The Sun.
London, England, 1833-01-11 00:00:00

ROLLS COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

The MASTER. of the ROLLS sat at Westminster to-day
at two o'clock, and took petitions, none of which pos-
sessed any point of public interest.

VICE-CHANCERY COURT.-(THIS DAY.

This being the first day of Hilary Term his Honour, the
VICE-CHANCELLOR, did not sit till near 2 o'clock, having
to breakfast with the Lord-Chancellor, the other Judges,
Masters in Chancery, and King's Counsel. The Court
took motions, but nothing worth reporting had come be-
fore the Court when our reporter left.

KING'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)

CRIMINAL INFORMATION.

Their Lordships came into Court at about a quarter to
2 o'clock. After one or two motions bad been disposed of
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL moved for a rule calling
upon a gentleman named Meggy and two others, pro-
prietors of the Chelmsford Chronicle, to show cause
why a criminal information should not issue against them
for a libel published in theirjournal upon the character of the
Right Hon. Michael Angelo Taylor. Mr. Taylor made this
application with great reluctance, but he found that he
had no alternative left him to clear his character from a
gross imputation. From the affidavits it appeared that
Mr. Taylor was a candidate at the recent election for Sud-
bury ; the other candidates were Sir John Walsh and Mr.
Wrangham. Mr. Taylor and Sir John Walsh were re-
turned, and the charge brought against Mr. Taylor
was, that he carried his election by means of bribery.
If that charge were true, it would materially affect
the long, consistent, and honourable career, of Mr. Tay-
lor's political life. He stated in his affidavit that it was
wholly false and groundless, for that be had never before,
at or since the election, directly or indirectly, by himself
or by any other person, to his knowledge, practised any
bribery or corruption whatever, or bad promised any
reward or emolument, to any person for voting,
procuring votes or refraining ifrom voting; and that
neither he nor his agents or supporters, to his knowledge
paid or promised to pay any thing beyond the legal ex-
penses of the election. The Solictor-General said the
denial of the charge by Mr. Taylor was most ample and
complete. After the election article appeared in the Chelms-
ford Chronicle, purporting to be the report of a certain
meeting, which was held at Braintree, in Essex, for the no-
mination of candidates for the northern division of that
county, and at that meeting Mr. Alex. Baring, one of the
candidates, was made to say, that, as to Sudbury, there
could not be found a better man than Mr. Wrangham,
who went there and found himself strongly supported ;
that a Whig—as old a Whig as Mr. Western, (a
candidate in opposition to Mr. Baring)—went to
Sudbury, and the consequence was that the electors
came to the poll with Conservative favors in their hats,
and Whig money in their pockets ; that in no one part or
place in the country Iliad there been greater corruption
than was practised by " this veteran Whig" at Sudbury.
Mr. Taylor had swor❑ that he believed he was the person
alluded to as the " vetera❑ Whig." In his affidavit he
detailed the correspondence which had passed between him
and Mr. Baring, upon the subject of the expressions, in
order to show, that if Mr. Baring had admitted he used
the expressions, and applied them to Mr. Taylor, that
gentleman would not have felt himself compelled to pro-
ceed against the printers of the newspaper. But
Mr. Baring's answers were very unequivocal—not dis-
tinctly denying the charge, and not admitting or denying
that Mr. Tay'or was alluded to. Their Lordships would
see that the charge was a very serious one; for if it were
true, the effect of it would be to expel Mr. Taylor from
the House of Commons.
The CHIEF JUSTICE, on conferring with the other
Judges, said that the only question in their minds was
whether the individual bad been sufficiently pointed out.
Mr. Justice TAUNTON said the Court had no doubt of
he nature of the imputation.—A rule Nisi was then
;ranted.