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COURT OF CHANCERY, AUGUST 14.
- DRURY LANE THEATRE.
FORD AHD OTHERS V. THE PROPRIETORS.""•
Mr. RICHARDS Rated, that this was a petitionpre-
tented by the Trullees of the Theatre Royal, Drury'
Lane, alaing for and on behalf of the Renters of that
Theatre, praying that his Lordfhip would be pleafed
to revoke fo much of the order of the Court made on
this cafe as related to the appointment of the prefent
Board of Management ; and that the objet of the
petition was not to feek any alteration whatever in
the order, except fo far as it related to the Trullees
acting under the deed oft 793, vetting the property in
Mr. Wallis, Sir R. Ford; Mr. liammerfley, and '
others, in troll for the benefit of all who are intereft.
ed in that property. Here he Rated the whole peti-
tion, which recites all the eircumßances of the cafe
from the time that Mr. Sheridan, Mr. Richardlon,
and Mr. Grubb, became proprietors—the propofals
made to the renters—the meetings they had upon
that ftibjedt—the refolutions they came to—their ap-
plications to the Court—the order made on loch ap-
plications—the proceedings had under that order—
their diffatisfadtion at fuch proceedings, on account
of the enormous expences which have attended the
prefent management, by which were held from them
the profit., which, as renters, they would otherwife
have enjoyed—their final refblution to apply to the
Court to have the prefent Board of Management
changed ; and their having given to Mr. Sheridan,
Mr. Graham, and otheiGentlemen, due notice of this
their application. &c. Mr. Richards then proceeded
—" My Lord, the queflion before your Lordlhip is
a very short one. Before the deed of 1793, Trufteei
were appointed, whole duty it was, in the event of
401. a night during the performance not being paid
to the renters, &c. that others Mould take poffetlion
of the Theatre, and the management of it; as Truf-
tees for the great body of the Creditors. When the
matter came at length before your Lordfhip, you
were of opinion, it would be Ufeful for the general
concern that certain proprietors of the Theatre should
be in the adtual poffellion and management of it.—
Your Lordlhip alts direlted in what order the leve-
ret engagements of the Theatre Ihould he provided
for ; againfl that order there is no complaint what-
ever that I know of."
LORD CHANCELLOR—" L am very averfe to tak-
ing any further power of direfting any thing in this
cafe ; but, lintels I miftake the inßrument to which
the order refers from the beginning to the end, it is
the only order for payment which I could make."
Mr. RICHARDS—" As far as I am inftrudted or in-
formed, there is no perfon intrufted in the Theatre,
who does not feel very grateful to your Lordlhip for
the trouble you have taken in forming that order, and
quite fatisfied with the jultice of it. We impute no-
thing of impropriety in the order ; we feel very grates
ful to your Lordfhip for it ; but it is the ufe which
has been made of power derived under it, my Lord,
which we complain of."
LORD CHANCELLOR—" I alfo feel grateful for the
hihdfome thanks you give me; but I am tired of the
management of a Theatre."
Mr. ,RICHARDS—" Your Lordfhip Mall be very
loon relieved from hearing me upon the fubjedt. We
complain tif the management of the Theatre. There
is tau doubt that in confequence of the order which ,
yoir Lordfhip fo made, many charges upon the
Theatre have been removed ; many payments, and
to a great amount, have been made ; and, under ju-
dicious management, the renters would have been in
that proportion benefited ; but debts have been in-
creafed in the fame proportion ; although we who
were once in the 9th, are now in the 6th clals ; Rill
We have had no benefit."
LORD Carincetame" Whatever arrears there
may be, I think all parties benefiting from the The-
atre anfwerable to the performers.
Mr. RICHARDS—" As far as I am concerned, I
(hall occupy but a few minutes of your time. Thole
who Rand before us, have, fome of them, been fa-
tisfied, yet there ate many others before us, who
have not been fatisfied one Chilling, and the charges
are increafed on the one hand, as much as they are
diminifhed on the other; Co, that the Theatre al-
though it gains a great deal more, yet produces no
more profit to the Renters than it did before the or.
der was made ; the order, therefore, although per-
fatly judicioua, is really vrafte paper with refpedt to
us, and has been fo from the moment of its paging.
Formerly your Lordfhip was told that the receipts of
this Theatre were fo immenfe that they would pay
all demands upon it Coon, and yet we ate Rill fo
dif-
(ant from the land of promife, that we have no hope
of reaching it without your Lordfhip's aid, for we
can have nothing from the Theatre until all prior
incumbrances are removed. We are very much
preffed in this cafe; we are called to execute a duty
which we have accepted by the deed of 1793 ; and
we, the Petitioners, are perfeBly ptrfnaded, that if
the management of the Theatre were taken out of the
hands of thole who nova have it, a greater profit will
be had than we have ever had yet. Your Lordlhip
will not underhand that we complain of the Tree-
fuser not receiving all the money and carrying it to
account according to the direftion of the Truftees,
and duly taking it to the Banker's for that pureofe.
It is certainly done fu, and :here is no doubt of it.—
All the receipts are duly accounted for; but the mif-
fortune is, that the nature of the receipts and expen-
diture is in no degree whatever under the controul of
the Truftees of 1793. All they have to do is to fee
that the money laid to be expended has been expended.
The parties who have claims upon the Theatre make
thofe claims, the money is Paid to be due, and, if it
be due, the Truftees order it to be paid, and it is
paid I all that is reqtrired, or can be required, by the
Truftees is, that thole who claim to be paid fhould
produce vouchers for their claims; when they do the
accounts are fettled; beyond this, the Truftees have
no authority—they have no controul over the mode
in which debts are incurred. So if the Proprietors
propofe to bring forward fome new entertainment
on the Rage, loch as that of the " Forty Thieves."
and chufes to expend a great deal of money in mak-
ing preparations for its appearance on the Stage, the
expence mull be defrayed, although it may never
appear."
LORD CHANCELLOR" I fuppofe that Sir Richard
Ford, from his fituation in life, could produce you
44 Forty Miran," more eafily than even Mr. Sheri-
dan 1"
Mr. Rica/moo—a" Certainly, my Lard, it is More

natural to %Opole to ; bat if your Lotdfitip
afford time to read the Newfpapers, you would have
fees a great etpedation held forth to the Public by
the appearance of thefe " Forty Thieves I"
Loan Cuaucaaooa I have read a great number
of Advertifements concerning Rent Charges of that
Theatre; but I think they would do well to infert in
them a copy of my order."
Mr. Ricitaitos....." Forty Thieves on the Rage
might be made natural enough, with good adors,
my Lord; but if money is to be expended in prepar-
ing, for their appearance, they fitould appear, my
Lord; if the.expence be incurred, it molt be paid,
andhas been paid; and therefore, although all the
money received at the Theatre is carried to the
Truftees. and by them applied to the purple in-
tended by your Lordfltip's order, yet, if thefe impro-
vident, expenditures are admitted, the receipts, al-
though very large indeed, will produce no profit to
us. The profits to us may be fmaller and fmaller,
in proportiorkas the receipts are large : they very of-
ten contribute to the embarraffment of the Theatre,
by enlarging.the (tale of its expenee. Under thefe
circumttances..the Trultees are urged on by their
constituents, the Renters, to make this application
to the Court. They are perfedly perfuaded, that if
other Managers were appointed, the trufl would be
better concluded. We have a right under thefe cit.
cumflances to afk for poffeilion of the Theatre."
LORD CHANCELLOR You do not ferns to recoi-
led, that, in making my.order, I had to confider
the cafe of the Duke of Bedford, who is the ground
landlord of this Theatre he has not made a leafe,
and he may never make a lezfe for it, unlefs all the
incumbrances are difcharged and due fecurity given
to him. I can make nc order whatever upon him in
that particular. I made the bell order I could upon
a full confideration of this fubjeß, after lamenting,
as I dO now again lament, that my predeceffors in
this place have, by their precedents, in the cafe of
the Royal Circus, and (everal others, compelled me
to decide upon this cafe. But how can I make any
order for changing the Board of Management ?There
isino allegation that any part of the receipts or funds
Irf this Theatre is applied in any manner contrary to
the order I have already made. The receipts are
Paid to have been immenfe on many occafions ; upon
that I have no great deal of knowledge. not having
been often at the Theatre; when I have, it was al-
ways fo full that I could hardly get in. But you Mk
me to make an order, founded on a fuppofed
Inagement of this Theatre--nprin a petition which
does not contain a fingle fyllable of allegation of any
fuch mifmanagement."
Mr. Ric H ARDS-..." The receipts are abundant, but
we complain that they are mifufed, by incurring. im-
properly, great expences—fo that we have really no
benefit from your Lordfhip's order of r 793."
LORD CHANCELLOR—" The order of 1793 Was
under the fuppofition that according to law, pay-
ment to the rtnt charges would come in the 9th de-
gree ; with this exception, that nnlefs the muaitude
of rent chargers made it impoffible, (as by plea in
abatement or the like) for them, by any proceeding
by law or equity, to of as fuitorr, it did appear
to me that payment of demands which citified prior
to the demands of thefe Renters, was, in truth, pay-
ment to them ; and be it remembered, that by law
they are liable to loch payments. .The order gives
.you an opportunity of•applyingg to the Court in cafe
of any mifmanagement; but then you Riould make a
dillinet allegation in your petition, that there is fuch
mifmanagement, and there is no fuels alteration. It
there had, to be fore it would have been a fiirmidable
queltion for me to try. It was my opinion then and
it is my opinion Rill, that the order I made was the
beR I could make, and before I revoke it, they whkr
alk it, mull find me the means (I do not fay it is out
of their power) by (hewing me I can do fo with due
regard to all the legal and equitable demands which
culled on the fcite of the old Theatre, a fubjed of
which thofe who deal with the new Theatre have
loft fight altogether. The whole balls of my order
is, that the Proprietors fhould be Managers, and they
would never have confented to any order of which
that was not the balls ; upon that the order is formed.
You certainly can never exped that order to be dif-
turbed, nnlefs you Rate circumftances of mifmanage-
ment, that the Court may fee what they are."
Mr. RICHARDS ..*l4 We fubmit, it is enough to en-
able us to a compliance. if we (hew that, notwith•
(landing the experiments which have been made to
improve the produce of this Theatre, nothing has
been paid to us."
LORD CH AN caLt.oll I think that is no breach of
the order ; but it may have happened confißendy
with it, and even although the Theatre had been ma-
naged in the bell manner poffible."
Mr. Ric it rtos..." We were all taught to exist&
that the profits would have been very large."
LORD Cuawcat.Lott-4. The truth of fuch a repre-
fentation might depend upon who amid have the
exertions of fuch a boy as Mailer Betty."
Mr. Rica ARDS-.." Your Lordfhip has had the good
fortune to go thither only (for I know you do not
go often) on the nights when Matter Betty perform.
ed. The houfe was not fo full on other nights, my
Lord. Your Lordfhip's order, which we feek to
alter by changing the Managers, is a very general
order ; and we fubmit that it is enough to enable us
to it, as a confiderable body of the creditors are fatif.
fled there is a mifmanagement of the Theatre."
Loan Cstascsi.Loa—., I fay. there is no proof of
the exillence of any mifmanagement ; neither would
you, on this Petition, be entitled to any order on the
ground of mifmanagement, even if it exiled, be-
caufe, in this Petition, you have not alledged
management."
Mr. Titowa an addreired his Lordfhip on the fame
fide, obferving, that there were affertions of implied
mifmanagement, by the Renters being diffatisfied."
Loan CaaitcaLt.oa" The queltion is, Whether
there is an affection of mifmanagement 11'
Mr. TRow•ARD—u No dire& alfertion, certainly."
LORD CHANCELLOR.-..." Is there an indirect affer-
lion of it ?"
ATTORNEY GENERAL—" There would be a very
direl one if any mifmanagement exilted."
Mr. TROWARD laid, that his Lordfhip fitting in
judgment on the management of a Theatre, had cer
tainly a very arduous talk ; but he united that in
this cafe the wifhes of the Petitioners, or rather their
Conftituents, would be complied with by other Ma-
nagers being appointed. The truth was, that the
Traces had no particular willies upon the fubjed; but
the Rasters called on the Traces to prefs this mat•

ter &twill.' They might be told by his Lordftsc4s4
*bat, without his Ipordthip's authority. they wosp
not believe, that thl, ipplieation could not be grut :-
ed. The Traßees had therefore no 'lroice ; ;Cy
were compelled to make this application, qu atecnnt.
of the Renters.
Loan Cuascet.t.oe-.01 What have -the f-ent-.
Chargers to do but to file a bill, if they tibitlC t!, on
behalf of themfelves, and all other Rent-rgerit.
to have the whole cafe gone through from ketinning
to end ; and *hen they do, they will bury tr.i. inte-
rens of all the patties under the ruins of it."
Mr. Teowsab—" That has been thrown ctiti I
know not with what view, unlefs it be in terrorere.";•
LORD CHANCILLOR+" I will tell you cartdie?'?
why I throw it out to you, Mr, Troward, becauf:
fhould be forry you went from that Bar without on-
derlianding me. I have long been perfuaded, tb tr
if this order of mine is di&urbcd, the Theatre mall
as well be fet fire to."

Mr. TROWARD exprefed the fenfe of the Truflee,,
who brought forward this petition at the inftance of
their conaitnents, the Renters, to be this, that they
would be fatisfied whatever way this bufinefs wa
difpoled of, provided their conduit was not cenfure4
—if this motion was granted, the Renters would be
fatisfied ; if refuted, the Trullees would be fortified
by the authority of the Court, whole refute; to alter
the order would be the belt proof they had dohe no-
thing wrong under it. The Truftees had nothing to
ant for themfelvet, but the Renters dented to hate
other managers.
A Learned Gentleman appeared for the banters in
Pall Mall, who were concerned in Come parts of this
complicated bufinefs, and faid they joined Mr.
chards's clients in this application to the Court.
Mr. WETNERILL appeared for the executors of'
Mrs. Nunn, who were entitled to a rent charge of
Sol. a year, upon which confiderable arrears were
due, he believed fifteen years. By his Lordthip's
order they were entitled to be paid in the sth and
6th degrees—by the sth Article of ,the Order they
were entitled to be paid. The Order confined of
19 Articles, but inflead of arriving at the nineteenth
flap, which was the end of its journey, this Order
broke down at number four. He admired the ta-
lents of Mr. Sheridan, but diligence was not the
leading feature in his character, although his genius
was moll extenfive. He concurred in the applica-
tion for the change of the management of this tbetre.
The ATTORNEY Gammas Paid, he had waited on.
til every gentleman who might be ;nitrated to ad-•
drefs the Court upon this fubjed had done fa, but
now that the whole cafe was difclofed, he had no.
thing farther to do on behalf of the prefent Board of
Management, that to refer his Lordlbip to the
prayer and the elLTitfiett of the petition, the mac of••
which did not, in the leaft degree,fopport the other.,
The LORD Citexcat.t.ot Paid, he was extremely
defirous to give as much time as he could do, eon+
fiftently with propriety, to the circumftances cf this
cafe ; but he could not anfwer to the other faitors
of th Court, for allowing this cafe to be any longer
contended. He then proceeded on the circurti-
fiances of the cafe, of which we lament we have
only room for the outline. It was treedlefs to (tate
what every body knew, that there was an old The-
atre, called Drury-lane Theatre, which Rood on the
kite of the prefent Theatre, and that there were
Rill in being many perfons who bad demands on
the property of the old Theatre. His Majefly was
pleated to grant his Letters Patent of this Theatre,
the dates of which were not material to the prefent
queftion ; bat it was extremely to be lamented, that
in thole etters Patent the number of Proprietors,
or Rent Chargers, had not been limited, and he hop-
ed that an old Attorney General (himfelf) might be
allowed to hint to new Attornies General, that they
would do well to confider the inconvenience which
malt refult in there being filch a multitude of pro-
prietors in any cafe, the management of which
came under she direction of a Court of Jufiice ; but
he mull here obferve, that however great the um-
ber might be of thefe Patentees, Proprietors, or
Rent Chargers, or Landlords, or whatever elle they
might be called, they bad all certain pofitive pecuni.
ary rights and interells in the property. They at
prefent difputed only about the profits of this •The-
atre, but every pea= who had an interell, payable
out of a property, and was himfelf a Proprietor, he
apprehended, was liable as a partner, and that pof-
fibly thofe who were thus contending for the profits,
might have the confolation of finding that, by and
bye, they may have the benefits which belong to a
cornea in a Court of law or equity in the fhape of
loffes. His Lordfhip then took notice of the deed of
1793, by which the troll under which the prefent
management was authorifed was created, and oh/er-
red, that he knew not how to Rate, much lets to
dwell on the propriety of dircuiling, in a Court of
Jullice, a motion for removing thofe againft whom
there was no allegation of mifm.utagement. • Even
if there bad been fuggeftions to make that point ad-
miffibla in difeuflion, it would bare been abundantly
difficult in the decifion. The firfi interell to be con-
fidered in this cafe, was the intereft of the Duke of
Bedford. He was to give a leafe of the fcite on
which this building was ended, as ground-landlcrd,
for which he was to have tot. every night's perfor.
mance, and if the Court was to deal with the quef-
tion at all, it mull deal with it with a due regard to
the intereft of that Noble Duke, neither could this
occur before all incumbrances on the Theatre were
removed, and fecority given. The next demand was
that of 'sl. a night each performance to be let afide
for the payment of the arrears of rent; and it was a
queftion worth difcuffion, whether thefe Rent Char.
gers, who were thus contending for an alteration in
the order, were not liable to the Duke for both this
rent in future, and thefe arrears of Rent. The third
and fourth articles of the order were thofe without
which the Theatre could not go on at all ; he meant
a provilion for the poor performers, who had great
arrears due to them ; if they had no provilion, no-
thing would be produced to any body, for fic yet
non vc.bir. This was a claim which mull be fettled
before the Rent Chargers could expel any ;
—the claims of the Tradefmen mull be provided for
on the fame fyfiern cf priority; for all which there
was ordered to be appropriated rot. per night to
pay off arrears. The arrears deer to the old Rent
Chargers, prior to 1793, demandcd another apeto•
priation of rot. per night. Theo came the Rent-
Chargers fubfequent try 1793, upon which there was
fix hundred pounds per annum prefent rent, and
131. per night for arreat.. ' au gnat behinning with

•
i.e Bedford, and ending with the art ears
et prrient Renters, there was the turn of 451 per
nialit to be laid slide before the produce of 'he The•
acre became applicable to any thing elle, coulequeot-
ly long before thnfe pert-its whole payments were
in the ninth dais came into their turn. His Lord-
fhip having explained the nature of the trult of Mr.
liammertley, proceeded to fay—«.l never had an
idea that I could do what this Petition afks, that the
Rent Chargers of 793 thoold have a variation of
this Order, and take poffctlion of the profits againft
all the former Rent Chargers, and all fubfequent
rights ; it is not becatile they afk it, that I thould
make that alteration ; nor only againlt the interest of
the Duke of Bedford, who is capable of dilitubing
the whole concern, but alto agiiintl the interelts of
the old Renters, the tradelmen, and all the pet for-
mers. lam ready to lay, that the Court will itrug-
pie with all the difficulties which might be in the way,
:frt.! they would be innumerable, it you could fhew
that tilde perlOns
have been guilty of milmanage-
initead of making the elate as produelive (as
it Items to me they are making it) as polfible, al-
though it would be with great regret that I fhould
bear the difctiffion of fuch a fubjeet as the manage.
ment of the Theatre, and that before fo ignorant a
herfon in Inch matters, yet I fhould be obligeto
ear it if there was any allegation of mifinknagement;
but here is no fuch allegation. I thould be obliged
to hear it, although it might. give birth to fome mat-
ters, perhaps, a little more ludicrous than befits the
gravity of this Court ; but there is no reafon what-
ever why this Order fhould be -difturbed. On the
other band, if parties came here, .and alledged
eir-
cumftances of mifmanagerstent, and called on the
Court to revoke its order, the Court mull, if it be
jull to do fo, revoke its order, and leave the parties
to deal as they can afterwards with their legal and
equitable rights, remembering this, that no' Court
of law or equity can deal with thefe legal or equity
ble rights but upon regular just and proper reprefen-
tations, and on bringing, before it, either perfonal-
ly, or by due reprefentation, all the patties in whom
there rights are invested ; and here let me fay they
will do well to confider, not only what their right:
are, but alto what their liabilities are; and after they
have confidered what their rights and liabilities are,
they will do well to confider what the refult may be
of doing Mice to both. They will do well to confider
what the good confequences may be of their yielding
a little, and abating of rigour towards each other,
and what, on the other hand, may be the lad conk-
suences of contending with each other as far as con
Unarm sun go. in what I have now Rated, I have
endeavoured to confine my opinion to the prayer of
the Petition, becaufe I fhould be forty that Mr.
Troward fhould go out of Court without underttand-
int that I do not fit here to remove truftees, merely
tecaufe it is demanded, at a time ss hen their conduct
is tact alledged to be improper, whila it is not; if it
Were, they would feel it for themfelves, and I trult
it would not be necelTary that I thould feel it for
them—Petition difzniffed.

CHAMBERS V. COLLINS.

When this cinellion was previoufly before the Court,
an order was given to the Mafter to inquire into va-
rious faes, which the report now brought before the
Court had been prepared to explain. The Plaintiffs
are the infant children of Mr. and Mrs. Chambers,
viz. Wm. Chambers, of the age of twenty years, now
at Madras ; Auriol Chambers, eighteen years old,
alto in the Eaft Indies, and both of—them in the flint-
tion of cadets ; Auguflus Chambers, aged fifteen
years, lately at the school of Mr. Edwards, Chelfea,
and now fitted out as a cadet for the fame fcttlements;
Frederick Chambers, a Lieutenant in the army ;
Newton Chambers, at Weeminfter School ; Jane
Chambers, intended to be fent to Cambden Houle ;
and Courtney Chambers, only eight years old, at
Mr. Morton's, Kenfingtoo, at whiat place the father
mow reticles.

The Mailer fates the reports of bis predeceffors, as
to the allowances to the children, which had been
paid up to the sth of July, 1802, and were fofpended
in the month of Augua of that year, the father hav-
ing gone abroad. After that they were entrufted to
Lord Charles Henry Somerfet, who was removed
from his fituation of guardian, on his own applica-
tion, on the 18th of March, tBo+. Since the sth of
July following, the allowances have not been paid to
any one. The Mailer then details the propofitions of
Mr. George Chambers on the one hand, and of Mrs.
Chambers on the other, for the future maintenance
and education of the children, and determines in
favour of the latter, recommending the money to be
paid for their benefit into the hands of Mr. Aaron
Graham. He then finds, that by Mr. Chambers, for
the ufe of the children, the (urn of 5721.421. sd. has
been paid, and by Mrs. Chambers, 2701.35. sod. The
prelate application to the Court was in the way of
- exceptions to this report.
MelTrs. !Uremi' and FONBIANQPF, for Mr.
thombers. obferved, that the only ohjeetion to the
eondtte bf the father in the management of his chil-
dren, Was not that be had (craved any thing directed
by the Court for rhek fulAftence and advantage, but
• that he had nut diffinguithed the.rmonnts which had
been devoted to each indiiidual child: Mr. Chant-
ben conceived that the legacies derit-ci by Sir Wil-
liam to his grand-children, were to be apportioned
"bybior, the-father, fur their maintenance, and thet
he slight at halt have th- privilike of Wetting the
feminaries where they fhouhl receive their education.
The tirft exception to the report was, that the Maf
ter had found that the allowance ought to be difeon-
tinned, for the youth now defined to the Eall In-
dies. A great espence had been incorred in fitting
him out, and the payment could not be withheld
ender circumßances more unreafonable. The next
obicßion was, that the Mailer had reported that the
two younger children, Jane and Courtney, should be
difpnied of according to the recommendation of the
mother, and not agreeably to the advice of the fa-
ther. The third was, that the firms to be devoted
to the children, were to be paid to Mr. Graham and
not to the father. •
The LORD CH %NCEL Loa—" Here is a boy thir.
teen years of age, at ichool, to be fupported by a
(mall pittance, and the charge for his hats for four
months, is 51. I is. 3d. There boys are in a flyle of
cepence, not at all hilted to their future expeetations.
Some people have acquired a notion that the Chan-
valor is to pay for all this; and a (hoc maker has

lent me a bill ofpareals for a►tiOm of hislh•p,
in he has charged more by five times,' than I would
Allow to any child of my own. ,A boy of thirteen
teArs old inns up bills to the amount tel./ 381. in the
year, betides what is to be paid to his father for his
maintenance."
The ATTORNEY GENERAL vindicated the Mafier's
Report, with regard to the three exceptions that had
been taken. It was not Aced that Mrs. Chambers
lhould have the care of the children, it was only
fought that Mr. Graham might have the appropria-
tion of the money, and that the father might no
longer have the difpofal of it, who, either by the
misfortune of his temper, or the infelicity of his cir-
cumaances, was wholly incapable of fulfilling the
Farental duties.

The LORD CHANCIILLOR" I fhould be unwilling
1 to tend the Report back to the Mader, but there are
parts of it which certainly want explanation, and I
Bull do that which the Court is in the habit of doing
where itifants are concerned ; I mean to confer with
the Mallet taking care at the fame time to in. •art
before the Bar what is fo communicated. If children
of 12, 13, and 14 years of age are catered to get into
debt with tradefmen, to the amount of 601. in one
day, the fhopkeeper fbould be informed that the Court
will nor, under its authority, admit them to receive
a farthing of their demand. If they will do this,
they mutt feck their remedy where they can find it,
for it will not be fupplied fiotn the fends devoted to
the maintenance of infants."