ship, and that it was only through the influence of Mr. Sandilands I obtained a sight of the books, when they were brought to his office early in January; it was then only I discovered them to be in a disgracefully neglected condition, unposted, so that neither I or Mr. Sandilands were able to understand them, or make out how matters stood. A large amount, however, of my property was found to have been allowed to remain unsold since January, 1855, eating itself up in expenses, and daily depreciating. With respect to the advertisement referred to by you, you possessed clear evidence that it did not announce a dissolution of partnership, but merely a precaution to meet the quirks and contortions of the scrupulous legal profession. And as to your observation, "I do not think it quite good faith after that for "the plaintiff to circulate that paper," alluding to my circular of the 23rd February, which I had caused to be sent to Africa, it was simply a mercantile precaution necessary for me to adopt on discovering the malpractices of Desnaux. You seem to have assumed many unmercantile suggestions as to my permitting Desnaux to conduct a business he had, upon the clearest evidence (in your possession) proved himself unworthy of being entrusted with; and you are not content with that, but you wind up by appointing him guardian over my property (which I had sought, unfortunately, to obtain possession of through your Court of Equity), upon the ground, as you lead me to imagine, by your making use of the eccentric observaVice-Chan- tion, "The interference of Providence," that you were under the delusion that I was in a private lunatic asylum, instead of base insinu a dungeon of the Bastile of your Court, into which you had incarcerated me for no offence whatever, unless you consider my justifiably treating with contempt an iniquitous injunction arising out of the misconduct of the person Desnaux joining in the conspiracy of my partners Ogilby, Moore and Power, a criminal offence. cellor Wood's ation. Vice-Chan charged with a If it be really a fact that you made use of those words as cellor Wood intended to convey to the world the unsoundness of my mind, to justify you in placing my property in the hands of a man I wicked lie. had charged with misappropriating my money, then I am bound to tell you a more base libel I do not believe was ever perpetrated against anybody, no, not even though I had been in the fangs of the " Inquisition of the Vatican." I therefore in my own name, and in the name of the people, demand from you as a judge on the bench of England, having taken the oath to administer justice, to explain the ground upon which you used " Providence" as a screen to cover your injustice. I remain, Sir, a victim of your unconstitutional Court, CHARLES WILLIAM GREGORY. P.S.-I enclose a copy of my first report of your proceedings, which I have caused to be freely circulated through every quarter of the world to whieh I have traded. Bastile of the Inquisition, May 2, 1856. MYSELF. DESNAUX. Messrs. AMORY, TRAVERS AND SMITH, GENTLEMEN, 1 duly received your note of the 29th ult., with copy of transcript of Vice-Chancellor Wood's judgment in this case, which I should have sooner acknowledged had I not been occupied in writing to his Honour thereon. I believe had I been in the merciless fangs of the "Inquisition of the Vatican" a more wicked felony could not have been perpetrated upon me. MYSELF V. DAVIS. A wicked folony per rited by the Court of Chancery. You say "The defendant has pleaded he denies that there Money ob was any such contract as I allege." I do not understand what you mean to convey by this, as Richard Davis has for some I am, Gentlemen, your humble Servant, tained by R. Davis under a sentation. misrepre DEAR SIR, 25, Throgmorton Street, May 2, 1856. YOURSELF . DAVIS. The declaration in this action has been delivered, otherwise the defendant could not have pleaded. We think it better not to give notice of trial until you are able to see Mr. Fox with us. We should also require your evidence, and this would entail the necessity for a writ of "Habeas Corpus." We arc, dear Sir, yours truly, AMORY, TRAVERS AND SMITH. C. W Gregory, Esq. Bastile of the Inquisition of Chancery, A change of wilful negleet and general against Amory and Messrs. AMORY, TRAVERS and SMITH, GENTLEMEN, MYSELF V. DAVIS. Your note of the 2nd inst. only reached me on Saturday evening, by which I find you have taken upon yourselves the responsibility of delivering my declaration in this case without first submitting it to me. As I consider it not only an unprofessional act, but a species of assurance I cannot permit, coupled misconduct with your conduct towards me, conveyed by your letters of the 10th and 11th ultimo, when you were at the eleventh hour desirous of abandoning my case against Desnaux, (on the ground that I would not be coerced by you to abide by the base injuneCourt, after tion of the Honourable Vice-Chancellor Wood, in a case in which you were not acting for me,) I shall avail myself of your indifference to my interests, and have therefore to request you will send me by the bearer all my papers in this case, as well as those in the case of Desnaux, to be followed as early as possible by your bill of costs. drawing from the it had becn filed, the voluntary affidavit made by John Ingram Travers. I am, Gentlemen, your humble servant, CHARLES WILLIAM GREGORY, Note. I was induced to place my law cases against Desnaux and his late master, Richard Davis, Esq., of St. Helen's Place, in the hands of Messrs. Amory, Travers and Smith, owing to my solicitor, Mr. Sandilands, very properly declining to act for me against the parties in question, who were his friends. C. W. G. The following are either suborned, malicious, or interested witnesses, whose evidence was alleged by his Honour ViceChancellor Sir W. Page Wood, Knight, in July, 1855, and in January, March, April, and May, 1856, to be "extremely fair evidence," and given with "forbearance;" he at the same time being cognizant of its iniquity. Record thereof may be examined in the High Court of Chancery in the following suits, viz:— OGILBY 2. GREGORY; GREGORY . DESNAUX ; MILBURN . GREGORY. either suborned, ma interested Moore, Sutherland, Southey, Waring. Nicholson, Andrews, Lakey, William Law Ogilby, Andrew Ferguson Moore, and Samuel Names of Browning Power, of Ingram Court, Fenchurch Street, ship and insurance brokers; George Humphries, and James Glanville, licious, or clerks thereto; John Irving Glennie, proctor, Doctors' Com- witnesses mons; Alexander John Sutherland, of Richmond Terrace, West- Ogilby, minster, M.D., F.R.C.P.; Forbes Winslow, of 23, Cavendish Power, Humphries, Square, M.D.; Thomas Harrington Tuke, of Queen Street, May Glanville, Fair, M.D.; Herbert Henry Southey, of Harley Street, M.D.; Glennie. Macgregor Laird, of Mincing Lane, Director of the African Winslow, Steam-Ship Company; Frederick William Bond, clerk to Mr. Tuke, Laird; Henry John Waring, of Plymouth, agent for steamers; Laird, Bond, John Strevens, of Great George Street, Bermondsey, overlooker Strevens, of steamers; Henry Collings, of 3, Cross Lane, Botolph Lane, Collings, ship agent; William Nicholson, junior, of Sunderland, black- Jeffries, smith and shipowner; Daniel Jeffries, of Ipswich, master and Moss, part owner with W. L. Ogilby, of the barque Curraghmore; J. Thomp William Miles Moss, of Liverpool, ship broker; Nicholas Son, Tadd. Andrew, of Liverpool, retired shipmaster and shipowner; Joseph Boutcher, Thompson, of 10, Dundas Street, Sunderland, an overlooker of Brya ships; Thomas Tadd, of Fowey, master of the schooner, Hannah; Nicholls, William Lakey, of Scilly, master and part owner of the brig Farrant, Ann Banfield; Emanuel Boutcher, of St. Mildred's Court, J. Poultry, South American merchant; Murray Maxwell Johnson, Gubbins, of Austin Friars, solicitor, and his clerk, Charles Bryan; John Barnes Nickols, of Seething Lane, Crutched Friars, ship-agent; George Forster, Seymour, of 17, Gracechurch-street, merchant, shipowner, and Desnaux, broker; Richard Bidney Farrant, of Oregon Terrace, Peckham A. Miiburn, Rye, retired shipmaster and shipowner; Patrick Johnson Smith, H. Thomson, of Billiter Square, merchant, subscriber to Lloyd's, Milburn, and a ship agent; William Gough Gubbins, of Limerick, director of the London and Limerick Steam-Ship Company, and a pork and beef curer; James Burness, of Leadenhall Street, coal contractor and speculative charterer; William Nicholas De Mattos, 6, Jeffrey's Square, St. Mary Axe, coal contractor and speculative charterer; John Forster, of New City Chambers, Bishops Johnson, Seymour. P. Thomson, De Mattos, Swanzy, W. C. Jackson. gate Street, Member of Parliament for Berwick-on-Tweed, and an African barterer: Andrew Swanzy of Cannon Street, late of Clement's Lane, African barterer; Frederick Desnaux, of East India Chambers, clerk; Alexander Milburn, clerk to William Compton Smith, of Lincoln's Inn Fields, solicitor; Henry Milburn, of Vauxhall Walk, Lambeth, a tooth extractor; and G. J. Jackson, of Billiter Court, ship agent. Bastile of the Inquisition, Southwark, 10th May, 1856. SIR W. PAGE WOOD, KNIGHT. GREGORY V. DESNAUX. SIR. Not having received a reply from you to my letter of the 30th ultimo on this subject, possibly from your having mislaid it, I send you a printed copy thereof, to which I have to draw your serious consideration. Already some persons have taken up your high authority for imputing to "the interference of Providence" your justification for promulgating to the world my labouring under affliction of unsoundness of mind. Several members of the Committee of Lloyd's have become biased Low them thereby, through, I believe, the unseemly conduct of the biased by a Member for Berwick-on-Tweed, John Forster, who is exerting himself to check my mercantile propensities and desire of progress and civilization of Africa. The com mittee of Lloyd's selves to be man of weight without principle. Magna Charta set at naught by ViceChancellor Wood OGILBY V. GREGORY. Your intolerable iniquity in incarcerating me in this dungeon (swarming with rats, mice, and other vermin) without justification, is such as cannot be overlooked by the community, neither will you again be permitted to advocate such evidence as that of Dr. Tuke "as extremely fair evidence," which you knew to be blasphemy, treating with contumely and indifference the truthful evidence of Professor Taylor, Mr. Sandilands,* and others. * It may be well to mention here, that, having applied myself closely to business for upwards of twenty-five years without more than ten days' absence, either for recreation or illness, and two of my active partners dying, my health gave way in May. Shortly after my partners, who had hitherto been on the most friendly terms, turned against me, transferred the banker's balance into the names of Ogilby and Moore, and threatened, unless I accepted a paltry pittance, to apply to the Court of Chancery to compel me to retire. To assist them therein, they took into their service four eminent physicians, who hunted ine down more like wolves than learned men; they called upon me at my office while I was transacting my business, to |