Star.
London, England, 1809-08-04 00:00:00

EXPARTE—SIR mr..LIAm nouGL,F, ANn

The petitioners are bankers, and w.e're in Foi6eslion
of bills accepted by a Mr. Eustace, w hoh,u been t7-.e
partner of Mr. Atkinson, a bankrupt. Tn= partner.
ship was dissolved in October last, and Mr. Atte:own
alotF.• was to collect the debts due to the partne:shi?
and to pay those due from it. A few days-before the
dissolution, Eustace, without the knowLdge of At.
kinson, accepted the bills in question which came into
the hands of the petitictners, who represented mem.
selves as I;otra fide::.riders. They claimed' to prove
ender Atkinson's commission, but the Assignc,:!,
thinking the transaction rather suspicious, refused to
admit the proof without an order from the Chancel
lor, allowing, however, that they had no particular
reason to think that the petitioners, were not bc.:•,..fije
holders.

The CHANCELLOR directed the Assignees to examine
how the bills laud come into the petitioners' hands,
and if they found no reason to doubt that they were
bona file holders, to admit, the proof.

MAIDSTONE ASSIZES, AUGUST 2.
CHAO; t. WYAT

This was an attioxj of trespass against the Defendant, who
justified a, Lord of the Manor of Minster, in the Isle of siivry,
and chinned tire place in question as the waste of the Alaner,
being part of the izea beach.
Mr. Serjeant BEST, for the Plaintiff, stated, that the Defendant
wa4 in the habit of carrying away the sea beach, in a degre:! to
act in the sea upon the adjoining land of the Plaiotiff. He said
there was a natural mound of shingle above high water mirk,
which was J. protection against the incroacbments of the sec, and
this the Defendant was continually carrying away, and if he cuall
juaify the duia g it, the wuole land of the plaintiff would ultisi
inately be watl:ed into the sea. He admitted the Defendant ras
Lord ot. the Vtaior, and as such Lord he was ready to allow hint
the full royalty of the sea share; but, in law that was only to
where an ordinary high water-math was; whereas he simuld
prove that the Defendant hat: continually taken above that rrlrk,
and indeed from places which, within a few years, was the her
of the Plaintiff's salt marshes.

'witness :3 were called, who proved the taking of the
gravel, and that the sea bad made incroachm- is so much of Ist,
years, that what was formerly pasture w.ts :.ow covered by the
sea and shingle, but, it was by the operation of ti.e sea, and not is
consequence of removing the gravel.

Mr. Serkant StiEPlltkb, for the Defendant, said, that he should
shew, fromtime as long back as living witnesses could carry it,
that the Lords of this Manor hal always taken th_ stories of
the beach wherevtr they found them, without any distinc:ion
as to the high water-mark; 'hat all ether persons who had
taken them paid tLe Lord's Bailiff an ackaowledg:nent, whether
they. wele taken for ballast ur for repairing the highwa7s.
The question, he observed, was as extremely important one to
t';e Defendant, who was the patentee of Parker's hui:ding centers:,
the stones for the making of which were gathered from this spo: ;
and it was not until these stones became an object of value that
the present plaintiff ever thought of d•sturbing the right of tar
Lord, or setting up any claim of his own. This brach also pro•
duced copperas and sulphur stones, which were for a long number
of years supposed to be the only stones of value on the beach;
and as to them, he should produce a series of old leases from the
time of Charles the Second, by which the Lords leased to several
persons those stones found on all parts of the beach. When he
bad provt..l this undisturbed possession on the part of the Lord,
he thought it would entitle him to the verdict of the Jury.
Stephen RGui, who had been Baliff of the Manor for fifty.
seven years, proved that the lords had taken shingle and stones
from all parts of the beach during the whole of this time.