Frmi the LONDON GAZETTE, Tuesday, Jaly 22, BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. Bowen W. Wihnslow, Chester, cotton-spinner. litt:sxtc► J. DIM/CS, Wilts, snuff:manufacturer. Boss S. Walkern, I f crti, farmer. SMITH D. Kirkburton, York, scribbling-millet. BAN Kiturrs. RolmTs S. Sheffield, spirit-merchant, Aug. I, 2, Sept. 2, at Shef field. Atts. Duke and Co. Cliancaty-lane. DAVIS W. Birmingham, brass-founder, Aug. 11, 12, Sept. 2, at Birmingham. Atts. Egerton and Co. Gray's-inn square. 111;NT LEV it. Ilowdon Pans, Northumberland, surgeon. July ;:n, Aug. 18, Sept. 2, at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Atts. Bell and Co. Cheapside. RAVEN W. Hartshorne. Derby, dealer, Aug. 1,2, Sept. 2, at Derby. Acts. New and Co. Henrietta-street, Covent-garden. ALIEN B. Leicester, fancy-trimming-manufacturer, Aug. 4,5, Sept. 2, at Leicester. Att. Mr. Taylor, John-street, Bedford-row. VALE T. Solihull, Warwick, corn-dealer, Aug. 13, 14, Sept. 2, at Birmingham. Atts. Muyrick and Co. Red-Lion-square. Corer—AND G. Bristol, dealer, July 23, Aug. 8, Sept. 2, at Bris tol. AU. Mr. King, Serjeants' Inn, Fleet-street. DIVIDENDS. W. and T. Lomb. Leeds, cabinet-makers, Aug. W. J. Inns and 11. Watkins, Bristol, chymists, Aug. 21. J. Lane, T. Fraser, and T. Boylsou, Nicholas-la. merchant, Aug. 12. T. Carlen and W. Wilson, Langbouni Chanib. coal-factors, Aug.lo. J. and T. Bell, Kingston-upon-Hull, merchants, Aug. W. J. Stott, Kingston-upon-Hull, merchant, Sept. 9. G. N. S. Chapman, Broughton Malkerb, Kent, dealer, Aug. J. Whittle, Liverpool, tailor. Aug. 15. W. Bragg, Whio:haven, grocer, Aug. 13. J. Nobl.:, Caton, Lancaster, silk.manufacturer, Aug. 13. 1. Beak, Town-mills, Bath, miller, .dug. 16. T. Ilinde,_ Liverpool, merchant, Aug. 1 - 9. P. Isaac, Queen-street, Bloomsbury, wine-merchant, Aug. 1.9.. J. Harrison, Manchester, plumber, Aug. 18. J. W. Hose, Bishop Tate-street, silk-mercer, Aug. 19.• CERTIFICATES, AUGUST 12. M. Ws.ltnn, Liverpool—D. Phillips, T. Wray. awl 11. Baker, York, merchants—J. Smith, Rath, broker—H. Mackenzie, Bar tholoww-lane, hankcr—W. Adam, Narrow-wall, I.arobeth, tim ber-merchant—ll. IMP, Benh:ll, Suffolk, farmer—W. Holding, Mark-lane, flour-factor—W. Robinson, Carlisle, mercer--D. Mit chell, Cullain..trect. tailor—J. Brown and A. Paterson, Fanners' Hail, Old Broad-urea, merchants. L4I INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY. RANELADH GARDENS. In tbis case, Sir S. Hominy applied for the appointment of a receiver of the rents and profits arising from the ground on which this place of former fashionable resort was situated, and which was now open to the public. There was another object in this, which wts, that the ground should be inclosed, in order to he turned to better account, for the benefit of the patties concerned. Mr. Hart, on the other side, had no ohjectiett to the up pointntent of a cm-river; but the parties for whom he appeared objected to the ground being used in any way but as pasture, which it was at present. The Lord Chancellor said, he would look at the bill and: an;wer. it was strange to Into that any of the parties should object to the improvement of the ground in question. Mr. unit hoped his Lordship would find on examination, that nothing of that kind could be imputed to his clients. The Lord Chancchor—" If you or I had fourteen acres of land situated where Ranelagh was, we should knoW how to make more of it than tutting it in pasture land." Sir A. Pigott moved, in the name of all the suitors of the Court, that from and after thc 21d of August next, the books .of the Acconutant Ciencral be closed till the Seal before the text Michaeltnas Term ; that during the interval no money be paid is or out of Court, and no order relating to elicit money hc, on any account, nuttle• by that Court : provided. however, that notice of this order be affixed in the several offices and court-homes connected with the Court. The Lord Chancellor—" Such a motionis very proper."— Order made accordingly. y_ COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JULY 21. IMPORTANT CAUSE. WARD AND OTHERS U. 60DHART AND °THAR!. Mr. Sprinkle stated that this was an action on a Police of insurance on house and property, destro:i ea by fire. The plaintiffs were the assignees of a bankrapt named punkin. and the defendants were the Phoenix File Office Company. 'lke Idia) , upon which Vic prescut action was brunght was for 35001 Mr. Gurney stated that the case to which he had now to gall the atifention of the Jury was one of a most serious de •ectiptiou. The great crum , tion which the Jury would have to decide svas nothing 1041 titan whether the plaintitlii were en. titled to recover, or whether the person who had effected the policy of insurance had been guilty of a capital felony. Mi. Gurney entered at length into a detail-of the circumstances.` -ittlewliw; that estraw d wary transaction, whirl' mere after wards detailed in the vidcure. He 1111 , !ei St ood the misfor• tunes of this unfortunate gentleman were now to be made ground of suspicion against ; but he w as persuaded the Jury would not consider a person whose house had once been burnt down, and who had lost inapt. by that inisliirtnne, 417. a per.un very likely to set tire to his house a seetnnt • tim, without has lag any iuthicenient. The Learned Conan' then proces ded to call his witnesses. Mr. John Dunkin was then called. Lo• rd li.llesehorongit said, he ought to apprize Mr. Death 'that, as reit:tilt questions might be put to idol in tf n ..,„, n ., or his examination which might tend to criminate himself, he leas mot boom] to such quesiiii, 'lke wit ni.-% thanked his Lordsiiip 1 . .. r his caution, but lie -sile.he..d to auswei e►ory question ia Inch might be put to biw. . . . . . . Lord Ellenhotongh repeated that the %Ones% was entitled to hnoself of the caution which Intu oven gt , . en 'aim, it •ite thunght tit to do so. 11a. Conte) . then e .ntinued his examination o( Mr. Dan ifn, t 1 itoess snceeeded hi, fatties, why rani , don bitsines. and (bed iu June 1814. lit the ntwoli of May, 1513,, 1311 e was burnt duA it; be Witt. 4 , that lime in • nred t but lint near 40001. by ttie fires tbs. Itospie ami •hatatlyaiuingle slut. S$ and a were Willll , bN pi -pert), •111i1 'reeholds. _Aft., the fir e in Nt.ty 1315, Aiitneta re,ailt ht. hou.e No. 33. upon which he ltd p.ll itpvedtda 014003.. and ueas 10001. Still le iitatitt,l due it. Otte of tiu- ai.iguees, Mr 01 oUtle, LIS hrieklay r, and Mesas. Mooh..c.,tie bad sot {'eyed and ex ampled hr 11114. • Witness herr, at the rni4(3:1:41 Seat - tett, the it (in-.. LTIONAL REGISTER. dant's Counsel, executed a release of all his claim to bene. fits from this action to his assignees. Witness renewed business immediately efter the fire, and in November effected an insurance in the Eagle for 10001. 00 stock. In January 1516 he insured in the Phernix for 35001. and in February he effected a farther inswauce on hit stock of 10001. iu the Eagle. In March and April he began to fly uish his house, and made an insurance of 3001. in the Eagle. In May he made a further insurance of 10001. on furniture. — In October 1815, he had insured his house, No.:i3, which was then covered in, for 25001 He previously enquired of the bricklayer and carpenter what the ha !ding was worth, and they said 25001. and advised him to inotre, fbr fear of acci dents; he never added any thing to this insurance, though lest before the fire happened, Mr. Ward advised hint to do so, In March 1810% he insured No. 34 for 15001. which price Mr. Spooner was, if he chose to become a purchaser of that house, to pay for it. At the time of the fire, the furniture in the house was worth 29901. On the day or Iwo previous to the fire, witness had had a bed charged in his uploilster's bill at 2101. and °I/wept-naive worth between 3001. and 4001. Mrs. Ounkin's clothes had also been brought into the home on the Monday before the lire, which took place un the Wednesday. He had rendered the different tradesmen's aceonnts to the Offices as soon as possible after the fire. Witness i h al lasso married about five weeks when the fire took place: he C 4111• sidered his own wardrobe at the time to lie worth 2001. On the day after his being married (May 28) he and his wife went to France; they rebutted to London on the 15th of June, and brought with than 131 Napoleons and Louis (1'1)1.3, which nets , in the !loose at the time of the fire. On the 19th of June Mrs. Dim kin well into Haninshire, in consequence of a letter she received from her sister, intermit); her of her fa her's death. On the morning of the 20th, witness was sit ting its his comoing-house, v.hen a Mr. Fairweather came iu ; at this time his iron safe was open and some of the Napoleons were visible, in coteseiplence of one of the papers in which they were N rapt having burst. In the evenin.,o witness went to his brother's at Pentonville about six o'clock, and returned shout nine; the shop was shut ; one of the witness's men, either Price or liazzle, let him in ; he went into his counting house, locked up his books, and thcn went to his brothenin Law's Mr. Lot kin's, who lives a few doors from him, and stop ped there till near elevea, when he retureed home. He was let in by one of the maid servants. He vent up stairs to the kitchen, which is no the first floor, took his boots off, had a light, and went to bed. The maid servants were both at home so was Haszle, who went up stairiserith witness to light his rush light ; and having done so he took away the candle, and shut witness's MHO door, which was never locked. Soon after itaess was in bed, he heard Pt ice come in and pass his door up stairs. In the course of the night witness was awoke mid found himself warm over his face. On putting op his hand he found a pillow over his head, and a man desired he would lie still. V ttness cannot say Whether he had then removed the pillow or not; bat he felt a man lying across his stomach, who desired he would continue still; as, Wins loather moved nor wade a noise, lie should nut be hurt; but if he did the one or the other, he would run him through, and at the same time placed a sharp instrument on his breast, Which pricked hint; and next morning there was a mark on his breast as of a prick of a pin. Witness heard some other person in the room speak; but Either from fear, or some other cause, witness did not know what was said till they tied 11:s hands. Witness thought there were two persons employed in doing this, bat he could not swear to that fact. Ills hands svc.re tried across his breast. After this was done, he .heard what he impposed to be his own eloaths drop on the gromid, and a man, not the one who held the witness, said, " 1 have got it." Witness's clothes were lying on a chair by Ins bed side, and the key of the iron safe was in his waistcoat pocket. Witness could not guess as to the time he was thus kept confined. He heard the sounn oldie watchman go once up Shaftshary-piace, but could not distinguish what hour he cried. After tht y said," I have got it," a handkerchief, or something of that desetiption, was-put over witness's ey es, and a rope was pat ranitd his neck.— They tohl him to get up, and took him to the stair case, where they tied him to the bannisters, and desired him to slat there till he heard the door go. At this time he beard anothei voice say," I took it fur v. bed, and by G—d its a light ;'• on which they all went down -stairs. Previoos to Witill'6s . 6 being taken floes his bed, one of them asked if either of his men slept be low. Witness told them "No." As soon as he was left on ;lie stairs, he called out for assistence, and Price aud.flazzle came to hint. %F mess cannot tell what he said-to them, he was in so mach agitation. Witness thinks he ca,led nut hetore the thieves could have got out of the house. He thinks three' r four minutes elapsed before Price and Hassle came to him. He was at that time tied to the bannisters by the rope round his neck. questions by his Lord , lrip.—Marl no idea they intended to destroy hint; they sal , it he was silent they would not hurt him; cannot tell why they prefrrred tying him to the Lanni , - ter; rather than to the bed post; thinks the men were with Min half tin hour; he was so frightened he did not make any reo,tauce. Mr, titrrnes; resumed—Witness did not know is hich it was, hut after he Was untied one of them went to the window, :toil coming hack amity, told kiwi the house was on lire. h f ', H o t % eolliti have merle any body in Shaftesbury-platT hear much sooner from his thainle'r than his stall •case. There is a bark door leading from tile bark shop into Shaftesbury-place. When Price and Harzle Caine to him they were without clothes; the kitchen window . ..looked into Shaftsbitry-place; rneSe windows had neither shutters nor fast( nings and wit s thinks a :eau might have gct in hr mounting on another manes shonlilers. 41 , nes . • Prier , told Hittite, no il'srove ring the house was oil file, went and awoke the servants ; they all escaped the trap by door on ilic.co•af, and in in the nap door of Mr. Cavist•tton's house, next door; they escaped th,ougli . 1 .11. Cot kerton's house into itse street, with nothing un except thew nightclothes, Witness was so much agitati tI toot hi knew not what 1 . 0111,0 eil tits he was taken if. Mr. Fairweather's hanse; alit' afterwards to 111.. !tulles's. 11 stness saw miieke come from Ids house, but did not s e e aliv ft. e . Witness deetared on his oath lie had no knit wit d ;4 e onales et how his home w•..% !Milt dawn. Soave of Iris ii , 1113(1:10.. uhet saved and sold 1, Mr. Wlnstaidey. was a large quantity of Comm prepared fur wicks, iu ihe coil AI room, o hip h adjoined the comiting house ; they bad nu occasion to Kit in,o the cotton roam to get the Napoh.o..s. Winiess's keeping room was three storks from the comic"; house; lite oien had no occasion, as he knew of, to conic to his rOO/11, escept for the ket of the iron sale. Witness afterwards want ' twice before the L Mayor, and di shed inveatigatiott hA this in consequence of rei.erss • Inisicg been spread le 1 hal to his elute aeier. One investigation took place iiotio. the Low, '•lay or, the same day on %%Writ :11t. fill' ‘,„ t h e ; illl4 one before Mi* Alderman Cox, si yr a. days afters% Witness, • with'," I 41 fie) th file delivered lip ail his imoks, ranters, and p„irers to the Fac 23t1 they Npointul Mr.-Mixtoolcy ot' JULY 28. nosier-row, to go Over the accounts with him. After some • days investigation they agreed on the stun, and Mr. Winstan lev told willies: if he applied at the Office, the following day Le should receive the amount. He accordingly applied next dav, having borrowed a H. note to purchase th e stamp , b ut on fining to the Office, they then refused to pay bin, and it Notemher he' was made a bankrupt. At the time of the fire his debts were 9,2611. 3s. 3d. against this sum 111` had to set house No. 33, which had cost him 60001. No. 34, valued at I 17001. his stork worth 33001. speaking in moderation, and his furniture and clothes, fir which he bad delivered original documents to the Office, fur upwards of 17311. and he had many article: for which he had no documents. He conceived he had at that time property to the amount of mote than 14,0001. leaving a surplus of 30001.. He had, the day before the fire, laid in 5(1 casks of tallow, 30 of which he bought Hanes and Co. 81)(1 20 of Wards and Co. ; they cost him MM. and were brought into the house on thena-rningol We deesdav; they were brought to him from the London Docks. On that morning, if he had se desired, he could have sold them, Is tug at the Docks, for 10001. ready money'. He bougist them a week b.-fore, and his contract was to pay for the 20 casks at fair months, and the 30 at six mew ha : between the haw of the hre and the bankruptcy, witness's debts were increased 10221. by dishonoured bills ; but witness also added some. thing to his debts trete een the time of the fire and the bank ruptey, whiA was included in the 92001. [The witness underwent a long and strict cross-examine. tioo by Mr. Scarlett.] William Price was shopman to the last witness inJune last; had been in his, and his father's emplos ter seven years ; re collects the dog barking on the night of the 23th of June last. This unusual circumstance occasioned them to search the litatse. On the 20th of June witness went to bed about half past eleven. About halt' past one he was awoke by the cries of Mr. Dunkin calling out •' For Christ's sake came d. sail; shall be intirdored."—Witness and Hazzle come down. anti found him lyiag along the Boor, close to the hamsters, his rists were tied round with a rope twisted several times, and then tied with several knot,. Witness don't 'leak he could have untied the knots himself; he was also fastened to alto banister's by it rope round his neck. Witness said, " Good 'God! what is the matter i" He replied, " I have been ri..)- ed by two men." Witness afterwards went and looked oat at the front windows where he saw a black thick smoke youth!! from the cellar window ; he came back and told Mr. Dunkin the 111111 Se was 011 fire. Mr. Danish' ekelaimed, " Good God ! is it suggested that they sheuid call the maids; they accordingly did so, and escaped through Mr. Cuckertorea house, Mr. Cockerton's family assisting them, when they got into the sheet. Mr. Dunkin ap; cared like a itiailnom, and made seleral attempts to get into the house. Witness suggested escaping at the top of the house ; he was afraid of encountering thie. es and fire too, if he went down stairs ; witness lust about ltd. by thefo e ; did not see Mr. Dunkin after he was taken to Mr. Fairweather's. Crays-examined--Witness thinks the and of the rope was tied to the banisters, but 1w did not untie it. Mr. Dunkin was in extreme egitation ; saw no smoke or fire, or was any smell of tire on the stairs. Whiles() thinks about five or eight minutes might elapse between the time of liberating Deakin and escaping by the roof; the kitchen and counting honse windows were, to Lust of witness's kuow. ledge, from what he saw on vetting into the street, shut down a s u s ual ; he saw 110 doer open ; he saw the plate which nas fonnd in Mr. Coekertmes house next day, at the ;Litaion House. The knots in the rope did not appear as it' they could been tied or indict! by Dunkin himself. W. llazzlc, shopman to Mr. Dunkin ar the time the fire happened, corroborated the statement of the fernier wi:nr-s<, as to the situation in which they found Ma-. Dunkin, Lomat and blinilfolikd, and their subsequent escape over the rcof to Corkertan's trap dour. Maria Cornish etas in the service of Mr. Duukin at the time of night at whivii her master came home on that nialit, and went to hod. Witness slept -with her fellow servant, Sophia Brow a and did not wake till Sophia brown awoke her by exclah. •ag what is the matter; at this instant, wit -11(4,5 heard her master'.: voice, crying nut " 0 Lard ! 0 Lord!" and almost immediately they !Ward the two shopmen down stairs. Soon after Price knocked at the door of their roam, and desired them to come out, as the house was on fire They escaped nth) nothing on but their eight deaths. Cro•s examined.—When Pike knocked at. their door, and said the house was on fire, the W11111'55 . 6 fellow servant said, it cannot be this house which is im lire. 4Viiness had said it was her master who broke open Cuckerton's trap door ; but she Ikel once recollected it mos not her master, but Fiastzle who broke the door opc3. Sophia Brown put the plate in a CiOFl tin her master's bed roam the night of the fire. Be lieved this plate was afterwards found in Cuekerton's home.* When iu the street, Mr. Dunkin said to witness, twu men lead peen in the house, used him very ill, taken wit his biker away. Sophia Brown recollected being disturheil by the cries of her muster; she opened the window and looked out; at first she thoeglit it was a very thick fuzzy mornit.g, but she aver. wards discovered that what she took fur fug, was sinuke as cending from the lower part of the house. (toss-examincil.—Witness put the plate into a cupboard in her master's heel room; she inched it, .and.put the key iuto a tab'e drawer ii't the same ream. Pi Hiltlolll, a watchman in Ableisgate-street, was opposite to Nli. Dunkin's house. WIIIIrJeti Olen:it/al was thilttli that to two melt rii•e ! neting evilh the watAmar, new Mr. Diinkin's home; that watchman spruasz his tattle, and witness secut over to the assistance of Ins companion but the two men es caped Mi. Fairweather, a surgeon, in Altier.zete.:itrcet, Leon iiitintatu will. %la. ; mils at his hootse o. the steaming of the xt:th of June. .1\ ext otoriting V.itti 1 ex :twined his breast,aint Monti a mark O;))))) it as if matte wail* so rte sharp initrument ; there were Iwo plitionurs at leaA, they tie +.ontething more than poin•thres, he also cum platat d of much pain in the lotioni of has stomorii. J. Serjeatit, CoosotHe at the 11 and at •Ablersgate, on hi mitt., the alarm or rite on Ilse night in W11'1 , 1404, ran tail of the w.ocii•litalw timei its Al r . llwekias 41/4 SAW /1114 8111.1111/1 TO enter it. J. Alac.katuld got into the premises on LLe moraine of the alien t ..1nn...1 Ike door 1,1 far r.lmt, but tiffinel•vii, ..itt: the key in it. A pm SOLI halm (I Bryant hail been th, re idiot tile wittiow, and tool, sat Ponkoliii.e, its wit net-rt bc- I.t vc,. Mr. It t44as . illy 4 eisiittitc heroic the wain. sr.. Ali Jtt.te.t, a.. ophoister i r, assist c.l w lamina op ti t.., %;r. hi. t h e tire; do; price of the bent .tas 1111% Alan of LOW. Alt.. • 4tt slit' Will , it, the country ettrudieg (n•, 1., 11,.. t.t tne time the fire rook place: her c10t... ~ n to °I, I: .% sale of 1001. were .lestroyeti. ..Ltobtit proval Iltwt jtls father tlietl 1,946