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No. 11,563

CHANCERY PRACTICE.

(From the Morning Chronicle.)

THE SOLICITOR-GENERAL AND THE ",REPEL!?

PICKERING.

The visit of the Solicitor-General to the Fleet
Prison, the report of which has gone the round
of nearly all the Journals in the kingdom, has
excited a lively interest in the public mind as to
the fate of the various victims to Chancery Prac-
tice. This interest has been particularly direct-
ed to the " rebel " Pickering. Already many
professional men have offered their services
" gratuitously " to put in an answer for him,
especially after it appeared in the public prints
that there was a large sum of money connected
with the case. We have not heard that any
professional man made a " gratuitous " tender of
his services during the previous fortnight, during
which time that uninteresting particular was not
known.

It appears that Sir E. B. Sugden, with a
promptitude that does him the greatest honour,
wrote to the different Solicitors connected with
the various .cases that came before him, and,
among others, to some of those connected with
the "..rebel " Pickering. - The following is the
letter of Sir Edward to Pickering:—

" Lincoln's Inn, Sept. 29, 18g9.

" MR. PICKERING—I have seen Mr. Arthur
Clarke and Mr. Ware about your business, and I ant
sorry to find Mat it is owing to yourself Mat you are
now confined in the Fleet. However, at my request,
the parties will put in an Answer for you, but you
must furnish them with a certificate of your mar-
riage, or enable thena to obtain it. Let me, as a
friend, advise you to act with candour, and to get
quickly out of the Fleet. lam quite sure that it
will be your own fault if you remain there long.
Your friend,

" EDW. B. SUGDEN."

Immediately after the wretched man had re•
ceived this consolatory letter, which came while
he was acting as a scullion in the kitchen of the
Fleet Prison, and selling a few oysters to keep
himself from perishing of hunger, he received
the following note from the Solicitor employed
against him :
" Mr. Davison will be very happy to wait on, or
have the honour of a call from, any Member of Par-
liament who has felt disposed to interest himself in
the behalf of the defendant Pickering. Mr. Davi-
son also has the intention of calling personally on
the Solicitor-General upon the subject.
" 19, Bread-street, Cheapside, Sept. 29, 1829."
To the note was appended the following Bill
of Costs :

IN CHANCERY. MICHAELMAS TERM, 1828.
HARLAND v. PICKERING.
Instructions for Attachment against the Defen-
dant, for not putting in his Answer £o 6 8
Paid for Attachment
Warrant and Messenger
Instructing Officer ... 0 3 4
Paid for Return of Non eat Inventus
Attending thereon
Letters, &c.
ITILAItY TERM, 1829.
Instructions for Attachment, with Proclamations 0 6 8
Paid for same. ... .
Warrant and Messenger
Instructing Officer
Paid for Return of Non est Intent us
Attending thereon
Letters, &c.

TRINITY TERM.
Instructions for Commission of Rebellion.
Paid for same
Instructing Officer
Paid two Commissioners for their trouble, taking
Defendant, producing him in Court on two
several days, &c., and for the Defendant's
Maintenance during those two days • --
Instructions to Counsel to move that Defendant
be committed
Fee to him and Clerk to move
JULY 30—Attending him and Court, when, after
much discussion before the vice-Chancellor,
it was recommended that I should put in the
Answer for the Defendant, and the further
hearing was adjourned till the next day, at
one o'clock
Instructions for Answer
Drawing same for Mr. Rolf, p. 6
Attending him to settle it
Ingrossing the Answer
JULY 31.—Attending Court this day with the
Answer ingrossed ready to be Sworn, and
reading the same over to the Defendant,who was
ready to depose thereto ; but as no arrange-
ment could be made that the Costs of the
Answer should be made Costs in the Cause,
to be paid on the completion of the Suit, the
Defendant was committed to the Fleet.
Paid Fees to Tipstaff on Commitment
Paid for Order and entering
Copy thereof, and attending the Warden of the
Fleet with the original Order and left same. 0 6 8
Letters, Scc.
Here was a damper ! One hour the destitute
rebel is told by the Solicitor-General that it is
owing to himself that he is in prison, and that at
the request of that distinguished officer :of the
law certain parties were ready to discharge him ;
and in the next in comes a bill of costs which
cannot be made " costs in the cause," amount-
ing to about 101., to be paid by one who had
not 10s. in the world, and whose wife but the
day before had been applying for relief to the
parish workhouse I
The bill of costs gives us some curious infor-
mation. It appears to be the practice of Chan-
cery to make returns of non est inventus (" he
is not to be found"), when a poor defendant is
to be found any day in the week, and any hour
in the day—nay, indeed, when he is in the very
Court itself; before the eyes, and under the nose
of the legal gentlemen who are making such
return !
To be sure, when he has money in his pocket,
or when, perhaps, the " costs of contempt" may
be made " costs in the cause," and to be taken
out of the property, there is no necessity for
further proceedings. Under such circumstances
lie may " clear his contempt," i. e. pay the fees
and be off ; the strict Chancery meaning of non
est inventus being, " not to be found with
money in your pocket."
The consequence in this case to poor Picker-
ing, of not having 1/. 3s. 4d., as appears by Mr.
Davison's bill, was his committal to the Fleet as
a " Rebel" (the expellee of going to which
prison being about 305., as appears by the same
bill), and the plunging of his wife and family
into utter destitution, with no hope, and no
friend, save the hOpe of an order from a Magis-
trate, and the friendly regard of the parish over-
seer.
The case of Pickering is, in all its parts, a sa-
tire upon the laws. He was a pauper in the
poor-house of Spitalfields, with his wife and an
infant child, when an uncle of his wife's died,
leaving her mother the interest of the fifth part
of about 25,0001. during her life, and after her
death, a third of the fifth to each of her three

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children. She is alive, and neither Pickering
nor his wife . can take any thing at present.—
Other parties were interested in the will, among
'others the husband of a lunatic wife, and some
infant children. Both of these commenced
suits in Equity at the time Pickering got out of
the poor-house, and was maintaining his family
by hawking oysters, fish, and fruits in the streets.
A solicitor was applied to, to act for Pickering
and his wife ; but Pickering and his wife had
no money, and solicitors cannot work without.
The proceedings that have already been pub-
lished followed. Pickering was seized as a
" rebel," who " got out of
_the way" in " con-
tempt of his Majesty's Proclamation," being all
the time in his old quarters at Shoreditch, sell-
ing.oysters, &c. daily in the streets; was taken
to a lock-up house ; from thence to the Vice-
Chancellor, who, with his customary humanity,
deeply pitied him, and asked him if he would
sign an answer that should be prepared for him
'by the opposite party ? He gladly consented,
and the next day expected to be discharged ;
the next day he was again taken before the Vice-
Chancellor, and the answer being read to them,
they said they were agreeable to sign it. But
there were the costs of the contempt to pay.--e.
Money to pay these costs they had not. The
Vice-Chancellor kindly inquired whether these
costs could not be made costs in the cause ?
" No," says Mr. Rolfe, the Counsel, " they
cannot ; I must move that he be committed to
the Fleet till he clear his contempt." The Vice-
Chancellor was obliged to make the order, ob-
serving at the same time that they could not ex-
pect so destitute a being to be able to pay those
costs. He was committed, and placed in the
" poor side" of the Fleet, having no money to
pay the fees for the Master's side (the prison of
Chancery requiring fees in the same way as the
Court of Chancery), and his wife, then seven
months' advanced in pregnancy, was handed
over with her infant to the tender mercies of the
Parish Authorities.--This is Chancery Practice.

COUNTRY CORN MARKETS.

DURING LAST WEEK.

I Wheat. j Barley. j Oats. Beans.
Per Quarter. 5. to s. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s.
Carlisle — 63 38 26
Carmarthen 60 3fi 14 36
flexham . 64 70 27 :13 18 25 50 52
Nlorpeth . 42 62 34 36 26 25 36 33
Penrith
Skettield 73 29 41
Winchester 44 72 36 40 19 2:1 42 46
Per Bushel. s. d. s. d. s. tl. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d.
Coventry 98 10 4 4S 54 30 43 56 60
Newcastle (Staff:) 8 8 11 3 0 0 0 0 3 9 4 0 6 0 6 6
Northallerton 80 10 0 40 43 23 26 50 56
Stafford 90 113 00 00 40 46 80 83
Swansea 8 2 86 53 56 30 34 00 00
Warwick— 90 100 40 00 33 40 73 76
Per 8011.
Barnardeastle ..—.. 13 0 20 0 0 0 11 0 3 0 4 6 0 0 13 0
Durham l2 0 18 0 80 99 56 86 10 6 12 6
Richmond 17 0 22 0 9 0 10 6 7 0 8 6 11 0 12 0
Stockton l2 0 14 0 8 0 9 0 6 0 7 6 0 0 0 0
WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.—Oct. 2.

There is a large supply of Wheat to this day's market.
Good and fine samples of 01(1 Barley maintain last Fri-
day's prices ; other descriptions are dull sale, and rather
lower. New Wheat of all descriptions has met very heavy
sale, the best samples at a decline of Is. to 2s. per quar-
ter, and the damp and middling sorts, which form the
major part of the supply, are 2s. per quarter lower, and
a considerable quantity remains unsold. Oats go slowly
off at the rates of la,t Friday. Several samples of New
Barley are offering. ; the best dry arid slightly stained have
obtained 335. to 355. per quarter, the middling and in-
ferior sorts remain unsold. Beans sell slowly at last Fri-
day's prices. Fine Malt is in demand at en advance of
Is. per load.
Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Suffolk 525. 565. to 60s. fine 625.
New 495. 525. to 555. fine 59s
--- 'White Old sls. 595. to 645. fine 68s.
- --- New 51s. 545. to 595. fine 635.
- Foreign, Red 4Bs. 545, to 60s. fine 645.

White s6s. 60s. to 645. fine 67e.
Barley, Norfolk and Sufrolk
---- Lincolnshire 265. to 30s. tine 335.
- Yorkshire \Vold
- Foreign
Beans, Old 'l2s to 383. fine 435
----- New 175. to 395. fine 40s.
Oats, Potato 23s. to ris. fine 295.
Poland 20s. 225. to 265. fine 275.
- Friesland and Small lB5. 205. to 225. fine 245.
Mealing ll },id. to 13d. per Stone.
Shelling 29s. to 335. 6d. per Load.
Malt 37s. 425. fine 445. per Load.
Rapeseed

DALKEI
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last week's.

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all kinds o
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LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 5, 1829.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION,IiOUSE.

On Saturday Mr. Gates, the solicitor to the Com-
mittee of Bankers, wAited upon the LORD MAYOR,
to acquaint his Lordship with an attempt made by
Hollinshead, who was about a month ago committed
to prison to take his trial for robbing, in conjunction
with two others, one of whom is named Pedder, the
St. Neot's bank.

The ease with which Hollinshead got out of pri-
son certainly argues but little in favour of the prison
system at St. Neot's. It appears that some ladders
were, whether by accident or intention we know
not, left within the walls of the prison, at the very
part, of all others, where Hollinshead and other pri-
soners, who were very likely to take advantage of
such an opportunity, were confined. It happened
that the keeper of the prison was in the front, at a
distance from the spot, and that the workmen who
had been labouring went to dinner. Hollinshead,
upon seeing " the chance," proposed to scale the
wall, and his motion was acceded to nenz.'con. Se-
veral prisoners got over; and ran along through the
fields; but the eye of inquisitiveness was after
them. Some country people, who were labouring
in the fields, raised a hue.and-cry upon seeing a set
of fellows, so unlike their honest neighbours, scour-
ing along the meadows. They were seen lurking
about the hedges, and watched, until the Governer
received intimation of their escape. A party of
constables were immediately sent after them, and
they were pulled, one and all, from amongst the
furze-bushes. Hollinshead lay closer than any of
the rest, and there was a general cry of " fetch him
out with a fork." A fork was used, and he was ac•
tually poked out, and lugged off with the rest to his
old quarters. The Governor immediately put him
in double irons, and it is believed he will be kept in
them until the day of his trial. The robbery had
been, we understand, effected by means of keys,
made after impressions upon wax, and the amount
is, it is reported, between, 6,000/. and 7,0004 A
reward of 1001. has been offered for the apprehen-
sion of two other persons who are suspected of hav-
ing been concerned in the robbery of the St. Neot's
bank.

A young fellow named Richardson, aged 17, was
charged w►th having attempted to violate the person
of a little girl named Ann Russell, his cousin. It
appeared that the attempt had not succeeded, and
the whole family, who appeared to be in deep afflic-
ton at the charge, interfered to prevent the Lord
Mayor from sending the lad for trial.

The LORD MAYOR ordered bail to be given for
the prisoner, and said he regretted to find a disincli-
nation on the part of the relatives to punish a fellow
guilty of such conduct.

The relatives cried out," Oh, we are all closely
related, and he shall never have the opportunity
again. Forgive him."

The LORD MAYOR said that a prosecution might
have the effect of saving his life. He (the Lord
Mayor) believed that he should order the City So-
licitor to prosecute.

PRICE 7D.

and had been in custody for committing a burg'ary.
The prisoner said that he had deserted her.
He replie4lbut he was only absent from her
when he had gone on different voyages, and he
made her an allowance during his absence.
Mr. HALLS—These long voyages often produce
awkward consequences to married men.
The prisoner was committed for trial.
M A RLBORO U GH-STREET.

A solicitor, named Pitcher, acting on behalf of
Messrs. Stultz, of Bond-street, and Mr. Edge, the
Clerk of the Records in the Treasury, who resides
in Essex-street, applied for the Magistrates' protec-
tion for the latter gentleman, who had been assailed
in an extraordinary manner by a gang of ruffians, in
consequence of his giving evidence against a man
named Sandford, who is in custody, together with
his wife, and a man named Leslie, on suspicion of
being concerned in the late desperate burglary in
Clifford-street. It was explained that owing to no
fewer than 10 daring attempts havint, been made to
effect a burglarious entrance into Mr.' Edge's pre-
mises since the 30th of August last, that gentleman,
who is advanced in years, and extremely infirm, sat
up every night, provided with fire-arms, to protect
his property, and thus his rest and peace of mind
had been entirely destroyed. His apprehensions
were increased that morning (Saturday), at the re-
ceipt of the two following atrocious communications,
which strived-by the two-penny post, addressed to
" Mr. Edge, Esq., 34, Essex-street, Strand." On
the outside was written, " Not to be opened by any
body but Mr. Edge himself." The first ran thus :
" Oct. 2.---Kind Sir, I hope you will take care of
yourself for the future, for I'll serve you a trick for
this; you remember Bow-street work, for the Devil
and my companions will set fire to the whole house,
and burn it the first opportunity, and murder all that
is in the house—i send this line to you to be careful
fur the future ; remember my whole companions in
gaol—l remember you civil. " THE DEVIL."

The other lette; was in a different handwriting
from the first, and the following is a verbatim copy
of the infamous scrawl :

" If you don't take care of yourself i'll serve you
out for what you false swore against my partner,
you cursed rouge. Take care of yourself, or i'll
give you a pill.—Take warning.

" A NOTED- HOUSEBREAKER."

Mr. Pitcher expressed himself satisfied that the
object of the gang was to intimidate Mr. Edge from
appearing in Court against Sandford, who had lived
in his service as footman, in December, 1827, when
he and his wife were discharged ; and the repeated
burglarious attempts made on his premises (where,
upon one occasion, Sandford was found concealed)
raised a cnniiderable degree of suspicion that he was
implicated in them, as well as the burglary in Clif-
ford-street.

Mr. CoNANT thought the letters most infamous
productions, and rendered the writers of them liable
to a criminal prosecution. The Worthy Magistrate
then offered to afford every assistance to bring the
parties to justice; and here the matter for the pre-
sent terminated.

George Cooper, an individual attired in a fashion-
able style, and apparently about thirty-five years of
age, was on Friday night brought before Mr. Co-
NANT, charged with the following felony :
It appeared that the prisoner entered the shop of
Messrs. Nicholls, hosiers, in St. James's street, on
Friday afternoon, and stated that he required two or
three pieces of silk pocket-handkerchief, for Colonel
Stevenson, of Upper Grosvenor-street, an imaginary
gentleman, of whom the Messrs. Nicholls possessed
no knowledge. The prisoner selected an assort-
ment of handkerchiefs, which he ordered to be sent
that evening to the Colonel's residence. Mr.
Nicholls observed the prisoner slip one of the hand-
kerchiefs into his coat-pocket. Mr. Nicholls imme-
diately collared him, and the prisoner dropped the
handkerchief on the floor. He was then given into
custody. It was ascertained that no gentleman
named Stephenson resided in Upper Grosvenor-
street. The prisoner solemnly protested that he
never had any of the goods in his possession, having
only selected them ; but Mr. Nicholls swore posi-
tively to the above facts, and the prisoner, who
offered bail, was remanded.