The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-08-10 00:00:00

• 6.41 V INTELLIORNCE.
COVRT OF CHANCBILY, WISDNEIMAT. Aye. 8.
Before the Alaster of the Rolle.

• JUDGNISWi.
11111111 CHOLDSDIONUAT IP. LOUD CLl7Toll.—hs this
lvag pending snipe, Cs Honour gave judgment ow
'list...lay evening.
• After many luminous observations, he said he
wu•uld not now enter into the equity of the case, but
•untent himself with saying, that he bad no objection
to allow the party again to apply to a Court of law,
a• he understood it was the intention to apply to a
higher tribunal. He was decidedly of opinion, that
he ought to decide in favour of the claim of Lord
Clintoo, since both logically and grammatically, the
deed would bear no other construction.

VICE CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Au*. 9.
TIIII PONTSISOCTII 11•NIII.

EX-PARTS 01111101 X tM TIIR ISATTitSIOIP MINCHIX. A
11/ANKRUPT.-Mr. HART stated that this was a petition
irons —Uibson and others, presented under the fol-
lon ing circumstaisees:—Thebanl.l uptey was one of the
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partners in the firm of the Portsmouth. Bank, against
which some time ago a commission of bankrupt had
issued. It happened that at the same time that the
I.IIIMiSPiOII was taken out, reparate commissions had
been issued against the individuals who were part-
errs in the fires. The petitioners in this case were the
creditors of Mr. Nimbi% in his individual capacity,
and they represented that a debt amounting to 6,9001.
was suffered to be proved against the bankrupt's sepa-
rate estate, which belonged to the joint estate of the
firm. They therefore prayed that his Honour would
make an order to relieve the separate estate from this
bnrJen.

Mr. Rosa followed on the same side, and stated that
there could be no ground whatever for charging the
separate estate with this debt. It was very well known
that each of the partners kept a separate and distinct
acconnt in the Bank, as individual., just as any (lithe
ostonsers of the concern, and that therefore it being
►tiith the pettily of the other partners that it was held,
pretence could he set up fur having the separate
i.roperty of the bankrupt, in this case rendered liable
to the debts of the firm.
Mr. Bonne and Mr. Moms...sure opposed the peti-
tion on the ground that it was necessary, in the first
instance, to have the accounts of the firm clearly made
out in order to ascertain the amount of property which
toad be considered as the separate estate of each of
the parties.
The rice•Cnstscei.Lon, however, made the order
according to the prayer of the petition.
The costs of the petition, however, were ordeeed to
be paid out of the separate estate.

ISSIZ ES.

SCARCT.....-nUILDFORD, AUG. 7.
HANK OF ENOIAND PRONECCTIONS.

The fifteen unhappy persons committed for trial at
ti.ne Assizes on charges of uttering forged Bank of
Eceland notes, hive accepted the clemency of their
rosecuSors, and pleaded guilty to the minor offence
f i,arinS, knowingly. keeled notes in their possession,
ur 1 were set. r illy sentenced to 14 years' transports-
ti :n, pursuant to the statute.
CIVIL RIDE, Ave Q.

THE KM' V. C11•11L1111 61•ItTM •ND rite OTPICRII.
—This was an indictment against six defendants.
na led Martin, Western, Richardson, Bowden, Ben-
net, and Anderson, fur a iibel on Richard Roffey, at
t .e parish of St. Mary, Newington, on the 10th of
Fei,:a try, 1019.
't he p-esecation was conducted by Mr. MARIUAT,
M- Susasst. and Mr. CURWOOD, and the defence by
p... (I,,essue, Mr. Cnrrev, and Mr. ANS ill All.
'ri.is prose. ration arose out of the disputes which
fir pone time past agitated the parish of St. Mary.
err'r;t on. By the usages of that parish the Rector
h s the power of nominating one Churchwarden, and
ti.e parish another. The Rev. Mr. Onslow, the Rector,
has, romineed the prosecutor, Mr. Kerrey, as his
warden, and the parishioners had chosen Mr. Martin,
the defendant. as theirs, in 1819. It had been the
praitice to hold Vestry Meetings in the parish church.
s t live o'clock in the evening, but, as was suggested,
in consequence of the disgracefbl scenes which some-
toprs toots place, and the very late hour to which the
th-scussions at those meetings had been prolonged fir
pane t:me previous to 1819, it was deemed expedient
1 y the prosecutor to change the hour fur the &Jaren-
b. .r of the Vestry, namely, from five in the afternoon
to issue i s the morning. Soon after he came into of-
fice, it became necessary to make a new church rate,
and also to take into consideration on what terms
iron coffins were to be permitted for interment in the
church-ya d —that mode of:serial having been recently
suggested as proper. In order to take both these sub-
jects into consideration, Mr. Roffey caused notice to
be given in the usual manner by the parish clerk.
from his reading-desk in -the cburek, that a vestry
meeting would be held on the third of February, at
nine o'clock in the morning. The alteration of the
time for holding vestry meetings, it seems, occasioned
a great sensation in the parish, and accordingly, on
t .e day above mentioned, all the defendants appeared
at the vestry, and, as was charged, -proceeded to pro-
p se resolutions bighly._dafamatory of Mr. Roffey's
cha aster. The defendant, Mr. Richardson. was
stated to be an attorney, residing in London, having
a Luau at Newts s the defendants, Messrs. Rug-
den, a.4An ' is, were apresented to be attorney's
44ita&
elerts, andlitlia obithoto of that parish ; and the
tem Wing. nts to fie tradesmen, some of them
tarrying altainailleSll in'London. On the occasion in
qusestiespMr.lltichardsotr was stated to be the framer
of thegfrnelatiotts, the purport of which was to insi-
nuate Mat the prosecutor's object is altering the time
for the assemblage of the vestry was to obtain a packed
nveting of inferior inhabitants of the parish, wile
ss•Juld be subservient to the purposes of himself and
the Rector. 'lie resolution which was the principal
ATuned of who prelim laildlooset professed to be a de-
el. ration of the oendoesoto of the vestry, that the eon-
dua of the poreeohlike.ii ottoomptiog to alter the time
of the useetitA mho awldation of the rights of the
t .-stri-niest, an issaikaolse parish, and a disgrace to
she lieeter wisti.lassi appointed him. it further s:atrill,
that he.wac Wasik Imisliethf of the.conlidence of the
t,