The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-11-25 00:00:00

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LAW INTELLIGEACE.

COURT OP CIII—NCERY, Nov. 24.

This morning, previously to his Lordship coming!
• eta Court, John Henry Cry, Esq. took the oaths of
rlirp-iassee, &c. as Clerk of the House of Cumulous, io!
tlic private chamber.

The case of the Attorney-General r. the Mayor and
Corporation of Bristol, was, on the motion of Mr.
'l'rower, ordered to stand over until Tuesday next.
1 he case of Pullin v. the Regent's Canal Couipany,
wh..ell stands over for judgment, was ordered to be put
in the paper for that purpose on Tuesday next.
' The Master was ordered to proceed, de clic in (lit m
in the cause of Pinnock and Maunder.
L'IRD 111,SION r. sIR pA•rKI'LIKIVESI.

Mr. MArrnaws, in this case, moved that the vene-
rp! le defendant should stand comtoittesi to the custody
of the IVarden of the Fleet Prison, fur a cuntatupt of
(hurt, in not having put in his answer.
sir W. Las; es addressed the Court at some length.
Ile reduced a certificate of the answer having been
put in, and expressed a hope that he had not been
guilty of contempt.
:Sir. 31 ATTII EU contended, that as the defendant
had sot paid the costs, he had infringed the order of
the Court, and consequently stood in contempt.
Sio W. Lawns urged the hardship of being called on
to pay costs, when the failure of putting in his an-
swi r dl4 not rest with him, as he had given instrne-
thins to hare that done within the time specified. If,

he were ordered to pay the costs, he trusted an early
fl.ty would be named for hearing the care, as in the
mein time he was in prison; " and why," said the
rt:rreble gentleman, " am I there, when it is well
known that 1-10th of the money that is in Court, anal
h:i.la I claim, will pay my just debts and set me at
liberty i" Ile also noticed the fact of there being
11:1,11001. in the Court of Exchequer, while he had
two judgments in his favour. With respect to the
termination of the suit, he could entertain but very
distant hopes, when he remembered the saying of the
Noble Lord, " it is in your favour today, but it may
he in ours to-morrow I" lle had been represented as
entertaining a wish nut to pav his debts, " but," with
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emphasis, he observed, " my Lord, I assure that I
shonld hare more pleasure in paying them, than the
persons to whom those debts are owing would hare in
receiving them." Lord Mansfield had said that one
year's imprisonment was sufficient to pay any man's
debts, but he had been incarceratetifor f wisest years,
'I he Louts ettasteewia, noticing the established
practice of the Court, said, that where an answer was

not tiled in time, the costs were always paid, anti in
this case his Lordship thonght the rule ought to be
adhered to. With respect to the observation ralitive to
the Court of Exchequer, be should only say that he
had nothing to do with its practice; and as regarded
the House of Lords, be should only remark, that he

never would consent to bring forward one case in pre-
ference to another, bat if any Noble Lord tlo•nglit fit
to move to that effect, it was his duty, to .anbsaia. .With
respect to this Court, be was determined nut to injure
one party by giving him an undue preference, but if
Sir Watkin and the other parties could agree between
11:eniselves, he hail no objection of sacrificing any day
on. which the Court did not sit to the hearing of the
ea,e. Ills Lordship would give the venerable defend-
the full credit of being entitled to a very large
property, but haying bad the humanr •f being counsel
for him thirty thirty years ago, he could not help re-
.marking., that hail he (Sir Watkin) been advised by
1 's Counsel, the cause would bare hoer settled at least
twenty-fire years since. His Lordship again repeated
hits willingness to hear the case an any day not appoint-
ed for the'sitting of the Court. and Sir Watkin hiving
expressed his thanks, left the Court.
COURT OF KING'S RENO!, Nor. 24.