The Sun.
London, England, 1806-08-01 00:00:00

POLICE.


BOW-STREET.---On Wednesday night Hopwood,
the. pntrole, arrived in town from Bristol, with Eliz.
Leirider in his cnstody, charged with feloniously steal-
ing linen Ito the amount of between 401. and 501.
the property of Mrs. Thonwsono laundress, °Oho-
Narrow Wall, Lathheth, • Yesterday morning the
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Prisoner was-brought before Mr. READ fur exami-
nation, when it appeared that she was employed as
a servaa by the Prosecutrix, who sent her with the
linen, to the abovo amount, to take home 'to diffe-
rent- persons, on Saturday fortnight ; but instead of
which she,converted the linen to her own use, and
set off to Bristol. Information
.being - given at the
Office, of the robbery, the Officer traced the Prisoner'
tol3ristol, where he recovered nearly the whole of
the' property, which he found at pawnbrokers and
other places. The Prisoner was committed for fur-
ther examination. -

,
Punt c Orr: CE, WORSHIP-STREET:—=-Yeqerday a
young man of the name of Mackenzie, who stands '
charged on suspicion of defrauding a great number
of tradesmen and shopkeepers, purchasing of various
articles, -and giving them, in paynent for the same:
false cheques on different Banking-houses in the city
and subuibs, for a greater value than what the goods
amounted to, and generally planned it so that, the
time be gave such cheques was after the Thinking-
houses were shut up, and used to receive the
dif-
ference of the tradesmen, was brought. up; and un-
derwent a further examination, when several other
persons attended whotu'lle had defrauded in a simi-
lar way. He was fully committed on those- charges
.already proved against bini,,.and is to be brought up
.again on fresh charges estpet.F.ted to appear against
him: He is a young man .ref very genteel appear-
- .ance, and appears between ;40- and 30 years of 'age.
MAILLBOROUGH-s-nazzliYesterday,Raeket. and
Franklin, Soldiers belonging to the Tower Hamlets,
charged the Landlord of the Swan public-house,
Kensington Gravel Pits, with -detaining their arms,:
accoutrements, &c: It appeared that the complain-
ants, who were working men, were quartered at the
house in question for about a, week, during which
time they'cOntradedat debt fOr drink, quarters, &c.
They were about to leave on Tuesday, when the
landlord asked . payment for nourishment furnished
to them, bet as he' had, no chance of getting his
mOney,-hesstopped the articles in question, without
being aware of the penalty; attached to such conduct.
The Magistrate thought proper to dismiSs the com-
plainants, and to forego
.the conviEtion of 51. which
the Defendant was liable to. -
HatroSi;GaatlENYeSterday John Bird, alias
Broub2,a-fashion'ably dressed man, about forty years
of age, Was charged by. Mrs: Jane Searle, of Monta-
gue-street, Spital..fields, with robbing her of ss, by
- 'cutting the bottom 'of her pocket, as he was sitting
_by her at Sadler's Wells,, on Wednesday night. Put-
ting her hand into her pocket to buy some fruit she
.missed, her silver, when the'Prisouer went away,
but he soon returned 'to the same part of the house,
when she recognized him, and gave. him in charge
of several of the Hatton Garden Officers, and-the
Constable of the hous-e,. when he deliberately Put
his hind into his pocket to return the silver, which
• Was secured. by the,Officers, as well as a Bank-note,
, value 4os. acid a half guinea, supposed to have been
also stolen from some. of the audlence. Mrs. Searle
swore to pie of the shillings from aparticular mark,
upon wilts:ll he was committed for re-examination.
HALL.---Yesterday a man,.named Thomas
Caivihorne, was examined on a charge of com-
mitting crimes the, mist detestable. He was com-
initted‘to the County 'Gaol on three separate charges..
PRIVATE STlLL.—Fillery, an Officer .of Excise,
and Goff, of this Office, having an information as-°ainst,
a house in Loneloo Road, near the Obelisk, made an
entry, and found a private still, of large 'dimensions,
at full work. They brought away the still, molasses,
and all the other matters requisite for the distillation
of a deleterious spirit. Mr. CARPENTER SMITH and
Mr. EVANCE, who heard the case, condemned the
still and the Materials, and about 400 gallons of wash
• .and worts, and fined Mrs. Phillis Swan, who was
found on the premises, in the mitigated penalty of
adl. which-benig unable to pay, she was sent to the
County GSOI.
John Arters and Michael Cochrane, a bricklayer
and his labourer, employed in repairing Belmont
House, at Vauxhall, the seat of Enos Smith, Esq. were
deteaed by CollingboUrn, the Officer, in, carrying
away about 40 pounds of lead eaph, from the build-
ing they Were eniployed to repair. They were com-
mitted to the County Gaol.

Yesterday se'nnight, early in the morning,. the
mansion of, GODFREY WENTWORTH WENTWORTH,
Esq. of Woolley, near Wakefield, was. discovered
to ba on
,fire in the newly ere&ed part, which burnt
with the greptest fury till near six o'clock, when it-
was got under, with the assistance of Mr.
HOLDS-
WORTH'S and one of the Wakefield engines. Nearly
the whole of the very splendid 'apartments in the,
new part of the mansion- is destroyed. The datfiage.
done is, estimated at not less than 30001. We :an-
, &istand that the premises are insured in the Sun
Fire Office. ,The family were at York at the time,
Mr. WENTWORTH being on the .Grand Jury. We.
are extremely. sorrS/: to add, that a large stone fell on
three men who were assisting, two of whom are- so,
much bruised that tileirlives are in danger.
Last Saturday morning kihn Allen, a stablelkeeper.
in Lee's Mews, North Audley-street, and formerly
coachman to. his R. H. the, Prince of Wales,,put a
period to his eistence 'by hanging himself in his
stable. A few hours previous to his committing
this rash 'af, he was in a neighbonring,public house,'
where he ,seemed to be, remarkably cheerful; At
- eleven "o'clook a Gentleman called fbr his horse;
which.was in:the stable, the door of which was lock--
ed. Mr. Allen was looked
.for to "open the-door, .
tut, could not be found. :,4-1t length some persons.
looling in, the, key-hole, observed that the key was
on the inside. They called repeatedly withoutleffe6t„
-and at last forced open the door, when, shocking -to.
relate, he- was foturd as above stated, and quite
dead. No cau§e
,could be assigned for his committing
this horrid deed. He has left a widow and .two chil-
dren to lament his. fate. Yesterday an Inquest was
held at the Globe public-house, on the. Body, who.
returned a Verdia---"Luiiacy."

-4Alt7 REPORT: -...,,

'COURT OF CHANCERY, PLY 30.
LADY ORMOND AN!) THE HON. JAMES BUTLER

V. TIIUISIAS HUTCILINSOIc.

Lady Ormond, who resides at the ancient seat of
Castle Comer,-in Ireland, is. the daughter and heiress.
-of the:Earl of Wansford, who died in Odober 17801
the Defendant is a Steward of that family, aged 84 .
years, who has. long lived on one of the estates in
Yorkshire, called Hipswell Lodge. The 'objki of.
the bill before the Court was, to obtain the accounts
Of the stewardship of the Defendant for the last 26
years, and to set aside a reversionary lease he had
procured from the late Earl, commencing in v 794.,
and terminating in 1815.
The: Soeictrort-GENERAL and Mr. RICHARDS,
during the argument, said, that with respect .to the
accounts rcqUired, they thoUght 'there would be hie
difficuley ; the principal dikugsion would refer tO '
an estate of which this Defendant had obtained
,possession, under a lease dated July 15, 1776, and
afterwards extended to the time stated in the bill.—
The Executors appointed by the will of Lord Wans-
ford not chusing to ad, Lady Ormond and her bus-'
band took out joint letters-of administration ; and it
• was not until after the present bill was ed that
the Plaintiffs knew the Defendant claimed to be 'a
lessee upon the Hipswell estate-, and therefore the
bill was amendedas to this particular. Lord Wails;
ford, residing always in Ireland, entrusted every
thing to the .Defendant that respeaed his English
estates. Mr. Hutchinson was acquainted with a per-
son:of the name of Ralph Lodge, who his Lordship
would probably remember was an A'.torney in
Gray's-Inn, where his business was conduCted Un-
der the firm of Lodge and l'Anson, -It was 11.-oPesed
that this person should take all the Yorkshire estate's
on'a lease for 21 years, at the rent of 9001. and it
was represented by the Steward, that improvements
would be made on a large scale, 'so that the value of
the estates would be doubled at the conclusion of
the lease. When the deed was prepared, under the
dire&ion of this negligent SteWarcl, notee syllable
was' recollected, and not a stipulation was made for
,thise improvements;. and, a very few days after the
lease was granted, the Steward himself was secretly
let into a Considerable part of the firm, under an '
assignment from Lodge, sO-that the term fraadulent
would be much. more cerreCtly applied to the De-
fendant than that milder expresssion which had been
employed. Thus easily were 2345 acres disposed
of, of which 1”8 was the quantity enjoyed by the:
Defendant under' the assignment, at about 7s. 6d.
per acre, in the exuberant soil of Richmond, in
Yorkshire. Afterwards Lodge became a bankrupt 4„
and the whole. devolved into the hands of Mr: Hut-
chinson. The Learned' Counsel next adverted to
the &dine of Courts of Equity with resped to
Stewards and persons" in situations of confidence, on
the authority of the cases of Sir George Beaumont
and Boltby, Gibson and Ives, and Lord Chedworth
and Edwards. It was always held, that if a Steward
bargain with his employer, he should proceed ad-
versely with respect to himself, and if he do not at-
tend rigidly' to the interests of a person in that rela-
tion to him, the transaction was void. What ap-
plied to a Steward was equally referable to' an At-
torney with resped to his Client, arid- to all the
,sitmtions of peculiar trust and confidence. ' •
. The ATTORNEY GENERAL and Mr. HcALD
were willing to admit, that the: accounts sought
should be verified before the Master ; but they
thought it a monstrous proposition, . that this, an-
cient servant of the family of ' Wansford should
now be called upon, after a, lapse of inlay years;
to give up any 'advantage he might have enjoyed
under the leases from the late Earl.. His Lord- ,
ship must proceed secundum allegata et probata ; it
was not enough that an allegation shoind be made,—
what was alledged should be distinetly proved, or
the bill/must be dismissed. In 'this case, instead
of any evidence being supplied, 'all the material
particulars were falsified, and therefore, a fortiori,
the bill ought to be dismissed. Was it to oe con-
tended, that no contrail Could be made between a
Lord and his Steward ? Unless the doCtrine could
be carried thus far, it was impossible for the Plain-
tiffs to support their case. With rasped' to Lord
Wansford, the bargain was not only -a just one,
but it was a provident and advantageous One ; so
far from no improvements having been made, a
mansion had-been built, three farms had been con-
struCted, 123 acres had been taken from the waste
and rendered fertile, and upwards of 40001. had
been* laid. out on the estate, for which the Defend-
ant had yet received no adequate remuneration.
None of the three cases which were adverted to
were at 'all applicable to ' the present. That of 1
Gibson and Ives was the case of an old woman,
who, Lord ELDON said, was the proper subjed for
a ptoceeding, de Junatico inqairendo; and who gave
her money for an annuity, and-died the first quar-
ter. In the
course of the argument; the cases, of
Bath and Montage, of Boddam and Reilly; of 1
Lousdale and Church, Vernon and Delate, And!
Heathcete and Pannian were also observed-'upon
and - on every ground:ill/whether supplied by the
principles of natural reason and justice, or v.-he=
. ther derived from the established pradice of the
Court, it was contended, that the conditions and
circumstances of these leases were not the proper 1
subjects of inquiry, and that this was a vexatious
proceeding again'St an aged servant, whose infir-.
Antics ought to have proteded him from ,such .a.
prosecution. It was also said, that 'if Lord Wans-
ford had not entered into the engagement; so lucre-,
the to 'himself, and so advantageouS to his Suc-.
cessors, the coronet With which his temples were
adOrned should be supplanted . by the fool's-cap ;.
.and that the contract, in Which he
.had 'engaged
'with, the Defendant, instead of being weak, dis,
(graceful, and .unproduCtive, might, fitly conduce to
the . consolation of the last moments, of his exist-.
ence, as honourable -to ;himself and beneficial 'to
• his posterity.
The LORD CHANCELLOR, atter 'stating the ge-
neral fads, said, that he. thought the subject was
not at present-ripe for any 'ultimate decision.
sisteody with the rules- of the Court, he was to
Make such a decree, as, without oppression to the
Defendant, would be produetive of new lights upon
the more important parts of the case. With re-
gard to the principle, it was clear and plain, and
• founded upon a variety of cases which he had occa-

sign 'to Consider Witen he First "undertOok tiie du-
ties he now endeavoured to discharge; and he,
'thought these caseS, established a system highly
meritorious and beneficial. Happily for the coun-
try, the judicial, as well as the political, constitu-
tion' was not the fruit of the labours of any ?one
man, dr of any One age ; it had grown up to the
present state of manhood by degrees slow and itn-
prcept.i,ble,•until it had become the subjea of the
adtuiratio9. of mankind ; and it had shewn what
ages following ages in an enlightened Country could
effea, and which the insulated efforts of an indivi-
dual, however comprehensive his mind, and how-
everpoWerfill his energies, could never have pro-
duced. In every country- of the earth, excepting in
this kingdom; Judges Were permitted to proceed ac-
cording to the principle of equity, without being
fettered by the restrictions of law ; in this country,
however; law and equity had been kept to a cer-
aain extent distinct. .Fraud, for instance, was the
subject of law as well as equity; and if a Court of
Law should. discover fraud, it would deal with it to
a certain .extent as it would be treated in a Court
of Equity ; but the former had not precisely the
same power--a Court of Law could not order the
.deeds in which that fraud was discovered to be de-
livered up'; it could only prevent their operation.—
But there were some classes of cases which a Court
of Law could not touch, but with respect to which
a Court of Equity exercised an extensive. jurisclic-
tioak •was permitted, to hold a sort of guardian-
ship over mankind, so that. when advantage was
taken Of .confidential situations, it afforded protec-
tion to the aggrieved parties ; and this was the prin-
ciple on which Lord ROSSLY NI, decided in the case of
Sir: George Beaumont and Boltby, which had been
so pi-Opel-4y applied to the circumstances of the pre-
sent case: With regard to the rules of evidence,
this Court must act in a way that, instead of de-
feating the- purposes of substantial justice, would
render its interposition a blessing to mankind—it
must surround mankind with benefits and securities
which he could not otherwise attain. What was the
principle applied here ? When a Bill of Discovery ,
was. filed, it was the course to read the whole of the
answer. ; but when a party was called upon as a
witness against himself (which could- not be done
at law), it was clear that the Defendant ought not,
to read the parts of his own answer not admitted by,
the Plaintiff as evidence in his own favour ; and
'these principles of .evidence had been properly re- '1
.spe6ted in the present instance. His Lordship pro-
ceeded•tc? apply these general observations to the
case before the Court. He stated the several grounds
of suspicion furnished by the condu& of the De-
fendant the lease to Lodge, the immediate as-
signment of that lease to Mr. Hutchinson, -the re-
versionary lease, yet unexpired, the absence Of Lord
Wansford,-,the confidential situation of the Defend-
ant, the negleCt in surrendering accounts, and the
caution with which the charges in this bill Were re-
pelled, all furnished matter of comment ; and it
was direEted that the.-Master should enquire what
the lands in question were worth when Mr. Ralph
'Lodge became the tenant ; what were the term's
and covenants of the lease under which he became
lessee ; and what were the improvements made 'by
Lodge, or his assignee, and by the Defendant ? And
the, blaster was also to be at liberty to state any
Matter specially that might appear to.him to be use-
ful 'Lot the information of the Colima'

After some interlocutory observations between the
SOLICITOR-GENERAL and Mr. limn Alms for the
Plaintiffs, anti the ATTORNEY-GENERAL kind 'Mr.
HiALD for the Defendant, it was turther or.k'red,
that the Master should be at liberty to receive-the
answer of the Defendant As evidence, if, under all
the circumstances of the case, he should . see it to
do so. •

THURSDAY, JULY 31.

EX-PARTS HENRY CRAI>MIER, ESQ.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL, on the joint affidavit
of J. P..Mouncey, Eiq. and Mr. John Fuller, yes-
terday moved this Court for the produaioneof the
above GeQtleman, who had been surreptitiously re-
-thoved'from the place of his residence at Quinton-
Hall, in the county of Essex, on Wednesday. last,
by Margaret' Winter, the wife of James Winter.
The circumstances were thus detailed :

A Writ de Lunatic° Inquirendo Was, issued by the
'LORD CHANCELLOR on the 22d inst. directed to the ,
Sheriff of the County of Essex, by whom a Jury of
the County was summoned to inquire whether the
said Henry Cranmer was of sound mind, so as to be
fit for the' management of himself, his manors;
• lands, tenements, and hereditament ; *and upon the
• produ&ion and examination of the said Henry Cran-
rner, on Tuesday last, it was found by the said Jury
that he was of unsound mind, and incapable of the
management of himself, his manors, messtlages,
lands, tenements, and hereditaments. •
Mr. Cranmer is a Gentleman of large property,
and'for several months past has been under the
`Management and controul of Margaret Winter (thr-
merly the wife, of James , Graygoose, since dead,
:who, was a, footman to Mr. Cranmer) and James
Winter, her present husband.. It was., stated that
James Winter, in a full suit of reginientals, with an
iron trundheon under his arm, and a brace of pistols
in his gifdle, produCed the unfortunate Gentleman
before an Essex Jury, and that he refused to disarm
himself although particularly requested to do
That after the' verdi& of the Jury had been.pro-
flounced, he,was committed to Chelmsford gaol, un-
der a warrant of the Magistrate, for, an assault on
one of the witnesses. Mr. Cranmer, after the, ver-
di&, returned to Quinton
.Hall with Margaret Win=
ter, who, on the morning of Wednesday. last, Con-
trived to get him on horseback, but it:stead of taking
him, on his usual ride, got him into the back lanes,
put him into a post-chaise, and took him to London;
in defiance to an order of Court, to deliver him into
the hands of the Committee appointed far_ thpro-
te4ion of his person.
On these grounds the LORD CHANCELLOR was
applied to for his immediate interference; and foram
order to compel the immediate production of Mr.
Cranmer, by the said Margaret Winter.
His LOrciship granted tlie.order instantly-, adding,
that if Mr. Cranrner was trot brought into Court to-
morrow (this day) by the.said Margaret Winter, or
any person into whose custody she mays,have placed
him, that be should, xithout hesitation, order an'at-
tachment to issue against the said Margaret ,Winter,

23d all other pencils •ho should assume stly
ti:oul over Mr: Cranmer.

SUMMER ASSIZES.