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London, England, 1817-11-13 00:00:00

L fArri?LLIGENCE..

COUR r ills CtIANCERY, NOVEMBER
' TIM 140110 CHANCILLOR did trot come into Court
this morning till eleven o'clock, in consequence of his
being engaged in hearing the case sf Proctor v. Proc- I
tor. in his privateloofts. •
On coming into Court his Lordship strongly ani.
,nadverrd on the nefarious practice of persons now
becoming creditors on bids given to them for ho con- I
sideratio whatever ; and I.e was afraid that there
was :in indispensible necessity for the. Legislatute to
interfere, in a summary Way, for the protection of
iionest but imfortuoate tradesmen. Such frauds as.;
that alluded towere groin to in alarming. an extene;
:hat it Parli mem• did not do swot :hing, there would
ire x total cdd ;,1 public ceelit and i air dealing.
The cd..! of Kennedy v. Lee was mites's', but no
•Aecision
At two o'clock tisliwdship rose and proceeded to
.1%:. Court of • Exchequer, for the purpose of nomi-
nating tile She: ill, for the ensuing year. His Lord•
ship was attended by the Right lion. the
of the Exchequer, in his full state robes, In:: Earl VI
Livkrp, 01, who ware the icsignia of the Knightspf
the Gaiter, Earl Bathurst, Viscount Sidinouth, Lord
Ellenb,rough, the Lord Chief Baron, the Judges,
and Mr. Leach, as Chief J.istice of Chester.

couivr OF KING'S BENCH, NOVEMBER 19.
The Court Was occupied the greater past of the
sunning on the Crown Paper, anti several Session
eases were disposed of.
CRIMINAI. INFORMATION.
•Mr. Bakeals moved for a Rule to shew cause why
a Criminal Information should not be filed against
a person named Francis James Clarke, a maeninist,
of Nottm.tharn, for enticing and seducing a man
named Fox, a frame-knitting machine maker. to
leave this country and go to France, for the purpose
of erecting machines in that counts y, similar to those
usid in, and in the neighbourhood, of the town of
Nottingham, in contravention of the 5 Geo. I. c. 57.
:and 2S Geo. 11. c. Eh which last Act declares,
4s. that ii any person shall entice, persuade, or endea-
TOOT tc entice or persuade, any artificer or workman
reemployed in the vim), silk, iron, or any other mit-
nutactory in Great Britain, to go out of this kingdom
Many loteign country, he shall be liable to an in-
:dint...int at the Sessitin, or inlormation in the Court of
Klbg's Bette, and upon conviction shall forfeit the
ass is 01 £5OO, end shall be liable to be imprisoned
tot one year.' The Learned Counsel produced an
affidavit • from the. informant Fox, stating that I e
had been bred up to the business of making and
erecting machines in the town of Nottingham for the
. purpose of manufactut ing twist, net-lace, Ste. and
that in the month of December, last year, Francis
Amu Clarke applied to him, and told him. that it
he would go with him to France for the purpose of
tarrying on his business as a mechanic, in the way
Already mentioned, he should have £2OO a year, and
his expenses paid ; to which proposition deponent ,
' had agreed; and on the 4th of the said month of I
December, the said Ft antis James Clarke paid him
t'S t swards his expenses ; and that in January lasts
lie received a letter from Clarke, then resident in
Fiance, debiting deponent to jotu him in that country.
Eft 'aetordingly• left Nottingham on the td ot Fe-
Omar, last,. and arrived on the Bch of the same
K month tat Calais, where I e was met by Clarke, who'
tonikicted him to a vill.ge nut far distant from that
tewn, where'll, was employed by the said Clarke m
stontaruciing machines tor makilig twist .and net-
lic,;!, similar to those used in the neighbourhood of
the trtwn of Nottingham ; and that tie continued in
tho said service until the month of July last, when
Le seturned to this country in company with his Said
tffentployer. Under these circumstances, the Learned
onset submitted that he was entitled by virtue tit
the above recited Act, to a Rule to skew cause why
a riminal information should not be tiled against the
' Pin who was sworn thus to hive violated one of
• mfist wholesome laws of the land.
r • Lord &mom luotioll—l don't recollect soy appli.
'Cation to the Court for such an informatirig. May
pot the party be indicted f
Ms. lickuue said. that by the Act of Parliament
lb question, it was required that the indictment should
*'preferred, or ihr infointatien tiled within twelve
months nest alter the offence committed. Now it
',prated that Fox, the informant, did not return to
this counts y.until the month of July last; and there.
Pre three WAS no opptntunity of going before the
'Grand Jury at the last Summer Assizes—and the
elect 'oppot 'unity would not occur until the month VI
'March, ISIS, at the Lent Assizes. The offence was
iomtnitted in the month of December, last year;
Ma, therefere, if the indictm.-nt was delayed until
`tie niolllll I f March, it would be out of tame. Under
'these cirennistances, he submitted, that the Act
liaving given 'a power of proceeding by information
in the King's Bench, the Court would set the law
in motion.
Lord rEht.ensoitoomt—Take a Rule to shew cause.
r 7 TOIL KING IP soeruEßD.
!i In this case, the Court et Session of the Isle of
Wight had rated two sloops, the one named the John,'
tjcother the Nile, in respect of certain profits derived
the defendant, the owner of them, towards the
port of the poor in the parish of St. Peter, Wis.
p
beach. Against this rate the defendant had appealed,
and the question for the decision of the Court was-
4frhether the order of the Justices ought not, under the'
'peculiar circumstances of the case, to be quashed ?
It was contended, that, inasmuch as the John was too
Marge a vessel to come up the harbour, she could act
be considered to lie in the palish, and the profits de
ii, Ted from her were not, consequently, rateableto the
"ilia of the poor, With respect to the Nile, it ap.
I,
pbared that-she wits a coasting vessel, and frequently
landed her cargo in Wisbeaeo harbour, and, alter her
i,toyagi, was generally domiciled in that part of the
'harbour, which was in the parish of St. Peter.
The Court, after hearing MT. SCAIIILST in support
'of the order, and Mr. GLIRNST against it, decided,
that the John, not being ever domiciled in the parish,
was not rateable; but that the Nile, which came up
the harbour, and-remained there, was. They there.
fot, quashed the order, as it respected the John, and
confirmed ir with reference to the Nile.
• • DUST ST. 2DMOND's.
Serjeant Fazes moved that a mandamus be di-1
tilibiAldermen, Bureaus, /cc. tit thallrk
iireirit St. Edmund's, calling upon *Ma 'to
so the election of two capital Burgesses and

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