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to offer this to you as a formal renunciation of any 

 authority supposed to be derived from my ac- 

 quiescence in your proceedings ; and I hereby 

 revoke and declare null and void any such act of 

 mine ; and I give you notice that, in consequence 

 of the difficulties to which I have in this statement 

 referred, I shall not offer before you any evidence 

 whatsoever, and that I protest against your making 

 any decision. I have the honor to be, with the 

 greatest respect, my Lords and Gentlemen, your 

 obedient servant, 



Lichfield." 



St. James's Square, June 7, 1S39. 



His Lordship produced the report of a charge 

 by Chief Justice Tyodal, in another case, tried at 

 Warwick in 1831. The stewards then proceeded 

 to read the charge, in which it was distinctly laid 

 down by that learned judge, that either party might 

 withdraw his consent to an arbitration, and, in the 

 event of such withdrawal previous to the hearing 

 of the case, that the arbiters had no power to de- 

 termine thereon. Under these circumstances, the 

 stewards considered that no decision of theirs 

 would be binding on the parties, and therefore that 

 it was useless to proceed further in the in- 

 quiry. 



The Earl of Lichfield consented, on the recom- 

 mendation of the stewards, to pay all reasonable 

 expenses incurred by Mr. Ridsdale, in bringing 



