The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-06-06 00:00:00

ade... . lift 7 . sa y G aels two Terms old. Ile 00'111 not gene admit the tact, tha t an appeal could not be heard in !elm thin two yore; but it that - were so. he did not think ire clrciorstence oa which to overture the present Aili..l4lstrutor of Jus tice In this Court. On 'lie whole, he Or.ught it better to secure the eppellant j irisitietion of the Chanceloe, if he could not re'ain the original jitrisdietion. The disens eiots on the other port of the otthiect hail, he thought, as sumed tether in irregular and miscellaneous character.— ' * Personal att irk on the Chancellor hail been dislaitned ; hot this disclaimer wax to, consistent with atatiue that delay was*the mitchief, and that toe Chancellor was the author of that delay. The impntations conveyed op in .;he Chancellor in the two particular cases, referred t f liy Ins Hun. Friend, he knew to be wand:don.. Ile was loinfeelf 12001.84 In °near the , and was Therefore as 'conversant with it es the itaiciaa who had instructed leis Hon. Friend . lie never knee a more difficult case; it had heel argue., end re-argued by the coo, ession of t h e *Lord Chancellor ;anti he had devoted a fortnight of his, 'own occatioref time to the making out of the minutes.— . A icand dons fiend" reflecting tin the Chancellor ou t:iis occasion, was afterwerits put into his (Mr. iVethe rell's) bands hi the efilfina to question. and he had indig nanny ref u sed tdripoti it in Caller. He broadly .ta ted • that the imett•ation was false and scandalons. This case was that of " Ware and Harem) !." -The next nag Mr. De Tastet's case, anti he (Mr. Wetherell) denied that there was arty extraordinary delay in the cause. So far from there having been a delay of 12 years, tile uitittrr upon which the appeal proem) led we. not decided until . alefiat tao years before the decision Of the appeal. The allusion which hail been matte to the Court of F:xchetpler, lie must really consider as an episode to the main question. Ile could not understand why the circumstance of one Jodie of that Court being ill. and another b ing old, • should fonni a reason for vaccinating Of he :night say)the * court of Chancery with the delays of the conrtof the I& eche tw-. Neither did he see why the circittnaLine of it. being ass-rted that the Ch a neellorlevl given erroneous jndrments in particular rasa (if he haul !Oren such Judgment.), was a reaSon for going into inquire on e general charge of delay. lint he denied that any such erroneous jndgus'nts had . teen given in the cases olliter try property which h a d Leen rel . . rred to. Ile thought tlioae decisions were per . freq. lound ; but sound or n•rt they had nothing to do .- with the present question of delay. In the Pmemonth case, too, lie thought the Chancellor hid given a sounr . .devision ; lost, he asked, bad the question of delay ro do , with the question. whethei Lord Eldon had given sound • judgment ? Ile! Boner was not the CoArt of Appeal. .6,,,,, J u d dt eems of Lord Eldon as Chancellor. Ent, cen t.n. tine the delay of Courts of Eqwity whh that of the Coons of Comm it Law. where, he welsh! 164:. was the different*? In the Corms of Common Law two appeals were allowed; anti if this, too, were r ianspj a in e d o f as a ~ grit/ ou Wee. Aim he would say, let them at once go into .. a 'sruit'ee to consider of the whole system. He foetid not bit &utrrer, before he sat down, that during 'the tw r oty-istfri yeses leied Men had presided in the Court of Chancery, only one of his jedgments had been .traversed in the House o( Lord,. flentleroen talked of de lay; lint he would rather hear dull truth than brill;ant • error; he preferred slow accuracy to quick blunder; s ad • 1• he wonlal rather have a Judge who &nand fi re ea5 ,‘,1 0 , 1 ,- .. *mid justly, than one who pronolneed a trataan very eriekly hat unjustly. Ile fully cone...fed t o Ho n . M ew _ , '..lrera am, Judges were to he found who would she. 'eitlr•ciaesetticker thowLird Eldod. Lord liseou had -Gilled the too quick dispatch of justice, a pre-digestion. analog 14 Hon. Members to judge of the consequence of this sort of justice. (A laugh.) The property of all She ministry amass depend upon the arbitrament of the 1 1 Lord Chancellor, and strong, therefore, must be the =led of that man who would call deliberation in sur!• a Judge, a demerit. Not only was each particular case to he ile4ded, but eneb judgment was Melina es a prece dent for future cases. He solemnly declared, that no allege hal he l'unsi, in the course of his professional stiffly. jnilgisients more learned, more elaborarite, more rientifie. or more jest, than those of bird Eldon. Un doubtedly it would be desirable to have jurisprudence '.‘ ,all its alermct perfection, but is he knew tart that this could hr obtained, he preferred the present plan, antil he coedit clearly see a better. The motion sought .for a eousolittee of froptiry ; but the Hesse had. come, he ailed say, reeking wet out of au inquiry which hail a lately been carried on at the It it about tile Sheriff of 1 . Dublin ; .and he did nut think the pr.iposed Inquiry a . would restore them to their own confidence, or give amis., . &Mien to the public. rpon these grounds lie thoughtl she inquiry sought for would be useless, and his should oppose the rood. o. Mr. SGARLETT would ask his Learned Friend who Just *sat dowry, whether there were no suitors in that House.— • (twee, hear:) sad if there were, he requested the House to ' beer some slight testimony from those suitors. instead of bring lofluenced by .the speeches of Counsel. Ile lied too 'wadi respect for the Lord Chancellor to pronounce any pa :wegyrie on him ; there was no Judge whose character he ' •Iwial in greater veneration; but no attack was now proposed spinet his Lordship : the motion was merely for an inquiry ' Me the supposed delays of the Court of Chancery ; and his teamed Friend mho had made an eloquent a speech last lilbt, end who proved how great the talent was which new 'distinguished the bar of England, ItletlP no charge against 'lke Lord Chimellor. lie only moved for • Committee, and *Committee was necessary to satisfy the minds of all men ', *adds subject. TIN (;Dart of Chancery had been prover 'Wally a Court of delay ; and in proposing to remedy Chic ilisestesmences of such deb's , , no imputation could be sup lewd to be directed against any Judge presiding there.— witotromplaint was not against the Judge, hut avtinst the bag-existing usages of the Court. Those delays had been tbuiplained of from time luimealorial—they were not caused by Judge:. but arose out of the constitution, on circunt 111.10fteg sus: dine the Courts ; and it was now merely pro ' pneeto inquire into the causes of those delays with a view ••• remedy tom. The liou. seil Learned Uentlenisn thin gioweirlet to support the motion in a very able and argil . .aietutire speech. lbe question was then loudly called for, and the gal. jury partly cleared for a division, when Mt BROUGHA M rose and said,lie was not surprised at *l. impatience of the lionse.wneei he considered that they rhairetese I at the end of a second night's debate upon what ON ailed a dry subjeet. liming heard so much from !iikeprectitioners of the 'Come of Chancery, which was 'eskaselehted to he a Court of pain, penury, autferine. . ressnumtion of body. and exhinstion of the Means of ilk hsetf, he ass in hope that some person isholisd, if trnsible, hers benefited by Chancery, troll,' have s i a , t ,,j a*. He widest to have only Iry look at emit a person Vie Ina within those wells. lle was sere o:ie lo , k at a person would 'el House .—( A ate the laugh.) - Ii had only heard the Einguage of practitioners.— it: war e thee who shut the door to impiry? They be enemies' to the loud eh incellor. They soh' I,m and proceeil not a step in lute inquiry. Nome eight Pelson. the denial coon from the ts lentil if .the Lord Chancellor. They were not his friends. Those PetionsCrished to conceal abuses tin old, that Gulliver -Iges known to speak of the Finn of his fatker, octaai • ned bliceoiaisig a Chancery Suit. Ile had the 146,4 ee. 10arater the Chancellor, and he w s only hurt at The Asialser int w.....ch Lord Nision hail been &kin Mil. I f thee' Aolisoncerred means to injure him as a row,, end guile 'Ai ISOM IL Jilligt, they timid out lump tione isionore effect. 111 4. The argument against using in o Committee, he - defence e hail As, as much in di s t re s s as the suitors in the Court where the Itootourahle and Learned Gentleman was a praltlitiontf.' Bis lion. and Leerned Friend had *hewn no disiociitia" 11111 to, do his duty. NO Attorney could come forwoool, othout the protection of that House—constitute impiiry, and many weal base evidence to point out whether they °debt to proceed.—He considered the subject ofenteptaine a great and grievons abuse,amounting to a public cola: totioy. Ilia Learned Friend was eepreeented as having mentioned matters which hid never been heard befoir. MI the great learned and lamented Friends who were lost to hint for ever, and who had been practitioners iii Chancery, hail said del ty in that Court was a gross abuse, which writhed down the country. One lamented Friend (Sir S. itomilly) had the eandoor to describe the grievance, although he wis one of the luminaries of that Court. That lamented Friend, and others of weight and authority, bad left opinions and papers on the sub ject, which would contradict all the erlogio he had heard. they all proved that the subject had been understood by the lion. Member for Lincoln. There was not a peg upoi which they could hang hesitation if all the suitors did not say hie Hen. Friend load ender.tated the case, the House ought to refuse int - pity. Did not the equity or common Lawyer say, when asked to advise an' equity suit for 804 or 100/..1100rl Goo, no. Who would risk a suit in Chancery for 1004? Was not that a libel on ,the Law? Were the right • of parties to he destroyed by ma-' son of the smallness of the snot? Ile was curious that it shoed' not be said he kept back one thought on the subject. Every one who was a male fide holder of property would prefer an equity suit ; and as d e l a y was t h e ir o bj ect , they were generally successful. here he could tot avoid a few remits on Equity Lawyers. • He was not benad to regard. the feelings of the Judges, but fairly discharge his duty. Ile had most regard for suitors who were his constituents. In lei 7, Mr W. Brant retired from the Rollo with the unani mous voice of the Public In his favour. No charge of delay was hi-outdo against him; no incorrectness marked his con duct as a Judge. Ilia brilliant legal career being at an end, ,Sir W. Graaf salt succeeded by the present Master of the Rolls, whom he considered a better Advocate then Sir W. Grout. but a worse Judge. When Sir J. Leach became Vice- Chatocellor, the bills, petitions. exceptions, further direction, pleas, and demurrers increased. 3.4 e total of iacrease in the Court of Chancery and the Vice-Chancery was 1.520 :muses. This increase was, In his opinion, owing to the change of Sir W. Grant for Sir T. Plunier. The slowness or business In the Rolls Court forced causes into the Vice rhaneere and the Conrt of Chencery. It was said the Lord Ctosseellor sittiuor upon appetite from his own Court might titer hie opinion, and no doubt eonid be entertained that lib would sive cher' rties the benefitof any change In his niind.Mr Brougham Ign,w that the Noble and Learned Lord wns justly esteemed for integrity and his 111411 latent. Ile had nut the least doubt the Chancellor would give eppellants the Warta of any change in his mind, but the Noble Lord did.seldont or ever eliange his onto& and the suitors justly felt that they a ere appealing to the Judge who had decided the very eatise against theM. &Incisor the arrear of appeals was said to be occasioned by the influx of Scotch apprels, but they heard nothing of Irish appeals. The stare of jutileatere was so defective in Ireland, that fifty out of one hundred decisions in the Irish Court Of Chancery were reversed. With respect to Scotch appeals, a Scolds Judge in his time, always looked on himself as 1.44.41 for political subserviency. an f he became a Politi cal Judge fr tin an Election Barrister. Thus constituted, the decisions partook of the influence, and appeals mill tiplied. Fortunately, Government had corrected a pain mph* aoadverse to the principles of jarisprudence. His trust was, that ilia Bench in Scotian I would improve; and that they might follow the example of the Judges in England, by giving up all political feeling the mo ment they became Judges. All must allow that the greatest danger was to be expected front a politi al Judge. Delays in the Court of Chancery with respect to appeals had long been the subject of complaint; and he had heard ofa project to release the Lord Chancellor from the duty of hearing appeals in the House of Lords, and moil law to his own Court. Lori Colchester, as he bad heard, was to be the Vice Speaker. The arrange.' meat might be nia2e without much increase of expense, as that Noble Lord received 3000/, a year. His Hon. Friend, the Metnber for Aberdeen, reminded him that the Noh'e Lord also held a patent place. The No me L o w s talent, as a lawyer, wasailoutted: but having been some Tears out of practice, was he duly Taalifirol , for the business of a Vice Chancellor? He never could assent to such a on in as Lord Colchester ; u good speaker, 'but no lawyer, being appointed to decide the appellant jurisdiction of two ancient kingdoms of the empire like Scotland aed Leland. Yet this was out of the schemes ventilated about this matter at present. Another was that two Scotch Judges should be appointed for this purpose. Tlois was equally objectionable, as it went to place two Judges of the Scotch Court arbiters over the decisions of all the rest. It was these various plans, to none of which some objectiop might not lie urged, that impressed upon him the necessity of adopting the inquiry proposed to them by, his Hon. and Learned Friend. By that means they would have the opinions of learned tnen in every branch of the law, and in every department of science., if necessary. Before he concluded, however, he must say, that had the line of his argument called upon him frankly to declare adverse sentiments towards the Lord Chancellor himself,' he should have had to appre hend eloe Ikea lity cud exasperation of Ids friends only in that House, his experience of that Noble person led him to declare that he would be the last person to feel enmity towards him, but that he wotilil at once forgive The SIM.ICIToR-GENEItAi. said he should not have risen at so late an bonr, but for the person a l elle siona which had been wade by the Honourable and . Learned Member, who had jest sat down. lie then pro ceeded to defend Sir Thonies Plainer, whom lie charec tised as an upright Judge and an able industrious Law-. yet. lie contended that this Learned Judge bad done as' much business, in the saute space of time in the Bolls. Court, as Sir W. Grant. The increase of baldness in .the Vice-diancellor's Court proved nothing, for the suitorsdid nut go there voluntarily. Ile also defended the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, whom becoatended toil Hop. Friend had unjustly attacked. Hislion.Friendshould have given that Judgecredit for the cases which were not ap pealed. He dented that the Vice Chancery was afailare, for the business whirls hail been done there, could not pg. oiloly be otherwise gone throng-h. The Honourable and Learned Gentleman thee. proceeded to contend, that hoarder the motives might be conceal: d, the whole de bits was caroiett on in a 'OM of hitter personal hostility tonarols the Lorol_Cliancellor. In proof of thiss lie al- le-Wf. the des-Woo-of that Learned person in the ease 0 ( the goeen whielt had been charged as partial, and as a deviation (ruin his used doubting- course of proemti ing. He disclaimed altogether Vie private aothorily spoon which tie Hos. Member for Liecola relied-so mech. In !wither tile Vice Chancellor's Conn, nor the Court of nor the Rolls' Court, were form any aprelc. In. the Court of Choi:terry alone.there wars wears, end orrcers On'y in one hr ouch or the business of the Court. the emoes. The arrears were in the proportiore of one. tenth to the whole number of causesdoeu:d since th!. es tablishtnent of the Vice Chancellor's Cnort, that Conti was now in existenre for ten veers, and is weplst be ii&n. by an a-curate celcuietloot, th a t th ose arre a rs Werilliost of one year. There was ao termer of Appiele,diernial hq Luri Chlinneiloi of 104, the earliest of which 'cue dated in ISW. L1:1 Übe fags iviirmiu at Ingdiry ? c . I alla allaelaa had bites ma,le and on account of t learar4 Lora at be felt that br confined hitiriell . reign , 4 House *II called _ consider this tuOttott with reference on two hear' —the arrears in appeals and causes. Ulm Wilt: Honourable Gentletnan was oecos:oually intertnptrd by: loud snoring front souse person in the gallery, and the Lorghter that followed it ) iLt r. n1:I assure th- House, that he would most willingly exchange sitna tions at that moment avith the Gentleman who gave: *sue furciltie priicifit of his insensibility to all tnrldly corps.—(A Laugh.) He trusted, !towel in,' Ott ere long they would all he in the enjoyment of that lisp py oblivion. Tee Rigid lion,Aientiernen then explained kilw grounds upon whlcia he had iu the year ISI3 opposed rent erection of the Vice Chancellor's Court. Ile found that. MI apprehensions were not quite justified by experience!: t bet independently of that conalderatiou, be did not see that it followed. that supposing evil to arise from the existence of Cie Court. the best way to cure it would be to dertnittsh' the Court. A late Right lion. Friend of his. always happy in Ms illustratiens, noes showed the propriety of the maxim, that to undo en evil was not always the way to cure it by a familiar example. A man breaks his leg by jumping out of a window—weli—but you cannot restore the limb by throw log him back laugh.) it was perfectly eonslatent With his votes and argumeats In 1813, to oppose the preseot, Inquiry. It had been, l i e t h oeg h t , su ffi c i e n t l y s h own t h at the Vice-Chancellor's Court had taken a great press of batt ik** from the Lord Cbanesitioes Court. It had been shown that theimputed enormities of the Court of Chancery were brought within much narrower limits than some Gentleineu seemed disposed to aurae to them. lie would oppose the motion on another ground. He would not suppose that there TC:pl any studied unkindness towards the Lord Chancellor; but there Were eipresdons inadvertently used by some gen t twit. which might be misinterpreted in other places sad he wee confident that the Rouse could nut agree to g o to this Inquiry without giving sanction and effect to those un intentional imputatious. Sir P. BLAKE said, that if the suitors of the "Chancery Court for the lest thirty years were to have the decision of this question, the noes would.statil uo chsnce,'and .the ayes carry it by acclamation. After a length tied reply from Mr. WlLLtams, the House divided — For the Motion, 99—Against it, 171—Mejoefty. 83. The other Orders of the MI were then disposed of, end the Hasse adjourned at Half-past Two. THE. T ' 4l trrVMlM llls2l " lllll9l eniologimialuebillilliagliftitgaimeemiiiew .- a r ; at iplaeitte4ll . lraleellelesh mot . shoulit ecierend. was inj • tfroos to' the Noble 'and Cesitri ifferas of opinion that !hire was mu case sate :Nage — . fin .44e/tiled The statement of his fieeotrhhlP bet. L o rd Eldon at the expired, of John Leech ; tint the x ride of increase of appeals was little greater than it had ind• Learned E r ivtsd, wh o had said att orne y * m e re bt•O; tife. CANNING' 'AI, that as alliteldn eluded .from giving informatio n , i n ro o m goenro of be- to him in the early start of tire debate. at peso formerly ; titer were not more than 7,11 per cent. It o r a l ergeed, alio , that the Chancellor heard fewer appen s in g sit:tors in the Court of Ch.lacery. N ot hi ng „ a id he the relation in which he ron4 to Jim than he did original ; but he (11r. W.) wished to knOw . how lids greeted the adrel-istrailon of jesti s ee? It was morefa i r than that statement. or m ore f r i n dl y to L o ra the head o f t h e C ourt of Chancery. 1 ben" . 0 haw big TAwdithipliatteu , ion to A .., o no e „„ e , Eldon.• Th e Attdrney General had reshe3 int o a de: should hut ill dischsrge Lis ditty,' if be • ld t h it to loth. fence of the Lord Chancellor without the least nereasity* to a silent site on this question. The II to the • 1.. if they eve no aim then, l'P e° •• • no t rea o f for dint line of conduct, and in his defences he had heel) on to cansirler this motion with referent, Vice-Chencellor s town tarry was an •r r turn Tornat MA If. MO 1 gust solenri •ma .......t. • .• -- COURT OF KINO'S BNNCU, ./1 1. 11It *ISO V. DOLE'. This defendant had been convicted of a srapp used libel • j prosecuted at the instance of those persona calling them selves " The essostitutionitl Association." In Mielmel ons Term a rule nisi, had been obtained for a new trial, 'on the gronnd of a mis-trial on the former OM:AS . 100. I Two objections were erred • first. that there wete two venires to the record instead of one; and second, that j the persons returned as talessnen to rem, instead of the Special Jurors who had not appeared to tb it sum ; mouses, were not tale. de circemstarstare—thlt is, 015,- am from the bystanders hut had been previously stein mourli and picked by thetoroner or Sheriff. These objections were now argued by kr. Galway,. awl Mr. Tim DAL OA* showed cause against the rule. Mr. SCAR LETT and Mr. JOSHUA EVANS, in support of the rule, urged that both objections were fat ii, Use pro -1 ceedings on the formal trial tieing contrary to law, aad 1 in ol yosition to several decided cases. The COURT. after hearing an argument of considerable j length, took time to consider of their jndement. RA LDEY AND ANOTHER C. PARKER. This was an action by the plaint'ffs, linen-sfrapees, for suede bargained and sold. The defrn•lant had gone to their shop, and ordered goods to the amount of upwards of 701. He agreed for the prices of the different articles pnrchaaed, assisted in cutting some of them, which were piece goods, marked theta and desired that they should he laid by fur him, and sent to his lodgings in Iterners-street, Oeford•street ; be hail stipulated fur the lowest prices. The goods weresent Isom, by a shopatan, when the defendant refused to take them in, unless he was allowed a discount fur ready mottey ; upon which the goo Is were taken away, al the plaiatiffs brought their action fur the amount, i ism they were non suited, on objections—first, e purchase of the goods twin; made at one and the ea • time, it was void by the Statute of Frauds, being a canine:, not in writing, for goods exceedlng the value of 101. ; and second, that there was no delivery or acceptaece to take the case out of the operation of that statute, but with liberty to the plaintiffs to move to set the nunsuit aside and fur a new trial. • Mr. SCARLET? and Mr. K. Laois were against the role, and the COMMON SERGEANT and Mr. PLATT were heard for it. The Courts., in an elaborate joilginent, rulel both points against the plaintiffs, and made the rule absolutee, for entering a nonsuit. POLICE. Bo* STREET.—Wednestlay evening, Grace Gyms who, according to her own statement, was nearly four score years of age, was brought before Mr. blimentn.t, charged with liaviog rendered herself liable to the pro visions of the Vagarant Act, by pretending to a .kuow ledge of Were events, and under such pretence cheating 'and deft:Sailing hiS Majesty's Subjects. The witnesses called to prove the case against the pri soner Were two servant girls, the first of them said hoc! name Was Jane Ellis, and that being oat of a aituation and anxious to hear something oT her future destiny, oho was inda :ed to wait alma Mrs. Gynn, who had .been re commended to her as a most renowned and skilful teller of Whines.. She found the old lady id a garret in Wyeb street, with sundry books . open on a ta ble before her, and on a chair on each aide . reposed a huge cat, the One black, rind the other nearly white. The old lady herself was clad in a tattered,ruety•lookinz black-silk cloak, and a large velvet bonnet, with a broad border of black lace. “ Well, my dear," tooth the ancient Sybil, as the witness mitered the room, " I suppose you are coins to consult Ice about year little Matters ; sit yealown; sit ye elliwn, es t ynnog woman, and you ball soon issuir all about lt.. The witness, in rembling expeetetiOn, seated her-. golf at the table, and (ir.;ce tlynn spread nut a pack of flunk and potting on her spec•acles, she proceeded to dlersivel the mysteries oflatarity. She first informed the r eit / less that she bad hitherto been doomed to waste bee „jay,' in servitude; but this would no tomer be the case; a dark man with a comfortable property was then in lov e ! iv ti and would marry het very shortly, ant sh l e woild have no a:mtvion to a .ek another sitaction. With this information the witness Asp 'roil quite eirisfied, having • tiret given brace 3 swat sum of mosey. ,This visit took piectitt:iatitr.hay rv'uniziit. Ind ten days having claps ea.without any signs of a'realiztitiiin rit'tlie good lot tune protrAVd by the old women, she on Tuesday evening weitiSt .'p wt her again, accompanied by a friend. Old (drape astiforttinately for herself did nut recollect her fors werdtt•ttotuer,and haring consulted her carus and busk., she declared that, the witoess . was married and would I won here a fine little boy. . Satoh •Thompson, who accompanied the lait witness, corroboratel44:r eviileace. Several other young wotnen who had been duped by i the prisoner were present, but their evidence was thought opnecessary. Ford. the efEter, stated, fist befottitd the prisonerba- iily azispied with Instal girls who . were eagerly. laitca lag to the nonsense which Atheoras dealing out to he•w, He produced a pa& of old dirty cards which be found cp. en the table. Two persons who lived in the same house said, it was astonishing to what an extent this 01.1 woman was jt treated by the re... Wants. 11• r fame hall spread . f,ar and nesr,and from morning tiji night pe►s .its of all ages, • sexes, and conditions; u•rre.throngiug to the house to consist; her. Grace said, sire ine rt ly amused li•eself skeasienally in this way, and lire v.sitors left a trifle on the table to stilt fray tie expence of cleaning- h.r Mr. Multi um, committed t►er as a rogue and vita . hond for one month, Losuring her . . ti, at nothinz but her rxtregre• arc saved tier Irons being sent for the fill tenant three months. "Cared N CA SI P 32 T.."— .1f T. Chirlei CaneWl, the person charged with 14v1ng deliontle.l A linen-draper in liticiariaroroall, of sundry pieces of Irish cloth, nsa broustst up for re:egetninstion yesterday,and discharged —it appearing t.!tat he nas, in fact, what he had rept...- sewed himself to he, the son of a General Campbell.. though nut the Grneral Catnphell the prosecutors sus.- posed. MA muleatfuoti-ITrterT.7---ExTeststvx Septeter snd Aan Slymour his wife, and J o h n . were yeeterder brought to this Mice, upon a charge of extensive frandi. It appeared that fur a conaiderabie time past !:.u.ge sums of menet, 'l've !ern edllecteti from various NAtir. men and lientletnen at the west end of the town, hy fli e reperamitations„ On Wednesday evening the F.arl of Plymouth. came. to the Office, and stated that a person had that morning left at his hunt, in Grus. tams-smeare a snbaCriptien book. and a printed etatement of a dlsteeeting robbery and attempt at murder, soliciting hit subscription...lnd be was to call the next morning for an sower. His Lordship tenth's better to inquire into the truth of the statement, intending, if correct, to fare a Pia"; but the whole tarried out to be a fabrication. Upon thi s statement of his Lordship's, Plink, the cider officer. took Ili , Measures accordingly, and repaired at an early hour to his Lordship's hotise, tend about 12 o'clock o'clock the prisoner Wilson came to receive the subscription expected, when they ' were taken into castorly by a Police OMeer. searehicg them at the Utter, theta was found In the postession of earl: 4 it neatly bound subscription book, and a Court Guide, top% thee with. a 'printed account of a robbery at the house of a WidoW, named Hunter, in Pear-tree-street. St. Luke's, who was stated to he** siren totally ruined by the eiredmslance. This paper, petpotrteit to be signed and authenticated by the Churchwardens and Rector of St. Luke's parish • . on tat quiry, however, th e se nam ed were a ll f oun d to be fictitious. There was sfso found upon them a distressing detail of a fire which occerred 'lll Rerwick-striet, last hlarcli, tied represented themselves as employed to collect f_ r t!_e sufferers. The falsehood of this statement was proved by Mr. Green the only person employed fur that purpose. Iu thin sub scriptioa books found upon theca, there were enterel, for various stints, the names of Lady Pembroke, Lady Morn 'oaten, Lord Stanley, Sir W. W. Wynn, Lady Foley. &r. and the amount which appeared to have bcea received. ek heeded 200 f. The prisoner, Wilson, who was examined se parately, and denied ill kpowletlite of the others, said itut he really believed the robbery to have taken place—that b- accidentally met a 'Try reputable Lady, or one of the sews ha St. James's Park, who represented herself as Mrs. llut.- ter, 10th she employed him at a commission of two shillings and tilltineesin the petted, to go'round and eollezt the so ts spriptions entered in the book found a pot' him. ma had il Wlly4 mug him by appointment in the evening to be paid the receipts of the day, sad in the mornins, to give him instructions he wit to apply. lie et:4l.d not however tell where she was to , ,be foetid, mar had he ever been at her house, or made any inquiry as to the truth of hal. statement. The prisoner Sey m ur gild be received the book found upon him front a man to take charge of for • short time, and for whom he was waiting when he wet taken. He said he was a nsiuiatare Painter by proeasion, hut has been a long time unem ployed. . The Magistrate acid that no douht they had been carrying ou extensive dery 'lions, and be hoped the publication of the ease would brit g forward those who bad started by their fraods. UNION-11.M •- . .IfUItDISR AT CLAPLIANL—Ever s'nee the anreliension air Stolfel, the relative of Airs. Rich ard., and Keppel, the briciclayer, upon suspicion of toe ing concerned in the murder of that unfortunate lads . . Hall, the chief constable, and Glannon, one of the offi cers of this Erablishment, have been almost incessantly engaged in endeavours to apprehend a third person, who was 'rated to have been concerned in the murder. 'The inforwafion directed the officers first to Gravesend,where they heard the party was to sail for the East Irdies.— When they arrived at Graver:end, they learned that he had (pitted the ship and gone towards . Plymouth, hut at Portamouth they experienced another disappointment ; after a moat scrupulous s-arch amongst ti.e King's ship. and merchantmen lying there, they at last succeeded in ascertaining that he had returned to the metropolis. On Thursday merning, between one and two o'clock; th-y found him in tt field near Kennington Common, 1.,t asleep. Upon being awakened, he neither appeared sur prised, nor did he offer the slightest resistsnce, and was tskPa by the officers to the neighbourhood of Union- Hall. Yesterday, he *as brought before L. B. ALLRN , Bscr charged witu having been an accomplice in the murder- He said his name was Thomas Scott. Hall considered himself justified in saying, from the info r mati on b e h a d received, that Scott uis concerned in the murder of Mrs. Richards. at Clapham. The prisoner was ordered to he brought up for examination on a future day. lie is abort 19 yeAss 9f age. Tuangs Potace.--Yesterday, two privates of tie Cold stream Guards were brought to this ()dice by Symmons an•l Parker, two watchmen of Aldgate, charged aids Pitaviogin their possession a quanthy of military rlo• thing which had - been burglartously taken from his Nla jesty'a Store Room at Knightsbridge. It appeared that. in the course of Wednesday night, his Majesty's Shirt. Room had .been broken open, and a great quantity of military and o•hre clothing stolen ; the two prisonnrs were stopped Aunt two o'clock yesterday morning b.- the watchuien in St Butolph, wearing their undress BM form, and carrying two bundles under their great costs ; on being detected by the watchmen they male a resolute resistance, andtltiew away their bundles, but being over powered by the Patrol', were v:erred and taken to Gin watch-house, relive OM' boodles were examined, and found to contain right military greatcoats, an ()dicer's body colt, several pair of trainers, and . many jackets. Tlie prisonets were reminded. Cant:MICR% 7.lfOultyr.-4•C.troiter's Jury was summoned by Johu Wright. Wain, Esq. 'at • therConamittee Room of the House of Correction, in l'oldixth•fields, to inquire into the (Nati of the venerable Win.'Johnson. the Scotch pu trlardh, Vihri, by his 'own acnount, had attained his littith year. HO was twninittod at .the last hliddlesex Resulting. as a vigrant a to six months imprisonisent in the House of Correction. . . It sweated. ,ttaat this veteran, on the 26tit of May, com plained of violen'i pains . ..in the chest. awl was continually spitting, he One triereitietreeMOved into tiieintlrinaky, wherb he received the kindest treatment from Mr. Vickery, the Go vernor...mid IlMo:Oloiccd hint, porter, its; sod livery luxury. Tad Medical Gentlemen of the prison was unremitting in hii attentfinitolgards him. led 'give it as his opinion tat be laboured tinder an intertal itinambrieriguito base titan' him would have caused his ir.stegt dlmolutica, and his life leas only prolonged by nouriihment. lie died on Monday afternoon in the presence of the Governor-end his %eller! .4 . ltgefiltnty s T4 4) 4s n• ratari 3 od $ Natural IJeath; by me viaitatioe of .raj; He .had.lang been es ?orlon. Rod within vile lath yiara hid been froliertitti tilreet t thud eitithdy oinqqb.' .11.oi4trei dtblatf to'be'ltat tt;wis ftwftlasaid by his (11s:barge f:orn the army, that be was Only 790,,.q.ci ~a:rC.~ , :~--~-~ lONIA \ \ \ P. _ a e:I. It St IC re if re . 11. q, S. 4er IM • A. A( _