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I ri I► life i the life answer the ~.eery, on application to a Sol citor on the subject, he was informed that tir whole might be compromised on the payment of 3001. with tne addition of 301. or 401. expenses to the Solici tor. As he had but a life interest in the property, he was unable to raise that sum, and he was accordingly committed to prison. Two years agq, a Commission had been appointed to examine into the proceedings of the C , urt of Chancery, and he felt convinced that no aotestat of that Commission would be received in Parliament this Session. He would state, from all he had sees and beard, that the Lard Chancellor and his Court were the greatest curse to this coun try. (Expressions of surprise). The Pe ti tioner also complained of the injustice of confining the child in the jail, where, during the last file years, they had both been attacked with a fever, which had nearly deprived them of life. He would conclude by moving the House to pass an Act to liberate persons confined in jail for coo tempt of the Court of Chancery, who were willing but unable to pay the requisite sums demanded for that purpose. Mr. LOCK HA RT opposed the Petldon. Mr. S. creory FIyCL thought the Hon. Member should have given notice f his intention of presenting a Petition complaining of the proceedings of the Court of chancery in such unmeasured terms as the Hon. Member had made use of. He would protest against Use practice E 4 Petitions being presented, and accons panted with suck imitative' as the House had heard, during the agienee of those persons who might be able to give a satisfactory expYanatiowof all grievances complained of in such Petitions. He dld 'not deny the right of the Huh. Member to present Petitions without notice, but at the same time would leave it to his sense to decide upon the inustice of the practice as a general system. e SOLIC ITOR GENERAL said, that it was that house, and not the Court of Chancery, which would become a curse to the country, if they would allow in dividuals that unprecedented latitude of accusation, by which they were permitted to cast the vilest terms upon persons in once, without a single attempt to establish the justice of their charges. Mr. P. GRENFELL thought the censure should be confined to the Court, or to the system. He (Mr. G.) would most willingly accede to the truth of the asser tion. It was in the power of any individual, under the present system 'of the Court of Chancery, to cast the felseat and foulest imputations on the character of any mad, who, after yeari of anxiety and expellee, had his only remedy by obliging the'calumniator to pay—what ?—a penalty equal to. the gravity of his offence? No. The slanderer was obliged to pay taxed costs. kirrthought theaturt of Chancery was indeed a curse to the country. Mr H. SUMNER thought a more uncalled for, outrageous. anti improper expression, than that used by are Hon. Member could not he used ; and if he did not give some explanation, he hoped the House would come to some vote expressive of their disapprobation of the expression, as contrary to the Parliamentary course of speak ing. It they should tot, he (Mr. S.) would at least move that they should do so, and repeated his intention of moving, that the words of the Hon. Member be taken down. Mr. HUME said it appeased that the House consi d r-d the expression he had used relative to the Court of Chat:eel y (several voices, "Me Lord ChanceVor, the Lord Chancellor") was too harsh. He mu.t repeat his conviction that thetexpression'was perfectly correct and applicable. Th,.C..int was a curse to the country— and he must also say that be felt himself justified in applying the term to the individual by whom that was kept up, nod by whose conduct . , thige miseries were thrown upon the oountrp, of which tie "An of the Petitioner formed nut a solitary instance. He re peated. the Co..ncellor who, after presiding for so many years in the Ctnitst, bad 'offered it to continue in its present Chhilkloa, must illare in the censure cast on the system. The SOLICITOR, GENERAL said, it clearly ap pear;sl irom ate details - of the,proceeding, that the came • (3 ,f thCl'elitigorr s mist9rin tea lajb.,uot with the Court. of Chancery, but with the litigating-persons themselves. ,He d not believe that it was want of funds which prevented the Petitioner from putting in his answer. It pow fp-, peered that the Chancellor and the Court were vilified for issuing • a cootempt, a process which was just and requisite and which any Gentleman in that Hoek would enforce under similar eireunistfo. cos. He denied asst general principle, that the Judge was rages albite/or the practise. of the Court. Mr. BARIN(i adduced several. instances similar te l that or the Pethitiner. Persons.who sought their re medy in the Court, in cases of small property, .found that property gonelong before justice could be obtained; they were then kW/without money, and their inability to produce £2O was made a ground (or committing them for contempt. A property of, #601) was too man to enable a person to obtain a remedy in this Court. grimmer. and no answer put in, the Court of Chancery prow/led in its ordinary course. But, let the Hones for a milieu suppose, that the complaint proceeded from the -other party. Suppose the answer put in, and no further notice taken of it. Suppose such a case, and it was quite fair to suppose it—then, he asked, would there not be' just as much reason to vituperate the Lord Chancellor , in the one case as the other? It could not be denied,' nor did he (Mr. Canning) mean to deny the general position, Cr it law was extremely expensive in this country ; but grievous as it WAS that it should be so, it must be the height of injustice to attribute that expen siveness to the Lord Chancellor. (Hear, hear.) In tact, in this Petition, the complaint was equally ma a against all the Courts of Law, and it would be just as unfair to vituperate the venerableChiefJustice of theKing'sßench, and say his Court was a Court of corruption, as to say it of the Lord Chancellor and the Court of Chancery. The Hnn. Member who introducei it, disclaimed all ersunal application to the Lord Chancellor. Nothing had as yet been said in this debate which did so; and hr ( Mr. Can ning) therefore, saw no objection to the Petition being printed ; and the more so, as its complaints were equally directed against all the Courts of Law. That the law was expensive, he was ready to admit; but the vituperation of those who were called on to admi nister it, could not afford the safest remedy for Its cure. And this he begged leave to tell the Hon. Gentlemen opposite, and those who thought with them, that if the object of their vituperation were the removal of the able person from the once of Chancellor, that they were not only mistaken as to the mode, but that they would isdeoe every man of honour the more firmly to support him.— (h eets of hear, hear). Mr. JOHN WILLIAMS agreed perfectly in the Irinciple that nothing could be more improper than the ntroduction of anything like personality into this dis cussion. The Hon. Secretary for the Home Depart -meat on the occasion ofthE motion for a Commission to enquire into Chancery Grievances, which had been already treated and censured as a nuisance to society at large, had preferred a sort of pocket commission of his own, which it was admitted would take two years up in investigation before anything could finally be re ported on the subject of those grievances. Then the Hobse was called on to approve of the labours of this abortive commission to try the merits of the Noble and Learned Lord, through the medium of his own officers and servants, upon an imperfect report drawn up on 250 or 250,000 Chancery cases,,he could not tell which, nor was the number of any the slightest importance. But he could tell the Right Hon. Gentleman at the head of Foreign Affairs, that there was no reason to dread that any extent of vituperation would produce any change in the sentiments of that Noble and Learned Lord, whether that vituperation were codified to the single term bywhich the public denounced the grievances of suitors in Chancery as a curse, or in the more studied and prepared vituperation, which no one knew how to inflict to his knowledge with more effect than the same Right Honourable Gentleman opposite. That Right Honourable Gentleman might cheer up and take comfort to himself for that Noble and Learned Lord would never quit °like, but with life—. 1(A laugh).--The country was therefore in this predicament even by I,the confession of the Noble and Learned Judges friends, that it ,Utust, during the life of that Noble Lord, except it expressed itself Istrongly so as to compel his resignation, remain in this hopeless ' condition as respected the rights of suitors in the Court of Chan cery, where it was now a matter of notoriety that no man of mo derate property or fortune could obtain justice. — fifr.Secretary CANNING.—The Hon. Member who had just sat down appeared to have taken it for granted that the petition set forth the : practice of the Court of Chancery; but he was mistaken; it was equally appli cable to Courts of Law. The first part of it related to the summons by John Doe and Richard Roe, &c. with staves, sticks, &c. which he bad treated with contempt, • in consequence of which the plaintiff entered and took possession. 'The inference which had been drawn from that circumstance was against the Court of Ci , ancery ; but it Was wrong ; far in that respect the common Courts . of Law and the Court of Chancery were the same.— Wise whole bui then of the argument of the Honourable Member was, that law was expensive; that it was a subj:ct of regret that no means could he devised of re• diming die painful pre-eminence which the wealthier members of the community possessed in a contest with the poorer.—ln fact, the complaint made in this petition was; that the evils alluded to, belirged to every other tloort of Liw as well as to the Court of Chancery ; but still the only inference which could be'drawn from it Was, ad inviatiam, and p-rsonally dire,cted-to the Lord- Chancellor. Such a course of proceeding he could only 'characterise as one of gro:a . unfairoess--Of gross injus tice, and if any man thought he • could dispose this House to enlarge s full inquiry, by indulging in such unfairness and injustice, he could inform him, that he, snore than deceiv e d him s elf—f or i n pl ace o f effecting los object, he was Interesting every man of honour, in support of the accused—(Hear, hear, hear).— There was, however, a statement made in this Peti tion, by way of aggravation, which'completely :hewed that it was got up tor some unfair and some unworthy .purpose. The complainant stated, or was made to state, that his child, of the tender age of seven years, was also confined with him, by the fact of disobeying the orders of the Court of Chancery. Such a statement could only be intended to produce effect in this House, as weal as out of this House; but the knowledge he lad that the fact should have been very differently, stated, evinced to bis judgment that it was the work of falsehood ; and under such circumstances, he had some doubt whether the Petition should be received. No matilamented mote than he did, that the cow. .plainant was in such adverse circumstances, or so poor; but it was one thing to state that his child was in prison ilrlth him, as if under the sentence of the Court ; and another, that it was because of the father's being impri siiited for a c ontempt , t h at hi s c hild was w i t h - him, as. pith its best protector. (Hear). He (Mr. Canning) at first. V ett this harmle ss f rom i ts very, a b sur d ity; b ut • be found the effect it was intended to Otnduce, tlsd hoW artfully it w as state d, h e felt it'shOuld bO treated in a very different manlier. One half of the r e i f ies was directed against the Court of Chancery theinforenstionowas marly so , 164 fie . et . :4.111 eke the motion en the-subject of the Corn. Laws, of which he had given , tootice In the early pan of the Session. The first point to which he should beg to direct the attention of the House was the relation which subsisted between the Corn Laws as they at present stood, and the principles ghee trade upon which his M rjesty's Government had laudably acted.; and which had received the fullest *fiction of the House, and the approbation of every enlightened man in the country. he professed himself unable to reconcile those principles of commerce [ with the eXistence of a system so anomalous as the C , rn Lein. It was impossible that the Legislature could rvere in upholding those regulations, unless they d st made up their minds to be the laughing-stock of all who entertained any thing like sound or scientific tiews of commercial policy. They must stop short in their career of commercial emancipation, or repeal the I Corn Laws. How could they, under such a set of absurd land mischievous restrictions, give an adequate and 'equitable reply to the silk weaver, the glover, or other manufacturers, when they complained of the difficulty, nay, the utter impossibility, of entering into a competi tion with the foreign manufacturer, free, as he compara tively was, horn taxes,and having at his command, as he unquestionably had, plenty of food at moderate prices ? Haviag taken the first step, the House will pledged to carry the principle of free trade to its utmost limit.— They could not with any Thew of justice say to one Class of traders, "You shall carry on your business without the slightest restraint or limitation;" and to another, " You shall never be released from the anti quated restrictions to which, io a former condition of our commercial relations, it was deemed necessary to subject you." The manufacturer in Great Britain was to enter unprotected into a competition with his Conti nental rival ; while the chief means of , his subsistence were to be kept at an artificial price, far above its cost in other countries. He would positively assert, that the principle of reciprocity could not, ander the present circumstances, be acted upon in a satisfactory manner. England could not reduce the principles of free trade to practice, until she had acted fairly—until she had applied them to the Corn Laws, Sugar, &c. He was now sorry to be compelled to state, that the Corn Law, passed by that House in 1815, had inflicted more po sitive evil upon Poland, Flanders, America, and indeed the world in general, than the anti-commercial and anti-social decrees of Buonaparte himself. In this assertion he felt himself supported, beyond the possi bility of doubt, by a Report upon the Corn Trade made by an individual, Mr. Jacob, who had been sent, and most laudably sent, by Government, to obtain informa tion in those countries where corn was grown, and' where it was exported. By the Report of thh Gen tleman, he was borne out most amply in his opinion; and it was not a little strange, that whilst we were pro fessing to act upon the principles of free trade and free commerce, whilst we were professing a wish that a similar system should be acted upon by others, we should at the same time enact the most extraordinary law that had ever passed—that had ever been submitted to the consideration of a legislature; and which had in flicted more injury than even the Berlin or Milan decree. The course of journey taken by Mr. Jacob was through - • Mr. Secretary PEEL was now satisfied. from what Poland, Dantiie, Bavaria, Wirternberg, and Paris, and ,had escaped from the Hon. and Learned Member, who was,prosecuted generally out of the main road. He 'began by professing himself so totally in ignorance as stated that the complaints of land-owners, who had to the information submitted to Parliament on the state formerly been corn-growers, were by far too general to of the Court of Chancery, that he did not know whether admit of their being attributed to the distressed circum there were 180 cases inquired into or 180,000, that no stances of the respective complainants, proceeding from inquiry would have contented him. Suppose there had causes of individual mismanagement or misfortune. been a report founded on an inquiry into only seven or The Hon. Gentleman also referred to the Report, to eight ca%es, the Honourable and Learned Member show that there had been a great falling off of latter would no doubt have laughed at it, whilst at the same years in the culture of the land in foreign countries in time, with remarkable inconsistency, he argues that the article of grain. In one case mentioned, a Noble. there have been so many cases inquired into that the man who had formerly employed 26,000 acres in the Report can be good for nothing. Last Session the Hon. culture of little else but grain, had now, in come and Learned Member begged that there should be no quence of the English ports being closed, turned his meagre report ; now, because the evidence, without the attention to the rearing of fine wool, and fed upwards report, was full and explicit, he turned round and re- of fifteen thousand Merino sheep. The Hon. Member jetted that as too long. Long befae the meeting of pressed these facts upon the attention of his Majesty's that House this year he (Mr. Peel) had, certainly irre- Ministers, assuring them that there was nothing more gularly, taken upon his own responsibility to put that deserving the important consideration of .a Govern. evidence into the hands of printer, so as to be in a ment than the means of supplying the people with food. state of forwardness to put into the hands of Members He would undertake to show that under the old law, when this question should again be agitated, and this from 1773 to 1815, when the obnoxious measure was was the return which he met with from the person who passed, there had been virtually a free trade in corn affected to be most anxious to possess and distribute betwixt this country and the w h o l e wor ld. Th e hi g h est that information. But why war this evidence so T o. duty paid during that period was 2s. 6d. a quarter;) but that amount was ve r y rare ly p a id, the duty seldom luminous ? because all persons were invited - to prefer their charges, not excepting even Solicitors, and rising above 6d. The law of 1773 p ro vided th a t t h ere then the Honourable and Learned Member th ought should be one high duty payabl e w h en w h eat was at it 445. a quarter ; and two low duties, one at decent to make this a ground of impeachment, 2s. 6d. paya th.ough originating in his own suggestion—(Hear),— ble whea the quarter of wheat was from 445. to 48s. and There was a good deal which was questionable in t h e the second at 6d. payable when it r e ac h e d or excee d e d Petition, on the face of it, and as the Hon. and Learned that price. This Act was i t s face till 1791, d ur i ng which time the high duty wa s sc a rce ly ever p a id.— Member had confessed the Petition was drawn up by an attorney, and so far was ex parte, he conjured the In that year, however, a new law- was made, pro- House to form no opinion on it until they saw what vidiog that the first high duty should be payable case the opposite attorney could make out. For his only when the price of the quarter of wheat reached own part, be did not believe the facts stated in the Peti. 50s. and the first low duty of 2s. 6d. was made g who had granted a en. Here was the case of a man payable wheel it passed that price to .541. after mortgage, and who had been served with notice to pay which 611. watt -to be the rate of duty. During it up, which he (alleging himself to be an unpracticed this period it *as very seldom that any duty above )abouriog man) neglected, not thinking it erf conse- 6d. was paid. In 1804 the 'Cale of duty was quence. The Petitioner then says, he saw something again raised, when 635. was made the amount at which in it aborit John Doe and Richard Roe, and about staves the•high duty came into orration, arid 06s. the amount rind bludgeons, and so thought it all nonsense, which at which the first low duty of 2s. 6d. was applied, and looks highly suspicious, when it is conceded that the after that, 6d. From 1804 to 1815, there was no one 'Petition is got up by an attorney, who might be sap. year in which the second duty of Ls. 6d. was payable ; to know and to have taught his client better. and, consequently, with the duty of 6d. there was a posedn it appears this harmless and inexperienced man free trade in corn. New he would refer to the House offers the mortgagee to pay off the principal to get rid whether there had ever been a more prosperous period of the execution, which he refuses, unless he shall first for the chuntry—when every interest, and especially the pay the costs incurred by bringing him there. He had agricultural, was in a most flourishing condition, than felt it his duty to draw their attention to:this part of the the period of filly years to which he had adverted.— Petition which he would have wished should not have at present This fact, he thought, ought to allay the alarm of been printed, in order to introduce some further explanation on It, Hon. Members as to a state of free trade in corn.—! and prevent the Members coming to any conclusion, or forming any He should now spew that the restrictions on the iMPOr• jedgment upon an es part 4 statement. Mr. GASICFELL explained. ration of corn had given a blow to the external as well Mr. BROUGHAM begged to observe upon the ten- as the internal trade in that article, of the most mischie• dency of some expressions dropped, that though the evi. vous consequences. He had said in 1828, and again io dente consisted of eight or nine hundred folios, it might 1824, that fatal effects might be expected to flow from still be imperfect in his as well as other people's mind, the present law, from the tendency which it had to create which shewed it was not so easy to please every one.— a dearth of corn. (Hear.) He had stated this as the re. Though eight foliovnight possibly be too long, it was suit of certain principles which he had promulgated, and, possible that 800 might be still t , :o short. He knew upon the authority of documents to which he had re - •of himself that there were many omissions. There were (erred. It was true that he had expected it to occur also questions which, though answered, obviously sug • sooner ; and, although it took some time to work off the pate& that °there should be pet; sod towbar guldens there were stocks of corn on hand, those stocks were much reduced. ansieerssiven width eeetahted dm feet Infortsaatiem. I n genera l t h ere was about three or four months ' supply Mr. ROBERT SMITH sal4 tie Coinedadoe had applied , chameleon. the pertevesseee et the dudes imposed at diem , eel* or wheat in the country beyond what was required for anxiety se wor m that dui saaistaatettly and ciaacteittgdy; Bad • the year's consumption. The annual consumption he took to be twelve millibfit t *Ad 60* tAnliod for seed i which gave about three Or four millions in hand at the time of the harvest. It was Clear, hiivreveri that a country setting out even with this stock might, by the operation of a variety of accidental causes ) find its Stack gradually diminish . The questinn then arose upon this consideration, whether there wits not something iit the circumstances of this country which tended to produce the diminution of which he had spoken ? The natant of the corn trade was to induce the dealers in That article to go to market and buy when *beat was at the lowest Adam Smith had justified, in a very adequate and beautiful manner, this natural effect of dealing in coca; and shewn the perfect harmony which subsisted, in dile particular branch of trade, between the interests df the individual and the interests of the public. Now, fof Some years, there had been a constant declension dt prices, and k was well known that the grain holders had been subjected to most serious losses. the average price of wheat in 1817, was 94.5. per quarter ; 1818 i 83s. Bd. 1819, 725. 9d. 1820, 655. 10d. 1821. 545; Sd: 1822, 435. 3d. Upon these years there was a continued fall, the consequence of which had been, that the .corn: I dealer had not continued to make his purchases as usual, being disgusted with what had so long been a losing concern. It was true, that of late there hid been a rise in price. All this was the result of the courst pursued by his Majesty's Governments They had pro= claimed their intention of establishing the pttneiplti of free trade, and it never had been conceived that they would leave the Corn LaWs in their present restrictive state. Unable, consequently, to foresee what fluctuation in prices might follow the new laws, a partial stagnation in the trade had been the consequence. It was indeed impossible that the speculators could continue their operations in an article under these circumstances, the price in the corn market being from 50s. to 60s. and 70s. and in bond from 20i. to SOs. It was therefore clear, that the internal as well as the external trade in corn had been injured by the conduct of Ministers, and according to the reasoning he had endeavoured to incul cate upon the House, it was equally clear that a great dearth of corn might come upon the country unawares, the usual indication of a rise in price being wanting.— He trusted there was now enough o :corn in the country to answer the demands upon it for some time, at least until the next harvest, provided that should be abun dant and early. At present we were actually living from hand to mouth, and it was that which constituted the great peril of deferring the settlement of this ques tion. For these reasons it was that he deplored the law of 1815, as the most barbarous and absurd, the most contrary to every principle of policy, and opposed to every dictate of experience that an enlightened Legis lature ever adopted. What he bad stated proved, he conceived, the necessity of altering the law upon the principle on which he hXd proposed the alteration last year. The scale of duty which he had then proposed ' was, that 10s. should be imposed upon importation, when wheat was above 555. from 555. to 50s. he pro- posed 15s. from 50s. to 451. 20s. and under chit, 251. Such a provision, in the shape of duty, he admitted ought to be made as gave adequate security to the minds of the agriculturists. One effect of our Corn Laws was, that foreign countries had been driven to adopt the same course—(Hear). — France, Spain, Portugal, and Holland, had placed re strictions upon the importation of corn. The great opposition to a repeal of the Corn Laws proceeded from an apprehension that the country would 'be deluged with foreign corn if there were a free trade in that at title. The fallacy of this notion he would endeavour to show by documents, exhibiting the quantity of foreign corn imported into this country from 1800 to 1820. It was to be observed, that during this period there were no fewer than five years of :comity, 1800, 1801, 1810, 1817, 1818, and in those jean the prices of coin were exceedingly high. s. d. In IEOO the Quarter cii TIM was . 110 3 1801 . . . 11S 11 1510 • • . 103 3 1517 . • • . 54 0 151$ . 53 . The effect of these high prices was to draw every grain of corn from every quarter of the globe. And of the proportion of Impor cation belonging to these five, Out of the twenty. one )ears, the House might be en abled to judge by the following quantities: 1800 were Imported 1,263,7111 Qantas. 1801 . . 1,414,241 1810 • . 1,439,615 1617 . . 1,030,129 1816 . . 1,5116,1*0 _ _ _ During the twenty-one years, from . 1800 to 1890, inch. sive, the whole quantity imported was 12,577,000 qrs. of which the five years alluded to absorbed more than one-half. Taking the annual average from this period, he thought would be taking it very fairly. It amounted to no more than 598,906 quarters, and the average price was 84.5. 6d. In this he thought there was nothing to alarm the landowners of this country; especially when it was considt red that during the greater part of this time, until 1815, there was no obstruction to the entrance of corn into the ports. It was an impf.nant fact s that the greatest quantity of foreign corn came into this country from the poor countries. From the. rich countries, and even such as were agricultural, as America, hardly any was supplied. The average quantity of corn imported during each year; rf those twenty years, had been 598,96. quarters, and the average prices of those years, 84s. 6d. Since it was evident that poorer countries must export corn to the richer ones,- he would take from official documents the amount of corn annually exported from some of the former countries to this country. Annual average imported from 11100 to 14201 . . Russia . . . 6075 qrs. Sweden • 12,575 Prussia, including Poland . 204,467 • __ Germany . United States Canada . Holland Flanders . France . • 4 • 97.11 . sfay = . tow Denmark and Norway . . is,ssi There was another account copied from official docu ments also, of the exports of wheat from the ports of Dantzic and Elbing, during nearly two centuries,. Annual export of wheat book Minsk and ElMpi; . From 1651 to 1675 • 51,775 I fb : „. 1676 to 1700 . 124,1110' 1701 to 1725 . "row ''''''. 1726 to 1751 . 5t6114 44 1751 to 1775 141480 , 1776 to 1800 • 1 20,255„ 1501 to 1625 . The annual amount of export during tt\stle period was 215,307 qOarters of bread can, sent front Dantsic and Elbing, where no extraordinary deMand'hoti been caused. The annual average of the erf&W bi wheat and rye, from the same ports, for esaewni Its since 1790, was as follows: For 9 years from 17110 to 1795 For 5 years from 1795 to 1100 . 260,451 qr. 409,588 • ' 11 1. . '....k..„e - • I t , ..46, • • iF , r .IN 9111. c rua • rrmei r p..vpr.mpn ot st eOtif 'Of • S individual bad a **•••/:.)- in aWitiht dependent upon the a child nine years of age; had neglected to , the filing of a Bill in Chancery, and upon appl • -.• =. sod the Lord ChasesilototadthCodiat half agaltatake 4111111144: 0 9A that the ktionaltb kie Courts of Commas Law, int leivuldti bojost as to& k liViliesaid t ileti Asa bad of cal to enter into a tirade against* Court of King's tas i nt il t . c lo to did n ot t to e otterstst , d ; Per Bench, for the defects of the COMIIIIOII Law, as againu reepeet.:...e.rbe Petition was atarretto be printed. leo the Lord Chancellor for those of the Capri of Chancery. CORICLAWS. the The gnomons in this case was, that a Bill being filed, Mr. W. WHITMORE rose to make tl . • a • - _r -I_ el I' r I_!_i- I