The Sun.
London, England, 1802-05-24 00:00:00

CASE OF JOHN CHAMBERS.

Mr. GAR ww moved for the Master's Reportin
this case. The Master reported that the Defendant,
John Chambers, was an attorney of that Cotrt,
who had been attached, and ordered to be exatniied
by him on interrogatories.- He had proceeded to
examine him, and his'rerport was, " That the Pe-
fendant's ConduEt was incorrect;" but of the cror-
mity of it the Court would judge : he .only repored
nim to be in contempt.
Mr. Justice GROSE asked Mr. 'rskine whetlef
he had any thing to say on behalf of the Deendani

Mr. ERSKINI said, that the Defendant. was ex-
mined updn interrogatories, and a great deal de-
pended upon how the answers were given.
Mr. Justice LAWRENCE said, that the Report
was this, " That the Defendant took a warrant
attorney toenter np judgment for his. father against
a person to whom he had lent a sum of Money.—
That when that sum became due, he took another
warrant of attorney for the 'same money,- without
advancing any fresh sum of money, and re-
peated this praEtice several times, to the intolerable
grievance of the Party to whom this Money was
advanced." -
M. GARRow said, that this case was very like
Usury.
Mr. Justice GROSE said, it certainly was so.
Mr. ERsKlNE,said, that the Defendant was an
Attorney, .a very young man, and entirely in the
hands of his Father, who led him into this business
for his own gain.
Mr. Grua*. said it was impossible that either
himself or his Learned Friend, Mr..gkskiNE, could
say any thing in extenuation of the offence itself,
which the Master had fixed upon the Defendant, and
by his report, the Defendant wa&in contempt ; but he
believed the Court would see that he was, as his
Learned Friend, Mr. EksRLNE, had stated, entirely
under the influence of his Father, and it was need-
less to say any more. •
Mr. GARRow 'said he. was for The PrOsecution
in this Case, and he believed. the father was as much

the greater as he was the older offender of the two,

but this young man had been the instrwnent of
great oppression to the perwn who brought him to
Justice, and therefore could not_be passed over ; he
had rather, however, have had to pray a Judgment
against the father, for it appeared that this was a
trade carried on at a public-house in Fleet-street,
where poor people were accommodate with, small
sums of money. The father advanced it. The

son drew a Warrant of Attorney to enter up Judg-
ment in case the money was not paid upon a given
day ; another Warrant was given for the same sum
Of money, to the disgrace of the Ministers of the
La.ru tex t tr:ts;,,ts path.. Pngr
Mr. Justice GRosE asked, whether the prose_
cutor, in this case, was in a situation that made the
costs of it an object to him ?
Mr. GARROW said, the prosecutor was,2 very
needy man, or else he would never have been the ob_
jed of the griping avarice 'of the Defendant's father.
Mr. Justice GRosE.— " I think this is a very
bad case ; if it.be not usury it is very near it. It
is, besides a gross abuse of the office of an Attor-

ney, who is a Minister of the Law, sworn to at
faithfully in that character, and who, instead of
committing such an offence, ought to have brciught
before this Court tiny other whynn he knew to have
committed it.
.It is impossible that he should con-
tinue a Minister of this Court ; he must thereiore
be struck off the Rolls ; and he must. also pay
the costs of this proceeding against him, at4l let
him understand (whatever he may think of it him-
'self), we ,consider this a very slight punishment for
such an offence ; but he is a very young man, and
may have been, as stated at the Bar, too much under
the influence of his Father in this proceeding. If
he cannot pay the Costs, he must stand committed.
• The father then came into Court, and entered
into a Rtile to pay the costs, with which Mr. GAR-
ROW yid he was satisfied on the part of the prose-
.cution, and therefore the Defendant. was allowed to
go at large with the punishment Only of being struck
'off the Roll.

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