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PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, APRIL 26. The House met at three o'clock. The oaths were adrninis tere3 to the Lords who attended, zfter which, an adjourmnent took place at four sill to-morrow (this day). • HOUSE OF. COMMONS. The Srzatis came down at two o'clock ; but there was not a suiliciout attendance to enable him to take the Chair until half past two. The Clerk then proceeded to swear in a number of 1 1 .1nnhers, among whom were : Mr. Wallis, Mr. Warren, Mr. Beckett, Mr. Abercrombie, Mr. Ricardo, Mr. W. H. Whitbread, Mr. Davenport, Mr. Mans field, Mr. Bremer, Mr. Portman, Mr. Childe, Mr. T. Wilson, Mr T. 11. Davis, Mr. Ure, Mr. Lindsay, Lord A. Hill, Sir H. Parnell, Mr. N. Calvert, Mr. F. C. Ponsonby, Mr. J. Caleraft, Mr. Cawthorne, Mr.'Horrocks, Mr. Whitmore, Sir T. Acland, Mr. Gordon, Sir G. Clerk, Mr. P. Moore, the Attorney-Gene sal, Alderman Smith, Sir C. Morgan, Lord J. Fitzroy, Lord Palmerston, Sir W. Coagreve, Mr. Bruce, Sir E. Harvey, Sir It. Wigram , Mr. Brandley, Mr. Ward, Si J. Shelley, Mr. Ly gon, Mr. Fellowes, Lord' W. Bentinck, Mr. Spurrier, Sir C. Mordaunt, Lord Temple, Lord Barnard, Lord Belzrave, Mr. Denison, Lord .1. Russell, Mr. Bankes, Mr. W. Dundas, Mr. Arbuthnot, the Marquis of, Worcester, Mr. Vernon, Mr. Free mantle, Mr. Heinle, Mr. Williams, Sir J. Newport, General Gascoigne, Mr. Alexander, Mr. Blair, Mr. Neville, Mr. O'Grady, Lord C. Fitzroy, Sir U. Burgh, Mr. Fitzgibbon, Mr. ' Dickenson Mr. Innis, Sir JaniPs Macdonald , Sir J. wen, Mr. Cust, Mr. W. Howard, Sir C. Burrell, Mr. Irving, Lord Brudenell, Mr. Sumner, Mr. Sheldon, Cclonel Wood, Lord E. Somerset, Lord Weymouth, Mr. B. Wilbraham, Mr. G. Bankes, Ecc. Bcc.—Adjotirned at half - past four. THE EVENING STAR_ LONDON. - THURSnAY, APRIL 27, 1820. TUE FUNDS. ElifCE Of STOCX3 TIHS DAY AT ONE 0 . 01.0EK Bank Stack 224 2231, 3 per Cent. Reduced 68% 5 / ye %- 3 per Ceut. Consols 693/ 5 V I per Cent. 77 1 / 4 --4 per Cent. 87 1 / 8 5 per Cent. Navy 105 3 / 4 106 Bank Long Annuities 17 15-16 18 India Bonds 955. 265. pr. Exclieqtrer Bills (2d4 ss. 6s. 4s. pre. Commercial par Consols for Acct. 69 1 / 2 54. As long as the question of publishing the pending Trials for High Treason was oue of respectful de ference to the high Judicial Authority, from Whom the injunction against publishing proceeded, we cheer fully and silently submitted, in common with all our daily contemporaries, to the inconvenience, and, we ni:ty tru:y add, loss, which obedience to this injunc tion entaile.l. But now that the question is on the eve of becoming, by the motion which stands for to snon-ow against Mr. CLENSZNT, one not of mere de brence, but of strict right--:-when disobedience to the injunction is proposed to be made a ground for serious punishment—when fine and imprisonment we - the consequences with which one fearless indivi dual is threatened for acting up to what he con ceives to be only a common privilege—we should deem ourselves equally wanting in sincerity and in dne boldness, if we kept back from avowing what is our honest conviction on the subject. The right assumed by our Courts to prohibit the publication of proceedings pending a trial, is of but recent origin, and, so far as we can find, not founded on any law. This assumption involves another, namely, that the evidence emitted in an open Court is not a publication ; which:involves a contradiction in terms, for the KING and all England are supposed to be present, and the very meaning of an open Court is, that the proceedings may be known to the whole Kingdom. He who prints the proceedings is not the enrol ;her, but the republisher. The publication comes f om the mouths of the Witnesses, the Counsel, the Defendant, and the Judge. Before the invention of Printing, publication of Judicial proceedings was deemed necessary for the ends of justice: to obtain this publicity, the Courts 'were declined open. By a fiction of law, the Jury are the Country, but every person for whom room' can be found, may be present. Human ingenuity could not, as things then stood, contrive means for mote effectual publication; but the invention of P. jilting has lessened the extent of the legal fiction, and enabled a much larger portion Of the community to know lie actual proceedings in the Court. Has any mischief ever resulted from the publi cation of the Reports of Judicial proceedings pend ing a Tiial ? 'tire may boldly challenge all the Lawytrs in Ent,7a Id to pioduce a single instance. At all events we take upon us to say, that for every single instance that can be adduced of supposed ! inconvenience, ten may be produced where it has greatly promoted the ends of justice; and among these, scme in which the lives of innocent indivi duals have been saved to the community, after evi dence had been received of their guilt which satisfied be - di the Rtry and the Judge on the trial. • In fact, this attempt to stifle the knowledge of what transpii es before the tribunals of justice, we regard as a preliminary symptom of what may be come a determination, to shut out the Public from the Courts • entirely ; which may (at some future time) render fhem equivaknt for all the purposes of oppression, as detestable engines as the secret tribu- 1 nals of Venice, or the Spanish Inquisition. Nothing,) indeed, among all the attempts to wrench the Consti-; Luton from its old and salutary usages, ought to be contemplated with more serious apprehension, than 1 1 this sacriligeous troubling of the fountains of justice. Not, however, to enter into any defence of the prac tice of Reporting the proceedings of the Courts, we would maintain, that as public opinion, in a refined state of society, is of as much influence and efficacy as the law itself, in preserving and in producin correct moral sentiments, a most important check on nefarious accusations will be suppressed. Besides, if the Public be excluded from hearing what passes at trials, (for to this issue the measure in question evi dently tends,), we would ask, how is it possible to know that justice is administered at all? If ever, therefore, anything occurred alarming to the liberties of the People, it is this disposition to render the ad ministration of justice irresponsible to public opinion, While on the subject of the Public Prase, we shall offer also a remark or two on4mother case which oc cupies a large share of the attention of the Public— that of Sir FRANCIS BURDETT. To hold the writing of a libel in Leicestershire to be the same thing as its publication in Middlesex, and vice versa, appears to us contrary to every dictate of reason. To hold as a crime the writing of what would be a libel bcpub fished, though not published, can be equalled only by making it criminal, as one of the Roman Emperors did, in men to dream ! We know, whatever new dicta may now be at tempted to be introduced, that formerly the writing of a libel was held to be no crime—the crime was czeated by the publication : and we have some re collection of an action for a libel (some of our legal Readers may know the case) in which the plaintiE was nonsuited, though there was no defect of evi dence as to the writing of the libel, which was a letter addressed to the plaintiff by the defendant.— The Court held that there was no publication of a libel till the letter was made public, and that the plaintiff having made it public, he himself was the publisher. This case we take to be quite in point. • The Paris Papers of Monday arrived this morning. The Kum has been advised to place the celebrated General CAMBRONNE on active service. " The long fidelity," it is curiously said, " which this General spewed to the Government which is no more, is a pledge of the eternal fidelity which he will preserve to the Government that exists !" The last Madrid Gazettes received at Paris are said to contain nothing interesting—addresses of feli citation to the KING continued pouring in from all quarters. We have this morning received files of Papers from Virginia to the 16th of March, the contents-of which are important. The Virginia Herald of the 15th March, gives the following paragraph respect ing the Floridas, from the National Intelligencer : " Washing-ton City, March 9. " The Commitee of Foreign Relations of the House of Re presentatives, have this moment reported a Bill, authorising the President of the United States to take immediate possession of the East and West Floridas, and to establish a permanent Go vernment therein, and authorising the employment of the Ar,my and Navy therein." KINGSTON, JAMAICA, FEBRUARY 9. Private accounts from Carthagena state, that the Insur gent forces had descended the River Magdalena as far as the Plyon, on their route to Santa Martha; that they had captured four of the bungiers of the Royalists, with 172 men and 200 muskets belonging to Warlerta's division, who had his head: quarters at Cassares, and it would require great skill on his part to prevent being cut off by the Insurgents. The following letters were posted at the New Eng land Coffee-house this morning : RETRACT OF A LETTER FROM NORFOLK (vsucnno) o OT KARON IS. " By an arrival yesterday from the Havannah, in Mae days, we have accounts of an insurrection in St. Jago de Cuba. The vessel in question sailed from Havannah on the 4th instant, and the account of the insurrection had been received there about ten days previous; during which time the Governor bad fitted out an Expedition, consisting of two transports, with troops, under convoy of a sloop of war, which sailed from Havannah on the 3d of this month for St. Jago, to aid in quelling the insurrec tion. It was understood the insurgents were principally Rods, but the extent of their numbers my informant did sot under stand.—The ship Virginia, Fismta, in 31 days from Livespool, arrived in Hampton Roads, yesterday." " NIAGARA (CANADA), FZIRDART " We are informed that a few days since one of the Six Na tion Indians at the Grand River, shot a black woman, after which, he invited three of his friends to the house, made them all drunk, and set fire to the house and consumed them. The Indians were holding a Council, and the result is not yet known :4 it is stated as most probable that this monster win be shot." Extract of a letter from Madrid, dated April 12: " Sir HIGNAT Wataxst.zr, the British Ambassador at this Court, has presented his new credentials from the Kuio of 800- LAND. His Excellency introduced to the Kisb and Qum, and the Royal Family an English Gentleman, Raz WiLsou, Bat who has been recently making an extensive tour through the Holy Land." Yesterday the Earl of Ltsrzlu oor. had a numerous party to dinner. An Illustrious Widower, it is whispered in the fashionable circles, has recently entered into a pri vate marriage with the daughter of a Noble Duke. 57, Conihill, Twelve o'clock.—This day the Lot tery began drawing, when No. 9814, a Prize of £20,000 Consols, (being the only Capital drawn at the above hour) was sold in One Quarter, One Eighth, and Ten Sixteenth Shares, by J. and J. Stvirwaroxr, No. 37, Cornhill ; .88, Haymarket; 11, Holborn ; and 141, Oxford-street—where the fortunate holders may receive their money. COUNTRY NEIGIIBOURS.—The success of this Work of Miss Burney's we are informed has been even greater than that of any of the former productions of this admirable Novelist ; it certainly belongs to the highest order of novel writing, and is equally honourable to the heart and head of the Authoress, exhibiting in every page the traces of a mind ele gantly cultivated and correctly rqinlated, and of a perfect acquaintance with the' forilis and• habits of that class of society in which perhaps the best man= , ners and best pursuits are •to be found, namely, the' most re&ued in the middle class. CAUILT. Yesterday • m . ornieg lri M'atitarirreceivecl visits at his Palace in Pall-mall, from the Duke and Duchess p si GLOUCESTER, the Princess Attcroam, &c. At two o'clock a Guard of Honour marched into the Court-yard, ander the command of Colonel WAL- Por.x., preceded by the Ist Regiment of Foot Guards,' The whole of the Court attendknts were in kvaitige The Graad Hall was lined with the Yeomen• of the Guard. At three the Deputation from the University of Oxford proceeded in grand procession from the libt+ ticultural Society's Rooms, in Regent-street, to the King's Palace, headed by Lord GRENVILLE, in his full University robes, as Chancellor, preceded by two Yeomen Bedells and two Esquire 3edells. The as semblage was the most numerous in the recollection of the oldest Court attendant. Among those in the I Procession were, The Rev. Dr. F. Hodson, of Brazennose; the Vice-Chan cellor, the Proctors, the Heads of Colleges, the Professors, the Right Hon. Sir William Scott, one of the Representatives in Parliament ; the Dean of Christ Church, the Duke of Wel lington, the Earl Bathurst, Viscount Bulkeley, the Sub-Dean of the Chapel Royal, the Rev. Dr. Holland, the Rev. Dr. Harrison, the Rev. Dr. White, Baron Wolfe, the Rev. Isaac Saunders, Sir Claudius Hunter, Mr. Chambers, the Rev. Mr. Wilson, Mr. Round, the Dean of Westminster. On their arrival at the Palace, they were joined by The Archbishop of York; the Bishops of Landaif, Oxford, Carlisle, and London; their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of York, Clarence, and Prince Leopold ; the Earl of Tartnoth, the Earl of Mayo, the Bart of Blesinton, the Earl of Northesk, Dr. Latham, &c. Soon afterwards, his MAJESTY being seated on his Throne in the Great Council Chamber, surrounded by his Cabinet Ministers, the Great Officers of State, Lord BostoN, in Waiting, Sir WILLIAM KEPPEL, the Groom in Waiting, the Page of Honour, the State Page, and the Gentlemen Pensioners in Waiting, in their splendid uniforms, and everything being in readiness, Mr. MASH, the Gentleman Usher i n Wait- ing, announced to Lord GRENVILLE, the Chancellor, that his MAJESTY was ready to receive the Members of the University of Oxford, and he conducted the numerous assemblage into the Royal presence, when the Chancellor read the Address of the University l upon his MAJESTY'S Accession to the Throne, which was most graciously received, and to which his MAJESTY returned an appropriate answer. The as semblage consisted of about 430. His :MAJESTY afterwards held an Investiture of the Order of the Thistle, upon which occa,ion he wore the insignia of that Order. It was attended by— His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence, the Earl Catbcart, the Sul of Aylesbury, the Earl of Abergavenny, and Lord Erskine. Also by Robert Quarme, Esq. Gentleman Usher of the Green Rod. The Marquis of LOTMAN was introduced with the, usual forms and ceremonies, when his MAJESTY was graciously pleased to confer the honour of Knight hood upon the Noble Marquis, and to invest him with the insignia of the Order. The Provost of the University of Dublin was in troduced to his MAJESTY, wben he presented an Ad dress upon the KING'S Accession to the Throne, which was most graciously received. The Earl of MAYO was introduced to his MAJESTY, who was graciously pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood upon the Noble Earl, and to invest him with the insignia of the Hanoverian Order. The KING held a Privy Council, which was at tended by The Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home and Colonial Departments, the Master-General of the Ordnance, the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Treasurer of the Navy, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Master of the Mint, the Lord Chamberlain, the Lord Steward of the Household, the Comptroller of the Household, the Groom of the Stole, the Muter of the Horse, the Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard. His Majesty's Speech, to be delivered at the open ing of the Session of Parliament, this day, from the Throne, was weed upon. The Earl of CARLISLE, Load ERSEINR, Sir JOHN BORLASE WARREN, Sir EVAN NEPRAN, and Mr. Pout Cmtzw ' were introduced an 4 sworn in Privy Councillors ; they took their seats at the Board ac cordingly. The Earl of CRAVEN was introduced, and sworn in Lord Lieutenant of the County of Berks. Vis count CjIETWYND attended as Clerk of the Council. His MAJESTY gave audiences to Viscount SID MOUTH, the Duke of WILLIHGTON, aad the Duke of MONTROSE. Viscount CASTLEREAGH had a grand dinner party yesterday, and a numerous evening party. The Marchioness of LANSDOWN gave a grand rout on Tuesday evening at Lansdown House, Berkeley square, which was attended by nearly 300 distin guished fashionables. 1 . Lord BARRINGTON entertained a large party of distinction on Tuesday, at his house in Hill -street, Berkeley-square. Lady CHARLOTTE GREVILLE'S rout, on Tuesday evening, in George -street, Hanover-square, was very fashionably attended. Lady It. 'W [CRAM entertained, yesterday evening, a party of fashionables at her house in Connaught place. The Marchioness of CAMDPI had a grand party on Tuesday evening. FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS. Mr. and Mrs. Dering and family, is Curzon-street, from Ayot St. Lawrence, Her s. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort and family, at their house from their seat, Badminston, Glou- estershire. The Duke of Grafton, at his house in Clarges- street, from his seat, Euston Hall, Thetiord, The Earl of Chichester, at his house in Stratton -stre e t, f ran c his seat in Sussex. The Earl of Dartmouth, at his house in Berkeley -square," from his seat, Sandwell Hall, Staffordshire. Sir John and Lady Shelley, yesterday, at their house in Ile**. ley-square, from their seat, Madersfield Park. Sussex. Admiral Sir Charles Pole, Hut. at his house in Upper Aar. ley-street, from his seat, Al denham Abbey, Herts, William M. Pitt, Req. and family, at their house in Dover. street, from their peat In Dorsetshire. The Earl and Countess of Moray and family, on Tuesday, se Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from their seat in Scotland. Hen. General Mr Charles Hope, and family, at the St. James's Hotel, Berke square, from their seat in K ent . Colonel Bagwell, M.T., at ditto, from hie se a t i n I re l an d . Mr-and Mrs. Sara, at ditto, from a tour. • The Earl of Longford, at Ratt's Hotel, Duerr-street, from Isouse r Entland.squ ire, Dublin. John c a non, Esq. *P. at ditto, from his seat in bult.4. Dr. and Mrs. Puget, at ditto, from a lour.. Mr. and Mrs. Piere, at ditto, from their seat in Leicestershino. Sir J. Newport, Bart. M.P. at flake's H ou k 3 froha hie seat in Ireland. . . • The Hail and Countess oT Morley and family, at the Pul;pey Hotel ] Piccadilly, from their seat, Saliram, Devonobire, KIWI TRLi9ON. OLD BAILEY. CONrINUATIO/1 07 YEIIIIODA7'IS SUVMS. -70intill TRW. TIDD. AND WTELIAIII DAVIDSON. afidaias gave his evidence In a stintlainwer tone than former 4 -which be accounted fur, by mating that be wa► rather unweil.— Tbe enandtiation was sham who appeared peculiarly attentive to him, asked pe , - fstississa tut examine hits on a convenation, In which his Barr( was Ineisdened. "fr. Pam Osautow.—lt is proper, prisoner, that fiery n em:nodal= should be given you in your awful situation ; but I suggest to you, that it would be rather irregular in you row to do it: you will have ample °Worn:Wry of doing it by and by. I see you don't write; but your Counsel Is taking notes. Res• assured, that when it is your turn to snake your defence, I sh: pledge myself to refresh your memory with those parts of tht evidence relative to you, in case they may chance to escape you: recollection. • Prisoner.—l thank your Lordship. Adams was cross-examined by Mr. Cuavroon, but nothicz new was disclosed. Joseph Hale stated the names of the several persons who tended the meetings at Brunt's. ' Thomas Smart, John Bisset, Edward Gillam, J. IL Motri. son, Edward Simpson, Aldous, John and Thomas Mone. ment, Thomas Hiden, John Barker, Richard Munday, Keylock, and Lord Harrowby, repeated the evidence they had delivered upon the former trials. Ruthven, the Police Officer, also repeated his formcr evi dence, as did Janie. falls. Robert Chapman, William Lee, Benjamin Gill, J. Murray, and Serjeant Legge, repeated their former testimony. Lieutenant Fitzclarence repeated the evidence which he livered on the former trials; as did William Westcott, Wright, James Champion, William Brooks,. Samuel Tatuliw:, and Lkailiel Bishop. All the wiuiesses on the part of the Crown having been examined, and mitring remaining to complete the case for tb prosecution, but the production of the arms and animuniti,- taken in Cate-street and other places, Mr. Baron GA&aow SU:- geeted to the Jury, that as the trial could scarcely be finished on that night, it would be a convenient time to adjourn. The Jury expressed their entire concurrence with his Lord. ship's opinion. The prisoner Davidson.—As I am taken by surprise in beirg put upon my trial this day, will the Court allow my wife to have access to me, that I may send for witnesses to appear :I -my behalf? Boon Gwasow.—The Court cannot entertain your applic... tion ; but this I can say, with certainty, that those to whom your wishes will be communicated, thr.Jugh your Solicitor, w;Il not suffer your case to be prejudiced by refusing access to acy proper persons who may assist you in your defence. The Court then adjourned till nine o'clock this morning. OLD BAILEY—THIS DAY. This being the second day's trial of Richard Tidd and William Davidaan, the Court met at the usual hour. Nothing can be mere uniform than the pro ceedings on the present and the two preceding trials. On the first day, the Crown concludes its evidence, with the exception of examining the munitions of war, which it would certainly not be safe to do by candle-light ; the business of the second day corn. menses by producing the arms, grenades, powder, pikes, &c. which had been captured in Cato street, and seized by the Officers at the houses of two of the prisoners, one of which was called the depot. At a few minutes after nine o'clock Baron GAR ROW, and Mr. Justice Basr, who appears very ill, took their seats on the Bench. There are also pre sent the COMMON SEEM/ANT, Sir JAMES SHAW, and Sir WILLIAM LEIGHTON. Proclamation being made, and the names of the Jury called over, all the prisoners were brought in, but on Baron GARROW suggesting that there was no necessity for any of them remaining except these on trial, the rest were removed from the dock. Tidd and Davidson were accommodated with chairs., The former appears more composed than he did yes terday, and Davidson still preserves his wonted firm ness. He had a book, which appeared to be a Bible, and some papers before him. The witnesses called on the part of the Crown were Authven and Taunton, who deposed to the arms, kc. they had respectively taken. Hector Morrison, the shopman of Mr. Underwood, the cutler, identified . the sword which a prisoner, who has been tried, brought to him with directions to make it as sharp as a needle. Gill selected a iword and a Carbine from the arms on the table, which he bad taken from the per sons of some of the prisoners, in Catomstreet. Aldous, a pawnbroker, deposed to a blunderbuss which had been taken out of pledge by Davidson ; on this Davidson rose, and begged leave to ask the witness if, when he pawned the blunderbuss, he did not say that it was not his own ? but that Aldous said he would lend 7s. on it, as he knew him. Mr. Aldous did not recollect having said so, but would not speak positively. Serjeant Harrison, of the Royal Artillery, examined the powder;, and the fire-balls, called illuminatio•:- ball, which he said were made of oakum, tar, pitch, and brimstone. He also went through the accus tomed process of opening a grenade, as on the pre ceding trials. These instruments of destruction are formed of a tin cannister, containing three and a halt ounces of gunpowder, with a fuse, pieces of iron va rying in number, from four to five and twenty, ac cording to their size, cemented with pieces of cloth, and firmly bound by strong yarn. All the witnesses for the Crown were examined by Mr. Goattavi , but Baron GARItOW frequently ques tioned them on such points as might afford farther elucidation. The case for, the Crown being closed, Mr. Cortwoon rise at ten o'clock, and went over the same grounds of defence as on the former trial;, viz. the bad charaCter of one of the witnesses, who, "4freg* ly, r•,e c- tat w v. tst • .11 J ii 41 t t a t I