The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-08-05 00:00:00

KM PRIVS SIDE.

mAastmt. t. tiALL AND UTDED*.
Mr. RAINS state., this to b. an action for urinals,
In lake( passesttinn of the Plai 111 l fry goods ender •
Coma of Dinkroptey ; the validity of which
lemmission was the real titivation for their consi-
deration ; end he therefrom left it to his Learned
Oppottenis to prove that Commission to be 'slid.
Mr. Serjeant II L. i.t.t,ca, for the Defendants, stated,
that the action oar brought against the assignee•
under a Commission of Bsaktoptcv, one of slum
was al.n t.vtiti, nine cred•tor. All that 11119 to be
proved, therefore, was, that the Plaintiff had been a
trader, that he had owed the debt in question, and
that be had committed an art of bankruptcy. The
Pisinsiff ad been a miller, at Holm*, upon Spalding-
mom to • clot hr had booght and sold loot suit har-
les. M. Hall, the petitioning creditor, had told
him bail. y, of which a balance of 1501. was doe.—
The Plaintiff had been in rho habit of making bor.
gains at • house in Hell, Mrs. Wilson's, *bleb might
he rolled his horse of trmte. At this linger he bad
appointed In meet one Coss. a millstone erases, to
wh• m he owed 501. or 601., In order to pay him.--
Cass came an lb! day appointed, but was told that
Marshall sal not there ; be remained there for some
lime, but Marshall never appeared : yet Marshall had
been there daring the whole time, and had directed
Um Wilson to dray him. That this was an act of
bankruptcy had bees decided is the case, Gillingham
v. Laing, Taunton 6 and 534. In that case the
Wilmot* hail been a News.vender, and attended only
at the Eackuege, Is order to obtain materiels. and to
manufacture paragraphs for Newspapers. There be
bad appointed to meet a Gentleman, and directed
himself to be denied. Upon that rase, the late Chief
Jerrie, of the Common noes. Sir Virtu Gibbs, re-
marked that the bankrupt might have lived in !Mg-
logs, se that be could not commit an act of bank.'
"'agog eleeobere. The Eachange was his hoes@ of
besioess. In the case of Chonayworth v. Iby, I.
Wein, 676, the hover of a friend was the scene of
an act of bankruptcy. In the case, Robertson v.
Liddle (Sir Thomas, Sheriff of Durham), It was de-
cided that a man absenting himself from his own
house from apprehension of an arrest, Which, in fact,
did not take place on that day, had, by that coadect
committed an set of bankruptcy. This showed that
absenting with intestine to avoid creditors was so
act of bankruptcy.
!Replies Dickenson proved the Consmissino.
Charles Smith, Clerk to Mr. Hall, Merchant its
Hell. proved the petitioning creditor's debt.
William Cass proved the act of bankruptcy, as
Mated by the Learned Serjsaat.
Cross-easniined by Mr. Harm—What kind of
hoses is tbis Red Lion, to Manor-alley. Hall, kept
by Mrs. Wilson I—lt is like all ether pablic.honess.
I hope sot. Are there set Ladies that 'require it ?
—Yes. the Ladies of the house. Aye ? Yee, Mrs.
Wilson and her daughter.
Mn. Willem proved, that the Plaistiff ordered her
to deny him—Verdict for the Defendants.

Between piss sod ten o'clock es Woodsy might, a
ire br. he net at Mr. Podium's boot-raker, High. 1,
IRMO, Shodwell, which threats:wed the line if bin.
folioed his workmen. It originated in the cellar,
where one of the men was waking wiz ; when the
pen boiled over, end the flames memmoiceted to
• vessel filled with pitch. Altheegh the lower part of
the bane wss nearly burnt, yet the most series lees
suit occasioned by the depredations which were met•,
mitred by persons In the web, who, prolitting by the
contests'', broke into the first 11100 f, and threw
hendleg of lines, ke. to their conredes.
Tees& y ofternoon a It, broke out is the house of
Mr. Disend blacking•esettefacterer, ie Mee Ascher.
road, aotherhithrt, which in a abort tine esiontered
the whole of the premien.
Friday night, or early on Saterdey snornieg, the
G..,eoat school, in Tothill.iehlo, woo broken into,
rrod robbed of a greet %tastily of Otte, Hugo, &c.