The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-08-21 00:00:00

tin CONIIIIISIONItt, OF II tNIOUPTS V. sauct.

This was a Petition presented to the Court by
Ileum Dyneley and Wrottesiey, and the lion. F..
AM, Countissioners of liankrul•re, and it prayed
That the Defendant Brace might. along oi•h another
person of the name of Davis, be committed to the
Fleet Prison fee a cr.nterript, or should this be ►e.
fused, runt sorb an order might he made as the
Coon might think proper. The partirulass of lb.
ease have repeatedly been laid before the Public in
Imports of proceedings in the Courts of Chsacery and
r King's Bonch, *here much lii'antion has taken place
belseen 1... bankrupt and his creditors *A his assig-
, ones. The Priilion is queoion bad been formerly
laid before the Covet, when Mr. Cullen was heard
in support of the Petitioners, Messrs. Heald end
Mentors for Mr. Davis, end Mr. Bryce for himself.

Mr.Cy:JAN Ibis day replied at great length, and
strongly contended that there was not a shadow of
answer to the There never was a case, he
observed, in which the Court was called oo to in.
leder* with more propriety than at present, in cop-
ra,' of the authority of the Commissioners end of iho
Court as well Be for the maint•nance of regularoty in
cases of blokrup.cy. On such an occasion as the
present, his Lordship was bound to act with energy,
and not to he satisfied with inviely giving ao opinion.
Th. Learned Counsel was proceeding to make some
observations nil the cave of Doris, ellen
Mr. HEALD .sugg•StiPti toad such observations might
be spared, it being onderstond that none would be
made, as the Lord Chancellor was satisfied as to the
motives from which Davis had acted.

A GUITLEIIAN et the Itsr, whose name we could
ont Imo, rota to make some remarks in behalf of
Mr. Bruce, he having received instructions that worn.
jog le do so.
The Loan Cmairtutmet.—This is not the proper
time for yes to do so. The Court is now in the full
possession of all the facts io this most extraordinary
ease, and Mr. Collets has been replying to obit the
other Counsel bus elated. It Is too Isle for you
now to do so.

The Courtin observed, that with permission of
the Court be begged merely to state, no behalf of
Mr. Brace, that that Gentleman was fully aware that
thoegh be was misled by his judgment, yet Ida coo-
tlect could not be considered proper or regular, and
that he was therefore ready to selimit the whale
accounts to the Matter, cod to abide by his Report.
Ile would cheerfully sobs t to any *nisi his Lord-
ship should think proper to make.
The LOUD CHANCELLOR Tail is a Petition pre-
sented to one by these Gentlemen who are Commis-
sioners of Bankrupts, cud the Petitiot pram that by
an :neer of this Court, the bankrupt, Mr. Brace,
may be committed to Hie prison of the Fleet, for a
contempt of authority, or that such of icr order may
be made in the case as shall seem proper to the Curt.
I have given the Irmo indefatigable, a,", I may say,
considerate, attenrion to this o sit eztrairdinary case,
for I consider it to be a most estreorJinary one in
more views than one, because I Hiegel' mys.if
stuond to view it most et leetively, from l's great im-
portents., both as it concertos the liberty of the sob.
jact, end also the execution cf a most important
braoCh of the law of Ms covets,- The MidavitS

have also met with my most careful perusal, and
from them I anti that Mr. Brace, se for from deny.
in; what is stated in the affidavits of the Commis•
sinners, does, on the contrary, adroit every thing
they sty. This case has been some tiore before we.
end long ere now should have been dl.poserl a by
thrjodgmert of the Court, bad it net been for what
most again call a most 'etre ordinary proceeding
•• the part of Mr. Bruce, what took the rase oat
of my hinds completely, by preferring he bills
for perjury, wiz. three against the Commis.
sinners, Dee against the Solicit or for the Com-
mission, and nee against the niessonger. Whatever
my own opinion might be respmesiog the preprity or
impropriety of such bills being 61eil , 1 miry say this,
Mat doe respect for the law indeceil me t
in pause in
I giving my judgment till these hills ss ere disposed of
by a Jury of the country. Yet, for such proceed-
ings, I confess I never saw in my life ouch futile
grounds. 1 cannot bet lament, and II la so most sin.
cerely, that the Grand J•ry in these teases were not
competent judges of the weight of esi tones laid be-
fore them; for, sore I um, that in the present case
they never would have found these bills bad all been
before them, by which I men, bad they been compe-
tent judges et what was proof before them. The
Commissioners having ezeressed a doubt of their hat.
log any authority to commit any person fur • con.
tempt committed against themselves, rho exist it their
doty to bring it before me. 'They have stone right ;
but I must say, that had it not been for these bills
indictment being preferred, I should have put an and
to any doubt on that head, as I should Lave applied
to Parliament to bass some legislative measure on
that 'object. Persons coming to this Court ooght to
know, and must know that a contempt of the Corn.
missions'se is a coateept of the Great Seel, and that
summary punishment most and always shall be a ward-
ed when loch is the case. Without saying more, I
do hereby sly, that after looking with the most
painful amulet, into all the proceedings obirh have
taken place in (•hat I spits shall cell) this mom ez •
traordinary and no less most important case, I think
it my defy, as sitting in this Clair, to order all end
each of the papers to be laid furthoith before his
Majrsys Atterney•General, wish fell powers to
Lim, as the Law OtScrr of the Crown, to decide what
course be ought to adopt is the case, labia( all the
sirgelar line of proceedings late bit coesideration.—
This is my most positive order.

Mr. Montagu.—My Lord, to the absence of Ma.
Heald, way I ask, that the ettorsoeis costs in t
case nub* paid oat of the estate?
The LORD CllANClLLOC—Unqueitionsbly. di•
reel them to be takes out of the separate estate atlas
bankrupt,_. Mr. Rise,.
Mr. Moaracu.— My Nord, may I SOO. ask
what your Lordship has to say relative to ti-t case
of Dirk?

LORD
'it I L•ORD told you OR a termer
ecessinn, what I Mull agtin repeat, that exclugh I
consider Mai, to ban awed with very 14 de con-
sideration, ) et I am not disposed to view him as sc.
teasel by any improper motive, because I Sete math'
least ground to warrant me in coming to so et a con.
clusinii. I am further disposed to think, that though
his zeal was ton great, be rished le put that Commis.
simmers in p ion of every word 1%411 by Mr.
Brace. I hope in what I ins now going to say hat
nothing nil induce the Commissioners to alter that
enorteoos line of cniidoct they hats unit orally shown
to bankrupts ender elimination bolero them; but
thin I will say, that in the present case they ought to
her ;unfound themselves against say attack, and
hare put it beyond the power of any one to give
I them the least insolence nr insult. This is a painful
case, and 1 moo protect the petitioners. I have,
thereto", given my judgment, and let all papers be
given to the Attoroey.Geueral, and be will know
what be ought to do.
WOOD V. cocacaitL.

This wet a wines motion of contiderahle len.
portance, relative to a patent for • machine in cotton
■toefactotiee. The case was Orly a.gied by Mows.
Wetherell and Erects, for the P..tente• ; and Mr.
Agar, fur the Defendant.

Tae KING ..,ND ►h. ADAMS.
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[PROM AM AMERMAN PAPER

Ws ere not aware that tins ftllo wing leiter from
Mr. Adams, then oar Ansbasiador In Engloud, to
Mr. Jay, Secretary of State under the old Conf..deta-
lion, has seer been published. It is slluable from
the elevated character of the actors end frum the in-
terest of the scene described. Some of our Patriots,
who think there is a milord repulsion het worn inde-
pendence and good-breeding, *ay be horrified at the
cnertier-like address of Mr. Adams, and feel quite
indignant that republicanism slionfrl have observed a
proper decorum Lefore coyish). We admire in Mr.
Adams' conduct that good sense and detterily that
has distinguished most of ear Foreign Ministers in
their intercourse with Seropesn Court,. The stj le
is simple, end we think more republican than the in-
lated bombast that ebe factorises muss of our present
productions. It is what we seldom meet, the plain
language of a sensible man.

Bath Weinninster. hue 2. Mi.
DICAR Clll,-1)061.1 my intetri•or with the Mar-
quis of Carmarthen. he told me that it was cos omsry
for every Foreign %flirter, at his first presentation
to the King, In make his Majosiy some rimillimoni.
ronfiiimahie to the•pirit of the creci.attlials; aml when
Sir Clement Cottrel Danner, his Muster of thr Crete-
orsoniet, came to inform me that he shoal,' .reimp•ny
me to the Secretary of st4ty, saki
that every Foreign Maio,' who.o be 1 ail attended
to the Cloven, had always mada her
Mikity, and be vaderstoves thtrugh he had oct

been present, that they allisys harangued the King.
On Tuesday evening the Baron de Lyndea (batch
Ambassador) ratted upon me, and sad he raw, Irma
the Baron de Nalkits (Sererlilh L.rvoy ), and bad
been conversing upon toe situation I was in ; sad
they %cried in opinion that it was 1110pm:sato
that I should make a speech, and thu‘it shoat&
'be as ronsplimertary as possible. All this was
Ovalle! to the adrice lately gives by the Count do
Vergennes to Mr. Jefferson. So that Ardins that it
was a custom e.t.hlish.li at boob these great Courts,
sod that iris Court and she Foreion Ministers ea.
pitied it, I thought I could tint avoid it, slab ,ugh my
first thought and inclioation had been to deliver my
emelbostlals silently and wig,. At ore, so Wed.
steeday, the Ist of June, the Master of the Ceremonies
Galled at my house, and went with me to the Serie.
tory of Slate's pike, in Cleveland.row, where the
Marquis of Carmarthen received me, and introduced
me to Mr. Frazier, his Under Secretary. who had
been, as his Lortiehip said, uninterruptedly in that
office, through all the changes in Administration, for
30 ;emu, having first been eppoioted by the Els! of
Holderness. After • short cenversatinn spars the
subject of importing my effects from Holland and
France, free of duty, whisk Mr. Frasier hairier in.
traduced. Lord Clammiest° invited me to go with
him in his coach to Court. When we arrived in the
anti.chataber, the CEil de Bettf, of St. James, the
Master of the Ceremonies met me, and atteaded me
while the Secretary of Statewent In take the commode
of the Kin!. While I stood in this place, whore it
I
.seems all Ministers stand upon such occasions, at.
is sys winded by the Nester of Ceremonies, the
ra.sm very fall of filioistets of Stale, Bishops, sod
all bother sorts of Courtiers, as well us the seat rooms,
Ishii h is the King's bed chamber, you may well sop.
p••• that I was the focus of all eyes. I was relieved,
homes er, from the embarrassment of it, by the Siren
dish as d Dutch Ministers, who came to me and en.
tertsinsd me in a very agreeable conversation dean
the whnie time. Some other Gentlemen whom I ko4
seen bets re, came to make their compliments ton—.
until the .Maluis of Carmarthen returned, and de.
sired meni 'go with him to his Majesty 1 I went with
his lertrdit ip through the Levee-room into the Kiog's
closet—. at door was shut, and I was left with his
Majesty atd.l the Secretary of Sate alone. I made
the three reverences; one at lbs door, another about
halt way, sodtbe !bird before the presence, accord.
log to the usage established at this and dl the North.
ern Coorti of Europe, and then addressed myself
le his Majt•sty in the folioision cords:—
•• tits,—lhe United Stales of Aaterica have op.
painted me' their Slioistre Plenipotentiary fo pint
Majesty, said have directed me to deliver to rote
i Majesty this letter, which row sine the evidenced it.
. It is in obedience to their tape's cevismaird-, that a
have the honour to assure your Majesty of their
sosninsoos diaposition end desire to cultivate that
most hien liy lied liberal interenerse between 'fit
Slijesty 'a subjects std their citizens, and of their
best wilt.e. for your &feints 's health and happiness,
and for that of your Royal Family.
" The appointment of a Nlissimet from the Uellea
States to your Majesty's Court, will form an epos
in the history of England and of America. I think
myself more tattooists than all my fellnw.citssess,
in having the distlngui.hed honour to be the first to
stand in your Majesty's R .141 presence in a diplo.
static character ; and I shell wrens tinsel( the hap.
piest of men if I can be instrumental in recommeod.
ing my comet', more and more to your Majesty's
Royal benevolence, and of restoring an entire
esteem, confidence, and affection, or is better work
' the old good suture, and the good old humour,'"
between People, who though sepatated by an wean,
and under different Govelonients, have the sauste
language, a similar religion, a kindred blood. I beg
your Majesty's permission to add, that althools I
have sometimes before been entrusted by my cons.
try, it was
operable to myself."
' The King listened to every word I said. with die
sity it is true, but with an apparent emutioo. Whs.
ther it wss the nature of the interview, or whether it
was my visible agitation, for I felt more than I did
or could 'alarm, that touched him, I cannot say,
but be was much affected. and answered me link
more tremor than I had sp ken with, and said—
" Sts,—The circumstances of this audience ors
so extraordinary, the language yen have now kola
is so extremely proper, and the feelings you have
discovered ... Justly adopted to the occisino. that 1.
mast say, .hat I not only receive with pleasure the
sourance of the friendly dispositha of the United.
State., hat that I sm very glad the choice has fallea
upon you to he their Minibter. I %ilk you, Sir, to
believe, soil that it may be understood in America,
that I Lire done nothing in the late contest but
what I thought myself iu•lispensaisly bound to do,
by the dot which I alien to wry People. I wilt be
very frank with you. I was the last to conform to
1 the separation; but the separation having been made,
. and having become inevitable, I have always said, as
1 I say now, t! at I would he the first to meet the
ftieodship of the Uoi'ed Saes at an independent
' power. The 11110111.111 I see loci, tont.mont and lane
casco as tout's -retail, and a dispoivien to give this
country the refer. nee, L h
et mos,e,sr I 4.111 say let
the circiambt ,itees of leo/nage. rbl:gibir, sod bleed,
have tti..:( mit ',tat and NU offset."
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