The Sun.
London, England, 1808-01-25 00:00:00

LAW REPORT.

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COURT OF Kl!'!C's BENCH,' It.N. 23:
This hoiftg the fiat clay of Term, the Courts' were
opehed as usual httle bushiess was trlinsatted.,

The AwaaN EY-GENERAL moved, that an Attor-
neY', a Mr. - H- (whose name we forbear
to mention at full), should answer the matters of an 1
affidavit, and sheik cause, why a• judgment entered
up should not be set aside. It appeared, he said,
from the lidavit which he had, that the Attorney
had Made Ilse of his professional situation to,a6t with
great oppression. A poor man, of the name of
Janes, was indebted to a Mrs. Catherine Morgan, in
the year 1799, in the sum of -il. 19s, 6d. which he
agreed to pay at the-rate of 25. fid. per week. lite
Attemerissued et process against him, and got the,
man to give a cognovit, upon which judgwent was
entered uf),,,with costs to the amount of four gui=
neas. Sometime afterwards he to;c1 Jones, that un-'
less he could raise six guineas execution must im-
mediately go. The Attorney upon this received
the six guineas; and Jones says, that in 1800, he at-
tended a Cause as a Witness in Dorsetshire, and
bad a claini for his attendance as a Witness, which
the Attornies in the cause resisted. He gave an
assignment of this money to Mr. H. and upon that
he received nearly 181. Four years and a half after-
wards he called upon Jones for more money, whet
he executed a Warrant of Attorney to H. who then
threatened that execution should issue unless be
would pay two guineas per month, whreh be has
paid, and sotnetimes three guineas, as he has been
able, so as to settle the Warrant of Attorney. The
original cognovit was for 121. debt and costs. inc,"Sc
he applied to Mrs. .Morgan, " in whose name the
proceedings were stated to be, to know if she au-
thorised them, when she said that she had never
. authorised H. to proceed. It =sone he called on
her and asked whether this man and two others
were not indebted to her, and-said it would be easy
to get the money all at once instead of by instal-
ments, and was herself afterwards surprised by, a
demand 'on her for t el. costs, aid She purchased her
liberty by giving him three or four pounds. The
curiosity of the parties were excited by saying, .that.
it was done under a meni pretence of authority, and
the roll was searched, where the
,judgMent was,
entered up, when it appeared that. pitignient was
entered up against Jones, at the suit of ti. himself,
with whom, Jones had no dealings: How far,-said
the ATTORNEY-GP.N4RAL, such a St3tetiielli can be
true, I can have.no means of ascertaining. I can
only conje6tUre the probability, of it from the par-
ticularity /with which the fatas are detailed in nay
ittfidavit. The person who has inatrutted me is a
ME. Painter,

Lord ELLENBOROUthI, C. J. said, there could be
no- doubt or the Attorney. General taking all lie
could ask, if the taus were really as they were
6tilted to him. /The only way of avoiding the rule
would be by skewing that they had not taken place.
Rule to chew cause granted..

FRENCH AND OTHERS, ASSIGNIiES OF RILL,
V, PATTEN.
Mr. PA KKR moved fora Rule to set aside the non-
suit, and'enter a verdia for the
The Defendant had signed a policy or insurance
for ship and outfit on a South, Sea voyage, and-after
the ship sailed, the parties altered the policy to ship
arid goods. This was -held void -under the Stamp
Acts, and a new action was brought as upon the ori-
ginal insurance. When the policy ,was produced,
there'appeared in it, this alteration, and Lord Ep.RN -
HOROUGH said, it was impossible to read. the policy
in its original state. He therei;ere nOn=suited tho
Plaintiff; but leaVe, was given, to move the Court.
Mr. Rutin now obtained a Rule to chew cause.

COURT OF CHANCERY.

rvacELL v. MACNAMARA.

!, Saturday; the Loaf) CHANCELLOR, on recess,
'dering this case, gave judgment on the two excel).
tions, as to thesums of 20001. and 14,0001, spoken
to -by his Lotdsbip on a forther day. His I.kird•
ship, on these two points, confirmed in effea his
former judgment ; referring the exception as to. the
:$OOOl. bacK to the Master, anctagreeing in opinion
with the late Lord Chancellor and the ALtster of
the Rolls, that the exception as to the 14,0001.104 n
by' Mr. Macnantara to the Master's Report, Fought
to be allowed. ' On this latter point, however, he
was clearly of opinion, that unless the Plaintiff
' was to be allowed, every reasonable article ot ii s,

charge nhich she could idcluce, justice would not b,
(Wm: to her.

Mr. Macnamara assured his ,Lordship that he
bad never viewcd the matter in a different light from
that in which his Lordship now regarded it. He
"had been all atong willing to submit every matter iu
dispute to arbitration, and besides the innuenie but-'
lay cif - costs in the present suit, he as satisfied it
would ultimately appear that he was creditor on the
einate to the amount of 14,0n01.

The Lokn CtrAtl;cELLott felt himself called on
lo declare, that, according to his conception of
the matter, the costs incurred in this suit were to
be attributed to the want of information as to their
rights, under which the Misses Purcell laboured,
at the period of eNecuting the deed in 1776, which
hip, Lordship's decrm declartd would not bu sus-
tained.