The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-22 00:00:00

The Judge Ordinary told her she did not require an order
from the Court to do that. The Court could not interfere
at the present time. She could do as she pleased, whether
she made the application or not, and take the responsibility
of such a step. The Court had nothing to do with it.
Miss Sheddon said she should like to inform the Court
why she did not then make the application.
The Judge•Ordinery said there was no necessity for her
doing so. If the application was made on a future day the
Court might say that it was made late, and then the rea-
sons could be stated, which might or might not be consi-
dered sufficient.
Miss Sheddon said she would not urge the point further.
At the termination of the former trial the whole of the
papers that had been produced in court were returned to Mr.
William Patrick, who since that time had died. Now, as
a great number of those documents had come upon her by
surprise she begged the Court would make an order to
enable her, or her counsel, to inspect such portions of them,
under proper supervision, as might be thought necessary.
A statement had been made by the Court that her father
had surreptitiously abstracted certain documents from the
Court of Session, but that statement she could only think
had been made by parties who had the greenest interest in

the proceedings. She altogether denied that any of the
papers had been obtained wrongfully by her father ;
the papers had been obtained by herself, and
if anything of a surreptitious nature had been done, which
she utterly denied, she:was the person responsible. Her
father had never set foot in Scotland after the year 1852,
and it was not until the hearing that herself or father
heard that there was any such charge against them, and

they had been taken completely by surprise, as also by the
production of documents which had been withheld frornher
inspection. It was absolutely necessary in order fiat her
counsel should be in a position properly to make
out aldavits to be used in making the motion
for a rehearing, and which documents were believed to be
in the hands of Mr. Carmen and Mr. M'Kewan, two of the
trustees of the late Mr. William Patrick. She also desired
that these gentlemen be called upon to appear at the hear-
, ing, and to produce the documents, more especially a letter
dated June 14, 1839, and the letters of Dec., 1798 and 1799,
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and also the bond for £4,000, said to have been executed by

her grandfather, which she asserted was a forgery. Her
fwkbnr had been moat relentleatly persecuted tor
fourteen years, and for the last four years
and a half ho had been confined in prison,
but on Saturday last he was restored to liberty, and no one
but a daughter whose parent was placed as hers had been
could feel the joy she felt at such a moment. He had not
had the opportunity of c'osely and minutely looking over
the papers, and now that ',he was at liberty she trusted that,
under proper supervision, they might be allowed to exa-
mine and take copies of such as they thought most mate-
rial. It was true that, towards the close of the
former trial, she had been allowed about twenty mi-
nutes' inspection of the documents that had occasioned her
so much surprise. Her father being in prison, she was
accompanied by Mr. Nethereliff, an expert in handwriting,
and while that gentleman was occupied making his notes
Mr. Carmen's ;conduct was such that to preserve self-
respeet she was compelled to leave the roan. Mr. Miller,
who was also present, was excessively insolent; and having
had to endure it once she would take eare she did not suffer
the same indignity again. Scott had truthfully drawn the
pieture of a daughter defending her aged father ; and
Glossin, they all knew, did not scruple to turn round and
insult that girl. She could not say how extremely
difficult she felt her present position, but
as there could be little trouble and expense in granting her
request, she! implored the court "to grant it. It was a
duty it held to itself as well as justice to her father. If the
court had been misled into making statements that were
inconsistent with the fact, it was but right such should be
most rigidly examined into—justice demanded that the
charges should be searchingly investigated, and she felt
certain, if it should appear that the court had
been wilfully misled, it well knew how to vindi-
cate its own dignity. She pleaded thus earnestly on
this point because her counsel, Mr. Collier, had
not read or even seen some of the documents, and it would be
impossible for him to master the difficulties with which the
case was surrounded without the fullest information. She
did not wish for anything that was unreasonable, and surely
it could not be considered so by her asking that the 'par-
ties at present having the custody of the papers of the late
Mr. William Patrick should be cited to that court to pro-
duce them.
Dr. Deane said he appeared for the respondents.
The Judge Ordinary thought he had no locus stanch:.
There was, in fact, nothing before the Court. Miss Shed-
don had, as he understood the case, made three applica-
tions to the Court first, that the time for making
the application for the rehearing of the suit might
be postponed. Secondly, that certain documents should be
inspected and copied by order of the Court ; and, thirdly,
that certain persons be cited to appear with those docu-
ments. With respect to the first there was no occasion
to apply to the Court to grant further time for making the
application for reopening the case. When the upplication
wuUICI Os the proper time tor the Court to
say whether the reasons offered justified the application, as
the Court could not deal with it. With reference to the
productionof the documents referred to, they related to a
suit that had been before the Court. That suit had ter-
minated, there had been a judgment, and the documents
were retained in the hands of the parties who had produced
them in court, and he could not at the present moment
order their production for the purpose Miss Sheddon re-
quired. With respect to citing certain persons to appear,
there was as yet no proceeding or suit in that court to
attend which he could cite them. As he had said before,
there had been a suit and there had been a judgment; and
if an application to re-hear that case was to be made, the
Court would then hear patiently all the reasons that could
be advanced for such a proceeding.
The other Judges concurred with the Judge Ordinary.
Miss Sheddon thanked the Court for its attention, and
withdrew with her father and friends.

SHERIFFS' COURT.
(Before the Assistant Judge.)