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Fletcher •. Bolt/talky.
Retbven ♦. Brown
Tureley and entailer v.
Cohen and *quitter
Stott V. Kemp
Cutblll v. Cooper
Scribes •. Itowdirn

Hedger e.741111ne
Heat v. Perfect

%Pillldea V. Marshall
Bac,,n and another v.
Maiur

llorrfall and another T.
Liddell
itamshnttotn and anat.

w. June 4
One hundred and
In addition to the
No Smnial Juries wit
To-morrow the Lord
mrosinlnt Cutouts.

CONSIST
Br-Der.

COURT OF CHANCERY, THURSDAY, JtrxE 22.
IX THE MATTER OF SIR O. P. TI.•INII.

Mr. lll:Zns7cl that he understood his Lordship, yesterday, to
intimate that the letters which had been mentioned by both sides a•
having been received from Dr. Powell, should be hooded up to his
Liirdship. The party seeking the traverse, however, had not com-
plied with that intimation and therefore he was compelled, as he
always was in this case, to push them on. Ile now begged to say
Vim he had those letters, which had been addressed to Mr. MA-
berly, elated in February, March, and June. in the present year.
Mr. TRESLOVE observed there were several letbee, written by
.11r. Powell to Messrs. Collier, the late solicitors of Sir Gregory
Page Turner. Those gentlemen, however, had ranged to My, up
the originals, but had granted copies of them : they were dated in
the month of December, ion.anci he was ready to hand them in, if
his Lordship would be pleased to receive them.
The LORD CHANCEL Loa said he would rather have the ori.
ginal le tent than he copies. If such was intimated to the gen-
tlemen in possession of the letters, he dared to say they would have
obj, rtion to deliver them up.
Me. Tatsroce considered that his Lordship's with would be
instantly complied with. He begged to observe, that an estimate
had been made of the amount of expense which would be required
t try the traverse, which was 1150/. 10s.: the difference between
that ■mount and the sum of 600/., stated yesterday, arose from the
necessity of giving a special retainer to a Learned Counsel in
another place.
Mr. PHILLINORE said he was authorized by Sty Henry Hal-
ford, who had been mentioned as one of the physicians to give tes-
timony to the sanity of Sir Gregory Page Turner, that he had not
been Sir Gregory Page Tamer at gut time which it was accessary
his evidence should be confined* to, and therefore he would decline
giving any testimony on the subject,
Mr. Dem.', wished that it should be understood, in order to
It-event delay, that his Lord•hia would read the letters in question
in his private room, to-morrow morning.
At a subsequent period of the day, the letters in question, on
both sides, were handed in, and his Lordship said they coincided
exactly with the opinion Dr. Powell had expressed when he had
attended him on the subject.
THE KING OF SPAIN S. DON JOSS DS MACHADO AND DON

JUAW ALVASAS LE IttENlll7.AllEt..
The Sof tcyroa-(irgellAt. appeared in support of a motion on
behalf of his Catholic Majesty. for an injunction to restrain the de-
fendant. Mendisabel. from proceeding in an action against Ma-
chado. to mover from him the sum of 80,00 W. An action had
been brought by Alendirabel, in the Court of Common Pleas,
against Machado. who, instead of putting in bail as usual, had
paid into that Coutt the amount in question, pending the decision
of the cause. The amount in question arose out of certain funds
which Machado,” Commissioner from the King of Spain. had re-
ceived from the French Government. agreeable to the Treaty of
Paris, as award. to Spanish subjects for looses rustained by them
daring the French Revolution. The amount in question was trans-
ferred to Machado, in French Rentes, which he turned into cash,
sod proceeded with to England. Mendizabel, who had resided
at Cad z, and who had supplied the Constitutional Government of
*Spain with stores, considered that he had a right to be paid his
claim on the Government out of the funds in the hands of Machado.
To that claim an opposition hail been made, on the ground that,
under the Treaty of Paris, Commissioners were appointed to repre-
sent the subjects of Spain. to whom sums were set apart(as well as
to subjects of other countries) to eompensatethem for the spoliation
they had suffered during the French Revolution. Machado had
beat she Commissioner appointed by the King of Spain to receive
thusa sums which had been so awarded. The money which was
so awarded belonged clearly to these sub)ecs to whom it was
awarded, and Mendizabel claimed that which was clearly the pro.
petty of the King of Spain, as trustee for his subjects. When the
case was before the Court on a former occasion, his Lordship was
of opifiion that the affidavits were not sufficiently explicit as to the
state of the fund out of which 31endisabel sought to reimburse him.
sill. The affidavits had now been amended, and it was cleat that
We affirm brought by Mendizabel against Machado, was not
brought by hint in the shape of a creditor of the Spanish Govern.
mew for any part of that fund, of which Machado sac a trustee for
the subjects of the King of Spain. There was another part of the
case which his Lordship wished to have further information on,
which was that in order to restrain the action at law, he (the Lord
Chaocellor) must be satisfied that Mendizabel knew he was putting
Into his pocket what might belong to other subjects of the King of
Spain. In answer to that, Mendizabel lad admitted that he was
aware the funds claimed by him wen. not the funds of Machado,
sod that he knew the lane,• was only the agent and trustee of the
‘-fiinF of Std'''. 'jotter ill thecircumstances of the case, he hoped
u'' would grant at.e injunction.
raialaW ELL and Mr. W'UEATLEY followed on the
mow side.
'•••• • -• •

Mr. Suatit sr opposed the motion, and said that the present was
an attempt on the part of the King of Spain to obtain possession of
fonds to which he had no clam whatever. In point of fact, his
Catholic Majesty's subjects were moat anxious that he slionld not
poness the funds in question, because they were satisfied that he
woaki divert them from the direction in which it was originally
intended they should flow. The treaty of Part-. to which allusion
had been made, provided that certain indemnities should be
granted to Spanish subjects. The Government of Spain had dealt
with the funds in question in a manner which gave to the indemni.
Had a right, as public creditors, upon the general assets of the
country : how those assets were available, the present price of
certain 'ttpanish funds would show. Ile did not conceive it pos.
bible that his Lordship could decide that the former, the Constitu-
tional Government of Spain, as it wax termed, was not a conetitu.
tlanal government ; or that the King of Spain, wh.. was at the head
of it, %La now to turn round and treat all that had been done by
that Government as lambing. Mr. Metidizabel had furnished to
Inc then tiovernment of Spain, with the King at its head, a quan-
tity of warlike stores, for the value of which he had received bills,
payment of which he now sought out of the funds in the hands of
Machado. lie considered that it was impossible, ander such cif-
esunita.,ces. that the Ring of Spain could act so inconsistent a part
as to claim tue funds in question now, on behalf of Spanish sub,.
jects. on which he had previously allowed a claim for assistr.,,;e
regularly supplied to the Government of the country, which
Had been most clearly sanctioned by his authority. 5 e „mid not
refuse to do that as a despot which he had pto.P:sed and acknow-
ledged as a consiitutiottal king.
Mr. A ?MERTON followed on the arne wide; and
The SOLICITOR-016)1E1AL hsTing repHed,
'Pie I.oam CssANCEI.Lot said, the lint question was, to see
whether a Nast of money which had been paid into the Court of
Gomrnon Pleas was money, In the hands of 31achado, raid to hint
by
.the Government of France, in order to make satisficrion as far
asit could be made to those Spanish subjects wtao had guttered s
stated. the

He wished t 3 know, if . whole of ,'ne funds furnished by
the IPrench Government were not exh_aord by these elating, what
vas to become of the surplus ? Dim the S,anish powiemors keep it,
or send it back again to France? It :tad been said that Mendizabel
knew the money was elothou with a true of that wart' and therefore
Ile *fight 1,114 to hamfOnight payment from it ; but however that
tonight ha. Meelubel could not be restrained from bringing his
sewn. He thoeght the soden was polluting ; because the best

male of proceeding would be, that Alendizabel and Machado
should go to irisl with their action, and in the mean time. unless
some dilatory proceedings were thrown in their way by the
th^ money to remain where it was until after the trod. ti
Lordship said, on the question of costa, he thought Mendizaliel
entitled to those incurred by the present application.

VICE.CRANCELLOR'S COURT. THURSDAY. Juxit 22.
This was the first seal after Trinity Term ; but nothing of the
slightest public interest came before the Court.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, WESTMINSTER. JITXE 22.
(Sittings after Term, before the LORD CHIEF JusTlOE, and a
Special Jury.)
rtrAnot: v. aTIIIIIONS.
Tills was an action brought to recover 1,01.10/., being the amount
of a bill of exchange, dated December 11, 1823, drawn by a person
of the name of Nicholson, upon the defendant, and made payable
to Augustus de Lisle. The bill was accepted by the defendant,
who is a gentleman of fortune residing at Paddington-green.
Mr. 11t7ax8v. with whom was the COMMON SEROTANT,
stated the case. He raid that some of the gentlemen on the present
jury hail attended in the same capacity upon a former trial against
the same defendant, for the same amount and under similar cir-
cumstances ; he understand that a similar defence would be set up
on the present occasion. but lie hoped without the same result.
The bill was put in, and the hand-writing of the defendant
proved.
3lr. SCAR LETT, for the defendant, wished to remind the Jury,
that on the former occasion lie had the benefit of the present plain-
tiff's evidence. The present defenthnt was a gentleman of for.
tuncand respectability, who had accepted the bills for the accommo-
dation of De Lisle, and when Mir taunous naiure of the trans-
action was unfolded to them, he had no doubt of getting their ver-
dict in favour of his client.

Augustus de Lisle was then examined. He said he was con-
nected with the French theatre in London. In the year 1823, having
occasion for a large sum of money, he had prevailed on the defen-
dant, who was an acquaintance of his, to accept two bills of ex-
change fm 1,084 f. each, one at twelve, the other at eighteen month,.
The plaintiff. at the interference of 31r. Coates, a linen-draper in
St. Martin'a-line, consented to get the bills distounted. Three
hundred and seventy-rive pounds was the amount to be given, but
upon the date of cne of the bills being altered from 11l to 12 months ;
it was agreed between Coates and the witness that the sum should
be reduced to 3501., which was at the rate of 13 per cent. interest.
On his crest...examination. it appeared that he had been made
a bankrupt ;he was described in the Gazelle as a bill broker. He
was confined in the King's Bench and in Horsemottger-lane. He

had also been a prisoner-for two years in the prison of La Force, in
Paris. This confinement wo, caused by the Duke of Rorigo, and
was on account of his political opinions, in which he said he
alarierl. Histelease took place on the restoration of the Royal
funily. On being asked whether he had ever passed by the name
of Le Fevre, he replied that he was never in a fever, which caused
some laughter. Ile denied having assumed the title of De Lisle,
but the title might have been given to him. Ile had some cards
engraved with Count de Lisle on them, but he afterwards had them
altered to 31r. da Lisle. . _ _

The payment of the checks waft proved by the clerks of the
hankers on whom they were drawn, and in whose hands the
plaintiff kept his account.
J. Coates was sworn--ile knows the plaintiff 13leagne, who a
tailor. lie dealt for many years with witness, who is a woollen-
draper. Witness, at his own house, introduced De Lisle to
3leagoe. De Lisle wanted some bills cashed, and promised wit-
nes' to pay him handsontel:, if he procured cash fur them. He
prevailed upon 3leagoe to advance the money. Upon discounting
the first note, De Lisle gave lIPOL, but he dented having ever
received the other tail. The receipt of the 11101. was entirely un-
known to 31civoe. The witness, as well as Meagoe, was In the
habit of discounting hills.
Three witnesses were called, who swore to some knowledge of
Dc Lisle, and they all swore that they would not believe him on his
oath.

After a few obaervadons from Mr. Grits:E Y.
The Lonn CHIEF JUSTICE chat-god the Jury. and said, the
only queoion which they had to try was, whether the plaintiff'
had any share in the sum of money paid to Coates.
The Jury retired. and in an hour and a half returned a ver-
dict for the plaintiff—Damages 1.0951, which includes interest.
The Covent was occupied during the greater part of the day
in hearing an insurance case, which was adjourned at seven o'clock.
,►s this trial was not finished, we think it proper to defer any no-
tice of it-until it is concluded.