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Utz' It - ) ' • t ~,~ -- "ci IK 4 _ • "frit.../ 4111 V 411044* NumBER 9605. ROYAL ACADEMY, SOMERSET PLACE. HE EXHIBITION of the ROYAL_ ACA DEMY is NOW OPEN. .• Admission (from Eight o'Clock till Seven), Catalogue, HENRY HOWARD, R.A. Sec. ARMY coNntAc•rs. Commissariat Department, Treasury Chambers, May 28, 1823. NOTICE is hereby given to all Persons de- sirous of contracting to supply the following Articles for the Use of the Army, viz. : BREAD—To his Majesty's Land Forces in Cantonments, Quarters, and Barracks, in the under-mentioned Counties :— Bedford, perks (including the Town of Hungerford), Ber wick, Bucks, Crenbridge, Chester, Cornwall (including Scilly), Cumberland, Glo'ster (including the City of Bristol), Here ford, Herts, Hunts, Kent (iucluding Tilbury Fort), Lincoln, Middlesex, Monmouth, Northampton, Northumberland, Ox ford, Rutland, Somerset, Stafford, Suffolk, Westmorland, Wilts, Worcester, North and South Wales, and in the seve ral Counties in North Britain. As also Bread to the Household 'troops in London and its Vicinity.. BEEF and MUTTON, to his :Majesty', Lind Forces in Cantonments, Quarters and Barracks, in the underniuti- tioned Counties : Cumberland, Essex (exclusive of Tilbuyy Fort), Norfolk, Nottingham, Suffolk, York. OATS, to his Majesty's Cavalry and Artillery Horses, in Cantonments and Quarters, in the under-mentioned Coun- tics :-- - Bedford, Berwick, Cambridge, Cumberland, Derby, Dur ham, Gloucester, Hereford, Herta, Hunts, Leictster, ooln, Monmouth, Oxford, Rutland, Salop, Stafford, West- . rnorland, Wilts, Worcester, North and South, Wales. FORAGE, viz.—OATS, MAY, .and STRAW—To his Ma jesty's Cavalry and Artillery Horses in Barracks, and Oats, in Cantonments and Quarters, in the under mentioned Conn- I 1 CS :- Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Northampton, Suffolk, and in the several Counties in North Britain. That the Deliveries are to commence on and for the 25th day of July next; that Proposals in writing, sealed up, and marked "Tender for Army Supplies," will he received at this Office on or before Tuesday, the 24th day of June, but none will be received after Twelve o'Clock on that day. Proposals must be made separately for each County, except for the Counties comprising North and South Wales, all of, which must be included in one Tender; as also must the several Counties in North Britain ; and each Propo sal must have the Letter which is annexed to the Ten der properly filled up, by Two Persons of known Property, engaging to become bound with the Party tendering, in the Amount stated in the printed Particulars, for the due per formance.of the Contract; and no Proposal will be noticed unless made on a printed Tender, and the Prices expressed in words at !cool) ; and should it so happen that during the .continuance of the Contract no Troops should be supplie3 by virtue of the same, the amount of the Stamps on the Con tract a nd Bond, paid in the first instance by the Contractor, shall be refunded to him. Particulars orthe Contracts may be had upon application at these Chambers between the hours of Ten and Four. P. S.—Samples of the Bread and Meal may be seen at this Office between the hours of Twelve and Two. JOSEPH NOLLEKENS,,Esq. R.A. DECEASED ALL Persons having any Claim or Demands on the Estate and Effects of the Deceased, or having - any Deeds, Writings, or Papers, whatever, in their Posses 'ion, relating to his Property, are requested to give informa tion of the same. seated up, and directed to the Executors, at his late Dwelling-house, No, 9, Mortimer. street, Caven dish-square, London, with as little delay as possible. Dated this 3d slay of June, 1823. BEDFORD HOTEL, LEAMINGTON SPA, AND THE CAFE ROYAL, REGENDSTREET. JOHN CROSS , the Proprietor of the above Establishments, bugs to inform the Nobility and Gen try who intend visiting this enchanting Retreat, that they may procure Suites of Apartments, and Stabling, with Lock up Coach.houses at th e BEDFORD HOTEL and MEWS, by applying at ;he CAFE ROYAL, whets every particular relative toyermsmay be known. _ _ _ The Bedford Elotil is most delightfully situated in the New Town. Turtle, in the highest perfection, dressed at the Cafe Royal every day. PUBLICATIONS. • This Day was published, In Three large Quarto Volumes, price 91. fis. in boards, A New Edition of TrHE PROGILESSES and PUBLIC PllO. TT CESSIONS of QUEEN ELIZABETH. Among •which are interspersed other Solemnities, Public Entertain. meats, and remarkable Events, during the Reign of that illustrious Princess. Collected from Original Manuscripts, scarce Pamphlets, Corporation Records, Parochial Registers, Ac. &c. Illustrated with Historical Notes. ByjOHN NICHOLS, F.S.A. Lond. Edinb. and Perth. 'The Work is embellished with 41 Plates; and the Impres -sion limited to 250 Copies. •.* The Pro, ,, resses of King James arc in the Press. Printed by and for J. Nichols 4ind Son, 25, Parliament. street. This Day was published, In Pest act). Volume I. containing Six Cantos, price 011 - 11.1 E. ORLANDO FURIOSO, `translated •a. into English Verse . , from, the Italian of LUDOVICO 4111103T0, with Notes. liy WILLIAM STEWART ROSE. Printed fur John Murray, Albeinarle•street. Dedicated, by permission, to his Majesty, • PAROCHIAL PSALMODY ; being a Se. lection of the most approved Psalm Tunei newly har monized for Four Voices; adapted to the authorized Versions .of the Psalms, and twanged at an annual Course, for the Use of Congregations. fly T. GIi.EATOREN, Conductor of His Majesty's Concert of Ancient Music, and Organist of Westminster Abbey. • IST. B.—An Organ Part is placed snider each Psalm • and some Chants, a Kyrie Eleesfm, and a Sanctus, are added to the. Work. Price lisl. in sheets, or 14s. hound. Published for the Editor' by the Royal Harmonic Institu tion, and sold at the Principal Music Shops throughout Eng land t as also by'['. Orcatorex, No. 70, Norton-street, ,purl. Nnd:piace, London, where Musical Professors and Provincial Music Dealers are requested to address their Orders, as no Allowance will be made at any other place, OCIET Y for the IMPROVEMENT of IZ7 PRISON DISCIPLINE, and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders. PATRON—His Royal Highness the Duke of OLOU CESTLR, K. G. VICE-P 1 The Duke of Buckingham The Marquis of Lansdown Earl of Derby Earl of Albemarle Earl of Dartmouth Earl of Hartcourt Earl of llardwicke Earl of Grosvenor Earl of Liverpool Earl of Rosslyn Earl of Harrowby Earl of Darnley The Lord Bishop of Chichester The Lord Bishop of Chester The Lord Bishop of St. Asaph Lord Holland Lord Dynevor Lord Grenville Lord Auckland Lord Lilford Eli U ENTS. Lord Althorpe Right lion. Charles Manners Sutton, M.P. Right Honourable W. Sturges Bourne P Right Hon. Sir G. H. Ro;c, Bart, M.P. Lord Calthorpe Lord Rocksavage Lord Clive Right Hon. J. C.Villiers M.P. George Anson, 31. P. Sir T. Dyke Arland, Bart. M.P. Sir T. Baring, Bart. M.P. Sir James Mackintosh, M.P. Sir William Anson T. W. Coke, Esq. M.P. Wm. Dickenson2.Esq: T. G. Estcourt, Esq. - 31.P. T. F. Forster, EN. W. H. Freemitt?tle; Esq. M.P. William 3lanning, Es q. Er 11. James Scarlett, Esq. 1 John Smith, Esq. 111. P. Wm. Wilberforce, Esq. 11. P. Lord Belgrave Edw. Bootle Wilbialiaris, Esq. Lord Nugent M.P. Treasurer, THOMAS FOA ELL BUXTON, Esq. M.P. Chairman of the Committee, SAMUEL HOARE,' Jun. E 9. At the ANNIVERSARY MEETING of the SOCIETI , held at Freemasons'-hall, Great Queen-street, on Monday, the 2d of June, 1823, his Royal Highness the Duke of GLOU CESTER, Patron, in the Chair, the following Resolutions were unanimously agreed to : It was moved by the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Chester, and seconded by Lord Calthorpe, 1. That the substance of the Report which had been now read, with such additions thereto as may be considered ad visable, be printed and circulated, under the direction of the Committee. It was moved by Earl Grosvenor, and seconded by Sir James 3lackintosh , M.P. 2. That this meeting derives sincere gratification from the increasing prosperity and usefulness of this institution, from the public interest which continues to prevail for the improvement of prison disci dine, and for the measures now in progress for the erection of new and the amendment of old prisons. That, notwithstanding, however, the visible progress of amelioration, it is yet painful to reflect that a considerable number of prisons, especially those under local jurisdiction, are devoid of classifica tion and employment, and of that discipline which can alone correct and reclaim the offender, in some cases confounding in one common association the several distinctions of character and crime, and are otherwise in such a state as to call imperiously for the interference of the Legislature. That it is, therefore, with anxious solicitude this meeting looks forward to the completion of those measures which are now before Parliament, for die con. solidation and amendment of prison laws; convined that legis lative enactments; founded on wise principles, are indispens able, before the prisons of this kingdom can be regulated by a system that will at once deter the criminal, yet promote his re. formation, and add to the public welfare and security by the prevention of crime. It was moved by Wm. Wilberforce, Esq. M.P.; and se conded by Sir Thomas Dyke Adana, Bart. M.P. 3. That the respectful thanks of this meeting be presented to the Magistracy throughout the kingdom, to whom the im. provement of prison discipline has been so essentially indebted, for the cordial co-operation which they have evinced in pro moting the designs of this institution. It was moved by the Right Hon. J. M. Barry, M.P. ; and seconded by W. Caras Wilson, Esq. M.P. 4. That the situation of a criminal youth disposed to abandon his vicious courses, but discharged from prison without money, character, or friends, is one which has strong claims as well on the interests as on the compassion of the'public. That the nu merous boys thus circumstanced, who, on their liberation from the goals of the Metropolis, have received relief from the Prison Discipline Society, and the success of its endeavours to re f orm , entitle the Institution to the warm support of the enlightened and benevolent; and that it is, therefore, with deep regret this meeting learns that the Committee have, during the past year, been compelled to deny assistance to many whom timely relief might have rescued from guilt and misery. It was moved by the Right Hon. Sir George Rose, Bart., M.P.; and seconded by the Rev. Thomas Lloyd, of Hert ford. 6. That the grateful thanks of this Meeting be presented to His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, for the bene fi t which the institution has derived from his illustrious patron. age, the obliging readiness with which he has particip a t e d i n t h e labours of the Committee, and for the urbanity with which he has presided on the present occasion. The object of this Institution is to extend those principles, and promote those designs, to diffuse which the labours of Howard, and other eminent philanthropists, have been di. rected. The Society ascertains and recommends those plans for the regulation of prisons, which experience has proved best calculated to inspire the criminal with the dread of imprison. ment, and to induce him, on his liberation, to abandon his guilty habits. The Society collects and transmits information, prints and disperses useful publications, prepares such de. signs for the erection of new and alteration of old prisons, as are best adapted to ensure the classification, inspection, religious instruction, hard labour, and regulai employment, of the criminal. In the course of their visits to the gaols in the metropolis, the Committee very frequently meet with destitute boys, who on their discharge from confinement , literally . know not where tojay their heads. To assist such friendless outcasts has been the practice of the Society, and to render this relief more efii. cacious, a Temporary Refuge has been established for such as are disposed to aban don their vicious courses. This asylum has been instrumental in affording assistance to a considerable number of distressed youths, who, but for this seasonable aid, must have resorted to criminal practices for support. On ad. mission into this establishment, the boys are instructed in moral and religious duty, subjected to habits of order and industry, and after a time are placed in situations which afford a rea sonable prospect of their becoming honest and useful members of society. To extend these objects, and to render its exertions more widely beneficial, the Society solicits the aid of public be nevolence. Its expences are unavoidably serious, and its funds are at present very low ; but it is trusted that pecuniary sup. port will not be withheld, when it is considered, that on the berality with which this appeal is answered depends, In a great measure, the success of the Society's objects—the reforpiation of the vicious, and the prevention of crime. An annual subscription of one guinea, or a donation of #;1010s. constitutes a Member of this Society. Donations and annual Subscriptions are received by the following Bankers: Barclay, Tritton, and Co. 54, Lombard-street ; Drummonda and Co. Charing-cross; Frys and Co. St. Madre:lll's-court ; Goslings and Co. Fleet-street ; Hoare, Barnett*, and Co. Loin. bard-screet ; and Smith, Payne, and Smiths, George-street, Mansion-house; also by Mr. A. 0. Elliot, at the Society's Office, 18, Aldermanbury. RUBINSON'S PRLPABED BARLEY, and MT:PARED GROATS, for making SUPERIOR BARLEY WATER or GRUEL, in Ten Minittes. s MAT'IIIIAS ROBINSON, Inventor of the above highly esteemed Articles, respectfully cautions the Public against spurious imitations offered fur Sale ; and which the Venders have unblushingly stated to be Robinson's Preparation, or the seine as Robinson's. The Prepared Barley, and Prepared Groats, are Patronised by the first Medical Practitioners in the Metropolis, and in every part of the Kingdom where the y have been introduced, and as they are generally used in cases of Illness, or as a pe culiar fine Fond for Infants, too much care cannot he taken to prevent an . impropercommodity being substituted. 14. R. begs to state, his Preparations are made from the finest Pearl Barley, and best Embden Groats, tinder his own immediate inspection, and will keep in any Climate. Sold wholesale and retail, by Matthias Robinson, fi'4, Red- Lion -street, Holborn I Messrs. Bathe, Chemists, 4, Clisrip side, St. Paul's, 220, Regent-street, London Waterloo-place, Edinburgh ; Sackville-street, Dublin, sole ,Averts fur the country; and Retail by the principal Druggists in the King dom, m llb. Packets at Bd. and Tin canisters of gibs. each - He careful to ask for Robinson's Prepared Barley and Prepared Growl', and to : observe none is Genuine which hos not Ina Name and Address printed on each parbet. -Nfr PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, JUNE 5. Mr. DENT presented a Return of the Number of Causes tried at the Great Sessions in \Vales from 1812 to the present year; also Returns of the Number of Attornies practising in the Courts of Wales ; of the Number of Causes tried in the Law Courts; and of the Bills of Chancery filed in Wales dur ing the same period. MARRIAGE ACT AMENDMENT BILL. On the motion for taking into consideration the Report on the Marriage Act Amendment Bill, lalrd STOWELL proposed a clause to allow bans to be published and marriages to be celebrated in any convenient place within the parish, when the parish church was under going repairs. Lord REDESDALE suggested that the place selected for such a purpose should be one that was used for divine service. The Earl of LIVERPOOL though( that as there was a clause in the Bill allowing the publication of bans in an ad joining parish, where the parties lived in a plaee which was extra parochial, the . prinoiPle might be extended..without any inconvenience to parishes where the churches were under repair. The Bishop of LONDON observed, that the practice in Lon don was when a church was under repair, to leave a part of it always fit for the celebration of marriage. The subject was one that required some consideration, and he hoped the Noble Ldrd would have no objection to postpone it until the third reading of the Bill. The clause was accordingly postponed. Lord ELLENBOROUGII saint, that be had a clause to propose, which he was persuaded would be generally recog nized as in perfect accordance with the principles of religion and morality. Marriages contracted with the prohibited de grees were not voidable by legal proceedings, but he should move that all such marriages contracted after the Ist of No vember, when the Bill would come into operation, should be void ab initio. It was his wish that the clause should be con fined strictly to those cases which were.prohibited by the law of God; but there was a difference of opinion on this subject, and some of the cases which it was considered desirable to in clude were of a nature to require prohibition from moral con siderations. Ills Lordship concluded with moving, that all marriages prohibited by the table, published in the year 1563, should be void abinitio. After a few words from Lord PO'WERSCOURT, who ob jected to the prohibition of any marriage not prohibited by the law of God, the clause was agreed to. The Earl of LIVERPOOL expressed a wish for the adop.. tion of a clause, providing that minors procuring themselves to be married byperjury, fraud, or contrivance, s h ou ld b e de prived of the right to any property to which they would other. wise be entitled under such marriage. There was a clause to that effect in the present Bill applicable to the case of marriages by license, but as in the great majority of cases such practices took place in marriages by bans, he thought it but just that the clause should extend to them. He was desirous at the same time that the marriage should be valid, though the property was forfeited. The Earl of WESTMORLAND thought that a clause should be added to this for the security of a flirjitie purchaser of an estate which had come into the possession of the seller under a marriage so circumstanced. As, however, the present clause was so important, he thought it would be better to post pone it till the third reading of the Rill. Lord ELLENBOROUGH said he should have no objec tion to such a clause, and thought that another should be introduced to perpetuate the evidence of marriages celebrated abroad. Lord STOWELL said that such evidence was carefully pre. served when transmitted. The Report was then agreed to, and the third reading of the Bill was fixed for Monday. _ _ MARRIAGE OF DISSENTERS. The Marquis 4 CAR§bOVirivaia; he would avail him.. self of that opportunity to presents Bill which he had prepared, in conformity with several petitions presented from numerous bodies of Dissenters, praying to be allowed to solemnize 3larriiges in a manner more conformable to their religious opl.. nions, than the ceremony of the Established Church. The Bill was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Th i tirtulay. The second reading of the Irish Grand Jury Presentments Bill was fixetrfor Monday.—Adjourned. , 4 1 ; Ail •T". $ \A FR ID AY, JUNE 6, 1823. HOUSE OF COMMONS. A Return was presented by a person from the Treasury re lative to the operation of the Stamp Act. A Return was also presented to the order of the House rela tive to the Steam Packets plyi ng b e t wee n Portpatrick and Dublin.—Ordered to be print e d. Mr. BUCHANAN pres ente d a pet i t i on from persons in Scotland interested in the :Celp Trade, against the Barilla Bill. Laid on the table. Mr. MACPHERSON GRANT p r esented a petition, from Sutherland County, in favo ur o f t h e Duty on Foreign Wool. The Irish Elections Bill, anti the Recognizance Bill, went through Committees of the whole Ilouse.—Report to-morrow. IRISH LINEN TRADE. Mr. V. FITZGERALDsaid he had received a petition from persons in Ireland interested iii the Linen Trade, praying the House to grant out of the Public Money a premium on the cul tivation of flax. The Strict f orms o f the House, he feared, would not allow him to present this petition ; but he hoped, that as the prayer was that the House would take such a grant into consideration, that it wo u ld not be o bj e cted to.—The peti tion was then read and ordered to be printed. BEER BILL. Mr. BROUGHAM moved t h at the dropped order for th e second reading of the Sale of Ileer Bill be appointed for to ' morrow. Ile should certainly bring it on then, and had only postponed it so long on account of the absence of the Hon. Member for Weymouth.—Motion tweed to. POOR LAWS' Colonel WOOD obtained leave to bring in s Bill to amend' the Laws relating to the Settlement of the Poor. Mr. LITTLETON presented a petition from the Stairoid. shire Potteries, in favour of the County Courts' Bill, for faci litating the Recovery of 'Small Debts.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. CURTEIS presented a petition from Owners and Oc cupiers of Land in the neighbour of Lewes, in the County of Sussex, complaining of agricultural distress, and praying that no measure may be resorted to tending to increase the duty on Malt.—Ordered to be printed. SA LE OF GAME. Lord CRANBORNE asked, whether there was any objec tion to the Sale of Game Bill going through a Committee pro Anna, postponing the discussion on the subject to the next stage. Mr. BROUGHAM thought such a course very convenient and very usual, and certainly had no objection to it, so long as they had. another opportunity of discussing the principle - of the measure. The Bill then went through a Committee,. The Bill, as amended in the Committee, was ordered to be printed, and the Report to be taken into further conideration 011 Monday. BRIMSTONE. O n t he motion of Mr. Ilmtnazs, the House went into a Committee on the Brimstone Act. A Resolution was adopted, appointing a drawback an this article used in the manufacture of Sulphuric Acid.—Repo r t to-morrow. IRISH CHANCERY COURT. The House went into a Committee on the Irish Court of Chancery Act s when various Resolution s were adopted rela• tine to the granting of Retired Salaries to the Officers of the Court. 11Ir. GOULBURN stated, in answer to Mr. S. Ibex, that it was the intention of his Majesty's Government t o propose compensation to be made for the losses of certain Officers of the Irish Government —Report to.morrow. Mr. ABERCROMBY presented a petition from Invernessin favour of the Bill regarding Trial by Jury i n S cot l an d . .. — Ordered to he printed. Mr. BENETT presented. a petition fro m an i n di v i dual in Wiltshire, complaining o f Parochial Relief b e i ng w i t hh eld from her children.—Order e d to be printed. On the motion of Mr. It it:Minn, a Return was onle.red to be made relative to the Number of the Crews of Vessels trading to China and the East India for the last two years, stating the tonnage, and how many British and Lamas. POST HORSES DUTIES. The House went into a Committee on the Post Horse Duties' Farming Act. The usual Resolutions were ad o p te d...4l qm to-morrow. - - GOULBURN stated, in answer to a question from. Mr. BZRNAL, that it was his intention to bring on the Tithe 4111 the first thing to.morrow, and move the remainder of the Sup plies on Monday. Mr. DENMAN prmnted a petition from certain Coach Proprietors against cert a in provisions of the Game Bill ram ing to the search of coaches for game. The Honourable Member stated, that although he had voted fur, the second reading of the Bill, if the arbitrary clauses for search and seizure in coaches were retained, he must vote for its final rejection. Mr. BERNAL observed, that the Noble Lord was to be ex. cured for these clauses, inasmuch as he had found them in ear. Tier statutes. Mr. BENNET said, that if the Bill were not changed from its present state he must vote against it. Mr. S. 'WORTLEY liked the Bill better on account of those clauses which were objected to. There was no greater encou ragement to poaching afforded than that which sprang from coach proprietors. • Sir M. - W. RIDLEY concurred in the statement of the Hon. Member who had just sat down. Mr. RICA IWO observed, that the real poachers were those who sedu ce d th e cr i m i na l to his nefarious trade by keeping up a demand for game, and illegally purchasing it. After a few word s from Lord CHANISORNE, Mr. DENMAN, and Mr. BENNET, the petition was brought up, and after be ing read, ordered to be printtxl. BARILLA. Mr. DENISON presented a — petition from several Mer chants engaged in the importation of Barilla. These individu als imported annually many thousand pounds worth of this article. Last year, the duty on Barilla was lowered, and with it fell the price of soap. But, in consequence of the Kelp Proprietors of Scotland having petitioned the Treasury, the duty was again to be raised. ti!lie petitioners, under .here circumstances, prayed to be allowed to proVe their assertions before a Committee, and that if the duty should be again changed, favour might be shewn to those merchants, who were engaged in speculations ,on the faith of the immutability of the duty. Lord G. SOMERSET thought, that favour, if any where, was due to the large population of Scotland, employed in the Kelp Trade. Barilla was not so necessary to the Soap-makers of London, as was represented. Mr. BERNAL contended it would be unfair to existing con tracts for Barilla to make an alteration in the duty now, as well to the Merchants engag ed in them, or to the Revenue, which would be mimes the duties anticipated upon them. Mr. RICARDO blamed the vacillating policy of Ministers which induced them to impose a duty one year, and take it off the next. Mr. C. GRANT observed, that if any injustice was now about to be done to the Barilla Merchants, gross injustice must have been done last year to the Kelp-growers. Naturally the effect of protecting duties was that or fostering one particular trade, and creating great warehouses, only to have them after wards destroyed. Thus it was, with reference to the Kelp question, dependent upon which was a vast population for its support. It was, in his opinion, a question of injustice, that the Kelp interests should be restored, es soon as possible, by a gradual return to the old duty on Barilla, to the situation they were in before it was lowered. Mr. 11. GURNEY thought it would be a most unjust thing to raise the duty on Bar►lla. Mr. ELLICE thought it would better become the Right lion. Gentleman opposite if he would doubt and hesitate before he imposed or removed restrictions, instead of afterwards. The system of fluctuating in this way in commerce had the effect of disjointing all the interests of. trade. lie hoped that what had passed this evening would be a lesson to be acted on for the future. After a few further observations from Mr. I .llAxwEra., Mr. P. GREW FELL, Sir M. W. BIDLEY, and Mr. BENNET, the petition was brought up and read, and ordered to lie on the table. .t v .1.. .‘,,, ,... ., ,‘ di 1 , . ~, e. .. COURT OF CHANCERY. Mr. DENMAN moved the Order of the Day for resuming the adjourned debate respecting the Court of Chancery. No Alenaber.ofiering to address the Chair, the SPEAKXIt or, dered strangers to Withdraw. Air. DENMAN then rose. Ile could not regret the course he had taken on this occasion, as if the House bad proceeded to decide on the question brought before theirs by his lion. and Learned Friend, without more information being afibrded to the Gentlemen on the opposite side of the House than they pos. sensed last night, he thought their conduct could not tail to produce general discontent. If the speech of his Learned Friend had been completely overthrown, which it bad not been, by the reply of the Attorney-General, he still thought the state. merits which had subsequently been made by the lion. Member for Durham, ought not to be allowed to go forth to the world without answer, refutation or explanation. The answer of the Attorney-General seemed to him an answer to a speech which bad not been made. He had ingeniously supixised an attack to have been intended where nothing of the kind had been thought of, and had applied himself to repel charges which had never been preferred. The importance of this sub ject could not be doubted, when Gentlemen recollected what a mass of property now stood in the name of the Accountant-General of the Court of Chancery, amounting to no less than thirty-three millions sterling! 'When this was considered, it must be seen that the question interested not only the present suitors, but their children, their relatives, their posterity, and all the families who were in any way con nected with them. Hie Hon. and Learned Friend had been taunted on the preceding night with- having obtained all the cases which he had brought forward from a single office. He (Mr. D.) was really at a loss to understand those triumphant cheers which this remark had ailed forth. Surely it could not be intended to convey an impression that one Solicitor in the Court of Chancery was likely to be worse off than another. It could not be contended that Mr. This was better ot than Mr. That, and that though such circumstances might arise where the one was concerned, nothing of the kind was to be appre hended for those who were so fortunate as to be the clients of the other. This would be to cast a reflection on the Court Which nobody'would venture to make. If, then, his Learned Friend had brought forward six or seven cases in which delays of the most extraordinary and almost miraculous character had taken place, cases in which parties had been debarred of their rights till they were incapable ofenjoying them or were removed . by death—if in on e office it were found that delays of seven or nine years appeared to have been improperly interposed, he thought this.might be taken for as fair a specimen of what happened in that Court as could be furnished by any other office in the metropolis. .'lie statement of his llonuurable and Learned Friend must fill every one with astonishment to find that such a state of things could exist in any civilized country. Those cases, he contended, had been fairly brought forward by his Honourable and Learned Friend ; and when it was known that his motion related to the general practice of the Court, he was of opinion that there was no just ground for complaint against the Hon. Gentleman because he had not given notice of every specific case to which he meant to refer. In the case of Hall and Ware, it was complained that no notice had been given to afford time for any thing to be sup. plied in the shape of a defence. When this was stated, would the House believe that the circumstances had been repeatedly before the Court of Chancery on affidavit, and that an affidavit had been made to them in the year 1821 ? Such being the fact, the Gentlemen opposite ought not to have been taken by sur prise. As some Members present might not have heard the case, he would relate the circumstance. [The Learned Gen tleman then described the leading feature* of the case, and the conduct of the attorney, who in consequence of the case being repeatedly removed, after it had been placed to the head of the Lord Chancellor's paper, and other cases called on to the injury of the parties, had taken upon himself to write to the Lord Chancellor upon the eubject.l—That the attorney had written to the Lord Chancellor at all, was, in his °pluton, a great impropriety ; and he thought it a great impropriety in the Lord Chancellor, as it set a dangerous example, and was likely to lead to injurious consequences, that he acted as he did on that occasion. The letter of the nit irney was not anonymous. He would never defend a Judge who noticed an anonymous letter in Court. In doing so, he thought there was a baseness wholly unworthy of a person who filled that high situation. The attorney had written in his awn name, and this was the minter in which a person in that station of life had addressed the head of the Court of Chancery :- 4 ' Aly Lord, my clients have great maim to'complain of their cause not remaining at the head of the palter agreeably to your Lertlahip's order ?"---The only answer which the Lord Chancellor could with propriety have given to this was—" Is this true or is it false ? if true, which of my officers has done it ?" The letter proceeded,—" This cause has been waiting i s t t h e fi l e . : years n i n i tl) , l I t i y the o t t r r c i l a tt i l g i s ii i l h o e l t p: t : d a U i)a ) l e vi p e p t e c r Y c , i ea d w e ry . an re d u i :p n r i a u t y l d i et o r i t fi ma lt tit rnd i e x i t a t u ft r i g l a e l are locked up till the decision takes place. It is pauiful to my feelings to add, I have it on authority of which I cannot doubt, that the infant on whose behalf this suit was instituted twenty yea/Ivo, died brokenhearted, through distress a ri s i ng from his being kept out of his property." The infant in this case, like the infant in the Play, became a grey-beard before the end of the fifth act. The letter went on, " and I (the Attor ney) have in consequence to contend against the bitter feeling* of his rtlations." This letter the Lord Chancellor had-re ceived, anti instead of calling upon his officers to prevent a re.. currence of the irregularity complained of, he had directed the attorney to attend him in his private room, and to furnish minute* for a decree, without requiring the attorney on the other side to be present. He imputed no corrupt motive to the Noble Lerd—nothing of the kind was in his mind. He would only say that this ought to have been done two years and a half before. lie considered the ghost-like fonts which cone tinually hovered about the Courts of Equity, a reproach to the present system. In the course of that day it had been put in his power to relieve his lion. and Learned Friends opposite from the distress which they had felt, or rather to dlmintsh their trie umph on account of the cases brought forward on the preteding night having been all derived from obe offi ce . A case h a d been put into his hands, that of Collets and Knott, fron t ants. Cher office. The case laid been argued by Sir S. Romilly ice 1817. Judgment had been promised, but never given, and when pressed for, last Misty Term, the Lord Chancellor hail thrgotten all about the case. It was then reargued at coml. • derable expence to the parties. No decision bad yet been given. The Bill was filed in 1792 I ' Ought such a state of things to exist. He thought the House bound to inquire into it, as it had endeavoured, in 1813, to remedy the evil, notwithstanding the arrear of business was greater now than it was ten years ago. The Attorney-General, in 'arguing on this subject, bad used, in his opinion, a quibble on the word arrear. 'What he (Mr. Denman) called an arrear of business, was the number of cases which remained to be heard. It was said that a great increase of business had taken place, in consequence of the increased population of the country. If such were the fact, this alone furnished a strong reason for inquiry. He had heard to-day of a case in which two Judges had determined in favour of a sum of money being banded over to the creditors of an indi vidual. The money was placed in a banker's hands, as the Lord Chancellor had not thought it right to agree with the Judges. The banker failed ; the creditors proved their debts, and the dividend was placed in the bands of another banker. The case was sent before two other Judges, who gave their opinion without any doubt in confirmation of the previous decision. The parties now hoped to get their money, when the banker with whom the dividend had been lodged, failed, and thus even the shadow of a shade was lost. When facts like these were known, he thought they constituted a case for inquiry. It had been said of his Honourable and Learn, ed Friend that lie had made an attack upon all the Judges in Westminster JlBll. In his opinion nothing could ever have been more unfairly urged than this, and he maintained that nothing had been advanced on the difficulty of getting at the truth from the Solicitors and others connected with the Court of Chancery, which was not 'mown to be correct. Ile was not Sure after,all but the best ground for the present motion was to be found in the notoriety of the case. He had never'conversed with his numerous friends at the Chancery Bar without hearing from them' that there was a great arrear of business in the Court, and being told at the same time that the Gentlemen of the House of Commons did not know how to get at the proofs of the evil complained of. He had been told that nothing was proved by the number of petitions disposed of, as many of these were dismissed by a stroke of the pen. But a very pompous statement had been made of the number of lunatic petitions which bad been heard.' He was informed that the majority of these were little better than matters of course, lied each of them been like the Portsmouth case, they would certainly have been any thing but matters of course. iiit in that inquiry he was of opinion, that eight years might have been saved. In 1814, a case had been made out, which he thought would have induced almost any Judge in the world to have issued thkeorn.. mission s which was at last issued in 1822. Facts had then been stated on an affidavit by numerous intelligent persons, relative to circumstances growing out of that sort of marriage into which the unfortunate Nobleman had been kidnapped, which, while theyawaked suspicion, would, he should hare thought, hero exerted a desire us the Judge to protect that unhappy person. The circumstances to which he had referred were so ermine. tine of crime, and of the opportunities of perpetrating it, that be thought every man must wonder that the husband had been allowed to live—that he had not died, leaving behind hint a little Lord Portsmouth, no more a=kin to his blood than any tlentlemen who then heard hint. Lie took a rapid view of Some of the circumstances of the Porthinouth case, and re. marked when it came on in last November, twenty.sis hours speaking took place before the question was decided, whether a writ like that subsequently granted might ' be asked for, though he thought his Learned Friend had not been speaking twenty minutes before he had completely established a case fbr a writ de bourne° inguirendo. Thu protection which the Earl of Portsmouth now received from the reluctant justice of his country, he (Mr. Denman) was of opinion might have been afforded eight years sooner than it was. Ile denied that hi s lion. and Learned Friend had taunted a Learned Judge (Ilaron (lrabens) on his age ; he (Mr. 0.) should not be more impatient of an attack upon any man, than he should of one made upon that distinguished individual. Ile highly eulogized the virtues of that venerable character, and maintained that his age had not been taunted, but the hardships to which he had been subjected at the close of his honourable career, by the heavy duties imposed upon him, had been justly made the subject of complaint. The Lord Chaneellot had, in some in. stances, decided cases of considerable difficulty with sufficient promptness and resolution. When a debate bad been raised by the lion. Member for Oxford in that House on the question as to the right of the King to strike the late Queen's name front the Liturgy, that House had been a good deal divided on the subject. The Lord Chancellor, however, at once decided, that the King had the right in question. lie had not given his reasons for doing so; but he had not hesitated to do it, though, if ever there was a case in 'which, front former circumstances, he might have been expected to say-r " none duNint gni tionqumrs dobitavit" it was that. The Noble Lord, however, had then no doubt at all, and he at once declared the arguments in favour of the motion to be erroneous, and as such entitled to no answer from him. There were other nstances in connection with the Queen's case, in which the Noble Lord was equally unembarrassed by doubt. Ile (Mr. Denman) thought that he and his Learned Friends had started a good many doubt*, but they were promptly over-ruled. The Lord Chancellor was not slow to decide that the Queen was not entitled, in certain cases, to particular privileges which might be claimed by her Royal husband. Ile decided at once that her Majesty had no claim _ to a epecif+eation of time, place, or any of the circumstances connected with _ the infamous accusation width she had to meet. She, Without any notice of these whatever, was thrown on a sea of accusation, exposed to all the storms of ca• lumny, without adequate means to defend herself against, the atrocious charge by which she was attempted to be run down before her time, Nor had the Noble Lord's deci. sions been less prompt on certain questions respecting terary property, which in some cases could only be pro tected by his Lordship's injunction. Mr. Lawrence having published lectures on human physiology, which had been reud at some public Institution, On • them pirated by ik bookseller, had applied for an injunction. That bookseller, who he believed hail been the client of a Learned Gentleman opposite, if Mr. Lawrence was wrong, was doubly guilty, as in that case he had circulated what was improper, while he cheated the author out of that profit, which belonged to him.— On that occasion the Lord. Chancellor had said, lie was not sure that if the book in question went before a Jury, that a libel might not be found in some corner of it, and on this doubt he dectded not to issue his injunction, as he (Mr. Denman) had been informed. In the case of L(44,1 Byron a doubt had been raised whether Cain was similar to Paradise Lost, or whether it consisted of blasphemous discussions. This ease was decided quickly, and r t r ibly to the ruin of some of the pinta eon. caned. The injunction wan refused, though in other cases an injunction hail been issued in the first 11)6ift1111: to stop the sale of questionable works by those who weft) charged with p'rating-them. which of worse were circulated in greater num bers by the adoption of an opposite course, lie must take the liberty of saying that the course pursued on the occasions to which he had adverted, was most unfortunate. Such a rte's y in some instance.s, such promptness in others, particular attention. If it should avpear that a Petitioner from that side tif the House had bait his cause delayed, and i tl a lt v. tt ,Nomaitic.rt,,t.iiyrlgoltlottpupsoerrtlit .4,ttio the e rh o e t e h r vr w s h i o 4c ulu l e si t l i t i ga; o vt , , suspect that Any thing of the sett was intended; he had no such thought on his mind ; but if conduct like that which he had supposed were remarked, there were reasonable grounds for assuming' that, without any improper view, the Noble Lord unconsciously acted under a hhts which was arty thing but fa vourable to the due administration of justice. These conside- PRIc SZVENPENCg. ' 1 ic