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London, England, 1824-01-21 00:00:00

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points when he *AS interrupted by the Court. Ife would, widehis Lordship's Fer.nission, endeavour to answer those questions
to.rnorrow when he concluded his arguments. .. •
• SOLICITORS OF Tun cOuni,
The foregoing argument was interrupted lay aq application
on the part of Mr. AGAR, who had-been requested immediately.
to eanSult the Lord Chancellor upon the following question
A pctitiOn'had-beeti- presented tostrike two solicitors of the
rolls:of the9ourt, and his .Honour wished•to know if it was
within the_seope of his branch of the jitrisitietion to gralt the
petition before he would venture to hear it. •
- The. IfooßD CsfaxeEttou said, that his Honourinust have
forgotten that he had already exercised his power by striking
one solicitor off the rolls,. for which there was a petition now
pending'hefOre him.
Mr. AGAIt said, that undeftibtedlY, his Honour was aware of
that, but, the present petition prayed, on:the alternative, that no
commission in funire should be directed to the 'said: solicitors.
from this honourable Court. • . .
• • The Loup enal.xcELLon said, undoubtodik he could not
Ice how the order of his Honoar, not to sof?* e solicitor to re.,
cH.ve a commission Irina this Honourable
.Court, caulll be able
to prevent the Lord Chancellor'frOm directing a Conifris•siOn to
that very solicitor; •if the case abotild so fallout. LordiThut,
low had directed that no other commission should be put into
the hands of certain solicitors rtmpecting whom'he made that
order. Upon the whole,- in a cftlegtiOn which went so. materially
to affect the entire means of life of. the partieS, thought he
ought not to part with the exercise of that power, and that he
should take the whore responsibility.on'hiraScitl.

VICE-CIIANCELLOWS COURT, JAL 20.

MOILOAN tCLORD CLARENDON.

Mr. PEPYs said that this was a:petition prayii:g that the con-
duct of this suit should be transferred from, the p:aintiff
to the creditors:upon the ground of improper de/ay-hi the con-
ducting of the cause. It appeared from the statement of the
Learned Gentleman that the testatrix, Amelia Gurgunett, died
'in lee, possessed. of - considerable real provorty.,-'..tThe' of the
estates site bequeathed to. Lord Clarendon as tenant for life,
subject to the payment of ;ter debts. The affidavit of the Soli.
citor on 'behalf of the crtditors stated, that shortly after, the
death of the testatrix 'be.Watinfc,,rined by Lord'. Clarendon's
Solicitor-that-it would be.necessary to file a bill in.'erder to carry
into execution the trusts contained in the will of the testatrix,
and that they would file such-a bill ; though from the:• affidavit
of the Solicitor it appeared the bill was filed by another Soli-
citor. :*torn that period to the.present the debts continued un-
satisfied, though it appeared that abundant property existed for
that purpose. This Mr. Pepys said •was one of 'those cases in
which the 04-trt of Chancery was made inStromental to the
greatest injustice; and the public, not discriminating between
the protracted litigation of parties interested; and the blameless
conduct of the Ijourt and its officers, attributed this delay to the
machinery of the Court.
Mr. HART, on the other side, obserVed that Mr. Pepys had,
by dealing in' generalities, iinonn.ed very unfounded blame to
his clients, who were much more anxious to vindicate their high
professional characters froth this charge, than to gain by - any
alleged del y. The affidavit of his client distinctly stated that
no appliCation had ever been made to him on the subject of
these proceedings to whith lie hhil not given willing information,
and during the whole -.reit ise of them no personal application
had ever been made by the Solicitor for the present petitioners.
The VICE .CII,6:CEL Lon said that he Ives by no Means of
opinion that since 181';' there was no culpable delay. In 1816
the Report having stated that there -was no blameable ho
could not say that up to that period there Was any hlanie at_
tributable to the Solicitors.

Mr. HAUT wished the-ease to Stand over until he ascertained
the exact necessity for such delay. • 'He understood that it arose
from the complicated nature of die affairs of the testatrix. There
was scarcely a single acre of her land. that, when dying, she left
without a mortgage.. " . • •
TkheYfcE-CHAscEf.f.ort..-14et it ste.tid.,:over.,ei'id whenever
you give Mr. Pepys•that information he may mention this Case
to the Court.