The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-07-09 00:00:00

(Improper disbarroitut)

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And whereas It is repugnant to meg principle of right
and Joetkie that arty person should be punished without
being hoard in Ids defame. be It enacted. That any order
of &Armament, or disbarment. except for felony, which
.bat have been made within the lam Sae years by any of
the Inns, in the &beano, M. and without bearing the party
secomed, shall he null and void ; and the party grieved
gall be entitled to all the right• and privil•des which he
previously posesesed as If no each order had bean made.

And be it further enacted. That in ens such ones the
Ina of Court so dreading obeli pay to the restored
barrister oompensatin for any loss or/losses which he may
have sustained by his diabenchmeat, or disbarmeut, or
both; the same comperwation to the subject of a Maim in
any of the High Courts, like any nanny claim for
dal:l=re anything unreasonable of wrong in either of
times proposition? And if there be not, do you not
Wien that It would redound to your honour, now and
for ever, if you made them law?
1 Sir John Coleridge, in the Tichborne triaL produced,
uttered, and used certain lettere, which he afterwards
owned, in a letter to the Time., and in a smooch which he
delivered in the House of Lords, he Miro re be fosrd by
ona Pittredreldh If the time 1 r• used ghost. He did not
maks thin confession until circumstances compelled him
to does; sad until Yr. Gears, the gonner of the Inta
Dobbineon, tie Loudon attorney for the Tichbonte funny,
intimated that if be did not admit the fact monied in
his brief at the trial, be, in justice to the deed, would
publish that brief. Yet this gentleman was made • peer
sod judge, notwithstanding this grave and terrible °gene,
while I am annihilated for—nothing. I am accused of
haring used • "strong language hut is "strong Manuals'
offence than frond and forgery, hien is
aoLreatral has been trained to admit that he was
;din I He ham promisc:dmthe world to " but he
sever up to this moment has kept that pledge,
I told you months ago of the corrupt agronmeat made
only • abort Mos since between your Attorney-Deseret
nod Mr. Richardson, when the former took awn his wife
from him, and subsequently bought her for ASIA I told
you even the words that pealed, as narrated to me and
perhaps to other., by Kr. Richardson himself. Do you
think that that man ought to heat the heed of the Ruttish
Be,, while I. who have had no roach episode', am driven
from it, on the motion of Sir John Bother himself at
Gray's Inn I beg to you, with all romped, to look this
thing fully in the face.
Have you enquired from your Attarney4wieval oleos I
Informed you of the facts whether they are tree or not
If he denim them, it is right that his denial should be
known, If he admita them, how we you placed? Will
you coneent to the Chancellor raising bin to the Bench?
and offer no remonstrance against his ruin of see? Why
Is Kr. Lloyd tinned, though not expelled and ruined
like meal? He exposed himself indecently to • none-
maid in the Temple (Indent, and for that act wm pro-
hibited from practice in the /burn He wasd=
however, to practice at Chambers, sad being a i
and a Inver man he has anianed a colossal fortune. But
I wee in an instant redmord to ruin, am tact:theesus•
followed the n* em set me by Lord Lard
Brougham, and Lord Deacon. In :maintaining all
my heart and SOW what I nought and think is the wee
of a
I itatraZdinataar from no 11141s11ag whatever
tiElnlit year Attorney Grearal—l declare I lan some.
he has made himself an instrument in the heed
a=ws for my destruction. But I use its. draw
proof of the gross injustice with which I bays been
treated. With the exception of what happened more
than thirty gem ago, mid for which I was mover*
punished at the time, saint the trill of Lord Campbell
himself, my whole It. once, in public and in private, bas
been without stain; yet I mu driven from • profession
which contains some of the greaten and the messed
moundrels on earth, as being unworthy to mate with
them I_

I am anxious, as you can see by the clauses of
which I have given notice, to prevent f0r.,.. • corrupt,
contemptible, and slavish body of Beechen like those of
Gray's Inn. whose act against me was repudiated by
perhaps the only postman among them at the tine—l
mean the late Lard Romilly, Neater of the Rolla—from
having the power of ruining any man, as they have
ruined me. A common attorney may commit any
amount of cheats. frauds, em eats, or felonies,
and until be ia convicted be may still remain "5 att.
man by Act al Parliament' L who quail in
before DO DIM living, waa twirled as • convicted felon
might be, on a were astumption or supposition of having
written erticles which others wrote. Thiwefore it is that
I have proposed as follows :
(Abolition of powers claimed by Inns of Court)
And whereas It bath happened that Council have been
unfairly and improperly aispatented, disbentsed, and
disbarred, be it enacted. That no Inn of Court shall have
the power of disbenching or disbarring ever again, except
for some public offenos of which the Barrister accused
shall have been duly convicted according to Is-; but they
may suspend him from practise, for proved improper
conduct, for any period not exceeding 111 months.
And I humbly ask you, Sir, to peas this into law.
I have always contended and always will contend, that
If I had committed any act that warn wrong, I ought to
have been tried, convicted, and punished for that act, in
accordance with the law of England; and that the law
we, stroog enough to requite me adequately for mY
offence. I might—if found guilty —Lave been fined and
imprisoned. But to expel me from my profession, to
ruin me for the rest of my days, to redoes me to poverty,
and to stigmata. myself and my children, without hearing
ms in my de,coos, was an act of flagitious wickedness and
cruelty, which every honest man In England should bele
me to undo. Shall I appeal in vaus to Sir Stafford
Northoote I .

--liai-Ta.sk you, if you have • few minutes' leisure, to
read • letter which I addressed to Yr Cross last week,
end of which I send you • copy with this! You will And
there that a personage of position, one of your own party,
• member of Parliament, actually solicited my advice as
to giving MOM) to PM of the jurors, who was reedy to
take it and give his voice accordingly; and with whose
name I can furnish you. I prevented this act of corrup-
tion, which, but for me, would have taken place. I did
that which was my duty as • gentleman sad man of
honour; but which, I believe, that no other member of
the bar, under the circumstances, would bare done. Had
the jury disagreed, as they would if the bribe :had been
paid, it would nowt: have been known, and ley future
would have been secured. But I shrank from an act
inconsistent with my whole life and ail my principles; the
jury agreed, and I was destroyed. There is abundant
evidence of thin Yet! was crushed without mercy, when
I ought, for this act alone, to have been placed in the
kiirhist_rank on the judicial t. sea
are pleased to esp. as their wonder that I think
bitterly, and speak strongly. Lot them place themselves,
in thought, in my position; let them contemplate what I
have unjustly suffered and lost; and redact that I ought
now to on the Bench instead of being an comet; and
they will probably make due a/lowa's:se for the feelings
under which I speak end act.
Sir, one word from you to the whip, and the powerful
party that you lead will listen to this appeal for right and
jambe. If that word is not spoken, in vain shall I bring
my wrongs before the House. Brought before It they
must be when the time arrives. I may be hissed or
booted, or howled down by port; cries This I cannot
help, sad must endure. But at all events I shall do what
I can to placs them on red; and by that record the
moment and the future will judge of our public men.
Then are few who would not like their WOOS to shine in
history, and their memories to be revered by those who
are to follow. I believe that if you aid no in my
supplication for justice and retirees, that it will be a
* Light in the character which YOU may horn for tu
annals of your country.—l have the honour to be, Kr,
your obedient Havant,
S. Y. MELLY.

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