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London, England, 1811-06-06 00:00:00

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first pla e, it w s a r.e elle, the consequences of
which
,could not be distinelly
,foreseee,,Alay the
Lord Chancellor was no lugger ap he; i riginal
-Judge in the Court of Chanerases:4ot was rely to
ri
have-an appellant jurisdiittiol. rids was 'inno-
eatitilf which hetharaeterieedets4lingeroue; lf the
chides of the Lord Chancellor were so great, that lie
coald not dhicharge then) this was the worst pos-
sible mode of - cnring t ht4141.---Ifet hevarions eittra-
tiotili,of that, lit'ghOtlicer must be separated, it 'would
he be.ter that he should cease to be die
,Speaker_of,
the House of Lord;, or telatee the jurtcdratilir-Or.
Bankruptcies, (though to'eltVer.olthas:.• changes he
'should' Stron:;ly object), than that in alteration
should be made so injurioul% the very essenee a
the.charaeter of a Lord HigteChancellor. The Re-
port ot the House of .bottls,orotosed to +take . from
the. Lord Chancellor. what :had- hitherto been con-
sidered as his nos 4t important , tiotiee, •andato 'leme
him that which had hitherto been 'considered merely,
as thiappendage of his office. He was a.toisished,
at the, meagre information which the Repert of the;.
Lords contained. 'lt stated merely the businesv which'
had
.been dole during the last .two years of , Lord
find wicke's Chaucellorsbip, and -that sehich 104
, been rinne dining the last.ten years ; bet it contained'
no intimation of What rem 'fined to be d. me The
Honourable`and Learned Gentleman here, entered'
int;) an examination of the statements in the Report,
and protested against' Parliament being called upon
with no other information to 'adopt an innovation,'
w hich;- if it liad'been proposed by any one not sane.;
tioned by Minister's, would have been termed a rank
attaCk upon that which the wisdoM dour ancestors
had established. It would completely alter the ettn-
st totioital Court of Chancery. . H.e understood that
the object. of it was to give the Lord Cliancellor
rn2rs leisure to attend in the Lords, and thus to faci-
litate the hearing of,Appeals. lithe preposition had
been carried info effect two termS ago, what would
have resulted iT It wield have been but little ticl-
vantage to the House of Lordajot. 1116 y had wee in
a Committee of Privileges during the Vtasole of the
Session, and they could not Proceed to hear appeals,
until' the busitit ss of that Chmioitteestras terminated;
and on a'ealculation of the sittings of the,Chancelei
lor in the Court of Chancery, it would appear that
all he-could have given to the Appeals would. have,
been three days and a half. Although • he, was
aware that these observations might he.offensive to.:.
one whom lie by no means. wished to °Weird, yet lug,,
should feel I hat,he-deserted his, duty...if—lateatattalacsi,
' from making them. It. was highly expedient to have
information wilt) respect to the arrears in the Court
of •Chancery. There was no way oriohtaining.ithr
by a Committee, and he should therefore vtike ftgr
the motion. .
The CHANCELLOR of the Excneousa aaid,,s4l,ll:,
. . .
had now before them the view which the Lort. slop .
of the, subject, and the regulations whtcli they p.-4,
posed to adopt to lessen the arrear which was ad....
ad! ted Co'eXtlt. His HOn.`and''Leaned Friend libti '
made some observations on the ri-santier le' Whletthe •
tittle of th'e"Hotise of Lords had been occnpiedi and
thence: , inferred, that the regulations 'which -had'
been suggested would enable, them to make but
little progress in the reduction of the number oi
cases in tar rear. He, hoWever, would .ask if it. was
lair to crone to such a conclusion, from a reference
to the proceedings, in the other House, in any pars
titular Sessions of Parliament, which.had.been Tore,
taken up by husineSS of a par titular: description thM
had r °me before the House in the course of eight or
semi years Istalwel The question4lol2.Mtio,gthe,
_Ban-
bury and Berkeley PeerNes 'had of
,hoe consumed a
larger portion of their time than was likely to he the
average, ripantaly of tiase so ..netnpiett in-loteronSt?
eimis. The regulatioo, which it had. beep trap ii
to adopt, had one difficulty growing eat nr.;tti, s, it
would occupy dwelt , of tite
..Lard chance) i
pir
time, V. hie!) was at ' presets(' 'necesilicW `.
oatere.
wise employed, and theradre it - 4as YtinilV.
it would be expedient' td'' ' appeint 'ad 'a' dth,
donut Judge, to ' lessee his labours; who should.
hofclh;s situation during
,gtioci • beliairiour • end-not
daring pleasure. The tueinesS of the Court of Chart.
eery had of, late greatly increasetf—irhisi onaimight•
oe led- to suppose, helhonglte, - from •the-great!in-
Crease Ol the• amount of proeerty. in Chancery.s—bie
was struck at .the little consideration bee .11,ratkand
LearneefirVelq seemed tb think due to the special
mutton nia-d-elfrtlre-Courreetrott6rjor'Phtingh
he most odtuit; Unit marry orthekit'steere matters of
courie, still he was, of oasioton, thvt. a gteater rlum-
ber ot causes Were'clialitt4ed Of 3 b?"Hiem at rtn't4rfy
period of the process,. than 'wore fistrnerly decided on
within the same period of lime.' = A-greater portion
' oftlre•day was now allotted to the l*arittg.of.Banks
itupt Petitions than formerly ; and lie thought thssyhad
. already sufficient materials toprove, that. an ii3O;011All
of business-had taken plaer, and that comicciettthoo
increase of hands was tiecessary to do it. Whatever
Mulle of re llietlyiP° the (2\7,11 nirght be suggesied by
the House of Lads: ht theught is would be more
proper for that House, (the
„House of Communs) to
deeide,on the measure of the other House, when it
came do%v n to theirs-, than ta I ake any step of their
own at present, It was desirable-that the ,remedy
PrNer tO be.applied should be determined on before
the close of tire session 'if possible. He did not
, . think the evil arose from rweinporary cause. Arise
•i lug from an increase of busirieS4, it grad giown with
public opulence, and,regoired A permanent rovision
to meet it. • With respect to what had been said ot'
14e situittiere,of the new:jettge becoming a siniecure,
' he louse say, itr.. could hardly think that likely, as his
interest ot the parties would,uma. them td go where
their eau:Ts wool:I be soOnest.deeideet..,. Underall
the circumstances they ought to wait tat he measuie
to be proposed by, the tOsdi was, before theier:'ll;
would then he time enough too appoint a committee
01 limit ()yogi iLthey ceuid.uyt agree with the other
House. His:opinion,. however, was, that if, the
. regidation reeommepded by the Ltitds did WA meet
the .whale 61.1 he evil") complained Of, it west a Oat
way•towards•correcting• t hose • of thiegrWelU'llttig-
ttittitte.' - . ' ' . ..-. .
' Sir:S. Roatt.t.v explidriett -..,":
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MO'ONSONSY was not.satisfted .with ihti4ePort
of ' the Lords, as: it contained to expletnetiors of the
qii,Vieg Oof the delays which had .taktm place. kit'
denied that they were to be found in the incicit iese.t
. ,
property in Chancery, and a cOniequent increase:of
I)4siti,.!ss, ae-the Lord Chancellor took 'no mere ;hoe
to decide on a case of I o,olsol ottani QH ono 0r1144
Ilik: -‘gro ,Y i 4 opPlence of The.notion, therefore; had
nothing to .40 viktt; it.' , Witli're'speet 1030,02,p1y1.
rapt eirsve, he. roust admit ilia! there was au icereoeti