The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-07-29 00:00:00

" The Cause for which lIAMPDEN fell in the Field, and SYDNEY died on the Scaffold!"

No• 4784.

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11111 COIIINISSIONBILS of HIS MAJESTY'S
t•CSTOMS hereby give notice, that on the ilth day
they will he read) to reeeive Tenders from
sorb Persons as may he willing to CONTIt I,CT for the
EltiaTlON of OFPICES. on a portion of the site of the
old Custom-house. The plans and speritiration, of the
wort,: will be ready fur inveetion at V.r Mier of the %or-
seror for Buildings, ('ustoin-lo.use. I...tidon, on Moods)
Reit. 31st ins+. II) order of the tumutis.imters,
cestom-hottse, London,
Jely tt:r. In the seereter'.: al once.

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T 0 FARMERS, Ikr.—To ht• l', on LEASE,
for 7or II years. a compact Arahle FARM, ith a
good Farm-house and Offices, ithin a short distnnee of
',olden. Fur particulars applv. If by letter. rod paid. to
moo R. Stewart. let. Orval Russell-street, Bloomahurv.
OTI(EOF SALE.—IMPORTANT AND EXTENSU E
Piton:wry,- HERTS.
Lir,
• seEhliFsUlll,ll:leid
irne
seesisrti:pinf.:eriumpstothriel) P. 41.11111
yi ?UMW AUCTION. same time in the month of Jolv
wsopoWcrent Lola, the/Ws-era! Estntes, and Interests of
srlia tie valuable and eatensite Manors, a capital Matt-
-1,10. How and Park, and snntlry Freehold and Cop. !..,1.4
Fyn, Owe in the %V% feral Parishes Aspeden, Inv
Coltered. Vardle. and Mihail. in the County of Herts:
coat:doing in the whole abobt fourteen h.indred acres of fine i
widow. pasture, arable, and wood land, of the %Cue of
/YOU per annum. or Ibireabouts.
Park tints may befiod at the Seeretnry's °Mee. Auction
Mart. Ldidon ; Angel, Bury St. Edmonds ; Ram. New-
market; Sun,"Cambridue; Three Cups. Colchester; Bell,
Chelmsford ; Swan, Bedford ; ,Salisbury Arms, Iletflehl ;
White Ilart, St. Alban's ; Green Mass, Barnet ; Salirhury
Arms. Hertford ; Saracen's Head, Ware ; add of W. Leif-
cbi'd. Land and Timber Surveyor. Enfield. Aliddlesea.
viewing the Estates, applieation sans be matte to Mr.
3latthea Woodwards, at Aspeden ; and Tickets to vier. the
Mansion Mown end Gardens. may be had, on appliration,
at thr Office of Messrs. Lamb and Co. :141. Princes-street, by
the Bank, where a Plan of the Estate may be seen.

LtßlClarlea JAPAN still triumphs in the [need
Qf jest renown, by public %Oka° decreed!
LAIL\ DERS and Company, sole Proprietors of
the real Imperial Japan Blacking, &Iv appreciating
the honour conferred on them in the decided retert•nce
Riven to their Article of 3lanufacture„ by a generous and dis-
cerning Pvidic„ beg trine to tender the homage of their most
grateful arknowleittrovents„ Hating been graciously pa-
tronized by his Royal Ili .'iness the Prince Regent. they are
mow placed in the pre-eminent Nituation of Blacking Menu-
faeturers to his Majesty, andhnhein consequence altered their
label, by substitutiag WI the bottles. Re. the Royal Arms for
thr Priori s Crest ; and more particularly to mark the dis-
tinction. their tames will henceforth appear on each label in
FATPTIAN LETTIRS.

The aboae inestimable Composition is still prepared and
sold in°lnuit.. at their Original Warehouse, No. 9, Ship-
place, Temple Bar, Landon (both in li.intaid and Paste), ■t
the following Prices, ♦iz. in bottles at ad. lud. Md. and Is.
Id. each ; as Is also their much-approved Royal Bout-Tor
Ligon; anti Retailed by all respectable Shopl-repers in
the United kingdom.
;• Great Allowance to Nlereltaats, Captains. and others,
for Exportation.

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LAW I.VTELI.IGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, Juir St

Ws tt.n r. Teta WEST MitonenEx WATER-WORKS'
COM PA `t T.—The arguments of Mr. ILrt and Mr. Wil-
!Ain were reported yesterday.
Mr. lYtt.siam resumed his arguments this morning
for the plaintiff, and was followed on the same side by
Mr. PEMBERTON. The latter contended that this was
analogous to a ease between lessor and lessee, that
it was a case of stipttlatioit between the parties, from
which it was not cumpeten: to the defendants now to
reurile.

NIT. Wvrsiener.L, for th.• defendants, denied that
this case hail any sintiliarity to that between lessor
and lessee. '1 here was no covenant between the ear-
tie.:, anal the Court was in fact caUrd upon to assess the
rates at which the defendants ought to sinless 1104
only the plaintiff, but every other inhabitant of the'
parish of Marylebone, with the convenience of water.
this was calling npon the Lord Chancellor to exercise
a jurisdiction which be had never before assume,' ; to I
arbitrate between a public Company and private join-
vitlitals. Such an officer might be found to have 11
existed in the ancient republic of Rome, but the Legis-
Lauer of this country had not yet II ght proper to
create an arbiter of this kind. The learned counsel
then referred to the two Arts of Parliament, by which
the Company was constituted ; and after showing that
the first was not repealed by any /imminent in the
,eeond, lie read passages from the affidavit of Mr.
Knight, Chief Clerk to the Company, from which it
appeared, that the rates now demanded, exceeded the
old rates by only 25 per rent. and that until these
rates were established, the Company received nothing
like a fair remuneration for their capital. The affi-
davit went on to state, thitt the rates demanded from
the plaintiff amounted to no more than Iris. fid. half-
yearly, a sum less than was paid years ago to the
New River Company. It was thrown out, that a com-
bination had been entered into by the several Com-
panies, for the purpose of raising the rates. That
imputation was fully repelled in the affidavit, where
the connexion of the Companies was stated to hare
arisen from different motives, and from which it ap-
peared that the defendants, in all their arrangements
acted under the firm persuasion that those arrange-
ments would be as beneficial to the public as to them-
selves, for they enabled the 'Company to supply the
water with more certainty, purity, anal abundance,
than before. He did not contend, that where several'
Companies united, there might not have been oppor-1
Utilities for alms-. But the question here was, whe-
ther in point of fact, any such abuse had occurred.
It was clear, he thought that one or two Companies
could supply water upon cheaper terms than three or
four different Companies, because, in the latter case,
there would be so many different establishments,
which would necessarily demand indemnity for their
separate expenses. One or two steam engines were
less expensive than four, and so of the other articles
necessary to an establishment of this nature. With
regard to the reasonableness of the rate, he had
the opinion of the House of Commons in favour
of that which was fixed by the Company, and
which did not exceed filar per cent. on their
capital. The Court' knew there were public under-
takings where the Legislature permitted a re-
turn of 10 per cent. on the capital. He might men-
tion as instances, the London Docks, the East and
West India Docks. In those cases Parliament fixed a
maximum of 10 per rent. and yet a return of 4 tent.
in the present case was deemed by some persons ni-
warrgntable. The litigation about these Water-works
had given rise to a paper war, which was carried on
with much vigour on both sides; in one of these pub-
lications it was stated, that •' Parliament was the
only place where these differences could be settled."
That observation was perfectly trite—it came from the
other side, and yet being convinced of this truth, they
came into this Court to cloak the Lord CIANCRI.I.OII
with a jurisdiction he had never assumed before. Is
the House of Commons the Bill was introduced by
Mr. M. ANGULO TAYLOR, after being recommended
by a Committee, containing the names of some of the
Most respectable Members of that House, and of bient-

hers, some of whom were interested in beating down
this exborbitant demand of the Company. If it reallv
were any snch thing. But instead of lessening that
rate, they expressed their opinion, that it was a rea-
sonable rats, and after such an opinion it was nut
only injurious, but improper, fur any persons to in-
struct Counsel to come forward in this Court and
throw odium on this Company as if it had been guilty
of some monstrous itursition. The Company were
ready to assent to a mei-imam if it was deemed neces-
sary,and they undoubtedly had some right to complain
that those who tiled this bill when they were beat out
of Parliament, should come to this Court and call on
his Lordship to ;arbitrate between them, and to give
as many issues for trial as there were inhabitants in
the district to which the works supply water. If the
plaintiff should succeed in getting his rates reduced
by ills, the Court would drive the Company back to
that situation in which their returns would not equal
their outgoings. He hoped, however, that whatever
disputes the parties might have elsewhere, they would
get no encouragement to bring them again into the
Court of Chancery.
The Loup Cit.ttscat.Lost asked whether the contract
for the Company with the plaintiff was half-yearly or
otherwise.

It was answered that the contract was half-yearly,
and that the plaintiff had received notice that his pipe
would be severed from the main pipe at Christmas
next, if he did not pay the rate demanded by the Com-
pany.
The LORD Cu A straw:in Observed, that he had asked
the question under the impression that the Company
threatened to cut uff the pipe to-day or to-morrow.
.\s the notice was so distant, he was happy to think,
that however he should decide, there would be an op-
portunity for further hearing the matter before the
injury could be done.
Mr. HEALD followed on the same side with Mr.
WITHIRILL, and ob 41, that as he had collected
the opinion of the Court to be in favour of the side on
which he argued, he should scarcely have thought it
necessary to trouble the Court with any further obser-
vations. He feared indeed in doing so, that he a ould
be trespassing on the patience of the Court. A noble
and learned Lord who had been latch• Chief Justice in
the King's Bench, said. that though he had made up
his mind as to his decision. he would still endure the
further arguments of Counsel.
The Loan Cnancau.on.—As to that expression,
Mr. Heald, whatever may hare been the conduct of'
others, I can only say, that when I retire f this
Court, and that in the common course of things cem-
ent( he very far distant, if there be any one circum-
stance in my judicial life upon which I reflect with
satisfaction, it is this, that I have been always anxious
to bear patiently all parties. Lord Thurlow used to
say, that he would never refuse to bear what Counsel
hail to urge, because as it was their duty to think al t
the matter, before coming into Coati. That noble and
learned Lord also said, that when his mind was made
up, still he would hear the Counsel even upon that side
to which his decision inclined, in order to have its
propriety still further sifted. (In some of these occa-
sions, Lord Thurlow told hint (the Lord Chatwellor)
that the arguments he had used for his clients con-
vinced him that instead of deciding for, he ought to
decide against them.
Mr. Ilitst.a observed, that in this ease the opinion
of the Court was s u decidedly in favour of his clients.
The Loan CHANcaLt.oa.—l an► not decided till you
are done.

Mr. Maui then proceeded to s'irty the inconveni-
ence which would arise if the Court were to grant an
issue to every inhabitant who was disposed to contest
the rates and passed a strong eulogy on the Compa-
ny, who demanded no more than 4 per cent, on their
capital. Ile traced out the origin of the competition,
which terminated in the establishment of the present
Company. It arose frAm the Act of Parliament passed
in the year lel7, for the better paving the streets
of the metropolis, which act enjoined that no pipes
should in future b.. laid down for the conveyance of
water, except iron pipes. The pipes of the New
River Company and of the Chelsea Water Works,
had been all Wood, and were very much decayed.
They found great inconvenience in joining iron to
wooden pipes, and the expense of laying down all
iron pipes were too much for them to bear they ac-
cording►ly withdrew. The Wand Junction Water
Works never supplied water to any great extent
in time district supplied by the preteut Company,
and they agreed that that Company coold supply
the district on terms more advantageous to them-
selves and the public, than they could, and for
that reason they retired front the district, This
was the whole history of whet was so us:ustly
called a combination to raise the price of wat.•r, against
which the plaintiff stood first as the champion of Mary-
le-bone. 'I be Learned Counsel then read several pas-
sages from Mr. Knight's affidavit, from which it ap-
peared, that up to the Ist March, 1819, the Company
had lost no less a sum than 113,0001. in the shape of
interest on their capital, in consequence of the reduced
rates which were the consequence of competition,—
Even when the rates were increased, they produced
no more than 4 per cent. and this at a time when they
supplied four times the quantity of water which was
supplied by the New River Company. That ('ompany
charged a rate of 30s. a-year fur four times less water,
so that for 71. more, viz, for 375. a year, the pr..sent
Company supplied four times more water. The capi-
tal of the Company amounted to half a million. They
ne►er increased the rates on the poorer classes, and in
all their arrangements they had such a view to the
public benefit, that instead of being charged as rigid
monopolists, they deserved the thanks of the public.
Mr. NORTON NINOWOII OM the SSW side.

Mr. Thum replied.
1 be Lord clllAscauwa. after some general obertes-
dole, proceeded to say, that thoogb the presrut I'lo-
- was wade ost behalf of the plaintiff sad the other