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In the Press, and shortly will be published, a New Edition of Dalzel'a Collectanca Grata Masora; Volume I. in which the Text is materially altered and improved, and many Corrections and Additiobs are made in the Notes, by an eminent Greek Scholar. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF ICING'S BENCH, FEBRUARY 12. Mr. CHARLES PHILLIPS (of Ireland) took the oaths upon his being called to the English bar. THE XING V. SHEEN. Mr. GURNEY prayed the judgment of the Court upon this defendant, convicted upon an information filed by the Attorney-General, of assaulting an Excise Officer in the execution of his duty. It appeared that Sheen, who upon his trial suffered judgment to pass by default, was employed at Maid stone in the clandestine composition of soap; and that, being in peril of detection, he, first by menaces, and then by hard blows, prevented the Officers from entering the boiling-house. He was sentenced to pay a fine of L5O, to be imprisoned nine months in the House of Correction at Maidstone, and to find sure ties for his good behaviour during three years. Fins.—Sunday morning, between four and five o'clock, the neighbourhood of Whitecross-street, St. Luke's, was thrown into great confusion and alarm, by the springing of rattles and cries of « lire, fire !" in consequence of volumes of smoke and flames being seen descending at the back of the houses belonging to Mr. Whantley, an oilman, and Mr. Wiginton, an undertaker, in Whitecross-street. It was. soon dis covered that the extensive premises of Mr. Darby shire, cabinet-maker, at the extremity of a narrow passage, were in flames; and it was not till the fire had communicated to the rdom in which were Mr. and Mrs. Darbyshire and five children buried in sleep, that they could be made sensible of their im pending danger; when, with great difficulty they escaped into the street. It was then found that one of the children, a little girl about three years old, was missing. Mrs. Darbyshire, with an infant in her arms, rushed through the flames, and happily suc ceeded in preserving her child; who was fast asleep in bed. The devouring element had by this time gained such an ascendancy, that the - greatest fear was enter tained for the safety of the surrounding houses ; but, luckily, at this critical moment the wind ,shifted, and the engines were instantly put in motion, and pre vented the flames from extending their ravages. The fire was got under about seven o'clock, but not till the whole of Mr. Darbyshire's premises, which occu pied an immense plot of ground, together with pro perty to the amount of I.:3,000, were entirely con stitute!. Seviral of the adjoining houses were injured. SIR FRANCIS BURDETT. A Public Meeting was held yesterday, at the Crown and Ancho r Tavern, in the Strand, for the - purpose of taking into consideration what conduct it is fit and proper to pursue respecting the sentence passed upon Sir FRANCIS BURIATT, for his manly and patriotic Address to the Electors of Westminster on the Manchester Massacre." The Meeting was called for twelve o'clock for one precisely; but long before the latter hour the room, which is one of the largest public rooms in Lon don, was crowded iR every part. At one o'clock, Mr-Hoist-muss, M.P. accompanied by the Gentlemen of the Committee, entered the room, amidst loud and enthusiastic greetings. The Hon. Gentleman then took the Chair (as had been previously arranged by the Committee), and addressed the Meeting. ' He began by observing, that the-eons ion which subsisted between him and the People of Westminster, a connexion which he should ever boast of, and his great attachment-to his Honourable colleague, Sir Francis Burdett, an at tachment which was the pride of his life, and which be should carry to his grave—(Cheers)—induced him to come forward to state his sentiments on this occasion ; hut they were not his sentiments alone, for he was sure they were the sentiments of the people of England—(Hear, heaY).—The Meeting was assembled to consider what might be the conduct fittest for them to pursue in consequence of the sen tence which had been passed on their most faithful and zealous Representative. There were two parties to that sentence, the prosecutor and the accused— the individual who brought the accusation, and he who was now undergoing the punishment. They should, on this occasion, approve of the conduct of the one or the other. He asked them, could they approve of the conduct of the prosecutors ?—(Loud cries of " No, no.")—Then, was there not something which induced them to approve of the conduct of the accused ?—(Cheers, and cries of " Yes.")—He asked the Meeting—he asked the people of England —had the Honourable Baronet committed a crime ? I (Cries of " No.")—anything which he ought for a moment to be ashamed of?—(" No.")—anything which could cast a blot or stain on the fairest and most eminent character?—(A tremendous shout of "No," followed this sentence).—Then, instead of hav ing done anything which could have disgraced him with the Public of this day, or with posterity, he had done that (and was now suffering for having done it) which • would not only endear - him to the beaks of Englishmen, btit which proved him to be one of th e best, if not the very best Representative of the People of this country. He did not now intend at any length to recal their attention to the melancholy event out of which the late prosecution had arisen. It was not his wish to dwell upon that horrid scene of blood and slaughter which had taken place at Manchester— that melancholy event which had roused the indig nation of their excellent Representative--which had roused their indignation, and that of the whole People of this country from' one end to the other— which had called forth such independent men as the Hon. Baronet to ask for redress for an injured People. It was not, he, said, now necessary • to, recal those scenes to their recollection; but they should bear in mind, and it was for this purpose that he mentioned the case at all, that up to this day, the blood of the innocent was unappeased and unatoned for ;• up to this day no reparation had been made to the People, and the blood which was then shed still rested on the heads of those by whom it was shed, and would, according to the Divine law, rest on the heads of the Nation until it was atoned for—(Loud cheers). — He had said 'that nothing had been done for the in nocent sufferers on that occasion.: he was wrong. Something had been done, not for the relief of the sufferers, but on those who had accused the authors of the sufferings—on some of those who had them selves suffered, and whose groans were at this mo ment echoed from dungeons in various parts of the kingdom—( Loud cheers).—And he would ask, what crime had those persons committed? Had they com mitted any crime?—( Cries of No).—He maintained they had not, for the Judges, and he would allude to the case tried at York, could not point out any statute or common law which had been infringed-by the parties who were made the subject of accusation. Thus, then, they found, that notwithstanding the exertions which had been so zealously made by the Honourable Baronet—notwithstanding the calls for inquiry and redress from every part of the country— the only result was, that additional insults and addi tional wrongs had been heaped upon the people of England—(Cheers).—After some of the humbler vic tims had been seized, they wished for a higher one, and their great friend and constant advocate, the Ho nourable Baronet, was marked out for the vengeance of those to whom he was the more hateful, in.pro por,tion as he had become more and more endeared to the People of England—(Cheers).--He now beg ged to say a word of the !prosecution itself; and, without being lawyers, he thought they had good grounds of complaint for the manner in which it was got up and carried on, as in that several rights dear to the People had been violated. They had a right to complain, in the first place, that the prosecution was made by the Attorney-General, as that deprived the illustrious defendant of the Jury to which he would otherwise be entitled. An e.c-qfficio information, he need scarcely observe, formed no part of the ancient law of England; and at the Revolution, when the right of filing theni was taken from the Master of the Clown-Office, it was also intended to take it away from the Attorney-General, but, unfortunately, that had been neglected. The next piece of injustice of which he had to complain was, taking him away to be tried in a County where he had committed no crime. This point had been so well argued by the able Counsel to whose care the cause of the Honour ble Bat onet had been committed, that he should tally sieak;" the arguments by re-stating them. He THE SECOND VOLUME OF MR. WAYLAND'S SERMON& This day were published, in ivo. price 10s. 6d. boards, SERMONS. By the Rev. D. S. WAYLAND, M.A. Vicar of Kirton, in Lindsey, Lincolnshire. Volume IL containing a Series of Discourses on the Beatitudes, and on some other Portions of Out SAVIOUR'S Sermon en the Mount. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown; Ca dell and Davies; and Taylor and Hessey, Lo ndon; and Henry Mozley, Derby. Of whom may be bad, The First Volume of Mr. Wayland's Sermons, 9s. boards. PRI E Sr.‘ EN-PCNCE. however, mention one Or two facts which were not (for all the facts could not be detailed in Court) al ready known. The Meeting had heard of Pitt Clubs --(Yes, and laughter).—that great Statesman, as he was called, had Left in this country a 'number of ad mirers, who were, associated together in Clubs, for the purpose of preserving his memory and his princi ples. Now, the Jury by which the Honourable Baa 'ronet was tried (all honourable men, no doubt) — (Hear, and /aughtir)—was entirely —or, at lerst with - the exception of three or four—composed of members of a Pitt Club ; so that their Representative was tried by a Pitt Club Jury, for an offence against Mr. Pitt's principles—(Hear, hear, and much laughter).-- He had the greatest respect for Juries, and no doubt so had the Gentlemen whom he addressed; but that was not for special Juries or packed Juries. • His re% spect was for Juries, such as they ought to be, and at the Act described them, , 4 indifferent." It should not be forgotten, that it was by the verdict of a Jury that Lord Russell and Sidney lost their heads—that, by the d verdicts of Juries, many things were esta blished which the wisdom of after ages had over• thrown—ahat, by the verdict of a Jury, the man was convicted who said it was a shame to see English , peasants flogged by Dutch troops—and that, by the verdict of a Jury, the persons who had assembled a large Meeting for the purpose of petitioning for a full and fair Representation of the People in Parlia ment, were convicted of holding an illegal Meeting., Indeed, there were many verdicts of Juries front which, with every respect for their general utility, he should dissent. At all events, he was sure that the greatest admirer of Juries (and, properly constituted, they were admirable) would not look to a Pitt Club for the members who were to compose it—(Cheers), But Sir Francis Burdett had been found guilty of a libel in Leicestershire, where he had published no thing. The matter, as they all knew, was subsea quently brought into Westminster Hall. He would not speak with any disrespect of the Judges ; he did not know but it might be his turn to come next be fore them, but he could not give his assent to the doctrines he had heard laid down with respect to libel. The Honourable Member here commented at some length and with great ability on the inconsis tency of the opinions of Judges upon the subject of the law of libel, and upon the injustice and absur dity of the doctrine, that the truth of any alleged libel ought not to be received in proof. The only criterion now was—in ourhappy times was—whether any mat ter was or was not pleasing to his Majesty's Attor ney-General ? and perhaps so much the worse for the individual - accused, if it were true. Did any mart now doubt the Manchester massacre ? The Honour able Baronet (Sir F. Burdett) had offered no fewer than one hundred and nineteen affidavits of persons who were assaulted and wounded at Manchester; but they were not allowed to be read; and they were looked upon in that case as not weighing a feather in the scale. But whatever might have been the opi nions of the Jury, or of the Judges, he IMr. Hob h inse) could now assure that Meeting and the Peo ple of England, that his Honourable Friend (Sir Francis Burdett) never had regretted, and he was convinced he never would regret as long as he liv.ed, having written that letter, but that he would write it ten thousand times over again, did a si milar occasion call for it!—(hnniense It was a natural ground of complaint with the Peo ple, that there was no law by which the People could know what was or was not libel. The decisions of Judges were all inconsistent with each other, and with themselves, on this point. He should mention one case of Judge Scrogs, who held not only that it was a libel to say anything against the Government, but that it was a libel to praise the Government with• out its consent! For the latter species of offence, he. believed there were few in the present day who ran • any chance erbeiog punished —(Henr, an d laughter). On another occasion, it was held that a man was guilty of a libel on a public officer, because he had applied to him the words " hurnanum est errare r-- that human nature was liable to err I—and therefore that it was possible for this public officer to err. But in the ancient practiCe of the law, it was customary to make the falsehood of any matte, alleged as libel lous the ground of punishment, and there were two Statutes, one of Edward I. and another of Richard IL which recognized this principle. He trusted that this subject would be made a matter of Parliamen tary consideration; and if no other Member should introduce it, he certainly would—(Cheers). It was well observed by Dean Swift, " it was strange that a man should be called on to answer in a Court olJus tice, for what he could not be called to answer for in Heaven." He was a Clergyman, but hat of the same cloth of too many of the present day. If truth were not allowed to be told, how was it possible that the grievances of the People should ever reach the ear of the Sovereign? He could not know the senti ments of his People from packed Parliaments or packed Play-houses—(Cheers)—and, in consequence, his Ministers might continue to go on from error to error, until the ruin of the country was effected: By !I nosy this doctrine of the Law o f Libel, as it was no ad ministered, there was an end to freedom of public writing. It was in the power of the Attorney-Gene ral to call what he pleased a libel; and what one At , tornerGeneral might think a crime, another might deem a vii tue. The great Lord Cuniden said, that we owe to libel the great blessing of the lievolu ' tion ;" and if the expression of public opinion was to Le considered a libel now, where were we to kink for redress of our giievances? The present, lie con ceived, was a proper opportunity for the People to come forward, .and express their opinions upon this mischtevous law.. It was their duty to con.. for ward, and state that they considered no disgrace at tached to their worthy Representative in con,equ, nee of his suffering for „hat was called a . them (said the Honourable Gentlemai.) n w ,nets to this country and to the world, by their suppoi f their most able and iiarepid defender, the iac;, ttiat when the names cf some individuals should be, tor- otvi akt.4 111 , fr bee'