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Mr. SCARLETT replied at considerable length. The CHIEF JUSTICE summed up the case; and, The Jury, after retiring for about twenty minutes, found their verdict for the defendant on the first libel, and on the second for the plaintitl—Damages £5OO. The Court sat till nearly eight o'clock. Mr. Cobhett was subpoenaed ou the part of the de fendant, and came into Court during the latter part of the trial, but was not examined. THI LINO V. LYDIMP.D. This was a Criminal Indictment, at the prosecu tion of several inhabitants of the parish of Stepney, for a nuisance, against the defendant; who is a prac and has erected a laboratory, on an ex , Ocean-etreet, Trafalgar-square, Step snaselacture at nitric acid, exy-mariatic acid, glauber salt, and other chemical preparations.; whereby the inhabitants in his vicinity were greatly annoyed in their habitations, the vegetation of 'their gardens. and their personal health. Witnesses were heard in behalf of the prosecutors, who stated, that the condensed vapours, arising from the noxious ingredients used by the defendant, de scended like fogs into their gardens, and not only de stroyed there the vegetation of fruit trees, and other plants, but corroded into holes the linen hung out by their servants to dry, after washing, whereby they sustained much injury. Mr. ScAnLarr contended, that this was a prosecu tion founded in prejudice and malice ; and that a verdict against the defendant, who was an able and most ingenious chemist, would be ruinous to him, as he had erected his works at an expense of £lO,OOO, the removal of which works, to any other plate, would put him to a ruinous charge. He would prove, by the disinterested testimony of men of the first science, that so far from being productive of annoyance or ill-health to the inhabitants, the vapours arising fforn those works were in a high degree salutary to health, and were actually applied by men of medical skill in the chambers of the sick, and in crowded ships and prisons, to check infection, and prevent disease. The Learned Counsel adduced above SO persons in support of this assertion ; the first of whom was Mr. Brand, Chemical Lecturer at the Royal Institution. On his cross-examination, however, he admitted, that the fermentation of thew ingredients would produce gas injurious to health, if condensed in any great quan tity in a confined situation, and that those gases *ere, of greater specific gravity than the atmospheric au. The CHIEF JUSTICE summed up the whole of the evidence, with appropriate observations ; and the Jury, after a short deliberation, found their verdict against the defendant —Guilty. HARRIS V. GRANGE, 'Mi. This was an action to recover the arrear of an an nuity granted by the late Captain Rochfort, of the Royal Navy, to the plaintiff, Miss Harris. The de fendant pleaded, first, that the annuity had been granted for an immoral consideration; and next, that the defendant had no assets. Mr. MARRTAT stated die case to the Jury, and submitted that the annuity bond in question, which was for £7O per annum, had been granted by Cap tain Rcichfort to the plaintiff, as a consideration for her services as governess to his daughter, and der nied that there was any pretence for the charge of an immoral connection. To prove the execution of the bond the brother of the plaintiff was called, and from his examination it clearly appeared, that the annuity in question had been granted by Captain Rochfot L It was a consi deration for the injury which the young lady had sustained from living with him in a state of illicit in- tercourse while his wife was alive. The plaintiff, it also appeared, had gone by the name of Rochfort, and had accompanied the Captain on a visit to Fiance. Witnesses were then called to prove the amount.of assets in the defendant's bands; but in this there was a complete failure, as it turned out that the property left by the deceased was very trifling. Under these circumstances, the plaintiff, who Was in Court, was nonsuited. OLD BAILEY, DECEMBER 10. Richard Harbour was charged with stealing silk handkerchiefs, ribbon, lace, &c. to a great amount, the property of Messrs. Todd and Co. and Charlotte Smith with receiving the same.—J. Morrison stated, that he was a partner in the firm of Todd and Co. and that the prisoner had been their shopman. W. Flambledon stated, that lie lodged in the same house with the female prisoner. One day, he went to her apartment, - and saw the other prisoner, whom she said was her cousin, take several silk handker chiefs from his bosom and give them to her. He then went out and came back again in a short time, when she spewed them to him as a present she had received from liar cousin, from the country.— The next Sunday the prisoner came again, and brought two dozen of tiik stockings, which ha gave to Smith, when he saw her cut the marks off; wit ness was Watching them on the stairs all this while, she then called him down to shew him what she had got as a preient. He advised her to take care of the Officers, for they were like bloodhounds. She re plied, " Oh, let Taffey alone for that!" These pro ceedings went on for five weeks, the prisoner bring ing the stolen goods while going on his masters' er rands. She applied to him to take up a board in her floor, to bide the property, which he refused, saying, he might be implicated. He then resolved to trace the pi isoner, which he did to Mr. Todd's, to whom he delivered the marks which had been cut off, and which he had picked up in her room. The Jury, without hesitation, brought them in Guilty.—The COMMON SIRJEANT assured them they might depend on leaving the country. Thomas Broome, Thomas narrison, and Richard Brookes, ;1m indicted for stealing several copies of . Todd's Johnoti4, Dictionary, which sell for eleven guineas/1;1040 . mo thousand sheets of paper, the eir propWMesits. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Omni, siod - 'iist, booksellers, Paternoster row. The circumstances of this case wore fully detailed in the Police Reports of the Sran, on the Id and 4th ultimo. The charge, however, could not be fully established, and the prisoners were all acquitted.— They were tried the preceding day, on a similar in dictsunt, and also acquitted. There were three other indictments against the same prisoners, but they were abandoned. Elizabeth Gaze, a respectable young woman, was indicted for stealing two boxes, a remnant of printed furniture, two books, a single spur, a shoe-horn, four spoons, five stockings, a cup and saucer, and an old pair of pantaloons, the property of W. G. Wilmot.-- This case turned out to be one of an extraordinary and vexatious nature ; and the Jury would not trouble the REOORDZit to sum up the ividence, but imme diately found the prisoner Not Guilty. Again!! HAZARD and Ce. have Sold the First drawn Prize of £2o,oo6.—Tharsday last, No. lOC the Pint-drawn Prize, entitled to £ 4 10,060 Money and Consols, was Sold in Shares, by HAZARD and Co. who also Sold the First-drawn Prise of LllO,OOO on the first day of the present Lottery, Ne. 7170. Tickets and Shares are Selling for the Lottery to begin the 11th JANUARY, by HAZARD and CO. Royal Exchange• 10, Cornbill ; and 3%, Oxfced street, corner of S;rallow-street. • 7-7. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. A CONSTANT RUDE'S must have overlooked a paragraph in serted in the Slag yesterday, pointing out the evil notice in his letter of this morning. By the Search for Arms Bill people are exposed to the danger of robbers pretending to be Agents of Government in search of arms, and thus gaining adthission to their houses in the night-time. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1819. THS FUND& PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAT AT ONI O'CLOCK : 3 per Cent. Reduced 65111 3 per Cent. Consols shut Si per Cent. 741 4 per Cent. 83+ 5 per Cent. Navy shut • Bank Long Annuities 17 5-16 1 • India Bonds 2s. dis. Exchequer Bills (2d.) Bs. 9s. dis. Commercial 30s. Ns. discount Omnium 4 dis. Consols for Acct. 671 671. The Libel Bill passed the House of Lords last night without any farther modification. It is believed, however, that some changes will be introduced into it in the Commons, that it may not lock up the doors of thousands of little Booksellers, whose principal business is in Tracts and Pamphlets. The Booksellers who waited on the First Lord of the Treasury on Thursday, were appointed to meet him again to-day. His Lordship expressed every wish to guard against the effects which the Trade demonstrated must fol low the Bill, if passed in its present form. The Bill, as soon as it was passed by the Peers, was sent to the House of Commons, where it was read a first time. We are happy to learn, by accounts, received this morning, that the disturbances stated to have taken place among the Colliers, near Holywell, in Flint" shire, are not only at an end, but have been extremely exaggerated. No houses (as alleged) have been burst down ; nor have any excesses taken place uhich co*. ciliatory means have not been able to subdue. It was proposed to the refractory men, by a Gentleman of some note, to have recourse to gunpowder I- He said, there was " nothing like blasting the concern" at once !! It will, doubtless, however, surprize the alarmists of the day to be informed, that this idea of a Gunpowder Plot did not take at all among the poor men ; and that rather than resort to such a blowing up methoi of redressing their wrongs, they actually submitted to a systeni of starvation, for nearly three /eds. The whole mystery (of which certain Papers hive made so seasonable use) will be found solved in thifollowing Private Letters : _ " I am happy to inform you, that the differences between Mr. Orates and his Colliers, are amicably settled. Who could hays been so wicked a• to sand so fa k e an account to the ••••? There have been no houses burnt down, nor excesses committed —except two Constables pretty well drubbed. The Colliers only told the Magistrates, that they would not tamely submit to the Civil Power, as they considered themselves tsar* used by Mr. CLA It lit : from these and other more alarming threats, and the fact of their having gone to other Colliers, to insist upon reinforcements, which they accomplished, the Magistrates, See. thought that the earlier the better such proceedings were stop- 1 ped. Every praise is due to the Mold Cavalry, for their alacrity and promptitude in assembling; they are all gone home to-day s their services not being necessary now. The Company from the 71st Regiment remains here until after our market, and returae to Cheater on Saturday. Every one seems now perfectly sad' fled and very quiet." " The business is of no political concern; the Dee Bank Col liery having been worked for sonic years to a great loss, tke preb prietor thought proper to employ a new agent, and that agoilt thought the work might be worked to advantage to the pro prictor and the workmen, by adopting a new method in the cutting of coal ; that is, instead of using pleks'and chisels as for merly, to blast the beds of coal with gunpowder, which is the method in several plaEes. The poor Welsh black faces did not like the gunpowder plot, and thought proper to stand a starva tion siege of three weeks. I have just heard that they intend to make.trial of the blasting concern in the morning, which Veer will prove of much hawk to master and men." The Paris Papers of Wednesday arrived this fore noon. The Chamber of Deputies continues still occupied with preliminary business. On Tuesday, they cow pleted the list of candidates for the Presidency, by adding to M. RAVEZ the names of M. M. COURVOI WEE, LAINE, BELLART, and SAVOTE-ROLLIN. The choice of the KING will, it is supposed, fall on Y• RAvez. The new Minister of War, the Marquis de LAU rova-MAvsowta, had on Monday a private audi ence of the KING. . It is confidently asserted that the Km has granted a free pardon to the celebrated Livar..wrra, con- demned to death in 1815, and saved by the generous interposition of our countrymen WiLaox, Huron* son, and BRUCE. Five per Cents. Tuesday, 68 fr. 90 c. A Flanders Mail arrived last night, and another from Holland this forenoon. The only important intelligence received by these arrivals, is an official notification that the revolt which lately broke out among the inhabitants of Santa Maura, one of the lonian Isles, has been com pletely suppressed. CORFU, OCTOBER to. The following Proclamation has just been pub lished here: Corp, October IL * Hie Ilaceliesey the Lord Cosingesieseersgesorgew foals the postage *sem In _lns that public &Nasdaq Nem** restored at data Maur% sod the asv deshookoo is des sr Tait have Mos late the heads of Ye ISeteloores &Waal ' The deluded peasants, who were led astray by t) of vile and contemptible men, have returned to resumed their usual labours. His Excellency's Res lent gaged in discovering the origin of the mad revolt and the just severity of the laws will afterwari fall of those who have seduced thesn.—By order of M s (Signed) " G. OSI TM ARMY. Monday, the depot of the 47th Regit. into Canterbury, on the route to Sheerne s , Tuesday, a detachment of the 84th marcl the same City, on their mate from Sheerness Monday, the 84th Regiment (lately al the East Indies) arrived at Chatham from on their route for Scotland. Wednesday, upwards of 800 men arr i vt ham, to join the Ist Veteran Battalion ; they discharged on pensions from the Guards and ' An order was received at Sheerness lv the Officer of his Majesty's Ordnance, for, mounted on the fortifications round the T: are 18 and 0-pounders, and others that li( Garrison walls (dismounted) to be taken int A new battery is erecting at Chester, in yard, to protect the entrance to the light which are the magazines, store-houses, an' Several pieces of heavy cannon will be me it ; and it will also command both the the Lower Ward ; but the architectural the buildings will be entirety destroyed NAVAL INTELLIGENCL Facmoure, Doc. 7.—Wind E.—Areercd the . eta, from Quebec, in S 2 days. Sailed the Charles, Genoa and Leghorn. Pixstosizsr, Dm. 11.—Wind ESE—Arrived MazN, from Quebec; and the Dutch frigate V: Holland for Batavia.—Sailed the Elizabeth and for Lisbon. POtnisovr , Domini& 9.—Arrived the Barbadt AMMAN, from London for Rarbadoes ' • Robert - reason, from Quebec, in six weeks; and Louise, , Lisbon for Antwerp the latter has her sails split and her upper works much strained.—Wind E.N. Duesusset 10.—Arrived his Majesty's ship hos cruise. Sailed the Ellen, Hoxssow, for Rotterdam. of the Two Brothers, that was towed into this harbour needay night, are all saved, having got on board vessel, and landed here.—Wind N.E. Doves, Dec. 10.-The Elisabeth, -Meares, . going out of the harbour, struck upon.the Bar and her false keel, making a great deal of water, '- to repair. Dem., Dictums 9.-;-Wind E.—tame down the Chapman transport, for the Cape of Good ' in the Downs-the Sovesit frigate. Decsauuts 10.—Wind N.--Came down' sailed, the Princess Charlotte, Blurry, and for Jamaica ; Lady Harewood, Yottim, for /renal •Bsaceav, for Madras and Bengal; Garland, 11 , Cape of Good Hope; Brahmin Bowan, for 'Whoa, Moss, for Demerara ; and Sca ndinavian, for Alicant. Y• 11.1100111, Dec. 9.—The Washington has been t our Roads on her beam ends. Scimeasans, Dec. 9.—Tbe Ceres, 8 - rmettiousx, terdam for Stockton, got on shore behind the r is expected to be got off without much damage. Cowes, Decenses 9.--Arrived the Brilliant, Y. Cape of Good Hope—sailed on the 4th of Octobrr ; instant, spoke a ship under the tri-coloured flag ; «Inn the Brilliant, why she did not chew her colours? Cue quested to know the cause of the French r4;vo:aticagl lug? and a reply was made, it was no business of duos; 'Minn stating they could not thew any coloen :a: eying, they were hauled down, and a Spanish ensign trlre schooner was about 130 tons, and her deck was full of dares Saturday week, la Meeting was called by spectable Householders and Inhabit:ints of z.i:e of Kilbarchan, with a view of testifying their tude for the liberal manner the Heritors lead forward at their late Meeting, by a double a: to enable them to create work for the tam; operatives. Sir WILLIAM NAPIER made an I.ZOO, provided the Heritors paid him five per for two years, which was unanimously agrees —A number of the most respectable householders inhabitants accordingly met in the School.fr the above purpose, but before proceeding , ness, between two and three hundred of the . Reformers came in, who behaved in the most geous manner to the peaceable and well people, abusing, in the most audacious am brious language, the heritors, and by hissing, ing, and - howling, so intimidated them, that were glad to make their escape.—Glargotu Courir.. At a Public Meeting, held at the New Inn, Leeds, on the Ist instant, to institute an inqui, the conduct of Joseph Mitchell, the travellinz panion of Mr.'Oliver, the spy, the following ill tion was come to, af ter eight hours' investigat Itssotursow.—" At a Meeting of the Inhabitants of called by the friends of Mr. Joseph Mitchell, and held let of December, 1619, it was resolved, That it is hit' diets, from the facts adduced this day, that Mr. Mitclisl cease; from hege aid, to take any leading pact in Meetings ; and that he should not, from this tune, any delegation from the Reformers." Mr. Mitchell, our Readers are aware, is the son who used the expressions respecting the of Earl FirzwiLmarat's property, so strongly madverted upon, in the House of Commons, by STUART WORTLEY. An Inquest was held yesterday evening on body of Matthew Thompson,late guard of the Highflyer coach, found dead in his bed. The geon examined, supposed that the deceased had a fit of coughing which overpowered him, and being uncommonly fat, he had been suffocated. diet—Died by the Visitation of GOD. Monday evening, a fatal battle took place . ness, originating in a trifling circumstance whic, curred some days previous deceased the animosity to rankle in his breast for several and, on Monday, urged, with violence, his . nist, named Munson, to fight him, which, after , derable provocation, he consented to. They went out. and, on the first round, the unhappy man fell a corpse. On opening the deceased, it appeared rhail he had receited a blow which, rupturing one of tbs main arteries, caused Distant death.—An Inquest was held at the Victory public-house, when the 34 brought in a verdict of Manslaughter, on which Man+ son, who is foreman to the lime and cement burners in e new works, was committed to Maidstone jail,l to take his trial at the next Assizes. • Dow-vam.—Yesterday, J*l Durham, James Oddment, and ,Tito aordr, undermost an examination, charged with poachiil is Darby Park. mid shoMing at James Sharpe, the Assistant Gass unmet of * loyal Highness the Duke of Clarencr.•- ThrtwireAspimlowi logwhqs,famisatico• . ' NaNelnitd 44-published by Una Kiwi, llakeu lfaey • ` • rtx int a nuisance, a .1 tical chemist, an t,ensive scat*, in say, for the stain I . . . y the "Alain . to their horn- % r's Resid ent is rolt of th e ri.s fall on th e of In, r, I. OSBORN tr !intent eeene ss ; and latched thi, S I e r er a s s r an , i last ne isn ds y s they dm i 1 1 h w e ri m a ry : ly arrived , 1.11 from Sh • • di arrived at , for all the he Tovrm, itpo tat lie outer r. ds en into (;an* lighee W a d , es, and .I'.l-1 mourte I ‘• V the enttar.te i 1 : k , 1 red by it. f e4i Thu VCR. the Wakefeld, :harles, llncen, • ! irrived the Vantlernerif, and Grtce, S Barbadoes P' at , beet and Anr vise, notelet, M sb s split aad a . ! E. N. E. re ip Plorant, Ens aterdain. The,. his harbour ON IV 6, sard the Oweas I- mg, for Corwra, tar and kouzied , and must ' os :own Irons rile r iu od Hope.-1 from the River 'is Crown, BLAIR • Grenada; nd, ler , r Bilball; C. r Alicant. has been towed . - irtiOusg, f;orn P the North Pe, • 1 age. rnt, Yuck, from , ktober ; on :hell ag ; when they .4. lours?? the Intr. -I evolationary fhe ess of theits ; lours wlf.i,t heusign was full of dam called by the ants of the Tn• lying their gri itors had c oub:e assess.. , the unemplo, made an offer lint five per asly agreed to householders , School•house 1 eding to the Irn . !t1 of the Radic n the most num- nd well-disposed ,ciotts and oppro• sy hissing, shat- them, that teey It:sooty Courier. the New Inn, is to an inquiry 'no travelling coll. allowing ' investigationi-- nhabitaasts of Leeds, ell, and held °ode hat it is highly Mr. Mitchell Jodi 'ding pale in Pi this time, ever ta ware, is the per• wing the diviu- . so strongly ommons, by M.... evening on L. :card of the Turk is bed. The 9;:• deceased had had cd him, and suffocated. VG' a. oh place at Sheer• stance which E. deceased suffered for several days, ence, his antaga . 'hich, after cons + They went out, 1 • ) • : , ii! r r .! y~ l ~ ~~ 1 {, 4 4 ... ii,. . , t ' I 't , ~ ~' taa honour to which he aspired. The letter being thus read, it produced the effect which the Jury might naturally suppose. The circumstance was afterwards communicated to Mr. Cobbett, then in America; and at a Meeting which took place at the Crown and An chor Tavern upon the subject, Mr. Hunt took occa sion publicly to declare, that the letter so produced was a forgery. The result, with respect to Mr. Cob bett's proceedings, marked the temper of his mind, and skewed a malignity of heart, scarcely credible of a man possessing . the powers and acquirements for which he had given him credit. He resorted, in the extremity of the situation in which he was placed, to a species of cruelty the most barbarous and unnatural. His conduct was like that of a man who, unable any longer to meet his antago nist in the fair field of argument, had recourse to the concealed dagger or the poisoned arrow. It was the . artifice of a base and sordid mind, which, when un able to answer its adversary by the powers of reason ing, stopped all further argument, and charged the opponent with the commission of an atrocious crime. Who but a man of the most barbarous, unrelenting, and malignant passions, could, even in the feeling of pers ilia' anger and animosity, heap upon his enemy an i:nputation of a foul crime, which at the time -lie mutt know to be false ? Under these circumstances he wrote the second libel, which was the subject of the a:ti - in. The learned Counsel then proceeded to state the libel, which was in a letter, addressed to Major Cart wright, " On the Rump Farce, at the Crown and Anchor, 17th November, 1818; and particularly on the conduct of Sir Francis Burdett, and that of Cleary and his associate Wright, with regard to the forgery," from which the following extracts were read :—" It is the fate of feeble animals, when they get into mire, to bury themselves, by their efforts to emerge ;—a complete instance of which we have in the conduct of these associates, on the 17th of November last. Mr. Hunt, upon this occasion, produced my letter to the Editor of The New York Evening Post, declaring the letter read by Mr. Cleary, at the hustings to be a for gery done by himself, or got from a man, who had, in many instances, been guilty of a similar offense. " You, my dear Sir, know the history of this Wright. You k-.ow all his tricks—all his attempts. The Public do net, and I will not now trouble the Public with a detail, which, if put in a suitable form, would snake a romance, in the words of truth, far, surpassing any thing that ever was imagined of moral turpitude."' The Learned Counsel then went on to read parts of the libel, which charged Mi. Wright with borrowing money in the name of the author, without the autho rity of the latter, &c. &c. &c. Mr. HUNT, who came into Court when the trial was called on, rose at 'this time with considerable warmth, and hoped the Learned Judge would not allow him to be libelled with falsehood. The Learned Counsel had stated, that he (Mr. Bunt) had declared at the Public. Meeting, that the letter attributed to Mr. Cobbett was a forgery. The CH I ETJUsI ICE said he had not heard the Learned Counsel make any such ob , ervation ; he had merely read the libellous publication, as he had a right to do. and if it libelled any other person than the plaintiff, his Lordship was very sorry for it. Mr. SCARLET? then resumed, and commented upon the atrocious character of the libel, and in al hiding to Mr. Cobbett's abuse of the powers which Nature had givea him, said it was true, that he might have the intellects of an Angel, but they were those an fallen Angel. lie then dwelt upon the question of 3amages, and contended that this was the only tribunal in which the plaintiff could seek for redress, which, if he could not find at their hands, it_were better to blot the power of writing out of the cata logue of human talents. No doubt could exist of the responsibility of Mr. Clement for the consequence of this publication, because he was the agent of a person vim, from a distant clime, sent forth to the warld this malevolent libel. • A witness named Stennor, proved that he pur chased the Register, containing the first libel, at Mr. element's shop; George Granger proved that he purchased the second at the same Place. . Mr. Thomas Hansard, printer ; Mr. John Paul, an accountant ; and Mr. William Jackson, proved the letter to be Cobbett's hand-writing. Mr. Cleary gave the like evidence, and proved that it was the same letter which he read at the hustings, having received it from Mr. Wright. Mr. ADOLPHUS then addressed the Jury in a very a'jle and powerful speech, on behalf of the defendant. In reply to the topics urged by the plaintiff's Conn scl, he said, they were wholly inapplicable to the present question, inasmuch as they were merely stric tures upon the political character and conduct of Mr. cobbett, with which the defendant had nothing to do; he being a mere vender of the first libel. With respect to the second, he proposed to offer evidence for the purpose of chewing, that long prior to that publication, he had ceased to sell Mr. Cobbett's Regis ter; he had positively prohibited every assivant in his shop from selling that publication, under any pretence Whatsoever ; and that the copy in question had been sold without his privity, knowledge, or consent. With respect to the question of damages, the usual founda tion in such cases had not been laid, inasmuch as the Jury were left wholly in ignorance as to who Mr. Wright was, what good fame he bad lost, or how, in any degree, lie was injured by the publication. The Learned Counsel said, it was impossible for Mr. Clement to justify the libel, nor did he affect to rest his defence upon any such ground, because he rested his innocence solely upon the fact of his not having published the libel. Mr. John Sudbury, Mr. Charles Clement, brother of the defendant, and *Richard Mainwaring, proved that the 'defendant had repeatedly forbidden the sale of Mr. Cobbett's Register at his shop, several weeks prior to*the publication of the 6th of March. • [ I,llj d ...' 11 .. . • i •~ ~`~ t • ` ` J ~' ` E. ~ , - f ~ t ~\~ ~~<