The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-01-10 00:00:00

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assume a more seente•form; and it was only two
days before the stoppage that it was signed by the
. remaining partners, and tMs deed did, in • fact, vest
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KING'S BENCH, DUBLIN, Dec. 15. ' in Lord Ffrench those secovities• to the amount- of
18,0001. then in his father-iii-law's possession; not •
Tilt HON. CHARLES FTRENCH Art 0 CO. V. NICHOLAS
MAHON, ESQ. a shilling, however, of the credit was• procured e
Mr. Serjetnt JOHNSON proceeded 'and said, the but Lord French was euabted, however, to pay
Jury were told that in fact, by a secret deed of the certain demands on his own account, to which he
31st December, 1813, two of the firm were net in was authorised by some of the other partners ; and
fact partners in the house; although they were 59 in some antecedent letters were written to him febns•
law, and had not taken any concern in the manage- them, by his own directions for that purpose. Such
ment,of the bank, or received any of the profits,' but care was there .manifested for the creditors, and,
were living as private gentlemen, and -yet at the very t gave a specimen of what care would be taken of them PoLICE.
time one of those gentlemen had drawn 8,0(101. out I hereafter ; .other circumstances appeared which
Hemrost-estariew.--.Yesterday, Robert and Joh.
of the house, and given it• to his father ; and when mai ked in a great degree theasceinkney and con-
. - Kates, and John Dillon, were ,finally examined, ea
they found another of theta also drawing a large sum trout which -was exercised by this unhappy Nobl-
e SESSIONS,. JAN. 91 , suspicion of stealing a quantity of hair, the property
of money from the bank, Was not that an active ;rilliss in* his lifetime, over firm. A-purchase ivits:
of Penton and Bliss, brushmakers, West Smithfield,
partnership. They were ostensibly presented to the made by the firm of certain lands, that was •subject; •
with whom Prisoners wereukers,
apprentices : and .lob
public as Iwo individuals of a firm, having an : issue to a deternairiable lease, but no sootier was it made, The General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the. ,
raylor and •Juntes Chamberlain, on suspicion of
of 300,0001. hut who never brought a single shilling than the firm gave a lease for ever to Lord Ffrench County of Middlesex commenced this day, aethe Ses- • . '
receiving the same, they having in their possession a
towards the capital of the house, and one of those . at, the old rent.
.The Bankers' Act could not be sion-house, Clerkenwell-greeu, W. WATSON, Esq. in
. gentlemen against whom a commission had issued, I efficacious to over-reach those acts, but the Bank- the Chair. quantity of hair which they could not worse for.
disposed of 10001. of stock in the Funds,' paid the rapt Laws alone were available to the purpose.— John I.Trallis, 'a respectable looking man, late They were all fully committed to Newgate for
amount to his father, or lodged it in part for him, mid Three of the partners brought in nothing—three Master of the ship Wooton, was indicted for know.. trial.
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yet• those were the men eke, would evade the Batik- more of..them only 2 Jhn Roberts was brought up for final eremite'. °OOOl, each ; but they would ingly having in his possession three casks, with the .
on, charged vs Rh a feather bed, blankets,
rupt Ltws for the benefit of their creditorseatid seek be surprised to . find, that • the private debt of one King's mark thereon, being victualling stores.
lion,
security in the Bankers' Act, where they might re- of them to the house, was 15,0001—0 f another One of the Thames Police•ollieers stated, that he and furniture, from the stealing
house of Mrs.. Connor,
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pose for their lives Without being called on to answer 10.0001.—and .Mr. Keary owed 60001. and Lord went on board the brig IVoolon, on the 15th of Sep-
Church-lane, St—Giles s, where Prisoner lodged
for their property. Would he have had it in- his . Ffrench, 30001. ; the house having et the moment tember, then lying at Deptford, whet' he.found three five nights, and conveyed away the property before
power to have stated even so meth to the Jury, but an• ittsue of 300,0001.-20,0001. worth of bills-casks, which were painted over; upon examining the family were up in the morning.
Fully committed to Neegate for trial.
for the operation of the Commission, ere it hkd al- running due were gotta, and Mither the commis- them, the place where the King's mark is usually
• .QUEEN-SQUARE.—Yesterday, COSMOS' was
ready proceeded ; if any thing of those facts were sinner's nor the Messenger -got a single-Bank note. placed was cut away ; and looking further, he disco-
when the Solicitor of the Custom hours
known, it has been owing to the yet tachimte opera- In fact, 75,0001. had been disposed •of since the vered.the chips in the hold, having. the King's mark examined,
tints of the lentkrupt Laws which enabled them to issuing of the Commission—it• would .appearin evi- upon them. attended. A confession made by him on Thursday
make these discoveries. ' deem flint after the stoppage the bills that were run- t The Defendant said, he had received the casks last to the Magistrates, was read, over, which was
They were told that the Partner; had attended a nine due, • werelianded to. the clerks; not. to collect, - from a Commissary•nt St. Jean de Luz, where the in substance as follows m--That on the night the Cm-
Meeting of Creditors on the 15th of August, but iii the name of the house, for if they were) they brig had been out with stores to the .Duke of. Wel-
tom-house was burned, he and two men, netned Sul-
ts itil their acts, after the third, the Jury had nothing would hare been paid in their- own votes, -but in , lington's army. - .. . livan and Thompson, were at the Black Boy in St.
to do ; for if they were to be found Bankrupts, it their own name.; and the produce of them in Bank 1 Lewis, the . Acting Master of the brig, de- Catharine's, when a foreigner joined-their company;
should be on or before that day. But the Jury of Irelandnotes were handed either to LoelFfrench ! posed that he had cut oat. the marks, and painted who, in the course of conversation, said he would
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would lied that there hail not been a single state- -or the other partners of the house, The Jury had over the casks, by order of the Defendant, who acted give 2001. to have the Custom house burned ,to the
meta of the affairs of the House, which did not heard of a statement its the papers with respect to the as Supercargo, and took the management of the ground, and they said they would do it for less, and
carry euppression or manifest fallacy. It would up. affairs of the house, he would show the fallacy of it. ship, finally agreed .te do itfor 401. which he paidelient in.
Spanish dollars, and also gave _them laapowder,
pear that since the stoppage of the House, a sum of They had diminished the issue try nearly 1000001. a,' The Jury,round the-Defendant Guilty,
which they made ie communicate to mite reeks of
73,0001. of the effects had been disposed of, either discovery made by the operation of the Bankrupt 1 Several petty cases of assault were also disposed of..
powder lying in the'CUstom-house. TheyaMieila
of the hills due, or:funning due; most of which were Laws—they had held out their creditors available 1
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paid, butelot a single shilling of which was forthcoms property, exceeding the amount of their engage.; ~ light to it to cause an explosion, and alten-reterned
DARING ROUERY.—Mondey evening, between five. to the public-house to divide their 'booty. He silso
ing. That the notes of Lorti Ffreitch, to which he was MOOS; but he should .stele to them, 180,0001. of •
and sin o'clock, afellow knocked at the door of Dr. stated, although he-said-en a former (ley the Use be..
always by law liable, were eseeetied a.. she' Batik, that•available pioperty consisted in•bad debts- due by
HA RRISO NI, of Salisbury-street, in the Strand, which longedeo a man of ware be only. pecsestieekmaart
and certain Cterks paid fifteen shillings a thousand bankrupts, insolvents, or by. themselves—of that .
was answered by a footboy, between 14 and 45years whose name was Neligan, and got his metes. 4k
for the act of cancellation. lie - would say a weed sum, 25,0001. was 'paid by• Bellow and Ca. of this'
Of age, of whom he enquired if MS.. SILVER was with- gate Sullivan' address at Windmill-court, Rosemary-
hadorten to theiteepun
.the Bankrupt Laws—Me law town, where name he need only mention to 9110 W in
in'? (a
'Gentleman who has been an initiate of the lane, where Gillmore, the officer, apprehended him
wisely defined the acts by which a trader might what jaopards such a demand Stood ; nearly 40,0001.•
Doctors about six. days,) the boy informed him .Mr. last Saturday night. On being asked if his statement
het.. me a hauk rept, some of them were involuntary, were dire debts of the partners themselves, whose pro- Doctors
was within ; when he replied he (came from was true, he said the whole of it was fakes • 41e wassome voluntary ; it was en the voluntary acts that he perties were guarded from their creditors by private
would rely. The acts were—keeping house, or settlimientsMr. MkWitiNstsr, in' the Strand, a hatter, for a hat, asked what-was his motive to trifle iss that usanner
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otherwise absenting,' or departing from the deeding.- included, d' or anterior demands. There Were alsoehts debts' doe •by the cashiers of •-the • Teem .to be repaired. The boy was proceeding up stairs to with the Magistrates, and tell such kleeboOds. He
house, keeping hoes., to avoid arrest ; every one of and :athletic Banks, rind theist were theirosettinote,e; inform 'Mr• S'LI.6LI when hearing a noise in the pass said it was with a viiiseef „gettingtway, if he could
Agee hedooked.behind him, and observed the fellow criminate the others.
those must bo connected with an intention to delay of whirls, as cashiers.; they had the custody.. • Chris...
Needing a number of great coats, hats, and other. ar- Sullivan was broughf in, and as4ted if he Inew
' creditors ; atnotig-e those might be 'enumerated—. thither Tan& was atsoyetarrned- as• a debtor -to the -
tides, which were in the passage, to another man, at Oftener. Ike said, about .three months back, be re-
making a fraudulent conveyance of property, for amount of 15,0001. but it was not clear if it was
that necessarily delays creditors,—lle would guard only' 50001.; bat he denied the Wiener to he against , the deer.; the boy called to a female servant who was meatihered his lodging in• the same house with him,
in theititchen, for assistance, when the villian knock- but never had any communication with him. •He
them from confounding the act of bankruptcy from him at all, ma whether it was bad or good he was -
ed him "clown with such violence that he was insen- was then informed by the Magistrate of the•atetass-
the evidence of the act; for it was true, a debtor determined to resist it. Another-debt to the amount :
?Able for some time, and the two robbers made their tioes against hies by Connor, in being accessary to
plight be denied 'without. iuteittion to delay and of 14,0001. due by the house of Broughton amid Co.
esCaoe, With the whole of the property which was in the atrocious act of burning the Custom-1100Se; and
absent himself from his house, even to the incotive- which is contested, aid a bill filed neainst the littn;
Apnea of Ms creditors, without .an intention tQ and en injuoctiou obtained. Upon . the, Kelpie ogre !the pasSitge. , - sias told thaf if he spoke the truth, he would bead-
"remslay, durtag the time of Divine Service, a man mitted King's evidence. Ow this he declared his
delay or defraud them. It would not he an act of would appear to be is deficieiity of opsVards. of :.
tolerably well dressed, and pretty far advanced in innocence : he said be had been ill in an Hospital
bankruptry, if a creditor called at en unseasonable '200,0001. and iii fact there wis only* a fund of 80001.
• -- • , years, was detected picking a Gentleman's pocket in. most of the time.ainee he came from the East Indies,
hour, and the debtor refused to see ; but if, taking.. to pe all the debts of the house.;
• 'St Clement's Church, but the Gentleman, fearful of and particularly.
.at the time alluded to, which could
all the circumstances into consideration, they should On the 271 h of June the house stopped payment,
be of opinion that a voluntary delay of creditors was and after that, the doors were shut, the windows
isiterruptinkthe congregation,sulfereilhim.togo about ,be proved by persons with whom he lodged. Being
done, even for a minute, it would. be an act of hank-closedhis business. asked what he thought of the man that so accused, and all business suspended ; two of the ' ..
An alarming fire hrokeout at Meal Farm, Mend- him, he said there was a God above to judge all.
ruptcy as much as if it was a delay of 1000 years.— partners went to t private house on that day;where i '
Lord Coke defined a bankrupt to be one whose-Bank they were denied to a Mi. 13aggot, who came tot sham, Bucks, on Sunday night, which' threatened The Magistrate-ordered him -to get a shilling for
was " rupt," and not a trace left behind; Dank there look for' them. One. of theM fur two or three :mach destruction ; the flames originated in a brew-
,his landlady is.to appear iueltiabeltalf.—The Prisoner his dinner, and go home till next:firarsday, when
applies to the place of trade of all trailers within that niglits4tehouse, contiguous to the dwelling-house, which was ;his itt a private house for fear of, an arrest ; .
definition ; the Bank of the Plaintiffs comes most dis- and security was given to the Sheriffi to prevent any altogether soon consumed. By prompt issistence a Connor was remanded for another hearing.
I-rick:yard, barn, and spacious premises escaped the 11. a boy about 12 years old,• was
fierily, for where arc the traces of it, except in the persoial arrest. Dormer, • o agration. I i rifl charged with stealing a silver table eriboti. frees a
tears and sufferings of an injured people, lamenting • /-le Would not call their recollections i 0 the me- .
their own calamitiesamidst the ruins of that. Houee lancholy transactions of the 27th June; it was quite 1 FALSE CHARACTERS.-- A short time since Mr. 1 housein.Maner-place, Kieg's-read. ''A Mee. 'Masi-
John Meyer, of Norwood-(louse, Surrey, saw an soil stated', that on the 20th sit: the boy, who is
which so lately blazed with darelitig snleedour notorious that the doors were stint in banking hours I
o'er the land ? The Bank was first established in —that LhecreditOrS were eiiintled,.the drafts on the'
~/dVeitigement in it 'NeWspriper, by a footman want. , employed by a dustman, was helping to take away
the country town of Tuam, Lord Ffrench was then house were excepted, and put into the window, vhilst i ing a place, to direct to A. 8., at ' the west end of , some dirt,, and .be went to fetch a broom to. sweep
at the head of. it, iii Col:wally- nith Mr. IViii. Keary. the Pankers- made ' their entrance and their exit ' the town, and lie being in -Want of as footman, one i the place. A silver spoon left outside in a saucepatt
At the close of that year the Bulk was established through the back door; numbers of persons were .1 swered it; when a man, calling himself Thomas, nas'lnissitigifter they went. The boy'amother ac.
in Duliliii, nith Lardvoch still at the head of it. antioue to get in, but could uot ; individuals
fightm 1 Ilarris, applied for the place, stating that the last knowledged to hare sold it toColtivee'e Watch-
In 1805, the Bon. Charles Ffreneh was taken in as have been selected, but not Ode in a thousand '.place he had lived in 'was with Mrs. Mary Hurden, a ' maker in Paradise-ro*, as *the boy said he found it
a partner. iii I we, Sir. Teak became a partner ; holders of their notes were admitted ; a window 1 widow lady, residing at Hanworile with Whom he in -the dust.--Remanded until•Collive attends,
and in 1807, the lion. Thomas ...french became a with iron bars on it, was opened for the adthissionlrhad lived two years
.and a half.. Mr. Meyer wrote !. isow-eracer.-0n Monday Edward S. Smith Was Charged
partner. lie now came to a most important date of notes, to bedisposed of as the person inside pleased! I agreeably to this direction for his character, and re- °sine tshiisnieda,ityilloarta.t,oarpsdurar,,. at thefi re at Charing7eretw,, early
in the history of the House. In tett, Lord Ffrench a notice was posted, " Bills accepted, but none. ceived an answer in reply, purporting to be signed , U•aox-u M.—Patrick hell 'MI committedal r hil:l4 001 Were ch a Med
retire.: from the partnership, the issue of notes paid." It was like a gentleman lie remembered, -h et le , 1 Mary'Hurden,` represeeting Thomas Harris'
to he a by lir. Williams, bather-dresser, of Greenwich, with robbing
him of sprious pieces of leather aim! skins
being at that time of a most enormous extent, . wanting to prevent people going a private passage, :fiery honest, sober, and in every respect an excel- -•rhe Prisbisers.W-ere journeymen or Mr. 11.itrasessfeaLbagurk-isagss.
greater than when it stole; at that time. there does had written up, "No way, this way." lee would lent servant ; the letter contained the post-mark of beintenteriained albeit's. application was male for aaltric't a' -
not appear to have been ally settlement of the old tell the Jury, that when once an act of bankruptcy 1 Hounslow. Upon this supposed good character Mre! riseerireiontit sbereete ancl anoilicy,.Coastable wenteto search
firm. Another of Lord Ffrettch, Mr. Martin was committed, it could never be afterwards purged 1 Meyer hired into Wfiere lie Mitered., sod il, ggenjge,g noTereroutgwe I
h leratahe'rk-Paswi
,ghni:liex pieces of
two phial
Ifretirli, was then forought in ; and it is remark- or done away ; and if, after the 27th or 28th of on Tuesday, tithe 3d (ant.in Ale is a thin man, found :andat Lyans' lodging they found three skins, tifo'piet.,..s
able, that not a shilling of capital was put into the June one was committed, it remained indelible and .
i about five feet seven or eight inches highe a very ine oft foreign leather, leather, andsatifie.lark-listk. -Mr. Williams swore to
House by the new partners. The original subscrip- unalterable; and if the facts,. which he had stated as; animate countenance, stiff in his gait, but very it- I) oss !e hecouldllcr haved
solds-ii, ‘llseoricnilmi.t.u'krdironi:
tion of the six was to be 50001. each—in all 30,0001. to the escaping by the back door, and the exclusion • tentive, and appeared to understand the business. of • I.—L.lonscimifeised he had taken the property fonts his master's
Three of them brought no more than 20001. each; of the creditors were true, would it be contended a footman, partieularlibi waiting at table, •&c.—. ViTi.e?' Kelly stegie'lhavisei done so, and said a man:mina d
Riles', who has absconded, Jett the article at hi, bidirer. Tile).
three of them never brought ill any ; and my that they were not acts of bankruptcy, and the pro. : Friday evening, after dinner, dOring the absence of were both eoustaitted for realm thelessioin. '' •
Lord Ffrench, on retiring, withdrew his 20001. perty of such men not subject to a distribution unto Mr. Meyer (ruin home lie went .out, telling the . . . -
capital. Lord f•Yrench, kowever, did execute a the Bankrupt Laws. . other Servants' 'lie was going Co meet the Norwood- EVILS or Foturtrsir-Trwsio.—Predictions often
deed upon his retiring, by which he went security , So much 'for the house in Dublin. The news coach, as he expected' to receive a parcel
.from Lou..•iprOcir/T. their own fulfilment, -and thus oceision the
for his sons, who were partners in the House, to of tile stoppage reached Tuam about three o'clock, don. Not hating returned some hours afterwards, 'erg evils most apprehended; in'etonArmation. of
the amount of 40,0001, Lord Ffrencli left the new .on the 28th ; immediately the front door and .win- . when Mr. Meyer cense-home the house was examined, which. We shall relate a fact :—A lady had been mar-
line to pay the engagements of the old ; and as if . duws were closed by the direction of Mr. Keary. , and it *as discorered that he had made off With pro..• tied some years, had three little girls, and was near
no dissolution bad taken place, every thing went: But they were told it was a surprise upon bite e perty to a consideraideemouet, consisting of two her confinement a fourth" time; when her husband,
en as it hail done before, except that Martin Ffrench's but how would they.accouet fur whet he was going 101. Dusk of Dietetid notes, which% hid 'been stolen being absent' on business, wrote to _request she would
name was substituted iii the room of Lord Ffrench's. to state to them I—Two or three days, before out of a drawer that was locked, and several articles search his bureau for a paper of some consequence;
But, although Lord Ffrench had withdrawn his : the stoppage, a large gate was erected at the -head '.
of weather •apparel. Enquiries were made' in . the. in doing which she found another, inscribed " Mi.
name from the' firm, he still thought the buiinese '•of the lane leading to Mr. Keary's hall-door, and neighbourhood, and it was learnt that he was seen in , flutes of my fortune, told rue in the year 1789,"
could not go on without his persisted interferenCee its that gate a wicker door was put, large enough Norwood-lane by the patrole employed by the inha- , which was seven years 'prior to her marriage--
aid accordisigly, be would be found in the months to !Omit a slug's person. On the day before Mr. .hitents of that neighbourhood, who, observing him Curiositi prompted her to open it, when she found
of May, 1814, just before 'the stoppage, actively ,Martin and Mr.. Thomas Ffrench,
.who had been at 'heavily laden with two bundles, stopped him. The as i'OIIOWRS—" E.. D. tells me that lam to Marry.
interfering in the management of the House in, Tuam, had gone to Galway. On the 29th,, Mr. fellow said he wrs
as coming from Lewisham-, through in seven yea , a lady with blue eyes, fair complexion,
Dcblin-:-keeping the cash, holding the keys, super- Charles 'Ffrench arrived at Timm ; and Mr. Martin Croydon, and was going td •Filackfriere. The patrole and light hair, with whom lem to live very happily ;
Weeding and girlie, directions iti eiery ramification and Nlr.Thomas arrived on the 30th ;so that OR. Suffered'him to proceed, • Mel he escaped. • i that I shall have three daughters ; that in giving
of the business; and° it was '
on the 14th of (lint the Ist of July, they were all in the Bank-house.— Yesterday morning, het weer, eight mid nine o'clOck, birth to a boy, the fourth child, my wife shall die."
month only, that he gave up the cash-book, and From thelirSt arrival of the news, all business had ' a boy belonging to a public-house nt the corner of This paper fell into the lady's hands but a few days
nithdrew entirely from any
.parsoual interference.— ceased, the front door and windows barricadoed, i Portugnlstreet, having been out collectingl:is pots, before she was confined, and caused a depression
l'he Jury were told, that the stoppage came as a and no access, except to such persons as Mr. Keary ' was prevailed on by a sharper to run for a wager of . which she could not throw off; but when the sex
surprise to Mr. Keary and yet a month before a chew, and that through the wicker door. ft would sixpence with another boy round Lincoln's Inie fields. of the child was known, ocoincidencel
le strange o
deed was prepared upon the suggestion of Lord F. 'appear; that a person went on behalf of the creditors On his return he. found the' fellow who had laid the , the three girls, 'and the boy being, as predicted, the
ter all the pliers, re to sign, in order kr- provide' an the Co'h of Juno, and found the house closed, ' Wager was gone off, taking the whole of the pots with (Mirth child, so entirely seized •her inn • t. that
. gina ion, that
funds for the security of 'the house, by 'Which deed ataato access or aesaver •to his demands; he went • him; - • *.• 'hue • s
1 Ina peke), she lost her intellects, and in less this
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certain securities to the amount of 18,0101. thed again on the fst of July in Sheinim •' nng, h ' e found' Ctr oosen's Iseaucer.-10n Saturday an, Inquest three weeks (during the whole of which time she was
in the hands of Mr. Reddingtou, who had alien on the doors shut ma locked ; '
he' met the brother-in- ' , was held in Newgate upon the body of Thomas- completely deranged) she expired.
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them of 50001. were to be handed over ice him, laW of Vie Morris coming out; he asked if he could ' 130 it
it on, who died in consequence of a ball which i . 7 —l7-- • ----
Ist lITH. • . .
Lord Ffrench, he undertaking to procure 'a credit see Mr'. Ffrench Or Mi. Keary, he fold him to call in i was lodged in his
bead, on the 18th of October, by I On Sunday, is Bernard-stret Russell ; re.„-the lad}
on Kirwati and Co. to the amount of 10,000 L ; but a few minutes ;he went alsay ;' returned and saw the, Mr. Eyelet, when he was attemptitig to commit a I Richard atm, Esq. of Shrub's fill-house, -1' ad -
the deed appearing to be of ae equivocal and dance pterfr'e he tad hini'difillie had come with' paperof burglary ' 1 'of Mr. George li 1 •11 o atl":
r , ms mp
hoirl
gerois character, it 'Wei • delayed' till' it s d the house for payment; he biked' the porter to tell I Piccadilly.-- Verdi.ct:--Vstifid/c !foeticide. ' 4 h O,N 1 i0N...74 ~.I;teil and. ,Publigiled..ls7 D..LOV CL 1., 1'
'ST•I Ll3l AR OFr ICC ti, I, leet-street.

PFRI? NCH'S NAN K..
[CONTINUED FROM OUD t.trim OF FRIDAY L \ST.]

them heLvrished to spent to then ; the porter went
up stairs ; he could bear, upon the porter going
into the room, several voices speaking; when the
porter returned,. he said he coukluot see them. On
the following morning heSound the doers she( ; he
got no admission, and he was, SW they were not iu
the house ; and, yet, it would appear in evidence,
that they were there all the time, and when they
.went out they crossed the fields frbm*the back of the
premises to the public road, where- their horses met
them ; and 3ret the .lary would be told} those persons
did not absent themselves, nor keep house with an
intent to delay their creditors.
(To be:continueilj

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