Star.
London, England, 1807-12-10 00:00:00

DECEMBIIt 1..-FAP lIIBR V. WARDLA AND 111111T11.

Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY moved the Court to con-
tinue an injunction againft the payment of certain
poll obit bonds, which the plaintiff, who was the
heir expedant, when he granted them, had of his
father, Mr. Farmer, of Luffmore, in the county of
Oxford. It appeared, that the plaintiff having a
very great pafflon for race horfes, had purchafed two
different lots of horfes from the defendant Wardle.
The firft lot was bought by the plaintiff, from the
defendant Wardle, on the 20:h of February, 1805 ;
it confined of four race bones, at Goo guineas each,
for which the plaintiff, having no money or property
of his own, gave Wardle port obit bonds, payable fix
months after the death of his father, who was then
69 years old, having legal intereft in the mean time,
payable half early. The fecond lot of race horfes,
three in number, was purchafed by the plaintiff on
the 7tlrday of October, 1805, fcr 1900 guineas, for
the payment of which poll obit bonds were given on
the fame terms. It fo happened, in the courfe of
negotiation, that the defendant Wardle, having im.
mediate occation for money, fold the poll obit bonds
for the haft tranfadion to the plaintiff Smith, for
1241. after being fati:,fied that the plaintiff had re-
ceived a valuable confederation for thefe bonds. The
plaintiff, having fume time ago fucceeded to his
fortune upon his father's death, was called upon by
Smith to snake good the payment of the bonds
which be purchafed from Wardle, refufes to pay
them, alledging that he did not receive an adequate I
and valuable cratideration for them, and that, of
courfe, he is not bound in equity to pay thel bonds.
Far the defendant, it was contended, that there
were abfolute bonds payable at a certain given pe-
riod, for which regular intere4 was in the meanwhile
paid : and that the plaintiff, who has lately fucceeded
to an eflate of 10,0001. per annum, with timber
thereon worth 50,0001. was, to all intents and par
poles, bound in law and equity to pay them. The
prayer of the motion going particularly to refirain
the payment of the bonds now in pnlceffion of the
defendant Smith, the I,()RD Caescsxt.ot ordained
the plaintiff to pay into Court the 1930 guineas, till
fuel) time as the cafe is fully argued and decided ;
he was of opinion that if he ditfolved the injunction
in quellion, on the grounds contended for by the
defendant Smith, he would be at or-e pointing out
to fraudulent money lenders a mode of putting the
jurifdidif.n of the Court at defiance. It would be
enabling money lenders effedually to baffle that
C ;urt, were it once to be laid down, that the fad of
a perfon being prefent, and hearing the obligor in a
bond declare that he approved of it, and bad received
a &ma ide confidetation for it, was fufficient to over.
I turn that fundamental principle—that a perfon
talking an affignment to a fectuity took it with all
the chfabilities attaching to the original. His Lord-
flip c, uld fee no reafun at prefent for diffolviag the
injunction.

Yeflerday an infant fell out of a window in Green
Arbour Court, Old Bailey, and though its Skull was
dreadfully fraCtured, it was taken up alive, and con-
veyed to St. Bartholomew's Hofpital, but without
the lean hope of its recovery.
There were no lets than five perfons taken to the
above hnfpital on Tuefday and yeflerday, with bro=
ken limbs and fraslured Skulls, principally occafioned
by the negligence of houfekeepers not infilling en
their let vents clearing away the frozen frrow before,
their doors.

A poor man of the name of Roberts, who drove a
hackney coach, was found dead yeßerday morning
in Bird tireet, Oxford flreet, having, to all appear•
arm, perifhed by the cold.
As an elderly gentleman, on Tuefday, was paling
down Cackfpur greet, ()Wing to the flippery Rate of
the pavement, he fell and broke his arm.
From the fame caufe, an oilman'b far vant, with a
calk on his [boulder, fell, in Holborn, and broke his

thigh.
A few days ago, Mr. Bowls, near Chepnow,
while (hooting, had his left hand fo dreadfully that.
tered by the burning of his gun, that he was eom
pelted to undergo amputation at the wrift.—Mr.
Owstie in the fame neighbourhood, on the fame day,
had the barrel of his piece burn in his hand, which
carried his thumb and two of his fore-fingers away.
A few days luxe, as Mr. GERALD O'LouGHLIst, in
company with two other men, were crotrifig the ford
between Lahenchy and Lifcanhor, in the county
Clare, they were precipitated into the deep by the
impetuefity of the wind and (iarge, where they were
all unfortunately drowned.