A meeting of creditors of - The Duke of York was
held on Monday, at which Mr. Hamlet and several other creditors to a large amount were present. A desultory conversation took place on the present position of his Royal Highness's affaits, and of the delay which had taken place in the final adjustment of their claims. The following resolution was agreed to : "That a general meeting of the creditors of his late Royal Highness the Duke of York be called on Monday, the 30th of May in- stant, at the British Coffeehouse, Cockspur Street, Charing Cross, to be held at one o'clock precisely, for the purpose of receiving a repo' t of the present state of their affairs ; to consider the expediency of an immediate appeal to Parliament, to the Royal Family, or to the Army of the United Kingdom, by way of subscription, for the liquidation of their long outstanding claims ; and that the solicitors of the executors, and of the parties who have hitherto represented the creditors in the Court of Chancery, be requested to attend the said meeting, in order that they may afford such explanations as may tend to remove the pain- ful suspense under which numerous and distressed widows, orphans, and tradesmen, have laboured since the death of the Duke of York, in 1827."-Post. [ There is nothing more disgraceful to the Royal family of England than their neglect or refusal to discharge the Duke of York's debts. There are very few private individuals of property who would not at least stop the complaints of "the widows and orphans" who had been ruined by a brother's profligate extravagance, if they suffered the more wealthy creditors to remain unpaid.]
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