The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-22 00:00:00

COMMISSION OF BANKRUPTCT

EXTRAORDINARY PROFLIGACY.—IN RE DAUNCEY.
BIRMINGHAM, OCT. 20.—Some months ago the papers
contained an account of the apprehension and committal of
William Dalton Dauncey, ironmaster, a young man aged 22
only, charged with feloniously absconding from his creditors,
and taking refuge upon the continent, instead of surrender-
ajng to his fiat of bankruptcy. It will be recollected that the
bankrupt, who for a period of a year and three-quarters oc-
cupied the Bordesley and Atlas mills, was taken by Superin-
tendent Stephens at a ball at Cuxhaven, and was afterwards
committed to take his trial at the last Warwick Spring As-
sizes, but owing to an objection, grounded upon the invali-
dity of the notice served at the late residence of the bank-
rupt when the fiat was issued, he was, under the direction of
Mr. Justice Patteson, acquitted. The creditors, prepared for
this result, and determined that he should not escape with
impunity, lodged a detainer against him, and Dauncey was
transferred from the criminal to the debtor's side of Warwick
Gaol. He subsequently petitioned, the Insolvent Debtors
Court for his discharge, and the schedule which he was com-
pelled to ;file for that purpose has exposed a course of reckless
profligacy never before exhibited in any bankruptcy case in
Birmingham. Dauncey having been remanded by the Com-
missioner of the last Insolvent Debtors Court held at War-
wick until the next circuit, the assignees under his fiat have,
within these few days, brought him in custody from War-
wick, and subjected him to a searching examination before
the Commissioners of Bankruptcy at the Waterloo-rooms in
this town.
At Dauncey's examination it appeared he commenced
business at the latter • end of the year 1838, and was
bankrupt in the summer of 1810. During this period he con-
tracted debts to the amount of £19,183 Bs., having com-
menced business with a capital of £lOOO, and realised a profit
of £3OOO, amounting together to £23,183 Bs. The assets
were estimated at £1,668, leaving a deficiency of £21,515,
which was accounted for by the bankrupt as follows—
s. d.
1,484 17 8
770 0 0
225 0 0

Amount of debts owing to me, about
For rent ..
Keep of horses during 1 years, about
Discount and interest paid and allowed on bills
and accounts during this period, about .. 1,500 0 0
Carriage of goods during this period, about .. 1,500 0 0
Taxes .. • • 175 0 0
Servants' wages, including wages paid to work-
men, about .. . 4,580 0 0
Other household expenses for years, about 1,000 0 0
Expenditure on the Continent, from Septem-
ber, 1810, to March, 1841, about .. 400 0 0
Clothes for It years, at £5O a-year, about .. 90 0 0
Law charges during the same period, about .. 100 0 0
Surgeons' bills, about .. .. 20 0 0
Travelling expenses 1,000 0 0
Loss on erecting four new furnaces, and pulling
down old ones, at Bordesley, about .. 600 0 0
Loss on erecting guide mill, &c., at Bordesley
Ironworks, about .. .. 502 0 0
Loss by paying to millwrights, engineers, black-

smiths, bricklayers, labourers, &c., to repair
breakages at different times, about .. 600 0 0
Loss by breakages of driving-wheels and engine 300 0 0
Loss by breakage of connecting-rod, about 2OO 0 0
Loss by breakage of crank-pin, standards. cen-
tres, motions, and other parts of engine, about 100 0 0
Loss by breakage of rolls, pins, & boxes, about 100 0 0
Loss on stock of iron at the reduction of £2
per ton .. l,OOO 0 0
Loss on stock of iron at the reduction of £1 per
ton, about .. 350 0 0
Loss on dead outlay, as paid Mr. G. Jellico on
entering Bordesley works, about .. 650 0 0
Loss on breakages at the Atlas works, about 700 0 0
Loss at Dunkirk at the game of Lasquinette 370 0 0
Loss on a horse race at Wurtzen, in Prussia,
about .. .. • . 70 0 0
Loss by damaged iron during this period, about 500 0 0
Difference between my sale and valuation and
my estimate of the value, about 1,500 0 0
Money in my possession when I was taken into
custody
Excepted articles, as by valuation 9 10 0
Difference between valuation and cost price 5 0 0
Deficiency
Amount of debts for which I have received no
consideration

5,416 10 0

25,845 4 2

The bankrupt was then questioned in a searching manner
as to several of the sums mentioned above, and answered in
the most loose and vague way ; and being unable to give sa-
tisfactory answers to many of the questions, the commission-
ers adjourned the examination. Not more than £4O has as
yet been received from the estate of the bankrupt. The
family of Dauncey are living in a style of great respectability
in the neighbourhood of Warwick.

EXTRAORDINARY HIGH TIDE

(From Tuesday's Morning Herald.)

Yesterday afternoon the tide in the River Thames rose to
a height which has not been remembered by the oldest in-
habitant on its banks. _

From Blackwall to a considerable distance above the
bridges, it was one continued flood.
The water washed the steps of Fishmongers' Hall, on the
city side of London-bridge. On the opposite side, at Bank-
side, the water was at least five or six feet above the wharfs,
and Messrs. Barclay's brewhouse, in Park-street, was com-
pletely afloat, and their extensive cellars filled. It is
impossible to calculate the extent of the damage done, but
it must be immense. _

The Temple-gardens overflowed, and a boat might be
seen rowed over them. On the opposite side of the river
was the same. Half an hour before high water the passen-
gers by the Moonlight steamer had to jump for the steps at
Waterloo-bridge, and at Hungerford-market it was necessary
to have a boat to convey the passengers on board. The
Duke of Buccleuch's garden's was seen wholly under water.
The enormous coffer-dam at Westminster-bridge was full of
water, and' all labour was suspended. The damage done
most serious; At Lambeth, the Bishop's-walk was two feet
under water, and the tide flowed into the churchyard. It
was necessary to have boats to convey the passengers from
the church to the steam-boats. Fore-street, which is the
next to the river, was flooded; and up to six o'clock the
water was being pumped out of the kitchins and cellars.
On Millbank, at Johnson's-wharf, the river found its way
into the low ground by the side of the Penitentiary, and en-
tirely stopped the passage on that side of the river. It was
the same at the old Ranelagh-gardens ; but here more seri-
ous mischief has been done. At Battersea, and especially
near the Red House, the destruction was most severe. The
gardens at the South end of Chelsea College were under
water, and it was necessary, when the steam-boat arrived
at Chelsea, to take the passengers in a boat and put them
through a granary window, for the garden of the Old Swan
was a part of the river. Battersea Bridge appeared nearly
under water.

A poor woman was drowned in Plough-alley, Wapping.
She was bed-ridden, and the inmates of the house where she
lived, forgetting her in the confusion which prevailed, the
water rushed in, filled the apartment where she was confined,
and she was drowned. It was reported that another female
and her child were drowned in a house near the same place,
but it was impossible to approach the place to ascertain the
particulars. The excitement among the poor people in this
neighbourhood was extreme, and parents were running about
in all directions, seeking for their children who were missing,
and who, they were fearful, had been swallowed up by the
angry flood: _ _ _ _ .

At six o'clock in the afternoon the trains discontinued
running on the Blackwall railway, in consequence of the rail-
way being overflowed at the Blackwall end.
Yesterday afternoon the spring-tide rose to a most extra-
ordinary height at Greenwich, Deptford, &e. The extensive
rope grounds of Henderby, Esq., at East Greenwich,
were flooded and completely under water, which had forced
the embankment. The Greenwich marshes, in the occupa-
tion of Messrs. J. and T. Wheatley, the coach-proprietors,
were covered with one sheet of water._ The borough of
Greenwich, from Waterman's Pier towards the church, a
distance of 400 feet and upwards. presented a stream deep
enough to float a large boat, and in the space of half an hour
all the cellars, kitchens, and lower premises were filled with
water. The market-garden grounds belonging to Joshua
Hargrave, Esq., county magistrate, were in alike condition,
and many of the arches of the Greenwich railway might be
passed in boats. Deptford-creek Deptford-bridge, the
houses on the south side of Blackheath-road, were all covered
with water, and the Flood reached the parlour doors of a vast
number of houses. The damage done to. property situated
in the lower part of Deptford and Botherluthe is stated to be
very considerable.

THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL

Under the Management of Mr. CLARKE, Sole Lessee

The Performances of this Evening will commence at Half.
past Seven. Doors to be Opened at Seven.
FOR THE BENEFIT OF MRS. '►FOOD,
And the Last Night of the Engagement of
Mrs. WOOD, Mr. WOOD, Mr. GIUBILEI, Miss
POOLE, Mr. BROUGH, and Madame GIUBILEI.
THIS present FRIDAY, October 22, 1841, will be per-
formed, for the last time, a Comic Opera, in three Acts,
called the

POSTILION OF LONJUMEAU.
The whole of the Music by Adolph Adam.
Madeline Mrs. Wood.
Chapelou Mr. Wood.
Marquis de Courcy...Mr. Giubilei.
Bijou
At the end of the Opera, " A Pas de Deux," by Madame
Giubilei and Miss C. Webster.
To conclude with the Burletta of
MIDAS. _

Apollo

Miss Pool?.
... Mr. Baker

Midas'

Daphne

Mrs. P. Crowe

Nysa
ysis. Madame Simon.
On MONDAY next. the 25th inst., the popular favourites,
MR. and MISS VAN DEN OFF, will commence an En-
gagement at this Theatre, for a limited number of nights,
when will be performed the Play of RICHELIEU. Cardi-
nal Richelieu, Mr. Vandenhoff ; Baradas, (on this occasion,)
Mr. Stuart; Mauprat, Mr. H. Hull ; Francois, Mr. Pelham,
from the Theatre-Royal, Bath, his first appearance here ;
Julie de Mortemar, Miss Vandenhoff.—To conclude with the
Farce of the IRISH LION. Tom More (the Irish Lion),
Mr. T. Lee; Capt. Dixon, Mr. Pelham; Mrs. Fizgig, Mrs.
Clarke.
On MONDAY next, and for the remainder of the Season
after that evening, the performances will commence at SEVEN
o'clock. Doors to be opened at HALF-PAST SIN.