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the latter, two have been detained. At Enna the merchants have been forbidden to accept or pay Liii, drawn from England. At Madrid the Britifh fubjeels had not been molefted at the date of thefe accounts, but it was believed that an order for quitting the kingdom and for feizing their property would be the immedi ate confequence of a formal declaration of war,which was to be figned on the 27th of November by the King of Spain. PARIS, DEC. 160—The fete given this day to their Imperial Majellies by the city of Paris. exhibited in all its parts a fplendonr and magnificence worthy of its objelt. Dec. 17.—The Imperial Guards of Honour met on the lath to celebrate the epoch of the Confeera tion and Coronation. The following are tome of the wails given on this exclaims : u lir, Mej• fly the Emperor ; may he eount so many years as he cnuots days of enry." * To the Emprefs, May be lace carte the bappinds of Lac hufb-nd as the mules that of all the French." " To the Royal Family-, may it aeverfacenace eselaa." * To the Sovereign Pontiff, Pius VII. may the (acted ma/aka poured by his Hotltiefs so the forehead of the Emperor, reader HeAve r alwayspropitious to the fublime designs of do new Char• knsagne." The Guards of Honour drark nib a toafi to their Colonel M. BIIWKONT, firft aide-de-eamp to•Marihal MORAY, who in return gave the following : To the Guanls of Honour Whom I hale the bonoar of cam- 'sanding, and their eternal devotion to Go►ernment." On tbefe words, all the company tore, as if by one common impulfe, and renewed their oath of fidelity to the Emperor. Government hie received difpatcbes from Lord N 'Lenz, giving an account of the detention (la great number of Spa iillr velfels. Report in the city, yef terday. magnified the number of there as high as au huadred. It is generally believed that sot lefs than half that number of very valuable prizes ttave fallen into the hands of the Noble Admiral's cruisers. Letters from Barcelona, of the 23d oh. explain. in Dune =afore, the contrary condo& purfired by the lquadrons of Lord Ns t sou and Admiral Cocnaaa a„ iu refpatively detaining or (Offering the Sips of Spain to pars by them. It was not until after the sods November that the Noble Admiral Wired orders to the Grips under his command, to make captures ; and the whole is accounted for by his Lordfhip bay ing fent a launch on fhore on that day for letters; which, it is fail, were from Mr. Fa as. announcing' the Rate of things, and his intended near departure from Madrid. Upoo this intimation, it is probable that his Lordihip, ailing diferetionally, proceeded to detain the Spanilh voids; while Admiral Cocitaans. either in poffcfflon of pofitive orders, or influenced by later, or different accounts, May have found it his duty to abflain from any ails of decifive The affections of the late French papers, with regard to the inflruelions given by Lord NE LIMN to his crui• zers, arc folely to be attributed to the malevolence of the enemy, goaded, perhaps, by refentment at his Lordth:p's ailing in a different manner from the other Commanders, while they were altogether unable to account for the motive. Extraft of a letter from Cadiz, dated Nov. zo, 1804 :—" The Englifh fquadron, mentioned in our lan, is (lilt cruizing off this port. On Sunday morning a Spanilh frigate (Idled for America, and was detained by the Englifh. A corrcfpondence has paired yefterday and to-day between the Eng. Idls Ad.niral and the Governor and Admiral here. the rcfult cf which we do not know ; but the Spa- nail frigate is now coming in, after having been in company with the Engli(h fquadron for two days.— How things may turn out it is impoffible to fay. It has culled a great fenfation here, and people know not what to think. We hope, however, next poll, to be able to give you fume certain information. The Eng lifh do not mole t neutral vac's coming in or going out, nor Spanith merchant ihips,feveral of which have arrived fince they appeared in this offing ; and among others a very rich one this day from Carthagena.— We ought to mention that the AM►HITRIT6 frigate, which failed the day before the other, kerns to have paired unobferved, as we have heard nothing of her fmce." Accounts from Barcelona, under the date of the ft of November, dare that the Englifh (hips of war were capturing daily the Spanifli codiling vefrels, and that the Spanifh Commiffi-ners were, at the time of writing, overhauling the books and taking an ac court of Britifh debts and property. 'There are letters in town from Lord HOLLAND* clued Madrid, the aoth oh. but they fay nothing of Mr. Fer■s. If Mr. Fatal aaoally quitted Madrid on the t4th of November, it mull appear firange that Lord H' , t - • LAND and his family fhould have remained fix dor% after. It is pollible that Mr. Falai may have 're. turned to Nlairid, but we do not think, even if this fliould turn out to be the cafe, that the probability of Ipeace being continued will he much lirengtbened. Private letters from the Hague enable us to add to the patticulars which we pnblifheil yelterilay re fpceting the Late violent tranfaftions in 1-1011. ind, that the Members of the Batavi.us Council, wh o m we mentioned to Wye been escluded from the Meetings of the Direaory, have bcen put under arca, and aftually fent off ptifuocrs to Pat is. that article of the treaty . concerning the match he nurtureandeducation iage. It is not to the wbether•there ever was Ru&worth or not. It be found upon record. blic treaties. The arti- Rufhworth to be ftyled as for the right augmen- Connlic Religion. — article is fo derogatory an and the flatutes made arity of the Church of carried no fort of au even though it had er under the Great Seal, tilloriane only. Nor can by Prince Charles, while his father, that the ten le children which fhould th the Infanta, accorded treaty. might be length ears, as the Prince defir cerrent to determine what he right to the care and of that marriage, had it difpute, and 'milt been ed from the voluntary en favour of a marriage :0 s well as by his father, s right was never the fob. wide in the treaty with of King Charles the Firlt Lria, whereby it was agreed arriage Arnold he brought teir age of thirteen, but it made with Xing Charles to the Crown, and not r. King James, it is true, line and Holland to neat toy was not concluded till by powers from King ipulations for the educa could need no affitlance r laid before your Majefty elation to the books and under our confideration cannot think fufficient to Msjelly as King of this u cation of your Majelly's life, and without the con -erogative, as we humbly awn to the laws of Eng- ,umbly fubmitted to your (Signed) ' ILO - 11111T - P ILICI. 4 1 a. rim" [DON. DECEMBER 23. RS YESTERDAY: t Per Cent 99ii , Long Ann. 16 15-t6 17 Imperial Ann.. 54 Excheq. Bills, Is. IS slif. knglilla Tickets 281.112. Cour. for acc. 591 t a reconciliation has been of the highefl Perfonage in fr. PITT and Mr. ADDING ' prolperity of the nation ! Monitrun to the 19th infant. : chiefly occupied with de. our of the Coronation, which ing. ly deferves notice, is a lettcr :cember 2, from which we points : ounce from Barcelona, dated ails refpating the capture of lined for Poi t Mahon, and pofitive declaration from the be twit. lled. A mong the cap tranfports, having troops on roop , , excepting the officers, he officers were put on board ed to be landed. The bills :hell were returned ; but the w•as kept. The officers were ilb veffel. getl with exerci(ing great feve merchant (hip•, and with hay 4pture all veffels bearing the to Malta all above ,co tons of a lef, fiat, and to born all on the eaflern coaft of Spain. from Leghorn to Barcelona, mod three, one of them from in the neighbourhood of that adi7 was repeeed by the Dig• 22d rf Novernbcr. On the ranifit frigates were difpatched of hoßilities being commenced, e Governors of the Colonies. be firli of thefe frigate', efcap e Engin; but the fecond, the red cn the i9th, and detained he was fent back with DOliCt a fecond time. ,1 the Englifh alto declared, that tr no tract to enter or come out s do not appear to have been te, fotrie very rich OTICS having being examined by the Britith. muncnced at VAientia and Bil. r, three Englifis vac's, and at NAUTICAL INTZLLIGENcr. MAILS TMS DAY.—Vied Ft E. All. DUE. An. DOE o 6 1 Hamburg!' o s o 6 boblin Waterford PIIN ASCE, Dee. 22.—The Spanift fehotaner Leda, I mentioned in my laft, detained by his istajelty's (hip Frsnito, parted her cables yefterday morning, about ten o'clock, and ran for Newlyn Pier in a violent gale at E. where the ftranded, but has finer got into the Pier, and the cargo is now landing. The Spanifh !hip Dido has parted one cable, and is now riding at fingle anchor. There is a cable and anchor put on board the pilot boat, which will go off to her next tide. All yefierday and to day it his blown terribly at al out Eall. The John of Bid:ford, S. Lows -flea, from Swanf:a, with coals,drove afhore, and is Wreck ed, but the crtw are fared. The Star, of and for Dartmouth, RANDLE, is put in here from BriftoT, with groceries. Toasar, Dec. 2:.—The Rorm continues at E. by N. with unabated fury. The NEMEBIII frigate (thank Gm), continues to ride it out. The BLONDE frigate is not yet gone to piece:, and great hopes ate enter. Wiled, if the weather permits, the may be preferred. Weruovrm, Dec. 24.—Arrived the Ranger pac het, with the mails and paffengers from the Hands of Guernfey and lerfey. The Captain reports that he rode out the late heavy gales of wind in Giernfey Roads; that on the ,9th inflant, at night, the NIOL'E frigate, lying there alto, cut away her fore and mizen MIA, and mizen top-malt —The Ta ass frigate was difmafted, and drove quite near the rocks, but rode out the gale with only one anchor and cable ; the SyLf it brig of wet was totally difinalled ; the titans , cutter parted her cables, .and drove on the lsore at the bible of the South Pier. Four yards in the Roads loft their rudders, and very confiderable dotage has been ihßained by other 'vetch lying there. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 34. — Sailed , his Misity's ittaataa, with difpatches for the EaR Indies ; and hit Majeßy's thipsUwicoar and Swirl-, with the fleet under convoy for the Weft Indies.—Wind Eafterly. B K Dee. 34.—The Officers and crew of hii Majefly's (hip GLAITON volunteered on Thud day laft, to rigg the MosILLI (loop of war, whicla was accepted, but the weather being fo boifterous' and unfavourable, they made but little progrefs un- DEAL. DEC: a4• —Arrived VlsemorraciTE frigate, ALILT and ALA, flocps of war, with feveril gun brigs, &c. from a Ci nice off the French Coa l.— Sailed the 'CYGNST and ALAI (loops of war, With several gun-brigs, &c. on a cruife, and the Ditchers of Bedford a wed (hip for Portfradutla—Wind Eat'. terly. Haewic , DSC. 23.—Thc brig m Charlotte Whfthel m. ina, WiLPIAANNS Mailer, loaded with barley, hound to Ruuerdam, has been on (bore upon the North Ceraft, and is brought into this harbour very leaky, with the ail:Ranee of a pilot boat. The brig Vine. of Leith , f rom O p orto, with wine, knew Lowita Mallet, bound to Leith, has put into this harbour with the Icfs of anchors and cables. WOODII RIDGE , Dee. 20.—Sunday morning, the brig Thomas and Ann, of Aldborrugh, :a as RIAD Matter, arrived in this river, from ftlyth, with coals. About four o'clock in the afternoon, on lhore the brig T iding at anchor, was teen by a perfon to be ort fire, ar.d as he approached her, he beard the 'bricks of a woman and child, and tel immediately went to the public-houfe at Ramfholt, to gi the a larm, 'Acre he found the Mate and the crew, who had im prudently left the veffel, with no one on beard, ex cept this miferable woman and child, who were pal fengers. Before the fire was got onder, the whole of the infide of the cabin, part of the deck, and the whole of the bedding and apparel of the matter and crew were entirely confunied. m the account given by the woman, it appears, that the fire was oc c afi °fled from the heat of the cabin (love basing com municated to tfic woodwork. At the ti farf the utt act cident, the Mafie'r is at Woodbridge, the p pore of enter itr g the fhip at the Cuilom-houfe, on the next morning. G R EBNOCK, DSC. 21.—Arrivcd here on Tuefday the Fanny, Taylor, from New York ; flit made the land in 1 ,, and this port in 23 days., though detained jour of there by head winds. The Faflor, Caldwe ll 11, thlc r ,,, t, on th: fame day. The IC/bes, Liyingfton, of this port, from Wilmin7too for Clyde, fprong a 1.-11: at tea, end was morning tn get repaired, when the filled and upfet. Crew arrived rate in the boat at Santee, on the Coati of America. The Lord Forbes, Affteck, on her 'mirage home from Surinam, has been taken and carried into Guada loupe.• Neptune, Neill, from Qltebee norfa tbis p o rt, in calling at Ayr, for orders. Wen t n, tonged, and is lull of water ; part of the cargo saved. The Grace, of this port, was wrecked xi the 1 ad] init. in Lagan Bay. Iflay. The eked tilt! ea:go v. ai be entirely loft—fome of the anchArt and patt cf the rigging is laved; and it the weather is good, there is lips that the main rn.t.t vv may he laved. The fitip Theodofia, it wick for Newcaltle, fprung ILA at fea, and ass feces off Cape Cod. baring bore away for Bofton.— Ole Nelfon, Larrnemr, from Demarara, has put into Cork. with Iris of anchors, main topm.tft, &c. Arrivrel-- fbe Reber:a, ..-----, at Liverpool from Quebec Gefornill, of this port, at Dcmarara from brace ; An johnficn, v! t!.fs part, at lino from ditto: G.b 1..7, at • Atlanta. - m. Luz: , ' tx:th ; 5..117 isonync Kefu, at Er.;l4 • I:, ft grg ht..ct ;Ug if 8.,7.012 v, • ;, ' ; 1 SrOt:S: ; M a! :1,0 1 t . . •;:wr ir:rk :rpm 0:14i N .1 :J. , ' ~ o, C t i : poTt n, L'arrp. .t ,r 1 • _ _ ; eat, Lot:1011.r ry it= Dort, Dec. 23.—1• hat blown very hard tete with much fnow, and the roads have been nearly im palcable ; the mail coach has been obliged to travel with fix horfes —the weather now {Cern./ breaking.— Orders have been received here to take up rranfport► to carry 'so° men down to Portfmonth ; it is be lieved that an expedition is at hand. The :loops are to come from Canterbury. ARRIVED. At doll, the Jemmy, Muckle, from Oporto. At Clyde, A:- tier, Walker, from fbebee ; and the Chtiltember, —, from St. Vincent's. At Barhadoes, Barhadocs, Smith, from Africa, bound to Charleftoo ; Solide, Saint: and the liarrriet, Crain, from law d c*Ptx- At day-light on the utth loft. the wind !trolls cid northerly, with a heavy La, a ihip's boat, containing (caeca' peo3le, was de (tried by tome of the inhabitants of Staitks, near Whitby, making towards the more, and from the courfe the was purfuing, it was evident that the mutt foon be darned to pieces againtt the rocks, On which the turf was beating with uncommon violence. Ani mated by the hope of refcuing the poor fellows from impending deftrudtion, four refolute Illhermen, at the rifk of etch lives, ven tured out in a large coble, and fucceeded in condneting them into a place of fife y, benumbed with cold, and nearly ethaulted by fatigue. Thu people, wafting of two men cut three boys, be longing to the brig Jane, of Sunderland, about two o'clock that ancreng bad failed from the latter port with coal, ; in the hurry of taking in her tango and proceeding to fel, the after port hadheen omitted (o be caulked in, by which means the took in a great quantity of water, and to complete their misfortune the pumps were choaked. 'Their utmoft exertions being infufficient to Fu lcra* the 'elk' from finking, the , / were under the neteffity of quitting her in the boat, about five o'clock, though the attempt was attended with great rift:, from the fee running fo high, and the gale violent. A &or: time before they lauded they raw the Jane go down. In the confuGan and anxiety attending an almoit hope- Ids attempt at felf.prefervation, a little hoy, who had only been ohe voyage at Cm, and was lying Ick In Ids hammock, was unfor tunately left behind in the veiled. When he was firit milling, it was propoled to return, to attempt raving hint from his dreadful litustlow, but the propofition was overruled, as it was confider. edimpoffible In their cahaulted Date to accotnpliCh his deliverance, and the unitany buy was kft to his fate. ODE ON CHRISTMAS DAY. Hail, glorious morn ! ►all, day amid By all the arifiime world, ; This day bright Almy left his throne, His banner (oft uofurrd. Not to alarm by pomp or Rate, The humbieft guile he took; A ftable was his natal home, His Led the oz's nook. His wet-Clipper' the pooreft men, Sheph,rds who oratch'd by night; To them did Angels tell the tale, Of all•revealed light! At His approach, fee Grief and Sin, See Perfecution fly ! " 0 Death, where, where is now thy (lin; ? " 0 Gravel thy alftory!" Th , Panics of PEACE has Wen that ding From thec, all-dreaded Death ! And from the Grew iu By yielding up his breath. Upon the ignominious erofs, Thr Lot° of all espied; The g of man was what he Foust t, hiAN ' S PEACE all he defied! 110ITZNIIMS. So firong was 4 the ice yefterday on the River Thamer, that t!te perfons who furrintend the Lon don Bridge Water Works, found ie neeetTsu - y to have their engine fupplied with boiling hot water, to play upon the worts, to prevent them from freezing, while melt with lenni, poles were conftantly employed in knocking off the tunips of ice from the works, for the who'c day. All Sun , ' ,- ..nd this day, to the difgrace of our Police, t , C4 ,!y gunner: were perfectitiug to death the ' poor, hall starved tom-tits and water-wagtail:, in all the fields round the capital, and to the no fmall danger . of life or limb to the unwary paffengers, who were inceffantly expo fed to their random firings. CITY EL perioss--Yellcrday the Elation for Com mon Ccu ilremen in te contefted Wards finally d oled ; and the numbers were as follow :-...- 1111DGE. Wits. Wrench - 0 Meirrs. Cleo& - Roberts • 95 Baru= - 93 Core - - 91 ChM - - us Carratt - - 89 Brown -- 89 Mahby • taer ill - Refs - Laccy • Dutton 87 W ilde •- t a c k foci - - 87 The former fifteen Gentlemen were declared duly - elected. TnWlt. le4 I Mr. Irnban '' s. c Li ohnewilm.nruriklid;ont.g.v.seivialk,rtnnr., Mr. Ds". 14:t-hie fen Samuel Diem James Dictron I::.l.neas - - Thomas Dewfon zoo David Laing . lzaunt.! Wright • 97 The twelve former gentlemen were declared duly de/led. A C-octal B:ta of all the CHRISTIIIINGS and [lpoaLs, troMpce. 13, 1 80 3 , to Dec.!!, ISC4, by the Cornrarty of Parifh Clerks of Lot7n, &C C.luillet.ed in thc 97 l'arilhes within the Walls, I tl9--Iltarial it Chtiften..l.n 17 Piiahes without the Walls, 442S—Buricil o• telftmed t'y OR Oct Parirbes in 111iddlerot and Sorry, 3 ~a tozaz—Butcd 11. Cbrilttnej M Puilhes in the City ...I label tics of Weft -3333--Isurn d 4653- tIS Ot DtATIIS DY CASU.V.TICS: - • 1 rcd by falls anti fcvcral • 2 otter raidents z Killed by betting I Kdied theatielves N.:order:4 • l'oifoned - Slim Smothered Suffocated . 13; . I .1 Broken hark Beaker limbs Brol.rn nrck Broken ribs liruifcd Ilarnt - Clrcaked Drowned • tacalbvc drinki:.3 kiccutcd FOUll , i dead Fri;lattd . . Killer! by a boa - M F, ,,,, alal akt . : 0 13 , 5 r 3 1 In all 1[343 CLeft , nal I Iklrles - 86 '4 In all r 7638 L.:icd / .1,cr,, , , , 8433 11, ht. r ••• 4' Iv, die AI I Friary and Ilverty - ti m id. as‘,o years , A . sp 4- . 1.. 5 _,,„,,,,, , , , .1 PoLsocet, two and rive 017 04 r: ! a , . ~ . ~.. ... .. 6;5 I ..... .., , 14 I I Nrr,ty and a 111.,7td . ll , ' 1 A Ltl:l,:r ad ~.,: 4 -, • 1 :.:14 A Eundra d ag..! • ;‘ , 7 :,rf, c A Mslin:l and bye I -, ' . 1 • 13 . t - 136 • 4 . 10 . 13 . 1 1 Total 288 j jvc : i S tn any twenty w:nty an! Tl.iril fa ~v Emz) 311.1 tiny • t:!ty sod Lissy 1.hte.:1...111; Lialab this Year 254+ !tor.' INMUGgNCE. COURT OF CHANCERY. Hte.a4. Er PARTE L6111,211e The Court was uncommonly crowded this morn ing, from the coniolity excited by this caufe. This was a petition for an injunaion to preventthe prefentation of the Rev. James Fcraer to the Bilhop of London, by the Tru flees of the parifh of St. James's Clerkenwell, and alfo to prevent the Bithop from granting his licence to the raid Rev. Gentleman, who had been a candidate for that Reftory. The Church wardens were alfo, on this application, made parties before the Court. The Rpaory is worth about 7col. per annum ; the right of chit:lion is its the parifhioners and inhabitants fubjeft to the parochial rates . In the precediag hearings on the bill and anfwer con nefted with this petition, confiderable difficulties had arifen, on the obfcurity of the terms parifhioners and inhabitants, which have as many different meanings, by the confirultion of the Courts, as any in the co pious vocabulary of Englilb Law ; and the affection , of Lord Coke will be recolletted, that fo r man y itn-, portant porpofes of law, a man refiding in Cornwall may be an inhabitant of Northumberland. In a decree of the Court of Exchequer, pronounced in the year 1768, it was &reeled,' that perfons " paying to the, rates and affiffnient.," fisould be permitted to vote for the candidate for this Reftory. Another dif ficulty arnfe on the confiroftion of the decree, and if involved this curious enquiry, whether a perfon not paying, could in law be conlidered as paying for the Poleofc d this eleaive franchift ? lite ATTOILIIkY-GENERAL, and Meffis. RIC HALOS and Tanwta, fox Mr. Lendon, and certain petition ing inhabitants; Mr. HART, for Mr. Foftet, and Mr. "'moor for the Churchwardens, oppofed this injunc tion. They infiaed ftrongly on the decree in the Court of Exchequer, which was intender'. tn fettle for ever all differences in this parochial inftitution. The decree Rated, that thole alone thould be deficits, who were paying to the rates and affeffments; and it was to be this day contended, contrary to the plain and \ obvious language of this decree, that perfons were to be entitled to cleft, who never bad pa id, and poffibly , never would pay loch rates and affeffinents. The Churchwardens, inthis cafe, were the returning otfi• cers : they met: a Teary was appointed in the ufual form ; Mr. Fofter and Mr. Lendon appeared as candi dates ; fix geotlemen on each fi de were appointed to manage the affairs of the competitors, and (even or eight regulations were made for the condo& of the eleftion. All would have proceeded with perfe& cor refiners, if thefe gentlemen had condefcended to snake the decree of the Court of Equity the foundation of the rules they eftablifhed ; but idlead of this, in the fccond article of the regulation, they formed a law of their own, and thus attempted to controul the principle laid down by that high authority. The re gulatipon objefted to was, that " thofe had the right of cleaors who were aftelfed to the rates of the church and poor to Lady Day , 1804." The decree in the Exchequer does not extend the right to thofe who were adeffid, and who might never pay ; put only to chafe " paying to die rates and affellinents." The quellion feemed to lie in a very narrow compafs ; whatever might be the equivocal conftruaion of the words parithioners and inhabitants, the term " pay ing" was as clear and precife as any word admitted into the Englifh language; and yet, at the late eke- , lion, perfuns were admitted to vote, who had never' paid loch rates and affeffments—and in confequence of this, and other afts of violation of the eleaive fran chife, Mr. Lendon, who had the greater number of legitimate votes, was excluded from this lucrative fituation, where al(o he had an opportunity of exer cifing his talents as a Chriflian preacher, in a way likely to render them extenfively conducive to public inftruftion, and private happinefsit. hi ss payme ditionnt of the rates was the _fine gun non ; was hc con precedent in the caufe. It was quite enough for them to thew this tingle particular ; becaufe, at the fame time, they made it very evident that Mr. Faller was attempted to be eletted contrary to the ezifting law; that the elation was void rib bistro ; and in this petty p ar ochial diaria, an ed ia was attempted to be pro " mulgatcd, paramount to the law of thel and. St, I O RD CM ANC! LLOIL" The decree is d i ffi cult to 8 5 • 79 be underflood, becade there are no words in legal 7.t language which hear a greater variety of conftruc -67 tins th n th at a u n te tt: l A : h e e l c p a a f r e i . it E io v n e e r r y s pe als: oinnhbaybiltaawnts.L's fup 5 ,.1 The ATTOZSMF YGF SWIM, Meets. RlOllllO5 and - - TKOWER, laid, the di ffi culty was here 'effected, from poled to attend the church, and indeed was bound to attend there—thofe who retitle in the neighbour -95 hood can alone fulfil this duty. The words parifhio -94 nor and inhabitant mull, therefore, be winch cell& Bted with regard to t he ri g ht of elation—for thole 9 7 8 alone could bc benefited h v the difcharge of the faded 34 funftions who attended to receive the leff9ns of the incumbent. If it were trite that all aide proceed ' ings were illegal, the aft of a certain portion of the par ifhionets in the eleftion of Mr. Foßeri could by n o means bind the reit ; it mi g ht even happen that ne ha lie duly e d a makletifted — ty of for a the legitite voters. and yet not gre m at a proportion of per. lons of this tail &let i,it ion, teeing the ir regularity and the indecency of the p.c.:ceding:, would naturally confider the whole a. will aid void, and would not fauflion the meature , by g iving arty vote whatever. By the regulation whit li had been adverted to, all were admitted to vote vs Ito had not legally been dif charged from paying ra t e s, and were not in the with books marked " poor." It was quite unnece6ary to dilate on a fubjeft fo obvious in dell. which, the moment it was mentioned, mull be familiar to die commonest unsierdanding. hlcffis.Prcoor, ROW ILLY, HART, and Cooke, firp• ported the injunaion for the Trotted, Churchwar dens, and Mr. Foam They contended, that the prayer of the petition could trot be granted, it the ellablithed praftice of the Court.' thould, on the preterit occafion. be prelerted. This application did not call upoq the Court to fettle what is the right of eleflion ; it invited it to declare, it the right of eke lion be precitely as tie Exchequer had decreed ; hut if his bla j eity's Exchequer had not rem,,ved this doubt, the Court ••: Chancery would not fay it was to rem.wed. It v.s laid, tijat the rules entered into at tae late (le n- 7., %sc. c tiii,volive ct the decree of 5768 : and it was added, the Churchwardens had ,:d n , i tin, ..11.1 tr..: t.,•urt ss 45 117 1 yr.d to ,rrant - • ~rde:, wait retpeC to ?Lc v-:cs ,u. p his was for the 9, it tune Court to cundutt a (crawly under 2. 1 t it • 0 10 t.ll an d 1 , .!the cl, can% - . itc own rnakets.,. Thit.ohieition to 0 eon*** woe lethe length of the time; a nd the magnitude - the &- pence they neceffarily invol ved. What weir l uireti in the prefent intlance ? It was, that avertable* fluid be iffued for this examination, where the mafter would be able to allow one hour eiery alternate day, . or three hours in the revolution of a whole week; to be applied to this fcrut in y . The prayer. mon be fruitlefs, becaufe the compliance with it mull be wholly nugatory; enders the Gentlemen concerned in this application could procraftinate life to the an tediluvian age, neither the candidates nor eleao ave rs. the truflees, Charchwardens, or Whops, could h any pciffible intereft in the refult. the Petitiooer ere teeming to anticipate the abf urdit y of their own pray ea t hen implored, that if the Court lhould not grant fcrutiny, it would, at leaft,leclare the elation void X and at Taft, if neither the me or the other lhould be conceded, a further humble petition is placed at the foodlool of the Court, viz. that new trudees might be appointed. This is the only relief which the Court has in its power to gra nt, if the y might, indeed, call that a relief which mutt place the parifhirtners in a fituation of continual warfare. The queftion was put on the other fide on a very narrow ground; they Mould difpute every inch of that ground, and lhould contend that the regulations In minutely detailed, and fo loudly proclaimed, were not incontinent with the decree in the Exchequer ; but if they were, or were not, it was not within the jurifdiaion of the Lord Chancellor to interpofe undr the form in which th application was prefented before hint. A then Rate ment of feels would illuftrate the argument. It was left to the Rev. Gentlemen, Melria. Fatter and Len don, to determine the mode of eleAion, For this purpofe, a vary was regularly appointed, and fix Gentlemen on each fide were nominated to condnft the butinen for the refpenive candidates. Under there Committees the eleftion proceeded ; there formed the regulations complaine d of, an d uner loch diration the particulate were printtd, and difiributed through out the parifh. The eletion commenced on the seth, and terminated on the Both of July. There was no ohjeAion fuggefled on the part of the regulators, and the cleClian was perm itted to proceed without the fmalleft interruption.— After the majority had been declared by the proper officers to be in favour of Mr. Feder, a fcrutiny was demanded, and Rill no objec tion was urged againft the regulations. Mr. New come was the only Churchwarden plant, and he acceded to the propofal of a fcrutiny ; but this content was afterwards refeinded on the firongett ground that could poffibly be adduced, viz. that whatever might be the refult of fuch fcrutiny, Mr. Lendon, who sta• plied for it, would not be bound by it. A bond was to be entered ioto of moot. on each fide, the parilla was to be thrown into a flame, and no potGble ad vantage was to accrue from :his enormous expences and general confufion. Would his Lordthip endure parties to come before him under fuchcircumtlanetsf Was not the objet to let afsde the eleflion pr far at atlas, by every pot ible expedient ? The only queftios before the Court was, whether, under the eftabllnsed principles of its jurifdillion, there canted any ground for it to inter pole f o r the purpofe of vacating e elec tion, becaufe votes had been received, of eleven which ought not to have been admitted. Upwards hun dred had voted for Mr. Foller ; upwards of a thou land for Mr. Lendon. Two books had been opened. the one coroprifing the acknowledged votes, the other the doubtful ones; and if all the contributors to the poll from the doubtful book were rejeBed on both fades, Mr. Fritter would Rill have a contiderable ma jority. What ground could there cull tben, either from the general principles adopted by the Court, or from the particular fituation of there parties, to ine duce it to grant this injunetion? Loan CisaiscaLtraa—" The motiott befOre the Court is to retrain perfons polretling a legal ettatc in the ezercire of certain rotations incident to It, and to rennin the Bithop of London from granting licence to a party Rated to be duly elated to the rec. 'tory of St. James's, Clerkenwell. I give no opinion whether the Churchwardens are or are not, neceffary parties; but the motion having been .ferved excurupon , them , at leaft, fupplies them with a fufficient e :or having appeared before the Court. On them I , than only ray, and perhaps fume apology Mould be required of me for lo (peaking, that they will go out of Court without being at all affected by what has paged here. Two objeas are particularly neceffar for the confederation of the Court ; firft. what as the rights of the parilibiotters Ur queftion ; nest, whs has been the condua of the parifirioners in s he fur pofedexercife.of chafe rights ? and it is the more re , quifite to form a deliberate opinion, on eccount 1 the judgment deli vered b y my Lord Hardwick. a hailer occafion , which bleb/en reported in the s. ' Vefey and in Atkins." ( Here his Lorattip exdplo enter ited foam doybt of the accuracy of the report. an ' ed much at large In to the nature and e i r comftances of the cafe on which the opinion had as been given : 1. diflinguifhed the law and the ufage. e, explained that cafe, in order to (hew how much, and in wl form, a continued ufage might be feppored a ti confetti, by which the law was over-ruled.) "The tree places the right of eleftion in perfons paying i rates and afreffinents, and in a tirii!t fenfe this tea to mean, exclufively, thole 'rho have paid. but it popular fettle, or in ordinary parlance, it may reCtly imply thole liable to pay : the meaning, ti of the Couit of Exchequer ia this decree mud maim ely weighed. It mutt be greatly lamented all who regard the intereas of religiim. that the Mt flee. of the Gtifyiel of the Church of England thou) be e e wes to a canvas in theft popu the year elation' but here have no option. In right of elation was put chafed by the patina, an are not now to confider whether this right be it mull proper hands, but whether the right, whei it may be p!aced, is fitly exercifed? It is not, how the lefs certain, on this aceouni, that the doArins. Cliriitian peace. is on Inch occations abandoned, that thole whir arc to teas.h gentlenefs and humanity, love and harmony, on the moll enlightened prinei• plea of mi - ral limb, nr: under inch melancholy cir cumfiances inniii.liced t , efcrt that law of chat hat it is their fa:niii d•lty to s d ocurcAte. I sins aware of miniz:ous didicul• ie. which mutt attend my decilion in thi, AiLair, but 1 will slit - charge the tatk .impored t:p. , n nic on the tenth day of next month to the bee 01 soy ability." Ix The fn'rt interval which remained before the ter minA;ion of the duties of the Court for the holidays, WA% applied to the Bankrupt petitions in the cafes of ex tat se Ilennet, on whish the decifion was poepowsd, 40 .& $ 4 • • tea • . 1 .4 C L r 1 • Lt e l a- CT at be in ad * ec- -1 ,on try 'l wn ,be out has • are 14 . hat I rap- TO4 t of on e tit :ffed Etter- LOCOS : he :d in what tacit rode- i t the ,estos ,in a ' Cat. 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