The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-12-16 00:00:00

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11l MATTER OF emetic flowage AND GUM. 1
the Commissioners held a Meeting in this it
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mount to adjournewnt... . a.. • . •- •
WILDS, for the Amigneesusaid that at a forme, ill •
g it was decided by the Commissioners that the •
ipts Should, fourteen . days before. the prelim. . .
g, deliver in their accounts. Very large accounts e ' r
I fact,: been furnished by them, which required • I
It examination at the bend of the Assignees : he
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Ire sebmitted that an adjournment for 11 fortnight
take place. in the interval it was to be expecte,:
le Bankrupts would.he ready to rive any explana-
a t nil orbt he cequi red of them. .. ..
POLLOCK, on behalf of the Bankrupts, said ho ii•-,
have tit) objection whatever to. accede to the pro. .
of his Learned Friend. :He was glad it was at
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admitted .that. the Bankrupts had render- ?
bstantial accounts, and that they had complied
he direction of the Commissioners., It Waal wate-
r the Commissior.' to know what the nature of
-counts was, andne what the Bankrupts pledged
elves to. .
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accounts stand thus :—te -.. • • i
eine esta of M
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eseers. Howard and
Gibbs
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loward's separate property . 57...1-d
Abbe'. ditto
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. • . Mating,* total of • . £2t11,109 ..
e demands upea them are as follows : .
tom em-leg jointly - X12,11,6f10 *i
dowsed owed samerately
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tore was thus left ',balance of near 70,009 t in fa.
of, Hasps. Howard p.nd (Ebbs. after paying every
and including, llanAcialm of 43.000/. by Mr. (trim. •
I, nod thalt.Of 10,ref.by Mr. Carroll, both of which
t disieted i and Mite event of their not being sob.•
dated, the surplus to M . Howard and Hibbs. 1
Id be upwind) of 120,00111. After stating theseitems,
Learned Oentlemen said that all delay that was not ,•
entry *,as to be avoided. If the statements he wns
meted to make were at a correct; this commission
J not close without a feeling of regret that it should
e beeplssoed.
Ir: hloni:r• ou 2 followed en the lame side. •
Ir, rivan said that the false and exaggerated state-
its n'Ovi,:peet firth were intended for the newspapers,
such itatements only increased the difficulties of,
essigqmors. When it was said that there was a surplus
ro,oooLit was his duty to say that the statement nem.,
tattoos fratee beginning to etid : he wonlil dispose of
t 70,94 1n a word 411,0t41/. of it consisted of JOIN
deist' to people who bad actually proved ea credi. . 1
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tr. MONTAGUE rose to reply, but the rootermissiotter;
rd that be had no right to addreas them after :de • . . •.
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Mr. 'fnavecet asked the bankrupts whether the ar. .
Into they pot in were those they intended to abide by r
eysnewered in the affirmative.
Due Commissioners then appointed the lf•'-th of Jann•
P as the day of the next general erecting. v
%tr. Mon TAGVE hoped that any elective with respect
time investigation of the accounts which might be
Id between this and the 19th ofdaouary might be con- -I
tied Public. 1t was for the interest and character of '•
o baoktnpts that they should be public—they wished
cry thing to he public. He could not sit down with.
i denying, io the moat positive manner, that any thing 4
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at fell from him was intended for newspaper publics-
,n. lie stated; as was his slaty, the facts of the case
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the Commissioners. . . i
The Commissioners laid. that with respect to any
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relines that might be held between this and the 19th , •
January, they woul.l deal with them in this as in every
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XTENSIVE FORGERY ON 'filE CAMBRI.D3E
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For several days its thetast week of October, a mat e,
ailing himself Jame. Lloyd, and a woman calling her-
.1f...h0e Beason were most actively and too success.
illy engaged is the circulation of forged notes of the
:atuhridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, In the t•mivri
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self where the parties (Meseta. Ferresters), upon whom
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he forgery was Committed, carried on their bosiness.—
in Thursday, the sth inst. the man and woman went ti
istfon Walden. where they passed four eimilae notes of
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one pound each, width brie„ detected on the IS070:0IC 'I
if Frith'', the woman was apprehended and taken before t t
rhos.• Hall, Esq. one of the re,ident Magistrate-, who
vaa:m disgusted with her evident perjury. that be event-
sally refused to take any millilitre of her declaration, and
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!committed her to the town gaol. On Sundae se'naigbt,
he male accomplice was also taken lido enst.ody, and on
searching- him two ten pound Rank of Eagleod notes, • ..
too on.-pound provincial notes, sod twenty Cane pounds . .
worth of !diver were found ; be was committed for for- .-
the, examination, and on Monday both parties were t
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brought up and identified as the per-ons oho had played. i .
so profitable a game; they were thereupon fully con- ..
omitted fur trial at the Esees Winter A. ize . 011 Tues-
day morning Lloyd was found dead in his cell, having
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hung himself the preceding night. In the course of the 1•
try an inquisition was taken before Thos. Hall, Esq. on .
view of ilie•body of the unfortunate man, when, tip in i
the deposition of the guolor as to the behaviour of the . •
deceased tho, prenealing evening., the Jury returned a •,!
verdict of—fneamiW•alt is truopused that these per.ona
wet. the agents of iheminhfacturers of the notes, who
it is suspected, reside is the metropolis, and carry on i.
their felonious traffic so a considerable extent. A l.rae
bundle of forged-notes upon the Cambridge Rank (1:•., !. . . .
of It. each) was-found on Watley in Avnel/ End Park,
near Saffron Walden, which hire bees Moiled over to
the proircetorre Abe elites are well executed, but the , v 4-, - •
signature is engraved. • Lloyd was only twenty three %
years of etre, the' prii3lti4r. liewson ticenty•tive ; eats ; I. .
states that her/dither Ili labourer, in the service of Mr.
Nicholls, a farmer, residing at Kilbero. When she was • 1
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informed of the death of her parentage', she asserted with ! 5. • a
much p.. 5.. ce of mind, that she was his wile, and that • '‘, ,
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she could not be hurt, as she bad only acted under time
influence of her husband.
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The late storm will, it is said, probably came a loss , .
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SO the Liverpool under-writers of nearly 100,0MXild—
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An accident of an extraordinary nature metered at • ~
slottram last seek. A son of Mr. K. Hill, and smother . .
lad, went out to exercise two horses, and ou their retain s .
home, one of them. a spirited 'Maud, turning quickly • .
round at the cry of a pack of bounds, cams so suddenly
in contact with the rider of tiso other horse, that each of . .
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the lads had a ',eg broken: They were, however, put to •
bed immediately, and are doing well.-iotoekrert ' •
Adeertiser.)
The onformnate family of the name of Bettooiley.
coasisting of seven person., who perished is tie storm
of heat Thnraday week, by the wreck of their sloop, the
Mare Ann Elisabeth, in the liumber,resided at Moodie.. . ‘,
ford, in this neighbourhool, and were very worthy and 1 •
respectable people. The horror of their (nem.' ee , .
receiving the news of this instant ossihilatiea if a . •
whole family, we shall not incur to deseribe.--(Leali i . 1 ..,.
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