Star.
London, England, 1810-08-16 00:00:00

BRICEWOOD AND CO.

Mr. LZACHE and Mr. MOSTAGUR on the part of
the Petitioners, who are the partners of the Banking
concern carried on at Shrewsbury, under the firm of
the Shrewsbury Bank, stated this to be an applica-
tion of the greatest importance to the fate of the pe-
titi•ners, wnose preservation or ruin depended on the
nature of the Order his Lordship might be pleased to
' give. The Bankrupts, Messrs. Brickwood and Co.
were the Town Bankers or Agents for the petitioners
in their banking concerns ; and at the period of the
stoppage 'of Messrs Brickwood's house, the state of
accounts between the Partin" stood as follows
• The Penh:mere had remitted Mears. Brick-
wood, in short bills

£1 bO9O
• t 2,000
£43,090
and tile cash advances by Messrs. Brickwood, on ac-
count of the Petitioners amounted to £26,000. The
present application, therefore, was made, that on the
Petitioners paying to the Assignees on Messrs. Brick-
wood's estate the sum of three thousand odd hundred
pounds, being the difference by which the advances
by Messrs. Brickwood for the petitioners exceeded the
payments in cash made by the petitioners to the house
of Messrs. Brickwood, the £21,000 worth of short
should be delivered up to the petitioners. There
could be no question, if Messrs. Brickwood had been
solvent, that they, being factors for the petitioners,
could not have resisted such an application or. their
part ; and the Learned Counsel submitted, that the
Assignees could stand in no better situation than the
Bankrupts, whom they must be understood to repre-
sent. It was stated, however, that here Writs of
Extent had been taken out -by the Crown, by which
the situation of parties was altered. They were at a
loss, however, to see what difference this could make
on the right of the petitioners to recover b ick their
property, placed by them as securities in the hands
oF their Agents. The Crown must, of course, have
20s. in the pound, but there was nothing to prevent
other creditors from using proper diligence and there-
be getting to themselves a preference. Supposing
that to happen, still the petitioners could not be dis-
appointed of their just rights. The assignees seem-
ed to be sensible of this, when, in a correspondence
that had taken place on the subject, they expressed
their readieess to give every facility to any applica-
tion to be made by the petitioners for having these
short bills paid over to them. Their own Counsel,
too, Mr. Dampier, when consulted on the subject,
gave it as his opinion that the assignees should give
every assistance in their power to the promoting
such a measure. The Learned Counsel, therefore,
could hardly calculate on any opposition to a request
so highly jest and reasonable. The petitioners were
placed in a most unfortunate and disagreeable situa-
tion, to extricate themselves from which, they had a
right to expect every assistance that they could re-
ceive from Messrs. Brickwood or their Assignees.—
But for the stoppage of Messrs. Brickwood, nothing
unpleasant could have occurred to the petitioners.—
The paying over to them now the sums of theirs de-
posited by them as securities in the hands of their
agents, after satisfying all claims on their part,
would enable them still to go on in business ; but
delay in complying with this application must involve
the petitioners in min.
Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY and Mr. HART, for the As-
signees on Messrs. Brickwood and Co.'s estate, ex-
pressed how sincerely their clients felt for the unfor-
tunate situation in which the petitioners were placed,
and with how much pleasure they would assist in re-
moving the obstructions which presented themselves
to a compliance with the wishes of the petitioners,
were it in their power. They were even now ready
to comply with what was now demanded, if his Lord-
ship chose to make an order to that effect. Here,
however, an extent by the Crown had been taken out
against Messrs. Brickwood and Co. to the amount of
£45,000 ; next, there was an extent in aid, on the
ground that Brickwood and Co. were indebted to the
petitioners, who again were indebted to the Crov n ;
and, thirdly, there was an extent against the Petitio-
ners themselves. In these circumstances, and *ith
their understanding of the law of the case, the assig-
nees did not feel themselves entitled, of themselves,
to quit the securities belonging to the petitioners
which had come into their hands. They were ready,
however, to give full and entire obedience to any or-
der made by his Lordship to that effect, and they
should be far from feeling reluctance in doing so.—
In justice to the Assignees, the Learned Counsel
begged also to state, that wherever any application of
the kind had been made to them, where there was
no writ of extent to induce them to question their
power of compliance, they had uniformly and in-
stantly yielded to the application, and had given up
many thousand pounds worth of securities in this
manner. They were here ready to wait his Lord-
ship's order.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said, without the coseeet•
of both parties, he had here no jurisdiction. Such a
question could not properly come before him in. ;he
usual administration of the assets of Bankrupts. In
such a case, even were the Assignees to consent to
abide by his judgment, and it should be wrong, he
warned them, that they would not be protected, in
consequence of their having acted under any order of
the Lord Chancellor, in a case in which he had no
jurisdiction. If his Lordship were to be supposed to
have jurisdiction over such a case as this, he should
not be surprised, at some future period, to hear of a
person, who had left his chest of plate with his ban-
ker, afterw .rds coming to that Court, and calling on
his Lordship to try his action of trove/ for -the reco-

Ia various cash payments, upwards of

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pigte VT." iiioie Of the chest et .
ever, from all parties; 11e could do,uortiug.
iti the mean time; allow the Petit on ts stand.
in the papei, for the conserit of partici. • ••
Mr. MONTACiUE, after some intery tl, alluding to
the jiirisdiction inpch a case as undertook film
the b ,oks to deinotistrate that the jurii fiction of the
I Chancellorextent:kJ td eqiy thing in Bank:
ruptc y.
The LORD CliAN'cat.l,oli said; he should be hapi:
py t o hear Mr. Montague on thispoint
,but ivai
alt-.id that, in his vti eirrience, he eon 1.1 point out
many authorities against so wide a
MINTS OF PRACTiCe.
Oil an application made by. Mr: Coog, that si
Bankrupt Petiti .n might stand at the bottOm of thii
paper. Sir SAMUEL ROUILLY opposing it,
The Loan CHANcEi.lilli Sai(l.64 A. reprilientetioei
has been m :de. to me of the enormous expence ate,
ather inconveniences resulting to those lititirs °team
whose bit,iness is del.tyed in Consequence of this ha.'
bit of deferring petitions, the which if yot (Mr.
Cook) were to see, you would readily assent to wh it
I mow say--that the evil is quite al.rming i and I
now wish Gentlemen of the Piofe•sion. b nit Co, sel
and those tvhb sit here in antilher rank in it, to tinder.
stand me now to bit determine I that I will put off-4
Petitions in BankruPicy, while l h lie the honour of
sitting here, unless those who apply for p.itzi:ig mem
off shall pay the costs arising fi-om th a delay. I
think this mischief owing,_ I am sniffy to say, to the
vicious indulgence of the Court itself, id 3 gre it de-
gree. I must repeat, that I will not put old'any
Bankrupt Petitions; unless those who apply to him
them deferred will pay the casts oemioned thereby."

Yestetdaylr. Bull was fully ci Intrftted from Bow.
street Office, charged with stealing three horses, the
property of Mr. Willan, as before stated:
Two girls, bne only ten, and the other twelve ream
of age, were charged with uttering counterfeit save!
in Covent Garen.
They hate been in custody several timed before
for a similar offence, but on account of their tender
age, the Mint did not prosecute them. It is ittorsglT
suspected they are connected with coiner: or common
utterers.—Committed for further eiattiination.

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R. Crouch and Caikarias Bristol were fully commit:.
ted, charged withrobbing a sailor of sitteett coMpotind
notes. The prisoners were observed by an officer,
stopping in a coach at a liquor-shop in Gray's lnn-
lane, who knowing them ;At be suspicious personsi
searched them, but could find nothing on thetn.—
So9n after, however, he observed the coach stop, and
on inquiry found some persons searching for some
notes said to have dropped frnhi the prisoners, on
which a mote close investigation ensued, when eight
notes were fount in the male prisoner's hand, silver
to the amount of RS in his pocket, and a one pound
note in the coach. They were therefore taken to
Bow-street, where the prosecutor soon after applied
and spore to their identity.
IV. Thicken unde/went another etamination yester%
terday, at the Mai Mon House, on a charge of hating
in his possession a bill for afloo, stolen from a Mr.
Kent, of London Wall.

The prisoner requested that he might be commit-
ted for trial, having no doub! he should at that time
be able to produce the roan from whom he received
the bill. This request was complied with:
iP. Stanton and W. Gemlyer, were fully committed,
charged with stealing a watch front Mr. Thornton, in
Bishopsgate-street, the preceding evening.
T. Gilyilfix, a journeyman painter, was charged
with seducing two females, about IS years cid:
The mother stated, that the prisoner was acqnain.
ted with her husband, who admitted him to hii house
on Saturday, and the neat day he decoyed the chil.
dren. She learned that he *as at work at Epping.
Forest, where she went last Tuesday, and found the
girls with him, and that he had taken it room for
them, and had bought them muslin gowns, etc.
The girls gave his Lordship an account of the pri.
soner's base conduct ; hut the offence haiing been
committed in the county, he was ordered to Hatton.
Garden ; but several women were so incensed against
him that he was obliged to be lodged in the Cotisp-
ter, to shelter him from their vengeance.
At Guildhal, W. Wartley, a person in Long-acre,
charged R. Berry, a decent-looking man, with being
the person for whose apprehension a reward of ASO
had been offered.
Wartley stated, that the prisoner had escaped from
a Sheriff's officer at Manchester, who had him in cos.
todv, in erecetion for £lOO, which sum he had been
fined, for having instituted a malicious prosectition
against an individual residing at Manchester.
Sir W. LEtoitrori asked Wartley what proof be
had, that the prisoner was the person for whose appro.
hension the reward was offered Watley said he
knew him. The prisoner, however, not acknowledg-
ing himself to be the person, the Alderman would
not detain him ; but told Wartley he might take what
steps he thought proper in the businoss.
At Union Hall, R. Berry, the person mentioned
above, was brought up by Wartley, who repeated the
chirge against him ; and Berry acknowledged he
was the person described in the hand-bill, offering the
reward, bat said, he was the victim of a most foul con-
spiracy, in which the Sheriff's officer was a party.
The Magistrate informed Wartley he could not de.
twin Berry, but advised him to keep him in custody
till he had delivered him to the Sheriff's officer, when
, he would be entitled to the reward.

Five Greenwich and Deptford coachmen Were
summoned, for carrying a greater number of passen.
gers than are allowed by Act of Parliament, and fined
115 each.

A man was yesterday charged at Marlborough.
street, with attempting to pick the pocket a a Mr.
Fellows, under the Piazza of Covent Garden ; and
on Mr. Fellows charging him therewith, he threatened
to kick him, at which instant a Mr. Wells stepped
forward, and charged the fellow with having robbed
him of his watch, when he tan off, but was pursued,
and being identified, wars fully committed ; as was
Watford, for stealing a mare, the property of Mr.
Hughes, of Iver, Bucks.
Armitage, the Bank Clerk ; Robert:, and a female,
underwent separate examinations on a charge of for.
gery, and were remanded ; but as a detail of the evi.
dence might counteract the ends of justice, we feel ie
a duty to be silent on the occ.isi.,a.
Yesterday, S. Cociliss was fully committed front
Worship-street (Alice, charged with stopping a Gant
tleman a few evenings since, in Hackney-rosd, stet
robbing him of a watch, and 50s. in cal'.

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- ktfazipir, Aususrn.
A ReqUisition to the Sheriffs of the City of Dublin
b now signing, for the purpose of requesting them to
call an aggregate meeting, to take into consideration
what measures are most proper to be adopted as ope-
rative to the repeal of the Union.
ROBERT LANGRISHE, Esq. son of the Right Hon.
Sir HERCULE% LANGRISHE, has been appointed a Com-
missioner of Excise, in the room of the late JOHN
TOWNSHENDI Esq. • ,