The Sun.
London, England, 1822-01-15 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING, &c.

DEA r., JAN. 15.—Wind N.N.W.—The wind has been well
to the northward to-day, but blowing strong with the ebb tide;
has prevected the outward getting their anchors; several small
vessels in the Downs drove, and let go their second anchors.
One brig lost both anchors, and proceeded for Dover. The rest
.of the vessels ride all well. Arrived and remain the Grand
SaChtl.m, M'oodward, from the South Seas; and /Wary Ann and
habella, Stephenson, from Hull for Rio Janeiro. The Grand
Sachem left at Timor the Atalanta, with f4/0 barrels of oil;
the Caster, with 1400 ditto : And the Eliza Ann. Came down
:roar the River and remain the Swallow, Ross, for Bombay.
SIIEERNESS, JAN. Is.—Arrived the New Albion, Critehall
from London for Trieste, with loss of bowsprit. ,
Lrvs:nroor., JAN. 14.—Arrived the James and Agnes,
Shaw. irons Illiramichi ; sailed sth December ;—.6 or 7 vessels
were lest near Miralnichi (names unknown). On 10th Jan.,
in lat. 48. 49. long. 8. snoke the American ship Iris, from Fal-
mouth for llavannah, who supplied the James and Agnes with
pro i 'ions.

PORTSMOUTH. JAN. 15.—Wind N.—Arrived Vie Princess
Mary, Clatk, from the Downs for the South Seas; Entleavoci-,
Musalcman, from ditto for Jamaica; and the• Solon, Wachlin,
from Uleaborg,.. Sailed the LiVely, Richie, for Ancona.
vatou Tit, JAN 14.—Wind N.— Arrived the William
and Athelia, Jones, from St. John's, N. B. in 35 days; on
6th inst., in lat. 49. 27. long. 7. fell in with the brig Ellen, of
Dartmouth, from Newfoundland for Liverpool, leaky, and is
such a distressed state, that the master and passengers would-
have abandoned 'her, had not the sea been running so high so
as to preclude the possibility of Captain Jones rendering therm
any assistance.

Jam. 15.—Arrival tl.e Johanna Elizabeth' Ro.lief4,
from Antwerp, leaky in her upper works.
It A MSG AT E, .1A . l 5 —Arrivcd the Catherine, Peyton, from
.Lone.on for Belfast ; and Union, How, from Exeter for Lon-
don, the former having slipped one, and the latter two chain
cables. -

Al A aGAT E JAN. 15.—The sloop Nelly, Short, from Bridge-
water for London, broke her anchor in the five fathom chantd,
and in running for the Harbour drove op in the Bay, and re-
ceived considerable damage; she has been got in here very
leaky. The Sisters, Carter, from the South Seas, is in the
NOrth Channel, and has been sent .on shore for an anchor nal
• ale. •

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A -SINGULAR ODSTACLE.-1, isl a rpma k !MP
circumstance, that the portrait of Henry VIII. was the means
of preventing a commercial trek t; between the Portu;nese a.:3.the King of Borneo. A Portuguese vessel having touched at.
that place, opened a trade there with great success. The King
received te strangers with special favour, and they displayed
befOre him the presents with which they were prepared. Among
other things was the marriage of Henry VIII. and Catherine
tepresented in tapestry. When the King of Borneo saw the
bluff figure of Henry as large as life, he bade the Portuguese
peek up their presents, take them on board, and leave his don. i
lions mimeliately. He knew, he said, what they Fraught him
those figures for ; that ugly man was to come out in the night,
cut off his head, and take possession of his dominions. There
was no persuading him out of his imagination, and the Porm-
guese were compelled to abandon a commercial spectate:on
which was so auspiciously commenced.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—A dreadful accident
happened on Saturday morning at an early hour. Samuel
Coppock, the watchman for the Low-pavement, and Bridle-
smith.p,ate, climbed upon the iron palisades to get a light
from the gas lamp, near to Mr. Allsopp's, on the Low -
pavement, as he had been accustomed to do. The night was
very frosty, and the palisades, in consequence, were so slip-
pery, that his foot slipped, and he fell upon the iron spikes,
which ran into his bowels. With some exertion he contriv-
ed to extricate himself from his dreadful situation, and
had just strength to spring his rattle, when he fainted from
loss of blood, which flowed p7enteously orn his wounds !
The next watchman come to his aid, and carried him home.
' Assistance was immediately procured, Lut very great fears were
entertained for his life, and it was not until yesterday morning
that he was pronounced out of danger.—(Nottingham Review.)
In the services, pers‘Nerance, and affectionate attachm nt
of the clog, we have daily proofs of his sagacity ; but the
following, communicated to us by a respectable Correspon-
dent, furnishes_, we believe, a very uncommon trait in the
character of the cat :—On the Bth of November, Samuel
Sparks, servant to Mr. John Cox, of Peddington, in the
parish of Berkeley, in this County, brought a fine large
tabby cat in a waggon from Mr. Isaac Hillier's lieu ;e, at New-
market (a distat.ce of 15 miles), tied sip in a bag, as a present
to Mr. Cox, who kept her three days in his house, when she
made her escape. and actually returned to her native home tit;.:
day six weeks, viler in much better condition than when she ief.:
it.—(Gloucester Herald.)
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During Monday night and the early part of
yesterday morning, the wind was so very high
that considerable damage was done on the River
'charms, by some barges breaking from their
moorings, one of which, running foul of the•red-
der of a West country barge at Bank-side, car.
ried it away. In the new buildings erecting in
Stepney fields, the gale end,of one of the houses
was blown down ; and, on the Deptford-road,
an elm' tree was torn up by the roots ; fortunately
no person was hurt.
ExPLostoN FROM GAS.—A remarkable occur-
rence took place a short time ago at the Oldfield
Colliery, near Fenton Park, in this county ; hap-
pening in the night of Sunday, none of the men
were ,at work, nor any person near the place,
excepting a young man attending the engine to
work the pump, who at the time had laid down
aside the boiler, and was fallen asleep : when about
two o'clock in the morning, a tremendous explo-
sion of the hydrogen gas took place in the pit
underneath, which agitated the earth to the sur-
face to such a degree as to cause the man to roll
over, and the concussion was so great that it
shook the inhabitants in their beds to sorne dis-
tance, creating in them much alarm, and .a fear
that their habitations would fall on their heads.
It was singularly providential that this explosion
took place on the night above•mentioned,.for had
it happened on any other, most likely the lives
of many of the poor colliers would have fallen a
sacrifice.—(Staffordshire Advertiser.)

DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY.-Between nine
and ten o'clock on Monday night, Mr. PamAttu
HORSEFALL, of Islington-green, passing through
Cow-cross on his way home, was accosted by a
man who pleaded great distress, and solicited his
charity to provide his family with some food, for
want of which they were starving. Mr. H—gavt-t
the applicant a shilling. Mr. H. had not pro-
ceeded far before he was overtaken by four fel-
lows, one of whom (the villain who had beets
lieved by Mr. H.) seized him round the waist,
another placed his hands over his mouth to pre-
vent his calling out, whilst their confederates
endeavoured to rifle his pockets, but meeting
with a spirited resistance they waived this at-
tempt, and seized hold of the chain of his watch,
which was secured by a steel guard. The chain
broke, and the robbers fled with two gold seals,
a key, and a wedding ring. Mr. H. pursued
them for some distance, calling out." Stop thief !"
but the villains succeeded in effecting their escape.

Thursday ;n the high Court of Justiciary,
John Patterson Lawson was tried for a robb ry
committed in the Edinburgh Police-office.
found guilty, the Lord-Advocate sentenced him
to fourteen years' transportation ; on which the
prisoner said, " God bless you, my Lord, that is
just what I wanted."

CORN EXCHANGE, JAW. 19.
We have not had many fresh Arrivals in since Monday of fine
duality ; the best samples of Wheat fully maiatain Monday's
prices ; the same of fine Barley. bathe inferior very dull sale ;
Peas and Bez.ns full as dear as on Monday ; the supply
.of Oats
rather lArge, but the price not so good as on Monday, only for
a few picked samples, and but little doing in that trade to-day.
Should this bright weather continue, it will improve- the omit.
nary qu slities of Wheat and other Grain..
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i si E LON DON ,IO,.;It.'.N2iLS.

H .EXTRACTS FROM Tin.: mortsiN“ PAPERS,.
• r. January 16, 18'2'2.

t [THE TIMES.]
Oar .readers could hardly fail to be moved by
a keen and somewhat anxious interest,- on ever
So alight. a perusal of the debate in the French
Charnber. of Deputies on Friday last; which
reached us by express in time for our yesterday's
publication. The striking abuse of the powers
of the Censorship (detailed by. M.Chauvelin),on
the part of a *Ministry which had just mounted
into office through their declared abhorrence of
sack a barbarous engine, would be a strong ar-
gument of their unfitness to continue there, on
the ground both of incapacity and of bad faith.
But what gave its characteristic spirit to the dis-
cussion was, the undisguised avowal of the two
antagonist principles of Government, by parties
-which had never before professed them, at least
under 'circumstances in which the declaration
could be deemed so important ;—we mean that
which ascribes complete supremacy to some
known and fundamental law, and that which
uzintains a fits divinzon. which precedes all law,
and (as was more than hinted by M. Nlarcellns)
at the will of the Sovereign recalls and super-
sedes it, even when established. There are, of
course, indiscreet and mischievous men to be
found in all political parties ; and if the Minis-
ters who were present when such doctrines were
broached by Deputies reputed to be of their
own particular colour, had no consciousness that
harm:could. result from the propagation of them,
tire silence of Messrs. Villele, &c. can be the
more- easily :accounted for. If, moreover, it
should be the-design of the existing Administra-
-.`:,ott to goVern France on such principles, all we
can say is, that the experiment seems to the full
as doubtful as the success of it would be de-
plorable, considered in relation 'to the welfare
and happiness of mankind.

• [MORNING POST.I
• The moment approaches which may be consi.
dared as the. decisive crisis of the destinies o
Vrance. The Ultras now begin to enter upon
the exercise of that power, which has remained
dormant in their hands ever since the co-opera-
t7iyn of the Liberals procured it for them; and on
the nature of their acts will depend, not only
'tie. stability of their administration, but accord-
ing' toall appearances the existence of the Bourbon
Throne. If they respect the Charter, and give
it life and activity--.-if they do not disturb the
settlement of national property, or seek to abo-
lish the good which the Revolution has produced
-7-if they do not mistake exploded superstitions
for true Christian faith, but confirm that liberal
toleration in religions matters, which distinguish-
ed even the days of imperial despotism, they
will reconcile France to their rule, and will'ex-
tinguish those fears and passions which are now
crtce more rising in all their original heat, and
which an opposite conduct would blow into a
wide spread and destructive blaze. The French
Papers to the 13th inst. contain a long debate of
the Chatriber of Deputies on a petition relative to
the\regulation of the Press. The prayer of the peti-
tion-Was to subject all abuses of the Press to the
correctional tribunals, and not to a trial by Jury,
a proposition which agrees with-one of the provi-
sions of the new Project of Law which the Minis-
ters have presented to the Chamber on this subject.
It can scarcely be doubted that the petition
in, question was reported thus early, chiefly for
-the purpose of trying the pulse of the Chamber,
Wore the intended law should come under dis-
cussion: In this view we read the debate with
some interest ; but it was carried on in such a
violent manner, so many principles wide of the
ci.iscussion were laid ,down, so many points of
a;;gry contention were introduced, that we derive
from it little information as to the state of public
feeling with respect to the real matter in dispute.
The debate wandered at first into a -series of
complaints against the Censorship, as it has been
eteeCised under the new Ministry. The institu-
fen is of itself so inconsistent with every idea of
rational liberty, that it would be impossible to'
conduct it in a manner which should satisfy the
Ovocates of free discussion. It would certainly
appear that the Censors have recently redoubled
.t•eir activity, and that from an apprehension,
pzrhaps, of ()Wending their new masters, they
have, in some instances, exceeded the bounds of
necessary restriction. An article of discussion
ea the Project of Law relative to the Police of
the Journals, was submitted to the Commission
by the Editor of the Quotidienne. It combated
the proposed law in a temperate manner, and
se-,NeSted, that instead of suppressing a Journal
altogether, in case of its condemnation by the
judicial tribunal, it should be subjected to the
jurisdiction of the/ Censorship for a longer
or shorter period. The article was struck out
by the Commission ; the Editor, however, pub-
-1 shed it in defiance of their mandate, and the
ivrinisters have, it is said since, not only disavowed
the act of the Censors, but even adopted the re-
c4;mmendation contained in 'the prohibited article.
If it be true that thj; modification is about to he
fitade in the new UV': it will certainly strip it of
one of its most objectionable provisions. The
heict topic of debate was upon a question which
arose from an assertion made by M. B. Constant.
The assertion of this opponent of Government
:Stag, tha't the King, as-well as the Legislature,
derived 'all their - powers from the .Charter.—
TO this it. 'was answered, that the Charter
emanated from the King, 'that he limited by
its Qgciations his power, which was before
absolute, that he reigned by it, but not from
it. The Legislature emanated from the Char-
ter, hut the Charter itself from the Sovereign.—
'Nothing can be more detrimental to the cause of
constitutional freedom than this propensity to
-'ring its, first elements into question upon every
occasion. Few things are more requisite
'to the tranquillity of Frenchmen, than • the un-
-disturbed enjoyment of the liberty which they
'ossess, withoutattempting 'to found it on prin-
ciples which are not essential to its support, and
"have nothing whatever to do With the history of
their Charter. .To*wards the conclusion .of

th:s stormy sitting, the Ministf‘c of Finance an-
nounced that the Government were desirous of
bringing the army as near as possible to the com-
plement fixed by the law f3r a state of peace,
and had in consequence determined to call into
active service, the 18,000 men who remained 'out
of the levy of 1819, and the 35,000 out of that of

1820, which disposition would make an increase
of 38,000 infantry above the number for which
a provision had been proposed by the late Mi-
nisters in their bndge,t for 1822. The additional
expence occasioned by this augmentation of the
French army was estimated at 12 millions of
francs, but the Minister informed the Chamber
that if they would vote this supplementary grant,
there would be no occasion to create a new impost
to meet the charge, as be had ascertained that
the produce of the existing taxes would be amply
sufficient.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
Few people in this country are aware of the ex-
tent to which reduction may be carried in our
Colonies. Immense sums are squandered in all
of them, but more particularly in .those.in which
the power of the Crown is yncontrouled without
the smallest necessity, and without benefitting
either the In'habitants of -the Colonies, or Eng-
land. Indeed this , extravagant expenditure, so
far from benefitting the Inhabitants, is only a
source of additional misery to them,being employed
in controuling their industry, and retaining, them
in a state of poverty, and degradation. Colo-
nies which yielded net revenues before they came
into our hands, though now higher taxed than
ever, defray a very inconsiderable part of their
oft expenditure, and thus become a heavy bur-
den on this country.—Every Governor
,of an
English Colony- knows that, do what he will, he
has nothing to dread from inquiry. The inha-
bitants of the Colonies again know that it- is in
vain for them to complain, for their complaints
will, in all cases, be disregarded. Indeed, it is
impossible for Lord Bathurst and his Deputy, if
they were ever so well disposed, to do justice to
those placed under their care. However, they
do not attempt it. Every thing is left to the
discretion of the Governor, who is as uncontroul-
ed within his territory- as a Turkish Bashaw
is within his.—The evil incident to this state
of things is greatly heightened by the circum-
stance that the Governors are taken from among
a class of men, from their education and habits,
of all others the worst qualified for being
placed at the head of a country. We have every
respect for a military profession, but would never
wish to see any of its members employed in any
other than a military capacity. The implicit de-
ference and the rigorous obedience to which they
are accustomed, their impatience under opposi-
tion, their want of acquaintance with the ordinary
business and habits of civil life, renderi in almost
every instance, their sway oppressive and tyran-1
nicai in the last degree.—We have obtained some
valuable information from an Eastern Corre-
spondent of the highest respectability, authen-
ticated by documents, respecting the system
pursued in the lonian Islands since they came
into our possession, which serve admirably to
illustrate the above observations. The gross
, ignorance and stupidity which have been d s-
played by our Authorities in these Islands, are
indeed hardly credible. Would it be believed
that in the 19th century, any European Oovern-
ment could think of deprivingAindividuals of 'the
profits of all commercial speculations when ex-
ceeding 15 per cent. on paying to the trader that
sum, and consequently subjecting every man's
affairs to its inspection ? Would it be believed,
that in islands in the immediate neighbourhood
of most fertile grain countries, a monopoly of
the trade of grain should be' claimed by the
, Government, on the pretext of frustrating the
combinations of corn merchants ? The conse-
quence was what any one might have expected,
that in. the Island where Government took the
trade of corn into its own hands, the price of
bread was 30 per cent dearer than in any of the
others.—ln the mean time, the people are ruined
by the weight of their burdens, which, after all,
go but a small way towards defraying the ex-
pence of the extravagant establishments kept up
for the sake of the satellites and creatures of
power, and the instruments deemed necessary
for the coercion of a people governed on a prin-
ciple of hostility to their interests, contempt for
their feelings, and disregard of their inclinations.

. .
NEW TIMES.]
Hitherto the parties in the French Chamber of
Deputies have had nothing but mere skirmishing;
but this was rather.sharp on Friday last. Still
our observation remains unimpeached, that the
opposition to the New Ministry is conducted ex-
clusively by the left side, that is to say, by the
men who have ever stuck to the Revolution and
renounced the Bourbons. The subject of the de-
bate on Friday is less to be considered than the
doctrines that were put forth by the contending
parties, and the characters of the individuals by
whom those doctrines were maintained. The
question was whether a petition recommend-
ing that the question of Libel or not Libel should
be determined by Judges, and not by Juries
as they now exist in France, should be rejected
with a mark of reprobation, or transmitted in the
usual way to the Committee on the Law of the
Press. Upon this question we should perhaps be
inclined to take part against the petitioner : at
the same time we must remember that this was
the practical: law
,Of England. ,less than SO years
ago ;- that the Juries of France ay. nominated
by the Prefects, who are officers of Government,
while the Judges are irremovable ; and that .
Juries, which have never been properly adopted
into French Jurisprudence, havF hitherto been
confined to the trial of crimes, exclusive of mis-
demeanours, in which latter class libel is to be
ranked. Still the petitioner may have been
wrong in his views ; but his error sinks to no-
thing in comparison with the doctrines openly
and audaciously maintained by the Orators
of the left side. It is very satisfactory to
observe that among those Orators are to be
found none but names strictly revolutionary.
Penjamin Constant, a Swiss, who sits there
in defiance of the Charter, and who sue=
cessively panegyrised Barras and -Buonaparte
, whem they were in power—General Foy, the

.avowed advocate of thetr;colo• banner of ruhel-
lion and wassacre,,eCitien (otherwise Marquis
-De-chauvelin) who in 1793 had
,the honour to
announce to,the• English nation the regicide of
Louis: XVI.—M. de- Corcelles, the Chief of a
band of rebels in the Hundred Days—M. Bi-gnon
who, on the part of Fouche'and Carrot, nego-
ciated the surrender of Paris after the battle
of Waterloo-.—Messrs Lame h, Etienne, Lafitte,
&c. &c. too well known in the annals of rebellion
and revolution, :c.

peal.

• [MORNING HERALD.]
A discussion,- at once interestina and curious,
las taken .place,in the French Chaini)er of Depu-

ties. The national representation presents a new
aspect. The central Party, or that of the late
Ministers, seems to have vanished. The Chain-
her is resolved into the two great parties, called

Liberal and 'Ultra ; and these have commenced
the Parliamentary campaign . with a tempestuous
debate upon a subject the most calculated to call
forth zeal and animosity—the freedom of the
Press. The. uncourteous and abrupt fragments
of sentences with which the Members apostro-
phize each other and address the President, are
somewhat in discord with their national reputation
for politeness—even with every allowance for their
vehemence of temperament,. and the violence of
their party and personal resentment.. This dis-
cussion turned upon a petition from an indivi-
dual recommending that, the trial of libels should
be taken out of the competence of Juries, and
brought within the jurisdiction of Judges. There
is a rare simplicity in. the principal reason as-
signed by the petitioner, viz. his having observed
that Juries, in cases of libel, rarely brought in a
verdict in conformity with the opinion of the
" Public Ministry "—that is to say, the law
officerS of the Crown! The Chairman of the Com-
mission of Petitions recommended the petition to
the consideration of the Commission-on the new law
for regulating.the Press. Gen. Foy, as organ of the
Liberals, moved the order of the day--that is,
its rejection, on the ground•that it petitioned for
a violation of the Charter. Then followed a
stormy discussion, frequently. interrupted by
contradictions, murmurs, sneers, every variety of
personality, abrupt digressions into the founda-
tions of Government, the nature of legitimacy,
and another abstraCt point of rather more deli-
cacy, upon which the two parties seem to differ
toto ccrio—viz. whethersthe King rules the Charter,
or the Charter rules the King. •In the course
of the disCusSion, some allusion was
.made to
two rival publications, called the Minerve and
Conserrateur, which Nvere respectively defended
with a somewhat comic sensibility of authorship
by MM. Benjamin Constant and Castelbajac.—
The result of the debate was, that the petition
was referred for the. consideration of the Com-
mission by a small Ministerial majority.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The Paris Papers of Saturday last have arrived
at our office. A debate took place in the Chamber
of Deputies on Friday upon the Petition of a per-
son named Spy, who suggested to the Chamber
the expediency of subjecting offences of the
Press to the decision of the Sliders, without the
interference of Juries. The Committee of Peti-

tions proposed that this petition should be re-
ferred to the Committee appointed to inquire
into the project of law relating to the Press, and
this proposition, though warmly opposed by the
liberal men of the Chamber, was eventually of-
dered .by a small majority. There exists among
the• leading men of France an extraordinary
jealousy of a free Press ; but all who revere the
Charter and can appreciate the value of liberty,
struggle stoutly for the maintenance of this indis-
pensable preservative of their country's freedom.
The Chambers appear, from the character of
some of their debates, to be still in the rudiments
of constitutional learning ; they have not yet
fully agreed upon their first principles, and it
is• still a topic of angry disputation between
the conflicting parties whether there does not
exist a power in the Monarchy, or in the
prerogative of the King, superior to, rand
independent of, the principles that 'are recog-
nised by the Charter itself. It was well as-
serted by M. de Constant, that every authority
exercised by the depositaries of the Executive
Power, not recognized by the Charter, is illegal
and unconstitutional. This doctrine was stre-
nuously though absurdly sought to be contro-
verted by M. de Marcellus and others, who
argued for the plenitude of Royal power from
the Circumstance that the Charter itself was
but an emanation from the Royal will. It can-
not indeed be doubted, that, in point _of

form, the Charter of France appears to be but
no emanation from the King's authority, a
voluntary gift from his bounty, a concession
which, from the terms of the grant, it might be
presumed he was not entitled to w►thhold. i3ut
this is the mere fiction of law, and there is no

man in France so utterly besotted, no matter
what mLy he his public professions, who does
not in private feel the conviction that the King
of France dared not to withhold the Char-
ter of the Constitution at the time of his
presenting it, and that - not 'even the foreign
bayonets •Nhich at that awful moment glittered in
the streets of Paris, or guarded the confines of
his kingdom, could save the throne of Louis
from utter destruction if he had failed to execute
the task that was conceded to him, of preparing
for France the form of civil government which it
has since so happily enjoyed.

The lace weavers committed to. Worcester gaol
for three months, for unlawfully combining to
raise-their wages, and leaving their work in an
untinished state, were on Thursday released from
their imprisonment. Other manufacturers have
been deluded into this illegal practice
rri:l inhabitants of the Isle of Man are about
to adopt proceedings for .the purpose of getting
the post-office packet removed from Whitehaven
to Beaumaris, or some other Welsh port, where
advantage can be taken of the prevalent westerly

winds.
On Tuesday last, as Mr:T. SHORT, of the
Norwich Company of Comedians, was trying an
old doubie gnn, in the neighbourhood of this town,
which was obtained from a pawnbroker's, it
burst, and his right hand was shattered by the
accident very seriously.(Norzrich Paper.)
•

LXW INT E LLIG ENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, J. 15.

EX-PARTE SHAWE IN THE MATTER OF HOWARD ANL/
GIBBS, BANKRUPTS.

Mr. AGAR concluded has arguments in support of the ap-

Mr. HORNE, Counsel-for the petitioner, contended that this
was a case in which the Court had jurisdiction, and that the de-
cision of hid Honour the Vice-Chancellor was correct. The
jurisdiction of the Court did not depend oh the Act of the sth
(leorge 11. but on the antecedent Acts of. Parliament, which
had not been repealed ; but it had been most properly observed
by his Lordship, that the jurisdiction of the Court did not de-
pend on statutes, but on the principles of justice. It was a mis-
representation when his Lord Ship was told that he (Mr. Horne)
had contended before the Vice-Chancellor that the interfe-
rence of bankrupts in the choice of assignees was so far im-
proper that the Court, .in every case, should declare, that
the choice made by such interference was not valid. He
had made use of no such argument ; he contended no
such thing before his Honour; but he contended,- as lie did,
now, that where bankrupts so improperly interfered, as they
had in this case, in the election of assignees, that the elected by
such means were not Valid, ar.d that there ought to be a new
choice. It could not be contended that Mr. Carroll was a pro-
per person to •be assignee, from the cloud which was over his
debt; he had proved a debt of 13,0001. against' the bankrupts'
estate, and sail he had a further debt, which he had declined
to prove,- and it appeared this debt that he objected to prove
was grounded on usurious transactions with the bankrupts.
—The Commissioner:: naturally, and he would say most pro-
perly, refused to receive the proof of the debt on the bills of
exchange, without examining NI r. Crrroll as to his other demand,
to see whether the bills of exchange were not mixed u' with the
former transactions between him and the bankrtipts. air. Carroll
Petitioned the Vice-Chancellor against the decision of the Com-
missioners, and his Honour confirmed their opinion ; and
Carroll was obliged to submit to be examined, and the Com-
missioners had not delivered their opinion whether lie was en-
titled to prove his debt or not. • There was anoteier question to
be considered, Whether Mr. Carroll was a fit person to he as-
signee in such a case as this, where the interests of not only the
opulent but the poor were concerned. 'A map to be an assig-
nee in such a case, ought to be able to hold himself upright,
and with an even hand make the balance ; for a great number
of the debtors of the bankrupts were persons of the first rank
in society, and a great -.number 'of . their creditors were poor
servants, who had intrusted their bard-earned money to their
custody. -He considered that the .question as to Mr. Carroll
being an assignee was put to _rest, and he would very
shortly put -an end to the claim of Mr. Duffe to a similar of-
fice; that gentleman allowed that all the money he had •advaneed
to the bankrupts was for annuities:it-a usurious interest; it was by
his own shewins so coveted with illegality, that he had not a foot
to stand on as far as his claim. to be an agssirssnce. The other clai-
mant,iMr. Wilkie, was not exactly, so situated, as his claim was
not vitiated by usury;, for, in fact, he had noitlaim on the bank-
rupts'estate as a creditor; but he would not quarrel with him.
on that account, for there might be many cases where • it would
be desirous that an assignee should not have
.an interest, on. the
ground that being disinterested; he would be the best guardian
of the interests of the bona fide creditors. _

Further argument postpOned until to-morrow (this day.)

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, JAN. 15.

His HONOUR heard bankrupt eases this day. At the head
of the Paper was

EX-PARTE GRIMSTEAD IN RE HOWARD AND GIRDS.
It was a petition' from Mr. Ormistead, praying for an order
to the Commissioners to admit the petitioner to prove a debt of
upwards of 30,0001. against the bankrupt estate. The Com-
missioners had refused the claim as usurious.
His HONOUR dismissed the petition, and left the petitioner
to seek his remedy by an action at law, jibe thought proper.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAN. 15.
In Banco.

CHILTON V. PLUMMEIL
This was an action against the present Master of the Rolls,
for an obstruction to the light of a solicitor in Chancery-lane.
The offence complained of arose out of a certain coach-house,
which was erected by the defendant, and which darkened the
back windows of the plaintiff: The cause was tried before the
Lord Chief Justice in Westminster.
The Jury found a verdict for the defendant.
Mr. MARTI-VAT last term obtained a rule nisi for a ncw
Mr. Sc ttat.,ETT and Mr. TINDAL now shelved cause.
The arguments, which turned chiefVnpon points of evi-
dence, were uninteresting.
Mr. MARRYAT, in reply, was only anxious that the obstruc-
tion should be removed ; the question as to costs and damages

he was content to wave.
The Co u T thought the propoxal worth the d •reltd t's
connukration ; and it was agreed that, for the presnt, the rule
should stand over.

BEN3LEY r. BIGNOLD.

This was an action by Mr. Bensley of Fleet-street, against
the late S?.cretary of the :4;orwich - Union Fire Office, for the
cost of printing a pamphlet. The jury, at the trial; found a
verdict tier the plain tiff'.
Mr. GURNEY afterwards obtained a rule for non:mit, upon
the ground that the plaintiff, by omitting to print his own name
and address in front of the pamphlet, had violated the statute,
the 38th: Geo. 111., and that he could not, upon a transaction
in itself illegal, recover in a Court of LaW.
Mr. SCARLETT contended that the statute had been vir-
tually complied with : the names of Pinnock and Co. having
been affixed to the pamphlet as Printers and Publishers.-
M r. GURNEY relied upon the case of " Barchard v. Evans,"
Bth Taunton.
The COURT thought that there had been a violation of law
by the plaintiff, and that the action for work and labour could
not, comequently, be maintained.—Rule absolute.

• INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, JAN. 15.
I.3EUDO-PI3INCE34 OF CUMBERLAND IN RE OLIVE
WILMOT, CALLING lIERSELF PP.INCDSS OF CUMBER-

LAND.

Mr. HEAT it moved for a rule to shew cause why the Prin-
cess of Cumberland should not be allowed to file her petition in
this Court, pursuant to the provisions of the " Act of Ist Geo.
IV., for the relief's: Insolvent Debtors in England." This
application was made on the ground that she had not:complied
with one of the sections of the Act, which required the petition
to be filed within 14 days after impritioninent.
The Learned Counsel handed in an affidavit signed " Olive."
It set forth that she was confined in the Fleet prison ; that she
had but 21. in her possession; that she was entirely supported
by the charity and benevolence of her friends, that atie had
wasted no personal property, and that she should have applied
within the 14 days required by the Act, had she not expected
that sonic of her friends wnuhl have become security
,for - her '
debts until her claiMs were established.
The CciritT said that the Petitioner could gain nothing by
her affidavit, as it was signed " Olive" only, without the ad-
dition of her surname. The Petitioner must know whether her
surname was Wilmot or Serres.
The Learned Counsel, in order to set aside this objection,
called Trapnell, the Deputy Tipstelf of the Fleet prison, Who
stated that the petitioner was vinmitted by the name of
"Olive," without any surname.
Mr. HEATH therefore contended, that as the affidavit cor-
responded with the commitment, the-petitioner was entitled to
her application.
,The COURT then granted the motion.