Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-10-15
AN OLD VETERAN.

The Boston Gazette, in noticing the
appearance of the troops and perfor,
mances, at the review of General Ly.
mans brigade in that city on Thursday
last week, gives the following account
of Maj. General Crane, the revolution
airy officer:-
Gle is now the oldest militia Gene
raj in the world; he has been attached
to the militia for more than half GEN.
fury, in some capacity or other; he per-
formed his rounds as sentinel on Dor
chester heights on the night o. The 18th
of June, l775, after the battle of Bun
ker Hill. From that memorable hour
he has never suffered his arms to rust
or get out of repair. In this half Of an
hundred years which has elapsed since
he commenced his military career,
more than ten millions of the human
race have fallen by the sword, and du-
ring his time there have been more
than TWENTY-FIVE successive generations
of militia"
Tile British Court of Chancery is one
Of the most awfully wicked establish
ments that ever was devised amongst
men. A gentleman, who lately died,
set aside 5o,oool. to defray the expen-
SEES of an anticipated suit, and another
declared that he would rather hear
the last trumpet" than a citation to APP
pear before it! The Lord Chancellor
complains that his salary does not ex-
coed $4,000 year, besides what he
receives as Speaker Of the House Of
Lords, &c. and he had l4o Offices in
his gift, much patronage in the Church,
and the nomination Of the puisne judg-
es, SC. The delays Of decision; the
frauds committed in the shape Of fees,
sc. has reused the public Indignation,
and reformation is to be hoped for
The following statement of solitary
case may serve to shew the amount Of
the iniquity nursed in this abomination
of pretended equity:
On the 9th June, petition was pre-
sented, in the British House Of Com
mons, from a widow, now pauper,
dependent on the parish of Greenwich.
The petition stated that, in 1873, she
had married carpenter, who had a.
massed small property and purchas-
ed some lands. Her husband died, and
his affairs were thrown into Chancery
in 1910. Eleven years afterwards, al
though the freehold estate was worth
900 pounds, the Court had collected
400 pounds. In August, 1924, 242
pounds, in addition, had been collect
ed. The total amount of the poor mans
property was l,4o6 pounds; and the
costs of the chancery suit had run up
to 1883 pounds. The widow was or
dered to give up the title deeds to the
Court. She could not do this, because
the property consisted of mortgaged
lands which had been purchased; and
the titles were lodged as securities with
the mortgages. For her non compli-
ance with the order of the Court, she
was attached, and cast into the Fleet
prison, where she had remained %
months. The cost of the attachment
was 95 pounds, which she was utterly |
unable to pay, and she was released by
the petty savings of her poor relatives.
She is now IS years Of age; the balance
of her husbands property had procur-
ed her an annuity Of 70 pounds year,
but it had been absorbed by the Court
of Chancery, and the widow was now
a pauper, subsisting on the charity Of
the parish. The petition was referred
to the commissioners who have been
appointed 10 investigate the abuses OF
the Court Of Chancery A Chancery !
attachment, ii appears, is the last at
tachment female should be DESTROYS
to provoke.
From the NeU-Hare Register.
NEWSPAPER BORROWERS.
We have heard hundreds Of COM