Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-08-05

On Saturday, the 28th of June, Lord William
GodolphInO Osborne, son Of the British Duke Of Leeds
q young man Of twenty-five, appeared before the
cambridge lnsoiyent Court, as bankrups, whose
application for discharge was opposed BY MS cred
tiers. The case as it appeared ON the ELIMINATION
was curious and pitltu one The opposition was
made under the act Of Parliament which Oivps the
Judge the power of Furnishing any insolvent who
had been guilty Of fraud, or obtaining goods under
false pretences.
The sad aspect of the case is that this Young man
fourth son of the Duke of Leeds and scion there
fore Of one of the nobiest houses In England had
been brought up by his father without Occupation
or business, and with scarcely M allowance tor his
personal expenses-and thus treated and neglected
he fell RmoLg bad associates and contracted ebts 10
money lenders, at most exorbitant rates. He seens
to have deluded himself with the notion thar his
father w0nld, when It came TO the noint helm him
out of these troubles. Until he was of age he had
only 4lz or 500 year'as an allowance from his
father, which, when he came of age, was increased
TO 9lO0 On this he married. and it is given 10 his
credit that he incurred no more debts Bnt his
creditors, for debts contracted when he was under
age, pursued HIM 20 insolvency, and finally arraien
ed him as criminal he was not so very extraya-
CANT considering his position for the whoIe sun If
his debts was only sI066 6s IId.-scarcelv more
than S5O00 and of this 1852 was without consider
aton-usurious interest paid to a very low class of
brokers, into whose hands he had fallen They
would give him five pound note for his note for
/ twenty pouuusy anu renew IL Oy adding on five
pounds or ten pounds, and so on with every renew
al. This young gentleman had credit with a tailor
and used TO raise few pounds or shillings by Civ
| ing orders to some of these Earples Tor suits Of
clothes. Ali this was very reckless and very re
pFehensbei but the original responsibility is in tbs
neglect Of all moral training by the loidly father
| who seems to have provided no occupation for hi
son, and to have cared for nothing he was doing
and when he got into difficulties, to have abandone,
him, without conjunction, to a disgraceful punish
melt The law of England is very rigid, as to tn
contraction of debts without some visible and fai
prospect of payment, and the court did not ALLOW
the expectation, by this youth that his father wOu
pay the debts, to be a lawful expectation on whic
TO run in debt
Lord William Godolphin- Osborne was therefor
sentenced to Sir months Imprisonment a fraudU
lent debtor.
The Duke of Leeds who treats his sons in thi
unfeeling manner, is not the same Duke of Iced
who married one of the Baltimore Cations grand
daughter of Charles Carroll, of CarrotOn. Tha
Duke is dead, and left no children. The pressn
Duke is, we believe, cousin OF the former and was
| previous to his accession 70 the Dukedom known a
Lord GodOlphin There are not many peers or geI
tlemen who would permit son to be disgraced
penal Imprisonment for the want of five thousAn
dollars