Star.
London, England, 1825-07-23 00:00:00

WRITS OF ERROR.

Perhaps there has not existed a Statute more ob-
noxious to creditors generally, than that which enabled
a litigious and fraudulent debtor to bring a IVrit of
Erior to stay execution; and in the interim to make a
conveyance of their property, at the same time entail-
ing heavy law charges on the plaintiff, who sought to
recover his right.
The late Lord Erskine clearly demonstrated, that a
'defendant in an action, who was determined to take
every advantage of the law's delay, might, by pursuing
a regular course from the commencemtnt of pmceed-
ings, to the bringing a Writ of Erior in Parliament,
put the plaintiff to upwards of SOO/. expense, whereas
his own would not amount to 25/. and it was owing
to this anomaly in the law, that the creditor often
abandoned his right, rather than be subjected to such
enormous costs of suit.
In order to prevent the evil so long and justly com-
plained of, the Legislature, just before the ri,ing
Parliament, passed an Act, of which the following is a
concise abstract :

Abstract of an Act (6 Geo. IV. cap. 96), entituled " An Actor
preventing frivolous Writs of Error."
The preamble states, That for preventing the delays occasioned
to creditors by frivolous Writs of Error, brought on Judgments,
given in his Majesty's Courts of Record, at Westminster, the
Counties Palatine, and in Courts of Great Session, in Wales
it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, &c. &c. That
upon any Judgment hereafter to be given ire any of the said Courts,
or in any personal action, execution shall not be stayed or tieLyed
by Writ of Error, and supersedeas thereupon, without the special
order of the Court or some Judge thereof, unless a recognizance,
with conditions, according to the Statute, 5 Jac. It cap. 8, enti..
tuled " An Act to avoid unnecessary Delays of Execution," ld
first acknowledged in the same Court.
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The Act further provides, That compensation shall be made to
Cursitors and other Officers, fa: loss of emoluments, 'on inquiry
being made by Commissioners on condition, that shoutd•the fee 4
exceed the average ascertained by the Commissioners, the excess
be paid into the Exchequer. •
Clerks in the Clerk of Errors' Office shall be entitled to the be-
nefit of the Act 3 Geo. JV. cap.ll3, entituled " An Act to amend
an Act, passed in the &Oth year of his late Majesty, fur d;rectiag
the accounts of increase and diminution bf public Salaries, Pensions,
and Allowances, shall be annually laid before Parliament. and for
regulating and controlling the granting and paying such Salaries,
Pensions, and Allowances," in as full a manner as if the Office of
Clerk of the Errors had been inserted in the Schedule annexed to
the said recited Act.—The continuance of this Act itxlefinite.

The wheat harvest has already ccmmeaced iA tha
neighboUrhood of ilickmansworth. •
The thermometer at Berichintlistead, on Mond47,.wav
120 in the sun, and 84 in the shade. . .
It is said that the French Government intend to as-
semble a Corps of Observation on the frontiers of Spain. •
Oa the 16th June, two steam-boats arrived at Alont,
real, from Quebec, with siz hundred Iridt emigrants, who had
been sent out by the, British Government. They were not permit-
ted, however, to enter the town, but proceeded to Lachine, to b.:
conveyed by water to Upper Canada.

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A WATER PARTY, URA DUCKING EXTRAIII2IOINt)RY.
—Some few weeks since, the wife of an inhabitant of St.
eloped with one of her husband's journeymen, to Lonten, beariaL
with them whatever of plate ur ready rhino could be found.—.
Tnese being spent, and • their fancies left without finances, it be.
hoved them to return to the good old town, when a party or'
virtuous duckers hearing of it, instinctively sallied forth to me.
and greet the wanton pair ; and while cite, rescued by the I•oaic. ,
escaped to the open ann. and sanctuary of her huiband tits g: •
Lotliario'Nvas seized and well tothed 1(10 a ii.ww-potid, ;rtoni w.n!‘ ;
he emerged itt a preliuus pickle, to be no 4tiute actin ot :had
,itt St. bro.