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London, England, 1816-05-20 00:00:00

NAVAL PEA(' ESTA LISMItiNi'.

The following is a corrert CPA of the ships which
have hero manned, ■ntl sailed on the price est.tb-
lislonent for three wean, viz. for the Nleditemturan,
East and St. Helena :-
11,/filsrsommiii—Voplirstios, 38, Capinin R. r Preston;
TR VIS 33, c:iloNiu fhinilas; titer, 3tl; Captain rorrael;
I.r.se, 40, Capiart R. Spencer; Nlyeinnlon, go. cApt.ir
Ga,1,1.1,r; %Vamp, 18, Captain Wistrige ; Satellite, 1 11, Capt.
J. Murray.

k;ust Rear-Admiral Sir R. Kim
Captain ; 3d, Captatu anvil! Iplttiatuia
30, e.l3lsin A. ; Ttirrst„ 10, Capta n Fl. Steuart
faultily, 20. Captain Tnirnck ; Challenger, IS, Captain H.
; Capt:iin %V. ilili.
ehini—Alersti., 36, Captaiii 111. Maxwell; Lyra, 10,
Captain It. Hall.
net-tter Rear-Admiral 'Malcolm,
CAptaiu H.l trll ; 33, Captain &saki! ;of re.
36,.eainait. N. D. Codiraue; Kiiry,'2o. Captain .1.41te ; F4[-
111.111111, 20. C3l/1'41,1 ; It4C4/011. IS, Captain Carprn-
trr ; timptitu, IN. Captain G 4;iitte ; Podarips, 14, Capt.
.1. Wallis ; Julia, 14, Captain Wading; Griffon, 14, Captaiu
4. A Manny ; Lever,t,lo. Captain 'need.

Notice has been published at the General Post.
office, that the Jamaica PacLet will rum cease to
touch nu her outward paleolve at Curucor, that
island being given up to the Dutch Authontin.
Drvoi COUNTY EI.VCTION.—The number* at
the close or the Nit nu 'listen:day were—
Mr. Ilmtard 1.093
Lord Ehringtoom

Majority for Mr. Ibutard

The Queen Charh dr, 100, Captain Boort
(flag ship of Sir EDWARD TDORIIRROUDD) hAs been
taken wit of dock at Portsmouth ; the Veugear.
74, Captain ALEXANDER, is ordered to be docked.
A new frigate, to be called the 43liaervu, is directed
to be built at Portsmouth Duck-yard, on the-same
moulding as the Lacederteoshas.

Tl►e elieeste. Capt. M. Mszsratr.; and Lyra
brig, Capt. B. nett, which left England with
Lord AMUCIST and the Embassy to China, arrived
nIl the Cape of Good Hope, on the 26th of Fe-
bruary, all well.
The ship Elizabeth is arrived at Spithead, to
receive on hoard convicts (male), for New South
Wales. She will nail for that Colony the course
of *this week.

Detachments or the 15th, 98th, and 100th Re-
giments, will embark from Portsmouth and Cowes,
immediutely, in the Charlene, Stranger, and Coa-
tes/ traiispnels," for Halifax and Quebec.

An account hall before the House of Common'.
estimates the rum necestory for reinstating the
buildings datum:Ted or destroyed by the late tire at
the Mint, at 13,0001.

A Bible Sucutty is now established at Iceland.
Two THIRTY TU,OUSA N.D POUND Patzcs.—
The Wheel dill

2 Crand Prizus of £30,000
Of . • 5,000
5 of 1,000
5 of .. 500

bookies 36 ether Capitols, and only Two Day. or
Drawing to collie. WEDNESDAY Nix? witl he
the Second Day, and on that doe the First Drawn
Ptiz•• above 3001. moat be 6.0001. and may he
33,0001. Undruwii Tickets sod Snores continue
on hole ut both of Wi.sn's Offices. No. 9, 'Corn-
hill, nod 17, Ludgate-street, where No. 3.869, and
8,539, the Two Last Drown Brim of 30,000/.
were both sold ill
:Share*.

It is a great mistake to stippose that any " com-
promise" was made in the House of Commons be-
tween the claims of the Crown and the rights of the
Public to the disposal of the 'mimes paid Its France
to this country. Ily the resnit of the debate 111
the Resolutions moved by Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH
on WediseKlAy last, nothing could be more com-
pletely the reverse of a compromise. The claims of
the Crown were openly retracted; the rights of
the Public were•estai,lisheal, not only by:the argus:
meat's of those who supported the Resolutions, belt
by the avowal of the opponents; who evaded what
they acknowledged themselves unable to resist.—
In the lieginuing of the SesNioti Mr. IVaisislTTaticr
claimed all the monies paid ley Frillier as proits
T.ar the crown, without wily dioint Coo ; but ouWed-
uesthay Iw, for the lint time, distiuctly admittest
that the money granted as asi_ inde 1111 l ity could
not be dealt with as. Droits of the CrOW11; that
it could sit t be expeoited on any private objects,
however laudable. lush the Sovereign mig .t
prers-r; Ilia' the Croton took i; only tlleTrlllltee
0114 lielirelesite,ive of the iiation; that it moat br
applied la orgies- polite renter ; mid Lord
CArTI.LArACrt adsted its if to render the retraction
more coulinete) that it must spoear to the Wept
and Means of the year in which it was received.
—Alter so iniqualiiiid a rerantation of rash Nod
datt4troista h'. the Almisters. the mover 31111
supporters of the einitented hens.
selvet. with tlis.risting; from the previous question,
so as to reoord their principles on the Journals, with—
uot prew.titg a slism.iots, w si roar where their sow-
cess io slrls-stre of the Coteniiiition had been so
complete as tail longer to leave any trace of an
avowed aliftereocc of opiilion.
Au immense quantity of French eggs has been
brought to 1111.4lirmi from Flatter, mill are stow re-
taiiing at abut sixottsice per dozen. Oise racket
br.loglit ay musty sou osse hundred thom4lol. The
F rend; I order, ps .111a:slog their ex;ruitt.;iols, )014 joat
been taken otf,, which occashous the large exporte-

%tut).

PRACTICE Vika COURT V CHANCERT.

PETITIONS tit BANKRUPTCY.

kz-perfe IPENNSLI., arid ex-pane BAILEY.

fore hit flonoilt the VICE-CHAPCIMLUIt,

Ifeslatimiler, lost week.

It has been represented to us, 1/y several untie:
wen at the Chancery llar; wliC were pre3ent dying
the discussions which took phoe on`the sie•je., t
of these Petitions, and ell Wl/Cl•e e•.. 1
rrty, that the report of ti.. to 1., our PAH is of last
week are, in shone respects, it:colt-, wr.i-
ctitarll• in what we lane atirilitile.l 14 11;ft k.0..1
Chancellor, who, in point of fact, st, ,sill, the
greatest tuildoes., at al with family 1/101V1/101111: lc-
spect for the Bat The importance e f the soli. c!,
.niel the respect slid delicssc) due to the own-scot.-
rented, requi:e a iw;fectly ',reunite shit. tnelit ; ana
we believe the account we shall now cot:•
talus the 111111/111111CC of all t! tpassed
,
Monday 1,.i the Petituni er-pirte
being 'salted on, Mb. ticttld said, that S.tir... I
Itoinilly, who was with I for the P.
then absent in the House ottoids, but i•:/.7-
ed lit Court in a Owl tine, and he rt-
quested that the Petitnio might stand titer till Jes
return. To this Mr. ljart and \lr. (.n the
other side, objecttd ; atid ineisted that M.
in the Absence, of his Leader, ought to.prueeed. To
which Mr. flesh! relied, that if his Christ was in
C. art, tit I desired taut to proceed, he should haste
to &jet:tura to do so; hut he dill not feel
iti the obscure of his Client, unauthorized, to iske
uroit hiri r f ihr respousilillity oi.c.staiuctiog
Petitits flirt and hlr. Cu. tai:l pens
sisting to press the Petition foritard, the Viee-
Chaim 11.. r gave it, as his opinion, that lie had pmt
one plaits course to purstw; and slim m Pe-
tition was citllecl, sod the Coyowtl for, the i'et.t itmer
did not proceed. and the Counsel cot the tither sale
desired him to dismiss he was howtA u, do .0 ;
and accardhsgly har Houtiurd6missed the Petition,
with costs.

The Petition tr-parte Bailey Was next eaft,A 0,,,
when Mr. Cullen, Mr. Wingfield, and Mr. NlG)stit,
010, being the junior CounhCl
proceeding in the absence of their bath r. Sir Sa.
muel Rofnilly ; and that Petition. at the no...unix
of the Counsel on the other side, sits also clisinitattl,
with costs.

In a few ininutes afterwards Sir Samuel notoilly
returned to the Court, did requnted his flonnur
to suffer the Arne Petitions to he again called ou.
To which the Vice-Chancellor mid, he could not
do so, in they were no longer in his paper.—Sir
muel liomilly hoped that, infuture, *litre wouldbe one certain rule, !wit that the same justice would
be measured out to all.

On. the folhiwing day Sir Samuel Rum pre-
sented a Petition from the Solicitor, in the Petition
e.r-parse Bailey, which represented that he had re-
tained four Counsk in the Petition, but that, in
conserpiesiceof Sir Samuel Romilly's attendance in
thy House of Lords, the Petition Innl toren dis-
missed without a hearing, and therefore prayed that
it might be restored to the paper.—Sit.Saninel
[ltaly observed, that he thought his direr juniors
might well hare proCeeded with the Petition, acci
the more so, its two of them *ere poi ticulaily tour
versant with stihtects of that nature.

He then procet ded .to read an affith.rit by the So•
licitnr in the Petition e.r-patle Peu;erll, side's sal.
tisfactorily accounted for Isis :shwa:ice hum Corrrt at
the time that Petition was called on.--The told
Chancellor then raid, that, from all his experieuee
in the profession, he could sat•, that it had iiiw:lls
been the practice for the Counsel rest iii rotsr:iiit
to pibeeed in the conduct of the cause, wii,:wvvr
ilk! leading Comisel was absen►, ai.cl the Court
had always required' it; tiOil thit Cum's, I tonk
briefs, on an Unified understandiva, they
would attend •ul if they could. 11. s Liodshis
added, that he would look into the Petitto•.s and
Affidavits, and would giire his opinion, on.Thrar._
day, whether the Petitions should be restored to
the paper or not ; and that he himself had hi ver
beta in the habit of diepoisiug of a Petitioli, resit
in the absence of Counsel, without looking rum. its •
merits. •

Mr. flealil here begged leave to state to lois
Lordship, what hr had the day before stated to the
Vioe-Chancellor. He lend, that allot. he laid then
stated, and ',honld now repeat, were tota
his utdi-
vidnel sentiments merely, but lie %looted theta to
common with most, if not all, of the Juniors
around him—any one of whom, he believid, avoid
I air stated the ramie. if they had born phoe.al in
the mime situation. That they , had conferred to.
griller. and agreed that it vies high time to brim;
the rdl iect in question before his Lordship, us he;:al
of the Court, in hope. that his Lordship wou;d
make a Standing Ort'oers winch would have the of
feet of relieving the Junior Bar from their present
tespoessihility. That when Solicitor. had notrusto
the condieting of their cruses to Gentlemen to-i-o'c
the Bar, who .were called away, by other iovawo.
lions. it looked I,ke ',resumption in the Junin, I;
to take upon themselves the conduct of the coou•e,
without the express desire of their cln ut it at
where the Solicitor was present, iso outhoot•e the
junior to conduct the cause, he (Mr. (kohl), fo r
eta., had never any objection to proceed in the al,.
score of the leoiling Counsel, and he had expiess...,
sail so 111,e clay behne. That a hat ass t 3
fore the Junior bar from this unialeasa•ot ossmool,too.o,
respoosihility was. an order of lois Lordship, r:e.
daring, that a junior Coutotrel bad 110 tlotroo, loot
oas hound to proceed with the cause iio the aloo e
of his senior, schieil, at Kuwait. aas eau
roulerstoool by ide professiorr,to be the coot.;
that such :Monier will the mitre Aocessary to o Ikon
at sway former time, Is the occivooone al,o•nce i,f
IradiagCottiosel I:ortnerly burr 1.0 Cr to
their present eiii.stant iiteinlance In tit.: !louse o;
Lords—three days iu e%ery week. Mr. 11 it•glo,
s:oted, that witti regard to tlx Pe, non in n!r:•
Mr. Cullen, Mr. NlaLtaglie, alai htm.cii, se;.:
with Sir S. Romolly, hr 01r. W.) put :t t.l
the Solicitor, whether Mr. Cul:ea slornld pa r,,.1
it: the absence of Sir S. Rolnills. ulid the
refused his assent.• Sir S. I oic
-ao then 'Aerva
that lie hull no ohjectioo to do the
ditty lA' the If:.
rotor absence; that nn longer a:,3 tlrm Ina nit i.t
at the Ittol!;, when he had two junior-, he, to toe it
sbe.nee. opened a bug trill, whieli nectipicd the v
quarters of an hour) and that he had, that 'try

-ill

1113

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

KILLING A DOG.
DEAN V. CLAYTON, BART.

opened a bill for Mr. 'Heald in the Vice-
-I.ll.inci hoes Court. The Lord Chancellor the
'declared, that it was not a matter of choice, hilt
Ithe duty or junior Counsel, in the absence of the,
'se,tlllllll, torosittuct the cause; that he was not ht.
lnre nacre that it had ever been doubted, but he
was glad that it had been mentioned, as the pro-
fession at large might now 'undrrtand whit was his
t%•.tr and decided opinion on the subject.
thi 11fursday Mr. Ilart reverted the Lord
4.3"iieellor to state what his decision was on the Pe-
i,' v.rporse 'Fennell, when his Lordship de-
visred, that as lie was satisfied by the affidavit o,
'the Solicitor, that his absence was not a default,
-the Petitioner ought not to suffer by it, or the con.
.ospient refusal of the junior Counsel to conduct
matter;the that if he had presided, he should
have called on the junior Counsel, in the absence
of the senior, to have proceeded, and that he felt
v,nSdeut the junior would not have refaced doing
st,. !his Lordship Owe ...Aid, that its a case where the
('.•, no I were :Aiwa, he should call upon the So-
licit. r to p:octrd, and that there were many in-
stances or Lord Mansfield having done so ; and
that where neither Vounsel not Solicitors were pre-
sent, lie should read the papers himself, lord pro-
iimince judgment on the merits disclosed. He
then ordered the Petition to be restored to the
'Vice-Chum:ell:Yes paper, adding, that the Petition
ex-parte Bailey tnight come oil in the shape of an
appeal.
(to Friday the Petition e.r-parte render' was
heard before the Vice-Chancellor, and occupied the
whole days Sir Ss Romilly opened the Petition.
Mr. Mold followed on the same ride; Mr. Hatt
mid Mr. Cooke were hoard in auswer; and, in the
absence of Sit S. Hominy, who was in the House
of Lords, Mr. Heald replied. The Court deferred
Judgment until Tuesday.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, MAI 11.
arr.

Tli►s case, highly iespoitant to the sporting world,
tante on for final argument. The question is,
whether an action on the case will lie against the
Defendant, Sir %V. Clayton, for putting spikes or
sluarp instrumesits on his manor, to protect his
palm., in consequence of which ►he Plaintiff's dog
Oas killed ? The I)efendant having put up spikes
to ker.', nit foxes and dogs, gave notice of what
lie hud done. The Plaintif► a Gentleman qualifies'
*lib a sportsman, being out with his slog, on the
estate of his friend Mr. Townshold, which joined
the Defendant's ground, the dog started a hare,
*n kids rail into Si► W. Clayton's grounds. lie
could not restrain the animal, whit► a few minutes
alter rim upon one of the spikes and was killed.
The J'l►intiff brought his action for the loss of his
slog, and on the former trial a special verdict was
given, involving the question, whether the action
could be sustained.

The ergumenu, pro and coo. were urged by
Seijimit liksT and Serirmillit BOSANQUET. The
'Miner comemled that Si, Wm. Clayton had acted
unlawfully in putting up the said spikes ; and the
hitter maintained, on the authority of various cases,
that the mischief complained of was the result of s
tre.p.io. The circumstance of the trespass being
"voluntary or involuntary, could not, hecontentleil,
give the Pl.iiiitiffasiy right to support an tic • .
The Court did not give judgment; the ques-
tion, however, will be decided this Term.