The Sun.
London, England, 1825-11-25 00:00:00

WARD O 1 TIIE COURT.

Just at the rising of the Court, lifr:ltOOTs stated that a mo-
tion had yesterday been made, relative to a Ward of the Court,
and a young gentleman, who had been paying his addresses to
her. He had been retained on the part of i Ir. Wells, but
through a mistake had unfortunately been absent, having un-
derstood that the motion was to have been made in the other
Court. Perhaps his Lordship, under these circumstances, would
allow him to-morrow moving to address a few words on behalf
of the young gentleman against whom the injunction had been
granted. He promised not to occupy more than five minutes
of his Lordship's time.—The LORD CHANCELLOR intimated
his assent, and left the Court.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Nov. 24.
ST. 13F.F.'S CHARITY.
ATTORNEY-GENERAT, V. PEMBROKE HALL.

This •;:taS-11 information filed by the Attorney-General
against the Masters and Fellows of Pembroke Hall, Cam-
bridge, to set aside a lease of certain lands in the vicinity of
Croydon, granted to the parties for the erection and mainte-
nance of a Fellowship and three Scholarships in the College.
The Sor.actToit-GENERAL, with whom was Mr. PEM-
BERTON, appeared on behalf of the Attorney-General ; Mr.
:HOItNE and Mr. SIMPRINSON were for the defendants.
The facts were briefly these :—ln 1585, Grindall (Archbishop
,of Canterbury) made an endownient of 501. per annum for pious
purposes, as follows :-201. for founding one fellowship and two
scholarships in Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, and 251. to the cha-
rity school of St. Bee's. Of this latter bequest the schoolmas-
ter was to receive,2o/. a year, the usher 3/. 6s. Bd., the receiver
1/., and 13s. 4d. was allotted for an annual dinner. The
remaining 51. per annum. was to be allowed to accumulate for
the endowment of other scholarships in Pembroke Ball and
Queen's College, Oxford. Shortly after, the Archbishop or
his representatives vested a part of the fund in the purchase of
au estate, called Palmer's-fields, Bear Croydon. The estimated

Value of these lands at the time was 241. annually ; and within'
a few years the Governors of St. Bee's charity leased them to a
servant of the Bishop's executor for a term of 99 years at that
rent. At this time a saving of 541. had been made out of the
reserved fund, for which the Government purchased an addi-
tional 41. per annum, making the gross revenue of the charities
on that endowment 541. yearly. Of this sum Pembroke Hall
continued to receive 201. and 41. for an additional scholarship.
Things remained in this state ti 111606, when the Governors of
the charity, conceiving the St. Bee's Fellow and Scholars at
Pembroke College were not so well treated as the other Fel.
lows and Scholars of that establishment, agreed to make a
conveyance of Palmer's-fields for 999 years, and also to give
2001. additional, on the condition that the St. Bee's Scholars
and Fellows should in future enjoy the same profits and
advantages out of the general revenues of the College
as the other Fellows and Scholar's of Pembroke Hall.—
The College acceded to these terms, and the Governors
granted a lease for 1,000 years, and as much longer as the
world should endure, of the property in question, the lease to
be renewable on payment of the fine of a red rose. From that
date down to the present time the College remained in posses-
sion of the estate, which in the interval so increased in value as
to be worth 5001. per annum ; while the lands retained by the
Governors of the school, originally worth 30/. yearly, now only
amounted to 1301.
The object of the information was to avoid this bargain, and
procure a new division of the property, which it was proposed
to mix up in common, and allow the College 24, and the school
30 parts of the gross amount.
The SoLicuron-GENERAL argued that a fresh division of
the property should take place, and that the College was, in
strictness, only entitled to 241. per annum, according to the
original will of the founder. The excess of the rental of Pal-
mer's-fields should be in part appropriated to the erection of
new Fellowships and Scholarships, and the remainder belonged
to the St. Bee's Charity.
.31r. PEMBERTom followed on the same side.
HORNE was heard contra.
The VICE-CHANCELLOR expressed his opinion that the
lease of 1606 was to be considered in the light of a perpetual
alienation of the lands in question. It did not appear to him
that at this distance of time it was the business of a Court of
Equity to disturb an arrangement originally fair in its nature,
and which had been acted upon by both parties for more than
200 years.
The information was accordingly dismissed.
At the suggestion of the Counsel for the information, his Ho-
nour directed " a declaration that the Fellow and Scholars of
Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, on Archbishop Grindall's founda-
tion, were entitled to the same privileges and emoluments as
the other Fellows and Scholars of the establishment, and a di-
rection that they be so placed with regard to these advantages."

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 24.

CRIMINAL INFORMATION.-MORNING CHRONICLE.

THE RING V. CLEMENT.
Mr. SCARLET T moved for a rule calling on Mr. William
Innel Clement, sole proprietor of the Morning Chronicle, to
show cause why a criminal information should not be exhibited
against him. He made this application at the instance of Mr.
H ullett, a gentleman who was a member of a most respectable
commercial firm in Throgmorton-street, and who had been
Consul (as we understood the Learned Counsel, who was almost
inaudible in some parts of his statement) at Buenos Ayres. In
the year 1322 he had contracted with the Government of Chili
to raise a loan for them of one million sterling. This loan was
to be repaid by the issue of ten. thousand bonds of 100/. each,
secured by a mortgage on the estates of Chili deposited in
bankers' hands. The money was raised, and, with the excep-
tion of the commission agreed on, was paid over to the agents of
the Chilian Government, in strict conformity with the orders
given. The accounts sent in were approved ; they were regu-
larly settled ; and a formal and unqualified confirmation of
all the acts had been received from the proper authorities.—
Throughout the whole of these transactions Mr. Hullett had
nothing to reproach himself with ; he had been regularly au-
thorized, and had honourably fulfilled his trust. The pretext
for the libel, of which he now complained, was to be found in
a report professing to give an account of a speech delivered
by the Secretary of State for the Foreign Department,
some time in the last Session, when the propriety of
recognizing Consuls from the New South American
States became the subject of discussion. On that occasion,
Mr. Canning was reported to have said that he could not re-
ceive a communication as official, through a person who turned
out to be a mere commercial agent—a remark the justice of
which would be universally admitted, but which in no way ap-
plied to Mr. Ilullet, who had never profeSsed to be other than
he was. Upon the extract of this speech a correspondent of the
Morning Chronicle had founded observations imputing to Mr.
Hullet that he had enriched himself out of the transaction im-
properly, and that his whole conduct in respect to it was dis-
honourable and unjust. The Learned Counsel proceeded to
read a copy of the article complained of (the date of which he
did not mention) ; but before he had concluded,
Mr. Justice BA YLEY asked if all the imputations were denied?
Mr. SCARLET T replied, that all were denied in the most
positive terms.
Mr. Justice BAYLEY said the Learned Counsel had stated
enough to entitle him to a rule to show cause.