The Sun.
London, England, 1807-12-25 00:00:00

tab him. &kit is the iii4O anind;.-* intention,
*id) which a man so avoids his creditors, that ceu-
st;ttiteslhe: aci' of bankruptcy. And he believed
that if the toffs of the case he had stated shoold:be
nut,•there wou:d be very little doubt upon the
law of file-case.

Mr.: John Morgan, brother to Edward Margin,
priived the 'R,:iitioniug..Creditor's debt by the entries
made ofgotals had land received while he was clerk
for the Detemiatit and his brother. He further pro-
lied, that during I\ Ir. Williams's absence, in Ireland
Lott on business, his name was never off the door of
his (the Plaintiff's) house; and his furniture remain-
ed there all the time,'`and continued to this day ; and
his family remained in tlit house several months after
he went to Ireland himself.
Mr, James Hough gave testimony as to the cir-
cumstance of the 1)11:i m i going'a way from, this coun-
try, when he info need him Air. Clark was about to
arrest him..

The Plaintiff's landlord, as well as the tax-gatherer
di the parish of St: Ma.rtin's-le-Grand, proved .the
Plaintiff's taxes were, paid in his•own name during
the time he was in Ireland. .

Here the case closed on the part of the Defendant,.
the farts h the declaration being made out.
Mr. Serjeant BT.sT then ably addressed the Jury.
He contended, considering all the circumstances of
the case, the. Plaintiff had not committed. any ad-of
.bankruptcy; and he did
,not, by going to Ireland do
so. - submitted that is was necessary for the per-
son to
_absent himself from his dwelling-house in
'this country, to bring this case within the statute,-
Now', in this case, here was a- person coming" frost
Ireland to .a place where his etre6s, hisproperty and
his dwelling wore not situated ; to a country where
'it must be supposed he had friends; his creditor's
tlireaten..bitu with arrest; he dies for the purpose of
:throjding unjust debts, and 4v- gain for himself an
opportunity of contestieg their claims. in such a
situation he conceived 'he .was sanetioned •to :livid
such proceeding, and having no domicile in this
country,.he could not he said to fly from his resi-
dence to avoid his•ereditors. lint.aithough
from England, where does-be go to ? , Not to avoid
his creditors ; hist he goes to Ireland, wherehtgas
a domicile, where he resides, where his property
lies, and where he -is ready to meet the justclaims
of his creditor 4 ::.and, therefore, he contended; that
he must neeessat ily fly front t hat' residence; Warder
to come thin the stet ute. With respea to thesPeti-
tioningg Creditor's debt, he contended it was not the
debt of Willittm, but of Mdrgaii ; it was for that
property for which the Petitioning Creditor clairnesl,
being given to the credit of Morgan .and Co.• but it
did not leent-t hatWilliamahadany transaktions With
Mess.- Reynolds, he (Williams) carrying an. ac-
Count merely with. 'Morgan, who was his agent in
• .this country. As to the remainder of. the procee&*
ings,..on the part of. the Creditors, as
,well.as Mr.
Morgan,. he conceived it to be acollusion to entrap
this loan into a commission of 'bankruptcy in order
to ruin him by threatening an arrest.. Under all the.
circumstances Of the case, he expeeted the Jury
tvjntla tind'a.verdiet for his client.
ALLAN CHANIIIIIE observed, that, it struck him
this case came precisely within the meaning of the
statute., It was not, he said,-the departure (tom the
century which constituted the na of bankruptcy, it
was the intention to defeat the Creditors. With re-
spea • to:the necessity,' as urged by his learned Brb-
thet(Mr. linsT)' that the departure should be from
the person's dwelling house did not _strike him as
requisite ill order to bring this case within: the mean-
ing Of the statute. t If the .whole :Meaning of the
statute was coesideredi it would not be found pre-
cisely specified that the person must absolutely absent
himself=from the dwellings it merely specified that
the absenting" .to ". defeat" • was the objet neces. •
nary to ascertain ;- and this' statute extended, to all
the countries wit hin Majesty!s, dominions. The•
goods it' appeared werelpurchaited ip'this country,;
the debt .ineurred. hire, .and the, Petitiouing:Cre.-
ditor's debt being proved here, be apprehended...
that the-apt of bankruptcy was therefore committed,
here. This was a point, his Lordship observed,
which would probably be resumed on a future dis-
cussion, but he, acting as Judge, was bound to-ex-
pound the' law upon the case,' according' to statute,
'and the law being established, the Jury were to de,
tide 1)11 the eSidence adduced in support-of.
Oleos
143-Juryfound averdia far the Defendant iu '1;ot ti
issues.. • " . .1

HKu7ol., Dec. 21.---The bloodiest battle. that
ever was %% itneised took placsvon Weduesday,last,
uphis ,Clifton Downs, in consequentxt of a. quarrel
bet we Pearce, ttie Gh rn e Clicht7j and t h ree4turrly
game-keepers, , k food, Francis; and: Morris. tltx ittet
course: of the battle, whi4.3astecLtwithty mismtes,i
the Chicken,.subiat to • die whole
,attacki. displayol?.
a systein.of slitting, resroating, stopping;; ant 'pat..'
ling in hits, which entirely exhausted his opponents,;
and ensured him the: final success of the, 1,att1e...-."-
Francis and Morris now lie at the Thtveriansits. a'
most mangled state, and perfedly
made of .at the end :of the Boyd's', raund,.seeing, his
companions., were likely to ..have theior,orst: of it.,
,The Chicken has sutfered severely, from a contu-i
slot, of %lib head,.it he consequence of a dreadful.blow
from Itlerris, :while. following up his. compAnions,l
and l 4 likely to undergo a surgical...operationit !It
:appears the- subje6t in dispute ,vas basket. of applesll
the Chicken was cbuycying from hiß father's,
.where,
lind spent the day, whietywas mistaken, for iamei
the inquiry into which Nvas so stoutly risisted.,-, '

A. stratum ©f sea shells, among %IA iehivere many
andintopened oysters, iti t iteir cortiptete'
state, wt.4re -fcitittUby the worktnen
ployed.iti sinkinglrer-rovV,
Beside:3 the well-km*i strata found at K2ltesge7vt.6
Brick-kiln, the,t, antediluvian relics are frequently?
found under similar eircumitanses: •,

• Ott Mrecteesday eveeiiik; abObt six ii'cioek,- as Mr,"
Kershaw, of WhiteebapelL was crossing BarthOlo:
ntew7elose,, 51nAie14, ltd wiis hustled 1.7 live or liK
fellows,. who struek'hitn on the ficgt.and back. of the
1-kild, so ti 4 entirely, to deprive hiin 'of hip sellSeS' fur
the ntonlvat;
,und robbed liirn of
_las wittch, and a
Ir.o'so" eon taiaibg.half-n-guinea Fot -
tuttate;y, they tnoised a ptir,e which 'be had i:i hi
'other pouket, which ha:t in it about iiink-
Aoteii..