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fictdt and complicated. The political sitnatios of'
some of the States of Europe might have led them
to fear that the dignity and tranquillity of the nation
might have been put to hazard ; the firmness where-
with your Majesty's Government demanded of cer-
tain foreign Governments the explanations necessary
to save both the one and the other, procured the
double advantage of our seeing clearly recognized by
those Cabinets the justice and legitimacy of our po-
litical Revolution, and of manifesting the respect
and consideration which they entertain for your Ma-
jesty, as weCl as for the Spanish nation. This firm-
ness has also shewn how vain and illusory were the
hopes of some silly individuals, who relied for the
success of their criminal enterprizes upon foreign

intervention.
1, The Cortes have seen themselves forced, by the
obstinacy of a few factious persons, to adopt laws
calculated to give your Majesty's Government the
means of repressing their audacity, and of securing
die public tranquillity. But if the justifiable anxiety,
that this chastisement should be accomplished by
legal means and not by popular effervesence, has
placed the Cortes under the painful necessity of adopt-
ing measures of severity, they at the same time ma-
nifested their readiness to comply with your Ma-
jesty's beneficent intentions, by prescribing regula-
tions rendering the execution of those measures less
rigorous, and by proclaiming amnesties in faiour of
individuals, who, by a prompt and sincere repentance,
might prove that it was error, and not studied cri-
minality, which had drawn them under the colours
of the enemies of the Constitutional System and of your
Majesty's Throne."—The answer then concludes—
" In the confidence that your Majesty's Govern-
ment will continue to give unequivocal proofs of
energy and zeal, in the punctual observance and
maintenance of the Constitutional System, and in the
execution of the Decrees of the Legislature, the De-
puties of the Nation enjoy by anticipation the flatter-
ing prospect of the benefit which must therefrom re-
sult. When your Majesty's voice shall anew assemble
them in this august edifice, they will meet with the
same zeal, to devote themselves to the discussion of
such affairs as your Majesty, in the exercise of your
Constitutional prerogative, may think proper to sub-
mit to them ; and when the term of their powers
shall have expired, they will return to their respec-
tive homes, where they will ever approve themselves
models of attachment and respect towards the au-
gust person and family of your Majesty, as they
have been models of firmness and constancy in de-
fence of the liberties of the nation, and the preroga-
tives of your Majesty's Throne."

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JULY 14.
NORMAN U. CAMERON.
This was an action for work and labour. The plain-
tiff, it appeared, had been employed to alter a sawing-
machine from a four horse power to a six horse ; he
contracting that, unless he made the machine capable
of performing ;certain work, he was not to be paid
anything ; but, on the contrary, was to pay £lOO.
The defendant now contended that the machine.was
not equal to its work. The plaintiff, in answer, con-
tended that the fault did not lie in the machine, but
originated in the careless and improper conduct ofl
the defendant's servants.
A workman in the defendant's employ was called,
and stated, that he was directed to put down a piece
of timber of the largest size, to prove the power of
the machine ; but the timber was put down rough :
it was not cleaned or hewed as is usual, and he be-
lieved the stones and gravel which adhered to the out-
side very much blunted the saw, and rendered it in-
capable of performing.
Upon this evidence, Mr. DENMAN, who was for
the defendant, consented to a verdict for the plaintiff
for £44—Costs 40s.
KINNAIRD AND AXOTUER r. arta-
Mr. NOLAN stated, that this was an action by the
plaintiffs, the respectable house of Ransom and Co.
against the defendant, on a promissory note signed
by him for £lO6O, and indorsed over by the late Mr.
Hosier, who was a partner in the house, to the plain-
tiffs. The bill was dated August 26, 1819, and pay-
able two months after date. The hand-writings of
the parties to the bill, and the payment of the amount
to Mr. Hosier, the' day after that on which it bore
date, were proved; watt' Mr. GURNEY, for the de-
fendant, submitted to a verdict, saying, that he should
be able hereafter to convince the plaintiffs that the de-
fendant ought not to be called on to pay the damages.
• COURT OF EXCHEQUER, JULY 14.
Mr. TAUNTON moved the Court, in pursuance of
notice served on the Attorney-General, that the fine
of £BOOO, imposed on Sir Manasseh Lopez by the
Court of king's Bench, and which has been paid into
the hands of the High Sheriff of Devonshire, should
be paid over to the Dean and Chapter of Westmin-
ster. The application was grounded on an affidavit
made by Mr. Smedley, Deputy Bailiff of Westmin-
ster, which stated the facts of Sir Manasseh Lopez's
conviction, and his being fined by the Court in the sum
of 18000, which he has since paid into the hands of
the High Sheriff of Devonshire, where the conviction
took place. The affidavit proceeded to state, that Sir
Manasseh Lopez was, at the time of the conviction,
and had been- for some time before, a resident of-the
City of Westminster, inhabiting a house in Arling-
ton-street, in the said City. 'The Learned Counsel
then proceeded to state, that by several grants from
the Crown, the Dean and Chapter of Westminster
were entitled to all fines imposed on persons resident
is the said City. • The Learned Gentleman stated,
that in the 29th of George 11. a fine which had been,
paid into the Court of Exchequer had, in virtue of
those grants from the Crown, been paid over to the
Dean and Chapter, whose right to such fines had
been allowed by Lords Hobart and Camden, when
Attornies-General ; nor had the right been disputed
in modern times, except in the case of the fine of
£5OOO imposed on the Marquis of Sligo, which the I
Attorney-General had claimed for the Crown, and
which was still undecided.
'The Cisizi BARON—The grants of fines made to
the Dean and Chapter of Westminster may be valid;'
but a question arises, does this matter fall within the'
grant? The case is too important to be decided oti
affidavit. The question whether Sir M‘nasseh Lo-
pez were resident in Arlington-street at the time of
the conviction cannot be so decided.
The ATTORNEVGENERAL—Suppose some other