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were zealously attached to the Constitution.

Eldon. The question h therefore somewhat
doubtful. It would follow from Lord Eldon's
decision, that because a work is such that its cir.
ciliation would be mischievous, therefore its cir-
culation shall be freed from the restraints which
apply even to unobjectionable or valuable works.
This is an absurdity beyond all question, and no
less surely deducible from the decision of the
Chancellor. It does not require the collegiate
learning of Mr. Wetherell to know that, to de-
duce an absurd consequence from any proposition,
is, in mathematical science, to demOnstrate its
falsehood ; and it is not easy to see why that
which holds true in pure science, which is but
another name for pure reason, should hold equally
so in law. how hard, also, the decision of the
Chancellor must fall upon a repentant sinner
wishing to call in a pernicious book—as in the
case of poor Mr. Southey. It is not every author
that is so fortunate as Mr. Banks, who, wishing
to call back his two delicate volumes of " the
Civil History' of Rome," once more under the
paternal wing, was able to lay his hand upon
them as upon so many tame pigeons.

[mulls!' PRESS.]
The determined spirit with which all motions
for the reform of abuses, or for inquiring into
them, is rejected, was displayed to every man's
conviction by the result of Mr. Williams's motion
on Thursday evening. The deplorable delay of
justice in the Court of Chancery has been pro-
verbially the disgrace of English jurisprudence ;
it is an evil which has called long and loudly
For a remedy. It is unaccountable, that in a
country like this, where the principles of equity
are so fully understood, a Judge should find
it beyond his power to apply them to the
cases that come before him ; and that, in the
course of a long life; a suitor in Chancery should
be unable to •obtain the Chancellor's decision.
There must be something radically wrong, and
it is most lamentable to witness the eagerness
with which the appointment of a committee for
inquiry into the causes of an evil so flagrant was
resisted. If any real obstacles oppose them-
selves to the speedier administration of justice,
an examination by a committee should have pre-
pared the way for their removal. A defec-
tive system, though it cannot justify, may apo-
logize for the past. But to oppose investigation,
and to intercept all remedy .for the future,
is a parliamentary proceeding which it were a
mockery of reason to vindicate. That a man
should seek justice all his life-time, and go out of
the world at last without obtaining it—whata
on a Supreme Court of Equity is this! The
whole proceedings are enveloped in the forms of
procrastination and chicane. The lottery of law
offers nothing but the benekial chance of a
blank, and the rich wheel of equity never deals
out its prizes till long after those to whom the
tickets belong are laid in the grave. Mr. Wil-
liams made an admirable appeal to the good sense
of the House ; his inferences were as impressive
as his facts were unanswerable : the wilful
abettors of the system complained of will have
hereafter, the double guilt to answer for, of re-
wining the 'mischief and rejecting the remedy.
Mr. M. A. Taylor, in support of the mo-
tion, brought forward facts fraught with
conclusive evidence of the necessity of the
Inquiry sought for. " ft was," he said,'
" the universal report, belief, and execration
of the public, that every one who entered
the Court of Chancery was ruined by it." If the
Attorney-General can affirm that this is not an
evil *to be remedied, he had as well declare at
once that all suffering is fiction, and that oppres-
fion is a word without meaning. Mr, Denman
supported his arguments by tire strongest possible
facts. lle stated one fact that must arrest the
attention of every one, and which' was sufficient
of itself to make the duty of investigation pe-
remptory, that " the property in time hands of the
Accountant-General amounts to the almost incre-
dible sum of thirty-three millions 'sterling."
Well might the House cry," Hear, hear!" But
that, after having heard it, they should refuse
all inquiry into the conduct of this .most extraor-
dinary accumulation of property being withheld,
year after year, from suitors who have grown
grey in fruitless, expection of obtaining the Chan-
cellor's judgment on their claims! Can we want
a stronger attestation of corrupt influence ? With
what conscience can Parliament protect I►ares
and partridges with the strongest penal enact.
merits, and resist the redress of abuses which
involve the interests and property of the subject
in every quarter of the kingdom '

[saw TIMES.]
We give in another part of our Pnper the offi-
cial details of the affair between the French and
the Spanish Constitutionalists at Talavera de la
Reyna on the 27th ultimo, and the Sixth Bulle-
tin from the head-quarters at Madrid, dated the
25th ult. It takes a general view of the operations
from the time the Prince reached Vittoria, and
will be found interesting hi showing the regular

developement of the plan on which his Royal
Highness has steadily acted. 13.ut the most im-
portant document which has for some time appear-
ed is undoubtedly the Addyess of the Grandees
of Spain to the Dube of Angouleme. The names
subscribed to it are those of the' richest and
most. influential persons in Spain. To instance
only one. The Duke de Winne. Celi is a grandee
of the first class. The death of his father hi
1 806 is thus recorded in the Muniteur of that
time :—." Ho was one of the most eminent
grandees of the Spanish Court, as well- as one
of the richest and most respected for his moral
qualifies, and for the use which he made of his

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immense fortune." The present Duke, and his
son, the Count of Orgaz, were among the
grandees convened Buonaparte at Bayonne
in June 1808 ; and he was one of the Nobles
proscribed by the tyrant in the November fol-
lowing. He has since filled some high offices,
and we find him in 1819 taking an active pert in
superintending the new system of mutual instruc-
tion conducted on the plans of Be!! and Lan-
caster. The Address before us affords another
striking exposure of the deceptions which brw.
been practised on the people of England, with
respect to the Spanish Revolution. We were
first told that persons of all ranks and professions

was -soon found that the whole body of the
Clergy must be excepted ; this of course was a
It was next discovered that the pea-
santry were against it ;. but they, we were told,
were merely the ignorant many, who ought
to submit to the. enlightened few ;" and it was
stoutly and positively maintained that all the
wealth, rank, and influence of the country was
enlisted on the side of the Cortes.: more parti-
cularly was it asserted, that every person of con-
sequence had retired from Madrid on the
ap-
proach of the French Army.—Now, we find be-
tween thirty and forty of the •Grandees, that is
to say, the. highest in rank among the Spanish
Nobility, not only remaining in the capital, but
coming forward with an Address of gratitude to
the Duke of Angouleme.—What says The
Chronicle to this ?—lt says that the Spanish
Nobility are.." wretches," and that they are
" beneath contempt." Only it excepts some
half dozen from the anathema : among whom
are the Duke de San Lorenzo and the
Duke Del Parque. We rather suspect that
these two Noblemen are not among the wealthiest
of their rank—the Dukes Del Infuntado and De
Medina Cali could each (to use a common phrase)
buy twenty of. the former. In short, -we have
seen the Clergy, the Peasantry, the Generals,
the Nobles, declare against the Reyolutionaryt
G-overnMent ; and we should be glad to know
who and what the " gallant People of Spain"
are, whom the worthy Gentlemen of the Crown
and. Anchor and the Sages of the Common Coun-
cil wish us to assist with our money. How many
of them are there ? What are their occupations
and pursuits ? Can even imagination give them
" a local habitation and a name ?"

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
The two nights battle between the two di-
visions of Lawyers in the House (for the other
Members seemed to view the discussion either as
altogether beyond their comprehension, or us a
matter in which they had no concern,) reminds us
of the engagements of the Condottieri of Italy,
.Ivhich used to last for Whole days without the loss
of .a man. We agree with Mr. Canning that
great ability was disblayed in this debate, but
we do not the less regret with Mr. Brougham
" that the whole of the debate was confined to
legal members." We consider this indifference
or mental thraldom of the other Members, to be
perfectly decisive with respect to the prospect
of any beneficial reformation of the Laws ; for.
he must know little of human nature who can
expect that any efficient reform of abuses, pro.
.citable in the highest degree to the profession,
should ever originate or be countenanced by it.
We should as soon expect to tied the Clergy
demanding with one voice a return to the system
of the Primitive Church. We must take men
as they are; and we can never go far wrong,
if we 'suppose that in nine cases out of ten,
if riot 99 out of 100, they will follow what is,
or what they suppose to he, for their interest.---
f they who have arr interest in reforming an
abuse, trust for the reformation to those ‘vho
have an interest in its continuance, we can only
say that we think their innocency much more
conspicuous (lain their wisdom. It is amusing to
observe- how differently the artists, as Mr;
Brougham termed the Profession, and those on
whom they exercise their powers, speaknf the
same thing. The litigant who has. had occa-
sion to contemplate the wonders of special
pleading, the fictions by which the lawyer
conducts .his client to this point through
many a weary labyrinth—who sees his.
guineas conveyed as. if by legerdemain out
of his own pocket into the pocket of the
the same feelings to.
artist,wtrds
fabric: entertains
wards laws that a certain
class of gentlemen entertain towards the
fabrics containing the tread-Mills. But the
artists l—With Mr. Scarlett one and all will
exclaim, 44 If the noble fabric of, jurisprudence
erected by our ancestors was, or seemed to be,
defective, he should approach the task of amend-
ing it with the greatest reverence for the ve-
nerable edifice, and he should rather consider
the evils as arising from present circumstances
than from any other cause." Aye, aye, we
will answer for it that in that quarter there will be
no want of reverence for the venerable edifice. Tar
be it from us to insinuate that the Learned Gentle-
men are not sincere in their admiration of the vene.
rable fabric of our laws (it is so natural to ad-
mire what we profit by), or do not even believe
that our system is not the best possible. 46 It
would be inconceivable (says an able foreign
writer, speaking of English law)ithat the human
understanding should put so long up With so im-
perfect a judicial system, if the experience 'of all
times did not' inform us hoW difficult it is toextri-
cate ourselves from accustomed forms, and if
those who should introduce a better state of
things were not, from being accustomed to
these forMs from their youth, and from having
derived their whole way of thinking from them,
placed hi some degree in an impossibility of con=
ceiving any other species of law than that to
which they have been trained." ThenCe the
English lawyer is at a loss to conceive how any
country can hold together without- a Court of
Chancery with fifty year -suits ; and hence the
.Neapolitan lawyers, who, according to Galena,
'have the greatest part Of the properly of the
country constantly in their hands, 'are equally
confident that is the very perfection of law.

[MORNI!,IO POST%)
The character, whether legal, political, or
moral, or the present Lord Chancellor, is no less
removed from the reach of the shafts aimed at
by the futile malice of his enemies, than from
the influence of any panegyric of ours. His
legal reputation, stands upon the elevated ground
of a series of judicial decisions, which all
professional men, without a dissenting voice,
extol as the safest land-marks of equity, and
as a perpetual guide to all those who shall be
hereafter called to administer this department
of justice. His political character rests upon
the solid foundation of principles and measures by
which England has not only been rescued from
destruction, but placed upon an eminence of pro-
sperity and glory before unhnown. His moral ex-

telienty is attested by the' spotless Integrity with
which even his bitterest enemies confess he has
for a quarter of a century exercised a trust, the
most weighty, the most multifarious, and the
most discretionary, that was ever committed to
mortal man ; by the steadiness and firmness
with which he has in politics adhered to prin-
ciples once conscientiously chosen, and by the
blameless tenor of his private course. Such
is the man who in the decline of a life so
eminently honourable and useful, is singled out
by the animosity of Party aythe object of attacks
as furious as they are futile. We defy any man
to read the debates in the House of Commons
on the recent motion of Mr. Williams, without
perceiving that the end kept most > steadily in
view was not to correct the defects imputed
to Chancery process, but to depreciate the
venerable Judge who has so long illuminated
and dignified that important branch of our na-
tional jurisprudence. The Lord Chancellor
is the chosen object of these attacks, because
he is the consistent and inflexible supporter of
sound and rational political principles. lie is as-
sailed by the Party, from their desire to impair
an authority by the very existence of which they
feel that their notions are discredited and their]
genius rebuked. Of the aspersions upon the
Lord Chancellor we have already said perhaps
more than enough ; the lofty rock, which sustains
unheeded the dashing of the noisy and furious
billows that surround it, is the fit emblem of that
distinguished Judge, when the passions 01
an angry and disappointed Faction are let
loose to hassail him. —On the alleged dif-

ficulty of obtaining justice in the Court
of Chancery, we must content ourselves
with one or two very obvious remarks. The tedi-
ousness and expence of a Chancery Suit, have
been so long a popular theme, that it will be found,
even in farces of two centuries ago, to be the sub-
ject of jocular allusion. It is in vain to say, that
abuses are not sanctified by age. We ►nust in can-
dour admit, that the fact proves one of two things,
either that the popular notion of the grievance
is, and always has been exaggerated, or that
a suitable remedy is a thing not very easy to
discover. Nay, the very motion for an inquiry,
to seek out remedies for an alledged grievance of

such long standing, involves a pretty clear ad-
mission that its nature, its causes, and even its
existence, are amazingly equivocal. Again in a
matter of so much importance to a nation
as a difficulty in obtaining justice, it strikes
one as something strange, that Lawyers,
and disappointed Lawyers too, should be
the only complainants.- Where were the bar-
rassed and delayed suitors of this procras-
tinating. Court? How, above alls could

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it occur that in an assembly of above two hundred
subjects of the realm,all menlof multiplied connec-
tions in life, most of them men of large and diver-
sified possessions—many of them engaged in com-
plicated and extensive commercial concerns—no
voice was heard, even after repeated and urgent
appeals, to complain of a single instance' in which
the party complaining had himself, or through
his connections, sustained injury by unnecessary
or unjustifiable delay ? The single circumstance
that this discussion was maintained entirelyby
Lawyers does, we confess, appear to us conclu-
sive
sive evidence against the general imputation of un-
necessary delay in the progress ofsuitsin Chancery.
That the Court of Chancery should attempt to
proceed with the same celerity as the Courts of
Law, is, we apprehend, far from desirable_ This
will be evident on the mere statement, that the very
first proceeding in a Chancery suit is a proceed-
ing to extort from the defendant a written ex-
position of facts, however averse to his own inte-
rests, to which he is to swear, and which is or
is not to be the evitienee in the suit, at the dis-
cretion of the plaintiff. The power of making
parties witnesses against themselves is a power
without which it is not pretended by any man that
Courts of Equity could be efficacious; yet it. is
one of a nature so inquisitorial and. so repugnant
ft or tmh et cleo mmmo
roen
pnuobt
ion
our Courts of Law, that submission to it ought
of
andof popular u justicelar A;rlo6Cceheedmitlagislaoter
not to be enforced by means of severity till
after 'great detay, and after many repe-
titions of demands and warnings. We men.

lion this as one legitimate cause for pro-
crastination which .is _ peculiar to Courts of

Equity. The greater difficulty also of the ques-
tions which come before them, and the more vague
and complicated nature of the issues which they
have to determine, render it obviOusly impossi-
ble that cause's in Courts of Equity should not
give rise to proceedings more voluminous and
more tardy then those by which actions at Law
are prosecuted and . decided. It is admitted
on all hands, that litigation in the Court- of
Chancery has progressively . and rapidly in-
creased during the whole period that its, present
Noble and Learned Judge has preSided over it.
This fact alone is an answer to the loud and 'in-
cessant complaints of Faction. One party at least
in every suit must have exposed himself volunta-
rily to the vexation,, the ruin, or the death of
which this Court is so rationally described 'as the
constant. and unfailing dispenser.
,Insane in-
dividuals no doubt there are, yet we cannot
listen without incredulity to charges against a
Court of Justice, which go the full length, of
fixing upon its vast -and increasing body of
Suitors one general imputation of insanity.

On Friday last, a cat, reduced almost to a ske
eton by starvation, was found enclosed beneath

the flooring of •11 new house in Brighton, by the
workmen who were attracted by the noise. The
poor animal, it is supposed, had been missing 13
days, without food ; she had no doubt crept be-
tween the joists of the floor before the hearth-
stone was laid down, when placed in its situa-
tion thus entombed poor puss alive.

There is at this time a cow on the farm of Mr.
Wm. TAYLOR, at Gayton Je Marsh, which has
four calves sucking at her (that is, she is rearing
them); in 1821 she also brought up four at one
time, and the same in 189.2; and in the last year
she likewise brought up two- more—making in
the whole 14 calve's which she has reared in three
years.