The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-06-26 00:00:00

S'eATINMA N.

. LAW INTELLIGENCE.

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COURT OF CHANCERY, Jolt 21
. .
TENDER hr BANK.NOTES.IN PAYMENT or RENT.

Let tlr v. SIMPTICAILD AND OTHERS.
This was a Bill filed praying an injunction and re-
lief
against au execution, grounded pn a verdict ob.
tainell against the Plaintiff for rent, after he had
made a tend.:r of the sttnt due in Notes of the Bank
of England. After de tender, Mr. Shepheard, an
attorney, th 6 agent of Mrs. Shepheard, another of
the -Defendants, to whom the Plaintiff is tenant, in
' Holborn, cussed a distress to be made, upon which
the Plaintiff replevied, tid went to trial, and had aver-
diet givgn against him, in the Court of King's Bench,
by which he had to paj double costs, under the statute,
fur having disputed his landlady's title. Cutter the
authority Of Lord ltedesdale's printed opinion, it
i• was argued, that this hard case was entitled to relief
, and the interposition of this Court, since Mr. Shelf-
heard had, in his answer, admitted and avowed that
he was actuated in the proceeding by ill wilt or dis-
like towards the Plaintiff.

tody. Now the Counsel who introduced the case
had discovered only one way of explaining and act-
ing upon tho'writ, which was to confine him imme-
diately in the county prison.— It bad been submitted
to him as a point of law, whether that a priioner by
remaining in any other place but a prison was out of
proper confinement by the Sheritf. Ho was of opi-
nion that the Sheriff had a permission by the writ to.
keep him in custody, and that place of saftyke had
chosen was a lock-up house.

A nonsuit was taken by the election of Mr. Ser.
jeant SIIF.PIII:RD, with permission to apply to set aside
the nonsuit hereafter.

It happened that the distress hitd taken place on
the 2.'2d day of July, 1811, the very day preceding
thegiving the Royal Assent to Lord Stanhope's Act,
making such teuderof Bank-notes legal in payment
of Rent.
The MASTER of the Ror.r.s, who sat for the Lord
Chancllor after one o'clock, adjudged, that not-
withstanding all thv hardships of this case, and the
difficulty, nay impossibility,. in some instances, of
procuring cash in specie to a large amount during
the, continuance .of the Bank Restriction Act, still
the Court could not interpose, for it would be to
legislate in fact, in preventing a man from the exer-
ciAi of a summary process given him by law. The
motives of men's minds could not be discussed there,
as it would be endless.
Judgment for the Defendant.
COURT OF KIN(i'S BENCH, Jvve2s.

THE THREA7'ENLVG LETTER.

Tilt KING T. THE MAYOR OP HAVERFORDWCST.
This was an information arising out of a proceed-
ing by quo warrant°, against the Mayor of Ilaver-
fordwest, for refasing to admit certain freemen of the
Borough to vote at an election of Aldermen for the
said Corporation.
According to the ancient Charter, all person'
having served a regular apprenticeship to freemen, all
sons of freemen, when arrived at the age of 21, and
persons married to the daughters of freemen, were
entitled to their freedom of the said Corporation. In
the present case several persons entitled to their free-
dom had tendered their votes at an election of Al-
dermen, which were rejected by the Mayor, upon
the ground that they had not petitioned for such free.
dom, according to the ancient usage and custom of
the Borough; and the present information was filed
for the purpose of trying the question, whether,
according to the custom and usage of the Borough,
such Petition was necessary, as a preliminary step to
obtaining such elective franchise:
The cause occupied near six hours, and hi the
course of the trial ail the Charters granted to the
Corporation, ancient records, books, and papers,
were given in evidence..
The Jury ultimately, under the direction of the
Learned Judge, found a verdict for the Defendant—
that, according to the usage and custom of the Bo-
rough, it was necessary to petition, as a preliminary
to obtaining the freedom of the Borough.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JUNE 23.
EDWARD AND JAMES H. 41 ULDRITCII T. BI KM AND

HEYGATE.
This was an action against the Sheriffs of Middle-
sex, for permitting the person of George Grant to
escape from their custody, who was detained upon a
writ for forty thousand pounds.
Mr. Serjeant SHEPHERD opened the case, by. main-
taining the right cf recovering from a Sheriff the
amount of the debt for which a person was arrested,
providing that by the negligence or inattention of his
servants he was permitted to make his escape. The
escape of the person of George Grant from the strict
custody of the warrant, he would prove to have
been voluntary op the part of those persons under
the immediate employ of the Sheriffs of Middlesex.
A bailiff, of the name of Leach, was commissiolied,
under warrant, to detain the person of George
Grant, and he seized him upon the third day of Oc-
tober. He would now explain the remissness of the
Sheriffs' Officers towards the proper detention of the
person they had in custody. lustead of being car-
ried, according to the writ, to the prison of New-
We, be was put into the house of Phillips and Wi-
thers, where he remained until the 17th day of the
same month. Now he would contend, that a house
of that kind was by no means a prison, and though
It was called a " lock-up-house," still Grant ap-
peared to have possessed full liberty to have made
his escape, nay, to have walked deliberately off, had
he been so inclined. lie could not explain upon what
kind of bargain the prisoner remained so long out of
prison ; but he would submit to his LordAip, wive-
dear that a forbearance to imprison his person foi 15
days was not a proper foundation for an action of
escape to be laid upon. _

There is an anecdote of one of the great public
schools, pretty generally related of Dr. Busby, the
great Master of Westminster but not considered
authentic as to him by those most versed in the tra-
ditionary records of. that di:tinguished seminary,
which bear; a strong resemblance in the first stages
to thr 'ease of Ito yard the madman, who wrote the
threatening letters, for the discovery of the author
of which, one tho►sand pounds were otiered by pro-
clamation in the Gazette, and then claimed the re-
ward. The circumstance may afford a precedent to
the sublime souls of the advisers of that measure, for
a corresponding conclusion.

The sage instructor to whom we allude, having
entered his school before the expiration of one of
the intervals allotted for play or refreshment, and
having seated himself before the fire in his great
chair, fell into a profound sleep. At this instant,
an arch chap, who had been beaten off the play-
ground in a contest at snow-balls, took refuge in
the school-room, and hating laid aside his first im-
pression of awe, silently apprnachml the sleeping
Monarch of the puerile peoplo, and finding him
completely under the influence of Morpheus, slyly
dropped into his pocket, which Fay invitingly open,
a huge snow-ball—after which he retired wiih all
possible expedition. Ihe bell shortly after roof, for
school, and the master, roused from his slumbers,
summoned his class before him. The class bring mus-
tered, including the author of the miy,..ii,ivous prank
that we have related, the sage ins:ri,:.or began to
prepare in the usual manner to en,: r upon the dis-
charge of the important duties of his office, and, with
this view, thrust his hand in his pczket to search for
his snutf-box. But, alas ! handkerchief, snuff-
box, snuff, ard all, were involved' in a deluge,
more destructive than that of Deucalion. The
drowned instruments of the incense of the nose
being drawn forth in wilfully ridiculous exhibi-
tion, the wi,ole class burst into a titter, which be•
came louder ..iid more general, till the entire school
was at last coovulsed with laughter. The poor mas-
ter, who was the object of the ridicule, preserved his
temper, amidst the most lively mortilication—aud
having restored silence, as soon as the voice of au-
thority could command attention, lie produced half
a crown from his pocks t, and holding it up in shining
tentwati,m, offered it as a reward to any person who
would discover the author of the insult offered to his
dignity, by an. act which, in his ignorance of the
circumstances, he probably conceived more crimi-
nal than it was. The reward, although, consider-
log the times and the person who offered it, and
those upon whom it was intended to operate, it
was as much, comparatively, as the thousand
pounds now offered by the Prince Regent, had no
effect; nor, indeed, could. it wall have • had any, ex-
cept on the author of the trick alone, for he, like
Junius, was "the sole depository of his own secret."
At length, the rest having kept silence, the author
stepped forward and claimed the half-crown ; upon
which, according to the invariable practice of public
schools with respect to informers, he was saluted with
an universal hiss. Persevering in his purpose, how-
ever, he pocketed the half crown—and being then
asked who had done the deed, lie said boldly, 46 I
did, Sir."—The school was astonished, and the mas-
ter was confounded, and at a loss how to proceed.—
At length lie conceived that the consistency of his
resentment and the maintenance of his dignity re-
quired the infliction of a punishment—and, although
with some awkwardness of expression, as well as of
feeling, he announced his intention accordingly—
but the youth .with whom he was committed had too
much presence of mind to quit his advantage so easi-
ly. He appealed to his generosity, and relating all
the circumstances, asked whether it Was fair to punish
as a crime what he had designed only a§ a jest—add-
ing, that 44 unless he had the fullest confidence from
the master's usual good humour and liberality that
he would not only forgive the prank, but join in the
merriment occasioned by it, it was in his power to
have shielded himself not only from punishment but
ow
n
secret." from suspicion—merely by keeping his
secret." The master having paused for a moment,
said, " Go, you rascal! You have your advantage
every way, and it is fit you should—for when age.i
•and gravity are transported by boys' tricks even for
a moment beyond the bounds of temper, they lose'-
sight of the true foundation and support of their
authority, and the only chance they have of recover-
ing it, is by feeling the justice of the ridicule that
they have brought on themselves, and acting ac-
cordingly."
We know not whether the authors of the thou-
sand pounds Proclamation will act with the same
magnanimity as the old school-master. But it is thus
far fortunate that the poor madman cannot be punish-
ed farther than by locking him up and keeping him
confined for life in safe custody.

Witnesses were here called on the part of the
Plaintiff, but who, in their cross-examination proved,
that it was a customary and common thing to lock
up persons for debts of 8001. and 10001. in houses of
this description.
Mr. Serjeaut Les n, for the Defendants, observed,
that this was a kind of experiment to reduce the
power of the Sheriffs, and make the employment of Switvenen.—A man . about GO years of age, of
an Officer a most precarious and troublesome one.— i demure appearance and fluent address, has lately ob-
The safe and entire custody of the prisoner was all tabled goods fraudulently of many trades-people, at
that the law reqdired, and no particular prison or the west end of the town. He first took apartments
fashion of confinement was prescribed. Ile had not .at an Hotel in Jermyn-street, a fortnight ago, cull-
been seen on au airing. excursion, with Officers ha-' big himself the Rev. Mr. Judd, and ,pretending to
bited like servants in attendance. This was a mere I have been recommended by a Colonel who was
.attempt at experiment, without authority—or sta- I known at the house. He has since•changed his name
1 tate—or precedent—or practice to warrant its be- ito Seymour, and personated a Gentleman of fortune
iog made. No escape of any description had been of that name in Sotnersetshire, by which he obtained
made out, and he hoped a verdict, under his Lord- : goods of an upholsterer, and also of- a jeweller in
"ship's direction, favourable to the Defendants. I Bond-street, to a considerable amount. He is about
! Mr. Justice Gins told the Jury, that the case five feet ten, wears his own hair in powder, and is
which they had to examine was, whether the Sheriffs supposed to have made several hundred pounds since
had permitted George Grant to escape from their his arrival in London.
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custody or not. In order to show ivhat the duty in- • It is not true, that the Marquis of Sem) has pur-
cumbent upon the Sheriff amounted to, they had to chased the celebrated horse Pope.. The purchaser,
mousine the writ which committed him to his cut- we find, is Mr.. BRUTIf.

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