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Norwich, Matchett and Co.; Lon- "On the Carmarthen circuit, during eleven the vicious circle of the Welsh jurisdiction, it don, Poole and Edwards, Rivingtons, Bald- years," he informs us, "the number of de- has suffered in the manner I have described. I win; Derby, Mosely. crees in equity was, upon an average, 4 per must, as a curiosity, insert a county-court notice LORD CAWDOR, in the first of these publica- ann.; actions by writ of concessit solvere, 10; to a labouring man, to procure payment of one tions, has pointed out one of the many abuses other actions, 42; total, 56 per ann. The shilling, due for the mending of a pair of shoes. in our system of laws and their administration, number of attorneys practising on that circuit, I copy from the original. Sir, having been which call aloud for reform; and so clear are at the time when the return was made, was about directed by A. B. to apply to you for Ol. 18. Od. his statements, and so cogent his reasoning 80; so that, in the Court of Great Session at due to him, I have to request that you will pay upon them, that we can hardly doubt of their least, there was not much more than one me that sum, together with my charge of five obtaining the attention they so justly deserve cause for every two attorneys,—a slender pro- shillings, on or before Saturday next, as I shall from our ministers and the public. A Welsh vision indeed, if that were all they had to otherwise be obliged to commence an action judge, in comparison with an English judge, trust to." Yet, "whatever scarcity there may against you for the recovery thereof, without appears to stand in about the same relation as be of counsel, of judges and attorneys there is no further notice. I am your obedt. servt. C. D.' a Welsh wig does to one of the full bottoms in deficiency. The number of the latter in Wales It is easy to conceive how a suit against a lahis Majesty's Court of Banco: it is a little is a phenomenon which no English person bouring man, commenced in this way, may be snug thing, warm and comfortable, a sort of understands, and for the existence of which I carried on and inflamed to an extent ruinous sinecure between a sergeant's coif and a night very much doubt whether I can give any ade- to a person of that class, and may have the cap, which fits the head of the wearer well, quate reason. The number of causes tried in effect of utterly depriving him even of the and is kept on without trouble. But from this Wales will not account for it, nor the circum-means of defence." fountain, the noble author contends that jus- stance of all the pleadings being carried on in Lord Cawdor mentions these matters as beartice does not flow so efficiently over Wales as the country; though that must, in some degree, ing him out in his own specific argument reover England: -for our parts, we imagine contribute to increase their profits, and of specting Wales; but they would be insignificant, there is not a pin to choose between the two; course add to their numbers. I am much in- were they only worth so much. Were they and that however slow, however dubious, how-clined to believe that, not many years ago, a not illustrative of the pervading spirit which ever expensive, however oppressive, the work- very considerable number of them drew a great marks every corner of the kingdom with leing of the machinery may be in the one coun- portion of their means from the most abomi-galised oppression, they might be tolerated in try, it is not one iota less slow, dubious, ex-nable oppression of the lower orders in the a degree as local ills. But the disease overruns pensive, and oppressive, in the other. It is the county court, which had risen to such a height, the whole body politic, and is a fearful injury complication of the laws, and their vast and that, at a meeting of the county of Pembroke, to the strength and energies of Britain. Here unintelligible quantity, which place the com- in the year 1818, held for the purpose of is a nation eminently commercial and adventu munity in the power of those who practise in taking into consideration the practices in the rous, consequently with multitudes of indivithem; and when it is so obviously the interest county court, it was resolved, among other duals liable to great and sudden fluctuations of of every professional man to encourage litiga-things, That we have observed, with consi- fortune. Between man and man, merchant and tion and grind down the unfortunate, can it be derable alarm, the increase of litigation, de-manufacturer, debtor and creditor, there is wondered at, that so few lawyers (using the structive of the public tranquillity, and highly not one in a hundred of these fluctuations term for all classes) are able to withstand the injurious to the prosperity of the county of which it would not be advantageous to all temptation, and that so many are harpies, Pembroke: that not only have the legal parties concerned, and to the interest of the cursing the land by their extortions? Let any charges been of late greatly increased, but state, to accommodate and treat with forbearperson who has observed society in city, town, repeated and cruel instances have come to our ance there is not one in a hundred which, or village, say what evil has struck him as the knowledge of suits being carried on in the by the intervention of the laws and lawyers, is cause of deepest sufferings. Is it the much-most expensive manner that legal ingenuity not inflamed to the ruin of private persons, murmured at tithe of the clergyman, almost could suggest, for recovery of the smallest and to the detriment of the common weal. universally taken in the mildest form, and in debts, or in obtaining redress for the most The total amount annually levied on the profact one of the foundations of a cultivator's bar-trifling injuries; thereby making the law of ductive classes for the support of the unprogain? Is it the rate to support the poor and the land the instrument of the grossest op-ductive order of law practitioners is the most needy, or the government tax, however heavy, pression.' It appears, from parliamentary re- monstrous anomaly that ever existed; but even called for at stated times? Is it any other turns, and papers laid before the committee of in this point of view it is nothing to the widenational or particular burden that can be spe- 1821, that the number of pleas entered in the spread wretchedness and the moral evil of cified? No; it is the tens of thousands of county court of the county of Carmarthen, which it is the cause. The petty vexations, vermin bred in the corrupt mass of the laws, during a period of nine years, amounted to and the severer injuries, which such a fellow preying upon industry, and making a harvest 10,912. In the baronial courts in the same as the C. D. of the letter we have quoted from of want itself; harassing and destroying the county, which hold pleas of debt, 3024; making Lord Cawdor must inflict during his lifetime, victims whom circumstances have placed at altogether 13,936: and that in the county of would form a mass of human misery beyond their mercy; wringing the souls of the strug- Monmouth, during the same period, the num- all ordinary conception; and only a slight idea gling; and, for the profits on which they batten, ber of pleas entered was 3969, leaving a surplus of it may be formed by heaping together a few annihilating the happiness of families, filling of about 10,000 causes in favour of the Welsh of the details. This precious rascal, who dethe prisons with misery, and almost compel-attorneys; to which some addition should be mands the poor man's five shillings as the The division of Wales into four courts, besides Chester, and the dubious condition of the judges* appointed, are dwelt upon by Lord C. as great lets to justice; and he describes a curious Chancery suit, in illustration of his argument. For this we have not room: the annexed are, however, short enough for extract. * price of dunning him for a debt of one shilling, to this description; but the profession in "This would require the addition of two must have his several, or his many, victims Wales abounds too much in persons of inferior new judges only; and, taking the English every day, or he could not keep up his esta- character and education." and Welsh parts together, there would be suf blishment in the style of a gentleman. The Well is it for his lordship that these gentry ficient inducement for counsel of eminence to labourer's crown and the mechanic's pound, have no hold over him; if they had, we should attend." and the farmer's or the trader's five pounds, speedily see" execution done on Cawdor." In Having spent so much time seriously upon and too often the landlord's fifty pounds, are London and England there are also honour-Lord Cawdor's small but important work, we his support; and, in return, he gives them able exceptions exceptions the more honour- have little to devote to the Whole Duty of law enough to excite every bad passion, to able, because the temptations to be resisted Constables, the lowest functionaries of law and gratify every bad principle, and to perpetrate are severely trying to virtue, and because police. The pamphlet before us is a very wellevery species of wrong and injustice. Con- the mind is apt to have lost its purest percep- arranged and ample compendium of their busitinual practice in this way blunts the good tions, as well as kindliest tone, in the training ness in every possible case in which they may feelings of the heart, and the attorney con- for the profession;--and when these are found, be called to interfere; and having also an templates the most cruel action with as much we would say the individual is entitled to far Appendix of Mr. Peel's Six Acts, must be as concern as the butcher does the sheep he is more than a common measure of esteem and useful a manual for every magistrate as it is going to slaughter. So that he is employed, admiration. Instead of being the persecutors, for every constable-who can read; though, as what is it to him that the honest man suffers, they are the benefactors of their species, and honest Dogberry says, for their "writing and the industrious man is involved in ruinous redeem their caste from the odium so amply reading, let that appear when there is no need expenses, the widow and the orphan are beg- incurred by the low and sordid majority who of such vanity." The title-page tells us, that gared?-the vampire must be fed. This may infest it. "the constable hath as good authority in his seem strong language. Our reason for using place as the chief-justice of England hath in it shall be told. In the very county alluded his.' 1 Ro. Rep. 238" and in our opinion, he to by the author of this pamphlet, and within ought to have as much judgment and discrimithe present year, a Welsh attorney, to bring nation too-for the matters that come under his some point to issue, did arrest the person of a cognizance are often very perplexing. One of respectable lady, nearly eighty years of age, these worthies was (we forget, whose Report) and so infirm that she could only with the called in to arrest a woman accused of having utmost difficulty be moved from one room to given poison to her husband: the man looked another; and this unnecessary and barbarous “It has also, I believe, happened, that cases very ill, but the wife stoutly denied the cause. proceeding produced such an effect upon the have been submitted to Welsh judges in their Mr. Constable was sadly puzzled between spirits of the individual in question, that she capacity as counsel, under feigned names, and the pro and the con, and at last fairly driven absolutely died in consequence of it, and in that when the cause has been tried, the same from the field by the following appeal from the less than a fortnight from the date of the dis- person has given a different decision from that weeping lady:" I never gave him any thing grace upon her character, was buried where her which the opinion he had given as counsel had to hurt him; only open him, and you will see legal murderer may every day see the grave led the parties to expect. I may be how false it is!!" We knew another learned which he dug for old age and sickness, that told that no man of honourable feeling would brother outwitted by a thief, who being in could not even attempt to escape his deadly endeavour to obtain surreptitiously the opinion want of a hat, adopted the following ingenious fangs. One instance like this is a stigma on of the judge before whom his cause is to be mode of providing himself with one. On leav the administration of the laws, as it is an out- tried; but then it is equally clear that every ing church, at the moment when the crowd was rage upon humanity; but the chance of our knave may; and it is no praise of a judicial thickest, he contrived to slip a gentleman's new having heard of it only corroborates the preva-system to say, that it affords weapons to a beaver from under his arm. The latter feeling lence of such iniquitous doings as are exposed villain, which an honest man would be ashamed it escape, began to bawl, "Some one has taken by the noble author in his valuable pamphlet. to use. * Sometimes there is a want of my hat." At the same moment the thief put "There is something (says he, continuing equity counsel, sometimes of common lawyers; his prize on his head, and pressing it down his account of these abuses) in the construc- and although the barristers themselves, in the with both his hands, "I defy them,” said he, tion of the county court worse, if possible, most obliging manner, are, in general, ready" to take mine." On which he was allowed to than that of the court of Great Session in one to practise in law or equity, as may be re- pass by Mr. Constable, the witness of the whole particular, that the under-sheriff, who acts quired, at a moment's notice, I have heard transaction, but rendered doubtful by the fine as judge, is annually changed, and, from being that cases have occurred in equity, in which, point of law involved in the rascal's declaraa practitioner in the court, becomes judge for from a want of Chancery barristers, or, per- tion. a year: knowing that the next year he must haps, more properly speaking, of equity drafts- But we have said enough on this subject; descend again to the rank of pleader, and that men, the same person has been obliged to draw and shall conclude with only one other anecit is his interest, being paid, both as judge and both bill and answer, to the great satisfaction, dote, which may serve as an example for the counsel, by fees, to add by every means in no doubt, of all parties concerned." administration of justice, though attributed to his power to the business of the court, and As a remedy for these and other lamentable a monarch with a most unpromising sobriquet. embarrass the progress of the cases that come defects, his lordship recommends the legal in- In the time of Peter the Cruel, king of before it, he will not tax too closely the fees corporation of Wales with England, and this, Spain, a canon of Castile having killed a poor of persons, one of whom next year will inherit" by dividing the Oxford circuit, and making shoemaker, the only punishment pronounced the power of taxing his. Both as judge and two new ones, to one of which South Wales, against him by his judges was, that he should pleader, his interest is opposed to that of the to the other North Wales, might be annexed. not be allowed to take his place in the choir for public; and the public in Wales have suf- I would (he adds) propose to take Lancaster a year. The son of the murdered Crispin refered accordingly. The attorneys from the northern circuit, which is now too volted at this injustice; and, to avenge the death educated within the principality are, for various large, and add Oxford to the midland. The of his father, waylaid the canon and killed him reasons, of an inferior description to those who two new circuits would then stand thus :— with his own hand. The king being informed have had the advantage of a London educaof the circumstances of the case, contented himtion; the expense attending which, and the self with condemning the assassin to remain for high premium, in most instances, required, one year without making any shoes, thus indioperates as a bar to needy adventurers, who rectly reproaching the judges for the unworthy in Wales have nothing to prevent them from partiality of their former decision. acquiring a right to practise as attorneys; a service as clerk for a few years, a small pre-in England and judges in Wales!! After taking a view of Memoirs of the Duke of Rovigo (M. Savary). 1. Lancaster. 2. Gloucester. Gloucestershire. Herefordshire. Worcestershire. Monmouthshire. South Wales. Written by Himself, illustrative of the History of the Emperor Napoleon. Vol. III. 8vo. London, Colburn. They are advanced politically by the minister, may be members of parliament, and at the same time counsel mium, or none at all, a lower stamp duty on the causes tried, &c., his lordship says: "On dividing this admission, a country where the necessaries of amount of business between the eight judges, we find life are remarkably cheap, tend to swell their that each judge would have for his share about sixteen actions per annum to try, and about thirteen prisoners; numbers to a prodigious amount; and the their remuneration for this labour is about 9,2004. Ac-IN our observations upon the preceding volumes limited and trifling nature of the business which cordingly, it costs the country that sum annually to try of this work, we have looked at M. Savary's 119 common-law causes, of the most inferior description, comes before the court, does not enable them as to the property and interests involved in them, and statements as being about as truly illustrative to acquire that knowledge of their profession 100 prisoners. You have, besides, the twenty-three de- of the real history of Buonaparte, as the inwhich the public have a right to expect. crees, such as they are, and the fraction of an order in scription on the child's eyes now exhibiting in equity; but even with that addition, I cannot think that There are, no doubt, honourable exceptions the public have a good bargain." Oxford Street. Still, however, these are curi. |