Insolvent Debtors' Court,...
Dr. JameS MVathews came up to be heaid on his petiti n. - Alr. CooXE stated that he was instructed by Colonel Slesser, who had lent Dr. Mlathews ?001. to establish him as a physician at Sid- mouith, to apply to the Court to appropriate a portion of his pension and pay to the payrient of his debts. The insolvent, who came into court supported by crutches, on being examined stated, that his half pay as military surgeon Is 1271. 12s. a year. Ills health is greatly impaired by the efflects of a wound which he received in the battle of the Pyrenees, where a spent ball struck him on the hip. He is daily growing worsc,havingbecome, in fact, quite heluless, and he hag no hope of 6ver being able to move about without tfie uli of crutches. For this wound a pension was assigned to him last year of 1001. a-year for three years. His wife is also in a helpless state, ewing to a contraction of one of herlimbs. Hc is consequently exposed to a greater expense for attendance than heotherwise would; and he has been disappointed In hisprofessional hopes by inability to walk without the use of crutches. When he borrowed the 5001. of Colonel Slesser, he expected to be able to practisa with some success at Sidmotith , an4i even last year, those expectations still continuing, he offered to give up 1001. a-year to his creditors; but since then he had become so much worse, that he was unable to practise at all. Hlis pension is to cease in I828e, but if his wound does not grow better, he expects it will be renewed for three years lornger. .lr. POL.LOCX submitted that the ineolvent'r, income was under the circumstances, barely sufficient, without any reduction from It, to support himEelf and his wife. .M1r. Commissioner HARtRs expresssed his great regret at the misfortune whicil prevented Dr. Mathews from attending to his professional purs8its for the present. Independently of what was stated in Court to-day, he had other sources of knowing that no man was more highly received in his profession; and he trusted that in a little tine the doctor would be able to relieve himself from the tem. - porary pressure which was the consequence of circumstances that re- flected no discredit upon his character. Mlr. COOKE here begged to observe, that he had not been instruct. ed by his client to cast the slightest imputation upon the conduct of Dr. Mathews; far from it ; and he wYas sure that his charadter stood as clear this day in Court, as ever it did in the field of battle. Mr. Commissioner HARRIS said, th3at In justice to the creditors, he must appropriate 5W,to them out of the half-pay and pension; this sum, however, to beliable to reduction in the event of the pension being discontinued. The Court then ordered Dr. Alathews to be discharzed forthwith. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT. TMlTT "AV NYv It