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PUILUC DIS TftSS.

Lord MILTON said he hail a few day. ago put a quest-i4OO
the Right lion, Gentleman opposite upon the subject .of Oink
of wont), for the • relief of public distress, Ile hoped that:out:4i
clew time had now elapsed to have enalihar lii Majesty-e,XtiniZ.
stern to MAIO up their mind,. The night Bon. Gentleman. litid
upon the former occasion Suggested to him that an answer shoiad
bo delayed until his 'lion. Friend, the Member for Cr' monti)±,.:.
brotyht forward his motion upon the subject. Now itappesiek
him from the nature of .the business for, tn-inorrow night,,-it
wz,s probable either thit the motion would not come on at ell,, br.
tlisit, it would be driVen.to so late a period of the evenirlit em Kin
to receive it* proper attention. Besides this, there were. reports
abroad, he knew not how true, that other. he,should not hove many .
opportunities of putting the question. , • .
r. Secretary CANNING said that. when ,the. Noble: Lord.
had mentioned this tubjent bcfurs,,..he (Mr. CO stated that no-•
tice bad been given of c motion, upon the briogingiorwariof
which motion, he should be preparedto explain What Abe views-
intentions of the Government Were. That motion stood,forto"-•
moirriw, iMd he could therefore only 1'4,934 the-earn answer.- But:•
in the case EATlmed by. the INoble Lord--.that any thing ihrirld
occur to put the motion ott then Ile, assut•ed the Noble Lord thats...
he 'should .not refuse to answer his,,question. '
Mr. 1'..111901ir.• sold that 'hi. speech, would be one of
shorten heltad ever nutele,,hsid be,hopid to prevail upon his 110 n,".%
and Learned, Friend (Mr. Broughatn) to give his motion ;WA.
priority. •
BluTisii eittkoLies. •
Lord NuCiENT rose to present a petition. from the. Roman ;I,
Catholics of Great Britain, praying for Eimuiuipa.tion. He bore '
testimony to the reepectabilitrcit the petitioners, and sued that theie
coridUct wax most; exemplary.. They once more presented their_
case to the Ilouse, and prayed for die total removal of the -pollSits+lo.
disqualifications under
,which they. or any other portion of, hist
Majesty's sobjtcts laboured.— Ordered to be. printed.
. CORN RETURNS. • " •
Crown,
Mr. E. WODICIIOUSZ moved an Address to the Crown, prayl
ing that the attention of his Majesty's (Jovernment Inky eettiv',
tinue to be'directed to the prices of Corn in Foreigii Stites, ands
that .the Consuls at the different Ports be directed to comuuttucate
the saMe.
Mr. Secretary CANNING mid, that the iriatiokprtloised
practical result.. -If his Honourable Friend could suggest any
questions or form to be rent to the Console it should be pt
tended to., •
Colonel WOOD said that the raptor/1i upon the land *Cat
produced the corn mist also be algeertained before there could be
any settlement eif the questiori.—The motion was agreed to.

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CORN RILLS.
Upon ao !notion arm., ibairofs the Cora irupqrtation, .and
the Warehousing of Cora Bills wore rend a third time and passed.
The Westminster Improvet:oeut Bill passed through A boa..
rnittee.

CHANCERY. ' '
The ATTORNEY-GENERA". row for the purpose of.moviugs
for leave to bring in a Dill founded. upon the revotutueodatiosut of
the Commission appointed to inquire into the practice of Ow,
Conti of Chancery. He was not one of that Gooatoiniout but • this duty 'devolved upon hint as belonging to the official aituatites ' •
which he had the honour to:bold. The Mouse would be aware .
that upon, an °session like the. present, a.fter, the various allusioas
that had been made to,the nai4re,AE „this inquiry, sad after the t
debates which had frt:qurntly taken place upon shit-whole sabiectihe must tarcaa+~ar?l} ,
trclpass upon a consitlerahleliottion of theiS, .-
time. It mould tfe necessary for him to enter into the manner -
which the Conirnissiotteri had cane their duty, to call the atteu.
tion of the Ilmelo to tip. poiuts wbich had occupied titeixiangariri•
and to explain the nature of the nicasures which they resew ,as
ed for the adoption aci,Arlimuolt, The Howie '4VC'tad
in doing this he gihiii,VeicteSarilY have to g9j4ti) 1°9074 Room
Many obiervatiens,liad bed made both tin an 4 out at bran
a_
upon the cOrnpositi46 of the., Connuit,etpla
poi.ted to itudertake that to uiY ice., vd`eu tithe that
,outitutetl._
nothing good could batqpectchi tr.otti A ottt ,v 4.4
Indeed be had heard it bald in that th)ore,
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thought it impassible that a Commission could have been
formed of men of longer experience, of greater talent, or of more
habitual acquaintance with the points requiring investigation.
Then it was said that their prejudices were of such a nature, as
to preclude the possibility of their decisions leading to any ime
• , portant result. Now, he begged to appeal to all who had ate
tended to the conduct of the Commissioners, to some wins were
bis friends, and to some with whom he generally differed
•mpon political questions, and he would confidently ask them
vtether they had ever witnessed, •• in any inquiry whatever,
,a
&eater portion of fairness, liberality, and candour. Ile was not
one of the Commission, but be had not been an inattentive ob-
erv.er of its proceedings; and 1w would take upon hiniself to say,
' that no anggestien -of abuse was ever made, but it received
immediate and Ample. attention, it was impossible for the
Couniiisaitiners to pursue a mere- judicious course than they had
- dome inelayiag, the evideuce before • the • House. If that evi-
. deuce heho ou the table, the day after the bringing
. up of. the -114aort, some Honourable Gentleman would certainly
totve moved for the printing of the whole of it. If they had
selected such portions of the evidence as they might deem most'
• clear and ivatructive, they would be charged with having garbled
the subject, They therefore could obviate all objection only by
eying the whole body of the evidence before the Howe. To
thin course he could not anticipate any objection from his Hen.
41113 Learned Friend the Member for Winclieleea ; for that Hon.
' Gentleman, had said on a former occasion, that he hoped
°armament would nut be satisfied with barely furnishing
a MOW, but that they would lay before the House all the evi-
dent. He thought himself bound to state the manner in which
-the Commissioners received the evidence presented to them.—
Mori requested the attendance of all those who were best caleu-
. kited to furnish information on the subject of their inquiry ; but
`they im no instance refused the evidence of any individual who had
. atry complaint to make •or any stiggestion to offer. Further, to
rovezit the possibility of mistake, after the evidence was taken
down,a copy of it was transmitted to the witness, that its cor-
redness might be completely ascertained. The Commission was
all through conducted with au anxioto desire on the part of the
members who compwed it, to remedy whatever abuses or delays
might be found to exist in the practice of the Court of Chancery.
—llere, it was important to consider, what had been thrown out
on this subject as to a more extensive reform. Some there were
who held that the jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery ought to
be entirely abolished, as being an encroachment upon the Corn,
'coon Law of the country. Now, if this opinion were well-
lostaded, the labours of the Commissioner* had been altogether
• misdirected. Instead of enquiring into the abuses which pre-
' veiled; and applying, appropriate remedies, their business simply
was to abolish the whole jurisdiction. Now, with a view to
• .a fide consideration of the subject, he hoped the House would
• indulge' him while he proceeded to point out some of the
principal objects of that •juristiejion, and those objects would
stuffiCiently demonstrate the necessity of th.r jurisdiction itself.—
qu'the -first place, then, all real property vested in trusts was
. exclusively an object of
_Equity Jurisdiction, as related to en-
forcinkthe perforinanee of those trusts. Personal property alio
was frequently ,vested in a similar way for express and im-
plied trusts of :infinite variety. It was clearly necessary that
jurisdiction ..elsuld somewhere exist to• enforce the perform-
ance of those 'trusts ; but a Court 4f Common Law had no
such jurisdiction. Again, it was right that a power should reside
somewhere to issue injunctions, in the several eases; which re-
spared such relief. To instance a single case : when a copyright
was invaded, at common law, after the delay perhaps oho year,
damages might be recovered for the injury sustained ; but in the
interval of that long period the injury went on uninterrupted :
.sad he knew no remedy which could be opposed to the evil,
but that which lay within the province of a Court of Equity.
Again, the specific performance of contracts formed another
subject for the exercise of the Chancellor's jurisdiction. Here,
'too, damages tr non-performance might be awarded at common
- Jaw ; but•the remedy was frequently quite inadequate: for if a
party became insolvent, the plaintiff was left altogether without
• relief, as the law courts had no power to compel specific perform-
ance; and hence appeared the necessity of a jurisdiction capable
of affording the proper redress. Neither could accounts between

partners b litigated in a Court of Common Law. • They each,-
• sively belonged to the jurisdiction of a Court of Equity, as did
also the infinite 'nirober of cases relating to fraudulent transac-
tloas,—for a Common Law Court could not compel an instrument
obtained by fraud to be delivered up in order to be cancelled.--
...All cases too regarding infanta and married women could only.
4 entertained in Equity, and when so many and important in-
terests were to be served, he would put it to the House whether
a jurisdiction by which they were guarded, could be dispensed
with. The question now presented itself, by what Courts that
-,uristlictien ought to he exercised. It was plain that the juris-
dictina must either continue to reside as heretofore, in a separate
I,:eirrt, or it must be engrafted on the Courts of Common Law.
the latter course Wars to be preferred, according to the cog-
gestions of some, they' mast necessarily double the number of
lorrartion Law Courts to meet the emisequetit increase or Wed-
./rem, and those Courts should alternately bear Equity Causes one
day. aud Common Law causes another; so that even then the juris-
elietious though nominally the same would -he really distinct.
Again, it should be centidered that great attention mutt be paid to
the Common I.aw in order to the due administration of justice.
No less attention•waa necessary for a proper discharge of duty
is the' Courta of Equity, the administration of which was quite
different from the former, and if they united the systems, could
Itbe expected that the Judges could poems the same erten-
-sire information which they did while the jurisdictions were
separate: Purauing the suggestion thrown out by an Honour-
able Friend near him, he would adVert to an instance of the
united jurisdiction, as it existed in the Court of Exchequer—not
jeitlead in its present state, but as it was constituted up to the
*riorie. of the last century. Now while that Court possessed a
double jurisdiction, every one who was concerned in a common
law case wished to have it tried in the Court of King's. Bench ra-
ther than in the Exchequer; and the stilton, in Equity causes
gave a similar preference, to,
.the Court of Chancery. The in-.
convenience arising from the mixture of the two systems was
lass great, that an ifonourable . Member on the other aide of the
Douse once brought is a Bill, the object of which was to
separate the jurisdictions; and the consequence eventually was
arrangemenfaccording. to which the Chief Baron held the
Juriedfction in s separate Court, while the other
threes in smother nourt presided only in cases of Common Law.
if then the Jurisdiction were admitted to be necessary, and
if it ought to be *operate, could they, he would ask,
eitaner oubstatice of the machinery of that jurisdiction,
oluni-ly, the proceeding by bill of complaint and answer upon
oeth. •Alte.r but that, and the whole jurisdiction was destroyed.
_Hew to what points was it necessary, that the attention of the
romomiseionere should be-directed. It was impossible for them
vt cuppose, that the jurisdictions should not be held in separate
Courts, or that the proceedings should not commence by bill
and answer. Laying this down as a principle, they directed
their attention to those which had the strongest claim upon it.
grhen they found complaints of expence arid delay, they rati-
onally-amid " let us examine the proceedings from the begin-
ning to the end of a suit, and correct the defects as they pre-
seat themvelvm." Thus far hie observations were of a general
nature, but they were necessary as tending to show the judi-
cious conduct of the Commissioners in the course of their
investigation. Ha now, eiglie to detail the particulars of .their
erimination. They
~ began with the Aubpatua. The com-
plaint against this was, that it conveyed no certain informa-
tion to unlettered men, to whom it might happen to be directed.
nil Objection the Cornmiasionere obviated by rendering the
lineage of the auhweint clear And intelligible,, so as• to explain
the precise object which it was designed to effect. The time al-
lowed foe entering an appearance, formed another ground of
cemplaiat. , la a town cause the prescribed time was abort, but
in eelenetey tine, it Was long. In the latter case, they corrected
due evil by abridging the-time ; and parties were bound to appear,
not indeed 440 apeeigyeer hi 'it town cause, but on a day specified.
According to the present tireitiee, when a defendant neglected to
Appear, an attachment domed, and being committed thereupon,
hr was brou3b4 tgi,to the ,Court hy habeas Corpus. If he Still
refusal to appear, an AppoTuace was entered- for him. The
conunisnansre, however,'Elieroftig the habeas:corpus an unneces-
sary' proceeding, hemmed the eapence and delay by enter-
in
iippearence fot-‘the 'defendant Immediately MI his being
taken into custody. After the appearene.e was entered, it was
big* important that a. fairs, time should be allowed for petting
iio awnswer. r that this time should be neither too
little,tior sob great;-:;and 'the regulation accordingly made limited
the period to ten weeks' in a country cause, and eight weeks in
a town eause. Hitherto; when a party refused to answer, he
was actsehed ; a habeas corpus then 'timed, upon which he was
brought up. ' If be still refused to answer, he was committed to
the neat. An Aticii-Wilt;.*Was then Served
,ppou him, and in
cases hit persistintqO' rear, then a Plurfes, and, finally,
an A Nag Piuries ; aitl Wei if cm Answer were filed, the Bill was
taheiepee emiessn. Oil evident that aU these procoeda
ingta were quite utineeemary ; tot when the defendant was esued
cuAL-niy, why
no'ntd ecessions he -,afihrded him to repeat
hts divoliedienes? 'The Cohitukailoners, therefore, conaiklerl
it to al Flowed the defendant for
the 4hortest time 6114''
firms,iia sowsr. 1,74,0 brought up, and on his neglecting
to put it in,',.the Bill 4,14 Itteo to be talcln 62/e_l."' Again,
401Tinsiurthe attachment pot Fie executed, and' the return of
Ale Mesa 4be e pus asierrnadiatu pro-
-o)twit• - -

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ceedings, a Commission of Rebellion was issued, and finally, a
sequestration. Now all these complicated details were removed
bp the Commissioners. As to the case of an answer filed, every
one knew that answers in equity were frequently evasive in
their character, and it was of course necessary that there should
be a power to compel a clear one. The plaintiff accordingly had
a right to except to an answer; and the exceptions were then ar-
gued before a Muster. But if the Master decided in favour of the
exceptions, the defendant could appeal to the Vice-Chaneellor,
and after the expiretion of three terms the decision of the latter
might confirm the Master's report. In order to show what
the Commissioners had done, he was bound to state the practice of
the Court as it existed.—(Hear,-Itear, !)-:-Froin the Vice-Chen-
cellor's decildon an appeal 1.. y to the Lord Chancellor; and after
considerable delay the previous decision was again confirmed.*
Still the party appeeling might if he pleased resort to the House
of Lords, and when- a year and a half elapsed, their Lordships
might finally decide that the defendant's answer was not sufficient,
and the only consequence was that he was then. obliged to file an-
other answer. For this purpose he had the same time which was
originally all Owed for his first answer ; and after all, his second
answer might ultimately be decided to he insufficient. ,Not until
the same dirision was ;tamed upon his third answer was it impe-
rative on him to put in a sufficient one. In each successive case,
the same round ut delay remained to be gone through in appeals
from the Muster to the Vice-Chancellor, front the Vice-
Chancellor to the Lord Chancellor, and from him eventually
to the House of Lords. It was only after three tinter, and
on filing his fourth answer, that the defendant was hound to
put in a good 'and sufficient answer on pain of being taken
into custody. He• did not say that all defendants availed them-
selves of these delays; but it was competent for any one who
pleased to der so according to a state of practice which existed
itt the time of Lord Chancellors Bacon, Nottingham, Somers,
Cambden, Hardwicke, and which continued up to the present
day. The question of Exceptions was one of exteme import-
ance, and by the regulation of the Commissioners the decision
of the Master was to be final. Moreover on deciding he was
to prescribe the time within which the defendant was bound
to put in a further answer. If the second answer were not
sufficient the Master again was to decide ' • and. on the insuffi-
cieney of the third answer the party was to be committed to cus-
tody. There was indeed a diversity of opinion as to the power
with which the master was thus invested ; but if he obtained
leave to bring in the Bill, they would have time to consider that
among other points of detail at a future stage, On this point the
Commissioners conceived that the Master ought to decide, unless
in such cases as be thought too important, anti which be would
therefore refer to a higher tribunal. Here it was observable how
greatly the Commissioners abridged the usual course of proceedings.
In some instances it happened, that after an answer was filed, the
plaintiff could go no further, the answer being full, and derisive
of the whole cause. But even in such a case the hill could not
be dismissed for less than three quarters of. a year, •and the de-
fendant during all that time was left unrelieved. And if then the
plaintiff took a mere formal step by tiling a replication, the
suit endured for three quarters of a year longer without any
further proceeding. Even then, if the plaintiff camel forward
and said, "I undertake to speed the enuee," he thereby gained
an additional term ; after the lapse of which he bad only to say,
" I now undertake to speed the cause with effect," and another
term was granted him for the purpose. Surely this called for a
remedy.--,-(Hear, hear, hear. )—The Commissioners abridged all
that unnecessary time to a single tel In common law there
were generally but few issues; but in Equity very many issues
constantly arose between the various parties, who were necessarily
included : and therefore no just comparison could be instituted
between the duration of a suit in both jurisdictions. Another
evil was, that almost in the last stage, and on the :eve of a Bill
being dismissed, a party might say, " I am advised to emend,"
and then on his paying nominal reside of a few shillings, the cause
began de novo with all its complicated proceedings. Now, here
the Commiesioners said to such party, " You shall not amend
after a certain stage, nor more than once, unless. for good and sub-
itantial reasons." Another check to the practice of amendment
was, that the party who hitherto paid only nominal costs was
now bound to pay the full costs of the amendment, which must
tend to prevent an abuse of the power. Thus far he hoped for
the support of the lion. Member for Caine, who on it former oc-
casion said that much might be done by a Committee in abridg-
ing the course of a cause from its commencement to its conclusion.
As to theitroceedings in Equity, when the plaintiff complained
by Bill, end answer was filed, if the parties required it, evidence
might then be taken before en Examiuer in writing, and lowing
been so taken it then went before the Judge. In questions of-
account, debt, and other points which could not well be investi-
gated in Court, reference was made to the Master, who reported
thereupon to the Court, and then the cause was in a state fur
final hearing and decision. The evidence was a very material'
point. 'Ss/lieu parties were at bailee, it was the practice for rat
Examiner to take down the evidence upon interrogatories pre-
viously prepared, and there was consequently no viva veer evi-
dence. (laving been brought op in the Courtm, of Common Law
he had been naturally against that mode of taking evidence.—
But on cdosideration he WAS induced to alter his opinion, on
a conviction that no advantage would be derived from a
change in the practice, but on the contrary that it would he
attended with some inconvenience. No advantage could fol-
low from viva coca testimony, for the evidence could nut be
heard by the judge without new-modelling the whole system,
and doubling or trebling the number of Judges. So that
if the system should still continue, and a Commissioner be
etnployed, all the advantage derivable from viva race evidence
would be lost, and the cause should be sent to a jury to try the
issue. The evils attending the change would be an increase in the
expellee and the length of the examinations. Ile had himself
witnessed much confusion in evidence taken before Commissioners
of Bankrupt. It was, therefore, better to adhere to the system,
such as it at present existed, than to resort to another, however
plausible in appearance. yet productive of certain inconvenience.
It was remarkable, that in the evidence taken before the Com-
missioners, one Gentleman of high character (Mr. Bell) declared
that he never knew of dissatisfaction arising from the decision of a
Judge, when be undertook to decide on a point of fact. There
was also a remarkable coincidence between the opinion of that
acute and intelligent gentleman and that expressed on the same
subject in another place, four or five years ago, by Mr. Kemp, the
'Chief Justice of New York.. [The. Hon. Gentlemen then read
the opinion of Mr. Kemp, which was in accordance with the an-
swer of Mr. Bell.] It was proposed by the Commissioners that
there should be no change for the admisision of oral evidence ; but
on this head an opportunity would be afforded for the expression of
other opinions. When points arose which should be referred to a
Muster, the inquiry before him could not, from its nature, be short,
us in the case of complicated questions of title, of debts, and other,
subjects of detail.. The Commissioner*, however; took care that
uo tune should be lost. At 'present the great cause of delay
was with the Master, because he was merely passive, and eat to
decide when the partite' came before him. If it so happened
that be decided in the absence of a party, the latter might ap-
ply as of course fur a re-heering. Now, when the cause of an
evil was found, the remedy, generally speaking, was easy. So
it was in the present case; the evil was removed by arming the
hands of the Master, awl this was done by the Commissioners.
The decree was made returnable within six weeks before the
Master. According to the present practice, between an appeal
from the Vice Chancellor to the Chancellor, a cloud. of new
affidavits usually intervened, 80 that the Chancellor really de-
cided on a new cause. The very 'Ware of appeal called in ques-
tion the judgment of the inferior tribunal, but from the accidental
circumstance of a supposed identity between the Chancellor and
the Vice Chancellor, new matter was permitted to be intro.
duced on re-hearing of a cause, and thence flowed_ much incon-
venience. Ile felt sure of the concurrence of the Honourable
Member for Caine, that in future there should he no appeal but
On *same facts before submitted ; and its effect would be to
diminish the number. of appeals. ' The number of Counsel, too,
would be diminished ; and though he vgretted this circum-
stance for the sake of the junior part of the profession, he felt
convinced that that public spirited body would submit with alacrity
to a regulation which had the general benefit fur. its object. In
page 120 of the Report, the untidier of Coons,' in one case, the
Bankruptcy of Howard and Gibbs was stated to be seven on one
side, and five on the other. In 'mother enes, eight Counsel on
each side were heard, and some of them from the King's Bench
bar ;peke at great length. The Chancellor heel to read all the
sffidavits; and in the case of " Senior v. Smith," eight Counsel
were heard no one side, and there were ninety-six affidavits.—
The business would really be better managed by two Counsel,
than by a greater number ; foe where five or six were employed,
via was itt the habit of depending on the other but two would
-
:fled it necessary to exert all their powere, when* .the inte-
reets of their. chants entirely depended on them. The junior
were however, competneited by another arrangement: Until
Lord Mansfield's time each senior Counsel at the King's Bench
bar "lade all hips motions' before his junior was permitted to
Maks a single one. So it frequently happened that a whole
term peeved away without' affording the very junior' un oppor-
tunity of making a 11106011 at all. By a regulation.introduced ut
the period to which fie alluded, each Counsel Was allostred to make
only a single motion until time round of the whole (Bar was thus
continuedat once Tiiorig iitoadthpiareetd.ieyei:f.teels 'euicoolMenkfincithalanl
etehreyir; loutti obnys
the regulation of the cateme...• '• Court
•
King', Bench was adopted,--se•sussers, the improvement of the
and evidently to the advantage of jen-
Wore. very Gentleman is the profession knew the extreme dire

faculties in giving judgment, growing out of the voluminous docu-
ments and lengthened evidence, exhibited in Chancery causes.
- He would appeal with' confidence on this point, to a very com-
petent authority on this head, the Hon. and Learned Member
for Peterborough. In order to meet this particular inconveni-
ence, it was recommended by the Repoit to appoint a Court,
consisting of Commissioners, who should, on a view of the evk
dence, decide - what cases ought or ought not to be heard before
' the Lord Chancellor, and proceed to determine upon the latter,
so-as to save much of the time of the Lord Chancellor and Tice-
.Chancellor. He should endeavour to explain how this would save
time also to suitors. The 'Vice-Chancellor now heard all Petitions
in the first instance. The arrears, however, of causes in this Court
were, contrary to the extremely oeerwrougbt and exaggerated
statements Wade again and email in that House, inconsiderable.
Owing to the illness some time ego of the Master of the Rolls,
there had occurred an arrear of seven' terms this increase, how-
ever, was .to be charged to that Learned Judge's indisposition,
solely. • . Eighteen months however had hardly elapsed before
the -activity of that Learned Judge had reduced the arrear to
that orfeur terms, which did not much exceed, if it exceeded
at all, the ericar in the Court of King's Ilench.-1-.(llear.)
He thought, too, that from the manner in which business . was
trarsaeted and expedited in that Court, that the state of the
causes in that Court would be quickly restored ' to the same con-
dition as it had been in prestavioteuisnleynttos ttlitiee),
delays experienced by suitors in the
illnesshaci oallSliriLedPintmo eiri;
lAhota.trtedricitoehuaeTce:rlEtiCiit'llogaurrtylii,ethey would be surprised to find that
the return of the Register made out a list of but 109 causes. Now
the Report of the Commissioners had formerly stated, that in'
the Easter Term of 1822 there were 105, so that in 1822, and at
the present day, their numbers were substantively the same.
These too would shortly disappear, were the Lord Chancellor
permitted to devote his. attention to this sort of causes alone.—
And here be must say he, would wish the House were acquainted
with the ceaseless assiduity and laborious life of ,the Noble Lord
presiding in that Court. 'Whilst - occupied, however, in endea-
vouring to reduce the causes on the paper, motions were con-
stantly being made on subjects which required a suspension of the
business of the Court, and pressed for an immediate hearing, or
else the object of this motion itself would be lost. As in cases of
an appeal against a decree,
:which decree, if carried into effect,
would be the means of destroying or injuring the property wait-
ing adjudication. . It wonitt be said how was the Lord Chancellor
to be guided as to causes which should have a preference of being
heard by himself instead of by the Commissioners. The deter-
minaton of that point would turn on the answer given by the
perty to his Lordship, when he appealed to them to say how the
cause should be determined. If they as gentlemen told him that
unless the cause be taken chit of the usual way injury would arise
of a serious nature, then the cause would he taken up by his
Lordship in the same way as in cases of injunction, or 'cases of
lunacy, which required immediate interference. The subject
now brought him to the next head, that of Bankruptcies, in
which there wes no arrear, nor Was there any arrear in the mo-
tions. Indeed there was no arrear except on the paper of causes,
as it was termed. The House and the Profession, and, above
all, the Public, were interested in del:idl's a system Which
would prevent the increase of arrear, and of course the Report
of the Counniasioners was not silent on this subject; and they
were all anxious to apply a remedy to the Court of the Lord
Chancellor. All that could be &me in saving the time of the
Court would tend to lesson the arrear of business ; the Com-
missioners recommended strongly a diminution of the time
now taken up in the proceedings, and a restriction as to the
number of Counsel permitted to address the Court, as well as
shortening the proceedings in cased of bankruptcy. Now when
all these might be applied safely by the Bill, he thought
something very important might be effected in reducing tini
number of CAWS, and that we should get to that much desired
. point,: that a cause shall be heard, when once set down, within a
reasonable time. Adverting next to the point of abridging
the costs of a suit, much good would result from adopting
the system of the Conunissioners, as well as with respect
to the diminution of arrears. The language of the Report
itself slid net promise much but was sufficiently guarded ; they
did not say we have done nil, but we have done all that we thought
to be expedient. However all tended to save time and expellee
to the suitors in this Court. When the public felt by the prac-
tical working of the system that, notwithstanding the passing of
the Bill, there was still something to reform or correct, the road
would be cleared by the present Bill to introduce further improve-
ment. Hence he was encouraged to expect the House would not
refuse its assent to permit him to introduce the Bill for effecting
the measures recommended by the Conunissioners for the Refor-
mation of Abuses in the Court of Chancery. In making this
motion, although when the subject bad been before touched
on A very different line of conduct had been pursued, he had
studiously abstained from making any personal allusion to
parties connected with the subject. So far had he folloWed up
this system that lie had even abstained from alluding to the
Noble Ltird at the bead of the Court, and so well known for his
great learning, talents, respectability; and this delicacy be felt
called on to observe, because he was applying his observations to
a system, and not to individuals.—(Hear !)—He was the more in-
duced to do this front the reflection that he could add nothing to
the testimony that had already been borne by many in that House
of very opposite political feelings to the character of the Noble
Lord. Recollecting the just compliment paid to that Noble and
Learned Person by the Hon. Member for Caine, as to the sound-
ness of Lis judgment, his stout 'sense of justice, general benevolence,
and vast memory, ho should make no attempt to follow so compe-
tent an'ettlogist. He had also read (for Olathe was not present)
the character which had been given of the Noble Lord by one emi-
meetly calculated to give an opinion on the qualities which went
to form a great equity judge; and though he had been constantly
and almost bitterly opposed in politica to the Noble Lord, he
had most unequivocally expressed himself in his praise, and de-
clared that he had never seen any man more fit to sit in that high
seat of justice, or met a judge who displayed more anxiety to do
justice to the suitors in his Court. To such an eulogium he
could add little. The Noble Lord had been now fifty years in a
profession in which he had by his talents been singled and pointed
out as if then designated for the high and important situation in
his profession which he now filled. That expectation hail not
been deceived, and it was also due, to the Noble Lord to add, that
he was a most assidious and attentive Member on that Committee,
and that no one was more disposed to devise a remedy for the
defects and errors of that Court. He should, after thanking the
House fur its patient attention through a detailed statement of
the measure, conclude, by moving " fur leave to bring in a Bill.
for carrying into effect the measures recommended by the Com-
missioners."—(Loud cheers.) I
Mr. JOHN WILLIAMS professed that he should not attempt
to follow his Honourable and Learned Friend in his clear volumi-
nous statements; be must observe, however, that in all the very
wide range that Honourable Gentleman bed taken he bad afforded

the House no view of the object of his Hill. After all the gor-
geous panegyric which his Hun. and Learned Friend had pro-
nounced on the Commissioners in this ease, he.must remind him
that all the merit of originating this inquiry rested with the Mu.
Member for Durham, who had more than once detailed his plan
to an unwilling audience within those walls. There was, it ap-
peered from the testitoony of a great lawyer and orator of anti-
quity, something inherent in the legal profession, which blinded
men in other respects acute to its errors and defects. Cicero,
who was himself both orator
,and lawyer, placed but • little stream
on the latter acquirement, as appeared from his saying it WM pos..
Bible to be a lawyer in three days, spoke of the professional failure
pretty roundly when he said—
" Ingenio jurisconsultorum depravata aunt orania,"

Such seemed to be the character of certain lawyers in the present
time. He had nothing to convince him that much, either in re-
spect to time or ex pence, would be saved to the suitors by this lung_
meditated Bill. The opinions of Mr. Bell were of course in &your
of a Court to which he owed all his fortune and his fame, and yet
he admitted that much might he done by the Judges themselves to
alter the rules and practice on their own responsibility as experience
shall dictate. indeed the conduct of that great man, Lord Bacon;
might have served as a stimulus and encouragement in this respect
'to the Noble Lord now presiding in Chancery. For himself,
he was in doubt whether any beneficial results would he found
to arise from the Bill. Against one thing he must remonstrate,
namely, the assertion that the Commissioners had thrown their
arms wide open to complaint, that no man was turned away who
had any thing to complain of, and that the whole Profession was
invited., Now he believed that neither to the two Inns of Court
mast frequented by Attoruies, nor the Metropolitan La* So.:
ciety, had any notice been sent of this Giumnission being Sit-

tiug, or any invitation for complaints to be offered. In fti-ct, he
had heard that no one came except those who were summoned;
and that -no volunteer was permitted to. obtrude on the Commis-
sion. On another subject, namely, that of injunction, which
furnished a specific grog of loud complaint to the people of
En ;land, it was intended to abridge the delays incidental to this
form of proceeding. Now the case of injunction tended to sus-
pend a suitor from obtaining the fruits of, his judgment and
execution in a suit at. Comirion •Law. The result of this in-
tet ference was, that a suitor was rendered amenable to two dif-
ferent sets of law, altogether differing
in principle, and this
arbitrary interference originated with ' a Judge who had no
previous knowledge of tha facts-
proved 'in the Court of Law.
—The Commissioners had left,,tkeir • Report imperfect and
unsatisfactory. They should have ascertained *A 41101110 of

the pressure, and then the House might have judged of the pro-
priety of dividing the jurisdiction, with a view to get rid of
the delay which was the obloquy of the Court. Had they
inquired how many cases were waiting for judgment, in order
to ascertain whether by dividing the business, by withdraw-
ing the jurisdiction in Bankruptcy, or by any other means,
it might be possible to abate the evil ? No such thing. Parlia-
ment and the people were kept in the dark with respect to this
crying gievance. This period of a cause was the longest and the
most expensive. He had quoted one case in that House where
1,0001. had been expended between the hearing and the judg-
ment, and another which had cost 3001. merely for attendances
to hear judgment. The Hon. Member for Maltnesbury had vo-
lunteered his evidence upon this head, and he called• upon him to
say with what facility, or with what kind of welcome, he had
been received. The digestion of the house was so strong, that it
would swalloW any thing, provided only it was 'presented from
*the right quarter. Since.lBo6..his Hon. Friend and himself had
been struggling in vain. They had always been turned round by
a denial of the existence of abuses or delays. Ile admired the
dexterity of his Hon. and Learned Friend, who had cautiously
avoided to travel into this, which he would call the nakedness of
the land ; not one word had ht Uttered upon that dreary stage of
a cause between the hearing and the judgment. If they turned to
page 453 of the Report, they would seem the evidence of the Hon.
Member for Malmesbury, an admirable commentary on the gor-
geous declamation, and magnificent panegyric, with which his Hon.
and Learned Friend had pourtrayed the Lord Chancellor. He
would mention the particulars of the cause there cited. There had
been anorder to pay into Court the amount of a debt. The Register
not having made a minute, denied that such an order had been made.
A new'application to the Court became nectstsary. This application
was made in March, 1817, When the Chancellor took home the
papers, in order to qualify himself to say whether such en order
had or had not been made. In November, 1820, three years
and a half afterwards, the cause had made no advance, when a
letter was written to the Lord Chancellor, by the Hon. Member,
in reply to which the Chancellor promised his judgment on the
Saturday following; an application for judgment was afterwards
made in vain by Counsel, and at last the plaintiff, worn out by
delays, set the cause down for hearing before the Vice-Chancellor,
who ordered the money to he paid into Court, with interest at
the rate of twelve per cent., the usual interest in India. The
defendant then turned back to the order of the Lord Chancellor,
of March, 1817, and contended, that as the money ought to have
been in Court from that time, five per cent. was the proper in-
terest. The rate of interest was accordingly reduced, the last
'order having been found again for that purpose. Thus his client
was, after a lapse of five years and a half, compelled to submit to
a loss of five or six hundred pounds. The lion. and Learned
Member then referred to another case, mentioned in the evidence
of the Hon. Member for Malineshury, of similar delays. But
these, said the Hon. and Learned Member, are individual cases—
it is all imagination, there is no delay! " Individual cases, in-
deed ! I suppose we ought to produce a rule."• The lion. and
Learned Member then alluded to the case of Mr. Wellings, the
banker, of Ludlow, who had 82,0001. depending upon the issue
of a Chancery suit, and who, after a.personal application to the
Chancellor, and promises of an immediate decision, had become
a bankrupt in consequence of delay. Ile mentioned also the awe
of a windmill which had tumbled down whilst his Learned Friend
was trying to get a decision. It was an appeal from the Rolls,
and after it had been depending thirteen years, and 1,5001. had
been expended, the plaintiff died in the poor house of Kensing-
ton, of which parish he had formerly been a respectable inha-
bitant. The Hon. and Learned Member mentioned one or two
other cases in which parties had been driven to compromise their
rights in consequence of the impossibility of obtaining a deci-
sion. lie had said enough to convince the House, that it was
the duty of the Commissioners to ascertain the magnitude of
the evil, and to decide whether a new jurisdiction should be
created, or whether the present machinery should be left in
action. He should now direct the attention of the . House
to one mode adopted for preventing delay in the administra-
tion of justice, a mode which, it must be allowed, was as
well calculated as the Bill of the Attorney-General to put an end
to complaints of delay. It was related in De Thou's remarks
on Ecclesiastical History, during the reign of Theodoric. A
woman of quality, having had a suit against a senator pending
for three years without any chance of obtaining a decision,
(How unreasonable this lady must have been, to complain of a
delay of only three years!) she applied to Theodoric, who" sent
for the Judges-before whom the cause was pending, and told them
if they did not pronounce judgment within a reasonable time
he would put them to death. The Judges immediately proceeded
to hear the cause, and in two days they pronounced judgment
against the senator. The woman waited upon Theodoric, and
returned hint thaukft, and he having sent for the Judges, and stated
that they had acted wrong in postponing for the space of three
years a cause which they might have disposed of in two days, or-
dered them as an example to others, to be put to death, and thus
(added the narrator) was an end put to delays.—(Loud laughter.)
lie did not mean to say that. such a mode of proceeding would
he proper in this country, regard being had to . the venerable age
of the Noble Lord, and he (Mr. J. W.) would be the last to re-
commend any such thing.—(Continued laughter.)—lie would
infinitely rather leave the Noble Lord to the Commissioners, of
whom that Noble Lord was the head. He was eure those Co
missioners would not, any more than himself (Mr. W.) hurt a
hair of the Noble Lord's head. He was sure theiiri
ngs i Trewildn and
milky nature would not touch a feather of the plume of his pa-
tronage, authority, and high station. Their labours abridgedneme
of the patronage or authority of the Noble Lord, but, on the con-
trary, they gave him more patronage in the nomination of new
officers ; never ending cases, patronage, and new beginnings
the order of the day. Although he would not say that the mea-
sure introduced by the Attorney-General was not advisable,_ he
would say that the two branches of inquiry, to which he had be-
fore called the attention of the House, ought to have been gone
into; and, in the absence of information upon those two branches,
the House could form no accurate judgment; and giving credit to
the lion. and Learned Gentleman, for the purity of his intentions,
he must say that the House, if they should, under present circum-
stances, legislate upon the subject, would be legislating in the dark.
—(Hear, bear.)
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said, that the duty of the Com-
missioners had been to inquire into the practice of the Court, and
that duty they had assiduously discharged. lie had listened
to find from the speech of his lion. and Learned Friend how
they had neglected their 'duty, and he had listened in vain. The
Commissioners bud thrown open the dot r for the reception of
evidence, and every Barrister and every Solicitor was invited to
,furnish. information. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman had said,
that some Solicitors ought to have: been included the Commission.
There was no precedent for including Solicitors in such a Com-
mission. Several Solicitors had attended and given evidence, and
amongst them a Gentleman, Mr. Lowe, whose name was, he be-
lieved, not entirely unknown to his lion. and Learned Friend.—
If the Commissioners had interposed any obstructions to evidence
they would have violated their duty, and. he hoped every
one of them who was a Member of that House would rise
and say that they hail fully discharged it. It was impossible
to answer every particular case without previous notice; but
On two of the CM'S to which the Hon. and. Learned Gentleman
had referred he had been Counsel, and in respect to those cases
he could give a satisfactory answer. In one of them the Coun-
sel bad never been instructed to move for judgment, because the
cause was compromised ; and, in the other, the delay had arisen
from his own management of the cause, with aview to the inte-
rs* of his client. In the cases cited from the evidence of the
Hon. Member for Mahnesbury, it dill not appear that he had ever
instructed Counsel to move for judgment. and therefore the Court
was entitled to presume that a compromise had been effected be-
tween the parties. Of the other cases he knew nothing, but he
bad no doubt they would admit of an equally direct justification.
Of all the Petitions which had been presented to that House, he
never knew one but what was founded in error—or, he would
rather say, in gross calumny. To give an instance, the Hon:
Member for hull had presented a petition from a. person of the
mine of Garland. Ile had taken the pains to investigate the case
of this person, and he found that his conduct had been one tissue
of fraud. lie had acted in the capacity of solicitor for both par-
ties; and his complaint-to the House was, that his bill had been
re-taxed, having been taxed 12 years before. The fact was, that
it had not bee taxed. This Petition assorted itself with all the
other Petitions which had given rise to so much undue warmth of
language ill that House. The lion. and Learned Member for Lin.:
coin had this night divested the subject of some of its usual asps,
•rity, by referring to 'historical precedents, which it might not,
'however, be found very convenient to follow. The petition present-
ed by the lion. Member fiir-I lull had been warmly supported by the
Hon. Member for ' Montrose, but he had no doubt that the
latter Gentleman, who had recently. moved forty-seven econo-
mical resolutions in the finances of the country, would unite with
him in applauding the Lord Chancellor for ordering a Solicitor's
bill to he taxed which had not previously undergone that necesaa_
ry process.
ne would
egad modes of abridging time and wavingexpend,. expend, as much as
c.yshow that the Commissioners had
g amendments in the practico of the Qturt.could safely be attempted in the first instance. It had been asked
why Lord Eldon hitnself had not by virtue of his own authority
necessary made the
The answer to this was easy. The rules hadofthhaConceuritiorg B
been
in existence since the time of Cromwell, and Lord. Eldon had only
ut
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eantliie,inagansuhccadetionadfn Of
furnished a
good

ewer to his own question. Lord Reciesdale, a very high authority
upon such subjects, objected to the peoposed alterations. Other law-
yers also objected to them, If Lord Eldon, therefore; had adopted
them upon his own authority, would he not have been deemed B
bold innovator, and would not every subsequent delay or init..
chief have been ascribed to him ? If he had erred, he had erred
in common with a long string of illustrious predecessors, from
Lord Clarendon downwards. No considerable alterations Ind
ever been made in the practice of the Courts of Law, other-
wise than by the Act of the Legislature, although there was not
one alteration out of twenty but what might have been effected
by the authority of the Judges. The Hon. and Learned Gentle-
man then proceeded to point out the improvements which the.
Commissioners had recommended. The saving of time would in
every cause be a year. In litigation causes it would be a year
and a half, two years, or still wore. Of 186 resolusions, the
'Hon. and Learned Gentleman had not pointed out one as objec-
tionable. He knew that the profession generally, both barristers
and solicitors, approved of the great body of the resolutions. The
Master would by the proposed regulations, have the power of re-
ferring matters of account, where the parties consented to a pri-
vate arbitrator, and he would also have the power of consenting
to this arrangement in behalf of minors, married women, and in•
competent persona. Another of the new regulations was, that
depositions should henceforth be Liken by barristers, which
would obviate many of the inconveniences arising from the pre-
sent anode of taking them. It was provided also that an exe-
cutor or trustee might take the opinion of the Court upon role
detached part of a will or deed, without throwing the whole ad-
ministration of the property into its hands. Thus they wends be
enabled to obtain all they wanted from the Court without being
compelled to take more. In the case of injunction bins, ea
affidavit was now to be filed, that the injunction was not sought
for the purpose of delay. The lion. and Learned GentielDan
made light of this barrier to improper applications; but be ought
to recollect that an oath wile the strongest guarantee upon which
the administration of justice, in all its departments, could de-
pend. With respect to appeals from the other Equity Courts, the
parties were now to have the choice of appealing to the Lord
Chancellor or to the House of I.ords ; but they were not, as here-
tofore, to have the privilege of appealing successively to both.--
These several alterations had been adopted in pursuance of sug-
gestions from the other side of the House. It would be hard, in-
deed, if they were to be stigmatized because the Coninais,ieners
were not unanimous. His Majesty's Opposition themselves were
not unanimous. After the decree, it wee formerly Optional oith
the parties to proceed or to stand still. The Master was to l
entrusted with the power of compelling parties- to he
six weeks, and was himself to be responsible for any further delay,
This was a totally new principle which they had introduced.
hail thus glanced at the principal alterations., The lion. Mg'
tleman said, so far as related to leatikraptcy, the existing taw"
The
that the Commissioners did not act as a subordinate Court-
&editors did not go to lay before them the facts, mid then wit
their opinion on them ; but they only went to the Commiesiolie°
as a passport to the Lord Chancellor. They did not exercise sot
appellant jurisdiction, but he (the Lord Chancellor) was the I,
person who was sought out to decide the case. The resolutions
came to by the Commissioners as to this point was, that the en-
diens should state their case fully to the Connnissioners, arid ba
ing so done, should have judgment given on it by the Cornel
sioners. If this resolution was adopted, 19 out of 20 of these
proceed after
petitions would no longer be preferred to the Court, there beings'
subordinate forum so constituted as to be perfectly competent to
decide cases of this description. The Commissioner, bad taken
up every subject of the practice of the Court to which they
thought improvement might be applied, and had ogre"' us
every subject a limited degree of improvement.
Mr. A. TAYLOR begged the House to refer to the evi"
deuce of Mr. Shadwell, a man of great intellect and acute eons,
standing almost at the head of the Court of Chancery. ITY°D
question being put to him as to whether the Judges of the ('"'let
were sufficient fur the duty, he bad answered that three angels
would not be sufficient to do the business of the Court of Cluinc!re.
He had been present twice on a Committee relating to this subjoee.ti
and he was of opinion, and always had been, that some step"sh
be taken to rid the Great Seal of the burthen at present in pore
upon it. He would onlyask whether the Chancellor did the bus]-
, ness of the Court, except in matters of appeal and bankruptcy'
whether he ever heard original causes? It bad been said, a snee
had a right to the opinion of the Great Seal. How did he now
Pt it—why, through another Court, and at an additional opener.
But if the Commissioners had said you shall be excluded from
any appeal either from the Master of the Rolls or the Vice-?:
cellos', that would be a mode of getting rid of a great deal haveel
a Court sitting independent of polities]
od
penes and delay. He (\lr. Taylor) would say, you ought to
some steps ought to be taken in order dust the Judge
._113;1!1g.
for the despatch of the business of the Court alight oot
curbed by being taken from his I duties,
regu er bet that be should
the Courts
sit de die in diem to do the regular business of
bathe
(Hear, hear.)—He did not blame Lord Eldon for the delay,
considered every man had a right to state his sentimentli,Near'
whether theconduct of Judge right or wrong.--et
sued a was Too
hear•)--Did. the Attorney-General main to endeavour mini
powers old iteluencee.
the House believe that the fortunes of children were notbel
wild
taken away from them in the Court of Chancery., el t what
proceedings which had been so long in practice. pray
the proceedings of the Court of Chancery weree "be 'an it
tised in that Court for fourteen years, and now' sal of a sae, ceral
was found out that the system was bad, and the Attorney-te
had called them all fancied abuses. The public were," the„Y roe
to he, indignant at the emotes practised in that Court, sow'
Commissioners might in part endeavour to remedy, but to wblah
u„
no effectual remedy could ever be applied. lie (Mr. T.) W leef
venture to say, that men would not be satisfied by the deeie'r°°,,.e
the three Commissioners the Chancellor might appoint fo
hearing of Bankruptcy cases. There would be an appeal ,be
Lord Chancellor directly, and not a moment cf his time woul d
saved. He did not know what would be done when Lord Elder':
in the common course of nature, wtiuld be no more. ',ruih's
posed then we were to have no man to sit in ItankrupteY.
Coot
Commissioners directed to inquire into the Abuses of the
tice..
of Chancery had not attended to that which his Majesty Pr ea,
larly directed their attention to, namely, whether the Court tie
so constituted as to be able to perform all its functions• tih,,
thought the Commissioners had not gone far enoush---th'd
Report had done some small degree of good, but the gre3t '
they might have done was left untouched. • teliate
Mr. Secretary PEEL could not help thinking the uniu
question before the House was a very simple one. It wee Me." Y
to bring in
.11.
whether the Attorney-General should be permitted
Rill for the purpose of adopting the recouiniendatious of the C4ll e
missioners, which required the intervention of the Legislature' , •
thought the lion. Member had not dealt fairly
with
this WWI
h ite
he was enabled to chew some inetances in wich his lion. Friend
had not dealt with the Report with that candour with which
usually dealt with all subjects. It bail been stated that a daisy f
fifty years was a common occurrence in the Court of ChaneerY.---
The Report stated that there had been a populairnisundendandil
as to the meaning of the delay in many cases. In all cases of 390
ministration of trusts there necessarily must be a delay. Jut%
where infants were only one or two years old, the suits whde°l--
volved the administration of a trust must last for twenty real'.
and beneficially for the interest of the person on whose behalf /Wu
suit had beets instituted. The Report stateil there might ec esir;
taro cases in which a suit might last for twenty years, amleyetet y
-no reflection on the Court of Chancery. As to the haui‘rur..cte
business, his lion. Friend had produced the opinion of one 5"1„,
nese ; but he did not seem to recollect that it appeared., fit
the Report that almost every other witness was of a aiw--„
opinion. Mr. Shadwell, in proposing, such a measure as ‘!
stated by his Learned Friend, found it necessary to rec°°3remilsll-
that a Court should be constituted consisting of four or live
rnissionere for the purpose of managing the business reletingeri°
bankruptcy. His Honourable Friend had said the Comm
had not gone far enough, but he did not complain of the
e'd
rence which was made whether arty of the business eow .
transferred from the Court. Another complaint preferred ag°,l,""
11";
them was that they hail gone a great deal too far. Now 60"
this report did not give satisfaction, hie, Mr. Peel's inferetuo
war
that it had steered wisely and cautioualy between the two e!
trernos ; not being fearful of proposing useful alteratiens bine
the business of the Court, but on the other band leaving for t.t.
width.
consideration of the House, with perfect candour, that
Wog
deemed absolutely necessary, even though it might
extrusive innovations on the Commissiouers. He must say
_`.l4°
Person, however great respect he might entertain for the Leo
Chancellor, could complain in the slightest degree °f hid
manner in which the Learned Gentlemen opposite
_. re
'teled their opinions on the subject. His Honourable he
seemed to have taken a different view of the subject now than
had thine on a fernier oecasion. The last time this matter wsa
prof
before the House he complained of 'the number of
unr
then submitted, which were so numerous as to reader it its I!"_ , •
sible to comprehend the Report,. In his speech to-night be
end
complained that Revere' important subjects had been omitted,.
old tneu
if all thine subjects bad been enumerated, the Report won t
the
have swelled to an enormons bulk. As to the charge
aRA i
OUld
Chancellor by his delay in pronouncing his decisions, be w
beg his friend' to read the evidence of Mr. Basil lefontagea
who
stated he believed no two men existed on the face of the earth
,
tna
differed so much on politecel sub' es •SOhe ( •Mr * •Montagu)
the
. •
the Lord Chancellor. lie stated that there were delays in
imputed the
ry ho could
Court of Chance not 'deny;. but he
not