The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-01-20 00:00:00

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CO JRT OF CHANCERY, FRIDAY, J 4x. 19.

THE FINE ARTS-INJUNCTION.

Constitution, and that iimalienahle right of English. i MUDIE C. TUUMASON AND JUNES.
This was a motion made by 31r. HART, for the por.
men, of %illicit neither Kings nor hired Parliaments ;
pose of restraining the defendants from using or Co.(mid deprive them; the right to Meet mid declare
pying the dies of the pi mintiff, or-Iron. exhibiting or
the 4 feelittos and sentiments to Parliament and the
1 biome, upon the general state of the country. This disposing of medals of the same description, as those
was a right not held, ur to he defeated by an Act of of Idol, the said plaintiff, without his permission of
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Parliament ; yet on this very occasion, the new con- licence. The motion was f ttrimled under the Ail of
Parliament passed in the reion of his late Majesty, for
stit talon would have deprised them of the meana of ex-
the protection of the Arts, ;ie. and arose out of the
ercisiag that right, bad it not been for the honourable
following circnittstancesto-lii 181 d, 1I r. Mollie un-
conduct of time High Sheriff, who bail given them an
ilertomml; to publish a series of medals, to record the
opp.oonimity 01 meeting, which haul been denied to a
most itopectable body of Requisitionists in the county victories and glories of the late war, and accordingly
of !leas. Ile was consequently no friend to the new advertised his intemobta, intionatino that thry would
system of rhinos, but he was a friend to that old, bear the profiles or busts of the distinguished person
free Con•tiott ion, which made public rights and public ages who figured at the respective times. In the per-
liberty time basis of i;s Government. Some beneficial i formance of this, be, the plaintiff, hail been at very
c• iects would, be trusted result from this !fleeting. great expence, and completed the first set for the year
They Itail, at all event., !hewn that they were capable in question ; which gave general satisfaction, and was
of observing the strictest impartiality and propriety. patronised by his pro sent Majesty, the late Queen, and
A radical rhatioe of si -tent was absolutely necessary the Nobility. The plaintiff employed the defendants
to save the country. SOW.' fastidiousness had been as medal manufacturers,-and handed over to them the
ahewn x ith reoamml to the term Radical, but for bite leg femn which they were t" be struck, These dies
part lie declared he had always been a Radical. He were delivered by plaintiff to defendant at Riming-
:lnd were putt into a box which was secured under
wished to cut up eorroption by the roots. He wished ,bum.
for ao honest Government and an honest House of lock and key, which it was tinderstood would be kept
Commons, which might protect the people from the , in the same situation, uoless when in course of menu-
sycophancy ofCabinet Ministers, anal become a healthy ' facture fir the benefit of the plointiff. In 1919 the
organ fur the expression of pothlic feelings and opi- plaintiffcompletemt the series,the dies baying been hand.
niuns. L'sad such loon the state of the House of Com- ed over by him to the defendants, wlio, it was asserted.
mons, 31inisters themselves would have been the bet- had continue,: to strike off copies until the month of
ter for it, for then they would never have been suffered Ibtectubser, 182.0. The dies were for a series amount-
to enter upon that mad and u irked career which he hie to no less than forty medals ; and in the progress
believed would now cost thrum their places. If no iof the wmpOi: the plaintiff advanced 10,0110/. having
such prosecution hail been commenced ; if they Imailicorip!eteml in historical succession, a record of the
told the hilts that they were unable to manage time ! most celebrated victories front the landing of the
House of I'olll 00000 US. they might have kept their places, British army in Portugal, np to the capture of Paris
and the emmotry might have been spared the agitation br the allied armies. and the eventual incarceration
into nliich it had been thrown. He should now take of Napoleon Bonaparte in St. Helena. In 1620 the
his leave, not with that utter hopelessness which lie : defetiml.mots exeettteila shield of considerable dinten-
should have tit, had this Meeting not taken place, for sions, u hich they ornamented by twenty-one half
he parted from them with the hope of seeing them „n medals, struck front the dies of the plaintiff, without
inture occasions, when timed might again exhibit the mh ct ing obtained hi- consent or approbation, and
same conduct, which they bad exliibited to day, and : which they advertised in the respective Ile% spapers of
show their enemies that there was to necessity to sneak the day, stating that it had been executed by Mr.
into holes and corners, since they might express their , Tholoasoo. It was also alleged by the plaintiff, that
opinions here with perfect safety. i the defendants had struck off a large number of int-
Mr. Cast Hounot:st, having been called on, next 1 pressions from his dies, part of which they had dis-
stood forward. Ile said he attended the meeting posed of, and the remainder Was now ready for sale.
merely to otter his feeble assistance, in case any oppos , After some argument, in the course of which the
sition were made to the proceeding, of the day..—(A p. LORD 01s:441w:on inspected the medals, his Lord-
plause.)---11e had heard a great deal of what was called ship said, the defendants having been employed to
Loyal Addresses ; but trite loyalty was as easily ills- execute the work by the plaintiff, the plea under the
tinguishetl from mock loyalty as blind obedience from statute was of no consequence, as they were only em-
the rational mdiedience of freemen---(Applause.)—The i ployed to strike for hint alone ; and if, as was alleg-
people of England should not, in leis opinion, rest sa- ' eft, they had acted contrary to their agreement, it was
tisfied with the half work a :deli they had already per- outfiejent to autholise him in directing the injunction
formed. The people saw, that its spite of the general to issue, which lie accordingly did.
opposition to time odious measure against the Queen ; ( PRACTICE OF TnE COURT.
in spite of the pronounced opinion of almost the wile% .31r. lizaao, at the rising of the Court, complained
people of Eng:otil, Ministers still resolved to petit- of the practice of the Senior Counsel moving in
vere ; though once detected and defeated its skit preference to this Junior Counsel, whom motions
qnity, they intended to bring forward the unhallowed - were generally in time nature of appeals, and were very
measure a second time, to make one expiring effort to frequently of an earlier date to those of their Learned
destroy her Majesty, and to depress the people.--(Ap- Friends. This practice was, in his opinion, highly
platise.)--Nothing eou'd be more unfair or wore un— detrimental to the plut:ssiort ; and the object be now
dignified than the conduct of 3liuisters ; they would i had in view was to obtain an Order, by which his
even turn their defeat into triumph ; thong!' her Ma-1 Learned Friends wouid be relieved front time hardships
Testy uas acquitted by the Parliament, still it seemed,: under which they laboured.
that in their opinion, according to their notions of The Lunn Cita orgotomusaid, be would consult with
justice, she was to undergo some species of punish- their !Loonies the Master of the Rolls and the Vice-
went ; she was to undergo degradation, as if she Clianeello . and he had no doubt but that such an
were pronounced guilty. Such being the notions of Order would he drawn up with respect to the future
Ministers, they having, from the commencement, de- practice, that would give general satisfaction to the
termined to degrade and punish her Majesty, whether parties.
innocent or guilty, it appeared to hint, that they
might as well hhve avoided We trouble of going
through the form of a trial, they mielit as well have,
saved the country the expense of the prosecution, and
the misery and shame of reading their infamous eyi-
dence--(Applause.)---It was true that the House of
Lords gave up the prosecution, but it was equally
true, that the condition of her Majesty was little bet-
ter than if she were found guilty The spirit of per-
secution followed her. Acquitted by the Peers, ap-
plauded by the people, she yet had no name in the
Liturgy ; she had no palace in the land ; the creatures
of the Court and the hirelings of the press attacked
her with impunity and without shame. Acknow-
ledged as the Queen of England, she bad no rank ; site
had no, provision ; no consolation, save the consola-
tion of a woman conscious of innocence ; uo prutec-

LACKINGTONS and the Muses.,—lt is well known
that the shop of these celebrated booksellers, in Fins-
bury-Square, is called " tha Temple of the Muses,"
they received an order the other day front a country
correspondent, requesting they would purchase for
him a Lottery Ticket, and with hopes that to him it
might prove a " Temple of Fort.the ;" had he re-
quested each muse to buy a Ticket each might have
been a 21,000/. Prize, as there are no less than Nine
in the Scheme, Three of which must be drawn Next
Tuesday._

N YORK, Der. 11.—The Spanish ship Castello,
train Guayaquil to Cadiz, with a cargo valued at
25v,000 dollars, was captured two months since, by
the brig Rio de la Plata. Some of the crew hare
arrived here from licrtuutla.