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London, England, 1811-10-01 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX ADJOURNED SESSIONS.
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INSOLVYNT DESTORS.
Yesterday being the day of Adjourned Sessions for
the discharge of Insolvents, fourteen persons, formerly
remanded for defects in their qualifications, or oppo•
sition from their creditors, were brought up from
Newgate prison to the, Sessions House, before W.
MAINWARING, Esq. to take the benefit of the Insol-
vent Act.
William Brett, trader, Whitechapel, was opposed
by a Mr. Beadle of the same place, on the objection
that his fixtures, furniture, and stock in trade, were
not inserted in his scheVf ; but it appearing that the
lease of the house, with'all things therein, had been
duly signed over, with a warrant of attorney, to con)
fess judgment to a Lady in that neighbourhood, to
Isatisty a fair debt, payable by instalments, previous
to his first imprisonment, and that the opposing plain-
tiff would have a claim on the remainder after such
Instalments were paid, he, by the advice of the Chair-
man, withdrew his opposition, and the prisoner was
discharged.
William 01 me was remanded, on the ground of
being a King's prisoner, and not having petitioned
11 the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury,
for a remittance or pardon of that charge. The pri-
soner was discharged of all his other debts, but re-
, manda for this detainer only.
Daniel Dyson was remanded, as a bankrupt, not
having obtained two certificates required by the Act,
the one from the Lord Chancellor, and the other from
the Commissioners, testifying his due examination.—
' He was discharged from all his other debts.

Bow-STREET.—Yesterday C. Shrophire, porter at
the Golden-cross, Charing-cross, was re-examined at
this office, on a charge of stealing three £lO Bank-
notes, the property of Mr. Dobree, of Oxford.street,
who had sent them in a parcel directed to D. at Mrs.
Worthing. F. Thompson, clerk at the Inn, stated,
!that when they were collecting the parcels to be serf
off, Mr. D.'s was missing ; and that that day the pi-
saner took the Worthing parcels in a hackney coach
to the Elephant and Castle, to meet the stage. Dar-
well, ege hackney-coachman who drove the prisoner,
swore, that on the journey he prevailed on him to get
three £lO notes changed at different public-houses,
which notes were produced by the respective publi-
cans, and identified by Mr. Dobree's clerk. The pri-
soner was, therefore, fully committed.
T. Dix, driver of the-hackney-coach No. 1067, was
charged with extortion. The coach was hired on
Sunday evening at the Green Man, at Blackheath,
by two,Ladies and two Gentlten to take them to
Bond-street, when the prisoner wanted them to ad-
mit two other persons, who had offered him 7s. to
take them to town, the refusal of which was taken
in dudgeon by Mr. Jehu, who, on arriving in the
London-road, St. George's-fields, traversed the road
in such a manner as to render his passengers appre-
hensive for their safety, and they insisted on getting
out, when he demanded 15s. for his fare ; and on
one of them giving him three dollars, he refused to
return the change, insulted them with the grossest
language, and followed them to another coach, the
driver of which he endeavoured to prevail on not to
admit them, The Magistrate convicted him in the
full penalty of £3 and costs, and observed, that had
he been summoned for misbehaviour, he would have
inflicted a further penalty on him. The fine was, at
the prosecutor's request, sent to the Society for the
Relief of Small Debtors.
4.lll'Dorald, driver of No. 90, was fined 20s. for
refusing to take a gentleman to Hyde Park Corner,
after be had got into his coach, on the stand in the
Haymarket.
Two lads were fully committed, charged with
stealing a quantity of harness and brass buckles, part
of which was owned by a Hackney Coachman, who
was accidently passing the Office-door during their
examination..
On Friday evening, the patrole on the Edgeware-
road detected two men cutting a pane of glass in a
shop-window, with intent to steal, and brought them
to the office, which collected a crowd about the door,
and just as Mr. Nitres; the Magistrate, was entering,
he heard a fellow propose to another to attempt a
'rescue; upon which the Magistrate seized him by the
!Collar, took him into the office, and held him to bail.
The two men for cutting the glass, were committed
for further examination.
GUILDUA L L.—Yesterday a gentleman, named Lord,
charged an old woman, who called herself Maria
Crease, with coming to I.is shop and breeding distnra
bailees, even to the extent of breaking his windows,
The old woman, with all the tire of an impatient
bride, declared a matrimonial right to Mr. Lord,
who, she said, had refused to acknowledge her as his
Lady, although they had been married lb years.—
She also declared, that his real name WAS Benjamin
Crease.— Mr. Lord said, the woman was out of her
mind; and that she had made the same strong claim
on his partner, Mr. Crease: he had also been obliged
several times before to bring her before the Magistrates.
The Alderman ordered her to be sent to her parish.
M. Cooke and J. M'Rae, were charged by a watch-
man, in Bell-alley, Golden-lane, with knocking him
down with bludgeons, on Saturday night. Accord-
ing to the statements of several watchmen, there
-mimed to be a general Irish row there, of which
Cook and two other watchmen bore ample proofs.—
After they were taken to the Compter, some of their
friends came and endeavoured to rescue them. They
were bound over to the Quarter Sessions.
Ann Payne was charged wit') picking the pocket of
John Burns of his watch. The prosecutor stated, that
in Gentgeailley, on Sunday morning, the prisoner.
took hold of hint with her left arm round his waist,
and with her right hand pulled his watch nut of his
pocket. He immediately secured her; on which two
young men came up, and pelted him with stones and
mud. ile, however, continued holding her until a
watchman came ' • but on searching her, the watch
was not found. She was fully committed.
HAT roN—GARIDIV.-•—•Yesterday a baker, in the
neighbourhood of Drury-lane, was fined, at this
Office, sell, for selling bread short of weight and
having alum in his house.
Friday se'nnight, as Sir Joust Hat was returning
home from Shrewsbury, lie was thrown from his
horse upon some iron fence, near Haw kstone-House,
by which misfortune the venerable Baronet received
i severe wound on his forehead. We At...however,
I that he is in a fair way of recovery.

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