Star.
London, England, 1819-07-23 00:00:00

CARTER AND ANOTIIER V. ANDERSON.

I,

?his vas an action of trpvcr by she assignees of a
bankrupt, named William Carter, to recover eight
dozen of claret, which the defendant was alleged to
have unlawfully converted to his own use.

The case proved by the plaintiff's witnesses was in
s'ibstance this :—The plaintiff Carter was the brother-
in .law, and Christmas, the other plaintiff; was an
intimate friend of the bankrupt, who was originally
reared a ca renter, but had afterwards- married a
rich widow from The West Indies, named Anderson,
the mother ;1 the defendant, a young man just of
oge. The bankrupt, after his marriage, kept a town
house, in Charlotte. street, Fitzroy-square, and a coon-
tor house at Brackley, near Stevenage, in this county,
where tae defendant and his brothel Joseph were
}weight up, under the care of their father-in-law.
In the Year 1812 the bankrupt entered into a deed
of eo-partnership with a philosophical and mathe-
m'aticil instrument-maker, named Jones, carrying on
,b4siness, first in Duke-street, Portman-square, and lat-
terly at Charing-cress ; and also had obtained a patent
fo'r an instrument called a Scstograph. For about
five years the bankrupt contl7...tcd in this partnership,
anctuf.the year 1817, becoming insohretsz, a commis-
stoilwat taken out against him, which was supported
by tie tiadi se thus described, an act of bankruptcy
by his absconding to France,. and a petitioning cre-
ditor'i debt cor.tracted with ccsal-merchants in this
town to the. amount of £125. After the messenger
u.'adiii:the Commission was in possession of the.bank-
rulici;amistry-house, the wine in question was taken
po&•sg of by the dcfendAnt, unknown to the mes-
se'iger, and afterv-al-ds removed for sale to the rooms
of an auctioneer, in London. Under these circum-
stances the present action was brought.
Mr. Abotrnva, in his address to the Jury, sug-
gaited, that the commission against the bankrupt
V. 46 a friendly one, remarking upon the. singular cit.,
• cuiriStance, that one of his assignees was his brother-
in-law, and the other an intimate friend; the object
or Use, action, lie contended, being, not to try. the
paltirriOt to eight dozen of claret, but to evade an
into the manner in which property to the
apicauit 0f 100,0001. to which the defendant was en-
titlc4.an the death of his mother, was disposed of.-7
'The Learned Counsel, however, called no witnesses.
The Jury, under the Learned Judge's directions,
f 94.144 for the plaintiffs—Damages, Sig.

About nine o'clock last Saturday night, Mr. Gatty,
of East-street, lied Lion-square, was returning home
from spending the afternoon at a friend's house, whelk
v:ithin a short distance from his own house four men
attacked him. One of them knocked him down, and
the others then rifled his pockets or a I'ew shilliap
aiiikbis watch, with which they escaped.
A few sights ago, the house of Mr. Burmese. it
NOrwbod, was entered by a gang of thieves, wise
gained admission by placing a ladder against the
4awintroom window, and cutting out one of the
vitiates of glass, by which means they could easily
loosen the sash fastening. It is supposed there were
five in the whole, as they drank several bottle:, ot,
wine, aild had taken five clean glasses off the_side-
board. Between twelve and one o'clock on the mor- ,
ning of the robbery, four or five well-dressed pawns
were seen about the neighbourhood, but looking like
respectable men, their appearance excited no suspi-
cion. The thieves, after enjoying themselves a length
at time on the premises, decamped with a quantity
off' plate, cash, wearing-apparel, &c.
Vednesday se'nnight, as Captain GARDINER was
bathing at Maryport, he got out 'of his depth, and
was Unfortunately drowned. His body was not found
till 'lite the "same evening. • Captain ASHBRIDOE,
VN) was in eieelpany with him, nearly shared the
same. fate.
ifiisteidef Xining, bet seen four and five o'clock,
alarming. Are broke out in the house of Mr. Ben-
the eight mile stone, Walthamstow, which
consumed the same, besides damaging the
houies: •

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