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SORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEW 31 A REEM.Y MEETING. MONDAY More. It his seldom been our good fortnne to witness finer running oft was produced by the stake this afternoon ; every race called for orgullift.l admiration, the July Stakes in particular, all the ' porting m.n agreeing in opinion that a better two-year-old race Ira. never run. A few additional particulars may not be *mac. o pubie: The betting was thus-3 to 1 apt Juryman •4to 1 sTt Naughton Lass ; 4 to 1 apt Folly • 7 to 1 agst Rowena ; logo to g apt Zeal ; and 1000 to $ agst Elinor. The winner was pa rcely thought of in the odds, although lord Lowther (who, we 'seed here st ae, is proprietor of all them horses which run in the piam of ,tlr. Rogers) declared, before starting, that he should win oth bet if pos4ble. As is customary, there were several false t ans before the ynunkets could be got off, but when they did sue olio getting a fair start, the whole fourteen went away in the keit style imaginable. Scribe, Juryman, Naughton Lass, and }fitly were the four leading horses throughout the race, for not one ig the ether ten could succeed in getting to their heads ; neither prate Der Juryman were ever beaded, the filly caching in first by i n eoelp. Only Lowther% two placed ; but it may not be ON to add, that liatighttin Lass and Folly were third and fourth ; Attest in a tuck behind. The value of the stakes to Lord Low h one thousand and thirty pounds. The winning of the first, s irial race, by Lord Lowther 's Nonsuit, made many anticipate 'a i r goal fortune fur his brother Juryman, and this, perhaps, had some influence in making him first favourite. gio er ,—The winner by Brown, Juryman by Wheatley, Naugh ton Less by R. Boyce, Folly by F. Boyce, Zeal by John Day, p.m by Buckle, Elinor by Cloodison, Octaviana by a lad, Lord Atoon's by & Barnard, Rantlpole by Robinson, Mignio vim by knoll, Pea Blossom by a lad, Mr. Gully's by Conolly, std the Marquis of TaMstock's by G. Edwards. The match for ,6200 between Recruit and Paul Jones, was ex alt/stir disputed. Recruit went off at a rattler, with Paul Jones doer at him, the latter making every effort to head hie antagonist, bat ierfUctuany ; the Recruit had been drilled too well, and con 'sod to be home first by about half a neck: The betting was d tolon bins. He is matched torus' again on Wednesday, against yr. Greville's Pilot, giving a stone for his year ; they run the I).M. The Jockey Club-rooms were very well attended in the eveninz, not of the Members, now at Nernnarket, being present. A few *had been at private parties, joined the Club arms dinner. lsrwstaastar, MIDDAY EVININN. Sate our last a greet deal of betting has taken placeon the Derby mg flu Leger, and the odds this morning were thus—. Dinar. 150 to 1 apt Zealot _ I 1124 sgat Hampden Os I apt The Colonel OA I[ll.-12 to 1 apt Trampoline. Sr. Liana. 25 to I apt Lord Claren don's 50 to 1 apt Lumley 's 30 to 1 apt Sancho 1000 to 95 apt Tom Jones 1000 to 25 apt Coalition 1000 to 20 apt Translation to I apt Mameluke 9 to 1 agar Granby 10; to 1 agar Nonplus 13 to I apt Reviewer is to 1 apt Malek IS to 1 apt Lunaria 11 to 1 apt Matilda 10 to 1 apt Pedlar A rebuke occurred in yesterday's account in putting Captain Roster's filly down as having started; the error arose from the hose not having been struck out in the lists as paid; the boy had weighed, and it was generally then is ht bad started, which was not tbe ease. This reduces the value of the stakes £2O. The day's races came off as under— Sweepstakes of 100 soya. each, for colts, Sat. ?lb. and Allies, Sst.9lb. 111 111 11 11) se A Beau key weigh tit ea Tim her Du Einu £5O, Duke )Jr. Yr. I Ilk. N Bet TIN led al M hi Tk as tot letr hd Ism T. Duke 31r. h. I A rho Ye Haw kaki time T 1 s bee abet Va al Batt 0)11 Gei get by to the doi 111 we Id tak ky , ed dei all 11N a • • d . vi ire I cc I tl ti TI ft e I 0 t I. '1 ill V r 1 6 0. Pr Ii t. Y. C. Duke of Grafton 's c. by Merlio - Ilona, received; Mr.Greville's Elinor, and Lord Orford's t by drville, paid ft. £5O fur three yr olds, est. elb. four, est. nye, Set. 81b. six t est. 121 b• and agrd. 9st. D.I. Duke of Grafton 's ch. e. Paul Jones, 4 yrs Nr. Wyndham's bl. e. Black Swan. 4 yrs Petues ch. e. Torn Tit. 3 yrs Rogers's br. f. Whimper, 3 yrs &lung -11 to 8 on Black Swan, and 4 to 1 agst the winner. Tea Tit made first running, followed by Black Swan, and kept the Wats good pace along the flat, and to the Duke's Stand, when Wake! a little, and Paul Jonea and Black Swan came up. Tom !kande an expiring effort to win, but was soon beat off, and the nest the ground was left to Paul Jones and Black Swan, the lawn winning a beautiful race by a neck only, rode by Young Bank; Black Swan, by ArnuU; the other two, by lads. &and yro of the Renewed Sweepstakes, for three yr olds, 6st. SO. tour, Bst. lib. five, Sst. 10Ib. six, 9st. and aged, 9st. Mb. T.N.M.—The winner to be sold for .6`300,&e. Doke of Grafton's Damon, 3 yra 11,. Wilson's Astonishment, 3 yrs Stonebewer's Wings, 5 yrs • • 3 A capital race, and won by a neck; 10 to 11 eget the winner, who was rode by Baker. GRAND ROWING MATCH. Yetterday, a Grand Rowing- Match took place at the Red Base, Battersea, for thirty sovereigns, given by Mr. Hsrner, the looker, to be rowed for by seven pair of oars, two heats-; the three first boats to start for the second heat. The first heat started from Vauxhall bridge, rowed robnd abut moored off Whitehall Stairs, up the Middlesex shore, round a teat opposite the Red House, and through the centre arch of Vaatkail Bridge. The second heat started from the Red House, Battersea, down the Surrey shore by the Nine Elms, and up to the Bed House, Battersea. The boats came in as fellows : Castle and Beckett • 1 Brummell sod Dodd Faun and Covington . • • It was throughout a finely contested match. a Monday evening, about half-past nine o'clock, as a Gentleman was proceeding along the side of the Re gent's Canal, near the Hackney-bridge, he was stopped by willows, one of whom asked him how far it was to the City -road-basin? and while the Gentleman was in the act of answering the inquiry, the other knocked him down; they then rifled his pockets of his watch (a va luable gold one), his purse, containing three sovereigns end some silver, and his hat, with which they succeed ed in making their escape, and have not since been taken, though strict search is making after them. Tuesday an Inquest was held on the body of Patrick llyan, at Carrick-on-Suir, when a verdict was deliver ed that deceased came by his death in consequence of ' descending into the well of a pump, where he was suffocated by f oa l a i r , w hi c h cause d hi m to f a ll into the Water underneath, where he was found dead.-.-• a ftitei Advertiser. L 51 1741 week, as a young man of the name of Ban. .cnelorrlivrng at Hawridge, near Chesham, was clean . - lit his gun, which be did not know to be loaded, it sent off, and shot his mother, who was sitting near the ie. Most happily the gun was held low, and the eound in consequence is in no vital part.—Bucks Chrox. Sunday sennight, a young man,whose name is Patrick tean, aged ' 2`k, climbed una s sisted, o the r wi s e than by h is own hands and feet, to the top of the steeple of Tmnaboe Church, Qdeen's County, a height of 116 feet, where he deposited his coat, and descended in lately. On the nest day he re-ascended for his outside 'Wry/ and, as if this was not a feat sufficiently ad venturous, he balanced himself, head undermost, on tnn pinnacle of the steeple !—Dublin Register ' tesday afternoon, part of the chimney stack, in the tht-office land of Falkirk, fell with a great crash 1 :4: 1 the street—for tunate l y , h owever, at a moment • a there was no person passing. The house is one ~ ‘ the Nriest in the town , and the one i n w hi c h t h e 1 '•etinder slept for a night after the battle of Falkirk. CORN EXCHANGE, MA RE,LANE, JULY 11. "I v e tiF.. g mule is far from beirg improved, still the few sales torr been tffected this morning of fine Wheat were at Monday's tn• Malting Barley is much enquired after, there being no nuni , et, and would have sold on rather better terms than ,7,f _rt,t 41. y. Oats support our last quotstion.—Arrivals ; Eng- V! %rat, 1,770 qrs. Foreign Barley, 2,600 qrs. Oats, 3,890 qrs. 214' Tutni HOP INTELLIGENCE. J 0.--The arm weather since last bas very •Futii decn...1.1 ULY . The lice i n some of the strongest our grounds are I L"! ru*ltig, but th e wea k, w hi ch i s by far the largest portion, ", v ., :hau,ted and turpid, that even the warm weather has but kiett GU anat.—Ml.4meg .touritai. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Jinx 10. usts..-111110HT I. WHITING AND SWIFT. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, who is a member of Trinity College, Cambridge, and the author of a work entitled Alma Mater; or, Seven Years at the University of Cambridge, by a Trinity Man, to recover from the defendants, who are the proprietors of the Atlas Sunday newspaper, compensation in da., mages for loss sustained by the plaintiff in consequence of the defendants having, in the said newspaper of the 11th of February last, published a false, scandalous, and malicious libel upon the character of tht plaintiff. The defendants pleaded the general issue. The ATTORNICT-GENRRAL and Mr. Hove conducted the case for the plaintiff. Mr. BROUGHAM appeared for the defendants, tiff, in introducing into his work his College friends by their College names ; and if Mr. Wright had done so with the view of giving pain to his old College com panions, he (the Attorie)Ge•ieral) would agree with the reviewer, that Nlr.Wr ight had shewn very bad taste; but what he complained of was, that the reviewer, under pretence of reviewing a work, should, influenced, in all probability, by private feelings, make an attack upon the personal character and appearance of the plaintiff, and state that which every body, who had ever been in College, must know to be false—namely, that the plain tiff, a member of the University, was in such a degrad ing state of poverty as to be compelled to accept pre sents of furniture from the College servants, and of old clothes from Fellows aad others. No man who could condescend to receive those presents could live in the University ; and he should„ upon that part of the state ment, merely say, that it was utterly without founda- . . . . Mr. HOLT having opened the pleadings, lion, and that the man who could accept such presents The AT roe/um-Gomm. stated the case for the would be exposed to such ridicule and contempt as plaintiff. The article of which the plaintiff, by this would render life not endurable. He should not again , action, complained, appeared under the head of " Li- read the libel, as it would be read by the officer of the terature." and purported to be a review of a new work, Court, and it would be for his l.eartied Friend, Mr. Alma Mater, in two volumes, written by the plaintiff. Brougham, to point out any passage quoted in this • He knew that he stood upon tender ground when he newspaper which could justify the observations con• contended that an article under this head, and purport- tented in the libel. lie had no doubt that his Learned I ing to be a review of a work sent forth for the instruc. Friend would make an eloquent and ingenious speeds tion or amusement of the public, might be made the in defence of his client; but it would be for the Jury to I foundation of an action for damages. He had always say whether or not the author of the libel was actuated i said, and always should maintain, that the press should by personal malice, and had gone beyond the limits of • enjoy perfect freedom in discussing all subjects, and fair criticism. If the defendants had gone beyond those I that, if there was any one subject more than another limits, this was a proper case for the consideration of upon which it ought to enjoy the greatest latitude, that the Jury, and he (the Attorney General) had no doubt was criticism upon works of literature, of science, and that the Jery would award a sufficient compensation in 'of art. He had in this Court, on a former day, laid damages for the injury done to the plaintiff. down that doctrine, and successfully contended for the ,blr. Hansard .- 1 publihed 4h.ca Mater for the plain. right of the press to exercise that power; and he was tiff, who is the author of it, and who gave me the ma not now disposed to depart from that doctrine, hut on nuscript. I have read the criticism in the Atlas of the the contrary to adhere to it, whenever it should appear 11th of last February, and I believe it applies to the that, as on the occasion to which he had alluded, a plaintiff's work, which I now produce. work of art or of literature had only been subjected to The defendants'admission of the proprietorship of the the lash of fair criticism; and he should be the last man Atlas, and of the publication of the alleged libel, hay to find fault Kith any article, however severe, which ing been put in and read, might appear to him to come under the head of fair Mr. BELLAMY read the alleged libel, which was in criticism. Whilst he admitted this, he was satisfied that the following words— - the Jury would agree with him, that a writer in a Re- " /tens Mater; or seven years at the University of Cambridge— view or a Newspaper, who, under the pretence of eof those publications, which, for ulterior ends, one writing a criticism upon the work of an author, should does not regret has been published, but which no person will make an attack upon his character and upon his per- write who has not already lost his place in the society he describes. tonal appearance, with intent to hold him up to the Had the notorious Harriette Wilson been still qualified to carry on e ti c i n f amous o r v e tiooe tra d e, of her s h e par a w would n ot bet rayed author e o na r names and p forfeited ridicule of the public, was exercising a degree of licence not H ha ad ve not which ought not to be encouraged. He was willing to somehow or other the friendship and acquaintance of the Gentlemen give the greatest lat tude to the critic, because the ten- whom he introduces by name, and without ceremony, before the dency of his labours, when honestly employed, was Public, he would not have 'entered to expose them. at very slender to correct and also to improve the public taste, examination hich ore i the wca ed,teei‘acabarmlealy us p d ts et t e o et co t n h e e ea ll l a • n f l o a r of in oa th : and to prevent the works of a certain description place b e ment i ons t h e i n i t i a l l etter as W. an d on an oth e r occasion, atte t m o of authors from obtaining, with three fourths of he speaks of himself as included in an enumeration of six names, mankind, that currency which they probably would only one of which begins with W. and that name is Wright. Of acquire if their errors and absurdities were not pointed the standing the author describes himself, we are informed there was a Sleet. in Trinity Collece , of this name, who, front the mean out to those who, of themselves, were not sufficiently ness of his personal appearance, and,h pet baps, from the poverty of learned to decide upon such works. As there were but his means and the lowness of his connexions, was further desig few who were capable of appreciating the merits of oared as Wretch Wright. So that to the author's groups of Ism works of literature, mankind was indebted to the honest Bai le y,r no Li f "811eVrWetakechiV Feast right w h N o l acaTualeeryw, we are e mu s ttold d was universally a t i h i e reviewer, who, without any feelings of a personal na- per son in his college, as ' appe ae aring to be cut out of that heap cure, pointed out the merits and the defects of such which usually graces the door of a stable. It is but right that the works, and though the reviewer might chew himself to author's pictorel should be Sited up. Can it be from modesty that, be comparatively ignorant of the work which he under- in the o ca u rimtres h ld is r. Wright has drawn, h no e should Inve n t:t o d d y kft i a s took to review, he (Mr. Attorney-General) was ready bl u nt not 'a chart line ge ir o l l : areol:paose appea ran c e ? bring e against tbe ra l 7 Trinity aa,' to admit that he ought not to be called upon to answer for, acclrding to his own account, be is net only stored mentally in a Court of Justice for any observations which he with all the knowledge that education can bestow, but he has the might make, provided those observations were confined invention and qiiickness of a Newton—every accomplishment Is tcnthe work, and were not to gratify feelings of malice pu re y is a not nl w a h musical h i Ta t p ru p tat ea e re nt . aa sighortofstringed lodatestl tat he u cannotthe ;vended to the personal character of the author, for the the best part of the society he enters to court 'his acquaintance; Purpose of holding him up to public ridicule and scorn, and in the comparatively unimportant point of dress, we learn that With respect to the work written by the plaintiff, he he r dressed and to an . e:h t e o - ilet 1 that they ao w e w li e were and were o e i r ; tra t er thesolitary ‘ it; i t a li s e h i r ß a e t e t en - (Mr. Attorney-General) would not go the length of i r ra. s . a They whOrememoer the exceedingly contemptible figure of saying, that although the author had been educated at the insignificant person, who went by the name of reads Wright an University, there were not introduced into the work —they who remember the unhappy and almost degrading state of some passages susceptible of ridicule, and which might Poverty in which he lived, and which extorted presents of furniture very fairly be held up to ridicule as very foolish and e fr v e e m n i t h e Fe h ll e o se w r s a a ants niot e h i ersthes tom the egwe'lmandobosef articles of t b o ab h ili fe m o se wo t absurd; but he would say, that the fact of a work con• book, that he was indebted to the generous charity of one Allow tanning passages of that description, did not, in his (Mr. for tuition, who stole an hour from sleep between six and seven Attorney-General's) opinion, justify the writer of this in the winter mornings, that be might bestow it gratuitously; and article in makinran attack upon the personal appear- tto another, fora , st i r a n il d p o r f oh lOi hi . lit p T er an t nu o m f a h v is ow o rd wo ly p o oe ut h o et f chari tablelteti ance, and personal character, of the plaintiff. He should scarcely know whether to laugh at the vanity which dictated such inform the Jury, that the plaintiff, in the course of his paragraphs as the following, or to be indignant at the want of be wink, had alluded ir. a good-natured way to some of ceacy and honesty which they indi.nte." his old college companions, and• had mentioned them Mt. BROUGHAM addressed the Jury for the defend by their college names. One of those companions the ants. His Learned Friend the Attorney-General, in the plaintiff called " Beast," another " Bear," and so on; exercise of that kindness which he (Mr. B.) always ex but he always spoke of them as his best friends, and, petienced at the hands of his Learned Friend, and there could not be a passage pointed out in the whole which he endeavoured to repay as far as lay in his work, from which it could be inferred that the plaintiff, power, had been pleased to tell the Jury, that they by mentioning those college names, which were given would hear from him an eloquent and ingenious by gay and volatile young men to their companions, had speech in defence of his clients , but he could assure his the slightest intention of degrading his former compa- Learned Friend and the Jury, that he had never known nions. The plaintiff also introduced the name of Mr. an action, the defence of which less called for ingenuity, Brass, one of the Fellows of Trinity, and a Gentleman or in which ingenuity would be more superfluous or whose name could not be mentioned in the hearing of misplaced. There could not be a plainer case, not for ' those who had, as he (the Attorney General) had the ho- a verdict for nominal damages, but for the defendant; flour and happiness of knowing that meritorious indivi- such a verdict as his Learned Friend, the Attorney dual,without calling forth the greatest reverence and re- General, obtained a few days back in a similar action, spect. Of that Gentleman the plaintiff spoke throughout in which lie (Mr. Brougham) was engaged for the then the work with the greatest gratitude for obligations re- plaintiff, Mr. Serene. The plaintiff, ill-advised as he ceived at his hands ; but as the work was one of a gay was, beyond all the ill-advised persons whom he (Mr. and light description, some of Mr. Brass's peculiari- B.) had ever known—unrestrained as he wds by those t*es were spoken of with, perhaps, too much levity ; bonds and trammels which regulated the actions of or but no man who knew Mr. Brass, could, for a moment, dinary men,had thought fit to force his way to the floor think less highly of him from a perusal of this work ; of a Court of Justice, there to seek for reparation in nor was it, in the most remote degree, the intention of damages, for an attempt to hold bins up to public ridi- Mr. Wright to give the slightest pain to that respected cule and contempt—a 'man who ought to be justly held Gentleman, much less to do any thing which could, by irp to ridicule and contempt, for having attempted to' possibility, have a tendency to lower his character in make a base and sordid. profit, by revealing 'to the eyes the eyes of his friends or of the public. The Learned of the public, of the profane, the cold-hearted, and the - Gentleman here read the libel, and commented upon it disinterested—to the reading part of his countrymen— as he went along. What, he would ask, was there to all the little foibles of men whilst students at the justify the reviewer in making a comparison between University, by laying bare to the public gaze those, l Mr. Wright's work and a certain publication, which was private slanders which the most worthless men, one of the most flagrant and audacious works that was who gained their livelihood by the most degrading ever published in this or any other country—a work means, bad hitherto looked upon as sacred, and had which was a disgrace to the press from which it issued? not ventured to detail, and probably never would What grounds had the reviewer for charging Mr. have been detailed, if the plaintiff had not come Wright with the loss of the friendship and acquaint- forward to degrade the name of author, and to make ance of his College companions? If Mr. Wright went the name of a man of education, and a member by the name of " wretch Wright" at the University, he of a University, disgusting, disgraceful, and despicable was not aware of it ; but of the mention of his name in beyond description. The plaintiff had thought fit to that way, he did not complain, because Mr. Wright break down the ordinary barriers, and to expose, now was well aware, that to those College names there was for the first time, and he (Mr. Brougham) hoped for the no meaning attached, and that they were not the con- Last, to that publicity to which Courts, Camps, the sequences of any malicious or bad feeling. But Houses of Parliament, and Courts of Justice, only had though the reviewer might be justified in mentioning hitherto been liable, the cloisters of the College, and Mr. W.'s name with this College addition to it, what the habits and pursuits of its retired, respected, pious, right had he to intro..tuce Mr. Wright's personal ap- 'and learned inmates—he had done that which, instead pearance, and to say that his face appeared to have of giving more publicity to his conduct, by appearing been carved out of the most disgusting and noisome in a Court of Justice as plaintiff in an action for cia composition—a heap of stable dung? Was there any mages, he and his Blend. (it the author of such a work thing in Mr. Wri A hes woe k which fairly called forth could have any friends left) ought to be the most anxi uch a statement? He did not complain of the ous to withiraw from public notice—lie had exposed to rev:ewer for haring exposed the bad taste of the plain- the public glare the sacred haunts of science, the places appropriated for the education of innocent youth, of Unformed habits and characters, and of the most tender - years—he had commented against society an (fence of a character so colpahle and disgraceful, that if he were reduced to the dreadful alternative of the workhouse, or parish relief, to save him horn starving, he, if he were a man of right feelings, would have preferred the dreadful alternative, rather than have exposed to public view the peculiarities of those charitable and worthy iaJividuals whom he • praised and lampooned in the same page, and who, according to his own account, rescued him from a state of abject poverty. This was the man who had the audacity, the incredible assurance, to come into a Court of Justice to demand compensa tion in damages from a man who had bestowed upon such conduct the most moderate, mitigated, and chas tened degree of blame, a degree of blame below what the exigency of strict justice loudly callel for. If a Jury could be found who would give such a man those da mages to which the wronged e injared, and calumniated man wai fairly entitled, there would be a cruel close put to all discussion—there would be an end to College dis cipline and government—there would be an end to that respect paid by pupils to their teachers-there would be an end to all that was wholesome, edifying, and useful, in those places devoted for the education of men; and that would be effected by a man, who, in addition to those benefits which were largely showered down upon the rich and the noble as well as upon the poor, who onte admission within the precincts of those hallowerripots, had admitted that he had received favours, to which be could not; in the ordinary course, justly lay claim, and who, if he had a heart to feel, or had within his bosom any thing which deserved the name of that organ of sensibility, would, as was very properly remarked by the reviewer, have looked beet upon those sacred scenes with feelings of the deepest gratitude, in addition to those feelings with which men of all ranks and con ditions contemplated this life, and, down to the grave, the scenes of their early education. If the plaintiff had a heart to feel, he must feel that no man ever entered those hallowed precincts in humbler circumstances, iit poorer plight, as to worldly Matters; that he received from one Member of the University an annual stipend of thirty pounds; that the charitable man who afforded him that stipend out of his own pocket had, from feel ings of delicaty, falsely asserted that it came from a public fund for charitable purposes; and that another member of that University had gratuitously appro. printed to his (plaintiff's) instruction, the only hour which he could spare from his collegiate avocatroni, and for that hour he was obliged to trench upon the time appro. .printed to needful' repose. Many arm educated in the Universities must have known the foibles and pecu liarities which the plaintiff had the ingratitude to expose to public view,but no man had hitherto had the audacity to try the experiment.lt was well known that the most fera tile laud produced tares as well as wheat, and in his opinion the University had no greater crime to answer for than the having, from time to time, produced among the brightest ornaments of the Senate and the Bench, such rank and noxious weeds as the plaintiff. His Learned Friend, the Attorney-General, had said, that there was no meaning in those College names; that it was per fectly harmless to direct the attention of the public to the individual who bore a prat:omen not given to him by his godfahers and godmothers.--(a laugh); but he (Mr. Brougham) should not like to have the experiment tried upon himself, and his Learned Friend, the Attorney-General, would, no doubt, be of the same mind, if he were the object pointed at by the plaintiff. He thought it would be going too far to say, that any man, down from the secluded head (the most sensitive of public glare) of a college, to the more callous courtier, or person engaged in active life, either in the Senate, the Camp, or the Courts of Law, could bear with patience a publication, proclaimiwg to the whole world his failings, his foibles, and his pecu liarities. -11•-was willing to admit that the plaintiff proclaimed the charities of that est'mable man, Mr, Brass, whom be (Mr. Brougham) regretted he had not the honour of being acquainted with; but he must, at the same time say, that the plaintiff had, almost in the same page in which he recorded those charities, re corded, to his own everlasting disgrace, Isis. own base ness and ingratitude. How did the plaintiff speak of Mr. Brass ? In his book there was this passage:—" I cannot let slip this opportunity to state, that when Mr. Brass got disguised," he did so and so ; but, added the plaintiff, " this was not more than once or twice a Term, that I know of." Was it, he put it to the Jury, a pleasant thing, whether true or not, for any man to be told that he got drunk once or twice a Term, " that I know of ?" By the concluding part of the sentence, the plaintiff meant it to be understood that other people knew more of that matter than he did. He was as great a friend to the liberty of the press as his Learned Friend (the Attorney• General); but when he considered the nature of this publication, and that it would be read eagerly by those young men, who ought to look up with respect and veneration to their tutors, whose duty it was to form their minds by precept and by example, he confessed that, to publications of this descrip tion, which no one could doubt were a gross abuse of the true freedom of the press, he should prefer, at once, the admission of reporters into every private dining room, into every convivial party, for the express pur pose of publishing to the world every expression which might fall from persons enjoying the festive board. In the book written by the plaintiff we had the foibles and peculiarities' of our younger brothers at the Universities minutely detailed, and if Juries could be found to say that any language applied to the author of such a disgraceful publication was libellous, and that he ought to receive a compensation in •damages, the next step would be a detail of all the foibles and youthful pranks of our tender infants at Westminster, Eton, Harrow, the Charter House, and other public schools. The Jury would read the whole of the pub lication, of which a part was selected, as the foun dation of this action, and they would see that the rea viewerbad selected some passages from the plaintiff's work, and had given him credit for the talent which those passages displayed. That fact would be a suffi cient answer to the imputation of malicious feelings upon the part of the reviewer. Re fully agreed with the reeimver in his concluding observation—" We con clude our notice with lamenting that Alma Mater ' produced so degenerate a man, as one who is to sell the peculiarities and conversations of his bi for filthy lucre." If the Jury thought there violation of decency in publishing to the world rate conversations of a man's friends and ear) cistes, they would find a •erdict for the Odin teach a lesson to the defendant, and to every m. bed a heart within his breast, and whose feeling in the right place, that be a book ever so reprehensible, no man shall express his feelings—those feelings which are common to all honourable minds—upon the conduct I, ! . fil iili i •• . 1 i 111 1 • 1 . f IF 1 I t i 1 1 I: 1 i ! ' 1 i . ' ater has 1 t willing brethren was no ' - the pri- rly ass°. itill, and -, nan who r r ig s were hensible, p whic,h conduct - 1