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London, England, 1818-02-18 00:00:00

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become a duty in the-House to interfere; Oleg did
out, the old system would moot probably ant-
ht A Grand /Jetty weer übt likely to find
one that there were-too manly cases, or to sewer-
lain the number,or Mooch* • prisoner hid been
corinised, or a ; mode had been pending. The
wretched prisoners would be told, if they shooed
epply to Dever geneut for .redress, that Gower's..
mead cuoW not .telettent between their case Mid
its determination by the ordinary course of jus-
tice. Even it Prinks to the House must, to snake
it effecAual, be backed by weighty recumisendatiou
and efficient support. Except the grievance was
taken up by the House io the same way it fail in-
tended to and redressed iii part thedrlays incidental
to proceedings in CI eery. and before the Howie
of Lords, nothing would he done intaiiiTetisetst
of this most inconvenient and impolitic mode of
proceed*. Could any one say why thepo•lhors•
couistieseisoield not be eutitled to all the prittlagitC"
resulting from the general law of for counter I—.o
would it be said. because it was difficult to Nod not
a remedy, there should be no alteration whatever
Various improvements had beets suggeitod mid
acted upon, as to the practice of other Cow*.
which might form *precedent. Upon the Equity
side of the Esclw,luer, it hod formerly beets wets!
sail to have four Judges ow the bench, now not
more then one so.uetiuses sat. In tile session iff
Oyer end Terminer. at the Old Bailey, which he
recollected used to commetsce ou a Wednesday and
conclude oa Saturday generally, or at the latest
Monday. the btu/is/eft 1541 so far increeied, that A
=nutmeg to sit two and even three weeks. He err-
saltily thought some relief ought here to be afford-.
ed to lighten) the labour of trying Interne; in dolt
Court. The question of these dilatory alxhies add
mokiplicatsou of legal business, so as to jirtiee
burdensome to particular Courts of .lustier.
war one pecaliuly fitted fer the considelittibia
of thee House; becalm a Bill to reined* the
evil must necessarily be
se Money Bill. and,
of course, could only originate in that House.
' With reference to the plan he meant to propose, he
begged leave to stale to the House that there Ira
an office in the Court of Exchequer. the d•ti.i hf
which were at present to Swear in the Judges • r
that Court, and afterwards, if pleasing; to dine
with them—he ninon the office of Cursi.or Boron
of the Court of Exchequer--it was an office mostly
filled by judicial characters, who had retired trolls
situations abroad- -it was always filled by men of
talent, and now by a rums- of great science mid
talent, he meant Mr. Baron Masseres---(Heor)—
a Geutlemku who was formerly.Deptity Recorder
of London. Now his object Would be; with the
addition of 3.000/. .or a suitable salary, to
make this an efficient office, by
smoking the person
holding it take his tutu at the Awakes. his rosier at
the Old Batley, and on Circuit. From the ar-
rangements necessarily mode by the Judged at pre.
sent. they lied hardly time to get up from the Lan.
caster Assizes to attend the Old Bailey, and were
often obliged to leave important business undotie to
arrive in town at the appointed time. In addition
to the Court of Exchequer Cursitor, he would pro-
pose a similar one for the King's Beach—than tWo
persons wodld be had to act as efficient sub..
aidiary Judges, without at the fame time touch.
lug the old constitution of the twelve Judges.
would not be proposing any novelty
iu facilitating the due administration of justice.
for the House ktsew that last year a Bill had been
passed to enable one of the Judges to sit iu justi-
fication of bail apart from the regular Court. Let
the King's Bench Cursitor take the whole of the
bail cases during Term. let him also be effective
for the Old Bailey. Nisi Pries. end Assize. This
would in itself give great relief to the Judges, and
enable them the better to fulfil the whole of their
duties, for at present nothing but the herculean
strength of the Lord Chief Justice could get through
500 cases at Nisi Pries, and this was obliged to be
done at intervals; at one time at Serjeasit'a (nu, mod
at another time elsewhere, just as the time of the
Court could be devoted to them. The cost of the
proposed alteration would be nothing in comm.
risme to the eztebt of benefit which would result /
front it. Look at the evil of persona in the north-
ern counties being imprisoned twelve, end some*
times 13 months before they could have their trial,
thus suffering a puinehmesst, when often iutioceiii,
greater than that allotted to a conviction for some
of the most aggravated offences; manslaughter, for
instance. He recollected a case in which he had
been counsel himself. where a man committed for
stealing a game cock. had been nine months ill gaol
before trial, and when brought into Court these
was not a tittle of evidence against him.—(Hear.
bear.)—The evil was, therefore, great in thus
excluding four counties from the same periodical
administration of justice that other parts of the
country had. The remedy was certainly practice-
blr and without the introduction of any serious
novelty. Indeed a new officer had been called its
(the Vice.Chaiscellor) to moist the Lord Chancel-
lor. when the pressure of business could not be
otherwise disposed of. As to the 'twenties on par.
ocular public officers for the additional mitertain-
soma of the Judger, that would be nothing ; Lord
Thanet, nor the High Shwas of the norther's
comities would never consistent of being exposed
twice a year to the hospitable civilities of entertain-
ing the Judges, which they stow only enjoyed once
in the same space of time. The Bishop of Duchene
would not; at kastif he (Mr. Taylor) had 90,000 L
r year in that See he would not object to receiving
the Judges twice, nay, four times a year.--
/A hash.)—He concluded by moving, G• That an
humble Address be presented to Ins Royal High-
mese the Prince Regent, praying that he would be
graciously pleased to issue a Commission of Oyer
sod Termisser mud General Gaol Delivery twice
a year for the counties of Westmoreland. Cumber-
land. Durham. and Nortliumbrrland, and the town
of Newcastle-upoii-Tyne. amid assuring his Royal
Flightless that the House would make good the es-
pease attending the same."
If the House agreed to this Motion, he erieut.if
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