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London, England, 1810-08-17 00:00:00

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PLYMOUTH, AUGUST 15. COURT OF CHANCERY; AitTOUSTII.
Arrived the ORESTES sloop of war from- a eruize The Lady who attended in Court yesterday, for
off say ; and two American ships, with cargoes of the purpose of having £4OOO Stock transferred from
/jet, flour and cocoa. Passed up Channel the Morn- her own name into that of her husband, but the fur.
ing Star, LEDGER, from Senegal, which place she ther proceeding in which, at that time, the Lord
lett the 10th of July. .. Chancellor prevented, in consequence of observing
The follovr;,,fr is a list or the ships In commission that the Solicitor was prompting the Lady in the
remaining at b , port, Corrected to this evening : answers she should give, gaihavingn appeared in Court
The caledonia, of 120 guns ; Scipion, 80 ; Alfred, Armada, to-day, for the purpose of
and Mgesiras (Spanish) of 74 guns each : President, Pnetunee, completed. The Lord Chancellor called her up to
prune, Aannon, and St. Carlo' (the latter a Portuguese) frigates; the place where his Secretary sits, and having ex-
8144, Favourite. Orestes, Cusack,. Sapphire, and Hawk, sloops; plained to her the reason why he gave her the trouble
fflonund, Mariner, Ei hera, Helicon, and.. Goldfinch brigs of war; .- .
or again attending to-day, stated-that it was his duty
Fancy breed cutter ; Neptune (1), and Cecilia tenders.
HALF.PAST Fiva P.M. —lt blows a violent gale at to inform her, that the property of the Stock in ques-
lion was at present entirely at her own disposal.—
vr. N. 'W. and a signal hat been made that there is a
He, therefore, cautioned her to reflect well before
ship in distress in the offing. The ORESTES got under
rei!,ll to go to her assistance, but was forced back she gave her sanction to the present transfer, which
she must know was irrevocable. If she should at any
again. future period repent of it, and apply to his Lordship,
The PHEASANT sloop of war has this instant. arri. he could not interfere so as to afford her the smallest
Ted, with a Dock-yard lumper, from Falmouth ; and relief. She must make up her mind, therefore, while
the DEPTFoRP ;,nder, which sailed hence for Water- it was in her power.
ford ,m Thursday last, has pat hack, with the loss of ' The Lady expressed her entire concurrence in the
her 110.% sprit and other damage, which she sustained transfer, which accordingly received the sanction of
in a gale.. _ ' the Court.
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The A Low aAs, Spanish 74, is getting under weigh
for Portsmouth, hut I do not apprehend she will clear
the found and Bay to-night, unless the gale abates.
PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST 16.
Arrived his Majesty's ships Dowlntoat, and RE..
egNott, from off Cherbourg ; VIMIERA gun-brig,
from the Leeward Wands ; Algesiras, Spanish man
of war, from Plymouth. His Majesty's ship NEREUS
is appointed convoy for the Brazils.—Wind W.
DEAL, „AUGUST 16.
Arrived the Phoenix, TAYLQR, from Jamaica.—
Sailed his Majesty's ships OwEN GLENnowett and Au-
nActr,us, the former for Plymouth, and he lattert for
Portsmouth.
Five o'Clock.— Several coasters are getting under
weigh. The convoy and running ships will not at-
tempt to get their anchors to-night unless the wind
gets more east—it is now N. W.
FROM LLOYD'S LIST.
GRAVESEND, Auctsr 16.—N0 arrivals. Sailed the Rising
States Jetmings, for Virginia; Conjuror, Cooke, for Gibraltar;
Catherine, Wigley, and Sutton. Pyatt, for Lisbon ; and the Com-
m,,dare Prebble, Inglee, f or New York.
The following vessels were taken off the Naze of
Norway, the 19th ult. and carried into Christiansand
by five Danish brigs and two schooners :
The Hope. Rea ; Polly, Greaves ; Sephila, Elizabeth,
Campbell : Eliza, David; Eliza, entire; Minerva, Jackson; Vc.
luntet r, Leach; Mary, Ropes; Rebecca, Meek ; Iris, Russell;
Annowan, Donaldson ; Janus, Yawn ; Hesper, Cushing ; Hope,
Meek; an Vermont Nichols, Americans: and the Maria, Liee-
berg; August, Knape; General Wrangle, Olsen ; Btudy Limas,

LIABILITY OF ASSIGNEES APPROPRIATING TO THEIR OWN
PURPOSES THE PROPERTY OF THE BANKRUPTS.
In the course of some proceedings in a Bank'upt
Petition,
The LORD CHANCELLOR took occasion, without
any reference to that particular case, to warn As-
signees and others concerned in the administration of
the property of bankrupts, that as the law now stood,
Assignees employing the funds of bankrupt estates
entrusted to their care, for their own purposes, or in
any respect to their own private advantage, were
chargeable with interest on all sums so misapplied by
them, at the rate of Twenty per Cent. He wished
this to be generally known ; and also, that when any
instance of the kind was brought under the cognizance
of the Court, he should feel himself bound to give to
the law its full effect.
EXPARTE DONOVAN IN THE MATTER OF KENNETT.
This was an application in the Bankruptcy of Robert
Kennett, a charatter of some notoriety. The Petition
embraced an immense variety of matter, and went to
affect different parties, some of whom were only inter•;
ested in a single transaction out of the vast multitude
detailed in the Petition.
After hearing Mr. HART at great length, in support
of the Petition, .
The LORD CHANCELL3R declared it to be his opi.
nion, that it was so multifarious in its nature that
it could not possibly he entertained in its present
shape, as against the persons with respect to whom
in one solit4ry transaction of some magnitude, re-
was son: 'lt. Had relief he.'n song -ht.' in such

,oght.
a case, by Bill, it must immedi itely have been dis-
missed, on account °t its multifarious nature. His
Lordship was bound to pursue a similar line of
ptoceeding in a Petition s% here 9.loths of the mat-
ter was inapplicable to the charge made against
the individual party, and he, of course must, in de•
fending himself,be expowd t.) nine times more expence
than he ought regularly to incur. His Lou dship, there-
fore, must, as to this Party, dismiss the Petition with
costs; without prejudice to an amended Petition on
that specific point.
The Petition, however, it was agreed should lie
over, generally.

Bailie-; th..ot Schurz ; Elizabeth, Anderson ; Cat harina and
Frederica, Yanm ; Amyl on, Wheintropp ; Courier, Leitzow ;
Jag Frzw Muria and I o, •.-h ea. Glasmeyer ; Copernicus, Hid.
dCurat.tlz ; Sucre's, Stu, .feldz ; Johannes, Watt ; Helina. Kt ate ;
Chat lir ta ant; Carlema. Odra ; Margaretta, Redman ; Baltazar,
Wi?barus ; ranee, Ulrechs ; Solide, Beck ; Conjunction, Wash-
sn::.rz ; ('ens, Wermau ; Frederica, Matson ; I,ouisa, Jozeth ;
Mari?, Zomon ; Maria Sophia, Rubarth ; Fortune, Holztlin ;
Arcthe, Folhert ; Anna Margaretta, Smidt ; Jong Frau F retie.
stcl, Janson ; Jul:a, Othen ; Eliza, Mosely ; and Clershe, Jasser.
--lot ,1 iii, from the Baltic and Gottenburgb.
ARRIVALS.
In the Rivers tke Treseom, Bayree, and the Star, Goodvie,
front Grenada ; the Cato, Napier, and the Surrey, Gardner, from
St. Vincent's; and the Eagle, Charter, front St. Croix for Lon-
don —At Liverpool : the George and Thomas, from Anti.
gua—[The glove are pars of Me Leeward lsland Fleet Altherto sow-
*plata 1 for.)—Also arrived at Liverpool, the Argo, ---. from
Jamaica; and the Hero, Orphal, from Valta.—At Bristol: the 1
Elizabeth, --' from Hayti; Caledonia, —, from Quebec; I --
Seri*, from Alicant ; Standfast. Sands, from Barbados ;l • HUNTINGDON (LAMMAS), AUGUST IS.
Pilgrim, Twill, from St. Kitt's ; Rosetta, Scarth, from St. Vin. I A very important cause was tried at these Assizes
cent •; Collina, Pme, from Grenada; Pilot,late Marshall, from before .. . • .. and e •. i T which
Mr. Justice HEATH a apeciar Jury,
. Tobsco; RachaLl, Bell, from Nevis; awl the Calypso. Wright,
from New Brunswick.—At Milford, with damage, the George, when ultimately decided, will be of the utmost cense-
Jackson, from Virginia; and the Vivi.' Clark, trom Fayal.—At qiience to every occupier of mills subsisting upon the
Falmouth, Mary Ann, Cobb, from Palermq. —A: Plymouth. the different streams in the country.
John, Davis, from Teneriffe; and Retaliation, Williston, from brought b 0
The action was y wsley Rowley, Esq.
Saloe.—ln the Downs, the Aimwell, Proctor, from Guadaloupe;
and Britannia, —, from Lisbon.--in the Clyde : the Grenada, as possessor of certain adjacent meadows, against the
aeurge, from Grenada; the Everthorpe, M'Arthur, from St. occupiers of Saint N2ot's Paper-mills,-in this county,
Vincent's; Mary, Stocks, from New Brunswick; Rising States, for not repairing certain piling and banks near the
—, from Penobscou ; Mary, Mnirhead, from Pictou ; Mary, floodgates abutting upon those meadows, and for keep-
Htwell, from Quebec ; and William Penn, —, from Virginia.
—At Dublin, the IJnion, Willey, from St. Croix ; and Cumber- ing so great a head of water fot working the mills
land, Ttueman, from Portland.—At Cork, the Johanna, Bays, that the overplus of waste waters was diverted down
from London ; Boa Vints, —, from St. Übe's; the Union, the back stream running between the meadows to the
Hayes,
and Barbadoes, Keep, from Barbadoes ; Ann, Edwards, • • of tine i injury plaintiff.
front Trinidad; sad the Hope, Flinn, from Guadaloupe.
It appeared upon the trial, the mills and the mea-
A letter has been received from the Captain of the'
Clarendon, of Hull, dated Monte Video, June 8, which tow were formerly the property of distinct persons,
but by purchase were become the property of the
mentions that they had experienced a very heavy gale,
acid were plaintiff, who, thus possessed of both '
estates, had
when four ships drove from their anchors, a
let the mill by lease, for a term of thirty-one years
lost. The Clarendon drove with two anchors ahead, to thc defendants, whim he bound to lay out the sum
and did not bring up until the sheet-anchor was let go. of £4OOO.
The Gadamouche, Baitston, from the Cape of Good , The great questions in the -cause were whether cer-
Hope and St. Helena; and the Owen, Lindsey, have ; tain repairs of the piling and banks of the meadow
arrived in the Downs. ' below the floodgates of the back water-stream of the
Tert.ox FLEET.—The following is an extract of a mill ought to be repaired by the pleintiff as possessed
letter from an Officer on board one of his Majesty's of the meadow, or by the defendants, as tenants ,of
ships cruizing off Toulon, dated July 9, 1810: • the mills ? And whether the defendants, by their:.
" Six or seven sail of the enemy's line come out every day, but manner of working the mills (tbus bowl,l to be .crec-
t-. soon •as our in-shore squadron give them chase they immedi- ted by the defendants) did. not keep up too great a
ately tun in again. Seven sail were out to-day; our signal was .
made for a general chase, and bad the wind continued foul for head of water ?•
their return for an hour and a half, we should have been able to The evidence on the part of the plaintiff stated,
rine then, to action. The French fleet consists of three ships of that the injury done to the banks of the plaintiff's
o_2o, guns, nine of 74, six of 44, two of SG, one of 20, and a store- meadow was occasioned by the flowing of water
el up mon-ling SO. In the inner harbour there are : one of ISO,
h
just launched, two of 80, one of 74, a Russian corvette, and seve-
ral anal e r vessels —Admiral the increased head of water
Gantheaume, who was Comma's. cessary ; occasioned by
dn.-in-Chic', is gone to Paris." I which the plaintiff alledged was kept up at the mills.
• By a letter from an Officer in the late Chinese fleet On the part of the defendants, the evidence stated,
we learn, that the piracies committed by the Ladrones that only a proper head was kept, and that it was '
on the coast of China, which some years ago were impossible that the injury complained of by the plain-
very inconsiderable, have now become seriously alarm- , tiff could have arisen from any mismanagement at
ing to the Chinese Government. Some years ago they the mills, it being proved that every possible pains
were trifling in their number and power, but there are were taken that the head should be kept an uniform
now near 2000 vessels from the Ladrone Islands, solely height ; and that men were alternately employed by
employed in acts of piracy on these coasts, and up the the defendants every 24 hours to watch the state of
rivers, on which they commit every species of depre- the water, and whenever the water . rose above the
dation, plundering and burning villages. The force ' usual water-mark, to draw it off by the proper gates,
of these vessels is from 20 to SO guns, and some of and that such water-mark did not exceed the height
them with between 2 and 301Yenen. They sail in fleets of that of the preceding tenant.
of an hundred, and sometimes of several hundred sail. i The plaintiff had laid out £15125. 9d. in repairing
And there is nothing in the feeble Government of , the banks and piling, but in his action he laid his da-
China to resist their attacks. They have even threaten- I, mages at £5OO.
ed to pay a visit to Canton. It is this which calls for I Mr. Serjeant PEcKWELL and Mr. STORKS, Counsel
the attention of the British Government ; for an attack for the defendants, took an objection to the nature of
on a place in which there is deposited so much Eng. de action, on the following grounds : first, that as
lish property, and for which during the absence of i tl- e defendants were lessors of the plaintiff, he should
our Indiamen, there would be no adequate defence. have brought his action on the covenant to replair in
The menaces of this most formidable and dreaded that capacity ; and not as possessor or occupier of
enemy may also bring the Chinese Government to a the meadows :—secondly, that the present action,
sense of the obligations they may owe Great Britain. ' which was an action on the case, could not be so

ASSIZES.