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LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, JULY 17,
LORD STEWART S CASE.
The LORD CHANCELLOR was for a short time mea
pied in some private business in his room, and on
taking his seat, at half-past ten, he was addressed by
Mr. Holten, who said—l will, my Lord, with your
Lordship's permission, for a moment or two, solicit
your attention to the case of Tempest and Ord,
which has already occupied so much of your Lord-
ship's time. To me it can be no possible object ; and
indeed 1 should sincerely regret to occupy one mo-
ment longer of the valuable time Of the Court, con-
sidering the repeated discussions this case has under
gone. The merits of the case will now come before
ale HOuse of Peers, in consequence of the appeal
taken from the decision of your Lordship. That
appeal having been notified publicly to your Lord-
ship, you were, as I understood your Lordship,
pleased to order that the Master's Report, consider-
ing the marriage a proper one, should, so.far as re-
garded that, be confirmed, your Lordship seeing no
objection to that. When this order was made, I- un-
derstood your Lordship further to order that the
Master might in the meantime proceed with the pro-.
posals of settlement between Lord Stewart and Lady
Emily Vane Tempest, without prejudice to any
question which might hereafter occupy their Lord-
ships attention in the Upper House. To this, I
should think, there can be no possible objection.
The Loan CHANCELLOR—" You have, Mr. Horns,
exactly stated what I meant, in ordering the judg-
ment I had formed to be drawn up."
Mr. HORN/fr.." Then, my Lord, I conceive it to
be understood as settled by your Lordship, that the
Master may proceed in these proposals, de die in diem,
without prejudice to the question as it now comes
before the House of Lords."
The LOP.D CHANCELLOR—" Precisely so, Mr.
Home, that is exactly my intention in directing the
order to be drawn up. Let it be so, without preju-
dice, as you say, to the decision of the House of
Lords : lam glad my decision will be reviewed there."
cm* V. THE REV. —.-••• PRITCHARD AND ANDERSON.
Sir SAMUEI‘ROMILLY stated, this was a motion to
restrain the Defendants, by the injunction• of this
Court, from publishing certain letters which had
been written by the plaintiff to the defendant. The
plaintiff was the relict of the late Mr. Gee, and the
defendant, Pritchard, a clergyman, was a person
who in his early years had been adopted by Mr.
Gee, as his child, he having no son. By his will,
Mr. Gee divided his property equally between his
adopted son and his wife. While the former was at
school, Mrs. Gte corresponded with him on various
si.bjects, and particularly relative to his conduct in
a moral and religious point of view. She happened
to refuse him some request, on which a threat was,
held out that all her letters to him should be pub-
which of course much hurt her feelings. On
the 14th of July, an advertisement appeared in a
Morning Paper, announcing, " In the press, and
spftdily will be published, the Adopted Child, or the
History of a Clergyman," &c, The present applica-
tion, therefore, was to stay such proceedings.
The LORD CHANCELLOR—" I would do so; but I
ask, was such a th;ng ever done before ?"
Sir SAMUEL. ROMILLY—•-" This was done in the
case of Chesterfield's Letters."
After some conversation, the LORD CHANCELLOR
granted the injunction.
JENICUNS, alias READING, A MINOR AND WARD 011'
COURT, V. SHARPE.
The Sotterroe-Gt:IERAL moved that the Master's
Report be confirmed. When formerly before the
Court, it had been referred to the Master to inquire,
into the proper settlement of marriage to be made,
as the girl was merely a minor. She was, however,
entitled to a large estate ; but by a proviso of the
testator, she was bound to use the armorial bearings,
arid assume the name of Reading, or Reddin (we are
not sure which). The defendant made proposals of
marriage to this Miss Reading or Reddin, and it ap-
peared he was entitled to £5500 a year in a Scottish
estate, and £BOO a year, accumulated by personal
property, in addition to his pay in the Army as a
Military Officer. By the testator's will he was oblig-
ed to take the name of Sharpe, and under these err-
eumstances the Master had recommended an appli-
cation to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, who
had been most graciously pleased to issue his Royal
License to the husband to bear the name of Reading
(or Reddin).
Sir SAMUEL ROMILLT said, that the mother ob-
jested to the settlement, because her daughter was
liable to forfeit the estates bequeathed to her, if she
did not assume the name and the armorial bearings
of Reddin.
After some further argument, the LORD CHAN..
CEILOR wished to know whether it was usual for the
Crown to grant such a license as that specified by
the Solicitor-General ? Something ran in his mind,
but he was not positive, that something of this kind
bad been done on behalf of Serjeant Hill's Lady.
Sir SAMUEL ROMILLT.—Yes, my Lord, but that
was by an Act of Parliament.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said, then that was
stronger authority than the mere Report of the Mas-
ter. After some observations, his Lordship suggested
the propriety of this case being considered by the
-Counsel, and stated again before him when they saw
proper.—Postponed.
DROWN V. FIRMIN DE TASTET AND OTHERS.
Sir S. ROMILLT made an application to the Court,
on the part of the plaintiff, to compel the defendant,
an eminent merchant in the Metropolis, to pay into
Court, the sum of £51,756 6s. 6d. due to the plain-
tiff, according to a report made by Mr. Steel, late
one of the Masters in Chancery, to whom the case
seas referred. The circumstances of the case were
these :—Formerly the defendant, Mr. De Tastet, had
been in partnership with Mr. De Mangin, who had
died as long ago as 1803. The present plaintiff was
his only daughter, and, in right of her father, had
laid claim to the payment of a very large sum which
Mr. De Mangin had advanced on going into partner
ship with the defendant, together with the interest,
and a due portion of the profits of the lucrative trade
which the defendant had carried on since the death
of Mr. De Mangin. After much litigation, which
had been entered into in consequence of the false sus-
picion which had been entertained of the illegitimacy
of the plaintiff, the matter was ultimerely rderred to
the Ma4ter, Steel, who had found she sum of