The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-02-18 00:00:00

TIIE STATESMAN.

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L4W INTELLIGENCE;. tier, an agreement was entered into by the Defen-
r— ' dant, by which le bound himself not to dispose of
COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Ira. 17.
• similar machines to any other person, or to protuul-
cotes V. ROBINS, gate the secret of the invention. In consequence of
This was an action brought by the Assignee Of a this agreement, the Defendant made and •delivered
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bankrupt against Mr. Robins, a respectable auctio- two sets of said machines to the Plaintiff, and re-
neer, to recover the value of a certain quantity ceived for them 1501. The remaining pert of the
of
silver goods given to the Defendant by the bankrupt 12001. he was to receive when the•third was delivered.
to sell, previous to hi *bankruptcy, the produce of The Plaintiff then proceeded to manufacture his
boxes; and was enabled to sell a vast number of
ithem at the rate of 12s. the gross. He had not
at
which was paid over to the bankrupt, after he had
continued his trade, however, before he found that
committed an act of bankruptcy but which act, at
the time of his making the paymeet, was wholly un-
known ts.the Defendant, Robins. 1 ' some other person had got into the market, and sold
Mr. GNRROW, for the Plaintiff, contended, that
Ibexes of precisely the same description at Bs. the
any payment made to a bankrupt, after he had corn-
gross Alarmed at this, he made some enquiries, and
muted an act of bankruptcy, was void, and the as-
discovered that the Defendant had admitted some
signee had a right to recover the amount against the other person to the secret, and thereby prevented
party so paying it. I him from reaping those advantages which he had
TOPPING, for the Defendant, on the other every reason to anticipate. The Defendant also re-
hand, contended, that by the protecting clause of the fused to furnish to the Plaintiff the third machine
Act of Parliament, if any debt was bona fide paid agreed for.
to the bankrupt, without any notice of the act of The facts having been proved by sati factory evi.
bankruptcy to the party paying it, this was a good dence, the Jury returned a verdict for the Plaintir
and valid payment in law, and no action could Damages 601.
. afterwards be maintained by the assignees of such
bankrupt against the person who had so paid the
money over without previous notice of the act of
bankruptcy.
The catalogue of the sale being proved, and the
payment to the bankrupt being admitted,
Lord ELLENBOROUGH, in addressing the Jury, ad-
verted •to the words of the Act of Parliaments
which provided, that any payment made to a bank-
rupt in the Course of trade, without knowledge of
the Act of Bankruptcy in the party making such
I payment, was good. His Lordship then observed,
that, as soon as Mr. Robins had sold the goods, he
Ibecame the debtor of the man who had deposited
them with him, and in this case it was admitted that
Mr. Robins had paid the produce bona fide to the
person who had deposited the goods with him for
sale. It was impossible for Mr. Robins to prove that
he had no knowledge of the act of bankruptcy, but
the onus lay upon the Plaintiff to show. that he had
knowledge or notice, and inasmuch he had not pro-
duced any evidence to that effect, his Lordship di-
rected the Plaintiff should be Nonsuited.
• THE KING B. SMITH.
This was the case of the indictment for a libel
against several persons, at the prosecution of a per-
son of the name of Fitt, which was called on upon
Saturday last, and the trial postponed on account of
the absence of the Prosecutor. The cause being the
first called on this morning for trial, the Prosecutor
attended in person, amid again applied to postpone
the trial, alleging that he had not been able to pro-
cure the attendance of his witnesses.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

~Yesterday the Sessiont. coMmenced at the Sessions'
'llouse, Clerkenwelkreen.
Robert Kendal: was Indicted for uttering a bad
seven-shilling piece,to Merritt, landlord of the
Bull public-house, .Drury-lane.. it appeared from
the statement of the Prosecutor that. the Prisoner
was at his house on the sth' Of' September last, had
something to drink, and tendered a seven-shilling
piece in payment, which, on his examining it, proved
to be a bad one. The Prisoner then offered him an-
other, which was bad also, upon which Mr. Merritt
had him taken into custody. When the officer took
him into custody, he took some money out of his
pocket, and threw it down on the floor, which was
!'afterwards picked up, and proved to be had.
The Prisoner, in his defence, said he was farmer .
of a toll gate, in Northamptonshire, and came to
London to receive a considerable sum of money,
I and, having got it, in his way to his inn he met a
woman, of the town, and accompanied her home,
when she picked his pocket of 401. He gave her a
note to get changed, and amongst the change she
gave him the bad money in question, which he did
not diccover till he called at Mr. Merritt's, and ten-
dered it in payment for what he had.
The CH.IIRsIAN desired the Jury to consider their
verdict, raid, if they had any doubt at all of the Pri-
soner's guilt, to give him the benefit of these doubts.
He reminded them that the Act of Parliament in this
case was imperative on the Court, as to the sentence
i it should pronounce on the Prisoner, if convicted.

Lord ELLEN lionouGu, however, thought sufficient
indulgence had already been granted him, and re-
fused the application. The Jury being sworn and no
evidence produced, they accordingly found a verdict
of Acquittal.

The Jury, after a short consultation, found the
Prisoner—Gaiky.
The Court sentenced him to be imprisoned six
months, aad at the expiration of that time to find
security for his good. conduct. for six months longer.

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. POLICE. ' 1
QUEEN-SQUARE.
Swramixa.—The examination of Hemmerson,
alias Stevenson, alias .Ssh, alias Leigh, alias
Brown, with a var'...ly of other names, and bis wife,
was renewed yesterday, and the male Prisoner, who
is in the King's Bench, at a civil suit, was not
brought forward. It appeared that the two Prjson-
, ers have, in a short interval of time, obtained goods
of different trades people, to the amount of more
than 10001. The Prisoners occasionally figured
away in a chariot, or curricle, and represented them.
selves to be nearly allied to zi: family in the West of
England, whose names they assumed. The principal
sufferer is Mr. Reviere, jeweller, in Bond-street, who
furnished the Prisoners with goods to the amount of
4001. and upwards. This case, amongst others, was
entered' into, as was also one preferred by Mr. Par-
ker, gun-maker. The male Prisoner ordered a single
and a double-barrelled gun, the former of which was
paid for, and the Prisoner talked of the execution
belted done with it in Norfolk, but on the double-
barrelled
gun being sent agreeable to order, a pro-1
mised cheque for payment never was sent. It turned
out that a picture dealer in the Bench had got the
duplicates of the greater part of the property, and
the articles had fallen into the bands of Solomon, a 1
Jew dealer, to whom the picture dealer owed money. 1
The charges were so numerous, that the further ex-
amination was postponed to a future day. 1

On Tuesday, an inquest was held at Otley, in
Yorkshire, on the body of a Gentleman whose name
we forbear to mention, and who, on the preceding
Sunday, had put a period to.hia existence by a pistol.
It-appeared that he first came to Otley in April last, !
• had divided the intermediate time, between that place,
Harrogate, and Thorp-arch, visiting each alternately.
lle pointedly avoided all society, and devoted the
whole of his time to deeds of charity, never sufferiaga I
day to pass without distributing froni one to fifty
pounds in the course of the morning. On the Sab-
i bath he generally confined himself to the house,
avoiding religiously every secular pursuit. On the
Friday before his death, he came from Thorp-arch to
Otley. On his arrival, the people at the inn observed
a considerable change in him, his spirits were more I
depressed. Verdict—Lunacy. lie left a particular I
request to be buried in the church-yard at Kirby
Overblow, and he was there interred on Wednesday. •
RAMSGATE, FEB. 15.—The whole of yesterday it
blew a strong gale from the S. W. ; in consequence
of which several ships and vessels have taken shelter
in this harbour, some of them having lost their an-
chors and cables. The sloop Three Brothers, bf
Shoreham, in coming from 'harbour, was driven
against the pier-head, by which she carried away her
bowsprit, with other damage, and was obliged to
bear away for Broadstairs ; she was observed by the
boatmen there, who, with two lug-sail boats, put off
to her assistance; but they had not got ar from
the shore, when, owing to the violence of the wind
and seas, one of the boats ran foul of the other, and
upset her, by which accident, we are sorry to say,
that Mr. Oval and Mr. Job, .both of Broadstairs,
were unfortunately drowned; they have left wives
and families tolament their loss. The sloop got on
the rocks in going'intdßroacistairs ; bat by the
greatest'eaertions on the part bt the boatmen, she
was get off, and is now in the ha'rboar, and has sag- •
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