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London, England, 1829-06-27 00:00:00

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, Jewi 26.
This morning a gentleman named DURCEIN Campbell,
who has been for some time in the custody of the War.
den of the Fleet, was brought up one habeas corpus,
for the purpose of moving the Court. The motion of
Mr. Campbell was, that an order made in this Court in
May last year, and of which the effect was to transfer
Mr. Campbell from Whitecross•street prison to the
Fleet, might be expunged from the records of the Court.
The grounds upon which he made the motion were,
that the order in question had been inserted upon the
records without his (Mr. Campbell's) knowledge, and
in opposition to what lad been the actual adjudication
of the COurt upon the subject. In his address to the
Lord Chancellor, Mr. Campbell advanced some charges
against the officers of the Court, which, being called
upon by the Lord Chancellor, Mr. Campbell did not
support by any testimony, and which, therefore, we
omit to mention. When Mr. Campbell had concluded,
The LORD CHANCELLOR said, that the whole of the
application proceeded upon a defect of form amounting
to no more than that the order, having been in part,
made by the Vice Chancellor, purported to have been
made by the Lord Chancellor. This was the usual and
ordinary course in all such cases, and the application
mtflt therefore be refused, and the prisoner remanded.
Abe remainder of the day was occupied with a part
of the case of Morris and Davis, which is a motion for
a new trial in a case of no public interest.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Jun 26.
BROOK II A N V. ROTHSCHILD. •
Shortly after the sitting of the Court this day Mr.
&MRCS resumed the reading of the correspondence and
other documentary evidence in this cause. The Learned
Gentleman afterwards went on to argue upon the points
of the case already recapitulated in the Solicitor Gene-
ral's statement, and had not concluded at half-past three
o'clock, when the Vice• Chancellor proceeded to bear
motions, none of which were of public interest.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, WILVIVINITIIIp JUNI 26.
Sittings in Banco.
HA !MATT V. WISE.

This was an action on a policy of insurance on goods
shipped on board the ship Ann, bound from Liverpool
to Buenos Ayres. The vessel sailed (ions Liverpool
before the notification of any blockade of Buenos Ayres,
but she alter Wards put into the port of Lochandal, in
the island of Islay, and did not sail from thence till the
bloCkade had been published three weeks before in the
Gazette. The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff
A rule for a new trial had been obtained, and it now
came on for argument. The Court postponed giving
any decision in the case.
THE KING'S WARRANT.

His Mijesi y'i warrant for the dispatch of business not
disposed of dating Tetm by two ut more Judges sitting
in Banco in the Bail Court or other convenient places,
was read.. It appointed sittinps to be held from the 9th
to the 11th July, from the 20th to the 24th July, and
again from the 27th October to the sth November.
Lord TENTERDEN said, that the nisi Arius business
would be so arranged as that it should come on whilst
the Judges were titling in the Bail Court.
FY-PARTE LORD LYNDHURST.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL addressed the Court, and
said—l have to trouble your Lordships with a motion
which I cannot make without an observation, expressing
a degree of cOncein and humiliation. at the state the
public press of this country is now reduced to. I have
.to move the Court for leave to file a criminal in-
formation against Mr. Robert Bell,
.Editor of a News-
paper called the Atlas. My instsucti• eis come from
the same eminent person on whine behalf I applied
to your Lordships on the first day of the Term. I
have several affidavits, and among them one by the
Lord Chancellor himself. I will state their contents
to your Lordships, in order that you may see in what
manner attempts are made to destroy the character of
the Noble individual for whom I appear, notwithstand-
ing his eminent station, by the meanest of mankind—
attempts of a kind which I believe, in former pet iods of
cur history, would not haie been endured. In making
this motion I comply literally with the instructions of
the Lord Chancellor, who prefers, as an individual, this
mode of proceeding, as it gives him the opportunity of
vindicating himself from charges of the most atrocious
Stature, which have been lately circulated against him
with an industry and assiduity which have, perhaps, no
esample in tie history of calumny.
Lord TENTERDEN—My brother Bayley is not here.
We had better wait a little.
In a short time Mr. Justice Bayley returned into
Court, and
The ATTORNEY GENERAL. proceeded—l was about
stating.iny Lords, that attacks had been lately made
upon the Lord Chancellor with an assiduity and perse-
verance of which I believe the history of calumny fur-
nishes no example. I shall show your Lordships the
State s utter degradation to which at least one part of
the press. of England has been sunk, when I state that
the character of a lady is brought into question for the
purpose of set wing some political object of the printer.
I will now read the paragraph published in the Atlas
newspaper :
" There were rumours in the highest political circles last night,
that a certain Noble Lord bolding a station of vast respondbilky,
and who is said to be on terms or disagreement with another of his
hiajesty's advisers, has been charged with bartering ecclesiastical
Beings. His Lordship's friends do nut believe the imputation, and
repel it strongly, while they intimate that the dealings in the wages
Of clerical advancement have been transacted by his Lady without
'his Lordship's knowledge. By slow and painful degrees the secrets
lit State come out. Such is the nature of the human disposition that
differences and quarrels are much sooner reported abroad than the
causes of them. The disgrace of losing office is lumens at least a
week before the reason of dismissal can be ascertained."
1 will now state to your Lordships the history of that
paragraph. I have the affidavits of two persons. pro.
praetors of the newspaper, and, perhaps, your Lord-
ships may think it strange I do not make my appltca-
lion against them ; but when I have stated sone cis-
a ostancess I think your Lordships Will be satisfied I
am justified in acting as I have. The newspaper pur-
ports to be published on a Sunday, hut it is usual lot it,
as I believe with others, to publish an edition on the
Saturday evening, which is sent into the country
circulation. Another edition is published oh the Sun-
day mmning. Th:s paragraph having appeared in the
Atlas, a Gentleman put it into the hands of Mr. Lowd
ham, a secretary of ~ the Lord Chancellor's. This was
week or ten days after it was published, but the Lord
Chancellor had not seen it. Mr. Lowdhain thought it
his duty to lay it befoie the Lord Chancellor, who, per.
ceiving the paper to contain the name of Whiting, as
proprietor, directed his secretary to call upon him fot.
in explanation. When the paragraph •was shown Mrsi
Whiting he expressed his astnnishusent, and said ilki4l
he was not aware of its etMence in the paper, aifd
solemnly assured Mr. Lowdbam that the paper which,
' he had seen published en the Saturday contained tab,
such paragraph, and (\toed to conViuce hints of the fact
by the production of 'a paper..A paper of the Saturday's
edition was accordingly produced, and it appealed that
there was no suett.paragraph
.in it. Mr.W. then sent for
the person 'against whom I um, atOve, and whom it

is sworn by Mr. Whiting tind his co-proprietor, Mr.
Swift, is the Editor of thi Paper. latquiiy was made
of him as to how the paragraph came into the Paper?
He acknowledged he had inserted it, but refused
to say on what authority, or on what ground be had'
inserted it. Mr. Whiting, however, was anxious,
and thought it for his honour, that it should be ex-
plained how such a base and infamous, paragraph
found its way into the Paper. Mr. Bell, however,
thought fit not to open his lips on the subject, and
would not disclose tits° it was had given him the sup-
posed inforniation, or by what means he was prevailed
upon to strike out a paragraph published in the Sa-
turday, in order to insert this in the Sunday. edition.
Whether he was the person who invented it, or whether
he was only the hand to receive 3 bribe to insert this
paragraph, to serve some mean. paltry, political, or per.
sonal purpose against the Lord Chaniellor, could nbt be
ascertained ; and had he afforded us any clue by which
we could have traced out the writer of the-paragraph,
we should have proceeded against him. I have only
now to state, that I hold in my hands the affidavits of
the Lord Chancellor and of Lady Lyndhurst. That
of the Lord Chancellor states, that looking at this
paragraph, and comparing it with several others
brought to his notice, containing no specific charged
but obscure insinuations, of which he is informed, and
believes, he is the object, he has no doubt that be is the
object of this paragraph, and that the intention is to
impute to him some corrupt and improper motive in
the distribution of his ecclesiastical patronage. He
states that he never in the course of bis life, directly or
indirectly, by himself or any other person, received or
expected to receive, by barter or otherwise, property.
reward, or emolumeot of any kind whatever, for or in
respect of any ecclesiastical preferment, presentation to
living, or benefice in gift.—(The AttornerCaeneral here
read from his-affidavit the denial of the Lord Chan-
cellor, which was in the fullest and moat positive
language, of his having in any way whatever bartered
ecclesiastical livings. It denied also that any other
person, to his knowledge and belief, ever, directly
or indirectly, received or demanded any emolument or
advantage whatever in respect of any ecclesiastical pre.
ferments of which he had the disposal). My Lords,
feel it is a disgrace to the press of England that a Lady
of rank should be obliged to come into a Court of
Justice, and, on an affidavit, have to acquit herself
of imputations which can only be cast upon her
honour from distardly motives, and for the purpose of
wounding her feelings, or for the purpose of wounding
her husband's honour, from some purpose of the in-
ventor of this calumny. Her Ladyship swears that
she never had. directly or indirectly, at any time. the
least concern in the distribution of the patronage of
the Lord Chancellor ; that she never, in the most re-
mote manner, received any promise. or had any ex-
pectation given, of advantage in the distribution of it,
and that the whole of this paragraph, and all it insi-
nuates, is utterly false and without foundation. I need
not repeat the words of her Ladyship's denial, as they
are the same as those of the Lord Chancellor, and as
full as they possibly can be. It is under these circum-
stances that I apply for a rule, calling upon Mr. Robert
Bell to show cause why a criminal Information should
not be filed against him for this libel'?. I will only just
observe, that it is with great ingenuity the libeller has
put into the mouth of the Lord Chancellor's friends a
denial of his having been concerned in the dealings
himself.
Lind TENTIRDEN—Take a rule to show cause.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Juss_2l.

The Court sat in banco this morning at Westminster.
but the business which occurred was of no general in-
terest. At one o'clock the Lord Chief Justice went to
Guildhall, and commenced the first sitting at Nisi Prius
for this Term. .