The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-08-04 00:00:00

tHR PORTANOUTII BANK.

lI.IPAIITt TUI *maxims 1/1 Tilt NI ATTU OF MOM*
AND OTHERS, ID INILIOFTS.

Tito Loan Cstancattoe sold, he had read the P.-
tithing and affidavits in this matter, and that he found
it extremely difficult to form a decided ("kilns ma
the subject. The first Petition to which he bed litre
his attention was that presented yesterday; the nett
was the Petition of the assignees themselves, is •hich
they stated their reasons for (kitbag/ whether there
was a petitioning creditor's debt. If there bad been
no such debt, be meld not see hew they could have
tried she qeestion at low, because, unless there bed
been a petitinnieg creditor's debt, a Court of Law
'Geld not have eatertsioed the action. They, how.
ever, had tried the action, and therefore it was to be
inferred that there was a good debt. Be wished I.
speak at prosiest with the pistol' reserve on the
subject, bet, without giving any jedicial spieler he
mmu say, that he was not surprised at the verdict
which the Jury had given respecting the talidity of
the acts of hesikreptcy ; he did not lee, iodated.
I how they could have returned any other verdict.—•
There wee oleo a third Petition, praying on thews*
grounds es the one be bad last mentioned, that the
Cnutatimion might be superseded. Now he felt IS
prospect so many objectless to keying a second Come
mini°o while the lust was stetting, that he thought
it better, before deciding en the Petition that prayed
the Court to adept that coarse, to hear the Petition
for sepermding the Careimission. Hie Lordship
said, that when they had gat through the Seal, a day
should be fixed for beating all the Petitisea together.

Tatterday the Passes Ranger ar,lreil et Carlton.
Amuse, from Hampton Court. Hitt au's' Moms
sfierwards gees an audierice to Viscount Came.
Remsd.

OA Mends, esnreleg 0.. Witten. domestic phy.
dean to the Duke end Drams of KENT, end Mr.
PMIOIIIW, tepee to their Royal Weans's, et.
tended at Kenviegtee Palace, le vaccinate the infant
Princess.
RiKAIILAILI Couvretrizace.--There ate lee le.
dividuals in this City, pertains in twigless, who
each married their coasia—each family have had
three children dead--..each of them have had tee
children who died within seven days of each other
...sad each a sea bliad of the right eye.—(Gleagete
Carrier.)
Wa ere Informal by a Gentlemen who left Sher.
field the last week, that in one waggon he saw 333
dead dogs carried net far interested, sad 230 the
succeeding day. The slaughter occurred la swam.
qeence of the late lamentable instances of bydropboo
his le that town, which had induced a town's Meet.
log to be convened, and a reward of 31. trash 'feted
for their &attraction. We hope the user* of
dogs In this town will, define the ',relent het wee.
tber, keep them confined. We cannot beer of the
melancholy eminences et Sheffield without otiose
se
Leeds Paper.)
Another dreedfal accident by the 'apiaries of gat,'
at the Klrkless Cannel-werka, near Wigan, weir.
I red on Moodily, the 19th alt. One young man was
killed on the spot, and 11 other seen were severely
Injured, through this distressing occerreace. The
accident was occasioned by a doable negligence; first,
lin one of the men having having propped open the
door of an titian, (which would ntaterivis• have
shot itself), on the Saturday evening, whereby a
large qoantity of gas had accentalated ; and weed,
In the 'eon' man who lest his lift hating been seat
forwbrd in the pit with a naked candle os Monday
(Morning, when the workmen were about to cow.
meet, their labours. The father of the unfortenate
young man was fined for a similar esteligence is e•
gird to as air-gate, about a fortnight before. Am
eaplesioe, arising from the same combined cause,
which prodeced the present calamity, also occurred
et then works almost twe years ago, sad yet the safety.
; lamps do not seem to be in use among them!
Yesterday, at nnin. Williams Manley, • most in.
corrigible young thief, aged only 13 years, was pals.
licly *hipped at Kessuitsgton-cress, for rep used acts
of delinquency in that neighboarbeed ; hr had been
only It days discharged from jail, where he had bees
ander sentence on a charge of Wally. He was sp.
prehended by *iniitb, the constable of Lembeth.
J. Fitzgerald, a ste.a.lrollieri man, about 30 years
of age, who travels on a sledge. has been committed
to the nose of Correction, at Kendal. for 'piney.
Dating his esarnination, h, adtoo•lellged that be
had been a member of the '• 11-ggar.' Opera," is St.
Giles's—that be bad ftecinently gut finm five to ten
guineas a week in Landon by biting—and that al
Lord Nelson's funeral he gni tasessigfire guineas!
lie has travelled f,equently thr..egh every part of the
kingdom, and has been reamitted for vagrancy up.
words of eighty times. Ile complained gri ly of
eke trade being so bod—that somebody had spoiled
it, both there end elsewhere—and that begging was
above a hundred a yflar 'cum itAii it used to be.