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r I % ■- f . '‘ I I f I : I 4 r 44 ~, y , 1 t II tee:,: .. .. I Meat • ii 1.1 1 ~~ I. • sI . Ls ."~ • LAM P INTEI.WENVE. ..:.) sr vta l Tue.'s (Tete - TOT CH/tea-111X, Viso sr, hisie t 7. , The Court was octupied aearty the wholeoftlf i morning in knitter a 'ceases:of - A*oy novel and c .riAus nature. It was an application by the Attor. alley... Genital, that a Mr. Wall, the Clerk of Messrs. I Vainheythesen and Care. two eminent Solicitors, should he committed to the Fleet, Fur hitemg been guilty of a contempt of the Court, in challenging a Mr. Burtainglts, the Clerk of Mi. Copping, one of the Registers of the Coon of Chancery, to fight, and breaking open his desk to get poreseino of in order made by the Chancellor ire a certaui cause. It appea..e.l that a cruse had *en depending be fore his Lardship, and that one of the parties being entitled le jure to a sum of money, as soon as it should he decided, applied to his Lordship, stating the ne cessity he seat in for the eioney, and that unless his tense was heard time enough to get the stock sold out of the Bank by the 25th May, the Accountant- General's office would be shut, and he would have no opportunity of obtaining the money till July 1 a slelay which would be fatal to his alfairs and. inte rests. His Lordship finding that the party , was likely to be involved in considerable distress, if he slid not receive. the money he was entitled to, con sonid to hear the cause out of its regular course, and to girt i; a peeferenix over others. Ac scordinglv the cause was heard, and the Chancellor ordered the Money to be forthwith sold out of the Bank, and paid to the person entitled to receive it. Tt isrectssary to slate, that beforian make is drawn up in this Court, it is the duty of die Register who 'attends at the hearing, to settle with the Solicitors on both sides, the tainates of the direetions given by his Lordship in protmencine:judgment; of course this was a ceremony the Solicitors for the party en titled to the money, were eltremely anxious to • have had accomplished with all possible expedition; and with that view, Mr. Wall, their tlanagieg Clerk. was direeted tome every exertion in his power. It is also necessary to state, that in this Ceuta, there are a number of Register., who have seats in the • Register Office, where they dispatch their busipess; but it happens in this office, as in alt other piiblic . ones, that some of the officers are afFable; accom lnodating, and disposed to otil;ge, u bile others, on the contrary, are aeluated by very dissimilar dis position% and ocinduCt themselves with a dee Free of liasitair and official consequence, not very well calculated to expedite public business.a. We do net mean to infer. that ,Mr. Coppieger, the Register upon tßis occaion, was a person of ..the latter description ; bat his 'Cleric, Mr. Burroggli s had corarirtil, by tlae alsitinption of a degree of his. portance. not saidly attached to his siteiation, to render himself very unpopular 'among the suitors and solicitors who had business at his ogee. Mr. lit Tall. who, as we have stated, was desirous of get sing the order passed, called repeatedly to have the minutes settled—but Mr. Burroughs, who was in no inch hurry, did not think proper to pay any atten: !ion to the err.ergency of the case; this, of course. Irritated Mr. Wall, who, at length having obtained, d. copy of the minutes, declined returning it. units* Mr. Burroughs would promise not to lock it np.— What, said Mr. Burroughs, make such a promise at your request ! It became a nsa:erial question, upon which of the words the emphasis had been laid.-- The Counsel for Mr. Wall contended, that the erne phasis had been laid upon the word ea-ar ; meaning thereby to convey a reproachful insinuation againsi Mr. Woidt, who was consequently justified in using the language he afterwards did ; that language cons rested is certain expressions injurious to the character of - Mr." Burroughs; followed np by an assertion, that her had said enough to him to induce him to re lent it, if ho had been a Centlenaus. This, it was con tended, implied a challenge. '1 he minutes were at length settled, and the' order seas drawn up. Mr. :Wall applied at the o&ce for the order that he might pass it in the usual. form; he had been delayed till die last day, and he was aware that if be did nor procure the order, the money could not horeceived. To his great surprise he found that Mr. Burroughs had lucked it up in his desk, and 'walked away with the key. Ile then applied to 4r. Coepinger, the Register, who said his Clerk had got the order lacked up, and till he returned it could not be had. Mr. Wail findieg, that between Mr. Coppingcr and his Clerk, he was likely to lose the 'benefit cf the order, resolved to obtain by force what was denied to intreaty ; and accordingly he , armed himself with a large poker, and proceeded to the desk of Mr. Burroughs, against which he COMP menced a most foerni.lable attack. It soon yielded to the applicetion of such an instrument, and Mr. Call, seizing the prize he had so fairly won, ear ned it nit in triumph ; the order was passed, the mo ney tem ve2, the client relieved hum his distress, and ell parties satisfied, save Mr. Burroughs, who grieved for his need deck. Such wat the transaelion, upon which the apaliaition was niade, fur committing Mr. Wall to the a leer Prison. _ Comawthaving been heard on both 4idei, and 'cite white affair canvassed, - The Loan Cif s.cl L' delivered his opinion. He said, that when the application was first made, ke entertained come doubts, whether this was a case in whiCh the Court had jurisdietion ; bat upon re f edion, his mind was *pettedly satisfied as to that point • and indeed it did not seem to b e conten d e d b y the Gentlemen at the Bar, that the Court was not lompeter.t to determine upon Ole suhjed ; un doubtedly this' Court had a jurisdidion over those offices, in which its business was transuded ; the Register Office was a part of the Court, and any contempt of its anthoritv or its officers, commit! ed there, 14'25 as much punishr.ble as if com mitted in the Court itself. He therefore considered, that the Clerk of a Solicitor, ermdueting himself as .Mr. V 4 aft hai done wards the Clerk of a Register,. who was pa i of thk Rec_rister, was highly reprehen sible ; and if a case the kind, unaccompanied•hy the circumstances that attended this, was again brought before him, he knew of no punishment in hia po*et to inflict, that would be too severe ; but -there wer! in this cuse, circumstances which very mach went to extenuate the conduct of hlr.‘ Wall. , Xr. Coppiager, the Register, who sat in Court on' th e day the order was made, must have known: perfectly well that it was the wish and feeling of , the Court, that it should t-pe carried into affect with - oat the lea.tdeluy. It was therefore his ditty to have , takea care that the forms ofthe office should .not have?! prevented the_ intentions of the Court hot:Owing' carried into exeattion. -He4esirea.it to- he fu)ty un. derstovd. that' the Cooly would never tolerate either a Register or his• Clerk to throw obstnetions in the way of aoy preceding . pith regard to which / r t - • • I .the meats he had expressed upon the "subjea, and `the wanting he had given, no one would ever presume to be guilty of such a contempt of the Court, as either to use provoking or insulting lan guage to its officers, or use a violent 'weapon to obtain a l ly paper that was withheld. The proper 'course would have been to have complahted to the Court and he desired the Registers also to take notice that, however disposed he was to prated theirs in the fair discharge of their duty, yet, if ever a just complaint was made out against them for unneces sarily delaying that which the Cotnt had recorn mended, they would not only be the objeets of his censure but of his punishment. As the case stood at present he did not think k necessary to proceed to extremities, but he tiust..4 that what he had said would not only have its doe rife& upon the panies but upon arkithers whom it might concern. The parties were dismissed ; and wo have only to his L. e-I,hip's leelure may have its proper el. le and that the Register's Clerk, when he has got his, desk mended, will learn to deport himself in a manner somewhat more conciliating, or perhaps the next article broken will be produaive of g-eat incon veniznce to him. Nothing worthy of mention took place in the Court of King's Bench ; the day was passed in,hraring ar guments on points of law. - PALACE COURT. DIXON V. BitADLLY. This NCIS an aetion, brought by the PlaintilT, to re cnver the sum of 181. for a dinner ordered by the Defeitd.mt. The Plaintiff kept the Ship Tavern at ".:haring cross, where the Defendant was employed as a car. penter, to perform work to the am.arnt of 113 1. On finishing the same, the Plaintiff &served it was pro per the Defendant should subscribe towards a treat, which was consented to by the latter, on condition of contributing no more than 51. Another trades man, who had also been employed about the pre mises, agreed to join in the expence, and the dinner was accordingly given to no less than nine teen persons, who had been invited by the Plaintiff. The wine drank nponlhis occasion was two bottles per man ; and brandy was famished, with other articles, that made the entertainment a liberal one. The company were highly satisfied, and retired in the greatest spirits. Some time after, the Defen dant applied for his bill, and on finding the pay ment of the same refused, he arrested the Plaintiff, and recovered the sum, at which time no set-off was pleaded, respeZling the charge of the dinner, but immediately after the present aetion was brought fur the whole of the expence incurred upon that occasion. The evidence called, proved that the Defendant had agreed to pay no more than the 51. afore-mentioned. Mr. Serjeant Ma asitALL said, the aaion was the most fraudulent-and impuden: one he had ever known, and dire. ed the Jury to give their verdia for the Defendant ; which they did without hesi tation. • The story of St. Neot represents him endowed with every Christian virtue, eminent for his learning, eleqUent in speech, intelligent in giving colinsei, and of countenance ;only angelic ; but so dwarfish in stature, that when he performed nomie be was obliged to be exalted on an iron stool RS fame was so extensive that 'he WAS visited by im mense numbers of people, who sought his prayers, either for the relef of bodily infirmity, or for the influx of spiritual comfort : • the Saint, however, be came wearied with the concourse of multitudes : and with one adherent named Barius, retired to a hermi tage, and having spent seven years here in gteat sanc tity, went to Rome, received the Pope's blessing, aiul permission to build a rnonastry, near the place of residence. Accordingly, contiuui s the legend, on his return he erteEted a Suitable elitice, anti filled it with Monks; and was thou; 'it worthy of frequent consecration from their angelic v:s:tors. Near the spot on which hi; Monastery stood, there was a, spring of clear water, which in the dryest seasons, never failed. In it this Man of Gol perceived there was three Fishes : but not presum i ng to touch them, till it was revealed to him for what purpose they were placed there. An Angel appeared to inti mate to him, that every day, or as often as he should find occasion,. he might take one, and one only of these fishes for his use.. This condition being observed he w..s aseired that oa his next return to the well he should always find these fishes as at the first. It happened soon after this that our :a . .= was rich a grievous dis order, and unable, for some tine to-take any sus tenance. Darius, hi!.: affeaionate 'servant, being alarmed at his long abstiner.ce went to the well, and caught two fish, which he cooked in different ways ; boiling one and broiling the other, and brenght them to his master in a dish. The good Saint ately took alarm, and enquired with much earnest ness, whence these two fish came. 11-rius, with honest simplicity, told him he had taken them from the well, and had dressed them different ways, hop. ing that if one did not suit his sickly appetite, the other might. " Then," said the Saint, e why hast thou done this ? hue-, in opposition to an express command, hast thou presumptuously ventured to take :tore than one fish at a time He then coin mandad,his trembling secv;utt to carry back the two fishes to the well: then, throwing himself pros trate upon the floor, continued in prayer till Fla ems r4urniag, acquainted him that the 'two fishe.t after having been dress2d, were now in the well, alive and se!tivT, and sporting in the water a; usual. tseotus then commissioned him to go again, and catch one lish onty, -and dress that for his use ; which order being complied with, no sooner had he tasted of the fish - than he was restored to perfe4 health. When the Jalowe inui Cruiser attacked the tWo French bris the other day off Dover, they were al most close to with the French shore; and when the crews of the French vessels foundaheentelves pressed, they betook themselves - got into Gads. MINI:MUD, the rine, and several mho; persons, the a&ion. Several guns were or share, to open agakut oar vessels, . ~ .- N•11;:k rUNTSNICIUTN, JUNE 16. asst evenktg arrived front St. Helen's, bis Mew jesty's ship Amason. of Se guns, Capt. Parker; she rs irietualledand stored for foreign service, and ex peeled to sail in company with La l'reuxoymittestore ship, bound to Gibraltar, Malta, &c. up the Medi• cerranean. The store ship will be ready for sea in ai few days. Went out of harbour his Majesty's ship Royer :Severnigw, of 110 guns; Capt. Cyrry, ?me of our finest first eases; and remains at Spithead x‘ith his Majesty's ships and vessels of \ear, transportS, Duke Kent mast-ship, rever ae ye :Avis, &c. &L. as before. Wind W. by S. and blows ftesl.. George Montagu, Esq. Ajmiral of the Blne Squadron of his Majesty's Fleet, is espeeted here this evening, to succeed Admiral Lord Gardner in the Command in Chirf at this pOrt. • PLYMOUTH, JUMP. 15. Came in the French brig Bon Success, from St. Domingo for Bourdeaux, laden with coffee and su gar, taken by the Stag cutter, a tender to the Prince, of 98 guns. The skulking French row-boats, from St. Moines, Havre, Cherbourg, &c. make sone of taking prizes. They are equipped as fishing boats, sail fr ost their own posts in the dusk of the evening, and get close in with our coasts a little before day-break, where they lay-to as if fislihig, chewing perhaps only two or three men upon deck. If a vessel, who runs it without convoy, happens to be near the land, the row-boats make sal and board her. • In the late war they ea/lied off, unmolested, several coasters, worth 10,0001. without having been absent, at this season of the year, above twenty-four hours from their own ports. ailliffAM-QUAY, (TOREAV), JUNE 14. Yesterday one of our fishing-hosts fell in with a I.trge ship off the Berry (in the sl:e hailed, and told the fisherman she waated a pilot for Plymouth or Torbay. The wind not suiting ir.lr Plymouth, she was brought in here, and nrovec to be the Bo tanienti. from St. Domingo, laden with coffee, cot ton, and sugar, valued at 10,0001. a prize to his Majesty's ship then:now:a-tr. A rein= is in circu lation that Captaia Bedford has taken eleven sail of the St. Domingo men. DEAL, JUNE 16. Arrived the Avievtatiti frigate ; Vixfn gua ves sel ; Jalm.re and Cruiter bloops of sv4r, from a cruize.—Wind S. W. DOVER, Mit i 6. Last ::;;ht, at seven o'clock, the French schooner L'lnabordalle gun-boat arrived here, being one of the vessels taken by the Jalonse and Cruiser gun brigs, with a frigate in company. They were bound from Dunkirk to Calais, where Bonaparte is expeaed in a few days, to examine the craft and troops destined for the invasion of England. 'Phis schooner is a very long, low built vessel, and mounts two 24-pounders forward, and- one at the stern, on slides, with two 12-pounders mid-ships. Arrived, at five A. M. a-Russian courier, with dispatches; and sailed this day, the Atelland, with Mr. Shaw, King's Messenger, with dispatches to Parit, and upwards of twenty passengers. FALMOUTH, JUNE 14. Arrived the American ship Brunt:, Captain Bence, twenty-nine days from Petersburgh, Vir ginia, with tobacco, for orders • the Swedish brig Bmassel, Captain Emanuel Deigman, from Ah caw, with barilla and wine, for Rouen, detained by the Allis , * Excise cutter, Kinsman, which is also arrived ; the Emanuel has been forty days from Ali cant, and thirty days from Gibraltar ; she is gone into quarantine. Sailed late last evening the Prince of rides packet, Todd, with mail of the 7th inst. lot Lisbon ; and the Tensweend packet, Dodd, with mail of the I st, for New York and 'Halifax. sailed his M.4esty's ship ilutatnn,Capt, Jackson, with the following vessels under eonvOy:-.the ship ifndertera, Morely, and brig Nmi Hope, Carr, for London, with sugar, coffee, &c.; Printe of Wales,. Treluddra, for London, with tin, atc.; and 164- Ark' ) Tucker, for Hull, with wines. The American brig Maria Jane, Caiit. Jes. M. Salter, which arrived on Sunday in 58 days from Charlestown, with rice, cotton, and staves, for orders, in Lit. 41, long. 59, spoke the English brig, --.---- Donnorar, from Liverpool for Philadelphia ; and in La. 43, long. 45, an Engllth ship from Cadiz for Newfoundland. The Afaria gags sailed :rem Charleston in company with seven orsight sail of Dutch ships for Europe, and there were also several French resrels loaded, expeeting to sail in a few days for Frame. By this vessel - we learn that the ship Oughtan, Capt. Steward, belonging to Glasgow, was drove on shore on the 15th April at Charleston, but was expeCted she would be got off with little dainage. On Saturday morning, off Scilly, saw a sloop of war take the Dutch brig Neis!ands Unie, Capt. Schmidt, from Alicant, with salt, for Middle burgh, and sent her for Plymouth. Arrived yesterday the brig Betty, Bray, from London to Newfoundland The King George packet is daily expeCted mail from Lisbon.—Wiad N. W. YARMOUTH JUNE 16. Yesterday arrived in the Roads the ;ound armed ship and two transports, having on board the 19th Regiment, and this morning sailed for Ipswich ; also saikd the Mariner gun-brig, to the !Fore. • Arrived the Rising Zon, Peter Vink, from the North Sea ; and De page finds Kemp, Bodenburg, from ditto, sent in by the Penelope frigate ; and Tome Gebroederu, Ponk, from Rotterdam to Lon don, with butter and cheese, sent in by the if:gra ter brig. with , . . . doe ogiaiiieisitleiekaptik.e. • It was s 'Lig, that4sinteafialinof.tl4= s i iiterv P W: d r i etikr - ciei 14 - the Register's to lock up in his desk a paper which he -117:r ni tilld be wanted. - It was this ccreduttjupon 'Ole part of the R eg ister and his Clerk that induced him rapt to exercise his power in committing Mr. Wall to the Fleet, but he hoped that, after the seuti. V 4 i 1 ri 9 1 "i 4 • ; aped , 416 • • l • • • . • _ HIGH 1N .\TEtt AT LONDON-anmcr.. THIS D. Morning. (rt. after 1 I Afterncion,.... 30m. tiler 1 .ate by cl uttion• loos • . . TO LUC Ar ATE VLIC E NCR. ream, testa 14. • The English Jilinoslits arc vesting thaw rage :a the OCcupatiiia of itanover IP) the kreach ; teal a ,moment stgo •they *ere' proddly . eahlting in the ex pettatioh of seeiug the country risingaerawaire ; but now that they have been informed of theeiploits •the Duke of Candiridge, as tney have no room to celebrate his glory, they point their declamations against the perfidy of the I' . remit. According.to them, every idea of justice has been disregarded the law of nations has been i violated in t ee molt barbarous manner. But m order to ui,deta a nd these gentlemen, k must be reculicded that 'there is a parts:mine hind of a law of ante , ate, cg perfectly new sort, calculated fo: the use and intteest of the Government of Great Br itain. They pretend that. France has violated the Get manic Constitution; and that the Llet.tor et Hano ver ought to take no part iu the quarrels olds. Kin/ of England. History and reason afford sunicient answers to those miserable arguments. By virtue_ of the famous Guiders ;lull, the Eketo r i of the Holy Empire have, individu a lly, a right to nuke peace or war, as formerly all tile 'possessors of great fiefs in France. It is not the Kist time that 3A Elector rr akes war on liovereigns, or that Sove reigns make war, upon an Eletior: of this the rein of Charles V. fureishes several examples. In the seven years' war, the Eiedor of Hanover, King cf England, raised his ster•dard'agaiest the imperial House ; and when the French army entered the Elettorate, as one of the derninions of the Engli , h monarch, no one pretended to discover that that measure was contrary to the I.aw of Nat ens. France has, therefore, the indisputable right sell to at•ach the King of England in Iris continental pcssersions. 'I hese complaints brnedly betray the slirit of am bitian and ill f taith, whch charederites and din as the Cabinet of that Monarch. What ?In his capa city of King of Engi,nd, he finds that France en dangers the liberty of Europe by her uoirputioes ; he Ries to arms to espouse the quarrel of the, Kings of the Continent ; and in his capacity of Eledor Hanover, where he is more nearly interested, he discovers no cause of complaint in the condat of France. He looks upon France as a good ally ;he is not disinclined to be at peace with her ! This proves that the King of England acknowledges no other right than that of force, anc that the Eledor of Hanover is silent only from the con sciousness of weakness. Such is the golden rule, of jnst and unjust, which his Majesty adopts. Lut, doubtless, if he could rekindle the flames of war upon the Continent, if Hanover could furnish ail army of two hundred thousand men, King *so*** would not thus caead his trrittraliti I Besides, the kind of warfare which France is now waging against Hanover, caneot be considered as waged against Hanover, properly so calle.t, but against Hanover, inasmuch as it belongs to the King of England, and against the Hanoverian troop', in asmuch as they are the troops of the King of Eng land ; but, in that point of view, Hanover hay never been the inactive spedator of the quarrels of Eng land. The blood of Hanover has been known to flow in all quarters of the globe, for the advantage of a despotic company. In the American war, the troops employed by England were Hanoverrans. In India, in Egypt, every where have these brave soldiers been sacrificed to the ambitions rapacity of the Eng.- lish. France has a right to wrest from leer enemy the means that may be employed against herself. She has thelndisputatle right to st , n) the exportation d the gold, and of t h e so ldi ers cr t h e Ki ng of gang. land. That Monarch does not acknowledge either treaty or law of nations, because he imagines .hirn self to be unassailable in his island ; bnt let a favour able wind blow, and he shalt be attacked wherever he can be reached! —kornieur. Tur, HA OM JrCE - 11. • The lot-enth General of Division De.solles, pointed to command the Corpsoof Re.,erve near Deventer, is arrived here from Paris. He will pro ceed immediately to Deventer with the whole of his Staff. In obedience to orders issued by the Government to the Batavian army, several corps of cavalry, infantry, and artillery, have marched from their garrisons, and are proceeding to North Holland. .Some officers belonging to the Staff of Gerseral ViThr are arrived here from Paris. General Vidoi is to cemmand the troops destined for the defence of onr Republic.—The chief command of tlitiq troops extends to those that occupy flushing and the island Walcheren. A courier dispatched from Paris . to Lieutenant- Clen:ral Monier, passed by here yesterday, that he . might likewise deliver dispatches to the French Am bassador ; he continual his journey with the utmost :Teed, in order to -con* up with General Monier, who was marching against Hamburgb. BRUSSELS, JUNF. 9.4. We have been officially informed that the First Consul will set out from Park, in the course of the week, on his visit to the United Departments of Belgium, where his presence is ardently desired. ►,lnileed, ever; thing announces, that before a fort night Fig' maparte will be at Brussels. The following notice of it has just ben published : TOE PREF LCT . 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