Star.
London, England, 1827-09-28 00:00:00

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Stn. 27.

RVE E.-IN THE MATTER OF TOMEI'.
Mr. Pouocx :hewed cause against a rale Nisi, ob-
tained on a former day by Mr. Heath, for the creditors
of the abovenamed insolvent to stew cause why he
should not be allowed to file his Petition, he having
neglected to do so within the time prescribed by Act
of Parliament. The Learned Gentleman founded his
opposition to the circumstance of the insolvent having
contracted a debt fraudulently with Mr. Pontet, a to-
bacconist in Pall-Mall, since he (insolvent) was com-
mitted to prison.
Several letters written by the insolvent were then
read, which excited considerable mirth. They purported
Ito come from Mitcham, and bore the several dates of
March 12 and 16, April 17, and lastly, the sth of May.
'The first letter contained an order for some prime Ha-
mynah cigars, as several friends of his were great
smokers—(Laughter). The insolvent also-wanted his
jar filled with Prince's Mixture. Another letter con-
tained an urgent request for another case of cigars, and
a pound of prime Martinique•—(Laughter).
The last letter was dated on the sth of •May. and
contained a further order for a pound of Martinique,
and stating that the last cigars did not draw twill (A
laugh), promising at the same time to come to town in
the following week,when he would discharge his account.
Not content, said Mr. PoLtoca, with bestowing his
favours upon his clients while at large, be at length
sent another order after he got into prison, stating that
he wanted some Prince's Mixture, observing that he
coils( not live without satthr—(Loud laughter).
The Learned Counsel thought that this was the first
time that a rule had been opposed on account of a debt
being fraudulently contracted after the imprisonment
of the petitioning patty.
Mr. POLLOCK concluded a bumourous address, by
stating it as his opinion, tbat if the fact to which he bad
alluded had been stated in the affidavit upon which the
rule was obtained, it would not have been granted.
Mr. Commissioner LAW said, that if it had been
proved that the insolvent had obtained the snuffs and
cigars for the purpose of recruiting his purse by the
sale of the articles, there would have been some reasons
why the rale should be effectively opposed; but it ap;
peared that the insolvent had one of the articles for his
own use, and which he seemed to consider essential to
hie existence under these circumstances, therefore, he
should pronounce the rule absolute.

Mr. HEATH said it was rather ungracious on the part
of his Learned Friend's client to oppose so good a
snuff-taker.

Lionel Prager Goldstniki was brought up on bit final

Some obser►ations arose between the Court and Bar,
relati►e to the appointment of an assignee. Ultimately,
howe►er, Mr. Heusm.in, a creditor to a large amount,
was appointed.
Mr. HEATH stated, that when a litigated claim at
present in the Court of Chancery would be decided, the
creditors might be morally certain et, reciiving 20s. in
the pound, and a considerable surplus would also re►ert
to the insolvent.

The insolvent will be discharged as soon as his no,
'ices of service have been proved to be completed, as
the opposition raised against him on a former day had
completely faded.

MIDDLESEX ADJOURNED SESSIONS, Scpr.27.

Robert Ward Ward and Chas. Rarrett, two lads apparently
from 15 to 17 years of age, were indicted for asoulting
(in conjunction with a young man named Haggart,)
Eliza Rebecca 'Harris, with s felonious intent.

Messrs. ADOLPHUS and PHILLIPS conducted the pro-
ecution, and Mr. PRENDERGAST the defence. Elaggart
was tried and found .guilty at the commencement of
the Sessions; and the facts were then reported in detail.
It is now, thettfore, only necessary to repe.it, that as
the rosecutria, a very young gui, but of matured per-
son, and her cous;n, Sophia Williams, still younger,
were taking a walk at Tottenham, on the Sd of August
last, they passed three bovs, who were sitting on a dung
heap in Down-lane. Going through a corn field shortly

afterwards, they were pursued by the boys, ere of
whom (Haggett) thtew the prosecutii: down, and used
indecent violence towards her, while the other two (the
defendants) encouraged him to proceed in his °lmage-I
ous condoct. In the mean time the cousin ran 1..
assistance, and returned with two men, at sight of whom
the defendants made off.
For the defence it was contended, that the defendants
could not have been aware of the nature of the assault
perpetrated by Haggart ; and witnesses were called,
who gave them and Haggai t a good character.
The Jury found both defendants Guilty, and
The CaIaIORMAN sentenced them to two months soli-
tary imprisonment each; and Haggart to 12 months'
herd labour in the House of Correction.

THE KL•4O I. NEWELL AND OTHERS.

Mr. PKU.LIPI moved the Court that the defendants,
who were indicted for keeping a gambling house, be
required to put in extraordinary bail, and give 24 hours
notice to the prosecutor. The latter, he said, was a
person who had really been ruined bj the defendants.
The Learned Counsel's motion was grounded on an
affidavit, stating that the defendants bad threatened to
leave the country, and to have recourse to every means
which money afforded to ruin the prosecutor, if be per-
sisted in this prosecution.
The CHAIRMAN said be could not grant all that was
asked by this motion, but the• Court would grant a
Bench warrant. and require 24 hours' notice of bail.

Thomas Ford, William Herkrt, and Jobs Ovary,
were indicted for a riot and assault.

Mr. A tam. having stated the facts to the Jury, called
witnesses, who swore 'that on the day in question there
was a cricket match at Hillingdon, and two men, Ft:rd
and another, having quarrelled on the ground, pro-
ceeded to decide the dispute by a-boxing match. Some
of the inhabitants, horsier, procured the interference of
the constables, who prevented the men from fighting
on the cricket ground: In a short time afterwards the
Dean of Carlisle dispatched the officers to a field of his,
to which the combatants had adjourned, and in which
they were then actually engaged with each other, with
orders to put an end to the contest. But upon their
interfering for that purpose, they were knocked down
and severely ill treated by the mob. One of the officers,
however, the headboroogh of the parish, admitted that
he had bad a round or two himself. with Ford.

Mr. BODKIN, for the defendants, contended that the
officers, and not his clients, were the pasties who were
in fault. They had no right to interfere and molest
people who were amusing themselves, merely because
two men who bad quarrelled chose to decide their dis-
pute by that fairomanly, national mode of deciding a
quarrel, which he trusted would never be discounte-
nanced in England, and which, he was happy to say,
had received the sanction of one of the first authorities
in the land. After some further observations, the
Learned Counsel called witnesses, who swore that the
officers had abused their authority, and one of them
struck a woman with a child in her arms. _

I The officer in question contradicted this fact.
Mr. Atte:, in his reply, insisted that the high au-
thority alluded to by his Learned Friend must have
been misrepresented, when he was stated to have sane;
tioned the practice of boxing. All be meant to say was,
that it was a mode of deciding a quarrel infinitely less
reprehensible than where the use of deadly weapons was
resorted to, as was the case on the Continent. But al.
though not so bad as others, still it was not justifiable
in itself.

The Jury acquitted iferbert, and found the other de-
fendants Guilty.
The CHAIRMAN sentenced Ford to four and Avory to
three months' hard labour in the House of Correction.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

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MANSION HOUSE.

Yesterday a seafaring man, named lrestmedg, was brought before
the Loan Maros and Alderman Ammer, charged by a tide-waiter
with having smuggled some Dutch tobacco-pipes. The penalty
king enormous, the defendant was trembling in his shoes, well
►nowing that the Excise would give him no quarter.
The tide-waiter produced a sample of the pipes, and stated that
he believed them to be part of the parcel which had been smuggled.
Alderman Amer asked whether there were not pipes made in
this country resembling those which were now producid ?
The answer to this was, that there were; but those pipes ap-
peared to be of Dutch make.
The Loan Maros asked whether any one war present who meld
swear that the pipes were Dutch ?
To this question there was nn answer, and his Lordship said that
the information mest be quashed.
The information was then, to the surprise and joy of the des
fendant, who expected nothing less than Ave years' servitude la the
Navy. dismissed.

GUILDHALL.
Mu Gilbert, a blacksmith, was placed at the bar, charged with
committing a dreadful 'gist& and battery on the countenance of
an unfortunate street-walker.

A watchman stated, that hearing the most dreadful cries of mur-
der in the Old Bailey, about one o'clock the night before, be ran
to the place and saw a woman lying on her back in the street, and
the prisoner over her with a platen in kis hand striking her on the
head and face as if he meant to destroy her. There was another
woman near the place, but see ran off as the watchman came up.
$s took both the man and the woman into custody.
The woman was placed at the bar with the man, and her face
/resented a horrible appearance, nor was the male jurisoner's by
any means free from the marks of conflict.
The male prisoner being asked by the Alderman, how be could
behave so brutally to a woman, said, he would toll his Worship all
about it, and then he would
.know the teason-..As he was going
home through. the d _Wiley, about one o'clock, two females came
up to him, yet oPeffeffwmake very free; they took him, one by
each arm, but or didn't much mind that; they bad not walk.id many
yards, however, when one of them put her hand in bis pocket; he
couldn't stand that, so he gave her a back-handed dap in the face;
she made no more to do but pulled off both ben pattenss and began
to strike on bit face and bead as he would en an anvil ; he couldn't
stand that long, or he would not have an eye in his bead, nor a bead
on his shouldsrs; so he knocked her down; and got one of the
patteul out of her hand, and was just giving her a taste of it io re.
turn, for what she had given him, when the watchman came up. I
The female prisoner said, it was her companion that put her
band in the male prisoner's pocket, and then he struck her, who
had done nothing. _

The male prisoner denied this, mid said it was his companion at
the bar that he felt handling his pocket ; the ether alight have done
it too, for he believed they were chips of the same block.
The manlier of this prisoner's nuking bis statement, and the ges-
ticulation with which it wan accompanied, kept the auditory in am-
dnual laughter.

The Alderman observed, that supposing both the prisoners to
be in fault, they had certainly been sufficiently punished, and dis-
charged thew.

BOW-STREET.

A Teri aged man, dressed In the costume of the fact century, was
yesterday brought before.n. IL Pilimsnot.t, Esq. the Sitting Magis-
trate, charged with hawking lace without being duly licensed, as
required by an Act of Parliament, commonly called the Hawkers'
Act.—An inspector oPillawkers* Licences deposed to hawing fol-
lowed the old man into upwards of SO fancy shops at the west end of
the town that morning, and to having heard hint ask in each if any
lace were wanted. Ile did not see him *ell any however.
The old man, whose age Is e 2, declared, in a strong provincial
accent, that he Was perfectly unconscious of having acted contrary to
law. He was a regularly
.liceused manufacturer of lace, anti he
always understood that the selling British manufacture by whole-
sale to retail dealers was sanctioned by Act of Parliament.
Mr. Munro t.t. concurred its this opinion', end asked the old man
whets his snasiotaetur y was aitnate WoUcnbureugh in Noills-