Star.
London, England, 1817-08-09 00:00:00

St3f.I4ZILSITT r. JAVAN AND ANDTDEIt.

Mr. EiPXNASSE hiving stated, that this was an ac-
tion of trnver to recover certain got.ds and chattels
taken by the defendants,
Mr. MAnivare stated, that this action was insti-
tuted to try the question of the bankruptcy of the
plaintiff. The defendants were his assignees.. and he
denied that he was ever subject to the bankrupt laws.
He had been for many-years a farmer at Shorner,
near Chatham, in this county, and a commission of
bankruptcy had been sued out against him as a dealer
in dead horses. The truth was. that he had kept a
pack of hounds, and for the purpose of feeding had
contracted to boy all the dead !terse: at Chathani
Lincs. and he afterwards sold the skins to his collar.
maker ; for this dealing the defeudant had ventured
to sue out a commission of bankruptcy. The Lear-
ned Counsel (Mr. Marryatt) here lalghed at and de-
rided the idea o such being a trading to subject him
to the bankrupt laws.
Admissions were then put in and read of certain
facts in the cause, which was a debt due to the peti-
tioning creditor, and that the commission was issued,
and the defendants, as assignees, bad possessed them-
selves, as such, of certain gouda of the plaintiffs.
Mr. Cutiwoon, for the defendants, ono came into
the Court alter the cause was begun lamented that
be had not heard Mr. Martyattas speech. because he
understood his Learned Frierd *call beer. very vitty

upon what he had called a a dealing in.de.te!
flesh." But he was sure the .I:try weadd dscide :
cording to the met its of the case, and not be led away
by any ludicrous description of his Learr.cd Friend
The plaintiff in this WC did not like to be a b.ink-
rupt ; but the question was, whether he had by his
acts brought himself within the rang, of the bask
rapt laws ? It he had, he must submit, whether
he liked it or not. It was t.ue lie was a farmer,
hut he was also a trader, not in dead h:irses, but in
hides, and that hides were an important article of
traffic the Jury must well know. At the ntren.ent
he was speaking, he would venture to assurt that
many British sliips were crossing the Atlantic laden
with hides (and horse hides too) from ports of Sont!.
America, and nobody would doubt but tile merchant
importers were subject to the bankrupt laws The.
plaintiff dealt in a like commodity, and though not
to so great an extent, yet the qiiatitity mane no diffe-
rence in the principle. With respect to the colour
that the plaintiff set up, namely, that he bought t
feed his dogs, he should prove th.,t he bought far be-
yond that necessity, for in one day he received ten
den.' horses. The i,nly question, therefore, weld.
be, did he buy the dead horses with a view to mike
profit of thsir hides, or did he really buy for the sake
of feeding his dogs
Several witnesses were then called, who proved
buying hides of the plaintiff for the last font- years,
one to the amount of 70 skins in one year, and others
smaller quantities.
Lord ELLensonotmu intim ited, that his opinion
WAS that this was clearly a de ding fir profit.
Mr. MARKYATT and Mr. Guam* contended, that
this was not a trading, and that any gentleman who
kept a kennel of hounds for his pleasure, and bought
horses to feed them, if he sold the skins, might there
by become a bankrupt, if it were a trading.
• Meters. CURWOOD. TA noir, and Ht: entrzson, coin
tended that it was clearly a buying and selling with
a view to profit.
His Lordship said he would take the opinion of the
Jury, and they found a verdict for the dtdendaier,
saying, they were of opinion the plaintiff-I:ought with
a view to dealing and making profit.

About two o'clock on Thursday morning some
thieves breke into a Gentlenran's house in Rodney•
street, I'entonville, end stripped the sideboard of ever y
:Article of silver plate it contained. It is supposed
they entered by the gander.
On Saturday a young gentleman, only con of a
widow lady in Forth-street, Edinburgh, was drowned
while bathing to the westward of Trinity Mains. lie
was discovered floating in the Firth, and brnujht on
shore by two young men who were going to bathe,
about six o'clock in the morning. It is supposed he
must have been upwards rf an hour in the water; of
course animation was entirely extinct.
Thursday, in the afternoon•., one of the most tre-
mendous storms of thun.'er, lightning, hail, rain, &c.
was experienced at G-iicsborongli ever remembered ;
the lightning entered the garret window of the house
lately occupied by Mr. 1:1SIIER, attorney, proceeded
down the stairs, and in its way set fire to a door-post,
which was not thought d ingerous at the time, bin it
was discovered to be burning about ten o'clock, and
was speedily put out ; the lightning afterwards pene-
trated through a partition wall into an adjoining
house, and did some trifling damage there, but no
person recei►ed the least injury.
Yesterday, as the carriage of Mrs. Blackwell, of
Seymour•place, was turning the corner of Dean-
street, near Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, it threw
down a woman of respectable appearance, who hap-
pened at the time to be crossing the street. The coach
passed over her, and broke one of her arms. Mrs.
Blackwell stopped the coach, and had the poor wo-
man put into it, and conveyed to the Middlesex
Hospital.
At Yarmouth, Elizabeth Atkins, a child filer years
of age, was this week scalded to death by drinking
horn a kettle of boiling water—John Wright, a boy
of seven years of lige, was also scalded to death by
falling into a copper of boiling tan, used for the pur-
pose of tanning hats.
On Tuesday evening the wife of S. Spencer, of
Stamfotd, a Si.rjeant in the. South Lincoln Militia,
gave her infant, only three weeks old, some oil of vi.
triol instead of tincture of rhubarb; by which acci-
dent its death was caused eight hours afterwards.
The two ingredients stood in tea-cups near each other
on the chimney-piece; and the unfortunate woman
took down the cup, and incautiously administered
part of its burning contents to her offspring before
the mistake was discovered. A Coroner's Jury sat
on the body on Wednesday, and returned a verdict of
—Accidental Death.

INQUISII.—An Inquisition was taken last night at
the Duke of York, Jew's-row, Chelsea, on the body
of N. Drake.—Mr. Blackwell, lodging-house keeper,
Jew's-row, stated, that the deceased was brought to
his house on Saturday by a poor woman for a lodg.
ing. He slept in a room with three other discharged
soldiers. He complained of being unwell. He (wit-
ness) went fora doctor on'Wednesday morning, who
stated that he was in a dangerous situation. He had
no money. He then went to the overseer to have
him removed ; but when he returned, he found him
dead. He had two or three glasses of gin during the
time he was in his house, but had nothing to eat.—
Coroner—'" Did he lie in bed from Saturday to Wed-
nesday, and have nothing to eat ?" Witness—" He
never asked for any thing to eat ; he had to attend
to his bbsiness." Coroner—" It was your duty to
have applied to the parish officers, when you knew
he had neither money nor victuals." Witness" He
was so unwell, that he thcught he could not eat.—
His disorder was the ague." Groner—" Had he
ken been well, going without food for five days must
have brought him nearly to the grave ; and it the dis-
order did no kill him, he must have been starved.—
In future, if you have a lodger that has no money,
go to the overseers immediately, and don't let him
die for want."—Mr. Davies, landlord of tne Coach
and Horses, Jew's-row, slid, the deceased lett his
house on Friday last, where he had lodged two
nights. On the Friday he was desired to get fresh
lodgings. Coroner—ft Why did you desist him to
quit your house ?" Witness—" Because we wanted
the bed for another lodger. The deceased had but
very little money. He left the house cheerfully, and
said that he had got a lodging. He had a table-
cloth, which he might have made money of."—The
Jury viewed the body, and were of opinion he had
been in a consumption some time, and was unable to
1.41ic food. Vcrdtut—Died by thcVi.itation of tiva.