Star.
London, England, 1821-11-05 00:00:00

DISSOLUTIONS OF PARTNERSHIPS.

Copley and Hirst, Doncaster, imn-founders. Trollop and
James, St. Georges in the East, sugar-refiners. Crow and
Hirst, Bolton-le-3loors, tailors. Thos. and John Hackshaw,
Great Marlow, saddlers. Wilson and Co. Nottingham. Knight
and Blamires, Horton, Yorkshire, worsted-manufacturers.—

Waller and t'eckover, Bristol, silk-mercers. Hill and Lovell,
New Bond-street, brush-makers. Donkin and Gamble, Blue
Anchor-road, Bermondsey, patent preserved-provbdommer-
chants. Smith and Woolcombe, Commercial-place, Comma-
cial-ru.td, provision-merchants. Elliott and P.dsgt.tve, Lyon's
Inn, navy-agents. Cockle and Chapman, Kirton, Suffolk, sur-
geons. Robertson and Pryer, hood-lace► dryealters.

PRICE SE‘•EN-PRNur.

HOWARD AND GIBBS'S BANKRUPTVZ

Saturday being the day appointed for the nomi-
nation of Assignees to the Estate of Howard and
Gibbs, the Court of Common Pleas, Guildhall, where
the Commissioners sat, was crowded before one o'clock.
A creditor named Vest ipplkd to prove a debt of
'1:390 upon a bill which he cashed for Mr. Taylor,
of Pall-Mall, who said he wanted the money for a
Gentleman named Primrose. Mr. West stated, that
having money lying by him, which he had obtained
from his uncle to set himself up in business, he div.
counted the bill, considering it to be a good one, and
wishing to have interest for money which he was
not then using in business.
Mr. MONTAGUE inquired where this Mr. Taylor
lived ? Mr. West replied that he resided in Pall-Mall.
Mr. MONTAGUE.--. 15 not his house called Heaven?
Mr. West.—l do not know what it is called.
He then underwent an examination from Alr.Tas-
BECK, the chief Commissioner, in the course of which
he declared that there was no gambling transaction
connected with the bill on which he proved, and that
he should have sooner, come forward to prove as a
creditor upon this estate, had he not been out of town
during the former meetings:
Mr. MONTAGUE next appeared in behalf of Mr.
Chaplin, who claimed a debt of £2BO.
Messrs. TRESLOVE and F. POLLOCK contended,
that from what had transpired on a former day on
the subject of this claim, there was reason to connect
a usurious contract with the transaction, which ren-
dered it impossible to admit the present proof of debt.
Mr. MONTAGUE, for the claimant; said the settled
law was, that if any usurious transaction had taken
place, and the money were paid, there was no action,
nor any Court in which the excess of interest, or, in
other words, the usurious dealings could be de-
stroyed, and the money recovered back. When the
money was paid, the time for recovering it back was
at an end. Besides, in the present case the claim was
on an account quite distinct from any previous one;
and although there might have been usuriousness in
a former account, yet such usuriousness had nothing
whatever to do with a fresh account, the fornier being
altogether closed. When an account was thus set-
tied, the Commissioners could not open or look into
.it. The first account was settled at the end of 1819,
and the claim now made was in consequence of a
new transaction taking place in the end of the year
1820. On these grounds he thought the claim, being
as it was on a bill of exchange, could not he rejected.
Mr. TRESLOVE, in reply, observed, that he was ra-
ther unprepared to argue so grave a question upon
the instant, but contended that nothing was urged by
Mr. Montague to support the claim.
Mr. TKEBECK was anxious for time to consider this
question, because he was rather of opinion that they
could not give a satisfactory opinion without more
information.

The Commissioners then decided that the claim
should stand over.

Mr. TRESLOVE requested to know whether the
Commissioners were now ready to pronounce their
adjudication in the case of Mr. Grinstead, whose
claim had already undergone much investigation.
After a long conversation between Counsel and the
Commissioners, Mr. TREBECK said, that they could
not allow the claimant to prove upon such evidence
as that which had been submitted to them.

Several unopposed claims were then admitted,
and the parties qualified to vote for the appointment
of assignees.
The regular lists were then prepared for taking the
votes of creditors in the appointment of assignees ;
but Captain Havilock, who is a creditor to a large
amount, declined signing till he saw the progress of
the voting. After waiting above an hour for that
purpose, he still remained undecided, and intimated
his intention not to sign either list then, hot to re-
main neuter between the two large bodies of creditors.
This determination of Captain Havilock was re-
ceived with loud demonstrations of satisfaction
among the crowd.
After the lists were closed and handed up to the
Commissioners, they were declared as follows:
For the appointment of Messrs. Carroll, Duff, and
Wilkie, to be assignees, creditors to the amount of
El 7,738. 1 ls. 30. voted
For Messrs. Shaw and Pearson, the voting creditors
amounted to £17,324. 14s. 3d.
Messrs. Carroll, Duff, and Wilkie, were accord.
ingly chosen assignees.
An application was then made to the Court, that
Captain Havilock should have permission to sign,
but this was refused by the Commissioners, mho ob-
served that it was too late for the Captain now to
declare a change of his determination. It was, how-
ever, still open to him to apply to another Court.
Some demonstrations if satisfaction were again
expressed, and censuied by the Commissioners as im-
proper and indecent on such an occasion.
The Commissioners then adjcurned.

The amount of sterling money to be invested by
tie Commissioners for the reduction of the National
Debt for the Quarter, from ale 11th October, 1821
to the sth January, 1822, is £1,131,527 ss.

S iturday last, Mr. OLIVER KIRBY, Stock-broker,
of Finch-lane, Coynhill, was brought up to Hatton-
garden Office, on a warrant, by Limbrick and Thisel.
ton, charged by Mr. FRANCIS ItENY LE ESTRANGE,
a Surgeon, of Euston.square, with having sent him
a challenge, exciting him to fight a duel. The was-
rant upon which the defendant had' been apprehended,
was backed by the LORD MAYOR, on account of the
defendant's residing in the city, although the offence
was committed in the county. Oa the pHs: ner be-
ing placed at the bar, the challenge was handed to
the Magistrate, and the poisoner admitted it to be his
hand-writing. The Magistrate then ordered him to
enter into recognizauces, himself in £lOO, and two
sureties in £5O each, to keep the peace towards the
complainant, which being dune, be uas discharged.

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GuNeovoart rum—Holiday at the Bank.

Accounts have been received at LLOYD'S this fore-
noon of an unsuccessful attempt made, about the end
of September, by some native troops, to affect a Re-
volution at Pernambuco. His Majesty's ship DORIS,
which arrived there on the 21st, had been solicited
by the British merchants to remain there, for the pro-
tection of our trading interests.

Two accounts, of a very opposite character, are
given in the Papers of this morning, respecting the
state of the cue-lion between Russia and Turkey.
The Times, quoting a Sunday Paper, says:—" At a
late hour on Saturday we received the important
intelligence, from a quarter which gives us the utmost
cogfidence in its correctness, that a dispatch has ar-
rived from St. Petetsburgh, with information that an
Ambassador has been appointed to Constantinople, as
the successor to 13ar on STROGONOFF. On this point, it
is w ell known, depended the only doubt that remained
of the perfect recoaci:iation of Russia and the Porte,
and the last pledge, therefore, may be understood to
be given, that the tranquillity of Europe will be
maintained. We hive not learned the name of the
new Minister, but do not consider the intelligen:e on
that account as the less certain."—The Alaruivg
Chronicle, on the cunt; ary, says, in terms quite as posi•
five, Recentadvices of drehii:hest authority, although
of a confidential nature, received at the chose of last
week from St. Petersburgh, announc-. that notwith-
standing the colouring given to tin ney,ociations car-
rying on, the war between Russia aofd ur•key is inevit-
able, and this conclusion is supp(,rie., li) the opinion
.of a Gentleman who left the apital sixteen
days ago. The greatest care has been taken to dis-
guise the real intentions of the EMPEROR, so as to
make the professions he has so repeatedly uttered to
the States of Europe hide the secret policy by
which his Councils are actuated; but his journey to
the head-quay ters of his army, the great stir in the
War Department, the extensive preparations made,
and, above all, the state of public opinion in Rus-
sia, warrant the conclusion that it is no longer in
the power of the EMPEROR himself to stop the
enterprise in view, thus frustrate the hopes of his
army and people, and foil plans which have been
forming at an immense expense, and maturing for
years, when so favourable an opportunity offers.—
Nay, in St. Petersburgh, the doctrine is very openly
avowed at the present moment, that if the Emperor,
by listening to the remonstrances of his Continental
Allies, were to give up the project in question, he
could not return to his capital without the-clanger of
his life, so strong and determined is the party in fa-
vour of a war against Turkey, even among the mem-
bers of his own family, and experience has told us
how these matters are often settled in such a country

as Russia."
Which of these equally authoritative statements is the
correct one, a very few days w ill prnhably develope. In
the meantime, we have to obso.rve, that the whole of
the foreign intelligence which we have received to-
day is strongly in favour of ;he autheilicity of the
statement put forth by the Morning Chronicle, and
inclines us to suspect that the extreme seasonableness
of peaceful news to the speculators for a rise in our.
Funds, may have had some share in the appoint-
ment of a successor to Baron STROGONOFF.
A private letter from Augsburg, of the 26th Oc-
tober, says, " The Porte's preparations for war as-
sume a serious character. Asiatic troops arrive in

great numbers in Moldavia and Wallachia. o:her
corps equally numerous are in march for the same
de:tin...thin. As soon as they arrive from Constan-
tinople, they are made to continue their route to-
wards the left bank of the Danube. There is thus
no longer, as pretended, any question about eva-
cuating the two Principalities, for the principal Ot-
toman forces which arrive successively in Europe, in
place of directing themselves against the Greeks, as
was at first the priject of the Divan, are all advanced
by forced marches upon the Danube. It seems from
all this that the Grand Seignior believes it necessary
to present an imposing attitude against any attempt
at invasion on the part of Russia."
An article from Frankfort of the 26th of October,
is equally warlike:—" The Porte," it says, " make
great iridium, preparations. The troops in Moldavia
and Wallachia are continually receiving reinforce-
ments, and their Chiefs breathe nothing but war—
the Janissaries especially, are animated with the most
ardent enthusiasm."
Another fact which. we meet with under the head
of Nuremberg, 25th of October, sheers that the dis-
trust of Russia is on a par with that of Tar key.-
44 The members (it is said) of the Russian agency in
Wallachia, who, after the pillage of the hotel of the
Russian Consulate at Bucharest, had been received
into the hotel of the Austrian Consul in the same
city, have set out for Transylvania, according
to orders received from Petersburgh. They have
already arrived at Cronstadt, without having been
molested by the Turks."
In other advices from the Continent, great stress
is put on the sudden visit of Prince Mwrrearcten to
Hanover, and on the manner in which Russia seems
to keep aloof from the conferences of its two august

Allies, Austria and Britain. It is inferred from these
circumstances, that as the views of the two latter
Powers can be no other than pacific, those of the
Emperor ALEXANDER tr,lSt necessarily be the reverse.

The Paris Papers of Thursday art ived this forenoon.
Those of Wednesday and Friday are still due.
The litso has issued an Ordinance declaring that
the facts imputed to Lieutenant-General Count BLit-
TRAND ate comprised in the Amnesty accorded by
the Law of the 12th January, 1816, and that he is
restored to all his rights, titles, ranks, and honour.
Letters from Perpignan, of the 2'2d, state, that the
number of sick diminished at Barcelona, but that the
number of dead increases. The Authorities have at
last taken measures for the encampment of the popu-
lation, on the space between the cordon and the city.
Dr. PARISRT, says the Moniteur, has sent his first
report to (the Flinch) Government on the result of his
observations.

It appears, according to the opinion of this physi-
cian, that the yellow fever of Barcelona differs in
many respects from that which he observed two years
ago at 'Cadiz. In i'act, although this malady presents
everywhere the same melancholy results, the symp-
toms and the developements vary according to local
circumstances.

Spanish Journals were on Wednesday received by
express from Madrid to the 23d ult. Madrid was
tranquil; the King and Royal Family had gone to
pass some days at the Escurial. The Cortes conti-
nued the discussion of the Project of law upon the
ter:itotial division; and on the 22d commenced with
the Project for the active organization of the Na-
tiotal Militia.

French Five per Cents. Wednesday, 90 fr. 50 c.

HURRICANE AT Sl. BARTHOLOMEWS.

The Norfolk Herald, of the Bth October, contains
the following account, communicated by Captain
PEARSON, arrived in Hampton ltoads. Its violence
is said to have extended to several of the adjacent
Islands, and to have been awfully destructive. One
hundred and sixty persons are stated to have been
missing at St. Bartholomew's :
On the 9th of September, a tremendous hurricane
was experienced at St. Bartholomew's, and did great
damage to the town and shipping: it commenced
from the north-west, and continued until about six
o'clock on the morning of the 10th, at which time
the wind shifted to the west. Previous to the com-
mencement of the gale, there were about fifty sail of
vessels, small and large, at anchor in the harbour,
one of which rode out the gale, the rest either being
driven on shore or blown out to sea. The following
are the names of the vessels:—Brig Paymaster, of
Portland, with a full cargo; brig Fox, of Portland;
schooner Harriot, of Portland schooner Elizabeth,
of Alexandria ; schooner William Treat, of Milford ;
schooner Polly and Nancy, of Newport; schooner
Missouri, of Middletown ; brig Sarah Baker, from''
Boston ; Schooner John, of St. Kitts; a Dutch Guinea-
man, with twenty men on board, driven on shore,
the vessel and the whole of the crew totally lost;
a French Guineaman, with about twenty men on
board, was driven to sea, anJ supposed to be lost.—
A Grenada schooner was driven on the rocks. The
ship Eliza Jane, from Now York, put to sea, and is
probably safe. Many mote were driven to sea or
stranded. About 60 or 70 houses were blown down.
It was believed by some that a shock of an earth-
quake accompanied the gale.