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COURT OP KING'S BENCH, JANUARY 4. LIBELS ON TILE LATE QUEEN. THE KING v. WEAVER AND OTHERS. This was an indictment against the defendants, Thomas Robert Weaver, Thomas Arrowsmith, •and William Shackell, for publishing in the Sunday News paper, called John Bull, five several libels of and concerning her late Majesty, Caroline, Queen Consort of these Realms. Mr. DENMAN, in an able and eloquent address to the Jury, opened the case for the prosecution. He said, that this was an indictment which his Leaped Friend, Mr. Brougham, and himself, in the disch*ge of their duty, had caused to be preferred against the defendants, on behalf of her late Majesty, whom they considered entitled as much to the protection of her feelings and reputation; as the meanest of the subjects of her Royal husband. In consequence of the la mented death of her Majesty, those official situations which his Learned Friend and himself had held, and which entitled them to a different station at the Bar, bad been discontinued, and it not suiting the pleasure of those who had the distribution of professional ho nours to continue their rank, the honour of conduct ing this pro se cution had devolved upon himself, in stead of his Learned Friend, and not from any sup position that his Learned Friend had withdrawn his sanction of the prosecution, or from his wish to throw into much weaker hands that duty which belonged to himself. They had found it to be their duty to bring before the Jury, for their consideration, no less than five publications, which they could not abstain from doing consistently with their feelings of respect and attachment for the dead, or with a proper regard to the public justice of the country, or with the least attention to the first interests of society. The Learned Counsel, after stating the proofs he should lay before the Jury to convince them most satisfactorily that the defendant; were the publishers of the Paper in ques tion, proceeded to read the different libels, and com ment upon them in energetic terms as he went along. The first libel was published in the Paper of the 25th of February, and was contained in an article upon Mr. Wilberforce, in the following terms—" We can not bear that the only House in England in which a shagreless woman is to be received with honour, should be the Hpuse of GOD, and that the only place in- which her name could be pronounced without he sitation and a blush, should be before the table of the, LORD."—" Amidst all the frightful consequences which have followed, or may follow, this unhappy discussion about the Queen, it is a consolation to think that it has at least had the good effect of unmasking the pious, the patriotic, and the literary pretensions ' of Mr. W. Wilberforce, who will be known to poste rity as the saint of the 19th century, who wrote a book against cards and playhouses, and published a speech for admitting a woman convicted of an adul terous intercourse into a station of distinction and honour in the prayers of the Church." The next libel was published on the 11th of March, and was in the following terms :—" We should be as much surprised to s e e figs growing on a briar, as to see sentiments of duty, propriety, or modesty in the Queen. For what purpose she Olinks fit now to assume those qualities, we cannot guess, but we can tell her that-the result will be to disgust the Public ten times more than her violent, undutiful, and seditious conduct has hitherto done. We think it unnecessary to add a syllable more, except to entreat our Readers to keep their eyes fixed on this new manoeuvre, and to be on their guard against what the character and principles of the Queen convince us is but a new device of mis chief. Whenever we see Old Father Thames change his course, and flow back again from Westminster to Henley Midge, we shall believe that the Queen is returning to a due sense of her domestic duties, her private honour, and her public station."—The next libel was published on the Bth of April, and was as follows The Queen has been declared guilty of adultery by the highest 'Faunal in the country. The Queen is degraded, and her name excluded from the Liturgy: The Queen has admitted th•justice of all this, and has taken the price of her shame. In short, the Queen has fallen into oblivion, and had she one spark of decency, one feeling of remorse in her whole com position, there she would remain. But no; callous, heartless, and hardened as she is, she is making great and frightful struggles to be received into society ; knowing her assurance and insensibility,this does not at all surprise us, but that two respectable women are to be found to aid and abet her in her monstrous efforts to de moralise the country, does, indeed, fill us with wonder. Party feelings, we all know, carry men great lengths; hut we never did suppose that they could have led, or rather driven, Lord Jersey to have suffered, and Lord Grey to have ordered, their respective wives ' to visit a profligate woman, who has been de.. clared guilty of adultery in open Court, ac."— In the Paper of the 14th of May, the following al-' leged libel appeared :—" It is a fact, incontroverti ble, that we never noticed any female whose name had not been previously printed is the Times and Uronicle, as associates and supporters of the Queen. In analysing those Ladies' characters, after they.had volunteered them for the sake of the most abandoned of her sex, we did justice to the thousands and tens of thousands of modest and unpretending females who shuddered at the vices and profligacy of the Queen, and who, but for our -salutary explanations, might have been induced, by the high sounding titles of Duchesses and Countesses, to have wavered in their belief of the Queen's guilt, and have been be trayed into the infectious vapour of Brandenburgh ILJuse. At the success of our efforts, in the cause of morality, we rejoice; and we promise our Readers, that every woman who is bold enough to brave the contaminating association with the Queen s and whose natne shall previously appear blazoned forth in the Papers as her companion, shall in like manner be elposed and laid open to public inspection, public obloquy, and public contempt." And the last al leged libel appeared on the 27th of May, and was i n t he following terms, under the head " King's Theatre :"—" Cold, however, as has been the recep tion Of the Queen at other places, where, as Mrs. James, she ventured to sit amongst decent women, the mortification, the neglect, and silent contempt given her, must have been light compared with the pangs which she must have suffered when she heard the cries .of Out, out Sharine, . shame Be of r —' Get out!' which were loudly -and sparingly shouted forth by the husbands and bro tilers of the respectable females present. That she felt this marked and positive reprobation of her scan dalous life we fully believe, for sfie get away before the end of the second act of the Opera. If her Ma jesty was sufficiently sober (ito insinuation which, the Learned Counsel said, was as foul and as base as it was uttetly false), when she came to . the • house to remember what happened while she was in it, she will perceive, hat however hirelings in a one-shil ling gallery may be inclined to cheer wantonness and support proffigacy for pay, that in an assembly of women of virtue and men of honour, she must not shew her face." Upon some of the passages of these several publications, the Learned Counsel commented with marked indignation. If the Press of this coun try, so conducted, were directed against the Govern ment, no Government could stand against it ; and if, a 1 on the other hand, it were countenanced by a Go vernment, a more odious, a more cruel, or a more atrocious system of despotism could. not be esta blished against the liberties of a people. He should leave the case to the calm and sober deliberation of the Jury.—The publication of the libels by the de fendants was proved by incontestible evidence. After thelibels had been read, The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said, he appeared as Counsel for the defendants, but it would be idle for him to pretend to deny that many passages of these publications were not libellous; it would be a waste of time to attempt to contend to the contrary here; and he should be better discharging his duty by reserving whatever he had to offer in mitigation of punishment, when the case should come before the Court in another shape. • The Cater Jounce left it to the Jury to say whe ther they were satisfied with the proof of proprietor ship and publication by the &fen lants, and the Jury, after a few minutes deliberation, found all the defendants Guilty. lIM LAW INTELLIGENCE. WESTMINSTER SESSIONS, JANUARY 4. Henry Wilson and John Farmer were indicted for attempting feloniously to enter the cellar- of John Jervis Kerr, Esq. at his house in Mount-street, Gros venor-square. Mary Franks, servant to Mr. Kerr, deposed that, the prisoner Wilson entered into Mr. Kerr's service in the month of August last, and went with him to Ireland (where Mr. Kerr is) in the month of Septem ber. Some time before Mr. Kerr went to Ireland, witness and Wilson removed all the plate into the wine-cellar by Mr. Kerr's directions. The wine-. collar was inside the butler's pantry. Mr. Kerr fas tened the door of the cellar himself by two locks and a screw: he also put a seal on the door. Wilson re turned to Mr. Kerr's house.in the month of October, and told the witness he had left Mr. Kerr, but was desired by him to live at his houie till he could ac commodate himself. Witness believed what Wilson said, and took him to reside in the house. Oa the following Tuesday, Wilson brought the prisoner Farmer with him, and they both went into the but ler's pantry, and stayed there half an hour. On their going -out, witness examined the pantrs and saw that the screw in the wine-cellar was partly drawn out, and in a drawer she found tt turnscrew that was not there before. Wilson continued to live in the house; and witness made no observation on what she had seen, but frequently examined the wine-cellar door; and on the following Thursday, after Wilson went out in the morning, she found that. the screw was taken out and the seal removed, and the bolt of one of the locks unshot. She immediately gave in formation to Plank, the officer, who came and exa mined the door, and left two officers in waiting to apprehend Wilson when he should return, which was accordingly done that evening. Witness said the prisoner Farmer called at the house the ensuing Saturday, to inquire for Wilson, when he was also apprehended. The officers who apprehended Wilson said, that while they kept him in the house, he thlew a num ber of skeleton keys and a file into a sink, which they took out and produced in Court. Plank, the officer, stated, that he asked Wilson how he came by the skeleton-keys? and he replied, that Farmer had given them to him, but that they only intended to take the wine out of the cellar, for which Farmer had agreed to give him half-a-crown a bottle, and that they did not mean to touch the plate. This witness also proved, that when Farmer was appre hended, he sent an officer to search his lodgings, and shewed Farmer some skeleton keys and a file that were found in his box, which he acknowledged as his. Mr. ALLEY addressed the Jury for Farmer, con tending that there was not sufficient evidence for his conviction. If they believed the prisoners had agreed together to rob the seine•cellar, and had, in pursu ance of that agreement, done any act whatsoever, they were both equally guilty ; and it appeared by the evidence of the first witness, that they must have been both present at the time the screw was loosened in the door.--The. Jury, after a short consultation, found both the prisoners —Guilty. The CHAIRMAN said, that the crime was one that called for exemplary punishment; and the Court would take time to consider what that punishment should be before pronouncing judgment. David Roach, a genteel-looking young man, hut dressed in apparel of a very shabby description, scarcely sufficient to cover him, was indicted for un lawfully selling to Mrs. Charlotte Wooffe, a piece of paper, purporting to be an admission for two to the Boxes of Covent-Garden Theatre, on the evening of the 4th of December, when in fact it was no such thing, and thereby defrauding Mrs. Wooffe of 4s. The prosecutrix deposed, that the prisoner offered her two double Box-orders, signed Lascelles, fur 4s. she paid him that sum, but was refused admittance on presenting them to Mr. Gatliffe, the Clerk of the Free List, who told her no such person as Lascelles belonged to that Establishment. The prisoner in defence pleaded great distress. He said he received the orders at the Stock Exchange, from a young man who occasionally gave him orders for the West London Theatrge ; he also got orders frequently from Gentlemen belonging to Covent- Garden Theatre, because his father bad been printer to the Theatre, and he would not have sold these orders had he been aware they were false orders.— Verdict—Guilty. Sentenced to three months' im prisonment in the House of Correction. PALACE COURT, JANUARY 4. GAMULING.UOLLOWAY V. 11EAGER• This was an action to recover £lO on a bill of ex change given to the son of the plaintiff by she de fendant, and accepted by him. The facts of the case were shortly these Joseph Holloway, the son of the plaintiff, kept the sign of the Green Man, Shipyard, near Temple-bar, about eighteen months .since. The defendant had gone to the house, and josined a party at cards, and being rather overcome by liquor, Joseph Holloway, the landlord, sat down to play with him, and, as stated, won £lO. The defendant then gave him a bill for £LS, which was renewed, and subsequently a bill for £lO was given, deducting £5. Mr. BURTON MORRIS, the Judge, in summing up, expressed i hope that publicity would be given to the case, as it was one that most particularly called for it; and he trusted it would come before the Ma. gistrates. Here was a landlord sitting down at ten o'clock, in his own house, and playing until four in the morning at cards. By his own shewing he had won seven pounds from the defendant ; and looking at the case in the character of a Magistrate, he should certainly say, that such a man was unfit to again obtain a license.—The Jury consulted for a few mi nutes, and then found 'a verdict for the defendant. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, JANUARY 4. Elizabeth Rudder, an insolvent who applied to the Court for her discharge, was opposed on the gronnd of having defrauded her creditors, and especially a Mr. Eyles, of their property. It-appeared that the insolvent, who is a female of an advanced age, had, in combination with her nephew, so artfully disposed of her property, that the creditors had no means of obtaining a shilling in payment of their debts. The COURT animadverted in severe terms upon the conduct of the insolvent, and had no difficulty in declaring that she had practised a direct cheat upon her creditors. Such gross misconduct could not be lightly passed over, and the judgment of the Court, therefore, was, that she be imprisoned for lout teen months at the suit of Mr. Eyles, her detaining credi tor, from the date of filing her petition. In the course of the day a great number of debtor; were discharged. There were very few opposed. BOW-STREET.—Mr. Haines, a Gentleman residing near Cranford-bridge, requested the assistance of the Magistrate, yesterday, in his efforts to bring to jus tice some persons who had wilfully set fire to several ricks of corn and a barn upon his estate. They were discovered to be on fire at day-break on Thursday morning, and were in a very short time consumed, all efforts to extinguish the flames being useless. The owners of land in that neighbourhood had lately found it necessary to make a reduction fn the wages of the labourers, which excited mach discontent among them, and threats of mischief had been heard to fall from some of them. He wished to take an ex perienced officer down with him, as some circum stances had come to his knowledge which he thought would lead to the detection of the perpetrators. Mr. HALLS readily acceded to the request, and sent an experienced officer with Mr. Haines, with directions to use every exertion to trace the offenders. MARLBOROUOII-STREET—John Tye, Job Jones, was yesterday brought up in the custody of Kinsey, Goff, and Lawrence, three of the Lambeth officers, charged with being a dealer, to a very great extent, in forged notes, counterfeit sovereigns, &c. The pri soner said nothing in his defence, and he was fully committed to Newgate to take his trial. OUTRAGE IN CHARLES-STREET.—Burrell, Angel, and Pethie&, were again brought up for final exami nation. Pethick was admitted an evidence. The otloer two prisoners were fully committed for trial. MARY-LA-BONNE OFFICIL—TWO lads, named Wil liams and Newbery, were yesterday brought before the sitting Magistrates, by Schofield, a constable, who said that he observed the prisoners come up the area steps of a Gentleman's house in Portland-place, and give something to a man who was in their company, with which he ran away. The prisoners denied being in the area, and said they merely came up in conse quence of seeing two men fighting. The Magistrate (Mr. RAWLINSON) discharged %Villiams, and ordered Newbery to be committed for trial, he being an old offender, although young in years. A few hours after Williams had been released, he was again brought to the Office, and underwent an examination before the Magistrates, charged with stealing a coat. The pri soner was remanded. LAMBETH-STREET.—Mary Smith was brought up for a second examination, charged by R. Archer with robbing and otherwise maltreating him. It ap peared from the prosecutor's statement, that on Tues day last, about mid-day, he was going along High street, Whitechapel, when he was met by the pri• sorter, who enticed him to one of the brothels in George-yard, where she and three or four other young women, after knocking him down, held him fast with a handkerchief to his mouth, to prevent his giving any alarm, and the prisoner forcibly took from his pocket 6s. 6d. being all the money he had about him. The prisoner denied all knowledge of the robbery, but the prosecutor swore positively to her identity, and she was remanded. TOWN-HALL, SOUTIIWA K.-Ilugh Kelly, a poor Irish boy, who had, on completing his apprentice ship to a Sunderland trader, received £2l, and had been robbed of it by a messmate, who quitted the ship at the time, was brought up yesterday, having been found crying' at a door-way in the Borough.— He told a piteous story of his journey from Dover to London, during which he had been driven out of every house, either because he was an Irishman, or because he was suspected of being a thief, and had subsisted on raw potatoes. A great difficulty now arose how. he was to be disposed of; he had not even the claim of a casual pauper upon the parish, and co'ild not be assisted by them. Mr. Alderman &writ at length ordered him to be provided for in the Compter, and to be allowed all the conveniences which the prison regulations admitted of. At the mention of the word " prison," the poor Hibernian burst into a flood cf tears, and declared that he had done no harm, nor could all the kindness of the Map.istrate drive from his mind the terrors which that sentence had raised in it. He will be passed to his own country. Wednesday night, as Mr. Russem., plumber, of High -street, Lambeth, as returning to his residence from Newington, he was surrounded by a formidable gang of thieves, who robbed him, and beat and kicked him unmercifully, by which he ::,id one of his legs broken. Seven notorious fellows were in consequence apprehended, forming part of a gang who infest that neighbourhood, aid ssho have committed the most daring depredations. The . wlfole of theinwere car ried before the Magistrates at Union-Hall, where they underwent an examination, and were remanded for the attendance of Mr. It ussz&a. to zi vs: evidence. QLASGOW JANUARY 1. New Year's Day, so far at it has gone, has been held with all the spirit that was anticipated. The clocks had no sooner proclaimed the knell of 1821. than the I,..eets were thronged with people goi ng a , g first footing," and the new year was welcoined with all imaginable hilarity. At every hou s e the visi tors hiet with new acquaintance, the bottles were soon emptied, and, as many of the spirit-deale rs were in attendance, they were very soon replenished. About four o'clock the streets became quieter ; rna:.s of the people went to their bras, and ()Oleic sat dc.w . ; in merry groupes, and pushed round the glas., tl e song, and the tale, till the morning daw.w.l. Th e heavy rain which came on about nine o'clock, and - still continues, has kept most of the lieges wi,hin doors. From the excellent arrangements carried ir,r,, effect at the Police Office, the greatest safety, indeed' harmony, was preserved on the streets this morning, and not a single accident is kr.own to have ee:rurred of a serious nature, very much to the comfort, saitty, and wishes of the v otaries of the New Year. The passengers in one of the Giacgo'.v sttYrn-I.rats had a fine opportunity on Saturday of seeing a lar e whale, which rose to the surface cf the water just as they were passing Old Kirk. The stormy ‘‘e.dier appears to have driven many of these intercsti•ig in habitants of the ocean into the cle'ks. Last week one of them was for some time ashore a;: Roseileath, but it got off before the fisherinen could sec;tre it. An inquest was held on Thursday, at the Wellhigton, Corn Non- street, Tottenham-corn t-: oad, on the body of Edward Edwards, aged chitty- The landlord of the Southampton Ardis, in Totten ham-court-road, depo'.ed, that on Tu,:sclay night the deceased came to his house in a state of excessive in toxication, and took a seat in one of the boxes; he gave him no liquor, and at eleven o'clock ordered tLe house to be cleared for the purpose of shutting up; when, on going up to the deceased, who was sitting with his head leaning on a table, he found him life less; he sent for a surgeon, who deposed that his death was occasioned by drinking ardent spirits to ex cess. Verdict—Died front excessive drinking. , Sunday night, a servant-man uf Wm. M ILLS. El. of Lincoln; lost his life by incautiously drinking a glass of gin and water boiling hot. Medical a .sit.t.ice was prrcured, but he'survived only four hours; he i.ad the character of a very sober young man, and 1,4,1 lived in his place several years as groom. Yesterday evening an Inquest was held at the Goat, Pimlico, on the body of an interesting little boy, aged eleven, son of Mr. Higgins, a respectable inhabitant of Pimlico. It appeared, that on Thursday evening, about six o'clock, the deceased was taken with a pain in his head, and continued in that state until eigln, when he requested his nurse to let him get nut of bed, and lean his head on the bedstead. She complied wifi his wish, and thinking lie would get better, she went down stairs ; on her revirn she found him kneeling by the bedside, with his head between his hands, re,t ing on the bed, a corpse. Verdict—Dial)" the 17i site:lion of GOD. Wednesday, Mr. Coles, who resided in Bennett street, Oxford •street, was walking with his wife and sister along the street, conver,ing with them, and ap peared in an excellent state of health and spirits. Ile made an observation which excited iaughter, iu which he heartily joined, and in an instant dropped down, and expired. • NEW GATEAxo TRADENIIIALT:ItiaIiK JA — X. 4. (By the Carcase.) Beef 2s Od to 3s OJ Veal 3s 4J to Si 4J Mutton.. 2s Od to 2s I Pork .........2s 041 to 31 $1 PR ICES or lIA AND STRAW Y ESTER 9.1 . ST. J• MKS ' S. V/ NITECINIAPKL. flay 31 Or Od to 41 4s Od Hay... 31 10s to 41 41 04 Straw 11 4s Od to 11 13s Od Straw 11 6s to 11 16s t 4 Clover 3110 s Od to 41 1M 041 Clover 41 Os to 51 5, CJ _ PRICE OF HOPS. WIW SAGS. NEW POCKETS. Kent ...... 21 lOs to 41 1.5. s I Kent Susses 2l Os to 21 111. Sussex Essex Foreign ... 01 Os to 01 Os Farnham PRICE or TALLOW, Town Tallow 47s Od Yellow Russia 47s Od White ditto Soap ditto Melting Stuff . 38s Od SOAP, &c. per 1 Ditto rough ........ ..... 2.1. Yellow Soap Mottled .. Curd Palm PRICE OF CA N DLES—From Tallow Chandlers' IL& Candles, per doz. 9s tid—Moulds, I Is Od; ed. per dozen allowed for ready money. II A \V II DES. Best Heifers and Steers (per Ordinaiy... 2s 4d to 2s a stone) 3s 4d to 35 ud Market Calf lOs Od to Os cd Middlings us Ed to 2s Ind Eng. (lure Os Od to Os 04 Sheepskin , 3s. 6d. to 4s. ed.—Downs. 2s. 10d. to 3s. Q. t'RICE OF LSATULR. Butti, 50 to 561hs each ^/d to 51441 per lb. Ditto, 56 to G6lbs each . _id to 44d Dressing Hides 174 to 19i Fine Coach Hides lai to 214 Crop Hides, 35 to 401bs for cottirg 17i to 1811 Ditto 45 to ;dll,. 18i to Calf Skins, 30 t• 401bs '4d to 304 Ditto 50 to ;ins 9.1141 to 5.5.1 Ditto 70 to St ottd to '294 Small Seals (Greenland) lll.l to 204 Large ditto lid to 184 Tanned Horse Hicks l6d to 18; Spanish horse 11 ides 11 , d to _'id _ . COAL iIIAUIKT.T, JAN. 4. _Ships Sold. 52i 30 Ships at Market. Ille Neweaqle 54 Sunderland Scfatch Coal n ice. 35s 04I'to 424 5d 341 Oil to 4Cs 6d 00s Od to cos Ca curxrtul• mmtKETs. Osrosn, JAN. 3.—The price of the Hiff-ieck Loaf Mouse. bold) is UsietetisAti :S.—Wheat, per I sass, £7 0s to £lB 10s. — New Whew - , • C.O• to .E.V.) O;.--1.1.1r/ey, per quarter, 17s to• 27.,5--o.its., 14 to 251.--iieu:ls, 21. 1 s to 539.—Itye, Os. to Os.— Peas, 25s to NEW 61::[V, 11E2104 J. :I.—Wheat, .2.-14 to 745--Par!, e. 16 to 204-0:.t4, 14s to :.Ss.—Heranss 'Xs to 35 .I' to 28i.— Rye, Us to Os.--Rre.td, is -Id to is 6.1 per (lall.sr• 13A oil:K V, .1.1 .1.--Whe:1,74 , 4. 341..;a 944. 0414, Ve.ots, 0.1. to 4s Od.—VetAcs, Os 041 per bushel.- I .l.irley, 144 to I:d+ Oats,l2 041. to 26s 041 per gluten—Bread, le 6d half peek ; and imalicr in proportion, Flour 34.. pee pack. • . . 11 A ILS ?ins MT.—AXIL tics. Dublin 1 0 W.lterford 4 0 Guernsey Alla Jersey 1 2 .10)on 0 1 Ilollatd 1 0 New York 0 0 • It Ifamburgb 0 I I•lanJers 1 0 Jamaica 0 u Gottctiburgh o • 0 ',reward Islamls 0 1G H • NV ATuit at LON VON' Mc flung Afternoon $1111)t.1c .401111' 7 % — a. - 50 nunve* aka 10 , 10 ...m.r.•••••••••11,1=•• 11 publish.tl rich 4: Printet - 1 Pbce, Temple-BAG France t l' II