The Sun.
London, England, 1818-10-07 00:00:00

HOP INTELLIGENCE.

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0U T 11 NV Alt K , OCT. 5.--tior 11011 trade bas been
very dull to-day, scarce!), any sales made, either
of 1),,,gs or Pockets, but particularly of the for-
mer ; prices as tinder :
Kent l'ockuts 71. ss. to 61. ss. and al. Ins.
Stigsex Puckets 71. to 71. !Rs. and Al.
Kent Bags 61. Ns. to 71. los. aria a lot or two 71. 152. but the
run of Kent: are from 71. to 71. 7s.
Sussex Bags sd. to ti 1. 15s. and 71.
CIIANBROOX, OCT. s.—Our fair on Tuesday
last wets well attended, and a great many samples
Of Hops, produced, but there was but little busi-
ness (lone, on account of the heaviness of the
1-!Op-market.

It appears we were wrongly informed As to the
qu;thtit y of Hops grown on One acre at Linton,
belonging to Mr. Allehin, as stated in our last.
That Gentleman assures us, that let the crop be
whatever it "night, no person knew the 'timber any
one acre produced, as they were all mixed together
arnording as they were dried.—(Maidstone Journal,
Oct. 6.)

Extract of a Letter front Sussex, dated the 6th of
October.
d' The present Season is like a second spring ;
grass, corn, and weed,, appear accordingly. The
ariner4 are busy in all directions preparing for
the %%heat sowinf.,,, and where care and industry
have been exercised in the itinttier fallowing,
nothing can promise better to ensure a future
abundant crop. The price of Hops has declined,
but chiefly by reason of the poverty of the farmers
to meet their payments of rent, taxes, and poor.
rates. The general opinion, however, is, that
the article will materially improve in price
after the tartner' sales.— Hay is very scarce,
and 81. is demanded per load. What the farmers
are to do fur winter fodder, it i 3 not easy
to tell.
Here is a general failure of turrAips, and of all arti-
ficial sectiA, awl the struts is toiy

I. ET l'E. 111.

Soon after the process of capias came into ge-
neral use in all cases Of private wrongs, the
original mandate and attathment fell into desne-
:t_nde. The issue :mil return of them into the
CoMmotl 144,N7 Col:rt were only st,ppcse:l; and
instead of that real arciiiity required by tl,e
old law; from a complainant, before his de-
mand should b•.! pot in suit; the feigned names
of tine and Roe were substituted, and the She-
riff was supposed to return, that a defendant
had nothing whereby lie cardd he surn.noned, at
tached, or distraint& The monition intended to
be given him by the original mandate, which if
by precept and absolute, commanded him to do
the thing retiested, or show a reason for the
rootrary ; or it con&tional on security, was
wholly si.perseded, llis person was arrested in
it a first instance by the capias in all CHses,
or without force, contrary to the provisions 'Midh
by our ancestors in favour of peA-stral liberty, and
in contempt of the feudal Principle laid clown tot
the benefit of the. Lord.

The plausible excuse for this devious proceed-
in, was, that Often on notice a delenthitit rib.
sconded, and kit a complainant without a renie-
dy ; but here, it may he presumed, that having
no property to attach or distrain, he preferred a
voluntary exile to imprisonment, which would do
his complainant no good. The sacrifice was
large : he might have been compelled to appe,sr
under the summons, or a seizure of his property,
as the best satisfaction a complainadt could ob-
tain from him, short of confining him to gritty a
vindictive spirit. The arresting him by the cans,
which supposes an original nuindat 0 and At I adll ..
Men( to be teturped, might be summary, hut it
was unconstitutional. Personal liberty in civil
cases was brohen ill upon- by an immediate Forest;
;.111(1 if the action commenced by precept or pre.;
cipe, justice -.vas apparently sold, regardless of
Magna Charta, which says voile vendenitis
_lush-
ciam. In such action a fine was paid the King;
but in an action of trespass, where nothing cer-
tain was demanded, and only reparation in nicer-
twin damages, it was rated by the Court, and le-
vied by capiatur, for the violence of the trespass,
which included a breach of the peace. This fine
nevertheless being taken in an arbitrary, unlimit-
ed manner, a statute passed in the sth and Gth of
William and Mary, ch. 12. which fixed it at 6s. 81.
.to be taken by the proper officer of the Court
wherein the action is brought before the entry of
final judgment.
On the establishment of the capias,' tire arrest
of the person wus not the only thing to he re-
gretted. It contained a clanse that lie bad broken
the complainants close, (pure allusion fregit,
which in time was abused to the vilest purposes.
Ely not stating the true cause of action, a defen-
dant was kept long in prison tor want of bail,
bonds being demanded by Sheriffs' officers in such
large sums of money that few men dared to enter
ill them, although the cruise of action, when
known, was very small. It was often discovered
that no such person as the complainant existed,
but that a feigned name was made use of to forte
a defendant into unjust companions for the sakes
of his liberty. Vexation in this way called loudly
upon the Legislature for corrsction, and the sta tot c
of the 13th of Charles 11., passed, directing that
no more than -101. hail shall be t i ken, nuless the
true came of action be expressed in the writ ; and
awaiting; costs against a complainant for not pro-
ceeding ill his action in 3 given time. Before this
statute many an honest man WAS arrested, and cast
into prison for large sums of money, by malicious
complainants, who proceeded no further.
But this Act was lint extensive etiough. It
was as ninch io the power of a malicions Mao to
harass a harmless one by stating a /o/se cause of
action, where perhaps there was no true one, as
it was to issue his writ without naming any ; and
bits Only check against it se's his liability to costs,
To state the true, suitors issued oliginal man-
dates, moil the officers of the Court of King's
Bench, which had been nearly deprived of its
jurisdiction over civil injuries without force, be-
cause the first process lit that' Court was framed
only for trespasses, contrived a mode of stating the
true cause of action therein, and the Court of
Common Pleas followed 1(3 example to the same
end. Yet wise as this statute was thought, the
substituting a false cause of action in the process
of each Court was productive of as much int—
chief as the Act was intended to prevent ; aird so
it continued untii the statute of the 12 Geo. 1.,
which (lit cos that none shall he arrested on civil
process unless the complainant make oath that hie
demand amount to 101. and upwards (now 151.),
and the sum sworn to be, endorsed thereon. By
this Act the statement of a IMe cause of action ill
the process became useless. In one case it is
otherwise ; for as by the statute lit the 13th Chas.
11. a cause of trespass was stated therein, instead
of its being truly an action of drbt, for soMething
certain, in order to save the fine to the King, the
convenience was continued, which, as few suits
go onto
, judgment, happens often ; but actions of
debt for things email', prosecuted as trespasses
for uncertain damages, if they go to judgmsot,
must have an original mandate to agree with,
otherwise the variance will be error, and vitiate
the whole, and then the flue intended at fits: to' be
sared, will, at last, of necessity be paid.

AN OLD 13.11tRliTER, ul thc lancr Tegap!.r.