The Sun.
London, England, 1819-11-20 00:00:00

THE KING V. JAMES LONG.

This defendant was convicted for assaulting
Joseph Swithers, an officer of the Customs, and
being now brought up for judgment was sentenced
to One month's imprisonment in the King's Bench
Prison.

John Murray and Wm. Samways, wilo suffered
judgment to go by default, on a charge for mak-
ing lights on the coast of Dorset, on the 6th
of October, 1818, to assist two smuggling boats,
were sentenced, one (Murray) to four months im-
prisonment in Dorchester Gaol, and to be kept at
hard labour—and the other to three months im-
prisonment and hard labour in the Gaol of Bad.

The Court was occupied the remainder of the
day upon the special and peremptory papers, and
hearing mo:ions, none of which were of public

interest.

COURT OF CHANCERY, NOVEMBER 19.
THE VENEZUELAN REPUBLIC.
EASDAILE AND OTHERS V. CAMPBELL
This was a motion of some interest to persons
concerned in the welfare of the Venezuelan Re-
public. It appeared that an agent of the Govern-
ment Bf that State, named Mendez, being desi-
rous of procuring certain matters for the benefit
of that State, applied to some persons in London,
who, through the medium of a person named
William Duncan Campbell, 'entrusted him with
goods to an amount exceeding 20,0001. in
payment for which he gave some papers pur-
porting to be the securities of the Venezuelan Re-
public. Those securities were afterwards given by
W. D. Campbell to the creditors in London,lwhen
a deed of agreement was signed,, by which it was
provided that the said W. D. Campbell should not
be arrested or imprisoned on account of the secu•
rities given, and also that a man named Jones
should be sent to South America for the purpose
of procuring payment from the Rulers of the Re-
public. Don Louis Lopez Mendez was, however,
subsequently arrested for the sum of 30,0001. at
the snit of W. D. Campbell, and obliged to un-
tlergo the horrors of imprisonment in the prison
of the King's Bench. The present motion had,
therefore, for its object, first, that W. D. Camp-
bell, who threatened to go himself to seek pay•
ment of the securities in South America, should
be restrained from leaving the Kingdom by a
writ of ne treat regno ; secondly, to compel the
fulfilment of the contract entered into between
him and the plaintiff; and, thirdly, to procure
the liberation of Don Louis Lopez Mendez front
the Marshatsea.

Mr. HEALD and Mr. Ross supported the mo,
tion : MI. rHILLINWHE opposed it.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said, that the motion
for liberation ought to have been made in the
Court of Common Pleas.

Mr. PHILLIMOBB said, that it bad been made
there.
Mr. lieu.n admitted that it had been made
before Mr. Justice Park, who thought the sum was
of too large an amount for a single Judge to in-
terfere.

Mr. HEALD argued at some length for the

motion.

The LOUD CHANCtLLOR Was of opinion, that it
was necessary to spew the Court that it had the
means of doing justice. The Government of Ve-
nezuela, ►f any such existed, was not recognized
by the Government of this country, and a 3 such
it could not be acknowledged by any Judge upon.
the Bench. If the plaintiffs had dealt with Camp,•
bell and given him a release from the conse-
quences of the debts contracted by him, on his
giving them certain papers, purporting to be the
securities of another Government, which might
he called hypothetical, the Court could not inter-
fere. Fur the first application there was no
ground, and for the second, it would lead to the
appointment of a receiver, who would be a re-
ceiver ot a nonentity. The Court could not inttr•
fere iu such concerns.