The National Register.
London, England, 1822-03-24 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY.
TtIENDAT. MARCH 19.
IMPORTANT eoisT OM PRACTIGH.
On the Lind Chancellor unuing into Court, he proceeded
to give his decision out an application made by Mr. Schroder,
a highly respectable citizen of Loudon, fir leave to ale bills,
or prmwcute any other proceeding in propria perluno,%ithuut
the assistance of Counsel.
Phis gentleman, a few days since, addressed his Lordship
at considerable length, contending that 110 point of practice
could supersede the right of the subject to appear is all his
filaiesty's courts of Justice.
The Lord Chancellor in giving his decision, declared that
the application of Mr. Schroder required what was, contrary
to the practice of the Court, which his Lordship considered
part of the law of the land, and w hick had heel, acted upon
by the nowt learned men that had ever presided there. He
then proceeded to refer to vai loos authorities, amongst
which Has one dui iag the Chancellorship of Lioli
in 1737, where, after a bill had been tiled, it H.. ordered to
be tabeit oil', and Ih•rt the parties should pay allrspruces.
The sieme ignore IHU:t HOW be pursued iu the ease of Mr.
Schroder.

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NIAIDBTONE, MARCH lit.—The Lent Assizes for
this county commenced here to-day on the Crown Side,
before the non. Baron Wood. On the Civil Side the
business does not bet in until to.morrow. In both comb
the business is likely to be heavy. The goal calendar,
contains a fearful hat of °Winters, in point vbf number,
there being nu less than 176 prisoners for trial.
The Bank of Eng zitid have bur one prosecution,
which was disposed of to-day, as follows
James Goodwill was indicted fur knowingly uttering
to kirancis Porter Molloy, at Chart next Simms Valence,
on the of January last, a 64;4(41 Bank of England
HOW, for the payment of 51. with intent to defraud said
bank.—lt appeared ii) evidence that on the day above-
mentioned, at :,even in the morning, the prisoner went
to the Buffalo's Head public-house, kept by a person
. named Molloy, and tendered the note in question, re-
questing change to pay Tor abont 3,7,6 d. worth of liquor
he had drank. The landlord said tie had not change,
but upon the prisoner saying he most go in oust, Or
something of that kind, tur the liquor, he produced the
change, gave the prisoner our sovereigns, and the rest
person in the house named Edw. Chandler,
seemed to know the prisoner, and addressed him by the
name of Jein Goodwin. The landlord asked the pri-
soner if his name was James Goodwin, and he said it
'lhe prisoner si.iyed 2 day or two afterwards, pay-
ing, for what lie had to cat or think. On the 'Atli of

Januny the landlord had paid the note to his liquor.
merchants, Messrs. Prentice, of Maidstone, and Wrottl
the name of James Smith upon the back of it. On the
6th of February, Messrs. Prentice wrote to the land-
fool, accpainting him that the note had been stopt at
the Hank of Englund a.; a largely. A description was
then given of the prisoners person, and in two or three
days afterwards he was apprehended. Wheu the con-
stable asked him if his name was James Goodwin, he
said it was not, and that his name was Body. Berme
the magistrates he admitted that his name was boles
Goodwin. and said that he had taken the note in ties-
non and three milers of a person named Wilson, at
Biddenden Fair, in November, in payment tit some
pieces of silk ha folk erchiefs, and that he had print away
three of them to Mr. Thomas Wood, of Lyric!, in the
county.
Mr. Wood was now examined, and said, that though
he had known the prisoner for sonic years, yet he had
never received of him in any way three 11. notes during
the last or the present year. Ile had not seen the rt.
soner for the last twelve months.
In order further to confirm the alleged guilty know.
ledge of the prisoner, it was proved that he had uttered.
on the of Deeember, another Raged Al. note to the
wife of a publican, named Barham, at licadcorn,
ht
this county. At that house he had paid a small r. ek-
(ming, amounting to titl. with the tune then tendered,
and received tbe change. The prisoner had been in
trouble before on account of selling contraband goods.
and was stated to be a smugglers
An inspector from the Bank of England, proved that
both the notes were forgeries in every particular, and
had been muck oft' the same plate, and were of the
same date.
The prisoner said nothing in his defence, but called
one witness, who gave bins an excellent character.
Mr. Baron Wood summing op the evidence, and the
Jury found the prisoner guilty—death.
i 9 --The hostiles, of the Civil Side com-
menced to•day before the lion. Baron Graham.--The
whole of the day was occupied in trying the three fol.
lowing causes, all of which arose out of the sante sob.
jeer of litigation between the parties.
THE. KING V. ittcHmin GU LiE, Una% AND OTHERS.
This was an indictoieut tt-•ainst Richard Gude, Gent.
an attorney of the Court of King's Bench, and one of
the clerks of the Crown Office, Mary Ann, his wife,
William W hitehorn, John Franklin, Amadis Thornton,
Robert Jordan, Thomas rientish, and --- Brockman,
for violently dissening and txpclling James Hall from
the undivided moiety. of a freehold messuage at Margate,
to H hicii he was entitled as tenant, in gavel kind with
the defendant, Richard Gude, and for assaulting hint on
the 24th of April last.
The case proved in evidence was this s—The prose.
color, NH. Hall, is a w me-merchant at Margate; and
Mr. Gude is a respectable attorney, and etnployed m the
Crown-office. Both gentlemen had purchased respectively
the interests of twit tenants in gravel-kind, named Silver.
in a freehold house, situate at tile corner of the High-
street, next the pier, at Margate, in the begin:nog of last
year. It scented that each was engaged in two rival
steam-packet companies, to carry passengers, ikc. from
London to Margate.
It was alleged on the part of the defendant, Mr. Gude.
that Mr. Hall had agreed that he, Mr. Gude, should
remain in the sole possession of the premises in question,
the latter paying a rent for Mr. Hall's undecided moiety
in the house, and that acting upon this understanding he
had fitted up the house, repaired and fornislted it at run.
sitlerable expellee, and had sent his family down (tutu
London to dwell there as a residence.
On the part of Mr. flail, however, it was alleged that
he had refined to allow Mr. Gude to occupy his halt of
the premises, and had determined to resist the sole oc.
cuparion on the terms contended fur by Mr. Gude. The
latter, acting on the understanding above-mentioned,
gave oirectious to his wile, during his absence in Lon-
don, not to permit Mr. Hall, or any other persons, to in-
wide into the house, and gave written instructions to
four of the defendants to resist any such intrusion, and
plotnised to indemnify them lor any costs, trouble or ex-
pellees to which they might be et from obedience
in his instructions. On the 24th of April, when NI:.
Gude was absent in London, the prosecutor,
wettt to the House for the purpose of obtain es iug passe
of his undivided moiety of the premises, and was •attentled
by a person named John Dye, whom he intended to
leave in possession. Mrs. Gude was then on the pre-
mises, and told the prosecutor her htithand's
and recommended him nut to act as he proposed. How
ever, Mr. Hall left his man in possession of one of Ma
parlours, took the keys of three rooms, which he gam
to the man and removed some arbeles of furniture out
of the parlour mentioned. Soon after Mrs. Gude called
in the assistance of the other defendants, and the malt
kit in possession was by theist turned out of the house.
.--On the same day Mr. Hall brought a carpenter and
blacksmith to nail up against the premises a show-board,
intimating that that was the office of the steam-packet
to which he belonged. Whilst the men were fastening
up the show.board, he got into one of the windows, and
was by the other defendants violently turned out of the
house. These transactions formed the subject of the first
sets of counts. On the 6th of May following, being
Sunday, the prosecutor went to the house, just as Nlr.
Gude was settim* off to Ramsgate by a stage-coach which
waited at the door, and when he ascended the stone
steps which ascended to the door, Mr. Gude came out,
shottitig the doer after him, Mr. Gude savored him to
retire, or else be would do something, and alter some
time held tip his doubled list. The prosecutor, in a loud
voice, asked him what he would do, Mr. ('tide `sail lie
should know hereafter, and dropt his arm upon
winch
the prosecutor retired. Jr wit: distinctly proved that MG
Gude was imt piesent ss Mir the first alleged assault WAS
committed, and 11411 C of the other derelidaiitS Were pre.
sent when the second was committed. The prosecutor
had afterward; obtained judgment in je ct
hi, share of the pietai;es and is now in possesstou of Me
same. e mein or

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'Die Jury, under the learned Judges dirLetions, found
Mr. and Mrs. Gude not guilty of the several assaults
alleged to have been committed on the 24th of April and
the tith of May. They found Glide guilty only of the
disseisin and expulsion on the 24th oS April; acquitted
all the defendants of the assault nu the &tit of May, and
found Whitehorn, Franklin, Thornton, and Jordan,
only guilty of the expulsion and assault on the 24th of

TILE KING V. THORNTON AND OTHERS.
This was all indictment tyaiiiSi Thomlon, White.
horn, Franklin, and Jordan for the assault commit-
ted on Dye on the I:3ilt of April, and he being a
the man who was pot into posses ion of the moiety of
the house abovementioned by Mr. Hall. The facts being
clearly made out as ahmementioned, the defendants
were found Guilty.