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London, England, 1820-01-05 00:00:00

LAN' INTELLIGE-1410E.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, JANUARY 4.
Arahant Joel Ator was brought up, on his peti-
tion, to be discharged.
Mr. ARABlif appeared for several of the creditors.
to oppose his discharge. It appeared by the state-
ment of the Learned Counsel, that Assar is a Polish
Jew, and had formerly carried on business as a mer-
cer, at Keningsburg, in Prussia ; that he had formerly
been unfortunate in business, but having conducted
himself to the satisfaction of his creditors on that oc-
casion, they had full confidence in him. In May 1818,
he signified his intention of going to Berlin, and from
thence to Silesia, to purchase woollen cloths; that
his creditors, believing him to be an honest man, en-
trusted him with considerable property, to convey for
them to Correspondents at Berlin; the confidence
was so unlimited, the Learned Counsel said, that one
.of them had even entrusted his wife to the care of the
insolvent; it did not appear that the Lady had been
turned into gold by this Jew, but every other descrip-
tion of property had ; the schedule contained debts
to the amount of 8,2941. 10s. 2d. and as a set off, the
.insolvent made it axpear, that he had 4,7891. 8s:
which he stated he had been, robbed of by a Jew of
the name of Cohen, at llamburgh. The whole of the
creditors were out of the kingdom, in consequence of
l
which the Leanted Counsel prayed that the considera-
tion of the insolvent's petition should be postponed,
to give them an opportunity of attending.
Mr. Beam, Mr. POLLOCK, and Mr. HEATS, for
the insolvent, urged the necessity of going on with
the case.
The Court considered it a case of great importance ;
such a one never before bad come under considera-
tion. It would, therefore, further the ends of justice
that it should be vistponed ; which was' accordingly
done to the Bth of February, when it will be the first.

POLICE.

Ctrtr,nttatt.—Yesterday, an information was laid
by a journeyman silk. weaver, against Mr. Woolley,
a silk-mercer, for paying.les per yard than had been
settled by the Magistrates, at the Quarter Sessions
(agreeably to the Act of Parliament, regulating the
journeymen weave's' wages), for manufacturing a
species of work called by the complainant " cotton.
mantua." Several journeymen deposed,- that the
work was cotton-mantua; while, oil. the part of the
defendant, other journeymen, of long standing, agreed
that it was a new work, and more similar to a mode
than to a mantua. The Magistrates, under this con-
flicting testimony, considered the work as one unset-
tled in its price by the Quarter Sessions, to which
they advised the journeymen to apply, and get it
regularly rated. They quashed the information.
w-sfitesr.—Yesterday, Abraham reds Bremen
was brought to the Office, and underwent another
examination before lticitann BIRNIE, Esq. when he
was admitted to bail, himself in £lOO, and two sure-
ties in £5O each, for his appearance at the next West-
minszer Sessions.
MA RI.BOROUGH•STIMET.—Yesterday, J. Hayward
was charged with breaking into the house of Mr.
Griffiths, an oilman, in Bell-street, Paddington, and
stealing a quantity of linen, ate. The prisoner, and
three. others (not yet taken), effected an entrance by
a ladder placed.agninst the wail at the back of the
house ; and they escaped with the property at the
time; but a constable secured the prisoner, front in-
formation he had received, and liis person wasiden;.
tilted.-Itetitanded.
• .UNioN-HALL.—Yesterday, a'persdn of the name
of Miller was brought up by the constables of St. Sa-
viour's, charged with leaving a woman with whom
he cohabited, and a child, to become buttliensome
the Parish. The Magistrate thought the severest'
punish Merit won fir be to order him forthwith to
marry the Woman. It Was no sooner said, than donei
The prisonerwas. taken to the church; the woman
was ready and willing; the Curate was brought, and
the knot, was tied. The constables applied soon
after, for the. Magistrates to sign hii discharge, u,
they were not inclined to punish him any further!
TOWN HALL, SOUTHWARK.-.-.W. J. liankills was
brought up, yesterday, for re-examination, charged-
by Mr. Field, auctioneer, in the Borough High-street,
with a fraud. A few days ago, the prisoner called
at Mr. Field's house, and presented an inventory of
a lot of futaiture, about which the prisoner said, two
brokers (whom he named) having disagreed as to
price, a third appraiser was to be called in ; they had
agreed on him (the ;prosecutor) for that purpose.—
As the practice is a very common one in the trade,
he -had not the least suspicion ; but presented the
prisoner with Ss.6d. the usual fee in such cases, andl
repaired to the place, when he discovered that there
bad been no sale, and that the whole was an impo-
sition. Mr. Wick, auctioneer, of King-street, undl
Mr. Cockerell, of High-street, preferred similar
charges against the prisoner ; and, it was added,
that about one hundred brokers had been defrauded
in a similar way ; thirty of whom had been, in one
day, sent to Streatham, a distance of eight or nine
miles, upon one and the same business. On the first'
examination, the prisoner attributed his conduct to
the misery and want to which his wife and family
were reduced ; which being found correct, the pro-,
secution was abandoned, on condition that the pri-
soner would make, in the shape of an affidavit, a full
disclosure of something whiCh he had hinted at, on,
a former day. He then confessed that a man, named
T. White, whom he knew as a pauper in St. Giles's
Workhouse, had put him up to this mode of obtain-
ing money ; that White had confessed having, whilst
porter to an auctioneer, in the City, obtained consi-
derable sums of money by this means. His confes-,
sien was taken down, and the prosecutors declared,'
that they would cause copies of it to be distributed
amongst the trade; and, at their request, the mise-
rable delinquent was discharged.
Francis Whitby was fully committed, charged with
uttering a forged one pound note, to Messrs. Brock-
sop, grocers, in theßotough. When he was searched,
a counterfeit £lOO note, and some of £l, were found
in his pocket-book, besides several bills pf exchange,
'some for Cl® and upwards, and more than sufficient
silver to pay for the articles he wanted to purchase. .

DUMOVRIZit, the once celebrated French Repnbli-
.can Peneral, new in the 80th year of his age, is at
this time. in LOnden. This veteran, in the course of
bit numerous campaigns, has bee% wounded at least
twenty times.