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PATRONISED BY T-HEBO AR HONOURABLE THE NAVY
D.
CHUBB'S PATENT DETECTOR LOCK.
THE Hon. Sir GEO. GREY, Bart., K.C.8.,
(the Commiisioner), and the Principal Officers of His
Majesty's Dock Yard, Portsmouth, have given the Patentee
permission to publish the following Statement of Facts relative
to his PATENT DETECTOR LOCK; namely, That hay.
ing, by order .of the-Honourable Navy Board, lately supplied
a considerable number of his Patent Detector Locks for the
use of the Portsmouth Dock Yard, and being informed that
there was a Convict on. board one of the.preion-ships at this
port, who was notorious for picking Locks, (being by profes.
mon a Lock Maker, and who has, till recently, for several
years been chiefly employed in picking and repairing Locks in
London), the. Patentee requested the favour of Commissioner
the Honourable Sir George Grey to send for this man, that he
might exercise his skill in attempting to pick his Lock ; and
the Commissioner having been pleased to acquiesce in this re•
quest, the man was sent for acemdingly, and one of Chubb's Pa-
tent Locks was submitted to his inspection, at the Storekeeper's
Office, in the presence ofeeveral of the Principal Officers ; when,
after a careful examination, he said, " he thought he could
pick or open it with false instruments." He was therefore fur.
nished with files, and all the tools lie stated to be necessary to
prepare the instruments for his purpose; and was direcml to
give notice to the Storekeeper when he should be ready to
snake the trial, for the promotion of which a Reward of
Five Pounds was promised him if lie succeeded. In about
three weeks after this time, he sent to say that he was
ready ; and, a time being fixed on for the purpose, he com-
mented his operations in endeavouring to pick one of the Locks,
in the presence of the Principal Officers 9f the Dock-yard;
but he could-.not succeed. He then stated, " that his failure
wits in consequence of his instruments not exactly fitting the
Lock." To remove this impediment, the Patentee offend to
supply him with some blank keys, which should fit two of the
Locks, in order to his making
.another trial
.; these were fur-
nished accordingly, together with a Lock exactly the same in
principle and in kind as those he had been trying; so that he
might examine its construction, and make himself maw= of
its principle. Shortly after lie made another attempt to pick
two of the Locks, in the presence of the Honourable Sir
George Grey, anti the Principal Officers of the Dock-Yards
his success in this attempt was not better than the first; but
he overlifted the Detector of each Lock. Sir George Grey then
asked luni,- what he would do in this case, supposing he had
been making an attempt on such a Lock, with an intott to com-
mit a robbery ? He said, " I would go no more tol'he Lock,
they would set a watch and catch me." 'lle still thought, how-
ever, that, by a further alteration of the instruments he could
yet succeed ; more time was therefore given him, and every
facility afforded him. Some time afterwards he again repeated
his efforts, in the presence of the same Gentlemen; but having,
in his previous experiments, overlifted the Detectors, he could
not by any means disengage them ; this was done fox him seve-
ral times, with the Keys belonging to the Locks ; but, as often
as they were regulated, on every successive trial lie detected
them again ; till at last he gave them up, saying, " That lie
had used his utmost ability in his repeated attempts, and could
not succeed : that these Locks were the most secure he had ever
met with, and that lie did not think it possible for any man to
pick or open them with any false instruments whatever.
The Patentee of the above Lock, in making the following
observations, disclaims any intention of depreciating the merits
of other Locks, by describing their defects, or demonstrating
their insecurity : but trusts the Detector Lock will entitle him
to a share in the attention and patronage of the Public; as it
possesses, in a much higher degree than any other, the four
principal requisites of a good Lock; viz. SECURITY SIM.
PLICITY, STRENGTH, and DURABILITY. Its Sk:-
CUKITY, particularly, is increased beyond calculation, by an
improvement, which not only renders it impossible to be picked
or opened by any, false instruments, but also detects the first
attempt to open it
besthy preventing those repeated efforts,
to which even the Locks hitherto invented are exposed. In
these Locks, the combinations admit of so great variety, that
millions of them may Le made, and yet one Key shall not pass
any two Locks; and the Detector renders that variety infinite;
for the instant that one or more of the tumblers are lifted beyond
the place where the bolt is at liberty to pass, it overlifts the De.
tector, which then hooks the tell of the bolt, preventing it from
passing, and thus gives incalculable additional security,(aa well
as immediate notice, the first time the true key is put into it to
open it, that an attempt has been made to pick it,) and renders
all farther attempts useless; it being impossible to discover the
first combination, to disengage the Detector, or the second, to
remove the bolt ; and nothing but the true key can either re-
lease the Detector from its grasp on the bolt, or open the Lock.
In reference to its DURABILITY, it is not liable to'be in.
jured by constant use in any length of time ; this has been as-
certained, by an Iron-rim Lock having been attached to a
Stearn. Engine in the Dock-yard, Portsmouth (to try the effect
of friction), by which it was lacked and unlocked upwards of
four hundred end sixty thousand times,
.with receiving the
least injury.. The STRENOTH of its parts, and the SIM-
PLICITY of- its construction, are such, that no False Key,
or other Instrument, introduced into it for the purpose of open.
ing it, can (without very great violence) injure it.
The Patent Detector Locks, of every site, and
.he Paten.
for the
uses to which Locks can be rivalled, may be had of t
Paten-
tee, CHARLES CHUBS, liortsea.
Cornhill ;
bidge, 130, Fleet-street; Bailer and Go.
lia 'market ;
The Locks arc also sold in London, by blears.
3107
_and Bur..
Phillips, M, High Holborn ; Mr. (.olwel,ia7,
Mr. Howell, 96, New Bond-street; Messrs. ly
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Mr.
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Groom, Bury' St. Etlivond's ; and may be had of the principal
and Wilde, Castle.* ,
Ironmongers in the Kingdom.

SELF-BURNING of HINDOO WIDOWS.

There have been printed, pursuant to the
order of the House of Commons, papers presented on the 18th
of June, " relating to East India affa►rs--viz. copies or ex-
tracts of all communications and correspondence since March
1823, respecting the burning of widows on the funeral pile: of
their husbands." The following arc extracts from those
papers :
EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL

IN COUNCIL OF BENGAL. &C.
It will be satisfactory to your Honourable Court to observe,
that the number of suttees reported to have taken place during
the year 18'20, was less than in the preceding year; and that
compared with the number which had been reported in the year
1818, it exhibits a reduction of 242. We have not sufficient
means of estimating the causes which have operated in produc-
ing the more favourable results in the year 1819 and 1820, com-
pared with those of the two preceding years.
I'o C. C. liorrxEn, Esq. Magistrate of the twenty-four
Pergunnalis.
Sir—Although a long protracted residence in India has
served to make me acquainted with much of the manners and
customs of,itsiubabitants, yet it Not near been my lot until
,yesterday evening to witness that disgraceful ceremony which is
known so commonly to prevail in Bengal, and which is so re-
volting to the character of its people, and to every reeling of
humanity ; I allude, of course, to the practice of widows immo-
lating themselves on the funeral piles of their husbands.
2. Yesterday evening a report was conveyed to me, that a
suttee was about to take place within a few hundred yards of
my residence at this station, and that the ceremony would take
place immediately ; horror-struck as I felt at the thought of
witnessing such a scene, I yet felt it a point of duty to repair to
the spot.
3. 1 was accompanied thither by my assistant, ley the assist.
ant-surgeon of the station, and by another medical gentleman,
who happened to be here on a visit.
4. I cannot doubt, sir, but that you will give both myself
and the gentlemen who accompanied me credit for the exer-
cise of every feeling which humanity could dictate, in our en-
deavours to ascertain whether this was a perfectly voluntary
act on the part of the flniale, and in cur efforts to dissuade
this deluded woman from a sacrifice, which, under the circum-
stances of her particular case, justified severe remonstrance. At
one time I was fully impressed with the belief, and such was
the general impression, that I had succeeded in my object of
dissuasion ; but in the end, either other sentiments, or rather,
as I fear, other advice, prevailed, which strengthened her reso-
lution to perform the sacrifice; but be this as it may, the point
to which I am most anxious to draw your attention is, the
grossly inactive and deficient conduct of the darogah of the
.thanneh, who, instead of remaining in the immetliate neigh.
bourhood of the funeral pile, with a view of taking advantage
of any relapse in the resolution of the victim, at this awful nio-
nient stood aloof from the spot; and when questioned and re.
monstrated with on the point, replied, that he, being a Mussel.
man, could not be permitted to remain so near, although in the
face of this assertion, he saw European gentlemen surround.
ing the pile; but this was not all; the ceremony was suffered
by him to take place in known contravention, as I am informed,
of the principles and rules which authorize this ceremony.
5. l'he Shuster, which sanctions burning, enjoins, I am
told, the junta cheetaarohun, that is, the victim mounting
anti throwing herself upon the funeral pile, when it has
burnt vitt into flumes ; this feature of trio ceremony, and
a remarkable one it is, from its offering a momentary in.
o f t
ni
re:rfut
of
rf the
nt;ep‘Si.lilecl at
betaiS
victim
r :
citement to shake the strongest resolutions of human nature,
bad
was wholly dispensed- with. In the case of this suttee, the
victim was laid down by the side of her deceased husband ;
and if she was not bound by her clothes with the deceased, yet
they. were so wrapped about her and the deceased, that It
would have been tlitlictilt for her to disentangle herself from
them ; upon her was then laid loge of wood, some of themof a size
and weight such as but one man could lift and carry : a minute
or two elapsed in this portion ofthe ceremony (which, from the
term jullut cheetaarohun, must have
beenU':contrary to me ITijwhen the pile
w„g so fire to, and immedtately after large green bamboo was
placed across anti held down by two men on each side, so that
it rendered any effort on the p
uiifest meaning
li g escape
ht ,sv whenhwholly
she made a most violent effort to escape from the flames, but
the nature anti construction of the pile rendered any immediate
unavailing. Scarcely
effort to release her from the flames, with the chance of escap.
jig with her life, quite impracticable.
Had I noticed the bamboos at the moment they were placed
across the pile, or had I 'been aware of all the informalitieg
that were taking place, I should at all hazard have put a stop
to the ceremony ; but never having seen a suttee before, and
ignorant until, now of the particular forms to be observed there-
in, I was fearful of too great a degree of interference on my

iet n true,e s se d
part.
b; a tanmd e, 1 ani
fclitohl
ri arcecvoouintitn; f
ceremony
eensfeonnye
I 7y.elteicrhdayii thew
cannot be altogether prevented, (but which, as far as every
information I can obtain, it could by a short prohibitory
enactment of the Legislature), it at least appears to me of
great importance that the terms and manner in which it
is enjoined to be observed should be rigidly adhered to, as ex-
erting every hope of diminishing its frequency, by the pros-
pect it holds out of often shaking the resolution of the victim
at the most awful moment of the ceremony. I therefore view
' it as a duty I liwe to humanay, and to the Government whose
paternal solicitude is well known on the subject, to bring the
1
particulars of this suttee, anti all the information with respect
to it, and the ceremony in neral which has reached me, for
such notice as you may consider expedient, or the Government
upon your representation may think proper to take of it.
Barripore, Salt Office,
let June, 1823. I have, Ate.
11. C. PLOWDI4:I,I, Agent.
EXTRACT FROM THE PROCEEDINUS or THE NIZAIIIIT
ADAWLUT, UNDER DATE Tim 24TH MAY.
The Court observe that the touttnumber of Hindoo widows
ascertained to have been burned or buried alive in 1821; ex-
hibits an increase of the number of fifty-seven above the num-
ber of the same description of the preceding year.
The total numbers of the four past years are as follow :
In 1318 - - - - 839
1819 - - . 650
1828 - - • . 597
1821 - . - - 654

COPY OF A LETTER rims' Tux XAGISTRATE OF ZILLAH
(JITAZEI:POOR, TO BEWARES COURT OF CIRCUIT.
- I have the pleasure to forward the prescribed annual Re-
port of Suttees. Nothing particular occurs to mention upon
the subject. lam of opinion that any immediate compulsa-
tory measure to stop the performance of this rite would be pre-
mature, and might occasion a general and unfavourable ten.
Nation in the public mind, for a few years wore (I cannot say
how many), we must be contented to permit a continuance of
the practice. The interference of the Magistrate is gradually
becoming more efficient, as the rules become more generally
known, and this easy gradation is, I think, very much as it
should be. The next step, perhaps, would be to get another
bewastah condemning the practice in toto, and a concurring re-
solution from a number of bmbinins in various parts of the
country., to abandon it. I shall not conceive either of these
gradually and
measures all impracticable, if attempted
EXTRACT FORT ST. GEORGE PUBLIC CONSULTATIONS
7TH HARCII, 1823.
Sir,—l have the honour to state to you that a native woman,
of Brahmin caste has waited upon me this afternoon, and re-
quested permission to burn herself with the corpse of her hus-
band ; and her relations who accompanied her expressed their
disapprobation of her intenuons• I haveendeavoured, as much
as possible, to dissuade her from committing such an act; and
finding her resolute, I told her that my duty was to prevent her
destroying herself, and therefore she must entirely glee up her
intentions ; but she has expressed her resolution of taking away
her life as soon as possible, if prevented from burning herself
with the corpse of her husband. Although the relations have
endeavoured to dissuade her from this act, they are desirous,
upon her persisting in her intentions, that she should be per.
nutted to do so ; and as the funeral ceremonies of the husband
are delayed until to-morrow, I have to solicit the orders of Go-
vernment on this very important point.
W. ORMSBY
Superintendent of
(Signed)
Police.
Matlreg Police Office, March 6,, 1823.
Ordered, that the following reply be dispatched :
Srn-1 am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your let-
ter of yesterday's date, and to express the opinion of the Hon.
the Governor in Couneil, that all practicable means should be
employed for preventing the woman in question from making
the intended sacrifice of herself. With that view, her rela-
tions should be informed, that such a practice being contrary

. .
to the usage of this lace, Cannot obtain the sanc-
tion ofGovernment; and that it is considered to be their duty
to cite their strongest persuasion and influence to induce her to
forego her intention. .You will also :apprize them :that they
will be held answerable for any interference of a contrary ten-
dency.--I have, Sze.
(Signed) D. HILL, Secretary to Government.
Fort St. George, 7th March, MI.
Note to one of the Lists of " Self-burings."
N.B. On the 2d of October, in the evenin i . ureport arrived'
from the darogah of Shehnugar, stating thaeMuesatuaut Ks
mal Debya, aged 65 years, was ciesirous.of burning on the fu-
neral pile of her husband, who had died at the age of 70 years ;
as there appeared to be no objection according to the bewaittab
of the pundits of the sudder tlewanny adawlut, and the Ma-
gistrate being unable to 'proceed himself to -the place where
the suttee was to occur, he issued strict orders to the darogah
to follow implicitly the instructions furnished for his observance
on similar occasions. The darogah communicated to Mussu-
maut Kornai Debya, the orders he had received, but she still
persisted on her determination to burn with her husband's
body. The darogah, being a llindoo, said, before she could
burn she must undergo the test, viz.—that of putting her fin-
ger into the fire to try' if she were a true suttee.
on hearing this became alarmed, and, not being able to bear
the' pain, gave up the, idea of burning with her .httsband',,a
The woman
corpse..
EXTRACT OF A LETTER IN TUE JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT,
FROM THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL OF DOSIRAV TO
THE COURT OF DIRECTORS; DATED 'THE 25TH JUNE,
1823.
Cud& date 24th February last, we received a report from the
bhiusrnfatn there,ily
Magistrate of Southern Concan, of the burning of a suttee under
the following circumstances :—A married bralimin having left
andbut
a part
ofilistoholi:oesonhaa,vitnligethl,mainttclolniivseyboettl toywhasis
family in Rtttnageery, notwithstanding the interposition and
prohibitory mandate of the Sirkuutaviesdar,.his widow, having
two children, the one nine, the other two years of age, proceed.
ed, aided by the elder brother of the deceased, to the perform.
ance of the horrid rite of suttce,and was actually burnt with that
portion of her husband's bones which were conveyed to her for
that purpose; this suttee was, therefore, consummated contrary
to both the letter and spirit of the Shuster. The burning of iC
Brahmin woman, except on the funeral pile of her husband,
and with his body, being strictly prohibited ; and the inhibition,
rendered operative also on a woman having an infant child un-
der three years of ay, " unless some persons will undertake to
provide suitable maintenance for such child."
With regard to the children, their grandmother, of a very
advanced age, stated she would take care of them • but this
he could not consider as providing for them a suitable main.
tenance.
In respect to a widow burning, with the bones of her deceased
husband, the former custom of the Concan is understood to be
at variance with the_ Ilintloo law.; but on a similar occurrence
in June preceding, orders were given to the Sirkumaviesdar by
the Magistrates, to prevent any woman in future burning with
only the bones of her husband.
The Magistrates considering the subject of suttees generally
to.he one of a very delicate and difficult nature, rather than act
as would be regular in ordinary cases of Magisterial duty,
thought proper to solicit our• instruction without in the mean-
time unerfering with the parties.
We beg to refer to the sentiments monied on the occasion t
we considered the Sirkumaviesdar of Rutnagecry to have done
his duty in prohibiting the suttee, and the disregard of his pro.
hibition illegal and justly punishable; that such a step in this
instance would have been highly impolitic, and Mr. Sparrow
showed great prudence and judgment in forbearing to adopt it.
If there be any doubt that it would give offence to interrupt the
burning of a suttee, there can be none that it would excite
great disguato punish the deed when it was actually performed;
and as it is , not at ell. Improbable that it would excite a
spirit of discontent, if not of opposition, we, therefore, con-
sidered it expedient that no farther notice should be taken of
' this transaction. •
The species of defeat suffered in this instance led us to doubt
the policy of die circular orders themselves ; it is possible that
the authority of the written law May be greater among the
Hindoos of Bengal, than among those of the Deckan ; and it
is more than probable that the long subjection of the former to
a Mahomedan Government has made them mere submissive in
points of this nature, than the Mahrattas, who have now been
under a government peculiarly devoted to their own religion.
It might for these reasons be safe to enforce the orders in the
one place, and dangerous in the other. In the Mahratta coun-
try it is known to be the practice for women to burn, not only
with the bones of their husbands, but with his turban or his
dagger ; this may be contrary, to the Shaster, but the Shaster is
winded to no attention,• except as it is the object of popular
veneration ;- and if the attachment of the people be in this in-
sistatloicethteracnus
custom,
custom
med
that
int
we
eie
owurgithtten law to rheatoattend ;ratrien rather,
than incur the smallest risk of exciting, not the opposition
alone, but the jealousy of the natives, we have suspended the
orders of the sth October, 1010, and beg to refer your lion.
Court to our instructions on the occasion.
'The prejudices of the natives arc rapidly giving way to the
I effect of our example ; at no very distant period the worst of
their delusions will, we trust, vanish of themselves before the
general diffusion of knowledge. By attempting to lop off one
branch of their superstition, we run the risk of interrupting the
progress of those causes which are already consuming it at the
root.
It is undoubtedly the policy of our Government to ab-
stain froth interference with the religious opinions anti pre-
judicew of the natives ; and it is, therefore, upon an intel-
ligible ground that you have adopted the rule which permits
the sacrifice, when it is clearly voluntary, and conformable to
the Hindoo Religion, and authoritatively prevents it in all other
cases _ - '' • •

7 -
It is, moreover, with much reluctance that we can con.
sent to make the 'British Government, by a specific permis-
sion of the suttee, an ostensible party to the sacrifice we are
averse also to the practice of making British Courts ex-
pounders and vindicators of the Hindoo Religion, when it
leads to acts which, not less as legislators than as Christians,
we abominate.
This reasoning we will at present push no further than to
enjoin you, for this as well as for other considerations, to inter-
fere as little as possible, &e.
Instances of this nature, therefore, would not warrant us to
authorise a general prohibition. But connected with the opi-
nions expressed by many intelligent men, that the practice of
suttee is not a tenet of religion to which the people arc enthu-
is,irai setsitcsaol lry r
ealtat at
icohnesl,ol3l
eusteriant
tearn suns nolifups
ae
r, t
Lolls t
successcte bydi
on tleerileds teuist
to regard the notion of prohibition, modified according to cir-
cumstances, of this barbarous custom with rather less of appre-
hension than it has generally produced., We say this without
hesitation, &c.

Abstract statement of the-number of II indoo Widows who were
_ burnt, or buriedsalive, in Zillah and Cities

Calcutta Division-1817, 428 ; 1818, 553 ; 1819,3118 ; 1920,
337 ; 1821, 364.
Cuttak Commission-1817, 14 ; 1818, 11 ; 1819, 33 ; 1820,
33; 1821, 28.
Dacca Division-1817, 52; 1818, 58 ; 1819, 55 ; 1820, 51;
1821, W.
Aloorshetlabad Division-1817, 42 ; 1818, 30; 1819, 25;
1820, 21; 1821, 12.
Patnah Division-1817, 49 ; 1810, 57 ; 1819, 40 ; 1820, 43
1821, 69.
Bareilly Division-1817, 19 ; 11118, 13 ; 1819,17 ; 1820,M
1831, 15.
Benares Division-1017, 103; 1818, 137 ; 1819, 92; 1829
103 ; 1821, 114.
brand Total-1817, 707; 1818, 839 ; 1819, 605 ; 1820,597
1821, 6:A.
(Signed)

W. H. MACNAUGHTEN,
Acting Regicer.

PROVIDENTIAL EscArt.—The neighbourhood
of St. in Shrewsbury, was thrown into great alarm
about six o'clock on Tuesday morning, by t;le cries of a male
and female in the upper story of the house of Dr. Lawrence. In
a few moments a large concourse of people assembled near the
spot, and were horrorstruck to see a young man, in the service
of Dr. Lawrence, hanging by his hands from the leads upon the
top part of the house, and held by one. leg by a nearly naked
woman leaning through the upper garret window. The terrified
woman, in a few moments afterwards, fainted away, and the
young man, being. unable to maintain his hold, fell into the
arms of an heroic miner), who first saw him in his perilous
situation; and, wonderful to say, neither of them sustained any
injury. The unfortunate man had been afflicted with delirium.
~-(Stolbrdshire Advertiser.)

MAYOR'S COURT:

ATTACHMENT UPON THE PROPERTV OF THE CO.'

LOIIBTAN GOVERNMENT.

In consequence of an affidavit tiled In the Mayor's Court,
he enormous sum of 3711,0001., which lies in the hands of Lynn

Abraham Goldsmidt and Co., hat been attached. The affida-
vit was that of Thomas Ambrose Edwards, of Surrey-street,
Strand, and it stated that the Government of the. Republic of'

polombia was justly and truly indebted to him, and one Samuel
Penfold Thomas, the assignee of Edwards, in the sum of

3713,00N01., upon two sets of bills of exchange drawn by himi,

and accepted by Don Lewis hopes Blendei, deputy of the Go-
vernment of Venezuela, now calling itself the “oternment of
Colombia, in the name and on behalf of that Government; that,
the bills were made payable at a certain day now past, to the
order olJames Ludovzc Grant, and by him endorsed to Ed..

wards, who was lately discharged as an insolvent debtor, and
that no oiler had been made to pay the said suni of T78,000t.,
or an' part thereof, in any note or notes of the Ocriternot And
Company of the Bank of England.
Yesterday, before the RT.:council, Jr. BARNARD, one,or
City Counsel, rose to move the Court to tot aside the action
altogether, as one wholly incapable of being maintained upon
any principle of common la* or common sense—as a thing, RI
fact, amounting to a complete nullity. The firm of Goldsmidt
and Co. were sued as the garnishees in a case which represented
the Colombian Government as the defendant. It weight:she.;
lievod, the first time that ever the Goverment of any country
was made party to a.suit of any kind • and it was still more
extraordinary that a Government should be made a party to a
personal action of debt. In every proceeding for the recovery
,of debt, each step was in persona ; when a capias was to be
made, it could not he made but in persona : the process fur
compelling an appearance was inevitably subject to a similar
'form. In the case of a corporation, which might be consi-
dered somewhat analogous, the attorney for that corporation
must be sued, and not the body itself. But, to sue n Go-
vernment for money, struck him as 'one of the most palpable
ebsurdities by which a commercial people could be deceived:
IVhat did Government mean but the effect produced by the
operation of the functions of the governors towards the go-
verned ?
The RECORDER.—" Vou certainly have stated enough to
show that you are entitled to a rule to show cause."
Mr.-Ba Otani) said the object of his motion was to have the
whole proceedings act aside as a nullity, and he trusted that the
result of his application would have a tendency to put down
the very injurious practice which so materially prejudiced com-
mercial dealings--the practice of resorting to the Mayor's Court,
in order to be supplied with a power to be exercised in jobbing
in the stocks. It would be most desirable that the person who
presided in the Mayor's Court should express his opinion as
to the consequences likely to arise from suing out attachments
when the parties who asserted their claim never entertained
the most distant idea of prosecuting it to a termination. If
the Recorder would publicly declare the mischiefs arising'
film that practice, confidence would be restored in roman•
tile relations, and the franchises of the citizens of London would
not he so subject to violation. Ile (AIL Barnard) would not
say whether the action had been entered inadvertently, or whe-
ther the whole proceedings were a mere pretence, for the Pur-
pose of serving the gambling adventurers on the Stock
change. The process, however, could not have been issued out
without the privity of some of the officers of the Mayor's Court.
who of course were in some degree chargeable with the fact of
attaching where there could be no legal redress.
The RECORDER said he did not know that he could set aside
the action itself, but he thought it would fully answer the
Learned Counsel's view to put an end to the attachment, which
certainly did not appear to the Court to be at all maintainable.
Mr. 11AttxAnD said he founded his motion upon the high
ground of the mere nonsense of suing a GoVernment for a MIDI
of money. Such a thing had never been heard of before; and
the rule for which he applied ought, he submitted, to be made
absolute at once. The toleration of such a practice as that to
which he had alluded would do immense injury. He Would ask
any man in his senses, whether he believed that either the
plaintiff or any one else ever enertained an idea of making
a direct or legal use of the attachment against the Colom-
bian Government ? When the case was put into his hands, it
immediately occurred to him that the measure had been taken
for the ►purpose of affiatting the Colombian stock in the mar-
ket. The sum of 378,0004 had been now two months locked
up, anti it was taken care that the attachment should be
sued out on the I.lth of July, the day preceding the great
settling day, and the fact was notified in all the pacers.—
It was done, too, under circumstances which rendered it impos-
sible to proceed forthwith for the removal of the process. To
say that the stock suffered no depreciation in consequence of
the attachment, would be to talk absurdly, and no ono could
doubt that if the Colombian Government wanted the money
thus locked up to meet the exigencies of the State, and could
not get it, they would resort to another loan, and necessarily de-
preciate the price of the Colombian stock then in the market.
The holders of the stock must of course be affected, and the
Court would say whether, in a country where regularity and
punctuality of commercial transactions were so positively ne-
scteasbs
ility apr law,oc process sstbtfa
usludebha a
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et el
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cumstances which made it the instrument of extensive public
mischief.
The RECORDER said, he certainly was of opinion that com-
mon bail should be filed tinder the circumstances stated. It
was, indeed, a most extraordinary sort of proceeding to sue a
Government. The plaintiff might as well sue a whole nation.
How such an idea as that of compelling n Government to pay a
debt to an individual by such a process could enter into any
man's head, he could not guess. He should direct that com-
mon bail be filed, and that a rule be granted to show cause
why all the proceedings should not be set aside.
This was accordingly done. The attachment has been, by
this determination of, the Court, rendered null and void.
NVACTOII 0. TILE BOVERNMEITT OF COLOMBIA.
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Mr. 11.tuN Ait n applied for the same rule in this ease. The
plaintiff' issued out an attachment against Messrs. Golds-
chmidt and Co., upon an affidavit, stating that Simon Bolivar
and others, styling and calling themselves the Govern-
ment of the Republic of Colombia, owed him the 'sum of
17,96 N. 4s. did., the balance due for money paid by him for
that Government, and also for work done for that Govern-
ment, and for their use, and by their direction : that all this
had been sanctioned, approved, and agreed to by Simon :Roll-
var, on behalf of himself as Chief, and on behalf general' of
the Government, anti that Simon Bolivar, and the others, were
the persons calling themselves, and the individuals constituting
thatOovernmentnt was not stated,slr. Barnard said, that those
persons were the individuals forming the Oovernment at the
time the money was said to have been lent. Republics more
frequently varied than any other form of government vend it
would, indeed, be extraordinary if one set of governors were to
pay for what had been contracted by another. Rut supposing
them to be liable, how was a capita to reach them, and bring
them over? Without any fitrther comment, he moved for au
len;rsue'e'is„"lttiyniolgiuninYg therefore, was. whether' a set
order similar to that granted in the last case.
materially different from the former He admitted, at.once;
; kind
i)aeli 'llt ealt7Cdt adapted
withcb mischievous..
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11):
lit:lll,l4%dt it:ange
Mr. BOLLAND, for the plaintiff, argued that thiotsrohvciepnarnsertygeitlwhaoasft
iitivritocchFsa:a,agy:inst the Geyteicrtt:
legal responsibilt t
apartnership in a political concern; were
egreantyo raise a large sum Yof
itlrriwn
from the consequences of
themselves a state. The Lord Chin
haililut beenlr.
Walton"
o niB
Thec 1 attachmentn il' a untouched
iwa a
stet
vaei
anis' ytt
htaehneyop
ooti olff°lc come personsvi itnlroe I.
nahneb iiiar.tlirhtnietnTi goil
contracteihne
sue under d
teor the
recognisenam e of
Colombiat he Govern.a,s a
proved that Bolivar's money was
been sued out.. If' not,
mn_se
en
subjectt
a:oiInoop
ahter.
yeoyt,thhli*
toaneani
:Colombia,tdf,tasoahfact,
thenntby,iailetcattachment;
calling
else
0: 0
stiris enti.igaiageddlalti:,without
hve themselvesnwie
tti:colnl
Ifsi
adventurers
hail
men were to be considered as justified in coming to this country
and making plunder of the property
that the motion in this
thus left without the chance of retribution.
The natives,
wil?
succeed. The averment stated., that
was not averred who the Governmenlltiro:eNrlera;
to TBhOclivßaErcanc'tilmthr:totsiateitrl: aswere
that Bolivar and the others
show cause
rule Commonto os orderedstthyeleatothbe Government
I filedl v el
;it ofott then‘
wleacthisftes::ltille:atvlemhsnereel) ire:: nlsaty:tit:Taglendalnes:ltYdat.
set aside granted.. why the whole proceedings should nut be