The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-11-21 00:00:00

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VICE-CHANcELLOWS COUP.T, Noi%9D.
itstes-t v. oils
Mt. llc.tLo moved. that the report bt she Mattel'
respecting ,he claims of Mr. John Gregson, on • col=
fiery belonging to Lady Vane Tempitai, mit I tio eon=
firmed, and that the presets' receiver be dirocted t 6
pay to John Gregvon nut of the receipti of said col-
liery, the sum of 510311. 10-, Bdt advanced b) him t 6
the concern in August la.t ; and that it might be re-
'erred to the Mister to tas the costs.
The motion, not being opposed by the Coannt
fur the Plaintiff, was panted of course.
The Court was occupied ell day in head, g othef
motions of course, u,,ne df *hies were of any id:
poi fence.

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COURT OF KlNti'S tiF.CII, l'its4. 90:
• LEWIS V 11•IntanN —Cotinia%TEAM
This was a sitecial iii.e, reieried for the spiniest
of the Coa;t, in an action of assutupsit for money had
and received ; mil olio question was, whether, under
a, turnpike Act, Dissenters were exempted from pay.
tog it'll when gr hug to relizio us wus ship. The worth
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of the clause in the Ac". (37 Cr U. ill.) on which the
Dissenters rested their case were—that toll should
not b. }mid by 64 any person or poison* going to or
i returning from their proper parochial church, chapels,
roe other place of religious worship, or attending the
tenor:ll of persons that sh:•Il die or be .buried iii soy •
ref the parishes in which the said road shall lie."
Mr. Ght ELEE, for the Di,sentert, argued, that front
the policy of the Att, it newer cools; be intended td
throw obstac'es in the way of Dissenters attending
p.hlic worship, and that she word yar(iellial could
tint extend ter the, espre:citm 6. who., places of re:
ligious wor.lii‘p;" for if it did, the permission of
persr as to go to funeras without sob such limitation
wool' be altogether ioronsi.tert:. It was contended,
r tithe other side, that if 1 e tots of the Establishod
Cheryl should, from caprice, or tt,e Church's being
oat of repair, quit diet, proper p Irish church, •n d.
resort to scoot heroliey would tie liable to pry ; while,
according to the construction contended tor on the
other side, a D.ssivriter might vary as oitikstitS he
pleased, the gatekeeper having no moots of know.
ioi; the Ussetster's proper place of worship. To thig
it was replied, that a Dissetiter *leaf., hploord i 0 coed
cone•egation, arid his proper ;dice of stirership *mold
by 'traria by his repeatetliy going to the same place.
Mr. Joariee BA yLEY.—Supimoi there are two;
place•, owl he contributes to birth ? ,
Mr. Cr Anu.rs thought he might 4 ttendbofh without
pacing any tissue ; as per-anus might attend parochiat
churches, slid chapels. al .o. The tlifficelty of the
gate.keeper's kno i to; the passenger's partitions thal
fir4t yime, must occur in every instance, as well with
Churchmen as D:sonters ; and alwayh did occur
when parties were travelling front I distguce to •
county election.
The Cour! deferred judgment.
TIIVILING V. .101121 W ILTEII, Est AND ANOTItEIai
. . Mr. Guests showed cause evicts! a Role foe
riling a Comicalri. I f ormatinti seldom Mr. Waltier4
.sh,.• isr„psis.rmr ri„,t Editor, and NI.. liell, thellrinter,
f the Times :Nl:eisitaper, for publishing an alleged
libel in that Paper, of amt concerning Lord Charles
Spencer Churchill. The Learned Counsel stated,
thlit this Rule had been obtained last Term, .pelt
grounds on which he would venture to state, the
Court would he eviii6ed *sere now without the least
foundation. 7.e. transaction to which this applicao
lion ret.it..il was this:—in the month of May last,
Lord Charles Spttscer Churchill was driving a gig,
in the King's It, ad, Chelsea, and his vehicle struck
akeitist another gig, its which a Mr. Tooke •anil two
Leung Ladies, named Shirley and Smith, were rtding.
In the coocussioti, the latter gi,T, was driven agaiust 4
post, and Miss Shirley was thrown out, and in constr.
qoence of her clothes becoming entangled with the
shafts of the wheel, which we.e broken, she was
dragged about WO yards upon the road; and in the
result, her body being dreadfully mangled and ithe
jilted, she expired in three hours afterwards.
An account of this melariclirdy tratianction having
appeared, neat day, in thin Morning Herald, which
Mr. Tooke cusiceised not to he quire correct, as it
reflected uoon his conduct, be requested In intimate
friend of bit, a Mr. Yeoman, to write ass accurate
account of the affair, this Gentleman haring attended
before the Inquest fur the purpose of giving evidence
before the Jury. Mr..Teoman accordingly wrote
an eccount of the transaction and sent it to the
Times Newspaper, in the form of a letter, signed
with the initials of his name. It seemed that this
laccount hail been complained of by Lord C. S.
1 Churchiil as a niarepresentation of whit occurred
before the Coroner's Inquest; and he, Mr. G., con-
fessed that he was somewhat surprised 'hit the Noble
. Lord should, to the indiscretion of his conduct in
the meldrichrily affair in question, have lidded the el-
traordinary indiscretion of making this application,
fur he undertook to show that there 'was HO misre.
presentation of the circumstances of the transaction
as published in the Times Newspaper, because it was
perfectly consistent with the statement made by him.
self and his own wi:nesses, and th 4 ao far from haw•
ing any reason to complain of Mr. Walter, that Gen.
llamas' was actuated by the most liberal enziety to
narrate the truth, and nothing but the troth, and had
liken every care to ascertain the accuracy of the
-statement in quesThon before it was inserted, and that
his conduct had been stript of ell mercenary coos).
derations—nn money having been accepted for its
insertion.
When this applicatioa was made to the Coon, it
was urged as a matter of aggratration in the conduct
of Mr. Walter, that he bad related to give up the
author of the statement. That be should so refuses
was not extruniclittary, from tad Manuel in which the
application had been made, the fact being, that t*o per.
sons had presented theroselveset the Office of the 7'iraes
Newspaper, each professing himself to be the Aztor.
ney of the Noble Lord. 'rue request therefore was
'not complied with, but it was necessary to state that
two hours before theceintinol information was moved
lot, the author of the statement was given up to. Lord
C. himself. This application had been made upou the
affidavits of the Noble Lord himself, end two persons
of the names of Jones and /Innis, the latter of whom
was his groom; and it was sot:leave estraordindrys
that in their respective rtcausits of the transaction
they totally differed from each other. Lord C. 9.
Churchill was contradicted by his grooms and the

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