The National Register. — London, England, 1818-08-03 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON COVIVOIL. Wednesday a Conn of Com 111111 l Council was held at Guild tail, wide!' was numerously attended. After the proceedings or the last Cowl hail been read, the Lord Mayor laid !velure tile ('ourt the :tamer of his Royal I ligliness the Prinre Regent to the address of congritiilation esenteil on M 14,t, on the marriages of the Dukes of i larenee and Kent, which was read and ordered to be en tered on the journals. His Lit-11.16p then presented the respective answers of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Clarence and the Duke and Ditches* of Kent. which were read, and directed to be entered on the journals. It was rtferreil to the City Lands Committee, to consider whether it world be advisable to snake any alteration in the collection of the tolls in Newgate market ; and also to Coll jitler the present state rif the said market, Mr. Al.h.rirson Wood moved, that it . be an instruction to thu Committee appointed to ron‘ider of the petition of the hiltabitants of the public streets, reistive to r.OllllllOll prostitutes freqttenting the same, to take into consiGrotion the state of the watch and police of the city, 14(.11 what alterotion might appear to them accessory tiu rein. Mr. S. Dixon dill not object to Oro motion, but to the word• ing of it. He saw no reason wily the phrase "co eee on pro.. finites," should be need by way of distinction. All prostitutes ot mit etionotou, from the ltighest to the lowest. Mr.. Alderman Wood said, the words were only sneli as the worthy 2entlcainn hisnselr had freqiirntly aged io the COUNC t the on the subject, and he saw no reason fur big present nicely. The tuotiuu was then put andtarried. ATVENI)ANCE OF MAGISTRATES. Mr. Oldham•rose to call the attention of the Cord to the -rearnoeilinary situation of things with regard to•the admissis. ?ration of justice which °Neared lit the last London Sessions. It appeared that. it hail brim found necessary to adjourn tltt• sessions consequence of ain tileiellt iiiimber of Aldermen not Miss!, present. It was Isis object to ascertain whether some_ hing round not be done to pre vent the recurrent e of secli on action in future. was well known to th it Court, that eent le. mien on lodise eleeted Aldermen were always very punctual end assiduous in their attendance. The °thee was Hirt, new •to Mein, and that Court. as well as the Courts ofJostice, were le general doily hossoured with their presence ; but after has. ing passed the out es of Sheriff and Lord illeyet, it someh o w or other happened that they occasionally relaxed in their r -al, and often seemed to prefer the emisterts of private life to the toils of public duty. Nothing, hoes ev et, could be more •illi.grareful to the City of London than that these should be :my appearance orcarelessuess in the allininist ration °Oust lee, anti there certainly was such Na arpeares►ce in the instance to which lie had alluded. The shstesee Of the necessary magistrates at the session* was natieesi in the public papers, and became thesul►ject of general conversation. The juries cud miens had complained of their loss of time; antl.it was proper that duet Court should bemire. whether any measure 'mid be uslophel to prevent a recurrence of such au e He hal hoised the subject would have been taken np by the Ciotti of Idermen themselves, but it did not appear that Nock ase oetteding was at resew in cententplation. At any rate, there could be no Impropriety in the Court ut Continue Commit appointing n committee to inquire into the matter, and sire committee stsiglit cominsinit ate and confer with use Court of Aldermen. Ile trusted that body would do s•redit to itself by adopting some efficient preventative against such an ot•catrrence. lie concluded by moving, " that it be referred its the Committee for General Purposes, to consider sand report to this Court whether soy and what inethodA can be adopted, to secure ‘it'll a reginar attendance of the Ila. gistrates (.e this City, as will ensure a due administration of jestiee, and p►eveut a recurreuve of such a eirensestanee as that of :lie lest Loudon Sessions being adjourned for the want of attendance ante requisite n teller ut magistrates." A member observe.), that he thought the Aldermen could Ise compelled to attend the Sessions. and that they were halite to pisuislintent for neglect. Mr. Alileinsan Wood had no o4jection so the motion or to r.ny inqssity Mat 'night be Mollified, but lie was afraid the I 'curt of Common Council had no powers• in this case, and eauW do nothing effectual. It wits the deny of the officers of the Court to repot t if any Alderman did not attend iu his tarn. He mould then be sentinelled to attend, and mead lave to slate to the Caau•t of Alderman a reason for his ;ab sence. He knew of no farther power in the Court of Alder• men than this. He thought it very wrong for any Magistrate :u continue to bold his office if lie neglected the chino:. attach. •• Ito it. :The circumstance which occurred at the London Eessions arose, lie understood, front accident, there having been sonar irregularity in the notice of attendance. With regard to a remedy, he believed there was none except filing a criminal information against the negligent Magistrate. He v s ea te ht, however, that sense wens should be taken to snake known to the public which insiivideitl was in fault ; for, ac. yarding to the present system of the report hieing made to Court of Aldermen alone, and not published, the blame t••ll upon the whole holly. In anotlK-r place lie should be ten ly to assist ill every proposition which might be brought fora aril $ but as fur that Court, they might inquire, but they h=.•l no powers. l'pon a report from the Committee fir G Porposes,the toted the slain of 591. toialin. the desecnd• ass of Sir Hugh Myddleton, Bart., who brought the New ft ,er to London, the same being in consideration of lea Jis tae.sed situation. At the last March Hertford V..izes, a man named. John f:...tring was tried and found grotty isuitscet to a point of law), for stealing 4 number of "lc me live ferrets." It was urged by the Counsel for the prosecution, that these •er-atort 5, once considered wild, have of late years been much tamed and rlnmesticated, so as to prove highly ititeritl ;show farms, in the destruction of rats and °lb.' . vermin. .For the ttet t fice it was contended. that the Act of Parliament, ahlch pronotiare I such creatures as ferrets to be vi Oil and s ii•li as they were kept for ?lie desh•actiun id* 6.:•• ot been repeale.l, and titat the ro:i.ra:. from which it is • iot ,he others frequently generated, pie to.ik or ty...e sate. sloe's, Instead of bring a felony, therefore, :t was .itislairi.: to a...troy shear. The question was reAerved for ' , V C i. gatillii of the Judges. The derision cf their arit•ii,..• made at the late Sommer Asiiize., ;met ti.ey o .1 11i Opillina, that the Act consider 11 flillt.ol t , be ..6 .1 I .111 d Vittio4l% Apericii, and the taking u; de. f:filylll.4 Ito .:u :Mon, I Searing was in eunsequenci. aged. I,a — rt N% m . \NI:IH% and Win. George, t%ti priqukt r. -der at•ntrurt. demi), escAped fruit the coodcruned cols et /he comity tta•• , It ! , !ortintluptun. •A rem...tra of Sit ouat:ae 'Zeta tack,: tlbc'r .trirrec.cua. TTIC NATT(NAT, ra:GrsTrn LA H' IN TELLIG E.VCE. COURT OF CHANCERV, W RDNEIDAY, JULY 20. PALMER AND OTHERS V. DULLY AN UOTHI ER/. Mr. Hart moved, on the part of the plaintiff. that a receiver might he appointed of the income and profits of ceatain ea. tales and offices payable to oue of the detendante, 'ninnies Wright Vaughan, clerk of the peace fur the city of West i • - ster, after deducting the salary of the deputy who now sup plied the place of Mr. Vaughan. The facts of the case were these :—Mr. Vauelsan being entitled to the estates in question, consisting of the office of clerk of the peace, which wets a freehold, and to eertain copy hold estates, became mnck indebted to the plaintiffs, and executed a deed dated Jan. 26, Itso6, whereby he covenanted that be would within a given period make an aesignment of this property to pay the two snail of 13871. and .7791., with legal interest of 5 per cent. fn delimit of this agreement, the estates in question were to vest in certain trustees appointed. Under this deed, a receiver was appointed to receive the rents and profits, but Mr. Vanglian *um: !time *ince had thought :it to diecharge this individual. It bill had accord ingly lies n filed sto compel hint to appoint another receiver, in compliance with the ugseement. Mr. Shadwell, ea the pail of the defendant, till not oppose. the eppoiutmetit er a receiver so far as regarded the copy. hold estutes; but Se wished to pmt the question to Isis Lord. ship, whether the profits and emoluments of the office •of clerk of the peace could be aseigned. His Lordship was aware that by the statute of Edward VI., certain offices wore de. elated incapable ef being sold, and the words of the act were, that no offices could be sold which " anywise toucher con. cern the administration and execution of justice." he hum bly submitted that this was ail office svloseli Caine ler that description. it was upon the sane: principle that the half pay of an officer in the swine was not assignable, and he consi dered strait the office of clerk of the peace stood precisely iii the sante situation. Ile thought at least flint the Court night to pansy before it .came to a final determination. There was elso another consideration, that the profits of this office were so extremely smell, lost exceeditt4 ill the whole above 1601. a yeas, and consisting of a 511 st variety of email sums of money, of which one slitiling was the smallest, and twenty-five shillings the largest aramins received at one time. Ile appre hended that the appointiutrat (Ira receiver sunder these circum stances would be almost nugatory, ft.; the expense of the ap pointment might be greater than the sum receives!. %Ir. Hart slid not think that the ease of a halt:pay otlir els applied in this instant.., because the clerk of the peace was capable of filling the office by sle i nity, and an officer in the arosy hats sits such pewee. He wait very ready to admit that it was a question for the consideration of the C t whether this office was assigoilide, bat he Conceived that his Lordship uottlml fine Ito difficulty inorileiing flout the fund he impound ed until au import sillily ea. given to dimwits the question. In the ease of Sir Watkiii I ewes and Sinith,.it would be recol lected the Court granted what lie now el-hinted. With re spect to the observatiost that time einoliiiiient. of Ibis office were of a very trilling by was disposed to give the delitidant every possilsle accommodation, Owl he agreed that there would be nu occasion for any receiver if the uutuuut of the profits were poi.' It, souse responsible person. Mi. Shad well said. trait if Isis Lot tidily thought the profits of the office were assignable, he tad too objection to the pro position. Tile Lord Chancellor granted the order for the appoint. meat of aseceiver, reserving that question for.loture consi deration. II EL V. PRITCII t It. This was an application to dissolve an injunction which had been obtailied, restraining the defendant from publishing eel — tam letters of a confidential nature, which be had received front the plaintiff, his step•u:nther.--The case was us fol lows :—W. Carew, whir had taken the name of Gee, in cut,. fortuity to the conditions by which he became entitled to it large property, had no iiisue by his wile, Anise, the plaintiff, but was tile lather of a natural child, W . Pritchard, the pre sent def t eidanr, whom, when he WKS 1 1 vein s old, be hi ought home to lleddington, the place of his residence, in Surrey, where liewas received and regarded with the inmost kind. ness and tenderloin by Mrs. Gee, as well as by hit father, who placed him first at an eminent school irethe neighbour. hood. From that school he was sent to St.. John's College, Cambridge, where lie was entered turst as a pensioner, but afterwards as a fellow commoner, coming home during the vacations, and being always treated as if he were a legiti. mate child, not only by his father, but Mrs. Gee, whom lie as accustomed to call his mother.—During the time of lois being at College, and afterwards, until the death of his father. a correspondence was kept up between IlLe plaintiff and defendant, of a most tender, kind, and confidential nature.— lint in April 1816, the father, Wm. Gee, died, having by will made a dispositiouar his property in the manner following : To W. Pritchard, the present defendant, he left 40001. and the interest of6oool. du. ing his life, while the residue was to go to his children,• Mr. Pi whin ,1 having been married ir. 1.510. To Mrs. Beebe left the interest of 17,0001. during her life, directing that the principal. unless by will or deed, she !should otherwistidispose air, should go to Pritchard and his family. Shortly after his father's death, a great change, according to the defendant, took place it: the behaviour and deportment of the plaintiff towards hint, for instead of tin , former kind• ness that she hail shewn for hint, lie was treate:t with slight, aversion, obloquy, and . cantoript. That feinit the manner in which he had always been regarded by his father, hr was' naturally led to entertain the expectation of being pointed for by him in the most ample measure, an expectation which the apparent concurrence of Mrs. Gar was calculated to cue. fine, and whieJthe had not • scrupled to signify to his ti iends and acquaintance, all of whom. by the subsequent conduct awl trpresentation of the .plainittf, who was actuated by se m•eitinent and malevolence, were led to entertain doubts of the defendant's veracity and honour, to clear which, lie found it necessary to take measures fur leaving the correspoudcuce which passed between the plaintiff and himself, printed and distributed, not by saleor publicly, but among Ins friends-and • dell nainlanCt•6. toe part of tire 'dental it was denied that any Ernie, of mallec had iilluelired her; on the contrary, at ga.a tare mu If pain to relleiet that the miscondiset of the defeisd•.l,l had forced her to chasigis leer manners towards him. it was out true that tithes her late iiiisbaitil or herself hail ruts es- Cutetl any higher expectations of inheritauve in the defendant thin fits lather's will li.td extended to; that so tar from tier r. t.t..rdi. being unmediaiely alienated from she :ss lather's death, sac hail subsequently, by her nacre's and exi•i ions, taut:tiled for him a living, Ine cretin y of Wilma', out li upwards of 4aol. a year; sliha she had inrtlks 1111114 sum of molicy, to 4,5001. ahem rds dud other sums. lie was not, however. so to be sit is!ied. wautrd to hat e the ititcrest on the I "I,OO'N. made user to film Ate,.:. and b ecalm ., d le plaintif vi mild not comply wi: that demand, lie thieeicited her Huh the putilo alien of the kiwis in ques lion. , Upon hearing of his puipii,e she atiolied to nut to de. sist ; hat it only would consent to do SO out condition of re ceiving tlir interest of the 17,0001. although, as the plaintil could prove by 311 conciliatory and penitential leiter which she had received from Win, he had returned to her in a parcel all her letters ' " because," as lie expressed himself, " he f e l t himself to be tenwortny of the sentiments they conic ined."---- But having done this., and secretly taken•copiee of the letters, lie pet an advertisement into the papers, setting forth that there was their in the c ress, and speedily to be published, by W. Antic POI), bookseller, l'iceadiliy, a book, entitled " The Adopted Son, or, Twenty Years at ilerldine Oil ; with the Nlemoirs of a Clergyman, written by himself, and inlet. spersed with Ancedutes o litc." It was to pieyerit the publica tion of that book, that an injunction, for the seasons stet te r, had been granted by the Court, and to dissolse that injunction was the object of the present application. It was argued, inriivour of the application. that the letters were the property of the person who had Iveeived them, and who was not bound, by any rule of lass or equity, to keep them secreted. That letters between ft rends weie not be con.illeicil as Wall is usually called litciery.priipei is ; but ;is the ob:cet of the defendant, as stated in his ethilas it, nas to clear his reputation, and justify his clienteles . , he was, in c iiiiii 11011i11•; ice, entitled to prilthsli them-fn , The ease of !'eleesal and Phipps was cited as being acids. g us, 1,, whieti the present Master of the Bolls refused the application made by Lady Pereryal to restrain Air. Phipps 1 publishing letters on a :round similar to Wet on which the injunction in this case had been granted. tNu the other hand. it was•contended, that the property Aaa rather in the seiner than with the•reeeiyer of letteis, as it had been decid ed by Lord Mai astir Le, ru the case ofd'opr and Curl, and by Lord Bathurst, in the ease it Lord Chesterfield's letters.—As to the sitpposi d analo.ty u, tho case of Pei eeval aiiil Phipps. i a application was ilci,ied, inasmuch as that it was pros cd there in Cum I that Lady Perri:sal herself had comiteilancesl the ;•iiblicatiust, which <die afternai do wanted to restrain.— 'fliat it was plain the object of the defendant was not to clear his chat:len:l Lint to indulge resentment at the plaintiff's re fusal to With his mireasouable and insatitilde d, mauls. awl that tits was lutist clearly Sat'll a cue as called fur the protection or tli.• Court. COURT OF gr.QUE4Ts, SOUTIIIVARK,JvcvIS. %. surros The defendant in this ease aa► ed fur the sum or ii. bs. the sum paid far a gold ring set walls pearls. The plaialiff i , shopiiimi to an eminent litiendraper, and pays hitt aili:ressev to a young lady, sell , / .holds a situation of equal importance in the establislimeet of a fashionable milliner and stress maker, in addition to which they are each of them vo taries of the Minna, and occasionally fret and quit their hour upon the stage at a pH vete theatre in the neighbour ;loud of Bank:dile. .From the statement not• muds• ny the plaiiitiff, it appeared, that he having midi rtaken to play Antoa;a in the Aferchwal Vettiee, whilst his lady was to sup port the climacter of I•artia, he determined on taking dins opportunity of presenting tier with a kaudsoitie rink;, uu opportunity which. one of the sit nations of the pli:y affurded him. Being vet y .bitiscate with the defendant, who iv working jeweller, lie mentioned to him his wish to have such a trinket, and his friend immediately volunteered his ser vices to proem... him one di prime cost. The ring in question was acciirdingly provided, and 11. es. the price demanded, was paithfor it. The lover waited with impatience the as rival of the period when he should have the &wpm minty of early. ing his gallant inteetiou into erect. it at its ad, mai the proudest moment of his lite was that in which he placed the giittrring lsauble on the timer of his beloved. The lady, ; dof the•lrophy, next day exhibited it to her acqn.iiir mice, wile ' to het great mot itheation,.and to !he still g.ientcr of Ill•: pleintilf, to whom she communicated the inthrimitimi ,lie lie l gained, she learnt that,insteiel of real pearl and stet hug ore, the trinket was composed of beads of the commonest de scription, set in a metal almost valueless, called jeweller:. gold. 'flue plaintiff its inediatriy applied to the defendant, remonstrated with him on hie conduct, and demanded his money heels. ltemonstrence and demand were equally di,. regarded, and the plaintiff had been obliged to adopt the present cou rse to obtain justice. 'Several jewellers were examined, win stated that the ring was of the movt paltry 'lest!' iption ; the material and work manship together not being worth ss. The defendant contended, that the ring was as good as things of this description ustiaily acre. He ulrierved it was a fashionable article, and 'tropic insist expect to pay tier fashion ; and further added, that with the large stock which jewellers were obliged to keep on hand, unites they get a mcderatetq good peitit, they would not he able to live at all. The Commissioners decided, that the defendant should return the full sum of 11. bs. and pity all costs of suit. Oes doing this, the fashionable article was it:slimed to him. LIST OF Tut.: SIXTEEN SCOTCH PEERS. Elected July 24, IblB. Dirke of Roxb. rgh 481 Viscount Arfruthnot.......4s Marquis of Quecnsiierry 34 Lord Forbes 5l 11arquis of l'weedale 3ti Lord rialtour 35 Masquis of Lothian 37 Lord Gray Si Earl of Errut. 56 Lord Sinehui, Earl A Kellie I ord Earlof Balearras c , t Lord Napiei 51' Eari qf Earl of 36 • The t'eers in Italics arc New Peers. PEERS NOT IIETUItNED. Earl of Caithness I Earl of Selkirk Earl of Glasgow j I Earl of Dalhousie° Earl of Aboynct Earl of Aberdeen. L • A Peer of toe United Kingdom (Lord Dalhousie. t A Peer of the United Kingdom (Lord Melchum.) j A Peer of the United Kingdom (Lord Roo:). DARING ROBBERY AT WATLRLoo EintimE. The Ire!. low ina daring robbery %%44 committed between tau and thrc' o'cirmk ina Friday selinight : Moor Moose aas sitting in thr toiktionse on the Surrey stile of Waterloo idge (as is customary all night for the purpose of receiving the toll%, when two men, with black crape over their tilees, rushed and seism.: loin by his arms and legs:, held hint down, while they rilled lits pociselsot IL Es, flue or them stood over hilt , threatening to pot au end to his existenve, !r hr made any Raise, while the oilier took out of a dr•,wer 71. Althishouse heard a third peewit ou tittoitt•iide t,f the toil house,. dossing Ihv time *helms men were ploinkring the inside,lowlioni insert( them conveyed the proveri), and rails, which %a• kept in the toll.house tor the purpose or suunnno,patt the p.itrol upon an emergency. The thieves I'.lll On, alter rise robbery, down Ilie >,ep. on the left 11.1111 Id the 1441" house, and crus , e4l the .tone-field, dud thcic iiriug ou aateb.. man or patrol stationed their!, they eNeapi it. The rattle was rutted as ruou as it was light eue of - the bridge-palrUl. ‘:1.1