The Sun.
London, England, 1832-11-14 00:00:00

to China, where the whoa* understood she got ane
other bu;4nd.
The LORD MAYOR—Then you.come here to claim
her, I suppose ? Sergeant Cotterall•---Oh Lord no,
my Lord, I won't have any thing to, de with per.—
(A laugh
Rieltale-Ellis had been Captain of a yacht in
China, where, in 1831, he met the prisoners who
made an impression upon him, and consented to
become his sole property. Soon after their mare
riage he ascertained that she had left England for
Macao as a sailor's wife, so that he actually had
united himself to Jack's leavings:7(A laugh.)
The Rev. George Harvey, who had performed the
matrimonial service at Macao, seemed to have a
suspicion about the lady, and therefore put her to
her oath as to whether she had another husband,
arid she declared that she was unmarried and a
maid. They were not long in the bles,ed state
when the bride gave some instances of an extraor-
dinary attachment to the strong waters of the
country, and committed such excesses of another der
scription as greatly affected the credit of her state-
ment upon the Evangelists. In fact she completely
ruined him. He was obliged to give up [us vessel,
and was not long in London when the parish officers
began to persecute him for having deserted his wife.
By the pleasure of Providence, however, he found
out that Sergeant Cotterell had a prior claim, and
he now resigned her to the care of that gentleman,
who had a greater right to her than any body else.
The LORD MAYOR asked whether the woman was
also married to the sailor ?—Mr. Ellis said that by
certain regulations women were prevented from
going out to China except they were declared to
be wives accompanying their husbands. The pri-
soner went out as a wife of one of the sailors, and
performed the part in every patticular.
The LORD MAYOR—WeII, what do you wish me
to do? The evidence of the bigamy is excessively
meagre, and it is too far to send to China to com-
plete it. Mr. Ellis-1 do wish, my Lord, that the
law should be allowed to take its course against the
woman. No human being can live with her, she is
drop of her favourite cordial she becoM6Aptrai-a.s.A
governable, and would fling a poker or a bottle at
him as soon as look at him.

The prisoner said that Mr. Ellis married her in
the name of Jones at Macao, so that the marriage
was not worth a straw. When she told him that
he had deceived her in that respect, he took the
marriage certificate, and deliberately altered the
flame with a pen, without permission of the clergy-
man or any body else.—(Laughter.)
Mr. Ellis said Jones was the name he generally
went by, and he had committed no offence against
the laws by what he had done.
The LORD MAYOR—What was your father's
name 7—Mr. Ellis—Ellis.

The LORD MAYOR—Then I suppose Jones was
your mother's ? Mr. Ellis—No, my Lord ;' Smith
was my mother's name.
The LORD MAYOR—Why then do you take the
name of Jones ? Mr. Ellis—Why, because it was
zny grandmother's.—(A laugh.)
The LORD MAYOR—Upon my word, the case is
a very pretty one altogether.
Mr. Booker, one of the parish officers of Bishops-
gate, stated that Mrs. Ellis was so passionate a wo-
man when she got a drop that, wherever she was,
'he word " murder" was constantly sounding in the
ears of the neighbours.
The LORD MAYOR said there was a difficulty
about the proof not easy to be surmounted. As,
however, a clear case of assault had been sworn to,
lie would make the prisoner find bail.
The poor sergeant of marines spoke little, but
shook his head in a very disconsolate manner upon
finding that his claim to the lady was undisputed.
The prisoner was then comtnited in default of bail.