
distressed circumstances of the bankrupt, suffered
bins to receive, immediately before the suing nut of
the commission, the sum of £5OO, which she was
entitled to under her late husband's still. Under
these circumstances, the case went to the Jury on the
part of the plaintiff, to :hew that the commission is
question was sued out by concert between the Bank-
rupt aid the petitioning Creditor.—ln the course of
the trial the following cross-examination took place:
Mr. Scantatr—" Now, Mrs. Stevens, on your
solemn oath, in whose bed did Taylor-sleep the night
the docket was struck r
Witness—" My Lord, I hope you will not call on
me to answer so impertinent a question."
Lord ELLEtairotoUGll—" This is not an imperti.
vent question; you are here to try your credit, and
shall enforce the answer."
Witness—" My Lord, I can't recollect."
Mr. SCARLETT-;-" Where the night b fore; where
the night alter ?" Anse cr—" I can't say."
Lord ELLENBOISOUOII+" Did you not cohabit as
man and wife immediately benne and atter ?"
Witneas—ic My Lord, 1 hope you will excuse my
answering."
Load ELLISNEORCKIOn•—". No, I Will not the ends
of justice will not allow me to do so."
Witness—r" Yes, my Lord, I did."
Lord ELLI:4ISOIIOMM summed up shortly; after
which the Jury deliberated about ten mimic's, When
they returned a verdict for the Plaintiff ; thereby
establishing that there was collusion between the
Bankrupt and the petitioning Creditor.