The Sun.
London, England, 1822-07-24 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, JULY 23
STREET V. DENSHAM (FORMERLY STREET V. STREET.)
This morning at ten o'clock, agreeably to the appointment
made on Saturday, Horatio Reeves, who ran off with Miss
Street (a Ward of Court), and his brother, who aided and as.
sisted him in his undertaking, and also Mrs. Street, the Ward's
mother, (who was as anxious as either of the other two that
the order of the Court should be disobeyed,) attended by their
Solicitors, met in his Lordship's private room, and after a short
hearing the two young men were committed, and ordered to be
taken down to the Fleet prison for contempt of the order of the
Court ; and his Lordship said, their conduct was most in-
excusable.
Mrs. Street pleaded for time to put in an answer to an affida.
vit which was filed against her, and which she pretended not to
have seen.
His LORDSHIP gave her till Thursday, and ordered her to
appear before him then again.
It was reported in the Hall, that Miss Street, during the hear-
ing of the case, was in waiting in some house in the neighbour-
hood, lest she should be wanted ; but she was not sent for,
though the order was, that they should produce the ward.
After his LORDSHIP came into Court—
Mr. HEALD said, that he was in a case of a similar nature,
the parties concerned in which were ordered to appear in Court
to-day ; but an application had been made to him not to men-
tion it till the other side had a further opportunity of filing
some affidavits; but he felt himself bound to mention it,
though not to press it. In this case the ward was 17 years of
age, and was married against the order of the Court; while
one of the executors, under whose care she was, was standing
by during the ceremony.
His LORDSHIP ordered that they should appear prepared,
on Thursday.
It appeared that there had been quite a misunderstanding at
the bar as to what proceedings were to be gone on with to-day,
as his Lordship had thought it was generally understood to be a
motion day ; but the Learned Gentlemen not having so under-
stood it, not one of them was prepared to move any thing ;
therefore—
His Lordship said, about half-past 11 o'clock, he thought
it would be better for him to return home again, and prepare
some judgments for the House of Lords, rather than sit in the
Court without having any thing to do, and begged that it might
be generally and well understood that he would go regularly on
with the motions on Thursday morning, beginning at half-past
nine o'clock.—His Lordship then left the Court.

HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY, JULY 23:
THE CZAR, LEITH SMACK.
This was a case of salvage, the particulars of which were
briefly stated by Dr. LUSIIINGTON.
It appeared that on the 29th of November, 1821, the Czar
left the Port of London for Leith; that on the 30th a very heavy
gale of wind came on, drove her far out of her course, and
carried away her mast, sail, and rigging; the wreck of which the
crew were obliged to cut away ; that she lost her kedge anchor,
and was under the necessity of letting go her best bower an-
chor, upon which she continued to ride in great jeopardy until
the morning of the 2d of December, during all which time she
remained almost without hope and without probability of any
assistance, being out of her due course ; that this was off the
coast of Norfolk, and that on the morning of the 2d of Decem-
ber, the Cato and the Trusty smacks at length came to her
assistance; and with much labour and difficulty succeeded in
towing her into Harwich Roads (the two lines having broken
in the interim two or three times) on the sth of December.—
These two vessels were coming from the north, the same desti-
nation to which the Czar was proceeding; and happening, in
the storm of the night of Dec. 1, to have been also driven out
of their course, luckily fell in with the Czar. The Learned
Council contended that the offer which the owners of that vessel
had made to the crews of the Trusty and the Cato, being
7501. was not a sufficient one for so meritorious a service. The
value of the smack and cargo was about 11,5821. The Court
was, perhaps, aware that the Czar, at the time of the salvage
being effected, was lying oft' one , of the most dangerous
parts of the English coast—off Cromer, in Norfolk. Between
Harwich and Hull, in all that long line of coast, there was not
a single port into which a vessel could run for safety, however
imminent the danger might be. The Court would judge,
therefore, of the valuable aid which the two vessels in question
had rendered to the Czar, and decree a sum for salvage ac-
cordingly.
Dr. DODSON followed on the same side.
Dr. ADAMS and Dr. GosTLING, for the owners of the Czar,
contended that the service rendered was really one of little more
than mere towage; and that the offer which had been already
made to the parties was exceedingly liberal.
Lord STOWELL gave to the crews of the two vessels, for the
salvage service performed, 1,0001., and apportioned the amount
thus—
To the crew of the Cato (12 men) - £650
To the crew of the Trusty (14 men) - 350—£1,000
[N.B. The former of these smacks the Court concurred with
the Counsel in considering to have rendered the more efficient
assistance.l