CASE OF WILLIAM ROUGH, SERGEANT AT LAW, AGAINST JOHN MURRAY, ESQUIRE, A LIEUTENANT GENERAL IN HIS MAJESTY'S FORCES. REPORT OF S.H.1826. HIS MAJESTY'S MOST HONORABLE PRIVY COUNCIL, IN THE CASE OF WILLIAM ROUGH, SERGEANT AT LAW, LATE PRESIDENT OF THE COURT OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL JUSTICE, DEMERARA, COMPLAINANT, AGAINST JOHN MURRAY, ESQUIRE, A LIEUTENANT-GENERAL IN HIS MAJESTY'S FORCES, LATE LIEUTENANT- RESPONDENT. London: Printed for LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1825. 783 ΤΟ THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL BATHURST, PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIAL DEPARTMENT, ETC. ETC. ETC. To your Lordship's nomination was owing my late official appointment of President of the Court of Criminal and Civil Justice in the Colony of Demerara ; to whom, therefore can I, with more propriety present the Report of the Privy Council, by which my conduct, whilst in office, has been vindicated, than to your Lordship? But there is yet a further cause for my thus respectfully making use of your Lordship's name and protection. It is to your Lordship I am indebted for the means afforded to me of establishing, by a reference to the Privy Council, the legality, and almost inevitability, of the course of action officially pursued by me: and of doing this, avoiding thereby the pain of having recourse to the stronger, though readier, remedies of action and indictment, to which else I should have been driven. I am also the more grateful to your Lordship for the allowance of such reference, inasmuch as it is somewhat questionable whether by law I could have enforced such Appeal to the Council as a matter of absolute right*. * Vid. Quarterly Review, No. LXIII. Art. 4. (June 1825) Origin of the Equitable Jurisdiction of Chancery, Powers of the Council, &c. |
