Star.
London, England, 1811-08-17 00:00:00

FISHER V. BUNSON.

Mr. HART, for the petitioner Bunson, stated this to
be a petition, praying that the bankruptcy should be
siirrseded which ihe plaintiff had sued out against
him, and that the bond should be assigned. lc ap-
peared that Bunson was a journeyman blacksmith, to
whom a legacy had been left of £l2O 12s. which was
litigated by some one who conceived he had a better
title to it than the defendant. This matter was left
to arbitration from the court of Exchequer, in which
Court the action was brought, and where the plain-
tiff, Fisher, was the defendant's attorney. The arbi-
trators awardedthat Bunson was entitled to £l2O 12s.
without costs. An offer was made to him, from the
other side, to compromise the legacy at £9O. This
Fisher advised the defendant, Bunson, to accept of,
but he refused. Mr. Fisher then brought in his bill
of costs to the defendant, amounting to £ll5, and
that not being paid, he arrested Bunson for 0220, but
held him to bail only for ACIIS. The arrest took place
in March, 1810, and in April, 1811, Bunson obtain-
ed his release. Fisher imme,:iately on this, sued out
a commission of bankruptcy against Bunson, under
the denomination of a dealer, and proving. by affi-
davit, that the man sold piv. The present petition
was supported by Bunsen's affidavit, that he was a
journeyman blacksmith ; thlt he had had two brood-
mares, the foals of which he had sold ; that he had
bought in 30 years 15 breeding sows. some of whose
pigs he had sold to oblige his neighbours ; but that
he bought merely to feed his family ; and that he had
sold ono pig while he was in prison to support himself.

On Mr. Fisher's behalf it was contended, that he
had an obstinate man to deal with; and that seeing
no means of getting his money from him e icily, he
had been obliged to send him to prison, and then to
sue out a commission of bankruptcy agains,. him.
The Lotto CHANCILLOR could have wished to have
teen Mr. Fisher's bill of costs ; but the Attorney not
being provided with it, his Lordship observed, that
he should expect all such bills should be laid before
him, and hoped that the Courts would expect the
same. He was satisfied that no fair proof had been
given of the defendant Bunson being a dealer in pigs,
and, ti.erefore, the bankruptcy should be superseded ;
but, with regard to the bond, he thought it best to
leave the defendant to his remedy at law.

13 o w-cr REET.—Thursd ay Afar us Brush wa s brnught
to the Office from St. Martin's witch-house, and un-
derwent an examination before Mr. BUMF., charged

'wick robbing Philip Collins, a slop-seller, of Port:-
mirth. It appeared that the prisoner had been lodg-
ing for some time at the Northumberland Arms, in
St. Martin's-lane, in the character of a naval officer.
The prosecutor has also been lodging several days in
the same house. On Wednesday the prosecutor went
into the dining.room of that house where the prisoner
was sitting, and he entered into conversation with the
prosecutor, and continued it till it became very disa-
greeable, particularly as some circumstances that he
stated of himselt the prosecutor knew to be raise, and
he was induced to think him a bad character, and
having about three hundred pounds about him, he
gave most of it to a friend to take care of, only keep-
ing a few pounds, as the prisoner was to sleep in a
room near 11,m. • The prosecutor went to bed about
eleven o'clock, and placed his pantaloons, containing
sit RI Portsmouth notes and two Bank of England
XI notes, under his pillow. He awoke yesterday
mornins about five o'clock,found his pantaloons taken
fr.nt under his pillow, and that they were removed to
another part of the room, and on examining them,
discovered that the notes were taken out. When the
prisoner got up, soon after seven o'clock, he was char-
ged with the robbery, and a constable sent for. He
denied the charge, but on the officer insisting upon
bis getting up to be searched, the above notes drop.
ped from between his legs, and some of them the pro-
secutor was enabled to swear positively to from cer-
tain marks. 'I he prisoner said he had sailed with
Capt. Bennett as a Midshipman, and in several other
ships, and was in London to be passed as a Lieute-
nant. He was committed for trial.
Tia ANI ES POLlCE.—Yesterday Ford, Bassett, Chip,
and Jervis, were again brought up for a final exami-
nation. The prisoner Chips having now declared his
intention to for-go all claim to thereward of 100 gui.
neas offered by the Captain For the discovery of the
offenders, and voluntarily offered to become an evi-
dence against his companions, was admitted a King's
evidence, and swore to the facts stated by him when
apprehended.
Mr. Harriet, the Sitting Magistrate, now declared
his intention of admitting Jervis also an evidence for
the Crown, and desired his irons might be knocked off,
saying he was led to select him as a fit object of such
lenity, from the penitence he expressed for the of-
fence he had committed, and the candour with which
he confessed his participation in the robbery when first
apprehended. Jervis was then examined, and stated
that whilst removing some seal-skins, which formtd
part of the cargo of the Archduke Charles, he disco.
vered a bag, containing several pieces of metal, which
be at first supposed to be lead, but upon mentioning
the circumstance to Ford, he was informed it was
something more valuable, and by Ford's desire be
took a piece of it on shore, and concealed it under
some flax. Subsequent to this Bassett was let into
the secret, and assisted in carrying on the depreda-
tion to a greater extent—in addition to this statement
Jervis corroborated the evidence of Chips. The pri-
soners, Ford and Bassett, who persisted in their inno-
cence, were fully committed for trial.
Bow-rrawr.—Yesterday Ifet. Marston, the owner
of a boat, was brought before Mr. Nares, at the above
Office, charged with misbehaviour to his fare on the
13th inst. Lewis Ingleback, of Little Queen-street,
Westminster, said, that he hired the prisoner to take
him in his boat from the Stairs at New Palace-yard,
paid him six-pence,
ta Lambeth-Butts, for which he