The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-07-13 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 13, 11$19

The Cause for orAtch BAMPAIN fell is the Fitld. and Svorsar died on the Sceffdd ! "

EYTON. S,.ek•Brwker, Cerwhill Nod Lomiberii.
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MIL MANE STAY !!!
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"Why bad not all the former embankments OR Ibis
River Iwo indicted ? It was Iris that the Earl of
kit* was indicted, but he was sequitteri by • Jury,
who were clearly of opinion, that the embanknevat,
so far from bring a utilise., was se improvement or
Ihu aulgation of the River.
The Clerk of the bistisrstion Committal of Ike
Corporation of Lowden was then called, to prove
that the embaskommt in question would be a greet
Improvement of the navigation, Inasmuch as it wneld
peahen the current of the River. The width of the
River Gnat Ow Penitentiary to the opposite ahoy, was
only 467 feet, it low water; bet from tho owilvsnk-
meat tutu opposite shots it wee 640 Wt. it low
wow.

Mr. GOINIIT, le cross-ozsodestiose, Pilch/4 free
this •wdq ,est the Co►peratleu of London hod re-
rritiv(l 400 (eines, from FArl Grossounr, sad were
to roreito of him sin goltois e yser rest for petals
ikon to mike this outbentatoot.

The Loan Cuter ittretCa sold, that the Corpora-
tion, es cnowervators of the Thames, had no right to
take a fine from any individual who was willing to
impose the navigation of the River for the public
good. Ili, Lordship begged that this might be clearly
4.1 1.11•Flitoild to be his decided opinion.
S ..... I watermark were then called, to prove that
' the embankment, it enniplotod, wneld be nn preju-
dice to the aratersevn, bet an advatituge to the nevi.
gation, as is would make the River more commodious:
Jaws also would be moored in greater security, and
the present mod-bank, as they described it, wt uld
be no loser the receptacle of dead dogs and cats.
Mr. Gunny, in reply, observed, that this was
not olio first time that the city of London had claimed
the soil of the river Thames; bet he wished they
oroold claim it in a way that cord be encountered.—
Ile found by the Act of Parliament ender *Web the
Adelphi was built, that the Corporation of Loudon
•hen Claimed the soil, and therefore a certain time
was reserved to them for establishing their right ; bat
(from that day to the prem.'', they had centered
Ito try the question in a Court of Lew. His Learn-
m' Friend had said that this indictment was brought,
not for the public gond.. r to prevent a real nuisance,
bet because emu o persons, resident at Millhank,
wished to prevent the erection of wharf; before their
houses; but sorely it was rather strange that those
pertain should indict the Defendant, for attempting
In remove what the nitnemes of MS Learned Friend
had Wiest a mud-hank, and that they should prefer
foe thrintelees, their wises, and children, the stench
arising from dead dogs and eats, to the haedsome
and commodious ihstfr which the Noble Earl was
deottows •.1 erecting ! Ti.tt abeerdity was too ear-
in; to require any further comment. If this bank
*ere really a seisaner in its present state, if it •ere
nAly a ined-bank, why did not the Corporation of
London, es conservators of the Rivet, abets the
neisance, and moo the mud to be removed? He
coateeded, that the itline so of this recess would
take sassy the Md. tide; and that, as this was part
et the King's highway, the meanest Individual hod
a right to overt convenience reselling frays it. In
this country, thank God ! the laws afforded equal
protection to the rich and the poor ; and there was
merman, however humble his station, who could be
deptiomi of his rights by any wealthy Corporation
or powerful individual. He cenklesitly anticipated
that the Jury, under the directions of the Learned
',do. would hod a verdict in favour of his Clients.,
The Lone LIIIEE JUSTICE SIM, that before he
went into the details of this coo., he would observe,
that if any 11,1%011 meditated an alteration in a natl.
gable riser, or the King's highway, it was open to
him to enquire by a proper writ, before the Sheriff,
whether it would be an injury to the Public or not :
and where a person neglected to do this, it threw
upon him the greatest responsibility to show, that
what he bad taken upon himself to do was not a
noisome. The fact which the Jury had before them
now was, that s very large sem bad been paid to the
Corporation of London, for permission to embank a
port of the riser ; bet they were not entitled to re-
ceive one farthing far that purpose. The prows-
tints had been instituted by certain persons who lived
in 'hot row of houses called Milibink, and they con.
ceived that their property would be iejeted If the
embankment were completed. The Jury would
she this point into their consideration ; bet at the
same time they would consider, that it seldom ever
happened, that a person was found to come forward
to protect the rights of the Public, unless the injury
of which he complained was also personally inconvm
nient to Masotti,. The question was here, the coo-
nonionic, of the Public at large, or at least of that
portion of the Public who might be interested in the
navigation of the Themes. The esterase's of the
river had a right in the convenience of the MESS or
hat, and no person could deprive !limn of it, salmis
a greater convenience would be derived to the Public
by taking it from them. The Learned Judge the..
recapitulated the evidet.ce, and told the Jury they
would ron.ider, whether the public convenience
Witold suffer in this case, in any degree; and If they
thought it would, then they would find a verdict
against the Defendants; es the Noble Lord and the
other persons named in this record had no right to
erect a private chart on this bank merely for their
no,, c-nvonienris.

LAW !ATP L 1.1 ;EM E.

cov*T or It ING'S itt:VCll. Josor 12.

TIK.IIIO GliOroll AIM OTHERS.
This was en indierKeni • ain't Dermalonts for
hiving, on the Ilth .1 May last. coat a qwantits of
vrashish into the navigable river Thames, hr which
the bed of the said river was narrowed and encroach
so on,
Mr. CwirrY opened the pleadings, and Mr Gua-
m stated theme to the Jury He saiJ, that the
reseed, lb reach nominally a criminal proctediug.was.
ie fact, merely a civil one, and wa• institetel sniel.
for the purpose of trying the right of. the Defendant.
to set as 'hey had dose. Johnson and the other
Defendants had acted ender the direction •t FAO
Grosvenor, end by embanking • part of the river,
opposite to the site on shish Belgrave-boove, an
•oeieni dwelling of Crossenni Nosily. formerly
steed, toodered themselves amen.hle in the law.—
Tom was a toad at Millbank, intending in the form
of a bay, from Cnnper's.row, where the iforse•ferry
plylog place we. sittsatrd, Inwards the Penitentiary,
Ito the leach tit 475 ; and she G11041PP110? /Mt°
read long d..ired to 611 op this recess, and form •
quay by a regular evolve- known,. Th.. had been now
effeyterl, far the I, pos. a orectiott shirts It oriivid
be saki, perhaps. that the Noble Defendant had re-
• seiht.rit) from the ale of Landon to make
lois emissivitmesit ; bet he shnuld enotend, that the'
City had no rict.t to give and suthiirity for that pur-
pose. The conservancy of the Thiens•4 Wong.' in
shag Corporation, but the /Ir...session of the rower-
;logy did not inched- any tight to the Foil. r.ti
miter Thames Was a highway, and, of consequence.
the soil was is the King. Th. embankment in quo,.
lion was a greet obstruction, ii.issmorli as it prevented
boa's and craft from iskinc shelter whets the Ifea,:sef
was impetuous. to the course of last year, had it
sot bee, for the by which this embankment bad 61104
Op, • great somber of Vessels would have been lust or
&rased.

Se•i rat waterer's', lighiermen, and others, who
hr.! honor,' the place for 50 and 80 veers, were
!tailed to prove that the recess hail been of peat use
to oatern►ert In rowing agsinst wind and side, and
that if the embankment •ere completed, they could
not row against wind and tido with Its same ems* as
they had done. The recess had been a great shelter
for West-country barge• and other craft in boisterous
weather, end against the current of the ice, and no
persons had ever paid any thing to Ertl Grosvenor
for permission to moor their craft there.
Mr. Scami.rrr addressed t►e Jury for the Defend-
ants. The City of Imn•ion, he said, hail not merely
the conservancy of the River Themes ; they had also
• right end a duty by more than one Art of Parlia-
ment. ti: improve Ins n■vigatinn of the River. If
the raintiif ancereded in this indictment, what would
follow/ ? If this were a nuisance, no prescription
could justify it, and the consequenc► worth! be, that
every wharf between Staines-bridge and Gravesend
ought to he pulled down. The moti►es if this pro-
erection were, not to guard the River Thames from
noisancra, but that the hoes. of the Prosecutor, Mr.
Hodge., on Milbank, might not be annoyed by the
election of wharfs. It would be shown in evidine•,
that this embankment would .ff•"rd greater advan-
tages to the naviptiess of the Ruse, then any injury
which 110'4-dump eaters... and lightermen might
..uvriiii (ran. it. The persons oho had as great an
iiresest in the navigation of the River as the ay of
Intidue—he meant hi. Maj►sty's Government—bud
not considered .hat an embankment on this spit was
an obstroction and • nuiiarice; for they had actually
embanked a long./ apace in frcat a! the Peoltratiery.

The Jury withdrew, and in Omni hug en hoer r►.
.ufned with n verdict •Raiff ill she U+•
f►ndanit, *lmolai Fail Gronnoner and George Hen
d•raon, opium whim se ovireee• Ned bee. adduced

Nothing ever eerentled the aboorlance of the crops
of corn -f •very kind in the 'senates'', province. of
France; thaw. it is tested that they oar have Iwo
laid by the late heavy storms of rein led bail ibich
02re taken Flue lo that enunt.y.