Star.
London, England, 1808-09-15 00:00:00

BEFORE MR. !.IRON WOOD.

In the matter of Bamford, of Manchester, a hank.
rcpt, an:issue had been directed out of the Court of
Chancery, to try the question, " whether Bamford
had committed an act of bankruptcy P'
Barrowfield, a Sheriff's Officer, proved his having
warrants to execute, which he did not arrest Bamfoid
upon, hut was in the habit of sending to intorm him
of them, and he_ used to settle them. Latterly he
did not get them settled, nor could he see Bamford.
Early in the month of February last, he had recourse
to the following expedient :—About seven o'clock in
the morning, when it was only twilight, he sent two
of his followers to beset the house ;• one of them got
Upon some high steps, opposite the door, to Watch the
house, while the other knocked at the door, which
was not opened ; but in a few _minutes, the man on
the steps ohserved.the light of a candle through the
fau-light over the door, and he wa. positive he saw
Bamford come down stairs ; the street door was in a
short time after opened, and both the men entered ;
they proceeded to search the house ; in his hed-room
they had no doubt a man had just left the bed; 'from
its, being warm, and a man's night-capistiog on the
bed ; they Searched every •part of the house, but could
not find him ; they at length found some impressions
of a man's foot upon some snow, in the back yard,
which lcft no doubt in their minds, but he had made
. his escape that way.
These men Were cross-examined by Mr. PARKE,
when it turned out, that their conduct had been
Wholly illegal, as in the warrant for arrest, under
which they. had entered the house, neither of their
names wera iosertej, nor was the officer's name who
employed them, but that of another officer. Mr.
PARKE severely censured their conduct and told them,
that what-Ner had befallen them,_they would have
h.td no redress ; and cautioned them against pursu-
ing similar conduct.
fhe ititkadikewisereprimanded them.
Mrs. Paatit cross.cxamined one of them, as to
whether he hadnot, in reference to this cause, said,
he would zwear thro' a hoard an inch thick to obtain
his point . and after considerable prevarication, he ac-
. kowledged it ; he, however, wished to explain it, hat
,Mr. Parke refused to hear him ; Serjeant Coact, who
was on the other side, in.;isted that he should explain
it, which he did to the following effect :—Wheo the
business was before the Court of Chancery, Sir Sa-
' mad Romilly, in his speech said, this man would
swear through a board an inch thick, which was re-
ported in the newspapers, and he had ever since been
pointed at, wherever he went, as one who would- do
such a thing; and he had said, in a public house in
Lancaster, when ridiculed fur it, by way of bravado,
that-he would do it.

Mrs. Owm, the landlady e)f Bamford, and her ser-
vant, proved tw•o demands for rent at the house of
Bamford, when he was denied, although each time at
home.

Upon this evidence, Mr. Baron WOOD expressed his
opinion that there had been two clear acts of bank-
ruptcy proved.
Mr PARKE addreskd his Lordship at considerable
length, observing, that he did not consider the case of
the bailiff's followers an act of bankruptcy ; because
they had entered the house without any legal autho-
rity: and he pat it to his Lordship, whether a debt
for rent came within the meaning of the Bankrupt
Laws, as there were other means of recovering it ?
and Whether the application of a female menial ser-
vant was'a proper person to make the application, as
he kOew it had only latey been decided that clerks
were sufficient to mike the application ?
His Lordship remained in his former opinion, and
the bankruptcy was affirmed.

A sailor, with 90 guineas prize money, arrived last
week at his native place, Snape, in Suffolk ; tindhig
his relations dead, he picked up some acquaintance
at a public house, who clandestinely robbed him of the
whole of his cash.

A poor weaver, who had a wife and several small
children, and resides at Bolton.le-M-oor, has lately
come to an estate of upwards of 64000 a-year. He
has obtained it from a very wealthy uncle, who had
not seen him for a great number of years. It appears
that the uncle did nut forget his poor relation while
living ; for he wrote a number of letters to the nephew
in question, which did not come to hand, and it is
suspected they were intercepted by some person.—
The
uncle, however, left a will, bequeathing the estate
to his nephew, the poorsweaver, provided he claimed
it within six months after kis death • and, in case
of his failing to claim it within that time, the
estate to go to the servant, who is suspected of
haring intercepted the letters. The will, being of
a novel nature, became the subject of conversation ;
,and so it happened that two travellers at an inn in
Bolton, were conversing upon the subject at the time
the poor weaver was in the house, and within hearing
of their conversation ; and he knowing that he had a
rich uncle, although he knew not where to find him,
soon learned that the deceased person was his uncle,
and had left him the estate ; he, in consequence, com-
municated the cirstintitaiice to some friends, who un-
dertook to see into the 'business,. and he proved to be
just within the. time limited in the will to put in his
claim.

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