The Sun.
London, England, 1808-08-16 00:00:00

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)3ow-s7izar .—Y egerday Mary IFornharn, alias
Lawrence, was charged with bigamy; 'in .marrying
John Lawrence; her former husband, William Wan-
ham, being then living.
John Lawrence, a labouring gardener, at 1-1314
ton, *lied marry ing the Prisoner in the year 1806,
at Thames DittO-n, and produced the- certificate Of a
marriage supposed to have taken place between
the Prisoner and one William Wornham, in the
year 1'772, at Guildford; and which William Worn,
ham, he said, he had seen alive a tew days since:
The Prisoner admitted the first marriage; but said,
that she had parted with herhusband about 25 years
ago, and supposed him dead. -

She. wasC-o-mmitted for further examination, till
the necessary wilnesses can be brought forward to
prove the gist marriage.
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A great tumult took place yesterday in New Comp.,
ton-street, occasioned by a report that a tradesman
there bad drowned his wife. Application being made
to the Magistrates, a party of Constables were im-
mediately sent there to preserve the peace, whO
brought the person alluded to before the Magi-
strates, when the business was investigated; and it
appeared that a woman who proved to be his' wife,
and who bad been missed since Thursday evening,
was yesterday morning lound drowned in• the River,
near Milbank. By the testimony of several wit-
nesses, it appeared that some family disagreements
had taken place, between 11)64parties, and they had
separated, but were supposed to-be settled, as the
wife., at the request of her- husband, had returned
Lome on Thursday last. The husband, to rebut the
charge, stated, that he set off for Yorkshire on-
Thursday evening, and did not return till Sunday;
and to corroborate which, he produced a young wo-
man who came to
.town with him. The Magi-
strates thought it would be • necessary to have more
evidence of that fact, and therefore ordered the
,matter to stand-for further inquiry. The mob Who
bad collected on- the occasion were proceeding to
great acts of violence, having, before-the arrwat ut
fhb Constables, broken the windows of the house in
Compton-street ; a great concourse of peop,e follow-
ed toe man to Bow-street, hissing and hue itig bun,
aid it was' with the g.eatest difficulty the Officers
cooki preserve hen from their fury; two or three of
them, however, being taken into custody, put
end !o it 'lieu, but it was round necessar; to have a
strong party of Constables to remain in Compton--
street all the afternoon.

BITITII.-.-011 the 4th inst. at Beaumont Lodge,
the ViSetAillteSS ASHBROUIC., of a Sun.

LAW REPORT.

COURT OF CHANCERY, Aim. x.

This day' the LORD CHANCELLOR sat in Bank-
' ruptcy.
EX-PARTE BAMFORD IN THE MATTER OF 3AMFORD.
Sir SAMUEL RODIILLY and Mr. WitgomEt.o
et!, that this was a Petition. for superseding the Com-
mission taken out against the Bankrupt, aato, they
contended, was not subject to such a Process, not
having committed an ad of Bankruptcy. If a'
Commission were to stand simply on account of the
number of Affidavits tiled in support of it, the Learn-
ed Counsel admitted that this Commission must
stand firm, for the-Affidavits were numerous-c-but
they contained nothing. The servant of the Bank-
rupt had bean examined to prove that he had been
denied to his Creditors, but this bad not been made
out. A 'Sheritf's Officer. had made oath, thit he
had arrested the Bankrupt thirty or forty times at
least; but, while this did not amount to an ad of
Bankruptcy, the latitude in which the Witness chose
to indulge, could riot be calculated to inspire his
Lordship with extreme confidence in the accuracy of
. his statement. The only other fael, at all resem-
bling an att. of Bankruptcy, and the one it was pre-
sumed on which the Petitioning' Creditor .chose
principally to rely, was also sworn to by this Sheriff's
Officer, who stated, that he having gone -to Mr.
Baitiford's house, at the hour of seven in the mot-fl-
ing, to execute a writ against him, while his partner
knocked at tire door, he posted himself on the-op-
posite side of the way, up a few steps,where, thfciugh
means of a fan-light in the door-, he had a view of
Mr. B's house, and saw him come down stairs with
a candle in his hand,- and some clothes over his
arm, he not being then thoroughly dressed. Soon
afterwards the door was opened by the servant,
and the Officers- went: in. They walked up
stairs, and found the Bankrupt's bed not yet
cold, but he himself was gone. They . wept
through the rest of the house, but without finding
him. They then came down stairs, when it ap-
reared to them that he must have escaped by the
back door,. there being the prints of a foot dis.-
cernible on some snow which had fallen. - This the
Learned Counsel reinarked,- was an exceeding good
story, but ithad two faults---it was not true,• and it
was impossible that it could be true.. The Bankrupt
had sworn positively, that in point of faet, he was
not then in the house, and. as tea the . possibility .ot
the Officer's having seen what he stated, it.wasno
doubt true, that in more prosperous times there had
been a fan-light where he represented, but it was
equally a faat, that it had, for some considerable
time previous to the period in question, given: place
, to a deal board, of an inch thick, through which it
was impossible that the eyes of the Officer, however
vigilant they might be, could at all penetrate. Be-
sides, the back door in question had no other corn-
ninnication, than with an area of four or live feet,
surroutided on all. sides by, laigh walls and buildings,
through which it was impossible that the Bankrupt,
or any person else, could have escaped.
The LORD CHANCELLOR, without hearing the
Counsel ou the other side, said it- was impossible for
him to supersede the Commission an ,the affidavit of
the Bankrupt elope, without a trial. He ordered
that an issue should b,e joined for the purpose of de-
termining the question, and. that, if the. Petitioning
Creditor chose to insist on any other act of- Bank-
ruptcy, notice of it should be given to the Bankrupt.
EX-PARSE HUDSON IN THE MATTER OF HUDSON.
This was an application of having the Petitioning
Creditor subjected in costs, and for having the bond
assigned over to the Bankrupt.
It having appeared that both theßankrupt and the
Petitioning Creditor were Attornies; that the Bank-
rupt carried on business at Stopford, and was indebt-
ed to Mr. Dimes, the Petitioning Creditor, to the
extent of 1801. This latter Gentleman struck a
doquet against Mr.. Hudson ; but being unable to
shew that he was among that class of Attornies,
who, uader the denorninatkin of Money Scriveners,
were subject to the Bankrupt Laws, and having also
failed to shew any at of Bankruptcy, all farther
proceedings dropped.

_ S r SAziuEL AOMILLY, however, now contended,
that the Petitioning Creditor in this case being a
man acquainted with the law, and, who ought,
therefore, to have been well, aware of his right to
that summum jus-which he was taking to himself,
was net like an ordinary Petitioning Creditor, as to
whom it n•ight be alledged, that he was ignorant of
the nature of the steps adopted by him. It was here
also to be remarked, that Mr. Hudson was, through
the a& of the petitioning Creditor, subject to a griev-
ous
.injurY for, although the present commission
was not to be _persevered in, the etteCl vita doquet
being now struck against him was such, under a late
At of Parliament, that, should a commission of
bankrUpt be at any future period taken out ag:;itisi
him, it must, .itrcOnsenuenee of the clowiet , now
struck, have a retrospeetiveetfe6t, and render tinge-
tory every transadion vhicli'froni the present mo-
Merit 'he might enter into. .Oct these' grounds the
Learned Counsel bol7ed his Lordship nut only
gil;'e the Petitioner his costs, but assign to him the
bond.

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Mr. HART, for the Petitioning ;Creditor, argued
that there was here no malice; neither had it been
' attempted to be sheN,vn that Mr. Hudson had sustain-
ed any damage. He had his aCtion at law, where
he would recover, not as here claimed, to the extent
of the sum in the bond, whether he was justly en-
titled to it or not, but' to the actual amount of
his damage, be it three times the amount'of the sum .
in the bond. There' was therefore no necessity
whatever for assigning thj bond. .
The LORD CHANCELLOR said there was not here
any ground for preSnMing malice on the part or the
Petitioning Creditor.; nor was there any evidence of
the extent of damage sustained by 'Mr. Htidson.—
It had been held by a decison in the Court of. King's
Bench, that the fact of the Bond's being assigned
plied malice, and also ascertained the damages to be
to the full amount of the sum in the bond. Though
Ins Lordship was not satisfied that these were
ferenus which necessarily arose in every case, from .
the assigning of the bend, mil; he wished not to ad
in opposition to this doctrine. He should not, there-
fore, assign, the bond at present, but should allow
Mr. Huison to bring his action,.or to try an issue,
nd whatever damages siiould be give:i, to that ex-
tent would he theu as,ign..the bond. His Lord-