The Statesman.
London, England, 1824-01-01 00:00:00

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• • . PARIS, Dr.e. es.
TitE S rACVPOOI4 Cayse.--M. ilennequin this day
hnisheci.hbi speech on behalf of Mr. Driver Cooper,. the
represectative of Messrs. Marsh and Roche, the Mai/micas
n,Tainst the Count Georges Starlipoole. The leuned
cot vorate observed, that a robber sometimes succeeded in
• •?ceping • from justice, but it wee only to drag on a I
miiicrahlt existence, seeking temporary asylums far front!
iriS DWI% country. That. however was not the else with
Lord Stachpccole. lie hid, &trio; a period of 24 years, I
possessed before the eyes of all England, the immense
lortone.of which be was the administrator; he had come!
s::tn.France net for the purpose of concealment. but to
&lain the ail vantaze of enjoying the riches which he bad I
biottelf 'of, and when he might die he westld
leave toys beta the patrimony of his (Al. Ilenneqnin's)
clients. Such a system of fraud WWI the more dangerous
so sicietr. because it was practised with Impunity, and
attended with comfort Ind opulence, and the culprit has
not even reduced to the necessity of cancearin4 litusrlf
Leery Ruropeattsociety; and indeed every society in the
work!, formed an mauler rdent potter. - lie knew well that
every republican or monarchical state had a right to be
anastersrittdo its own territories; that the (Akers ofjnsti re
Fli3el4l obey Only •the. voice of the sovereign or -of the '
ornate. Ile. also knew that decrees made in a foreign
4:ocntry must, before they could be executed is France;
he laid before his diajesty-the Eine; .but it was asked,
should the ordinance of execution, the foroar:u of
fcriatie or ezeitsiatur. which was demanded in this me,
be granted without an examination of frets? lie would
r.fer tothe-peinciples of the old-French law to prove that
it might. In article 21, of the celebrated ordinance of
1G2..), that followieg absolute principle was laid down
" I o judgment given, nor act passed ifs foreign kiogdonvs,
shall have power of execution is Prance, but eh/ditto eons
pidered as simple promises." The ordinance added, "Not—
withstanding t tints daliveresil-eser ratigtioinsgt,
contest their rights as entire -before the Frenett Judges."
Accdrding to that passage, and to the authorities of the
Advocate General Surlier. and of many compilers of de.
creel. wbp b;ve adopted those authorities, he contended
that judgments delivered is IforeitTo countries against a
Frenchman could not be executed in France unlit after a
new trial; hithtita simple decree of crequettir, after the
manner of those rendered in eases of arbitration. ,was stab •
cient to give the power of execution to foreign judgments:
as between taro foreigners. TbeCourt of Cwsation, by
a judgment pronouncsd in., Bits, had sanctioned. thatitt
tcrpetration of .1629.. The cause in which. that judgmens
wits pronounced had this. peculiarity—that the parties
were two French emigrants who bad retinmed to their
native 'country; bat who were considered as having been
stricken by caVif.g/eath, and consequently as having been
foreigners at the period when judgment was pronounced
between them by *tribunal of Neufchatel inhwitseriand.
The learnedadrierateconcluded.byralling upon the tribunal
to diatingaisb hi its judgment the case of Messrs. Marsh
and Rothe tVorn that of William Stackpoole and other
bills, irke had separate interests.
la. Dept, afterwards addressed the Cart os behalf of
lVilliaa Stankpoolt and contested himself with adopting
seta Farther dastiop4t theargnmente which had haot ad.
Aced b theonnaal idle had preceded 'him. •
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