The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-05-29 00:00:00

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Walter Wombwell, Ev 4: • very fatiblonable look-
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Mr: BARRY ermarelobierel in behalf :of a•creditor
named• Stephen Beetle, to whom adebt 0f%11.31. wail
deafer the rent of a bow, and for hay and corn for
e heroes. The ismaned Counsel grounded his
ibjection to the Issaiimmeadiseharge on that clause
of Cho Act ‘which reieses:aid. its any person who has
ass.ratted debts iwithout.probsele means of paying
, ..ble. Wombwell, in answer to questions from Mr.
ilkOalr, stated, that in the month of •July, 1816, he
had taken. house from Mr. Beetle, at a rent of 2001.
ausses. He .thee kept up an .establishment,
i having two men and one female servant,
nod frequently more. He nasally had four horses,
land at times a larger -number. His rank, when he
'kept up this establishmerit, Was that of a Lieutenant
4isthei Ist regiment of Life Geards ; the pay of that
commission was about 7s. a day, deducting stop-
*pages. He would be 23 years of age nest July. Oa
attaining 21 he inherited i property which was at.
ready spent; it produced about 14,0001. and one.
half went to liquidate debts before he was of age,
and the remainder for those contracted since. lie
hail lived sis mouths in the hoes* of the opposing
creditor, and paid him 1001. for the rent of that pe.
riod. After the last quarter he offered him 251. if he
would take back the key, as he found the establish-
ment bad outgrown his means, but the man refused,
sod persisted in holding him responsible for the
whole year.
The COUttT." Mr. Barry, your Client has made
a bed election."
The objection was overruled.
Mr. Thomas Bernard, a creditor, stepped forward,
and asked the Court whether he was nut entitled to
oppose, as Mr. Wombwell told hint that his Agent,
Mr. Biros, owed him 2001. out of 1,8001. fur which'
his Commission sold, though now there was no such
debt inserted in the schedule? Since this Geretlemen
was in prison, he also occasionally drove out with AI
same horse and gig he had before his arrest, and tili4
property was omitted among his effects. i
Mr. Wombwell, in his esataitiation on Mr. Bert
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nerd's objection, denied Navin; represented the Agen 1
to be his debtor in the manner mentioned, and stated
that the horse and gig belonged to a dorse.dealer in
Pimlico. He had paid this creditor over 2001. in the
COWS* of his business.

This objection was also over-ruled.
A creditor, named John 'Prattle, now came for.
ward to oppose, and stated, that Mr. Wombwell had
hired &horse from him for two days, to go down to the
place where the officers kept Nair hunters; that he
had sent his servant shortly afterwards to ask whe-
ther the witness would sell the horse; he agreed to
du so ' • Mr. W. however, newer came near him to
conclude the purchase, but sold the horse.
Mr. PoLcoca, fer the Insolvent, hete called the
attention of the Court to the written notice of oppo-
sition pet in by Mr. Trattle, which ran thus—
" that he (Mr.. W.) had hired the horse, and after-
warda agreeivi4 to purchase it," bad disposed of it in
such and much a manner.

The Coo We acted upon the written document, and
over-ruled the objection.
Mr. Womb well was accordingly dissharged.
LEE AND caucus a. BARRETT.

Robert Barrett, a very aged man, was opposed by
Messrs. Lee, Carmichael, and Co. brazil manufac-
turers, at Kidderminster, for a debt of 2,7001. end
odd, being the amount of goody of theirs, for which
the lnsolvent, as their agent, had made no return.
Mr. PoLLOCK, for the opposing creditors. stated,
that Mr. Barrett was their servant, or agent, in a
warenriase they had in London, and bad converted to
his own we this property.
Q.—•• You owe Messrs. Lee and Co. between 2
and 3,0001: ?
The Insolvent—" No, I do not ; they have taken
away all the books, and I cannot make up the ac-
enema. If I could, it would appear that they owe
me 9,6005." _ _

Mr. IIEATH, on the part of the Insolvent, pot in
the original agreement between him and the opposing
creditors, the substance of which was, that he should,
as their salesman in London, have a commission of
21 per cent. on all the goods he could sell among his
own connections,and that he should pay five per cent.
on all losses or bad debts. Now, the Learned
Counsel said, the opposing creditors wanted to make
him appear it mere--mweatet, though he had always a
discretionary power in the course of a trade where
large losses had occurred, for which it was now
sought to hold him responsible, and to remand him to
prison for ten years, under the clause of a breach of
trast between servant and master. If it were merely
foi the five years remand, the unfortunate Insolvent
tarseld: have no occasion to Brion his case before the
'Cyan, for he was already in actual custody since Au-
gust, 1813! The Learned Counsel added, that so far
from the Insobreut's being (lie servant of the opposing
creditors, they. used ideally to draw bilk upon him in
his awn name, to the amount of nearly 10,0001. and
desired him to sell at any price to raise the money for
their accommodation. -
The COURT, after reviewing the arguments on
both sides, decided, that the 34th section of the Act
Could not be extended so as to apply to the Insolvent
as a servant defrauding his waster.—(le was, there-
fore, discharged.
BLAIR AND OTHERS V. LEWIS.
John Lewis was opposed, first by Ur. BARRY, who
eXansined him at considerable length. The Insolvent
stated, that he bad originally been a clock-maker,
and afterwards 66 in the merchant line."
The Comet.—`c What do you mean by the mer-
chant line ?"

The Insolvent replied, he meant the butter line
and the timber. 'line. It was three years since he
quittedatiock.making, and became a general merchant
with a capital or 1001. but he had lost money in all
bis pursuits, gild was now in debt nearly 10001. On
being asked, IVhere were his books ? he said, the,
were in the Kiog's Bench, and described them to be
a book of accounts and a memorandum-book—the
termer about sight inches long. and the Igitaramdtpr.
'rite Cnour, on reference to the Insolvent's oche.