The National Register.
London, England, 1819-05-24 00:00:00

WRIT or LZWA RI V ICI AS.

Mr. F. Pollock applied to the Court on behalf of Mose-
ley Woolfe, for • tole to show cause why two writs of
leuari facias which hail /teen issued against the property ui
Mr. Moseley Woolle should nut he set aside. He made
this oPPlicaliall ou 1011.14*i111, which stated, that all tho'
property of Mr. Woolfe in London and kliildkies had
been taken moiler these writs. He, Mr. Pollock, had
searched the books with the ntmost care, and could find
hot one case which at all Ise construed into au $O-'
thority for this proceeding; that was a cave reported in
Shower, 100, ender the title of the King and Webb ; in
Sir J. Jones, p. 184, lender the title of the King and Wade ;
and in Skinner's Abridgement in p. ander the same title :
and this was a case of levy under a teutert facies, in whir is
the party really interested, nearly the person to whom
the property taken belonged, did not object to the pro-
ceeding. This case occurred 140 years ago, and bail
never been acted on since ; and lie trusted all the King's
subjects were not to be bound by such an authority as
this, unsupported by any other.
The Chief Jartice.—How unsupported, Mr. Pollock ?
it is the daily practice, that the King may take body,
laud, and goods.
;oh. Pollock.—My Lord, I can find no such authority.
Mr. Justice Bayley.--1 will tell yoo one, Mr. Potluck.
Baron Gilbert says, " there is • writ called a (sag use, I•y
which the Crown may take body, land, and goods." 1 be-
lieve that is the writ of extent. _ _

Mr. Polio( k.—Yes, my Lord; but I can find no case in
which a defendant having been sentenced to line and im-
prisonment, a writ of !enema facias iasuril immediately to
enforce payment of the tine. If these writs were allowed,
liere would be a plureeding on the part of a subject which
inlet ferell with the exercise of Site prerogative of mercy
uu the pit of the Clown. The Crown ought see gnu.'
ground to remit the fine altogether At some !Wino prim'',
and to pardon the defendant.
'file Chief Justice said, the present appliention cons-
planted of no particular act. but grounded itself on the
legality- of the proceeding of the law. Court metre--
Wined lio doubt. if any fact should arise out 411 injurious
to Mr. Woolle, the present decision of the Court would
not shut hiin out from his future remedy. It bad been
said, that the authority tbr this proceeding was out to be
receive.' because it occurred under the reign of the house
of Stuart; he could recognize no such ductrine. Thla
would be to unsettle and discredit ull the decisions of tlsw
Judges of those days, a most extraordinary proposition.
Liu, the question did net rest on thus authority ; by Ike
cummon law, the King could take body, lands, andgooth,
and there was 11011011 W he might do so in this cascade°.

1:11e rest of the Court agreed iu this opinion, aaJ OteS
application vtas refused,

COURT OF CHANCERY, SATURDAY, SIAT•SIL
THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL- OX THE RELATION or
HODGES V. JOHNUOX AND THE CITY 01 LOwDoN.
Mr. WITRERRI.L stated, that lie was now to 116(14 for an
injunction). at the instance of his Mojesty's Atteiney Gene-
ial, against the defendants, to restrain them from email-
tin; certain nuisances on the Irmoits of the Thames, at liid•
bank-row. '1 be case was yesterday before !be Vice-
Chancellor, but, without healing the merits of the case,
his honour refused it, as an ex-perle application. The
Vice•Clianerllor heel contended, that more mischief wog
occasioned by ex-parte hearings than by any *More tier.
The practice of this Corot was, however, quite ditereet
from what was Staled elsewhere. The merits of the twee
were shortly these the front of Milbank-row these
was a kind of curve, formirog a bay of 30 or 40 fret deep.
On the right hand side of this there was a row of houses;
and by this street there was an approach to the Prililleo-
tiory. The Mayor and Corporation of London were Shit
conservators of the river Thames ; and they. along wilts
Mr. Johnson, a builder, and Earl Grosvenor, were about
to build a bank there. and to erect wharfs. The Attur-
ney•Generil opposed this bring dune : firs!, on the groused
of the city having no right to do so and secondly, from
the soil not belonging to any of the parties. 'floe hay was
formed by the end of the street and the remaies of Lord
Glosvenot's old garden wall t and the current iu the mid-
dle of the river being there very airong, d afforded a
comfortable shelter to lightermen and boats in goring up
and down the river in stormy weather. This alteration
would now tend to deprive theta of that shelter, whirls
was so ugreeable, and the pleee beisome a rrceptarle for
night soil. The plaintiff was, therefore quite justified ih
coming forward; fur while the col pormi4/II of London were
cuts atorsof the river, to prevent iiiiisaucer, they ought fir
lie restrained from lecsiving niuney for melt property isa
was not their ow u. An was presented against
I iem last year, and a tine boil was found by the huddle sea
grand jury, on which the work was stopped ; but it had
been began again in the last month, and was now earning
on with increased energy. N,diee of trial was giv en,au,d
the case would be tried beton° the Lout Chief Justice
Abbott on the 31st inst.,.hut iu use WiSAIS tone all the mis-
chief might be acconoplislied.
The Lone CHANCELLOR said, thst this war a motion
which he lilt to be of the first public importance. fie
agreed with the ViCe-CIIASICeIIOr, that tench mischief
arose from rx-parte hearings ; but then this Court was to
judge whether more mischief was rot occasioned by re.
'levying the injunction. The Attorney-General had, on
the part of the clown, a tight to ace that no nuisance was
made to the public injury. There were few cases of a
similar nature ever heard in this Court, as many of them
had been taken to the Court of Exchequer, and seine by
Himself a ben lie was Attorney-General. He knew the
spot where the pretended in,pioveinent was going on, and
He was astonished why the Vice-Chancellor should has e
refused the injunction. lie locked on the case as of the
greatest public impel itnee ; avid viewing it in that befit,
lie without a int ment'a hew &Non , granted the injo.actioa.

Vo-dtigcrivt.

LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 21..

Thrce dClock, p 1“:

•
We this morning received Paris Papers of Friday
last—they contain not one artiok! worthy of notice.
In the Partie lecielle of the Monittur apppears an
°dim:ince du Roe authorising the establishment of a
Fire Insurance Office ; the first Institution of the
awt we hiiieve in France.—The discussion was re•
resumed upon the accounts of Ministers ; and after a
sharp debate, an article was adopted,: indemnifying
Ministers I,r having spent a larger sum by
.55,575,000 &tines that: hcd been estimated and voted
for the several departments. The remainder of the
subittt was then adjourned tothe following day, when
some interesting., conversation arose upon the demand
of a credit for .2aiio,ooo francs, on aeeount of the
late Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In the course of
t his discussion, it appeared that • 1,500,001 francs
(about ,60,000/.) had been disposed of at Aix-1a-
• Chapelle, in scarf services.

tlamborgh and Dutch mails reacted us this
-norninr, from which we extract as follows :
A theatlrol fire took place about noon, on the 4th of
!Wry, at Christiaritia, which destroyed an immense
quantity of timber ; several hooded were pulled down to
4ireterve the town,.the damage is estimated at 260,0001.
sterling.

The King of Densnark has constituted- Sicelsord, on
sbe nonli east of Iceland, a !nevi lef,,ecl place of trade, and
110 Declared that chips usuy load and unload at Rand:tr.
Cor two years, bin it is not to be considered as fully
rt irilited.

St. FLTERSEURGIJ, MAT i.—}lis Majesty the Em-
peror reviewed all the Regiments now here on the day
before ye.trnlay.

IfAsiscitatilM NC 18.—Recent accounts from Ito
Janeiro 41:11t. that Baron Seven, the Austrian Attibasta-
slur to the C of Braganca tads died suddenly.—Ex-
..cnaritte tut London, 33-71. 33-10 i.
NAPLIIS. APRIL Q7.—Tite Sicilians are dissatisfied
the New System of Government; several regi-
ments are 'Odle entharkol forth nt Wand, where an in-
cljnatintt to ferment and revs:ninths:l has shown itself:-
- the • harvest never looked more prominently, and corn
arill be sn-cheap that ninth land will lay fallow, as the
inroduce will not pay fur cultivation.

This morning, at a quarter past four o'clock, her
'.itoyal flightless the Duchess of Kent was safely de-
: Leered of a Princess.
There were present,
His R. H. the Duke of Sussex,
AseLbishop of Canterbury,
Bishop of London,
Duke of Wellington,
Marquis Lanstlown,
Earl Bathurst,
.111 r. Canning and Mr. Vansittart.

Ott Saturday the Prince Regent inspected the. horses
presented to his Royal Highness by the Per•ian and Al-
gentle A bassatturs.
hiathrtirv, the there or Wellitt2ton and-Count Mtn-
*ter had andiences of the Prince Regent.

N este-T.6v, the Mks of Kent slotted the Prince Re.
gent to Carlton House; the.Lool Chancellor anti Count
Munster also had autlienees.

. The following is a list of the presents which were
. sent to Carlton-house on.Thursdav, by Ike Per, Am-
bassador A gold enamelled looking-glass, openmg
• with a portrait of his Persian Majesty, the object of
'stitch was to exhibit, at one sieve, the portraits of two
scocreigns, the one in painting, the °thee by reflection,
and around which were pnediral Allusions.—A told ena-
melled box —A magnificent costly sword, celebrated in
. Persia for the exquisite tamper of its blade.; the sheath
()manicured .witli emeralds, rubies, and aliamoilds.—A
wring of pearls.--Carpets of. Cuslienwee shawl, com-
posed of four distinct pieces thistriucipal carpet is in
. length 17 Persian yards, breadth nine yards. They were
manufactured for the King of the Afghans, who sent
them as a present to the Slish, and who, without
'tition, sent them as the greatest rarity he possessed, to
ft.pitime Regent : in Persia, they are inestimable, such
a specimen of inanufacture being there hitherto un-
known. Two carpets of Herat.—A large painting if
los Persian Majesty.—Ten magnificent Casheinere
shawls, of various sixes and desiototoations.—The Ara-
. lam, !tures. brooch% by his Excellency to England as a
present to the Prince Regent, were drawn up in the
cot t-y3lll.
The accounts from She Cape of Geed Hope of the6th
of Match state. Alat an immense body of Cakes have
. taken possession of. the Corn Country. Two British
..01licers hive been killed, and the barbarians have been
guilty of the most crawl atrocities w ttttt niering several
Whites, without any.respect to age or sex. A military
. farce had marelsedagainst the essaseins, loot we have not
.3searadthe revdt.
Another despicable boss was on Thurschy played off
.sapon Alderman Sir John Earner. Early in the morning
1.4 ehatitirtni or coals, hams, WOWS. SCC. arrived at thee
'fowls 11 all, in the Beroogh, directed for the worthy
Knight, but none of which be had ordered. Most of

the tradesmen in the Borough also received letters to take
orders, or to transact business at the Town Hall, and
attended in the eutin.e of the day, to the great detriment
of their btisincsq. The letters were sealed with wax,
bearing, the iufpression Man old woman riding mum a
broom, with the motto—" Every one has bis hobby."

VOlife.
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MANSION-MOUSE.

SUS INVENTORY OV A COVIICRCIAL
Geor„e 1 ucker, of hits; :kg, Tottenham-court-road, applied
to t4m Lord Mac-or (*.he informed in what manner it would
he sliest Id; isaiiie to act, in the event of any angry proceed-
ing► of the firm of Lee, Israel, Corking, and Co., of
litooks-n hart-lane, Qaeenhitat., in consequence of the
betty he had taken iu keepi•t; them out of their counting-
house, and examining their books, parcels, letters, &e.&c.
The applicant was informed, that the transaction of
which lie hail spoken did out cone eithut the cat limits
Gt., (miller jurisdiction; hut alter he hid proceeded v. tilt his
statement, the twitter was found tube of such ►coons public
impoitAllke, that advice %sac . heer given.
Tacker, who was landlord io the gentlemen, had
licazd sonic whispers, intimating that the firm was not so
verb flourishing as the number of names and appearance of
the counting-house were likely to make novices imagine.
He pressed the company fuehis rent, and received nothing
hut excuses must suspici ssss sly indite ur incident. At hod he
went into the counting-house, nod seized upon the effects for
the amount of 154-

The inventory consisted of the following articles e--1
empty hoses; 3 paicels, made up very neatly, snared with
hay; 2 hook-covers. neatly pasted together, stuffed with
hays several parcels, marled " Letters fr lreland,
nueratey, &e." stuffed with hay; hills of lading, ISI,
stated with hay, sass-duet, and bran. Mr. 'fucker ;Iwo
camels the cash-hook, w here lie e% peeled to see something
of o show ; hut Nom (titling it open, he found it to contain
an exact -amps of the above-ineilitoited stock, which h.•
begged xlie Lard Mayor would atil/ir him to send to the
justice-room, for the Meister savorily.
Ills Lordship did not svilsh that the stock, though sn valu-
able, should be deposited at the Mansion-Isoas•. lie, how-
ever, should have no ohji rtion to receive a visit from tlu•
gentlemen of the film, n hose object in this speculation was
very apparent.

hir.inciter.—Woold yonr Lordship nairi,e me to krep
them out ? They threaten Inc with all the cousequenceb of n
legal Im:weeding, if 1 penal:4

The Letup-siA should use no ceremony on such
an oc'eas. . 1 wont t preveot such rascals from entering hs
nny means. We are overwhelmed with impostors, and
should expose them upon esery spportuaity. If they are
displeased u ith the treatment they receive, tell them to
come to use.

NT. Tucker *got aw•ny determined upon the course be
should pursue.
Ittl‘V-STREET.

On Wedoesday, the examination was resome•l. before
Mr. flicks, of James Roberts, stheniel Oliver,P. Besija-
min Ilammeeay, Robes I •Stanneford, and Willtain Yates,
privates in the Guards, who were charged with coininit.
Pug depredatiMlS ill novel...street, Piccadilly, on Thursday
selmight, dating Ilie time trf a house being on the.
Sergeant Murray. of the 3d Guards, stated, that
he n 11111 l ded ditty of dn. King's guard on Wednesday. On
Tliar•sday morning, about ten minutes before two o'clock,
an alarm of tire in Dover•street tame to the palace. His
Mincer ordered [inn to unwell a detachment of 62 own to
at the tire. which lie areardiugly did : they lined the
sU ret 1.0 krep oft the crowd nom impeding the pm, ing of
the engines, Air. On appliestieus trout persons in the
homes near that on fire, for saute soldiers to seem e their
property in case of the tire spreading, by order of the
otlicer he took oil some ot• the strongest mutt to give their
;Sinn, of elm• solliers or any tither ',mean en-
tt red the houses by finer. Robert► and Oliver were lite
only two itritunets who were of the King's gnaid, or of
that detachment attending the tire. The tire snlrsiding at
about half-past four o'clock, he inarelied the detachmem
bark to ilea palace, when they were all pitsent except
Oliver, who overtook them by the time they arrived at the
palace, having been detained by an art of necessily. At
the roll-call, at a quarter before 10 o'clock, at the
Knightsitridge barracks, the prisoner Roberts was a hvent.
The only force used to enter Mrs. Fergnsoo's house was
by the breaking of windows, and masks eat the dons' 5:5 if
done by kicks, a kWh is cooiiuuu at tires, and it did not
appear- by wli lhis was tlilair.
Williams,Thomas a sergeant in the all regiment of
Guards, slated, that the prisoner liammeisly was absent
without leave 00. Friday.
Robert Hoe, a ptiv ate in the 2.1 battalion of the Cold.
stream Guards, stated,that he woiksot his trade as a bout
mid shoemaker. On Friday he was at the Mai qui, of
Granby public-1 :c, at Iron-pie, when the p►l.uiers
Harromersly and Yates came in there and called tar half it
gallon of beer, and shier that some gin : they invited hint
to drink with them. which lie did as a brothet soldier.
The poisoner Bohr, Is polled out of hi. pucker a great deal
of money, and boasted of his hoeing made ■ great liwl at
the See is Dover-street, to tlf: amount of about MK, its
Bank-notes, and a piece of g•iid w litelo he had been
off :red 2M. for. He also had a great quantity of ail ver, as
'much, he supposed, as would till a pint pot. He lbw
appeared a little intoxicated.
Robert Amain, a private in the Coldstream Guard*, said
he was an duty at the Mint nn Friday; between 10 and
11 o'clock on that night, there was a great• noise and dia.
(urbane, at the Bunch of Grapes public-house, by some
soldiers:• he and three otheus were sent to take them into
melody; when they rot dome, they only found the psi-
Ilanomersly, who endeavoured to hide lois face:
they, however, secured hionotiod on their way to the 'tower
over the hill, witness asked hiut flow he managed to get
sack a (addle; to which llsiumersly replied, they had
• made a good ►aul at the lire in Duvet..street, to Inear7ol.
A vest deal. was said about a piece of gold, Init which
remains a myste; y et present, no peewits having lost such
a valuable piece at the file : a jeweller resides close to the
spot, but he Is 1101 stymie of having lost it.
The Adjutant or tile regiment attended, awl rendered
Ike magistrate eves y possible assistance, and promised- to
• produce other %anent' at the nest elansinatisur.

LONDON : Printed and Pubis:6llrd by the Proprietot,
JOHN TWIGG, et .the fleet-Street. where
all Leiters to the Leittoe, &c..(pciet-paid), 4111416 t ba
adetrenetl.