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1..41: Al '. ikt ', : • .. . . ' ' ' La, INTELtieekOz; - eouRT OF sitiosnick nyi..10.• . ?Nit KING V. LATRAM. This diy came onbefore Lord Eeetwacetotron and a Special Jury, the trial of Miss Frances Latham foi Perjury. Mr. BOLLARD opened the case on the- part of e prosecution, stating the offence *ith which Mr. Bar rett was charged by the defendant, in the present pro. seeution, to be one of a capital n a t ur e, an d t h e charg ing of which could have been intended with the sole object of depriving him of his life, character, and . feputation. lVfi t .Serjean t BEST, on the same side, de c la re d himhimself unequal at this moment to the task he had undeitaken, labouring as he did under great personal infirmity. After the discussions, however, which the subject had underg one in various places, he begged it to be understood that nothing bad occurred to have him think of retreating . from his duty. The crime originally charged against his client was oft which, if proved, would have affected his life. No mercy, could have been interposed in hie behalf. He must have died, and he must, moreover, have died unpi tied. The *sent prosecution was : of 'consequence, not only to the individual who had' been . .accused by' the Lady now under prosecution, but to the public. He felt that he owed the piesent prosecution not only to himself but to the public. If the atory - she had ttleman t who left Cadiz on the sth inst. states I raised should be proved to be altogether invention, it people of that city were greatly enraged ; was his duty to bring her to. punishment. It would Members of the late Junta, some of whom be his (Mr. Serjeant Bear's) duty, in roving the publicly denounced as traitors to their present case, not only to shew that the prosecutor • Four of them had not arrived in the island not only was perfectly innocent of the crime original the above date, and it was supposed they ly imputed to him ; but it would even become in wer to the enemy. Several others of them sumbent on him to prove all possibility of mistake on arrived, were peisonally assailed by the • the part of the defendant, and that the whole was a and had nearly fallen victims to their wicked invention on her part. resentment. Central VENEGAS was also With all the respect which he entertained for the treason, and though he had publicly ap- i feelings of the defendant's father, whom he readily gotection, it was with the utmost di ffi culty I allowed to be a most respectable, eminent and learn with his life. As a proof of the traiterous I ed Physician, he should be wanting to his own duty, the Junta, it is positively stated that the ; to the character and honour of his client, to the best ,LBUQUDRQUE had received five different ex- l interests of the public, and the great cause of public them, ordering him to take a widely dif- . justice, were he not to call upon the Jury in the most from that which his own judgment and ; emphatic terms for a verdict against the defendant. had induced him to pursue ; and, had he i The prosecutor, so far from being actuated by yin terwise, it is evident his whole army must idictive motives, had only one grand object, one grand been destroyed or taken prisoners. This! view o one grand desire, which was to establish his -ce reached the Island of Leon in a most i innoeence so very completely, as to destroy even the state of privation and distress, but on !.possibility of suspicion. He had iu truth been placed in they were cherished by the people, bailed , a most perilous situation, in consequence of a charge generous defenders, and supplied with all the so abominable in its nature, so obstinately insisted • the country could afford. upon, and proceeding from a person whose character, lerstood that King JOIRPII accompanied : education,. and connexions in life, combhled to give idvanced-guard of his avny nntil it arrived at I weight to it. Mr. Barrett roust , but for the special after which he returned to Cordova, where: interference of PROVIDESCR, have been laid in irons in "head-quarters were established. By the latest ; Horsham gaol, tried for his life, and probably hang the French forces were inconsiderable in 'ed ; so very easy, as it had been remarked by an emi of country between Seville and Cadiz, but inent Judge, was it to make such charges, and so very extending themselves towards the eastern difficult to repel them. To the providence of GOD he are already in possession of the city of was peculiarly indebted for the establishment of his where Moorish gallantry, during three i nnocence ' f or i t so h a pp ene d, alth oug h hi s f a mily defied the prowess of the Christian warriors. resided at ' Worthing, the place where lie was accused of this movensent, probably, is to cut off with having perpetrated the dreadful outrage, and he ' limitation of the patriot army with the was in the habit of frequenting it,.that be was not oast. It will be recollected, that, after the there for many days before, nor on the 10th, 11th, the Spanish forces in the defiles of the lip- and 12th of July, the three days, and the last in par ' fled to the province of Jaen, in the wild ticular, sworn to by the defendant.. . - • the Sierra Susanna, where by this judicious After a few more prefatory remarks, Mr. Best pro operation of the enemy, connected with his seeded to state the testimony of Miss Latham, on her in the province of Murcia, they are now i examination at Marlborough-street Office, before Mr. fete!), insulated. Justice Neve. It was to the following effect :—She the precise strength of the Spanish navy, was walking along South -street, Worthing, at seven . the direction of Admiral PURYI2, we are o'clock in the morning of the 10th of July, after (armed, but we believe the number of ships of having left her brother and maid-servant at a bathing. been understated. Seven of this descrip- machine, when she was overtaken by the defendant, iped into Cadiz, after the b a ttl e of Trafalgar, who took her 'by the arm, and 'pressed his conversa _,'lt were obtain e d f rom F erro l, a nd fi ve t i on upon h er . She declined his company, but he men of war devolved into the possession of st ill so li c it e d her to grant him five minutes conversa 'iards, at the commencement of hostilities ,_. tiou. the defendant followed her to the door of her in the whol e , a f orce o f twenty s hip s of lodgings, where he.left her. The next morning, being the 11th, Miss Latham saw the defendant pass the ‘tleman who left Embden on the 11th inst. house, but she supposed he did not see her. On the .at that time, there was no commercial in- morning of the 12th, between eight and nine o'clock, between Embden and the adjacent country. she had returned from bathing, and whilst sitting on tch troops have appeared, or were imme- her sof,a and perusing a book, she heard the latch of :petted in that vicinity, and the alarm of the door opened, and suspecting it to be the son of mach was n ot so great as has been repre- Mr. King, of Bedford-row, she, to her surprise, beheld — . German journals of the same date mention the defendant, who followed her hastily into her draw tment of Count Rom A s z ow to the Presi- jug -room. She shrieked: he immediately began to the Chief Council, under the new arrange- take liberties, and Miss Latham fainted. She did 'not 'hen his Imperial Majesty do e s not assist its know what happened until some time after, when she ins in person. A paragraph from Vienna partly recovered, and found herself on the sofa, with the arrival of the French Minister, M. a handkerchief tied over her mouth. She fell from Lintz, where he was received with a salute the sofa. The Defendant had taken off her white Tp and it is added that he will be welcomed sash, and tied her hands at the wrist ; he observed distinction and ceremony at the Court. that she should not be Bust, and advised her not to be 'Marshal K IRPFN h a d b een appo i nte d Vi ce . alarmed. After halting violated her person, the De the Council of War. fendant used pressing soliciations to prevail on her to following decree regarding Walcheren, was elope, and he added, that a post-chaise should he 'at Paris, .on the Ist inst. : - waiting' for her at the door of Mr. Ogle. He assured :she of ralcheren shall, be admitted. to the her that he would treat her affectionately. She should Sub-Prnfecturate. ' .go to his country house, and have a carriage and ser principal Seat of Gosiernment shall be esta- earns at her command. The Defendant loosened the : Middleborgh. handkerchief from her mouth, in order,' as he said, to Sub-Prafecturate of Walcheren shall be pro- receive a gratifying answer to the proposed elopement; i attached to the Department of the Scheldt." but on her refusing, and stating that she was under first outward-bound fleet for India and China, proper protection, he again fastened the handkerchief ;of the Elphinstone, Alfred, and Woodford, over her mouth and left the room, after replacing a 4 several South Seamen in company, sailed on • chair which he bad thrown down. MissLatham loosen from Po rtsmout h, un d er convoy of the C o- 1 ed the handkerchief by rubbing her head against the e, Captain Town's, with a fine strong table, and she contrived to ring the bell for her servant down Channel. Three additional ships of the Lawrence, who untied the white sash and loosened her fleet arrived at st . Helen's from the Downs, hands. The Prosecutrix swore positively to the Defeo toed their consorts, the Huddara, Pitt, and d ant , as being the man who had violated her person, St. Helen's.and whom she had an opportunity of knowing, from •ARRE'r, Maas-LAna.—Ths supplies of Wheat to- repeatedly seeing him. Such, the Learned Counsel considerable, part Foreign, and the general safes nearly .0' currency. Barley in f u ll pl ent y, c hi e fl y S econ d and observed, was die testimony of the defendant, who, those t ratt i es are much lower and almost unsaleable. must have been induced to frame it from an inherent.' but little. Whi te Peas at th e late reduction. Beans spirit of wickedness, or lay being the instrument of 'di owl) , u last prices. There are likewise consider- t he most depraved and abominable wickedness.—To .1 des of Oats, mostly Second and Ordinary, ' sad they • shew the total impossibility of the prosecutor's guilt. In Flour no alt erat i o n. he should call the attention of his Lordship and the cawastascuassncr All II old ) " 9ei.1045. BMA% (old) Ma. SS& Jury to the evidence he bad to bring forward. He los e was. Tick ditto (old) .451. Sil t should prove that Mr. Barrett had not been atWarshing ‘7l. Oats 20s. 22L 26a. for many ' days previous to those sworn to by Miss • 4,s.ad. Poland ditto, 265.1b15. ed. le: Latham ; that he was not there on the 10th, 11th, Pascoe ditto, are. eel. and 12th. In support of this he had at least twenty $ Niters), 665. ?4s. Rape Seed, 46L 1121. Pule Flour as,. po&—Seconds atas.tiSs. witnesses, corroborated by public acts, by official do- ' ( "Tilt Ftlial7AßT 20. Sailed his Majesty's s;'ips 'CU of public bonds, and the , ! . 1 : , Si.ST losavx. Enot.r NI and HAVGST, th) lOW the ments, by the signing drawing of draftii he should show whein Mr. Bar '. die; aseew e f o r the Downs. Wind N.M. I nett breakfasted, fined; and , slept—whet* he aelnal l 7 ,4,,,,p, of !xstnerr 2 0.—Arrived the ZMlllot Illd R0i41.30 -1 v o wu, from a cru' , IA ; h a tze.--Sailed the Tutttettto dqop et vas at the very moMeht of the imputed CO(11111i811011 - of the atrocious and bruealszime i According to the IsMill conv oy For Punothoutb.—Wind N. L ' I', EVENING STAR, LONDON. , r med that his communications will be thankfully received. ,DNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21. lOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCI Cent Cons. for money 6714—aec. 670. Excheq. Bills 2s. to Bs. pre , after our paper was at press, we te. information which we hope will prove correct, advices had arrived, (brought by the Es .TE, arrived at Plymouth) which stated now in possession of the British. haveJaeen received from Berlin, which state iplete revolution has Wren place itt the Ad. of Russia, in consequence of the exar the Empress Dowager. , Rostidrzow, _;E, TRAVERS% and KuRAKIX, are stated been disgraced. This measure, it is added, 'tely necessary, as the discontents, both of and the People, were getting to a height threatened the most serious consequences. G is inform WED] PRICE OF t , t. 3 per Ce acdueed e if YesterdnY, c cive inform; that private ac a TRYPRISANT£ le Ceuta to be ni P • Letters hay y that a comple el ministration o: buns of thi e ARAKTSEISE, g to have been c was absolutel, e the Nobility a ' a that threatener r. )t A Gentlem • that the peoj !y against the M 4 bad been pu country. Fos it of Leon at tin bad gone eves wbo had arri it populace, an is infuriated rem I t suspected of t pealed for pro Q' he escaped "AI designs of the to Duke D'Aun macs from t: ferent route fr at patriotism ha( r. acted otterwi, either have be patriotic force :° melancholy rt their arrival t as their goner comforts the J. It is under the advanced. . Ecija, after his head-quaff • accounts, the 'e • the range of g • they v•ere est e. coast, and at 4 Grena.la, wi Of . centuries, deft The object ol the common to sc,utlern coal it. defeat of the is mia, they fl 4. districts of tl military ope t- advance in se completely What is t; now under ti not informed the line has b I- . ion escaped it about eight French men e- the Spaniard to ecmposing, i 311 the line. to A Gentler Mites, that a tecourse het ty I 6 French in diately expe( he their approac sensed.—Ger nt the appointer dency of the he tnents, when th deliberations announces tl - OTTO, at Lit of artillery, ; • with much d .:•Th itld-Marsh: he President of cll. The follot • published at " The Ist k a a Su' ITr: " The pri et, %shed at M. nq " The Sul ?a , y au re • The first I he consisting of pro 'pith several it. • Monday hot he VAC UA breeze down 0 . :tend fleet 5)b.. and joined ;0, Ceylon, at Fe-, to, - ash aTtronsidi to • • ss _,"lr last col sadfijoor; thoi, halt „ wi IA be qboth ki n d s *le topplieg itt dea rer . , ?di fine ditto 10, air I L'', 4 21'4- 3;:s 4. --t Malt 7 4, 8 . 2 we e p • s ess Pi E /moo ALtpo Nu Mat ee ' t Col Th u. P:; stoops Of was *4' l Wrlt a # -.-~ _.. 7 .-- , - . . - - - • -M' • 0:(? It: ~ - ~ , P • • • • •.: ee l -e- - • *eel-. *`!e ito' re e l e :' •. ; . 'I T .teffist Lads* isallitflquit- - *LORti CHAtTnitifle WitititA.TnrE ...... • -• • 4lsid wdirconantotilensiktir , with the ... . jusi o ttivir k Tozo sgraiDendna, •.• - . • ? The -house - it *friinti" sle.reirded _. .•. . _ Swo ae -- •y t families , *kilt Wit ittspnxsible .(i:ans ottani tea noise or commons elstagowont sriotri.) Iblit ali lfilittaised Mull lisrre be f ia beard. Her shriek, '. Wit illV d tsf female distress anti sigonY, which PROW, COPY, 0/1 4 TUE Basil or AlTATffilegliT • • Mita *PK* • wisely designed should pierce the 'brining -- .tnoctixorivas, imeltli Ofll tete 1 Eitd.e-414rsorrwe rot'sioser• than any other; vial unnoticed. Her ToTim lamb 14iii ran: r.810.)` . - . .. WI from The sofa, and the thirkiing dOin of the •In sabetitthtf to your &felony i Stiternesit of nip Istoesoangs chair, were not heard.' The Mins. *ale Sp very slight, in the elterntwe !If the °h e t" Mir Wfajesti Was itaidousiqrtrit end is confide to Int, snd of. the events whieh sieneved ghat had these circumstances 'occurred,. diey must .. . • . course of It, it is dot any Inman= so itnisbk yoiirt ' • have been known. Had the ease, therefore, been ca- any . firther details dr the earlier parte of our operitilahr; ' pnble of receiving any confirinatioti,hoir garb might having ter:min:tea de the speedy reduction of Wall:lkea by POO; it have been. given ? Mrs. King, it aOpeared,• was a Majesty's troops, and the occupation of the adjacent Wands, Hal friend of the defendant's. Why then had' :the not of the ImPr ant P a " 6f. Bats. received at Ifie timu f ie tti 7. 1 0 6 1 94 been called before • the Magistrate, 'or • • • • most gractousopprobatioe ; but to coufine myself y wits. s ,vrhhe the narrative, which lam anxious to be permitted tr i =n rl i b ide not now adduced to give some cOnfirmotion to .the ;,year Majesty's view, to the consideration of the two following . original charge ? This would have been done, had points, as most immediately applyinz to the conduct and Anal •• melt of the Expedition to the Scheldt i--tst. The ground upon ~ 'it been possible ; but, the fact Was there were state i winch, after the army was at length assembled near Bats, a land. metals°• which no confirmation could be given , they log in prosecution of the ulterior objects of the Expedition wee ' being in themselves false, and therbfore incapable of not deemed. advisable: idly. Why that army was not sooner being Substantiated. Therewasone evidence,howevei . , , there assembled; in readiness to commence further operations. '• .., Murtha Lawrence, whom the defendant was called With respect to the former proposition; lam inclined to think L . that it is so clear and beideht, that no fiirther Operaticini Mug at on to: adduce, and 'Without whom she must give her- 1 that time, and in the then sickly state of the army, have been self up tied and bound, to the sentence of ihe Jury, i undertaken with any prospect of success, that it would be ens*. . , i and :that witness was Martha Lawrence; who, she cernelly trespassing on your Majesty to enter into meth more std tither affidavit, had untied the handkerchief from detail on this point than has been already•bruoght before you ' Majesty, in my dispatch of the 49th of August: And tbsi' her tiouth. These *ere things incumbent on the ea t , object of this paper will be directed to sheet to your Mao de fendant to prove, but the prosecutor - should be able jeity, that the second point, namely, why the army ,was not to shevreven by those with whom Miss Latham must brought up sooner toile destination from whence iur ulterior have been acquainted, and to whom, therefore, she • operations were to commence; is purely a naval consideration, might be supposed to have imparted her griefs, if and that the delay did in no shape rest with me, or depend epee . any arrangements In which the army was concerned, every.heie of the nature described, that no such violence as that lity on the contrary, having been afforded by their :nova:esti to sworn to by Miss Latham had taken place. He • the speedy progeeis of the armament. should prove .by the woman of the house, who was ha doing this, it Will, I conceive, be necessary for the sake of perspicuity, that i should take up the consideratioe of this bed- in the shop directly under Miss Latham's room the Hesse from its commencement. morning of the 12th, from the hour of sevea until Majesty will permit me here to recall to your ?mike nine, that they could not have taken place without her Hon the change which took place in the original project formed knowledge. He should also call the servant of Mrs. for the attack of • Antwerp, and of the French fleet in the West Scheldt, in consequence of the opurione of the General and Staff • ' . King, to chew that the Conduct of Miss Latham was Officers to whom this question was referred; angles combined alt ether repugnant to the situation she ought na- operation of the army and navy, the whole, the 7A t ich ea d on turally to have been in immediately after the violation of the force to be left for the reduction of ere", 71110o of her person. She called the Mistress of the house ced up the West Scheldt, was accordingly determined on: • before nine on the morning of the 12th, and instead Upon the practicability of such an operetksn being at seer care reed Into execution, which was , howevet, the' grolintlworkot of expressi het agony at the brutal outrage she had ,he hxpedition, and which alone, in the opinion don persona ; just suffere d, her only business was to dispute about conotited, seemed to afford any prospect of success, even bl the three-pence or four-pence overcharged in a washing most sanguine view of the subjuct in all other respects, 1 tat* bill. Was that marked and gross indifference con- confess I entertained great doubts, rill the commuuicatlon of a sistent with the outraged honour and feelings of fe- dis:inct OffiCl2l opinion given on this point by the Lords of the Admiralty, decided in the affirmative this important question. ' male nature ? But this was not aIL That very.day Miss At the same time it is to he remarked, that the occupation of Lathsmwent abroad, and insteadof disclosing her wretebednessto Walcheren • which by some persona it had been thought possible a female friend who was with her, or to the mistress (statehouse, to leave beeind us, a c id the reduction of Flushing , which it hid. she concealed it, and mixed as before with society. If th is objece **cc been propose d only to mask, were deemed iOdispensaishrto don could be answered by any ingenuity a' man, the I.earned i the security of the Beet, in case of disasters ; and accordingly • Serjeant knew it would be answered by his Leaned Friends ! considerebteeseparate force was allotted to this service; and, In retained on the part of the Defendant. He was satisfied, 1 this view, it was beside, distinctly agreed upon, that a Amnia. however, that such an objection coed not be met by any ar- ; attack by the navy upon the sea front should be made at detains guntent, however ingenious, bet must be refuted by the testis i time that the troops, after effecting their landing, advanced to le mony of witnesses.. If it was to be so met, be should:expect vest Fluttery; It being hoped, that by a powerful co-operation en ass that monster exhibited who had Induced the Defendant from the sea, at the moment the troops presented themselves bt le Slew Mr. Barrett as the object of her aceveation. On the fore the piece, the labour and delay of a regular siege might bides however, a bill was posted up, effacing a row rd of 100 b ee n a void e d, an d a c o ns ide ra bl e p ort i on o f th e forte slotted to 1 Oases for the apprehension of the offender, who • repro. this service set at liberty to follow the army up the Scheldt. How soled as a man of genteel appearance, about to ears nt age, far this expectation was ful fi lled, or whether the entrance gives 1 4 faddy ColnPillZiOni tall, and well made , with black hair an d chili the whole of the armament (the part to be landed at Wd. odhldien. He wore a slouched hat, black coat and waistcoat, cheren excepted) should be at once transported tip the Sdseldt,io lather insilk clothes, and boots; and he was supposed to have ; prosecution of the ultimate objects of the expedition, was carried lloadtat th• Ow Worth*. The Jury would have an opportunity ' into effect, or was wholly disappointed, the infor - already St how ella.dakehatkon corresponded whit Mr. Barrett's I b e f ore your M a j es ty will Dave in a great sallesure : add a was, intact, totally different. It seas retuartahts that which it will be my duty to bring more particularly under jar Mr. Barrett was at Worikinesbaviog arrived there on the MONO I. Majeny's view, when'l detail the subsequent course of our pp lug fag of theeletb, yet although he lived openly with hie • family, I wet ti ngs , e WOK into society as before. and Miss Latham had daily and 1 From what couseetth failure ensued, whether it wrote from los* opportunities of - seeing hint, no charge was preferred ! insufficient arrangements on the part of the Admiral, .ter woodie vim hen menl he was taken into custody, on his return to ; unavoidable result of diffizulties inherent in the natuend thees aforlossiand brought to Marlborough-street OfAce. Mr. Serjean tl pedidon itself,. ft Is not for me, considering it entirely as si natal lantilhallebt it was also worthy of explanation,- why his Client, 1 question, to presume to offer any opinion upon to your I ms)otr. • .tabctedded in London, had been carried before a county Molise It may, however, be here proper to remark, that, in* all the Woe"' annlinetion- He paid the Albeit possible respect to projects which have at various times been brought forward meth* the Worthy Magistrate before whom the examination had been subject of an attack upon the island of Weida:rest, and the earned on; but still, he could see no results why it might apt Scheidt, the necessity of having a wind a good deal to the Welt have taken place before any of the Magistrates of the city. Hie ; ward, with moderate weather, has always been insisted, on.— Clime had but one object in view-,the vindication of his own ; Without these advantages, in the one case, the passage would be eimeenter and honour, and the satisfaction of adding the ter I difficult.; in the other, the surf would prevent a landing on trig Benny of his own oath, to the other evidence already adduced 1 points deemed most favourable in other respects. In the present in proof at his innocence. It was impossible he could retire I instance, owing to the wind blowing strong from the Werwatd, from the position lie now occupied. 'lle better and more ex- 1 the surf was actually such as to prevent a latidiiig on either of US. shed the connections of the Defendant were, the more danger- points first fi xed on for that purpose by the Astinital; and the ens was the attentet she .had practised on the prosecutor. if ( situation of the gun-boats and transports at anchur its tie Scow! • * story had been more consistent, though it had been form- I Deep becoming very critics), and the gale inereasin: , he found-: timely ordered that fal . ehduds were seldom consistence in them- I necessary to carry such part of theleet as was arrived fee alfet : selves, who could have ventured to have shaken the testimony of ! I nto t h e R oom p ot , an d by w hich m e ans the divi s i on o f t h e :stn. Dr. Lathattee daughter t If such Were the case, who could be • destined fur the attack of Walcheren was enabled to cfrea• ~ - sate under such accusations as that to which the present Prosecu- la n di ng f rom a more sheltered anchorage on the Bete eased t o t te tee had been obliged to submit ? The Learned Counsel submit- Westward of Fort den Haak. At this time, the divi , ion und.: ANL that all idled mistake or inadvertency was out of the clues- Lieue-General Lord Rosslyn, as well as th;t'under Lieutenan • lila ; and thetelbe Jury, though they might do so with aching General Grosvenor, oleo the cavalry, artillery, &c. were nut at- MP% Ala Mid a, verdict of Guilty. rived; but they were afterwards, on their making the Island, or - Tbe Arroattev-Gas saes said, knowing that no attempt 1 dared by the Admiral into the Veer Gat. It is, however, par eemilar to that alluded to by his L ea rn e d F r i en d was intended, Ocularly deserving of attention, that this measure, though hi it =, to attempt sell to attach crinenality to Mt. Barrett, he ' se lf one o f great advantage, as far as it applied to the division de have interrupted his Learned Friend at an earlier period I 'tined for the attack of Walcheren, by placing •the transports, of his speech had he not been afraid of cawing him labia present storeships, and small craft in security, was, if carried further, skunk:in, additional inconvenience. He could have no objection ctrtain/y not a little at variance with the leading purpose of the to the ale Proeeelings bat be Doer limiest himself selsoltoed ID ezpedkion, namely, the running with the right wing, and the taking the earliest opportunity of saying, that there woe wither advanced the army at once up the West Scheldt, at the same °beret, iteration, yr view on the part of the defends.* to bopite moment th at the attack upon Walcheren was proceeding; but that my criminality whatever to Mr. Barrett ; on the etNs uiryke ' even this need not have delayed it for more tbanehree or tour days, , himself bad read with great attention and antler/ Ilse deideeee 1 unless on account of naval difficulties which it will be for the ' be fore the Magistrate, . arelbs was fully satisfied , nil Seely that : Admiral, not for me, to explain, I d eny ; for as soon as Ter Mr. Barrett had not been at or neat Worthing oo tug day or days Veere and the fort of Rammakins fell, which happened as the alluded to, but that he could not have been so. He Aided, at the yd of August the passer of the Sloe was open to the transports request of the Gent leman who acted with him, that Ma was not and gun-vessels ;or they might have entered by the Darla' s* by even a suspicion o f any "'initialler attaching to tballasaaanon the Zosolaid passages, the batteries of Dyshook, of Vygester, Me. Assay said, when an opportunity bad occurred to hint Ell , and the Nolte, having been all carried by the army early .= the seeing the evidence before the Magistrate, andiebith had enabled I est of August; and on the same day the battery of Benign at :bins to see that no charge attached against his clients he bad Sint i the South-west end of South Beveland was sbandoited on the of respect to the feelings of the defendant, pledged himself and I movement : 9f a detachment from the corps under Sir Joiettliope; his client that, if a satisfactory apology and diseimmetion of all 4 and i know; of nailer." (but this, of course, is a point for - tote e , bins were then made, all farther proceedings of a Ad m i ra l t o . speak to) to heve prevented the line of battle ships. on the part of the present prosecutor should be. and frigates Rom coming in and passing up above fluihing, in the . . Thlsebtrwever, bad then been refused, and if things lint instance, according to the plan originally decided upon. *dm allowed to take their course, it could not be attributed Before, however, I pursue further the details of the proceeds. to hies or to his Client gags of the' army, governed as they necessarily • *ere „Dena a • Mr. Cletaa6w, foe the defendant, ; stated that. his Learned footing should be gained on the Continent) by the medallists of eFriend, Mr. Alley, must make great allowances for the feels the n a v y, I must for a moment refer to two separate operations; of one of the best of fathers that sect existed. ' , dm one under Lieutenant General Lord Huntley Cotottai. A consultation, with regard to the pretrial of Proceeding l , a , ions Gwen, and the other under Lieutenant General Sir Jobs the cause, then took place betwast: the CoMend and Sacked:lM e Hope and Rear Admiral Sir Richard Keales • but both directed. the Prosecution, Mr. Barrett sad Igo Mende. . to assist and ensure a rapid progress up the Sc h eldt, bad the Ad- Mr. Serjeant Baer stated, thee lie tiles* wee waits %OA* '' ngrallound it practicable in other respects. -With respect to tilm , all farther proceedings provided bolo*, Moroi sremakothis ' focmer, 'which was destined to destroy the Cadsand batteries, sad own innocence by his mike •_ , - . paniculaeiy that of Breskens, bad it been carried at once Weeds Lord ELLIN/48MAX 'W e lles Coehlost badoinhat In deer* tent, and that the Admiral could have availed himself of it, to dinarfthanner•Thetnallthereviintheillthilatetbe r = s ikrottilh tike the ships up the West Scheldt by the Wetting Passege, II 'flee Amount GIN/MAI. *lll. 1%194 his Inn to would have been of the utmost advantage :brit wee certainly Stmeter the different calls timde an. Illan by the tamed. Counsel rather fartunate It did me e t take place at a latet period, et after all kin the o th er side i but, at the saw ti th e again tqPresen It tes be . the transports, store:chips, Itc, were ordered inns the Veers Cat, : the joint opinion of himself and dies Learned Ftioods, hie.Cilar• an d th e plan o f: running at puce up rho Wist *chow by ass c, Mr. Fiske, and Mr. Jervis, who saga wish bin, that Mr. W et ti ng Ch anne l seeme d a b an d o n e d, the died of destropine t was not guilt y ee - thal it was impassible , in the nature of the Cadiand batteries ceased, ani a landing there we Ent, ems, that be could be guilty - and that ise suspicion had attach- h aste b een an unnecessary risk, and a batenveibist swim : I a ' eel, or did now auach to to hint, • . tion of our force, and of course • _ re ! twos leakep. , • Mr. Serjeant BEST said, atter this very ample ilislaratks, as op e n f o r ulterior operations. It must not beenrepr be Iletpastea, ellen' did tut feel himself called canto "du" 1 • 3 1,__,„_ ___ .ffblunaa•_. that the decultles here tornestout to be smell steam this had Lord ELiausoaslools addressing th e Jury , ImmEtitmUtt•LS been at all foreseen before we sailed. in ihe Vet eisehibo bowl that no eitdeoce being offered on the part of thesprosecatlea, it : w a o s e e xposed, that in blowing weather it traelbaull was their doty, under these einnuostances, to AM the belenttant , an d, fr ot h What r-, 1 ' thh_Wihrl:Stri not sulky. Mt Jeer dewed the defendant—Net Guilty. ; .1=1.••• NOW i The.actiss hireasbt by Mr. Dudish. against Mr. Read, the : Magistrate, arising eat lithe O. P. cornea:, at Covent Garden Theatre, cease on amen ,--hs dip Court of Coniston Pleas.— , dlibileeener; hWMbe - . bar, addressed the senesce in ebe ^ i!il vittliolpinlimablain SO Stunt The pidariewaa MINIMINAHMIMIONINIcaibiamIitr hp the precesdinos., _ . . . Wig lIQ ILILFUNiag, Wm& am wow., awls wr amirlipMll to and, trout What rause I know ate, the Mumps Herb Iy's division could not be taken up, in the first install*, MO enough to attack the, ?Steams batterp, die only sae, bent ill din. tim b re *sub imperteoce. Is addition to this, tit ointenis War - had beep represented by all the Intellieleno• onaltnioniolleei Mon to Ins veer *teak; alma 4 actually withaat lib that emisig. appeared to be wel3 prepared, and in cooiidesW. teem • Vali thew circumstances, according to. Lord thantifereport.lampli dam Owes wears as hen asperieneet pas Magolumme Ia