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London, England, 1819-02-12 00:00:00

REGULATIONS OF THE COURT.

The Luau CIIANCLLLOIt-'4 I wish it to he
understood at the bur that at the Sittings after
Term I will hear motions only on seal days,
and on the oilier days which I shall be able to sit,
I will hear appeals. There is one thing which 1
think wants rectifying, which is. when Counsel snore
on special circumstances, that a petition shall be
put at the head of the paper. for a particular day,
that it often happens it is put the thirteenth or four-
teenth in the nape!, making that which ought to be
first, last. The House of Lords has ordered me to
attend them three days in the week from ten o'clock
till four. The appeals before them are certainly of
great consequence, and bef.re thir ordtr was made
there were only twenty-four or twenty-five heard in
a year, and now there are upwards of ninety; for as
the shop is opened oftener, the greater are the
number of customers. I wish to give the bar every
accommodation, but I must hear the appeals to
rue ay Lord Chancellor, for they cannot be heard
by the Learned Judges who preside in the other
parts of this Court. I think it would be great con-
trenience to the Judge and the bar if the House of
Lords would allow me to sit three clays in the week
following each other with their Lordships, and then
I could sit the remaining three days of the week
here; for certainly sitting in each place on alternate
days makes a great jumble in a person's head. I
do not know that the House of Lords would agree
to such an arrangement ; but if I should make an
application to them for that purpose, and they
grant it, I would take care that every person
concerned should have sufficient notice before the
arrangement was carried into effect."

Slit JOHN HAYWOOD'S CHARITY.

TIIE ATTORNEY-GENLRAL V. DULLER, the TRII3II

TEE of the CHARITY.
Mr. HART. on the pert of the Defendant, moved
that the Accountant-General ►hould be directed
to pot apart the sum of 1,3501. to stand in
the name of the Churchwardens of the Parish,
of St. Nicholas, in the city of Rochester, and that
they should be allowed to teceive the dividends out
of the sum of 41,900% paid in to the Accountant-
General by the Defendant, the _ulster, and that the
dividends on the remaining sum should be puid to
the Defendant for the ►upport of the Crediton
Charity, io the county of Devon. Tne circum-
stances were, that Sir John Haywood botineatlied a
certain estate in the Isle of Sheppy for charitable
purposes, and particularly meutioned the perish of
St. Nicholas, in the city of Rochester, where he re-
sided, to partake. The aicestor of the Defen-
dant was appointed trustee to carry the charity into
effect. It however happened, that oil 811 applica-
tion being made to that Court, it by Mistake al-
lowed the trustee to sell the estate in the Isle of
Slieppy, for the purpose of purchasing another in
lieu of it, in the county of Devon, where the
trustee resided, which estate was never purchased,
but the trustee erected a work-house or hospital at
Creditor, witch cost 4,0001. In the year 1808,
the churchwardens of the parish of St. Nicholas
preferred their claim to the Court, and it was re-
ferred to the Master to consider and report whit
part of the charitable fund they were entitled to,
and he reported that they were entitled to Ltd. per
annum, since which time the Defendant laid not
appointed any paupers to the vacant situations in
the hospital at Crediton, but allowed those par-
taking of the charity to die off, anal had paid the
proceeds of tre estates into the Accountant-Gene-
ral's office. his motion, therielote, only asked that
the accuititi!,,tiott of the 501. per /mourn should be
put to the separate account of the parish of St.
Nicholas, they to receive the dividends; the it sidue
of the fund to he put to the account of the De-
fendant, he receiving the dividends, and Io be at
liberty to till up the vacancy of ; wipers lii Creditor
hospital. Ile (the Learned COUli:•t) was tint await
that there was any opposition to this motion.
Mr. MARTIN said, he arpeared for the Corpora-
tion of the city of Rochester. Ile wa• tint M.
structed to consent to the motion, but to inbuilt
to any wider his Lordship tnight please to no.ke.
It was ►rue that his Lordship could not now rec-
tify the mistake of the Court, as the estates %ere
sold tti.der its order ; hint in the motion of his
Learned Fitend there was nut one word mentioned
about three schools which were fotioiled by the first
trustee of the testatue iti Riellester, called Hay-

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%rood's Schenk No Oft of the knelled Veils 4
plied to their support ; therefore ha trustO, his
Lordship would well (vilifier the circamstanees of
the ca4e lwfore he wide any, order.. ,
Mr. HART replied.
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The LORD CHANCRILLOR observed, tit was of
opinion that iw ought to send it to the Master, sod
for him to report any special circumstances.
Mr. MARTIN said, his clients certainly ohilected
to that mode of proce,edmg, as they had hail sinrody
sufficient of a &Lister's office.

The LORD CH 4NCIMI.OR--.11 Mr. 142•14, kf,,u
Nod Mr. Ni ,toil try if yoto eaonot pen ouch
wilier to this CAIIM lilt I ought to mat. Woe° yea
have dune NJ, let me tee it."

Further consideration postponed.

The LORD CHAXCELLOR at eleven o'clock went
to the Court of Exchequer to sigu Writs of Eirur,

COURT OF KING'S RENCH, WESTIIIIISTIZ,
THURSDAY, FrailOMlT 11.