The Statesman. — London, England, 1814-03-24 00:00:00

ortittli NiIVAL INTtLLIGENCIL - • 1,. ~1~~ v i r eiterdaY a arallerld Court of Proprietors was held at the India-House, for the purpose of taking in e t e o n eo p nareviteamaysubmitted consideration two moti t o o h n t s; e co notice u r. t o f which had b One by Mr. &sense JACKSON, embracing . two Resolutions :-Ist, That— no Proprietor should sit or vote in a Committee, who was not qualified to rote or ballot in a General Court ; and, ?Ally, That no Proprietor should take a share in the debates of any General Court, who .was not qualified to vote or ballot in the same. The other notice was by Mr. MIKE, that a bye law should be enacted, malting the presence of sixty-four Proprietors Necessary to sanction any grant of money, either in the shape of compensation for losses sustained, or of remuneration for services performed. • The Minutes of the last General Court having been read, Mr. R. JACKSON addressed the-Court at consider able length, and proceeded to state, that the prac tice of unqualified Proprietors interfering in the de bates of that Court, though formerly permitted as a matter of courtesy, had been latterly claimed as a right. The law, however, on the subject was clear, that none should interfere in the debates of .the Court, or, in the words of the charter, 44 should intermedille in the administration of the affairs of India," who was not also entitled to vote respecting the same; and the Court, should it deem expedient, had an indefeasible right to enact such a bye-law. The Learned Gentleman proceeded to corrobate his posi tion, by taking an historical review of the powers Yesterday a Deputation from the Committee of the and privileges of the Company, from the time of Elizabeth down to the Charter of 1793. By that Common Council, and a Deputation fr o m the Com mittee of the Tiaders of the Metropolis, attended by` Charter all the former grants to the Company had the City Members, and Mr. I(i:siemens:sem, had a 1 " Scrawls I been confirmed, and whatever might appear doubt- With desperate charcoal an his darkea'A walls," conference with the CH ANCELLOR of the E XCHEQUER ful, was to be interpreted in the sense most favour can he more incorrigible to reason. They are always l ielative to. the intended Bill for the suppression I able to the Company. By the 6th of William and setting out on their way to Paris from Moscow, if frauds laid impositions by itinerant or otherevery one who took any share in discussing ;while the Pitt-school studiously return to join Lord I Mary, iuctidoedrs. I the affairs of the Company was obliged, if called Hawkesbury,in the year 1793, or they think the ! ' RSO3I)IEI4'B Hotel ., in Piccadilly , has been , t . aken. I upon by I qualified Proprietor , to take an oath that whole ceremony incomplete! The Treaty •of Pilnitz ' for the reception or the Emperor f RUSSIA s sister, 'he was duly qualified to take a share in such dig ! does not stand between our modern popular incen. i the Princess CtIriIAILINE, Duchess Dowager of 01- such was still the law, and the person Idiaries and their just revenge 1. They live only in l cussian • ; denburg, who is expected in London daily. It is i 44 this present ignorant time !" They see the white I !rho refused to take such an oath, could not be saldlhat 5,0001. ii to be given for it for six months. admitted , in any capacity, into any Court where the standard of the Bourbons waving over the walls of : ' The ceremony of laying the foundation - stone of ;• affairs of the Company were to be discussed. By Paris, u.ispotted with the blood of millions of :* the Repository School-house of Bandon, a ff orded a , ... , • , T he 1 the Act of the 10th of William 11(. the qualification Wend' id Spectacle on the 14th inst. The stone was or tencumen . y do not seem ever to have known, - that the same e ntitling f to vote in a William Court, was reduced or. ( with our poet-laureat) they forget, bid by the Countess of BANDON 7atieridei by her ' rem 10001. to 5001 ., which Act was the sabstral um ' standard* to which our milky politicians advise the ' daughters the Ladies BEiNARD. he building is ca- • . 1 of all the rights possessed by the Company. In the i f rench people, sick of destruction, and panting for • vable of receiving 40Q childress. 1 freedom, to fly for deliverance and repose, is that : 7 t th year of his present Majesty , an Act was -oil pas..., Yesterday a Conn iat Directors was held at the o prev?nt collusive transfers of India Stuck. for ; very standard, which, for twenty years, hovering , Eastintlia Heusi, when . the Under-mentioned Corn- temporary nurposes ; by which it was enacted, th at round - them, now seen like a cloudy speck in the Menders took leers of. the Court previous to d . epar . t. everypro . prietor must have held his stock for six ' distance—now spreading out its drooping lilies wide, ; by fur . their ' ' tire destinations, viz. Captain months , in order to entitle him to a vote. A subse has been the cause of that destruction—has robbedi Sisuf.l. Bssor.u s Surrey ; G stoaez Nictiou.s, quent Act went the length, not only of making all l i e n ' 1 : them at once of liberty and of repose ! pi—Madras end : Banal. , l collusive transfers of stock void, hut also imposed a Moscow is, however, the watch-word of the rene- Cletioserasit.sx.—A truly excellent selection of pena ty of 10001. should the property be re-transferred I gadoes of the Times. It seems to them just that : sacred and Serieus music was performed at this The- ; ,by a temporary holder.. His object was to prevent Paris should be sacrificed to revenge the setting fire t etre last nighty in which Mr. BRAIIAM Mrs SAL- strangers from disposing of the property of the Corn .it into. _ AT distinguished A.; _esan themselves in .amount, y t ef art in the .. L our re might to be d os t ro y e e,b ec i use AasnY.to Att i as .b the Act j ust al e peustbut.dogree.—Ai the Closelet .tha w fi rat act - .• hided to 1 was triode requisite to constitute a flame CATALA N I sang Pue.cue.'s national invocation • 64: ili4 BeiwirlirWs " .' his •—the belon to th eNalc the y ere elm itillire " l ' qu' atifica - iftin ihich mot also be held for-twolve human race ; he * closet months. ' of " Britons strike home, " in a style of such su-A bye-law, indeed had been afterwards monopolize all gen i us and all art. But these mad- . preme excellence that she electrified every auditor. passed , making 600 . 1 9 sufficient for a . qual ification ; men would, if they could, blot the 'Son out of ii that ' The Theatre was numerously and fashionably at. • et was at a time when commercial objects were Heaven, because it shines upon F rance. They verify tended. , . n‘ i 1 , 11 . lost in politic* ones ; and the India house had be the old prikierb " Tell me v ur , Tlie Master of a small French fishin vessel, sent ' 1 „ -° gtell you viler manners . They, no more than their About h • • t e year 1779, unqualified Proprietors began into Dovvr states , that he was one of twelve which friends the Cossacks , can perceive any difference be- • wei e taken up, or otherwise impressed into the ser-to be admitted into the Courts at the India House the tweenthe K rem li n an d L ouvre. There is at least vice, for the purpose of conveying the Ordnance i bgt werenot peemitted to vote. By the regulation ' one difference , that the one may be built up again, i ~.,,, , .. Stores from Boulogne to liav re de Grace. lie stalesroposeo to, rotroduce,• it might be said that va ried the other cannot. For in the Louvre ,! ' r there, that the utmost confusion prevails at the former luable men wo* Old be excluded from their Courts, in Bonaparte's Louvre, are the precious monuments ; place, the inhabitants packing up. their valuables I of art—the sacred pledges which human genius has ; but all general . limit were productive of partial W dm g iven to time and in daily expectation of the arrival of the Cos - nature;—there " stands the stains ' convenience, and a line of distinction must be drawn sucks. Itcatinot at present be Ascertained what the - that enchants the world ." there is the . Apollo, the . 1 somewhere. Should any doubts be entertained as to object of the French Government i s, in thus remov- L ' . . the corupetericy of, the Court to make the proposed'. aocoon, t_he . Dying Gladiator, the head of the - ▪ fig the public stores, unless they id not consider . enactments, legal advice might be taken. Thp. -Antinous, Dtana with her Fawn, and alt the glories : Lea . then as safe at Boulogne. This boat was laden with .of the antique world : Learned Gentleman concluded by moving his two cannon, shot, grenades, &C. o There is old Proteus coming from the sea, I Resolutions, Ist, " That no Proprietor should sit ' A 'LAWYER OOTWITTED.—Not long since an old And wreathed Tilton blows his winding Mora." or vote in a Committee, who was not qualified to ;'and deep city practitioner of the law got acquainted There, too, are the two St. Jerome:, Corregio's and 1 vote in a General Court I " and 9 2d , " That an ad- With what is termed, in elegant circles, a swell, in the Dominichirto's ; there is Raphael's Tranviguration, dition should be made to the sth section of Bye- Rules of the King's Bench, and did him (the swell) the St. Mark of Tintoret, Paul Veronese's Marriage j laws, enacting, that no. Proprietor should take a the honour of taking a few Pilaus dinners with him, ,of Cana, the Deluge of Nicholas Poussin, and share in the debates of a General Court, who was and, as is common on such occasions • , the dice-box Titian's St. Peter Martyr;—all these, and more ; not qualifies) to vote in the same." . 't -was introduced after one of the dinners, and the • than these, 'of which the world is scarce worthy. I ''The CHAIRMAN (Nlr. R. ,Thornton) informed the. legal gentleanan became a creditor of honour of the Yet all these amount to nothing io the eyes of Worthy Proprietor, that his suggestion with resnict *Well's to the amount of .nearly 1001.; but the those v ir tuosos the Cossacks, and their fellow- to takin g the o p inion of council had been nntici swell, like many other honourable men, did not pay students.Of the Times! " What's Hecuba to them, pated ; and that the Opinions of the Attorney and at the sittirtg, as it was after banking hours when or they to. Hecubs . r.' 84: we mutt be allowed I Solicitor-General, and of Mr. Adam, had been taken , 1 the money was lost. The lawyer then hit on the to see with our own eyes, and to have certain feel- by the Court of Directors. ' following stratagem to obtain payment :—he wrote a hip of our own; ..— We - will not be brayed by . The opinions were then read, and were in sub; letter, and sent to the swell by.a confidential friend, these nesekl Eau fads in a mortar. We, too, as stance, that any bye-law with respect to the quail iti the, name of a Lady of Qta . ality, to say she had Mr. Burke expresses it, have " real feelings of flesh fication necessary to sit on a Committee would bb'' toile* desperately in love with Mr. Swell, and beg- . and blood heating in our bosoms." 46 We look up valid, inasmuch as a Committee was created by the,l with awe to Kings; with affection to Parliaments ; Company, and nothing was said respecting it in thisn gedhim to meet her on a certain morning, at a see- 1 where s h e , with duty. to Magistrates ; with reverence*. Priests; chute?. With regard to the second resolution;l tain place, at the west end of the town,.. rttspect,to nobility." But all this is a ma- though 40te 13th of the King, 10001. was neces-• would be in waitit:g in her carriage, to declare to*!aad - oltk - - - - - -- ' chine that goes on of itself, and may red if to 4sostitifte a quali fi cation to vote in a Gene. __. _ ___. . - 6/thing , . TUE PINE axis. • . "If Blucher, If. the, Cossacks, get to Paris,—to Paris. the seat of Bonaparte's pride and insolence,—what mercy will they show to it, or why should they show it any mercy P Will they quire the precious maks of art, to decorate the palace pf a ',tomer whoin they justly detest ? Will they treat the Tho Merles more tenderly than the French officers, only eight months ago, openly threatened to treat Berlin ? is Paris, Bohaparte's Paris, more sacred than bloacow ? or are the slaves of the Corsican awe inviolable than the brave and virtuous citizens of Ham burgh ? No, no; the indienant warriors will cry,— • Away to Heav ' e respective Lenity, ' And fire-eyed Fury he my conduct now. ' " There is no other mode by which the Parisians can disarm the vengeance which now so closely impends over them, than by disclaiming for ever him whose crones have been the Just cause of that vengeance. Paris, ander the white standard, returning to loyalty and virtue, may he spared by a generous conqueror; 1 ---bot Paris, identified with Bonaparte, must partake all the vin dictive sentiments which are attached to that hateful name." DEAL, Manor 23.;Sailed the Defender liver, for the Roompot —Came doWn front the River hi, Magni:, 's ship Brune: Tunas o'CLoca.—Sailed the Nymph cutter, as a Hag of truce, with Mr. tiny, the Messenger, on board, for Calais. PORTSMOUTII, M uica 23.--Soiled his Majesty's ship Zeph%r, on a Majesty's ship Terror gives instructions to the ship• hound for Bermuda. Pmrwoortt, MAnca 22.—Arrived the Derwent inn-brig, wi h sail of transports, from Passages. Amongst the vessels inst at St. Jcan de Luz, on the 2d inst. are the following : trawsliorts 181, 6P.J., 101 x, CV, D, BY, FA, CT, and the ships London and Ardent merchantmen, and Minerva letter of inar que, of Guernsey. Crews all saved. Also arrived the Juniper schooner. from Paisages. FALMOUTH, M %RCA 21.—iirrived the Vesta, from Passages, io three days ; and the Sherkroke, Hill, from Halifax fur London.—Sailed the Priscilla, Nash, for Newport. 11ALP-PtiT I.:Levey AT NlGHT.—Since writing the above the Duke of Kent packet arrived with a Mail from Lisbakla 21 • . r. days. • • MAR9I V.—Sailed the Aocklaod, Lard ?tibia l and Lady Nrpcan packets, for Gottenburgh ; and the Beaufoy and lord 'Duncan packets, for Rolland and Bremen. M XRCR .—Arrived the diary armed cutter, isith Sir James Saualares, Bart. and [amity on board, from _ • the swell her vielent affection for him . The CON. idential friend went with the letter, and told 411.1 swell that the letter purported to be from Lady but was from --, and that if he attended to the , contents lie ought to be d—d. The lawyer was pre. p'ared with a couple of Sheriff's officers at the place' appointed, to arrest the swell for his honour/able demand, and hired a carriage and a /ady,to carry the scheme into execution ; but, unfortunately, the. , verbal observation put the swell on his guard, and he did not attend, to the no small mortification of Mr. LATITAT and his two colleagues! We vegret to find, from an excellent Charge of Mr. Justice DAY to the Grand Jury of the county of Westmeath, delivered at the late Assizes for Mellinger, that a system of outrage prevails in that county, similar to that which preceded the rebellion,' of 1798. At these Assizes nine men were. con-, victed of administering an unlawful, seditious, and treasonable Oath and sentenced to seven years transportation ; add six men were found guilty of, conspiring to ~der, and actually murdering a maw who had informed against the persons convicted of administering the Oath, in order to prevent his giv. ing evidence against them. The following is a copy of the Oath 1, 4. B. do swear, that I will he true to Bonaparte and his forces and that I will aid and assist to plant the tree of Liberty in Ireland, and obey the Officers appointed over me; that I will owist to destroy and consume the magazine of Mb. lune = that I will never pro4ecote my oaken or loyal brothers I and that I will tit ready, on getting tea days' notice, to pet to the cruelest death any person who gives information aid dis co% ers thls." [Yet some time ago this writer assured us, that if the French people identified themselves with Bona parte, they ought not to be separated from him.] " In what momentous times do oc live ! Perhaps, the famous city of which we speak, may even now be laid in ashes ! Per hap. and more weicom• be the omen, it may have returned to its allegiance, and proclaimed its native Sovereigu, and set a price on the head of that wicked rebel, who still. dares to call himself the Emperor of Franre:"—Tintes, March 17. 6 ' Nay if you mouth, VII rant as well as you • It is a pity to spoil this morsel of Asiatic beence, so worthy of the subject and the sentime n ts; et the evident meaning of it it, that the French must expect to do penance in sackcloth and ashes, or consent to put on the old livery jackets, made 10 for them by our army-agents long ago, and whi ch 'love unfortunately lain on hand ever since. If so, they must needs be " pigeon-liver'd, and lack gall." Yet we hardly know what to say to the chivalrous and classical politicians of the Stock Exchange.— They are not driven to this extremity of Gothic rage by. the rankling inveteracy, and old unsatisfied trudge of the Pitt-school. Yet surely no pitiable enthusiast that be repair out of order. We bow willingly tel Lordoand Com• moners, though we know that " a breath can make them as a breath has made." Blucher, Wittgenstein, Winziogerode, and Kttichigoff, are true heroes; their names become the mouth well, and rouse the ear , as toe sound of a trumpet ; but they are the heroes ofa day, and all that they have done might be as well done by others to-morrow.. But here it is : once destroy the great monuments of art,.and they cannot be replaced. Those mighty gettioses, .who have left their works behind them an inheritance to , mankind, live but once to do honour to themselies' "and their nature. " But once pat out theit light,, and there is no Promethean beat that can their light relornine." Nor ought it asses' Co .be re.kindled; to be extinguished, a second Arne by, the harpies of the human race. What have " the worshippers of cats and onions" to do with those triumphs of human genius, which give the'eterual lie to their creed 2 We would therefore recommend these accomplished, ' pioneers of ,civilisation and social order, after they have done their work at the Louvre, to fellow the , ' river=side, and they will come to. a , 4sralnalesuses, esrvoundcl by four low walls. It is place when the Bastille stood : let them rear that; end all , will be well. And then some whillliag poet rho role. brated the fall of that motuumnt child paternal away—that sacred ark of the Confidence of .Itings— that strong bulwark of " tiMeAllnoWed law s,", ' precious relic of " the good old times " in polit t , : may hail its restoration in a sbnnet I Copt, , , was enacted to exclude Proprie• ton to a less amount from attending and discessing questions in the same ; no bye-law, therefore, re. garding them would be valid, unless passed with their own consent, which was net proposed to b e done by the resolution in question. Mr. It. JACKSON thought, that though from this opinion, the holder of 5001. in India Stock was en titled, to *attend and speak in the General Courts, yet the stela& must be held as described in the Act of King Wilrsim. It could never be meant that the holder of 5001. stock should be entitled to partici pate in any discussion. The question might be put pro forma upon the first resolution, and might be cenfirouid by. another Court. Mr. PLUMMER moved, that a Resolution, passed in 1787, should be read, signed, along with others, by Mr. Jackson, who, he stated, was not then qua lified. Pair. JACKSON was disposed to admit that he might , have signed some resolutions, when not qualified, thrrlgh inadvertency or mistake. Ikr.PLustxsa contended, that the honourable Pro prietor had signed his name, when he must have been aware be was not qualified; and, in so doing, had invalidated all the proceedings that had then taken place. With respect to the second resolution of this Learned Gentleman, he must maintain, scription of Proprietors alluded l eluded even by a vete enjoining tk. - but still 'would have a right to remain. • ) , . 1 _, .P - • ' • ti..:.....-...—,....4.7..... - ... ,:-.... .-. . -se. ....."-_,.., ~..7-4....i, : ' -- .. F i b ? ... • ••. • .. . . . _ • f I. mitt: 1 , 0 1 " --00 P--- - ...._ _ . ~... _:_- _ -4. te , --..„.,- ,•T. .- T li 3 •• . • ' fit .., •. It that his Learned Friend, who had deserved ad - .11 els. the of the India Company, should ha v e a t tempte d, ..'r . one sweep* Croke, to exclude 6 or 700 gehtlecUp .. • ill they 'Yesterday a (tonere. 'Clore of PrOprietors was A trom their Cools. The privilege attemte-A to b 0 ID (he y held at the India-House for the purpose of taking e ,of a p taken away was not; dnrivioi, frirm custom or user: Aeries into consideration two motions ; notice of which had • In ar, been- previously submitted t o th e C our t. .tesy, but was a.legal right loog and onifottoly Mm I Paris , , ,cognised. The ()lily quango/to before the Court re‘ orsicao One by Mr. RAND LE J A t ESON , em b rac i ng . two ,spectedthe forinatinn of a Committee.; and the prude Ham- Resolution, :-Ist, That n o P ro pri e t or s h ou ld sit tice hitherto adopted of choosing it from different or vote in a Committee, who was not qualified to . descriptions of proprietors , was the best adeptB tr ' t it vote or ballot in a General C our t ; an d, ? A lly, That order to format) accurate opiniott,, which opinion, disarm no Proprietor should take a share in the debates of * h not binding oprin the Court. HO hat' by ()never, was i t ca „„ any General Court, wlin•was not qualified to vote or thought that any limitation aa-to the appointment of urniag ballot in the same. a Committee should rather sprilig from the circom iueror; h e via. The other notice was by Mr. Hume, that a bye- stances of the particular case, than be laid down as a e." law should be enacted, milting the presence of general principle. The Hon. Proprietor conclud e d that if s i x ty-f our P ropr i etors necessary to sanct i on any by moving, as au amendment, that the further con- Bona- grant of money, either in the shape of compensation sideration of the resolution be adjourned slue die. famous for losses sustained, or of remuneration for services A l ong d esultory conversat i on ensued , on the part er- ;performed , • of Mr. Dixon, Mr. Elphinstoae, Mr. Hume, Mr; 1 . riled to ; The Minutes of the last General Court having been Twining, Mr. Whalley, Mr. Paterson, Mr. 80. rd Pet a d to ,all i r e a $ sanqueri and Mr. Atkins, when Mr. Plummer li -1 Mr. R. Jacxson addressed the-Court at consider- mited Rs Amendment to the Resolution respecting , able length, and proceeded to state, that the prat- the formation of a Committee. • , lice of unqualified Proprietors interfering in the de- A divisio n to o k pl ace , w h en th e numbers were— me' : bates Against U - - (If that Court, though formerly permitted as a . Far Ile ndjou m nine sins die - S 4 i '- - '..i "hi ' tatter tif courtesy, had been latterly claimed es a • 'retch right. The law, however, on the subject was clear, Malority - is jeS, 4* . 'hitt none should interfere in the debates of .the With respect to Mr. Home's intended triutibn, id 6 b 2 'Court, or, in the words of the charter, 44 should that the presence of sixty-four ' Proprietors should l w • intermedille in the administration of the affairs 0f t ...1-dared necessary to sanction any grant of money s If eev India," who was not also entitled to vote respecting the 'the CHAIRINAK stated . to the Court j that the Law.: • . gel" same ;_ and the Court, should it deem expedient s had 1 ffi ' officers above alluded to had given it as their opinion, airous an indefeasible right to enact such a bye-law. The I th a t t h e C ourt h a d no power to enact any suc h bye le. . Learned Gentleman proceeded to corrobate his posi- i l aw ; an d t h at no suc h bye-Ittiv; if enacted, Road WI c c rageition, by taking an historical review of the powers , valid.—Adjourned. tisfied ' and privileges of the Company, from the time of ; ..- . Liable ' Elizabeth down to the Charter of 1793. By that I ' - ' -. • i 1 LAW INTELLIGEng. . .:- -.; ' 1, .; . I Charter all the former grants to the Company had . ; been confirmed, and whatever might appear doubt- • . . Iful, was to be interpreted in the sense most favour- • - COURT OF CHILIIGERY, Masco 4 4 • i . dways i i able to the Company. By the 6th of William and . • . . . - • meow, 1 Before his Honour Eke Vicc-ClumaaloO. . .) Lord' 1 Mary, every one who took any share in discussing .. ... . d o • - This was the day for holding the /blink and latel seal after Hilary Term, but Sir Samuel Rodlilly and Mr. Leach being necessarily absent, being engaged in Appeals before the House of Lords, the motions which were made before his Ifonour were in genera of little interest, and, for the most part, merely motions of conr;e. • LOVELL V. THEIR ROYAL itiorditssrs THE. PRINCE or ; WALES, THE DUKE . OF . .VORK, A§D THE DUKE OF CLARFNCF.. Mr. ROUPELL in this case moved for a sequeFt! a . dart nisi against the' Duke of York and Duke o( Clarence, they being in contempt in not putting in their answer to Plaintiff's bill. Sir ARTHUR Ptccorr suggested the propriety of let•ing this motion static' over, as he understood that Mr. Bell was instructed on the part of the Royal Dukes against whom the motion was made. lie (Sir Arthur) only appeared for the Royal Defendant first named, against whom, he observed, nothing. was . • ~ :- prayed. Mr. Rotieatt said his friend l‘fi. nett was le, Court, and now lit on his right - Ilat4 "Irbe-metiee Which ho net( wee /Tette isrosintsis,. iskhs, had abstailed from making any Motion . 'as to The Royal-Personage alluded to by his Learned' Frientk Sir Arthur Piggott, seeing, from inspection of the : provisions in the Regency Act, that that R..yal.Per. sonage was not liable to any such ' ptocess Oat which he now moved for againlit' the other De . . . .fitidants. •• • • The sequestration, nisi was accordingly ;ranted as prayed. . • Mr. BELL, however,in the caerat of this forenoon,' moved, on the part of theiritoyal. ingimeeses the Dukes of York iNtl'elarenct,'tbsit'tberlidght have three weeks further Mime to put la their' answer,, which was granteci, And by which, as matteref emirs., the sequestation nisi is super Sella . - • • . • THOMAS V. JACKSON.. . Mr. Wimoitutt moved for supereedees el the writ of prohibition which had issued in thiteese. It wmi an action of debt, brought in the Court of the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London, come monly called the Lord Mayor's Court, in which an attachment had issued, on which the Defendant, with. . out either putting io bail or plehding to the jurisdic. port, had applied to the Cursitor of this Court for kke City of London, and had obtained a writ of proa4 hibition against the Plaintiff from proceeding in Mei action in the Mayor's Court, on an affidavit in which • IN ;wpre, that Alto gauge of action ,did not arise within the jurisdiction of the Court of the Lord Mayor of? I f edon; hut•in Woolwich, in the county of Kent.— Mr. Wingfield now moved to have the prohibition superseded on an affidavit by a Mr., ;Tones, an ate Wiley, practising in the Mayee's Court, that the prohibition had improperly issued, in respect the De fendant had neither appeared and put in bail to the attachment, nor had made a tender of a foreign , plea, one or other of which things he was bound to hate done, before he could apply for a writ of probibi. Lion. The Learned Counsel, in support of this doctrine, readnu extract from Bacon's Abridgment, under the title of Prohibition, in which' it is laid down that a person applying for such a writ went do so on an affidavit, in which he swear* that the cause of action lay out of the jurisdiction of the Court-in • which the suit was brought, and that he had tendered a foreign plea to such action, which had teen reject. ed. This the Defendant bad failed to do in the pre. sent instance. The .VICE•CHANCELLOR asked, had the writ of prohibition in this case been, granted by the Lord Chancellor, or was it a writ under the Great Seal ? Mr. WimGrteLo said, the writ had surely not been granted by the Lord Chancellor ; such writs were granted almost as matters of course, by the Cu rsitors ; but there could be little doubt that they most -be un der the Great Seal. - ; r, 'The VICE-CHANCELLOR also thought there could be no doubt that writs of this hied must be under the Great Seal. The Conker could have no right of himself to grant such writs, and therefore be pro meted, they must bear to have been issued in the dame of the 14Ofl Chancellor. His Honour had no right to supersede, any order made by the Lord Chart* lor, thought second resolution 01 LIM net to minnow any orner lime oy ins torn st maintain, that the de- Chancellor, which the writ of prohibition in - this i sded to, could net be ex- ease must necessarily bear to I, e ; and, therefore., -hp pining them to withdraw ; thought *the agplicatied had better be made to-asor- te certain. He was Sorry row, to his Lordship. . - . ... -r ... - .....g...' , ..._ _ 1. . . ..._. . (iucrnsey. Ltvtaeont., MAUR W.—Arrived the ..Watson, Gregg, from ilabfax; sailed the 16th Feb. iu company with the Patriot, Tendle, and parted from her on the following night. It was reported at •Halifar, when they sailed, that the American flo tilla on the (Aka kid been destroyed. - 1 / 2 , • • 1' 4 46 , •••• ~~ { % 0