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London, England, 1830-03-22 00:00:00

SURREY COUNTY MEETING.

Saturday a County Meeting was held at Epsom, to
take into consideration the present unparalleled distress under which
all classes of the people are now so unhappily labouring. There were
assembled about 2,000 persons, consisting of the most substantial
farmers. Among the Gentlemen that surrounded the High Shrill',
we perceived Sir Thomas Turton, Holme Sumner, Esq. the two
County Members, Mr. Wells, DI.P. for Maidstone, Mr. Maberly,
M.P. for Abingdon, Mr. Henry Drummond, Mr. Hunt, and se•
•eral others.

After the Sheriff had opened the proceedings of the day, Mr. Hunt
stepped forward, and was received with the most enthusiastic cheers
and greetings. He addressed the people at considerable length,
and was listened to with great patience ; and those bard blows,
which he upon such occasions as these generally deals out, were ap.
plauded and approved of by all, excepting those who winced under
them. He concluded by proposing the following resolutions, which
being seconded by Mr. Fife in a speech replete with good sense,
ware carried unanimously :

Resolved-1. That in the opinion of' this meeting the general
and overwhelming distress which now pervades all ranks and classes
in this county (except those who have fixed incomes, those who are
annuitants, and those who live upon the taxes) is now universally
admitted by every one but persons whose interest it is to miarepre.
sent and delude the people.
Resolved—g. That the original cause of this distress is clearly
to be traced to the total absence of any thing like a fair represen.
Wien of the people in the Commons House of Parliament.
Resolved-3. That all the evils and distresses which have afflicted
and borne down the people of England for so many years, are merely
the " consequences" naturally attendant upon laws made by a
House of Commons not chosen by the people.
Resolved-4. That some of the effects produced by a Commons
House of Parliament, thus constituted, are as follows: the long
bloody and extravagant wars waged against the liberties of the
of America and France, during the reign of George the
celttrride; which wars were sanctioned by large majorities of corrupt
Houses of Parliament not chosen by the people : the war with Ame.
rica doubled our national burdens and lost us those colonies; the
war with France, although it ultimately accomplished that which
its abettors and promoters intended it should, by restoring the weak
and despotic Bourbons to the throne, yet it caused two thousand
millions sterling to be wrung from the pockets of the industrious
classes of British subjects, and entailed debt of one thousand NW
lions upon them and their posterity, in addition to the shedding
of rivers of human blood.
Rssolved-5. That to the want of a fair, full, and free represen.
tatlon of the people in the Commons House, this meeting attributes
the oppressive and overwhelming taxation which anticipates the first
fruits of the poor man's labour, which swallows up full two-thirds
of every mans' industry, which abstruets all enterprise of capital
suit talent, and which has Impoverished every class.of the
ni'y, except those who are paid out of the necessary minis=
suffrring millions.
Resolved—G. That to the same cause also (the want of a radical
reform), this meeting ascribes all the disastrous and impolitic
changes in the currency; and all the bad laws and misrule, which
have produced the present alarming distress, and all those most ap.
palling consequenees, too numerous and too tedious to detail, and
many of them, being much too disgusting to dwell upon or to ens.
merate.
Resolved-7, That it is the decided opinion of this meeting,
that the overwhelming distress which now afflicts the suffering
people, is wholly and solely to be attributed to acts of parliament
sanctioned and passed by corrupt Houses of Comsnons not amen
by, nor having any sympathy With, the people of England: aid chit
it is in vain, nay that it is childish and delusive, to expect, or to
bold out an opinion to the country, that these distresses will be so.
Hewed till there is a real, an effectual, and a thorough Radical Re.
-form in the Commons House of Parliament.
Upon these resoltitiona, Mr. Wells, M.P. spoke at some length,
and concluded by giving his support to them, and affirming that it
was his conviction that no good to the nation could min, until these
should take place a thorough reform in the House of Commons.
This declaration was received with great cheering.
After the several other speakers—namely, Sir Thomas ninon,
Mr. abiploy, Mr. Dennison, M.P. Mr., Palmer, M.P. Mr. Ma.
body, Mr. Maydweli, and Mr. Leach, bad spokes, all of whom ad.
rained the necesdty of reknit and immediate reduction, a Petition
to that offset was propmed by Mr. Leach, and carried unanimously.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

VICE-CHANCRLLOIES COURT. Maws 20.
JUDGMENT.m-OILMIT V. GRANT. _

The VICE-Cumicsi-Loa pveLuidlogment in this case to.day, the
queetlon in which arose under the wing circumstances At—ln the
year 1772. Sir Alexander Grant made his will, by which he gave a
legacy 6(3,0001. to his sons, Peter and James Grant, and 2,000/.
to his son Charles Gant, directing that those legacies should not be
considered as a release from any debt they mien owe him, but that
such debt was to be deducted Item the hipse The payment of
these legacies was charged by the testator en all his real and per.
sonal estate, except an estate in Scotland, called Dolby. The lega-
cies were not to be paid till the expiration of seven years after the
demise of the testator. On the 34 of August, 1772, the testator
died, and Ludovioo Grant, as his heir, became entitled to the estate
of Palby. Upon this occasion, Alexander Grant, the grandson of
the testator, and eldest son of Ludovieo Orant, went to Jamaica as
the agent of the executors of his grandfather. By a deed in 1774,
James Orant assigned 7601. of his legacy to Sir H. Inglis, as a seen.
rity for a debt ; he also assigned 7601. to a gentleman named Rus-
sell. By a deed on the 2d Jan. 1779, Peter Grant assigned his Is-
gacy to James, tedennable upon the payment of 4,00 In the
month of Decanber,l7B7, C. Grant purchased an estate in the island
of Jamaica, called Hopewell, from a gentleman named Douglas, for
10,0001. As a security for part of the purchase money, Chu. and
Peter Grant executed what in effect turned out to be five bonds.
On the 31st of July, 1778, Douglas, at the request of Charles
Grant, filed a bill in Jamaica against the executors of the testator,
and against aides, Peter, end James Grant, to obtain payment of
the legacies, in discharge of the purchase money. On this muse
being heard, a decree was pronounced for an account of what was
due on the legacies. An appeal'was made from the effect of that
dorms to the Ring in Connell. In 170 James and Peter Grant
became bankrupts. In April, 1790, they obtained their certificates,
and ultimately paid to Sir H. Inglis and Mr. Russell, what they
had advanced. Sir Ludovieo Grant died in 1790, and Sir Alex-
ander Grant, the father of the present plaintif4 became entitled to
the estate in Scotland. In 1793 Sir Alexander Grant contracted
with the executors of Douglas for the purchase of the debt of
10,0001. and the bonds were assigned to Sir Alexander's agent._
Actions were brought in Jamaica on the beads—injunctions were
obtained restraining the proceedings in that action. This order for
an injunction upon an appeal to the Ring in Council was affirmed.
Many other proceedings of a most complicated nature took place in
the Courts of Jamaica relative to the accounts between the=
almost all of which formed subjects of appeal to the Privy
On the 14th of July, 1824, the present plaintiff, Sir Alexander
Gray Grant, filed his bill for an account of all the money due in
respect of the five bonds, and praying for a ne cleat Regno, to res.
train Charles Grant from leaving the country. The principal
question in the case was, in what manner the accounts relative to
the complicated proceedings between these parties were to be taken,
and from what period Sir Alexander Cray Grant was to have In.
tweet calculated upon the five bonds ? His Honour was dearly of
opinion upon the whole that the account ought to be taken, com-
puting interest upon the bonds, up to the time of making the Mas-
ter's report.