Star.
London, England, 1804-09-01 00:00:00

tisoCrENt DEMURS'.

AUGUST 3o.—This bcwg i..e day appointed to try
Le unfits of the objeCtions made yelterday to the
lirchatge of certain prifoners_under the Infolvent
Debtors Ad, the Court fat about eleven o'clock, be-
fore the RECOIL:0114 Mr. Sheriff Shaw, Mr. Alder-
man Bovolt.t, and two other Aldermen.

CASES UNDER THE ACT.
Mr. ALLIT applied to the Court that the Warden
of the Fleet Prifon might amend his return, fo far
as it refneeted the ieveral perfuns who had gone nut
of the Rults of the fleet fince the first of January
haft : He grounded his application upon the firfi and
fourth claufes of the piefent AO, and contended,
that although the perfuns in civet:ion had gone out
f the Rules, yet, as they again returned, and were
la seed enbody, they came wishir. the meaning of
the Act, and were entitled to the benefit of it. The
Learned Connfel very ably fupported hit application
by a number of arguments. He Rated, that during
term a prifuner might go too yard► ftam the pri-
fno, padded he returned within doe time • that as
lost at the Warden had the comma! over; pri.
IkeloVi' be came within the A. 9, and alfo, that an ac-
tion icitgi Mit be maintained againli the Warden, if
•thebilferiddht previuo(ly returned into his euflody.
He dolt tusk largely into the nature and meaning
Of voinetafy and negligent efcapes ; and concluded,
that se the Warden had received detainers againti
Oat `Oribufk perfonefor whom he was Connie!,
tie. Mb. 'entwine Lindfay, fince Armory lad, he
eteretr_eeksowledged him to be is his aBeal euf-
tody."Uptin there grounds he fubmitted that the per.
fon in Anellios was entitled to the benefit Glebe AR.
The RICORDIa übferved, that there never was a
cheater cafe than the one before the. Court. The
it=tion was, that the Walden might amend his
et-she perfens who bad gone out of the'littles
Eibilt•Fleet. He moll properly had applied on the
'Pall* far * direßion of the Court relative to bit
the, oath I and be obferved on that occahuol
asibit bad dose on a former, that from the general
character sad conduit of that gentleman. be was
gal esslisned be would do nothing but with the
rem* 'eq. The perfons now applying. af-
lib the law, had the audacity to Rate
Miliger were entitled to the benefit of the Aa. be-
sigh ibey had returned within the Ai. .Thar
Illipilidlopeis met fallacious grounds indeed.: nei-
Vat %by Wans; nor the pylons applying. could
)11gretie oath Pedinilemi by the Aft of ?iiimest.
oniiii•set•A'grAbaLdlifetteifilOi WWI
adaal'Oeffinely at Nte id of his •lespatiedge.
aid bdifsfs if air al di bid been lets
isSighliosotedistsly to be peokented fur wilful most
corrupt perkier. Me gerefore tel• hirafelf judified.
In the judgment-be pectuounead ysilerday, that the'
Several parrots in supsfiipa did not cpme within the
sheasinj of the' Mt._
The •liikhitfge. of Daniel Blake and William
• -.4ealbe Prighlitie is sal to , Rerun. and Lae pars.
leers wss oppacd os the grounds of fraud, as they
4besag &smokers) had not bated in their khedule
got ;bay had any affeße whatever, although they bad
'obtained a quantity of goods front their ei editors.
it appeared, however„ that they aftually had no
itsperty whatever. and had been made bankrupt.,
fati patted their third eig/MillatiNl. They therefore

awe difcbarged.
. pesion-appeatios 'taint} William Baker, from
-dot fame Okra he :was acvrdingly difeharted. . •
The cafes of Thomas Mofs and Robert Steam%
-from Giltfpur greet Contra., upon applicator, us cr
-pon paned until theism commilgon.
Colonel Nicholas Bokawen, a Oconee from the''
Fleet. had been remanded yelterday, his debts ap-'
pairing to amount to more than the Aft of Puha-
Joint prefetibes. Mr. Cnssr, as Counfel for the
pagan. ofsferved that he had been charged with the
rpearly of the bond. indeed of the peincipa. ; but
be had procured a judge's order for the reduction
of
the debt. Me. 'ison, the Warden of the Fleet,
Waved, that the order was incorree, in as much
as it direeed him to amend the return of a halloo
septa. which was nut in his cußody. The Court,
therefore. was under the peedfity of remanding the
..ptifoner until the,neat ftffions, by which time the
oafish was to be 'citified. This delay was much
regretted, as the Colonel wa. wanting at head
quarters, where he held a very imretant command
ander &metal-Moore, and-bpd frequently been en-
al after he the Duke of Yost.
"Dramas Maw's discharge was oppofed by Mr.
Goitre, on the pat t of Mr. Slits, one of his credi-
tors, On the grounds of (rand. He Rated, that Mr.
Stec had a property to diffore of, which the pri-
toner propofed to pinch:de, telling him he had a
large rum of money in the Bank of Leland, belong.
ii to hienfelf, blit lodged in his mother's name ;
npon this reptefentsiliors he agreed to take the pri-
foner's bills on bankers in Cork fur the property he
bad to difpnfe of, and, in the mean time, direeed
his filler to caution the bankers not to pay the bills.
The Rscrutose obferved, a difbeulty appeared to
him in the money being lodged in the Bank in ants.
titer name, and documents to that purport had been
Iheon to the creditor.
Mr. Atter,- on the part of the prisoner, Rated,
that an award bad been made by Mr. BerJeant Ose-
Low, to whom the Matter had been refetred, and he
had &reeled that thoilt due UnltUti &Mild be given up
to the panner. •
Two perk*. Mr. and Mrs. Runt, were produced
to prove his exprtflions relative to his property, and
his declarations relative to his credit:ars ; silo, of his
having two gold swatches, which he did DOt accoant
for in his fchedule. There vitro. tie, not Ling able
to (wear fufficieotly to the fat., the pfifoner was
ditcharged.
Andrew Litman Phillips was brought up, but ob.
kited to on the ground of fraud.
Mr. Cosor Rated, that the prifoner was a taylor,
and had obtained credit lot cloth to a great amount
from a Mr. Peactidc, tio, n a itret• nor that the cloth
had been ordered by Several different perfon.. Irene
of whom were Mr. Peacrick's own
inquiry it was found that no rfuch orders had been
given by the Gentlemen whore statues the prifoner
had uteri. It was .t:r. allcdri that the prifoner had
other debts u! cir he never It of mentioned. The
R cot or Lit. be len anded, and brought
Up Aysiitt on 15 c 4•T
A man the t aQrc of lilii:lirreld was brnntht up,
_ claitMtlu the Innefl... nt the Afr, upuu the grvonde

that he wai, on the tft of January. in the cußoay or
the Sheriff's Offset, though not in the cuitody of

the Warden.
The Court was of opinion that this was not frit.
dent, but fuggefied the propriety of an application
to a Judge, and ordered him to be brought up on the
adjourned day.
The liberation of Mr. Buibby was oppofed on a
clank in the A& of Parliament. The datili declared,
that any prifoner returning a falfe fchedule of his ef-
feBs (horrid be deprived of the benefit of the A& It
turned out, however, from the teilimony of a Mr.
Banks, that the prifoner made an all gnmenr in his
favour. That his property was fold, and that it pro-
duced no more than 1761. Mr. Banks applied all'
this fum, excepting about 501. in liquidating certain
debts, and the creditors would not accept of a divi•
dend of the soh remaining. Mr. Banks paid it to the
prifoner in (mall fums, and paid, betides, all the ex.
pences of a fix weeks allnefs the prifoner fulkained by
a putrid fever.
The prifoner was immediately difcha►ged.
Frederick Farmer, an attorney, was brought front
the fame prifon at the fait of a Mr. Hill, and oppor-
ed, for having gqt from Mr. Hill a turn of mono/
under falfe pretences, viz. that of granting him an
annuity on rin Aare, which, was already mortgaged.
He was itolarYtliil.

Mawr ass eitutwort.
This Lady was ow Weinefday brought from the
Fleet prifon m be difcharged; but her liberation
being oppnfed, the confideration ..of the objciftions
was referred for yelterday.
Mr. KNAPP, as Coonfel for this lady, obferved,
that it was impotfible any obleigion coals! be made
to Inch A perfOn i however, Mr. Cutworm •
to. her thfclim, spot two grettnds ; the ig ‘v,
upm the 3 ition of the",prefent Aft, Ali 'esi-
Ad, that` tle PilPmer who bsid taken the be of
the Lords' Ae, and had made a &fib oath, could
be entitled to the benefit ed. this AB. The other
grounds were, durt IN Unities:lle up under the name
of Mari. Douglas. and had made a previous affidavit
ia another name.
As to the fittl, he would prove that The had been
brought up ender she Lords'All, and gave ins retie-
dule, wherein- the hated the had no property, and
(wore to it ; this oath was WIC, is as much as the
bad property.
As to the fecund, he would prove that the had (Worn
au affidavit en a former oceallon in the name of Ma-
tia Minkwitz, wife of Jahn Baron Minkwitz.
Mr. Bithop, sit attorney, bets fwPrn, produced
the copy of an affidavit fivonsby the prifoner' where-
'in the fired her twos *Tic .alinkilitZ aile;all-13
Rated, that the Riled herW garhiefaMikwiss,lciff
of John Baron Minkwite, and be had heard• her de
clare that (he was entitled.to an ethic in None*
of the value vf 4,004 . 1
• 1
Mr. AGAR, on the part ofartother creditor, .7./%1
teeth Hay, gentlewomen, ,wluisi be declared he
not boner whether the was maid, wife, or widow,
objefled to the prifouer's enlargement on the grounds
of Ergot!, baring truster ra pretences obtained fur-
niture, As it *RTC, upon hire, and afterwards pawn.
ed them ; the pretences were, that the had this ef.
tate, and was about t., fell it, and pay all her debu,
but the never did either; and upon this pretence the
obtained credit.
Mr. Knee?, on the part of the prifoner, Gaud, the
was arreiled under the name c., Akia liaollar. and.
therefore advertifed in the fame, that the creditors
Might notice the application, and give the oppolitioa,
be thought proper.
Itsc,mnsa—o This objeftion is fufficient. She
ought to have *dyer iifed as Maria Douglas, afro Ba-
rone*. Minkwitz. She may renew her advertifements
in this form, and by the explanations given, the will
be preparet to anfwer the further reafons for oppo.
fing her difcharge."—Remanded.—She is a very
geotea lookios woman, elegantly dreffed in black
filk, black glai. buttons on her &polders, and up her
Cures, suit is altogether a very defiling figure.