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London, England, 1805-03-18 00:00:00

L 4 1177ELLIGENCi.

COURT OF CHANCERY, MARCH s 6.
Colonel Thornton's Wirers was again brought be.
Tore the Cmascsta.oa.
Mr. Fowataaryt, as Counfel for the Colonel,
Reed the cafe :—the (Ned of the application was
ts induce his Lordthip to revile an order made in the
year 1804, by which a man of the name of Nut-
brown, a tenant of Colonel Thornton, and who had
6: en difpoffeffed of his farm, was restored to the
occupation of it until the quetlion of right &mild
be fettled The condition upon which he had been
reffored was, that he amid not attempt to erer.
cife any ad of ovenerthip with regard to the farm,
but thould merely ufe at for the purpofe of hut.
wildry. This Condition he had violated, and had
t MT?: ed the effete to become entirely' dilapidated, and
fie fields. totally uncultivated. It was therefore
w:!hed that his Lordibip would remove him, and ap-
rwint &me perfon to manage the farm who would
H:e proper care of it.

jir Totowa' Toluene was heard on the tittle fide,
and Mi. Itostiatv in favour of Nutbrown.
Altai a (holt reply by Mr. FonaLaaigia, Colonel
Thornton tuft and addreffed the Coon in a ftrain of
humour, though Upon' a matter of fuch ferious
confequenee to bithfelf. iirefulably laughable.—
He apologized for. his ignoraace of the forms of the
Court, but thought it ocean* to (AY fomealsini
himfelf, in which he allured his Lordiblp he should
be as laconic as poflible. He defcribed the fervicet
he had rendered the Plaintiff, kohl his fir& introduc-
tion, when they Mr. id to (port togethe to the time
of his letting the eftate of Falconer's Hall to him,
when he not only placed him in a farm oflloo acres.
worth 'cool. a year, but lent him a fum of rdoney
to enable him to carry it on, which he gave him
at the rate of el. per cent. when he paid 301.
per cent. hidifelf for it at the bankers. Yet he Paid,
he was derCribed as having aeeJ oppreffively; it was a
fingular kind of opt:nation, to place a man in a farm,
lend him money to tarry it on, and not demand any
Teat of him for gferies of tirhe. The reafuns why he
(laid not (wear to a patticular (gm dire by the Plain-
tiff to him as mentioned on a fotmee occafion, he
now explained—he bad a eaufe pending, in conk-
vie= of which he every day expelled to receive
zs,Oool. hilt from want of form, or foidething or
another, he did not underhand, be had not received
a chilling of it to the prefent hour ; he was to have
allotted the Plaintiff sod. per annum for managing
lkiscencerns, and when lie came to (wear, he forgot
dig he had lent him fool. not becaufe he was natu-
rally forgetful, bdt the circumgance already hated;
coined to a multiplicity of other misfortune., drove
st entirely out of his head. He then went into a detail
of vise tfilaPidations, and obferved, that his fervants
bad eoilfpired agginft him, dote his heap, robbed
him of his corn, &c. and be had at that time a capfe
depending at the YorkAffizes for dsofe offenceswhich
wire ionneeed with the elate in queftion. and which
be fuppofed ht might lofe, becaufe he was not pre-
fent hirnfelf. yet he could not be in two places at once ' •
if at York he mufilofe his teat here, which would
be of the greater confequence of the two: He then
gave a molt elaborate dectiption of the farm ',fell,
tyre dwelling hoofe of which was perched on the top
of a bill, for the purpofes of hawking and hunting :
When he *enc. down to look at it, ;ant of finding
fields of waving corn, turnip and graf.lands gas greed°
as emeralds, the frit were covered witjr thidies, and
the latter overrun' by die fwinifk multitude. That
which liefore afforded him gehearful and confoling
efrofpte, now gild firth with regret : clinic thinks
were a moll luxuriant crop, and in that part of the
country the wind frequently blew fliarp from differ-
ent directions, fometitnes a wehern breeze blew hard,
at other times an ea ern returtied the compliment,
then north; then-tooth, and (non; fo that every blalt
fent forth a cloud of thilik down. threaoming define-
dim to 30,000 Cites of land, which lay contiguous,
and all of which was loft by order of the Court of
chancery—nothing was to be feen but g wildernefs
of thifiles through the whole country I and fo formi-
&Me was the cloud of down which conliantly /bated
in the air, that the gallant Mai.)r Trphain, though
Mounted on i ii war borfe, did not dare to face it.—.
He fhotrld have endeavoured to runt out the thither,
but he was told the order of the Court of Chancery
prevented him and, recolleeing the well•ktown
motto, Nemo me Umpire laedßi, he was unwilling to
try the experiment. What added fill more to his
difirefs was. that he had agreed with the Plaintiff
that he,' the Plaintiff, was to pay the tithes. and
feting how matters were, he defied the clergyman,
the Rei. Mr. Sykes, to take as much as he could gei,
Mho promifed he would ; and declared, at the fans*
time, he would arra the Plaintiff for the remainder.
after Chriftmas ; but, like a bad foortfmah, who aims
at a partridge and kills his dog, the parfon, inflead
of feeking rediefs from the plaintiff, aelually arrefied
him, though his hands were tied behind him by the
Coon. To fee* redrefs from the tenant was ufelefs
was not worth a ; and as there was no
wool on his back, and force on his own, be fuppofed
that was the reafon he was thus perfecuted. As to
the fared itfelf, at that inflantsit was worth nothing
at ail, die buildings were all in decay, the paling and
iailine bioken down, the turnips not weeded, and no
feeds town for the enfding kafon. With refpelt to
die flock of cattle. there was but one brood mare of
his own on all the lands, and even that was felled
by the Court of Chancery; v:itb refpee to the Plain-
itiff's Attorney, he knew little about him ; but he
siceoed, that the affidavits, on the part of the plain-
!ici, were made for the purpofe of impofing upon the
and if the matter went to (wearing, he would
give op the point direftly. They had (worn that
horavills Rvd was no better than a rake warren;
a curious rabbit warren, worth io,oool. a year.
Here the Cnanc,acoe obferved, that it was the
prettiell rabbit warren he had ever teen.

The Colonel continued; he admitted keeping hawks
and hounds certainly ►an away with a great deal of
money, but that was no reafon his tenant fbould run
away with all his money; but as PROVIDE nes had hi-
therto afGiled him in all his troubles, he would not del:
pair on the prefent occafion. He therefore trulled his
Lora/sip would interfere, and retirees his grievances.
it; however, that was not to be done, he fhould not
only fat off hinifelf, but would alto advife all the land-
lords in the country to do the fame, and leave their
farms in the Court of Chancery.
The LORD CHANCEL Loa reviewed the whole of the
raft, and regtetted-the aircurattances which had led