Star. — London, England, 1828-02-08 00:00:00

~~~~~ g • 9 • • 1 ti ! >. rr r.:s ~:...... 1• • ial .: swim .424ei .I • • i" I EBRUARY 8, 1828. ~ -.~. ~ .. ~° It~f" pressure-which weighed upon the Judges.. The Chief Justice was to sit at Nisi Pries, while the other three Judges sat in Banco; but the result of that was, that atle business of consequence come before the three, while the pressure was increased upon the one. He considered that experiment to be fraught with nsischief, and the sooner it was got rid of the better. The fact was, that when the Court of King's Bench was sitting. thitLer the suitors resorted, there the whole Bar was mustered, and the public was seen watching the course of proceedings. The business was gravely and deli berately done, and (a great blessing) it was open to the eyes of all. But take another Court with no audience...the two opposing Counsel and the two Attornies.why, in such a case one would say, it was the most unfit and incompetent Court in which business could be done. - But while the Chief Justice was sitting in another Court, nothing was more likely to happen than what he had now stated. Nor was this a mere matter of accident ; by the Bill he had alluded to, it must be so; and it was notorious that all that was important passed before one Judge, while three others might be said to be sitting in the dark and in a corner.. He could cite many instances to !hew that this was growing rail, which. ofemeoded speedy and efficient re. needy% it was said that the Judges•hedunt time to got through the business; but he denied it. He was corona that it the four Judges devoted six hours a day to it— they could well get through all they would have to do. For instance, bail was now taken by one Judge, and it so happened that Mr. Just:ce Bayley was occupied the whole of Monday in that Court. Mr. Justice Holroyd could not get down to Court until twelve o'clock ; and thus two bouts were loft by one, and the whole day by the other, to the very great inconvenience of suitors and of Counsel. Again, there was another mischief in the regulation by which one of the Judges now left the Court every day at three o'clock, to be relieved of what Was called chamber business, which was formerly at tended to in the evenings. Hence delays occuried,and hence much anaoyanze to all the parties in a cause..— He was decidedly of opinion that Commissioners would be competent enough to take bail—say, -Barristers of five or ten years practice; but he did not think that Chamber Businesa (as it was called) . could be so safely entrusted to them. Now, with respect to the number of the Judges, he by no means subscribed to the particular value which was attached to that of Twelve—the Lord Coke extolled it as high as Al brains did the number three. For his own part, bq liked fourteen much better. It might - be said not to be. so equally divisible a number as twelve...neither west there any fourteen apostles, or other precedents to go by ; but at all events fourteen was divisible by seven— (Hear, and a laugh). It was impossible that the twelve Judges could get through the Term Business, Nisi Prins, the Bail Court, and the Chamber Budges:. In 1756, there were only 60 cases in the paper on one day, and looking at the vast increase which had since taken place, aye, to the amount of hundreds, the same number could not get through it. The times had altered, and time was a great' innovator—maxima: rffitM innovator. Those persons were not the greatest innovators who asked for the reform of abuses or defects, but these who baying a four•fold harvest together in, would only employ the number necessaty one—(Heer, beat). But there was another great object to be gained by increasing the number of Judges to fourteen ; he meant, the opportunity which it would aftod for the improve ment of the Welch Circuits—(lleat', hear). But before, he quitted the Courts of Westminster Hall, he begged leave to throw out as a suggestion, that the salaries of ,the Judges should be increased by the payment of fees I—not large or heavy fees—nor fees to increase the (number of litigants; but certaio limited fees, for sure he was, that where all hopes of future advancement were cut off from them, as was the case when they ascended the Bench, it was almost in hymen nature that they would be idle; and it is with the stirw to waken them into a greater degree of activity that he proposed to give them a moderate increase in the shape of fees. He was aware that this proposition would be disliked by some, but others agreed with him, that it would materially operate to awaken the industry of the Judges. Another observation as to the Courts of Itlestminster Hall, _which he intended to make, was of a more general nature. It should be the object of all good Governments to obtain the most eminent, skilful, and experienced men for the situation of Judges • but then to do this effectually, they should have the wh ole field of the law to select them from. With the exception of the present Lord Chief Justice, set o was one of the ablest men that ever sat upon the Bench, all the others were some of the ablest Advocates of their time, and it should be the duty of the Government to select such for their ezperience, skill, l and learning. Nu man, let his party or his other 're ljudices be what they might. would ceaselessly refuse the honourable distinction of an elevation to the Bench ; but it was now said that no man incs. Id be a Judge, uuless he was previously knownos the advocate of one party—that was always to say the pasty in power—and unless he was tied down to one set of political and reli gious opinions. Be this, hiwerrer, as it might. they cer tainly reqaired a party man, anti he challenged the Hon. Gentlemen opposite, to drew him any one outages for the last hundred years, in which a man opposed to the reigning Government, in politics, had ever been a Judge?—(Hear.) He knew that sense who had changed sides, or left their parry, bad been promoted—(Hear, hear)—and in the instance of the appointmentof Lords Cranstoun and Eldia, in Seotiand, the Right Honour able Gentleman (Mr. Peel) had shewn great liberality; for be (Mr. B.) believed that these Learned Lords were as much party men, in the sense in which it was usually Understood, as Lord Eldon was known to be in this wintry, with this single difference, that the latter Noble Lord bad always belonged to the right party, alias the party is power. It was -only to go now so Westminster Hall, and ask what man pundit's was fit for the highest situation, and they would be an. Swirled by common acclaim—by the voices of all par ties. Should he be named ? No, it was nonecessary... but be was a party man, and true to his party, but be was studiously overlooked. But he (Mr. Brougham) did not blame any man for this..-he blamed the system. A Whig Judge was now a thing rarely beard of; it w as only once In a quarter of a century that any such tbiag occurred-.a like angel visits, few and fat be tween." Its libel cases and in Crown cases, earl rant who went into a Court beard the bias of the leaning of certain iodate land when he talked of the apriatanall *fa/edge% be begged leave to say, that be mold beit afford at present to take one—(Hear, and a laugh). ... . .411 W , -- . .0”la ...... , ..w., _ . . l • • ..vbv- -"""` I/I i • ••iii • -', I • 1 , • f ib--.\ -. A ~ • .;.• , . . • ~..t. -, irjA h •.„ .. 4..( ' ‘ l..•'‘ l i -- ./,, ,' , i ) Ir . • , • . 0 . ; (k . % '.'../ 1 , : ••• .$ ~- ..." , • --,...,..,......„....... ..1, ~./ nI. • , C . , • , . • 0 ' . . . . ..... .... , 1 ~., •. , • k ~, . , 1 :. , • ( •„- • , r A 11 . ,• .. . 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But the worst of the system was, that they were Judges of a particular place and not Judges fur Wales. From this system they became acquainted with leaded proprietors and respectable merchants—they got ge• utterly known in the neighbourhood, and as naturally and as certainly imbibed prejudices from which the other Judges were entirely exempt. The result was, that at the last Autum Assizes at one place, out of forty wcauses set down for trial, only • metal- -were tried, ing as remanents twenty six.-That single fact would speak volumes as to the necessity of-reform. • Let those - !rho were too old get peados*. and hi . was ire time of the Principality, even if they paid-dm) Wet 4 . 4 . • own pockets, would Abialt•theas• shodejeiegmet *OM they bad ever paid—(Hear).•:.- At stinetalle;be said, let two Judges be added to tLe le tilvearatlarrejlite Courts would be relieved from the business at Chaimirom and the Bail Court ; and they might also divide the : -Welch Csrcuits amongst them, just as the other Judges now do the English. Having adverted to that import ant subject be should now object to the fesatims of Ras ter Term by the ataost. Let the holiday be retained if they plea ed, though in this Protestant country, now so particularly so under the Government of the Commander in .Chief—he was surprised so much of Popery should be retained. Again, he said. let then' retain the holiday, but let the return day be. fixed , fur the 10th:rif April, or some other convenient day, as may be thought best. A change, however, was neces sary—the interests of the public and the piofession im periously demanded it. Let them have the Thief Baran as Equity Lawyer—and they never cony have Om better qualified than the present—and haveemt 4,thi Bprons of the Exchequer a good Common lamer. And let him preside over the admiuistratiwo ot the ,Commoq Law ; and let matters in Equity go beforethsr Chief Baron, and they would soon find that business would flow into the Court of Exchequer, not only re lieving the Court of Iting's Bench troth the weight of business which now pressed intolerably upon it, but also benefiting the situation of both Ike Judge and the suitor, and improving in every respect the general dispensation of junice.to all parties entitled to receive. it from Abe laws. He now cause to the Courts of Civil Lam * el which he could not speak from experience further then 1 as having practisestin the Appeal Courts,-the,Court . of Delegates, and the Cockpit. The first objection which he formed is the constitution of these Courts was, that the Judges were inischievirosly underpaid. The first cell which called lot a reMedy—and one to which he dared say they would not object—was this impolitic and iocousiderate insufficiency of remuneration paid to the Judges of the Civil Coasts. Only let it :,be cobsidered s that the highest of all these, the Judittif• the Masi raky, received no ooze than 2.5001. a year ashis tralasy. This was all the salary he received, the test of his • re muntration being drawn from fees which in time of war amounted to 7,5001. per annum, iu timi'Ot . peace to w.thing. How was it possible to conceive a onuse s ob jectionable or more irrational plan 1 It was unfit that a Judge should be at all liable to such an alteration of extravagance and penury in the means,diariiid,from the performance of his duty. He did not ; lsbis to see a Judge like the first Judge of the Admiraky-iwsuch a position. He was at alt timesliable. to give*** Croo such advice upon questiOns of right in ilispnte with foreign nations its might influence, nay. fix . a decision .upon peace or war. He would not, then,allow so dreadful a bias to act upon the mind of a Judge in such a case, as the consideration that the a reat bulk of his means . would depart from him upon that decision being made , in favour of peace. He had no fear that any considera tion of that nature would influence the mind of the present Judge in the discharge ot his duty; but it was net decent to leave so high and important en office open to the possibility of such a suspicion. Another objection to the constitution of the Civil Courts existed .in the manner in which its Judges were appointed, for which, now that Popery no longer ruled over us, he Could imagine no reason or justification. The Judges ..of all these Courts, excepting the Admit alty—where tbe appointments were made by the Lord High Ad miral—received their appointments from the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London. Now although those eminent personages might be excellently fitted tor the discharge of the duties ot the priesthood, he must be permitted to doubt their qualifications for selecting the best Judges from the other learned profession.— Newly other important judicial offices in other parts of the country were also in the appoiotesent of the Prelates of the Diocese, from the decisions of which Judges so appointed, the subject had ao appeal but to the Court of Delegates, which, without any exception, was the Worst cautioned Court that ever existed in a civilized country. The Judges in this Court,whose busisess it was to confirm or reveres the decisions of a Sir Wm. Scott in the Admiralty Court, Sir John Nicol in the Consis tory Court, and Sir Christopher Robinson in the Prero gative Colin, were of necessity selected from the least capable persons amongst the prectitioaers in those very Courts, because they must not have been engaged in the cases. Thus the opinions of these great luminaries wets to be revised by the worst informed persons in the profession ; it was jest the same thing as sending a writ of error from my Lord Chief Justice Tenterdea, Mr. Justice Bayley, Mr. Justice Holroyd, and Mr. Justice Littledale, to be.tried by the three posies Banisters in the Coast of Kiag's Bench. rev; this Ind • a remedy o ught to hie sappked,sad tasappoiataseat of the Judges should be placed an other beside; He 'bested k to be clearly understood, that in clotitdag the Competency of the distinguished Prelates wheat he bad aseaticand for suc h a pompom as this, what bs had said was entirely free from all disrespect to them. There was no man more ready than himself to pay every respect and to do every justice to their liberal endowments of mind, or to a a tr i t i teaL e the lls P e liuti°l3 sam C d oar ib t a th irre.f ich essicialadentandedkimtbweirledgeat nation was the Court of Privy Council, _Were which cease all the important cases of appeal from Dm Colonial These Appals came frame all the various 'ye and other Courts retained in the different Indian tenketier, and were decided before Judges mecca- IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. • lOUss OF LORDS, Fna. T. ne Bosse meet at Flee o'clock. A Person from the Board of Trade preeibted a Rebus et the Average Prim of 001111 ler earl meth of do risr intia•Ordtrtd w tie en the Table. The Marquis of SALISBURY wished to say a few week iR reference to a melte et 'nation for the appointment of a Committoe u pon the Game Laws. glees by a Noble Baron.. lle begged te rotes a hope that his Noble Frigid "retold elaer withdraw* 'neck,. et at Amato postpone hieinetion sexU the BUi mew pill the Table to Indies the sale of Came should have been rind a seemed time. In Ms hope he would sow give nodes of his kens non to move the emend readies of that Bill on Thursday next. Lord WHARNCLIFFR mpressed his inability to see way remelt fer the arrangement suggested by the Noble Illanyt‘imil be therefore gene Dudes that he shesid move the appoissesset of the Committee on Toomey out. -- Lord CARNARVON was of opinion that a Comunktee upon tile general subjett of the Game Letts was desirable, but be sp prehehded that If suds a Committee was now appointed. it might interfere with the peeress orthe panialuntesers• new before their j A ssishipo. He trusted bis Noble Friend would not permit his /WI to be retarded in consegoence of the loguiri shoat to be laid toted into the whole extensive subject of them laws. Lost VIHAINCLIFFR was at a lees to Idlow the °biter the Noble hisrlob had in view is whiling the swami reading of the lull to precede the moths for the Committee. The hletsion of SALISBURt avowed his object to be. to establish the riaelpie of his Rik so that .tho investigation of the Committee whit Indy asset its details. •••-' Lard Ift 1141111NCLIIPTE aid, that esidellisneed stet only to the clauses, but to the gelosipio of the Bill urea their Lordships Table. be should persevere in his notice, in the Wipe that the inquiries of the Conunittes might convert thew Lordships to his The House rerouted the consideration of the ease of Privilege Ailing frogs the west of Lord Hawarden, during whisk, sttungers were excluded. W. H. NAMPA, the Under Sheriff of the county of Sussex, Mr. Taman, the Attorney for the plaintiff in the action, and Mr. CAMP, a %rein Officer, were ordered into custody. The House them Adjourned until to morrow (this day). ' HOUSE OF COMMONS. A few minutes before four o'ctock, the &mamma took the Chair. Mr. Secretary Pam. and another Member, took the oaths and their seats. Gen. G ASCOYNE presented a Petition from the Directors of tbe Alattchester and Liverpool Railway, praying fir leave to bring no a NS to amend their Act. ArlL KNATCHBULL promoted a Petition from the Warder of Dome, for a renewal of the Dover Harbour Bill. Mr. LLOYD pretested a Petition from a certain Parish in Li neettek. hi favour of the CialicsHe Oalms—Ordesed wise printed. Mr. V. Furzcout ALD presented s Pinkies nom certain pas fishes la the County Oars, in favour of the Callas& Claims. Sir HENRY PARNELL resented several Petitions from Pa rishes in the County of Carlow. in favour*. the Catholic Claims— He observed, that as Wog as the stipulation. contained in the Treaty of Limerick continued as be on at taught, the C.Abolies would appose before the Legislators to &mind did' rights. ' Mr. ORO W NLO W preseistetkair Petitions ' awns. the Ca tholics of Armagh praying km Catholic isa.:—Ordered to pr inted. • Mr. C. PALMER Pima& a Petition front tlia Dissenters of Weems Green. pre*. it Repeal of the Test • Lewis Mr. CU 'ITEM mmented a redden from the- Dissenters of liatar, In Sussex, puing forLlieal ache Test Laws. Mr. JOHN SM IT H pre sented Petition from the Protesting Dimmers st Dichield, in the county of Scala:tiptoes, praying relief final the Test Laws. The Peddle he bogged leave to say, was most respectably signed. The Hea. Mean= also presented two others; one from Rye, in dosser, and another from Needham Market, to the same e ff ect.— Ordered to be printed. Sir T. LKTHURIDGEmoved for several retaras connected with the Cora Question; the quantity in handsel that taken out i and also for a retain of all Foreign Wool imported luta this Cove y/, and of English exported sinew the first of July last, and all Ms Duties paid spun the same. • Mr. BARING wished the diluent weeks should he also swished in order to skew the seek of pikes et diliment i His object iu moving for these Returns was to Mew, t mi ll i tt remit permission to import foreign wool was not a modern meas sure, fur which a Right lion. Gestiensan, not now in his plate, sea solely accountable, but a reams to a state of tangs. out of which grew the prier-city of our mamufacteres, by enabling the maosfactures to obtain a supply of the raw material. The Return so amended was thee ordered. Mr. BAILING moved for a Rases of the Rates of Duty on Fauvism Wool, front 1790 to timee....omiered. Mr. W. WIIITMORIL mentelsedsm Accosts( of Grain of all sorts, sad Fluor isaponed pens, sod also from Ire. land, Into Great Mule, Min 1793; to January 1958. Ordered. • Lard STANLEY pramintod Amm the Directors of the Dukes and Lee %Swap Oensmeg i tanks for leave to bring in kill to amend Mak 41et. Dr. P 111 LLlMOREpvemotke, that en tbeleth Inst. he would ateve fee leave to bellelyls a Bill to extend the Jurisdiction of the Camay Coons. • Air. DAWSON heeksktegina Acemmt of the Income of the United Kiagdosm—Sseisa be prated. WODEHO eiiiead for Return of the Committals of persons charged offentes against the Laws for Rego- Wing the Mak Trade, Iron January..lB24, to January, 1927. Oritked. IMPRISTESIENT IN TUE LAWS. Mr. BROUGHAM said, that in rising to bring for ward his promised motion oa the subject of our laws, it would be unnecessary for him, to cull attention to its vast and increasing importance. He individually felt deeply impressed that the subject was not only the most important and interesting, but also the most diflicU:t and the largest which could be brought before their notice. He felt that he had engaged to bring be foie them the whole state of the Common Law as cenwasclistinguislated irons the Law of Equity—to point out the defects in its original structure and insti tution—and tit inquire into what might be the most effectual rentedie,. He assured the House that no thing comforted him under the immense pressure of labour so much as the consideration of its vast import- Mey its eminent eecessity, and the decided conviction that inquiry should flO longer be deferred. He meant to deal therefore with the subject in such a manner as wilfully to offend none—to eiasperate no prejudices, nor irritate any personal feeling; in fact, be had too high a respect for the venerable Judges now on the Bench to adopt any other coarse of proceeding. He felt some comfort and some confidence on another groond--he was bringing the subject before many emi neat men who were practically acquainted with it—he ineaat not to cavil with ignorant persons in discussing it would cast no blame where it was not called for ; sad it was an unspeakable matter of comfort Ohio that his statements were all derived from practical know ksige of the details of the administration of law, and Ake/ether without the slightest 'tatter of . speculation. Ha piedged himself in no one instance to snake any single observation, - to denounce any thing, or observe on any defect, which he could not .personally vouch to exist and have come within his own knowledge. These considerations emboldened him on the one hand, and would make him particularly cautious on the other. The Equity Law, then. be would only notice when . 4 ialtriered with th e: administration of the CommonLawi, sadist was the more inclined to take this course, as it was stated in another House that a Bill founded upon sine Orancery Report would be speedily introduced in that loaf ter. He would also pass over the large and voluminous chapters of the Criminal Laws, which were sow in pi ogres, of improvement, and Ire must add, that FRIDAY EVENING, F . . l itaproreaseot should be much snore extensive.than was yet in contemplation. The late Sir. Samuel Romilly, and the Honourable Member for Knaresboroogh (Sir James Mackintosh) made many attempts to alter and amend them. but -they effected - nothing practical, though the discussions to which they gave me were et material advantage to those who were subsequently more successful. He alluded particularly to the Right Hon. Member for Oxford (Mr. Secretary Peel), who deserved the thanks of. the country fot what he. bad dOne, though still much more remained to be effected. That Right Holt. Gentleman had lent his countenance and suppost to many necessary alterations, and that again would prove of material service for the future, as it would have the effect of silencing the clamours which might arise from ignorance, or, intetest, or prejudice, even against a salutary and a necessary reform in the law. He bored the Right Hon. Gentleman would go farther than be has done, and apply his mind and Ms power—for official power was of great value—to larger scope of subjects, which time and change had rendered absolutely necessary. Another reason why he would not touch the criminal law war, that he was ;not iasensible to the danger which' Might arise to a . large and ignorant body of people, if any wholesale change were sought or effected. Mae emamercial 1••• he would also leave out of the qoestioo, for as it was the newebt and the freshest, so was it the freest and the purest. Its growth was not old,. and therefore it was not loaded with the:sins of many centimies on its back. However, in the course of his observatior he would be able to derive some clear illustrations from it, and with whatever defects it might be now char ged, he felt some confidence that no great length of time would be allowed to pass before some remedy was applied, and their reform he effected. If the House, said he, viewed the whole of the establishments ;o this country—whether in its civil or military decisions; whether they looked to the King's Civil List—to the Constitution of both Houses of Parliament—to the Naval or Military system ;—whether they looked to the regu lations of our foreign or domestic policy—whether they I looked to one or all of those important subjects, he would venture to say, that though highly important as he admitted them to be. r -the subject of the most vital importance was the full and fair Administration of Justice. Neither could he be called a rash innovator or a speculative theorist who said—that all your esta blishments were established and supported by you as iuvented by yoor ancestors, and that to continue their support you were obliged to bring twelve. men into a box to deal justice between man and man. The fair and impartial Administration of Justice could . alone justify those restraints which are and have been imposed upon the liberty of the subject—(Hear). He now in vited the House to come with bun into the different Courts, to see the failing ; produced by time, and then i to say, if, n their judgment, they might not be wisely and temperately remedied. In the first place, let them , go into the Cotirts of Westminster Hall, which were originally only three in number ; but inconsequence of eke assumption of various jurisdictions, might now be stated as seven. The Court of King's Bench was ori ginally confined to. actions of trespass by force; but in consequence of various fictions introduced into its writs, , sucls as that eves) , person was is the custody of the Marshall of the Court, though in reality he was not, the jurisdiction of the Common ?leas was drawn to it. The et:mignon Pleas was not so fortunate, though a great egOlt was made by the Lord Keeper Guildford to bring it back, or, at all events, secure a portion of their former ,aistbority. By way of devertisement he would just allude to a passage in Roger Aorlit's Memoirs, in which the history of „that matter was treated at considerable length, and which skewed clearly how well the oat Court brad out-witted the other, by the profitable fiction of an sc elia4l. Tire Court of Exchequer was originally confined to Crown cases ; but there again by another fiction it carried away several other species of causes from the Court of Common Pleas. In addition to these drawbacks, the Court of Common Pleas shuts itself up against certain practitioners—they claim a fee, which though small in amount, only l2s. 4d. is still an addi lion to what is paid in the King's Bench ; and, in the seat place, a certain proportion of other fees must be advanced at an earlier period of a cause than is the ,custom in other Courts. These advances come, in the first instance, out of the hands t f the town agents, and though they are ultimately repaid, the grievance is hit and complained of. He meant to speak with all be coming reverence of the very Learned Personages who practised in that Court—it was only open to Sergeants, who, great as might their talents and experience be, should not for that reason be allowed the engagement of a monopoly. Here then were three obstacles to busi ness in the Common Picas; and is the Exchequer, as it was now constituted, it could by no means be so good a Court as it might he made. It was in fact a Court of a ll sort s—it was one of equity and one of lass; it was one between subject arid subject—it was one for Crown cases; in short, it was su..h a Court as induced one to think that where so much business of different natures and descriptii ns was to be disposed of—that no one of them could be very well done. He admitted that able mien were now on the Exchequer Bench ; and in speaking as he did, he only did so, because it was the expression of public opinion. But if there was a monopoly of Counsel in the Common Pleas, so was there a monopoly of Anomie: in the Exchequer.— 'the number of Attornies was but few, and they must be employed ; so that if a suitor wishes to bring a case on before that Court, his own confidential Attorney cannot appear. 7 -for one of the Court Attornies must of necessity be.engaged, thus entailing a double expense upon the suitor. 'I 'he consequence of this was, that the Court of Exchequer had but little business, and where there was but little business, the strongest and the ablest Judges would not be sent there. This again would re act, and business, before little, would continue to dimi nish. He begged it to be understood that be was now only speaking of past times; but it was notoriously known, where a Minister was applied to for the di:trial .ution of legal patronage, sod the unfitness of the pro posed candidate for die sitoation were objected to the grant, it ssai, he said, perfectly well known in such cases, that the claimant met it by sa) sag, " Well, tbes, send him to the Eschequer—(Hear, and a laugh).— From this combination of causes, it so happened that the Court of Exchequer did not sit one hour in a morn ing, while he remembered Losd Ellenborough to have in hit list .588 causes in one day's paper, and Lord Ten terden no less than 848 in the Cent of King's Bench. lu 1821, or somewhere about that year, as experiment was tried to relieve the Court of King's Bench of the I I a • a I II FA It c!ir kh eK