The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-08-07 00:00:00

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LAW INTELLIGENCE•

THE NEW INSOLVENT' ,ACT.
This Act is exactly eonfonisable.tw the Acts of this Mod of
former years, except in the following special enactments :
A,l persons in actual custody on the sth If Juni last, and whose
debts on that day did not amount to more than g,OOOl. are to he
retitled to the benefits of this Act.
%Isere the debts of prisoners exceed that suns, a Barrister of
each of the Conets I( ing's Bench, Corombn Pleas, and EXche.. !
quer, is to he appointrd to enquire into, the same s. MA If the
party he imprisoned nye years, he aball be discharged out of
triunity, sboteld his debts amount to 3,0001. 4 and'where the party
has been confined ten years, then to be discharged. whatever may I
he the amount of the debt or debts.
Prisoners not to he discharged for debts, incurred since the
mid sth of June.
Prisoners discharged subseqnent to thietth of June without
their consent, nevertheless to have the benefit of this Act.
Act not to extend to A ttorne) s or servants embezzling their
clients or employers money or property.
Nor to persons obtaining money or goods under false pre-
tences and fictitious names, except where they have been con..
Sued ten years.
Nor to persons in execution for damages for criminal conver-
Winn, or seducing, ISe. the daughter or female servant of the
Plaintiff, unless ten ) ears in prison.
Nor to persons heretofore remanded under former Insolvent
Acts, unless where they have been ten years confined.
Nor to persons confined for debts due to the ('rown, by of-
• fending against the lievenue, &c. unless the Treasury shall cer-
tify consent.
Nor to persons who hove taken the benefit of any Act of In-
, solvency passed wi,hin these last five y..ars.
Nor to Bankrupts in certain cases, ;miffs first they have con.
formed to the laws regarding Bankrupts. The same to be cerli-
lied by their Commissioners; provided always. thntsuch Bank-
rupt surrendered himself at least two years before the passing of
this Act.
This Act is to extend to the different Presiden ies In India.
and to Prince of .Wales's Island. But not to extend to the re-
lief of ',events confined in India, at the suit of the Last India
Company, unless the locql Governments in India consent.

COURT OF CHANCERY, Access. 6:
*2-PARTE TARLRY AND OVIEItS, 174 TUX NATTER OF
BOLDER° .CID GO. BANKItUrTS.
This was a Petition on the part of Messrs. Farley
end C 9. merchants, praying to he permitted to prove
a debt of 2,5001. undm, At the time of the bankruptcy,
and to be allowed to receive their dividend thereon,
deducting five per cent. fur the time the debt hail to
run.
Mr. Baer, for the Petitioners, stated,that Messrs.
Boldero and Co. previous to their bankruptcy, were
In the habit of receiving accommodations by loans of
money from different persons, and among others,
from the mercantile house of llnshington and Son,
who used to accept bills of exchange and procatre (Hs-
counts on them from third persons, paying the pro.
coeds into Messrs. Boldero's bank for their accom-
modation—that in the present instance, a bill was
drawn by the Petitioners on Messrs. Lushington and
Son, at six months, paying at Messrs. Boldero's, for
2,5001. and accepted by Lushington and Son, for
which the Petitioners gave a check on their hankers,
deducting the discount—this check was carried to
Messrs. Boldero's by one of the Petitioners, for the
use of Messrs. Boldero, who gave him an Undertaking
in the following terms :—" Understanding that
Messrs. lalshington and Son hare-accepted a bill for
us. we do assure you that Cie bill will he punctually
paid." The bill did not- become due until after the
b tohruptcy of Messrs. Bolder°. Mr. Hart conteud-
ed, that, according to the decision of a case before
Lord Mansfield, and some recent decisions, under
the 7th of the King, that the Petitioners were enti-1
Yesterday morning, a't Slo'clock, two houses in
tied to prove this undertaking as a debt upon the
bankrupts' estate, although subsequently due, and, Great . Russell-street, covent-garden, formerly the
also, thtts it came within the mea Wine of the previsions ; Blue Posts Tavern, which was under repair, fell to'
of the 49th of the King, by which contracts, hecom. I the ground with a tremendous crash. Unfortunately
big due after the banktuptcv, were considered as • at the time, several wormen, who were employed
debts claimable on the bankrupts' estates. lin repairing eve al
wese in different
Sir &swum. Rout I.
and Mr. Mos:asset:2, for • parts of the premises. 'The greater part of the crazy
the ns,ignees, contended, that this was not such'an edifice fell inwards, and buried nearly the whole in I
undertaking as came within the meaning of the Sta- i the ruins. Every effort was immediately made to'
tute of the 7th of the King, which expressly pro- I extricate the unfortunate sufferers, and palings were
Titled that the undertaking should set out the consi. erected across the street to Drury-lane Theatre, to t 4
deradoo given—no consideration being stated upon prevent their exertions from being impeded, and the
the face of the undertaking in question—neither did workmen continued at their labouts until night.—
it come within the sere of the 49th of the King, 1 SJveral were taken out of the cellar and ground
that Act being made for the purpose of giving simple floor, but as the materials of the building were light
contract creditors, whose debts had not become due: and unsubstantial, the lives of many were saved.— ,
previous to the bankruptcy, the same advantages of There were 16 persons in the interior of the miserable!
proving their debts under the commission, with ; building when it fell, those in the cellar escaped, but
holders of Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes ' many of the others dug out of the ruins, presented
becoclieg due after such bankruptcy, but was never ; miserable objects, and were conveyed to Middlesex
sweat to extend to undertakings dependitss upon a ; hospital, two of whom died, and three soon re-
contingency. This was nothing more than a mere turned and exerted themselves to recover others from
guarantee to pay the hill in rase of the non-payment' the ruins. A poor woman, who was passing when
by the acceptor, and the only question was, whether " the houses fell, is supposed to have been killed, as
it was such an undertaking as that the party could . her basket was fpund in the street, and she has not
maintain an action at law upon, at the time of the since been heard of. As far as we have been able to
bankruptcy taking place; they contended it was not, collect, two were killed, and five others languish
that it was a mere guarantee upon a contingency, and under their bruises. Miss Mellon, who occasionally
could not he enforced by law, until.the non-payment resided in an adjoining house, quitted it on Monday
of the Bill of Exchange by the acceptor, of which last. About a month ago the front wall of the pre-
there was no proof in this MP. miser were thrown down and rebuilt. A multitude
The LORD CHANCEGLOIt said, this wits neither a; of persons assembled the whole of the day before
Bill of Exchange nor Promissory Note, so ns to j the ruins.
bring it within the meaning of those Si' .tutes; the I
only question was,' whether an' action at law could!
be maintainedupott it. The inrliaatinn of his mind
was the other way, but if the party wished to try the I
question, he had nn objection, and in that case the
less he said upnu it the hatter. •
Sir SAMUEL ROIIII4.LLY Red Ms. NioNtrAcc ethongnv
there was no questicin to try. but Mr. HIRT thought
otaerwiie, at:d the matter steed over.
GARDINF.D AND (Alms, C. Astrvisst AND NASSAU.
This. was the case nrutioned in our Paper of yes-
Imlay, which came oft upon demurrer to the Plain-
tire bill.
Mr: lIART was heard at some length in support of
the demurrer, end
The LORD CRAstccrEow said, he should look over
the proceedings in the cause, and give his opinion
upon it to-morrow, or Saturday.

DREADFUL AC6IDENT.
[FURTHER PARTICkI.LARiI

MM•FAMTM 1kAL•.171,, IN THE MATTER OF SAMUEL
THOHNS ADAMS', A BANKRUPT.
This was the case of an application to supersede
the commission, upon the grounds of the Bankrupt
not being a tra:ler within the Bankrupt Laws.
The Bankrupt was described, in the affidavit to
support the commission, as a builder, scrivener,
dealer, mid chapman ; and the question was, whether
buying bosses, repairing them, and letting them
again, constituted a trader"within the meaning of the
Statuto, and the matter stood over until the Bank-
rupt should. make an affidavit as to the manner and
period of his trading.
Mr. Ezscn, for thea§signees, stated, that he had
perused the affidavits, and was not able to sustain
any proof of a trading as a builder, previous to the
Bankrupt 'slimy 'nig his residence at Hampstead.
The LORD CHANCELLOR accordingly directed that
the-commission should be superseded.

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• • A Cenerel Order, dated the 20th of Jane, has
Item tinitnitted to all the regimental depots, stating
the Commander in Chief's pleasure, that arms and ac.
eouttementts rrflt net'be supillied for the full number
Of men presAit, is the nieri ordered for embark.
Ilion do not tike their arms and accoutrements with
thetn.
It is said that three line.of.battle ships and fourl
frigates' are to be detached from the Channel aqua.
dean for the coast.of America directly, and are to
be victualled and stored from the ships on that sta.;
ton.
The following is said to be an exact statement of
the daily allowances granted to the prisoners of war
In France, at the regular &pots, calculated for each
,huolred men : beef, 524 lib.—vegetables, .521 lib.
—irtrley, 100 oz. with as mach salt bs is sufficient ;
to season the broth, of 'which each man is allowed r
one ttuart; they ate allowed likewise, 150 lilt. of
bread, made of marketraile wheat, ground into
ilour, every thing included exceptthe broad bran.
PAVEMENT.,-L-The condition of the Metropolis, in
•Olmost all parts of the tliwn,-waanever. 16.1)E0 in this
respect as it Is at present ; independently of the in.
ionicnience which attends the operations of the
(irks' Companies, there Is • hardly a street ins
which there are not deep hales, and other dangerous
le4plualitic.; which are increasing every dayl

cured.

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' ..vim, , - - IRELAND.
*—,........ UNti;NestierrAfitm.Ly.
brought hrfnre
j- r* •, - 'ANTRIM ASSIZES, JULY 25. . •
1-• ,1 f. ---- 'sharks Barker was
MURDER. 'Sitting Magistrate, by Got and Friend, the afi,
itiontiramery Brown stood indicted for the mur-• •
by whom he was apprehended, charged with art
der of Cherie, Moore, at Belfast, on the ad of Sep. away two boys, named NVni. Bellamy and Ch;
tember, 1811. This trial had been put off last Ilinchcliffe, and selling them as chininey-sweep.
Assizes, on account of the absence of a material wit- a man named Rose, who resides at Kingston.
mess on behalf of the Prisoner; and an application ker was remanded till Saturday, to afford the oi
was now made to the Court for a similar purpose an opportunity of apprehending another man
upon the affidavit of the Prisoner, but refused by ; was concerned with him.
the Judge. I The boys are about nine years of age, and
Counsellor MACAWINtY rose on behalf of the pro-' price obtained for them was 7s.
secution. Ile stated, that on the 3d of September,t Chambers was charged with having def;
1811, Prisoner was Captain of a vessel then lying at ;ed his employer, J. Groombridge, Esq. of 5;
the quay of Belfast ; deceased, was a respectable i well, of It. 15s. c.d.
victualler in Belfast, and Prisoner came to his shop ; It appeared, that he had been employed he
to purchase some meat ; deceased had been married ;G. to purchase some fruit-trees for him of M,
about a year, and a young child; thefreiterf such ; Malcolm and Sweet, nurserymen, at Stockwel
marriage, was then in the shop; and deceased taking I a list of the trees wanting was delivered to him
up the child, asked Prisoner, " Was not that a fits i however, being unwell, another man eas eats
fellow ?" Prisoner answered, ." Yes, to be the ;to get the trees, to whom they were accordinal
child °tan Irish b—r." Deceased replied, " Why livered, and who received the bill, amounti
not by an Irish as well as a Scotch b—r r' Peed se Bs. This bill, he did not deliver to Mr. G.
Feuer. being a Scolchman. Prisoner replied, "He i Chambers, who, having obtained a printed WI
would make him repent saying that." Deceased then'
the fie•emaii of Messrs. Malcolm and Sweet,
turned away; not expecting so fatal a result, when loot a new bill to his master, in which he M
the Prisoner seized a large knife which lay in the I
I him 51. 4s. for the trees, and putting a receipt
shop, and stabbed the deceased in the back of his i bill in the name of Messrs. Sweet's forms.
loin ; of which wound he languished for a few days, t ceived the money from Mr. Groombridge. 01
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paid then died. covering these circumstances, which be did by
Several witnesses were examined, whose unani- I lag to Mr. Sweet some time afterwards, Mr. G,
onus testimony weut to establish those facts. . bridge applied for a warrant, and had Chai
The Jury, after retiring about ten minutes, re-. taken auto custody. Ile was committed for '
turned a verdict of--,Guiley. mination on Saturday.
The CLERK of the CROWN then addressed the Pri- QUCEN.SQUARE.
sonar in the usual form :—" Yee, Montgomery FORGERT.YeSterdßyilgeutleinan was hrom
el: own, heretofore stood indicted for the wilful mute for examiiiation, oil a charge of having uttered
i der of Charles Moore, for trial of which you put forged Bank-note, purporting to be a note
yourself on God and your country, which country 1 Governor and Company of the Dank of Englat
have found you guilty : what have you now to say,' It was stated in e,, idence by Mr. Meddoe's 1
why judgment of death and execution should not be King-street, Westminster, that the .Prisoner
awarded against you according to law ?" to his father'sv- on the 16th of July, about hat
t PnisoNett—" My Lord, if lam guilty of it I ten o'clock at night, and after Inving some se%
know nothing of it ; I had no malice to the gentle- water, tendered to him the note in question.
man ; I iiv.l not know I acted the crime." ing to have change, which wai given him
The JUDGE then addressed the Prisoner in nearly being sent to the Bank proved to be a forget,
the following terms : t a few days afterwards he came again, and his
" Montgomery Brown, you have been found ( being recognised, he was apprehended. Thi
guilty of murder, on clear and most satisfactory 1 mony was also corroborated by the servani
evidence. Iris very true you had no previous ma- Several respectable witnesses were then called,
lice to this unfortunate man. Your Jury have been i clearly proved an alibi ; and that on the evee?
told so ; but they have found you guilty of inflict- I laded to, when the above transaction took
ing a mortal wound, without the slightest provoca- 1 the Prisoner was at the time in Princes-street,
tion. It is proper that the equity of the law under . tester-fields.
' which you suffer should be laid before the eyes of This alibi being perfectly satisfaitory to
this country. You have been found guilty of plung- gistrate, and the Solicitor of the Bank, I
lag a knife into the body of the innocent victim boner, after a confinement of several days
—a deadly weapon—with the utmost malignity of occasion, was discharged.
heart, and hurried a young man, recently mar- SNADWELI. POLICE-OFFICE.
vied, out of the world. A greater crime you John Barbell, alias Brews, was yesterday
could not be guilty of : precipitating him to the up, charged with a highway robbery. Oa 1
grave in the prime of life; depriving his child of a day evening, about eight o'clock, three forte
father, and his wife-of a loving husband. You have men being in company together, in the nei
committed that crime which stands marked with the hoed of Radcliff, were met by a gang of pick
utmost abhorrence of Heaven. You stepped between three or four in number, one of whom (the
him and that Providence,• of that God, who alone made an attempt to rob the present Prosecut;.
has a right to dispose of human life ; and. you are •watch. In this attempt he failed, bet succeed,
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-- --- deprived of the unavailing plea of unceusciousness iu taking from him his pocket-book, containne-
Pluvvinearriar.ESCAPE.—The passengers on West. , the commission of this direful crime, unless your twenty-two pounds. Being pursued, he th
minster-bridge, on NVednesday last, were alarmed having no provocation is to be considered a proof of pocket-book over a wall, where it was found.
by the eries of some person in distress, and on look- i
your madness. This was the madness of wickewiess ; Prisoner was fully committed for trial.
ing over the battlements to ascertain the cause, they . and you have given vent to your brutal fury in the
'observed a boy half immersed in water., clinging to sacrifice of this innocent man. lam now bound to
one of the buttresses. They immediately gave the tell you, you are to expect no mercy in this world ;
alarm to the watermen at the stairs, two of whom here you have but a short time to' life. The law,
rowed to the spot • before they reached the boy, how- to mark its abliorrence of your•crinae, has shortened
ever, he was so exhaustedl that he had let go his hold , the period of your existence. That short interval
and was carried up the stream by the tide. They i
-m- I employ in seeking the mercy of Heaven. Let not
mediately followed him and were fortunate enough to I your mind be distracted with any vain hopes of
save him. On conveying him to the shore, he said mercy in this world." His Lordship then proceeded
he had fallen oil' one of the barges at the Strand-: to pronounce the awful sentence of the law, in the
bridge, and had sustained himself thus far by swim- ! usual solemn terms, viz.--To be hanged oh onday,
wing. I • and his body to be delivered to the Surgeons of the
Monday se'nnight, as Robert Stewart was em- l County Infirmary for dissection. The Prisoner
ployed grinding smoothing-irons at the Saracen-lane!
; made no reply, but was silently removed to tho
Foundery, Glasgow, the grindstone, which is driven I jaih
by steam, split in four pieces, one of which struck ! ...._
him in the head, knocked out one of his eyes and a EXECUTION OF MONTGOMERY BROWN.
number of his teeth, and shattered his jaw-hone in a This-unfortunate man, from the period of receiving
dreadful manner. He was carried to the Infirmary, senteece of death, spent his few remaining hours in
and, we 'understand, hopes are entertained of his re. ; acts of devotion, in which he was assisted by the
covery. The stone flew with such velocity, that, af- , Presbyterian Clergyman of the perish. His wife
ter wounding the unfortunate man, it forced its way ! was also his companion during these solemn hours of
out at the roof of the house. . !preparation for death. Monday, about three in the
We understand that,an elegant Observatory is. to ,• afternoon, she was withdrawn from him, as also his
be erected on the Calton-hill, by the Astronomical ; daughter. But previous to his leaving the jail, about
Institution of Edinburgh, from the designs of a ce-1 half-past five o'clock, they were permitted to have a
lebrated architect. Till this building is completed; ; last interview with him for a few minutes. He was
the old observatory is to be furnished with meteor*: ; then conducted from the prison to a chaise, in which,
logical, astronomical, and optical instruments, for; also the Clergyman accompanied him, and thus at-
the use of the Proprietors and the Subscribers to ' tended, he was conveyed to the common place of ei-
the Institution. Sir George Mackenzie, Bart. the • ecution, escorted•by the Sheriff, and a very strong
Vice-President of the Institution, has prevented" it ..
geerd of lhe Pembrokeshire sharp-shooters, new sta.:
with a very valuable. two-feet Gregorian telescope, tioned at Carickfergus. Having arrived at the fatal
elegantly mounted with horizontal and vertical move-' spot, he spent nearly half an hour in-devotional ex-
metes. ! ercises, and then the necessary preparations were
AN UNILEPECTED VOYAGE.—A Gentleman in the made for the finishing of the law. ile ascended a
neighbourhood of Downing-street, being at Deal, be- car with the executioner; and having addressed the'
came acquainted with some Officers belonging to a surrounding spectators, an immense multitude, be
frigate laying off that station, who, invited him to dine , admonished thorn in a particular mutter to avoid the
on board; and their invitation being accepted, he sin of drunkenness, and to guard agniast passion.—
went on board, unknown to his relations, on the day , After he had delivered a few words to this effect, he
appointed, when, after partaking of an excellent din- !, was launched into eternity, and when the body had,
nor, and a copious quantity of wine,. signal was un- ; been suspended the usual length of time, it was taken'
expectedly made for the vessel to sail immediately for • down and carried to the Old Court-house; where his
Gibraltar, and no boat being near to bring him on afflicted family waited to receive it. .
shore, he was obliged to extend his visit to that quay- I —
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ter of' the globe, from whence he was put on hoard I
i Detachments of the 3d and sth Drapes Guards,
the' fit st vmeel for England, and tainted at Ports- • and ast, 3d, and 4th Dragoons, marched on Satur.
mouth, after an absence of fifteen weeks, and ar- day and Monday from the depot at Canterbury, for
rived in town, a few days ago, to his family, who, embarkation nt Portsmouth. •
with their near connections, had given him up for I A remarkable instance of the fectindity of bees lately'
Go. - -
i occurred at Meiklebog, a high lying farm in the Ala.:
Seven bodies of the sufferers at Felling colliery re- bey parish of Paisley. Mr:Mattliew Sprawl, farmer
main undiscovered. Those that have been found are ~.. there, has a hive two years old, which, in the course
Al miserably burnt or mangled, and have every ap- iOf last. year,' swarmed only once.; but to the
peanencie of having died instantaneously. ' . ; amoalshment of 'every person in the neighbourhood,
A ft* thlys'ago, while the Ostler at the Bell Inn, ' ne less than four line swarms have been titely pro-
.,.
Thames:street,- Bristol, was dressing -a Gentleman's' dared from the'same hive, within the. short • period
'horse, the animal' took a fancy to his nose, tore . of 18 days, viz. on the 10th, 20th, 23d, and 28th of
- nir, and *dealy eat it I The man' is now at the ' July. This Is Allowed ace. be the most etticoMmon
-.try, where the wound will of court. 4.1 instance of prolificetioti over kaowe iii this Pert of
theeceintry.- - .: 5i...i;.. ~ • • . • •.,.t :: , :.. ..:
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POLICE.

On Wednesday se'nnight, an unfortunate
stance took place at. lionnpatrirk. A I
named Richard Ker, was stabbed in his own
another butcher, named John APKeoren. It
that no previous quarrel had taken place bet,
parties ; but, on the contrary, Ker had been
habit of frequently chliging M'Keown with
of mon‘y ; and the only cause which can be
for this wanton and barbarous act, was a
observation froth Ker, respecting four guineas ,
previously lent M•Keown to purchase sheep.
which the latter had spent at a cock-fight.
grateful villain was instant!y secured, and, we
stand, has been put on his trial at the Asir
holding at Downpntrick. Ker bore an
character : he was not dead when our accoi
away, on Thursday eveniug, but there is
whatever. of his recovery. The wound was
with a large butcher's knife, in the groin.
was in the act of hanging up a sheep. A tn.
the Gentlemen of the Grand Jury effendi
wounded man, previous to finding the bill -
ment.—(Freeman's Journal.)
HORRIBLE ACCIDENT.—Four fine •child
longing to Richard I3uilth, a 'clay labourer.
beydore, were consumed by fire in their
cottage, on Thursday se'nnigbt. Their moll
hired herself at a neighbour's house to billy
and left her children in the cottage, desiri
oldest, who woo only five years of age, to'
of the others, the youngest of whom was
ing child. It could .not he known how
caeght fire, for the whole was in a conliagral
fore it was discovered. In a case of such
lated misery the parish have liberally subscrii
relieve the unfortunate parents, now pre"'
more.
A little boy, playing in the Commercial-
yesterday ruu over by one of the East India
pany's caravans, and is not expected to live.

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BIRTH.
ineeterttay morning, the Lally of R. Bernal, FAq.
street, Wiesell-square, of a .on.

MARRIED.
Oo Wednesday last, at Tunbridge, 'Thomas Walk.
-Broad-street-buildings. to 'Jane, daughter of James
El, of lilabledno. Kent.
esterday at North Cray, John Chrisp, Esq.
'Mee-et, to Elin Scott, daughter of John Scott, Esq.
.Cmy-place.
On Wednesday morning, at Mary-le-bone Chu!
%ion Fag. of the Honourable East India Company
Civil 'Eatablisliment, to Alicia Anne, youngest daughter
Opts Win. Rnislioson, Esq.

DIM).
In
hoofNovembr 1811, John Rpm, Fsq. Judr am!
itt tbe Zill Trichluopoly, third ion of the
John Brig'.
On the Mb alt. Jetvie Aspabia, the *We of F!
Campbell, ER. of Barbruk, to Argyle...shire.

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