The National Register. — London, England, 1818-08-02 00:00:00

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A I'TENI)ANCE OF MAGISTRATES. • - - Mr. (1 nil rose to earl the audition of the Court to the *extraordinary singe:time of thiugs with regard to the adminie. t ration of justice which occurred at the last Loudon l ies:does. is oppeared that it hail been found necessary to adjourn the se ions in consequence Of a sufficient number of Aldermen not !idle; present. It Weli his objcci to ascertain whether some. thing could not be Antic to pre vent the recurrence of such an roaiou in future. It was well known to that Court, that gentle. lien on being elected Aldermen were always very punctual tend assiduous in their attendance. The office was then new to them, and that Court, as well as the Courts of Justice, were in general duly honoured with their presence ; but after hav ing passed the offices of Sheriff and Lord Nlayor, it somehow ear other happened that they occasionally reused in the it aeal, and often seemed to prefer the comforts of private life to the toils of public duty. Nothing, however, could be more elis7,raceled to the City of London than that there should be any appearance of carelecsness in the administration of justice, and there certainly was such an appearance in the instance to whit i lie had alluded. The absence of the necessary tnaeistrates at the sessions was noticed in the public papers, and became the subject of general convermation. The juries and suitors b al complained of their loss of time ; arid it was proper that that Court should inquire, whether any measure could be adopted to prevent a recurrence of such au evil.— Ile had hoped the subject would have been taken up by the Cottrt of Aldermen themselves, butt it did not appear that such a proceeding was at present in contemplation. At any rate, there could be no impropriety in the Court of Commou Council appoiatitig n committee to inquire into the matter, and that committee might comminute:tie and confer with the Court of Aldermen. He trusted that hotly would do •credit to Use It' be adopting some efficient preventative against finch au neeeirrenee. He concluded by moving, " that it be referred to the Committee for General Purposes, to consider and report to this Coon whether any and what methods can be adopted in secure seed' a regular attendance of the Ma. fistrates of this City, as will ensure a due administration of ...justice, and pieeeet a recurrence of meek a cite iiiii stailee as that of the last lareloa Sessions being adjourned for the want of attend.oce of the eptisite nember of magistrates." A meodier observed, that he thought the Aldermen could be compelled to attend the Sessions, and-that they were liable to punishment lor neglect. Mr. Alderman Wood had no objection to the motion or to any hoptity that might be instituted, but lie was -afraid the Court of Common Conned had no powers le this case, and could do nothing effectual. It was the duty of the officers of the Court to report if any Alderman did not attend in his turn. He would then be summoned to attend, and would Lave to state to the Caurt of Aldermen a reason for his ab sence. tie knew of no farther power in the Culla of Alder. men than this. He thought it very wrong for any Magistrate to continue to hold his office if he neglected the duties attach. ed to it. The circuinetance which occurred at the London 'Sessions arose, he understood, from acedent, there having been some irregularity in the notice of attendance. %Vide regard two remedy. he believed there was none except filing' a Climitial information against theliegligeat Magistrate. He -thought, however, that some means shuttle, be taken to make •known to the public which individual was in fault ; fur, ac• cording to the present system of the report tieing made to. -the• Court of Aldermen alone, and not pulelished, the blame fell upon the whole body. In another place he should be' ready to assist in every peapositiou which might be brought forwavv. $ out as for that Court, they might inquire, bet they had ..0 powers. Upon a report from the Committee for General Pierposes, the. Court voted the stun of MI. to Jaiiez Apia:o , in, the descend - ant of Vier Hugh Myeldietem, Bart., who brought the New River to London, .the same being in consideration of his dis tressed situatisio Atilt" last Marc& Hertford A- sizes, a man named John Searing seas triedgind found guilty (subject to a point of law), for similar* number of " lame lieu ferrets." It was urged bye the Counsel for the prosvention, that %Sieve orea nrt s, though once considered wild, hat e of late years been much tamed and domesticated, so as to pro , r lii., ; llly useful about farms, its the destruction"( rats and other vermin. For the defence it was coutendedothat the Act of Pierliament, which Itod pronounced such c reatures as ferrets to be wild anti iiiisoineh as they werodopt for the destriiction of • rabbit-, ore. had not been repealed, and that the roie_out, h u m which it ; the others frequently generated, pat took of tli,t same species: Instead of being fclony, therefore, it was 1111414ttir to destroy 111C111. rime question vvrav reset ved tar toe grave consideration of thc•Judges. The decisionof their Lordships was "vole nt the late Summer Assizes, and tl•ey were Imatiimuovly of opinion, that the Act (must& red turrets to be at a wild otolesicions species, and the taking or de stroying to we sin ;felony ! Sea. in,: was, in consequence dis. charged. Lt,t week Wm. 'Nlit•arila ;inf. IVoi.firooge, two prisoners ander svnience of frOns the condemned cells lathe cocnty gaol At Northampton. Aot lath of 4 gutueas titre been et e re 4 fw thcil 2PP4datasiff- 'V 4rrir...<.\ll(iNAT.: nE s rut _ . LAW INr.l.l,loL'Ai•r. C0 1 ...11T OF tv..1 , ...Ly 29. 1' %1. I}' • .: t. II • 1 1.11 . %NI) I M..ZS. lid:11 .1 ree..ivri ~ :. ~~: , !J ~, ~.,. , ;. i . • • y ht. , rn .113.'' It I. • • i•:! •31 1134. 1:3 •••••1::33 t• 3 3.3 3 S 11 • • • • .3 3 : fl- '. .111.1 al ill. i• .if :xi . • ... f t !.• •:: .iii• w , •1.••': ••I ir 4Ll)''''•,. nissionsted. 1....01er • i.is 4re , l. a re.. a wr. i•••I n. reeeive dr • 31 3 1 i 13' 'I 13E13;10., 31111 ,1113.Z.1.111 save had ' lig!i• fit • discisai ge A had ite,•iir.l - "; .it ii.ed to votepei him 1.1 appenit another is ceise.•, comol aims .vi•h tile ogre ',most. • dr. Shah w ell, on the tof the defendant, did net oppose tin appoisoineiit of u receiver so far as regarded the copy. 4•Nlatt•?; ; best lie v:islied to put the goestiott to his Lord • ship, whether the profits atid emoluments of the office of clerk of tie• peace could be imssigneil. His Lordship was aware that by the statute of Edward VI., certain ()dices were de. Glared incapable of being sold, and the W 01•153 of the act were, that no offices cold,' be sold which " anywise touch or con certi the administration and execution of justice." He hum bly submitted the this was an office winch came under that desetiptitm. It was upon the same principle that the half pay of au officer iii the arms was trot assignab!e, and he consi dered that the office of clerk of the peace stood precisely iu the same sit/Est:on. He thought at least that the Court ought . to pause before it , came to a filial determination. There was also another consideratiou, that the profits of this office were so extremely small, not exceeding in the whole above 1601. a year, and consisting of a vast variety of small sums of money, of which one Chilling was the smallest, and twenty-five shillings the largest amount received at one time. He appre- • heuiled that the appointment ofir receiver under these circum stances would be almost itugetory, as the expense of the ap pointment 'night be greater than the sum received. Mr. Hart did not Olio!: that the case of a lialf.pay ofiicer ' applied in this instance, because the clerk of the peace was capable of filling the office by deputy, and an officer in the army had no such power. He was very ready to admit that it was a question for the consideratiou of the Court whether this office was assignable, hit he conceived that his Lordship would have no difficulty in ordering that the fluid be impound ed until au opportunity WM given to (litmuss the question. In the case of Sir li atkin Lewes and Smith, it would be recol• lected the Court granted what lie now required. With re spect to the observation that the unolnuteuts of this office were of a very trilling amount, he was disposed to give the defendant every possible accommodation, and he agreed that there would be no occasion for any receiver if the amount of the prutits were paid to some responsible person. Mr. Shadwelf said, that if his Lordship thought the profits of the office were assignable, be had no objection •to the pro position. The Lord Chancellor granted the 'order for the appoint ment of a , receiver, reserving that question fur future consi deration. GEE V. PRITCHARD. This was an application to dissolve an injouctien which had been obtained, restraining the defendant from publishing cer tain letters of a coatidential nature, which he had received from the plaintiff, his step-mother.—The case was as tot loos :—W. Caress, Asti° Ind taken the name of Gee, in con. fortuity to the conditions by which he became entitled to e large property, had no issue by his wife, Anne, the plaintiff, hut was the father of a natural child, W. Pritchard, the pi e sent defendant, whom, when lie was 11 sears old, he (nought home to Beddingion, die place of his residence, in 'Surrey, where he was received and rega-ded with the utmost kind new and tenderness by Mrs. Gee, as well as by his father, who placed hint first at anninieent seined in the neighbour hood. Front that school he was sent to St. John's College, Cambridge, where he was entered first as a pensioner, but afterwards as a fellow commoner, coining house during the vacations, mid being always treated as if lie were a legiti mate child,4tot only by his father, but Mee. Gee, thou lie was accustomed to call his mother.— Dui ing the time of his being ateollrge, and afterwards, until the death of his father. a correspondence was kept up between the plaintiff and defendant, of a most tender, kind, and confide utial nature.— But in AprillSlZ, the father, Wiii.Gee, died, having by will made a disposition of his property in the manner following To W. Pritchard, the present defendaut, lie left 40001. and the interest of4:0001. during his life, while the residue was to go' to his children, Mr. Pritchard having been married in 1510. To Mrs. Cree he left the interest of 17,0001. dean e her lile, directing that the principal, unless by will or deed, she should otherwiseslispose of it, sitoald go to Pritchard and his family. Shortly after his father's death, a great change, according to the defendant, took place in the behaviour and deportment of the plaintiff towards him, for instead of the former kiud ness that she had shewu for him, he was treated with slight, aversion, obloquy, and contempt. That limn the manner ill' which he had always been regarded by his father, he was naturally led to eater-Min the es pectatitni of being vius idea for by him M the most ample measure, an expectation which the apparent eoncitrrence of Mrs. Gee was calculated to con firm, and which belted not scrupled Ls signify to his friends and acquaintance, all of whom, by the subsequent conduct. and representation -of the plaintiff, who was actuated by te sentmeitt and malevolence, were led to entertain doubts of the deftindent's veracity and honour, to clear which, he found it necessary to take measures for fussiest?, the oorrespontlence widish passed between the plaintiff and himself, printed and distributed, not by sale or pebliely, butauiong his friends-and acquaintances. Oil the part of the plaintiff it was denied that any motive of malice had. influenced her; on the eoutrary, it gave her umeli pain to reflect , that the misconde et of the defendant had forced her to Mange. her manners t tovvards him. It was not i roe that either User .tale husband or herself had ever a .- cited ally higher expectations of inheritance in the defendant than his father's will had extended to; that Ito far from her regards being immediately alienated from the 41elesidaset on his fatheies death, she hail subsequently, by her interest and exertions, procured for hints being, the rectory of Walton, • worth typwasdiviof 4001. a seat , that she had farther given , him a muncluseney, amounting to 4,5001. afterwards 4001. and , • other sums. Age was not, however, so to be satisfied, but wanted to 111111% the interact ou the 17,0001. made over to hint, Al nt 4 .I.wl ;we 14:711iii'•44/n1•1 ?" , f ill is a.tl, It, , , • , (1 11, r . " " I''' • • • ~ L . 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I; to it ri t tit iii. 1:116:iCA -1.1011 Look, that all for the reasons blated, irr(l bet.o aii; dht the Crilicr,llll(l dissolte that initial-lion na; iii onjetst of the present at plu anion. li wax n• gael, in ta'.'olir of the app.lea non, that the letters e.• r 11,1 , prove:ly an the person alio had received them, and noo nas Hid buuud, by any rule of law or equity, to keep them sem. led. list lefty's% between friends were not be eunsidered as what is usually vaned literary property ; but as the object of the defendant, as stated in his affidavit, was to clear his ',potation, and justify his character, he was, in common jusi ice. entitled to publish them for that ' , orphan., - The ease of Pet cesal and Phipps was cited as being g , us, in %%hie!' the present Master of the Rolls refused the application male by Lally .Pereeval to restrainllr. Phippa Com publishiog knees on a ground similar to that on wind. the injunction in this case had been granted. -On the other hand, it was contended, that the property was rather in the miter than with the receiver of letter a, as it had been decid ed by Lord Hard.vieke, iu the case of Pope and Curl, and by Liii al Bathurst, in the ease of Lord Chesterfield's letters.- 9a to the suppose(' analogy in the case of l'ereeval and Phipps. i s application Will denied, inasmuch as that it-was proved there in Conrt that Lady Pereevai lisrsell had conntenancea the publication, which she afterwards wanted to restrain.— That it was plain the object of the defendant was not to clear his character, but to indulge resentment at the 'Annuli's re fusal to comply with his unreasonable and insatiable demands, and that the ease was most clearly such a oue as called for the protection of rue Court. COURT - OF REQUESTS, SovviwAßK, Jo::: 28. LIVION V. SLTTON. The defendant in this vase was summoned for the sum or 11. Ss. the sum paid for a gold ring set with pearls. The plaintiff is shopnian to an eminent linendraper, and pays his addresses to a young lady, who lichls a situation of equal importance in the establishment of a fashionable milliner and dross meeker, in addition to which they are each of them vo taries of the drama, and occasionally fret and strut their hour upon the stage at it ,private theatre in . tlrc neighbour hood of Bankside. From the statement now made by the plaintiff, it appeared, that he having undertaken to play Antonio in the Jlerchunt rf •Venice, whilst his lady was to sup port the character of Portia, he determined oil taking this opportunity of presenting her with a handsome ring, , at opportunity which one of the situations of the play afforded hint. Being very intimate , with the defendant, who is a working jewaller, lie inentimed to him his wisll to hive such a trinket, and Ins friend immediately volunteered his ser vices to procure him one at prime cost. The ring in question was accordingly provided, and 11. Bs. the pliee demanded, was paid for it. The lover waited with impatience the arrival of the period when he should have the.oppottniiity of carry ing his gallant intentioa into effect. It art ived, and the proudest moment of his life was that in which he placed the Offering bauble on the Mager of his belayed. The lady. proud oldie Uuphy, next day exhibited it to her amanita:we. wile. to her great mortification, and to the still ge eater of the plaintiff, to who en she communicated the iiiformation she lead gained, site learnt that, instead of real pearl ant/ sterling utat, the trinket was composed of beads of the comininiest de scription, set in a metal almost %taintless, called jeweller's gold. The plaintiff i. mediately applied to the delendaut. remonstrated with him on his coattail, and demanded leis money back. Remonstrance and demand were equally (his. regarded, and the plaintiff had been obliged to adopt.the present course to obtain justice. Several jewellers were examined, who stated that the riag was of the most paltry description ; the material and work manship together not being worth Ss. :she defendant contended, that the ring was as good es things of this description usually were. lie observed it was a fashionable article, and people must expect to pay for fashion; and further added, that with the large stork oleic. jewellers were obliged to keep on hand, utiles' they get a'► 44oderately good profit, they would not lie able to live at all. ;The Commissioners decided, that the defendant •. h uuld return the full sum of M. Ss. and pay all costs of suit. On doing this, the fashionable article wa, I COOlell to him. LIST OF THE SIXTEEN SCOTCH .PEERS. Elected July 24, ltslB. „Duke cf Ros6rgh... ...... 45 ri.t. oh 0. A rbulknot 41 Marquis of queensberig...s4 Lord .Forbes 51 211itriltis .?f nreedale 56 herd !ialtoun 55 Ain/told of Loth; An 57 Lord Gray 55 ..i.:111i qf En of 31 Lord Sinclai• 5(.1 Earl of Kellie 54 hur4 Colvilk 57 Earl of Bah:arras sq I Lord Napier 51 -Earl ve Aueberry 54 I Earl of Home.-- ...... ...bil The Peen in Italic:sate New Petro. PEERS NOT RETURNED. E..rl of Caithness I Earl of Selkirk . Earl of GlArgow : Harlot Dalhousie ° 1 Earl of Aboynet ' I Earl of Aberdeen. ' A Peer of the United Kingdom (Lord Dalhousie. 1. A Peer of the United Kingdom tLord Aleldttun.) ; A Peer of the United Kingdom (Lord Ross). DA'allta ROBBERY AT WATigRLDO BRIDGE.—The fot lowu!g daring robbery was committed oetwceu two and three o'clock on Friday se'enight Moorheuse vies sitting in the toll-house on the Surrey side of Waterloo Bridge (as is customary all Night for the purpose of receiving the toll), when two mail, wills black crape over their rushed and seizing hint ity his arms and leg,„ held him down, while they rifled his pockets of 11.35. Out: tot them stood over hips, 11're:dim:lug to put an end to his existence, it he made any noise, while the oilier took out of adr .ss er .11ourhouse heard a third person on the outside of the toll house, during . the time the two mu were plundering the iiitideou whom oilcan then) conveyed the property, and wietclunasi's rattle, which was kept in the tull-house for the purpose of smennounig the patrol upob .an emergency. The thieves ran ott, a lter the robbery, down the steps fin the left hand ut tole tu:l house, and crossed the stone-field, and their tieing ini watca.. man or patrol stationed there. they escaped. The rattle .was.iotind as Wan as it was lightly one of jibe bridge-patrol.