The National Register. — London, England, 1817-06-09 00:00:00

TRIAL WddLl,4ll. 10k A 1.11:EI., tN 4 . 14 COURT OT itxo's fl NCH, OUILDIIALL, ON THURSDAY LAST. Th;s wa4 an information Wed ara;nst the Dlfentiant by his Attornoy General, f..r iihei int'd.sited ia a w , tik enovd. 4 Iliaeb Dwin•f," of Inch tilt' Deirtidinit was the gihor., Che inforingtion, r,lrirlr coosinel of two roon' , . eharge•l, first. that the Defrodont, iii eo idnig to write ills coatent and disinfection iu 14c minis ;,r the ialliketS 4 , r ~ tir li.orJ the Koiz. 11.. d poi/ fished .1 curl:tin out ticlolls iiuci , 't Oil Kin;;'s A Ifniur.tratina %ern:nein; and ad, that, i..ienileug to ese , lo drs oa...nt and dis.diertion in the minds of the 'abject. of our lArrd the Kir 2 , •gaiust this present Administrati nu or onolle nil :its. the f)e fendent had published auntie-r sCentrhilmis .11:11 uiAIICh u. reflecting nn the cliscieter of I, , nd ViNconut Cis& reigh, an-I the Right lint,. tionge Cloning. The libels lIVCIV Act forth al in the ttdotittillion. . . Thu Attorney General, in siar.ug the ease, observed, that soneemst other blessing* which the free Coit-titutinii ut Laug h-and wa s einteeel to the peapse, ue. the liberty of the press. lint thi, like sinew blessitizs, might use might degenerate he° licentiousness—m.4.l, therefine, it mind be confined with:st certain !mitosis and limits. What were the ,troper bound. of the !delay of the tires., bee:sine a nientiosi —and wheilier those home's hid been exceeded, was a sub• jecteniatter of inquiry for 11w Jury, tiuder the direction of the ,:truo 'To &seines fiirly. freely, sriunalv„ 4:111 belliy, the 1111.0•111'1.5 that bast hoen taken by the Ailasiirs tration of li-e c inntry,or widen e Coat Administration ter r pursumg, w 14 an exercise of Ito. liaerty of the prem.uLteh .tio won's! be our of the last men to neh neon. ile b.•2:1.,1 to slate, that if.any error hemazial 111 the pi ..;.t.fti 110 . 01 111.1 tion, it ought to be visi ed on his head, for it was entirety his act, perfected without any intimation being given to Majesty's Ministers. lie foetid hirtself spoil to art a. he had done in the fair exereise of his dory—and felt that lie should have negiected that e.iity it' lie had not filed the present infurniivatuu. 'lire A homey G. rimed here piaeeeded to read the pnblica ion. It was entitled, "'The Past, the Present, and the Future." It &largest Ministers vri!ls iiti city and treachery, and with the Most scand 41011 A rorruptissii. Mtnisiters (it .set 'forth) had told the people that they were . fighting the battles of the country, white they were only 'fighting their own. 'they hail been induced to fight the that. ties of legitimate Governments abroad, while Ministers were destroying, at home that Constitution which they *Agin to have defended. That Constitution which France could not , assail, and never wished to injure. peii4iied ant without a strneggle,, amidst the reprez.entati yes of the peolik and the guardians oldie pubic purse. Were Ministers cosi tented with this—ne must the people tilted, to appease their hatred of the eatu4e ef freedasii and ref mu? if we Nest bleed, we have oily to sciiiest of them, in the words of Ajax, " let us perish its the lace of Heaven,," brs athiag our Si eat to the Gsd of freedom, against the agents cif tyranny and degradation. We embarked in the last %c.r to conquer France, and we liaise concocted ourselves. Al' er attempt ing to overthrow freedom abroad, Ministers had turned the-.r attention to the di ailments's of fres dons at home.--The sty General t onnuen;eil on these passages with smells sese. rny. He denied that any attempt bad heen made ireainst freedom abroad. This Government had been forced into A war to cluck the aeg; calms of the rerteutienary G.lll nr await of Fe.aser.— The stennd count of this charged the Didendatit with a libel on Lnrd ('a.tlereagh a.id . the Right Hon. George Canning. The public:oMo shosild lie now read—au-I unless the I)efeutiant could estimiss It away, he was coils ineed that it initst be prunotureed.a inost libellous production. The libel was then read—mud a prison, of the name of Benjamin Steed, proved that he hail received 1,000 stmdaers et is, from the Deiesidain, fur poinlientiun, - - . - .The ease for the prusecoliwi closed I.itie. Tile 1)4 fend.int then addre”eil tho Coort at great length. lie stated, that if he were e..1146011$ nY having des. reed the (insert atoms which the Attorne)•-tien. ral il.ul applied lii he %tonsil not stand before the Omit dit the inditlertiiiee which lie then did. He only exercised the fair privile4e of a public Witter, in using the arwitiectit. which he had laid before the public, and he was by no means ashanatai sit them. 'rho present mode of proceeding difti..i . cd much from that of the good °id times to which the Attorney-Cri.neral had -referred. At the periods to which be alluded, he would base been obliged to come forwaid and make his (lea ei,c before a Gram' Jury, to whom he would have been Coln pelted to shew t.utficient reason for dragging a Defendant from his eonnectiong, and shutting him up in prison, irior to .any other proceeding—instead of having recinti•e to the ',twat 111.1441 and mitionstitutional mode of ptoseuction. Mr Justice Abbot interrupted the Deleiidnut. He could lot allow him to call the proceeding by information illegal loud unconstitutional ; it o as, in 1.14:1,.avi legal as any other part ofilie law. Thu Defendant continued.—The proceeding was 4111)1.0. .:ire and uojimi - Wroda cut Le I , llr.lied by any who nos anxious only for the fair atiniiiii•tr,oluis Any Act, contrary to Magna, Cliarta ur the !till of 114.iglir•, was not law, and could not be made law, by lllly Legisiatore a ider H, aver. Feellng this he coo, llviil Illat be was no periccii deil :mem e.ing to tow. H. did not brand dime to answer it his principh sa„ not to avow them. What ever they were, they were his own awl ncil.bqz itlnch 1w bail heard from We Attoriley-Ges,ei al woui.i ei . casierei him In alter bevel. '1 he lie t.pon.efl, 3ei Ltr trolll tieing t.ticeneccil to ere ate d.soider awl rebellion, would, he con. e^lii i, pnvcut them. it %Ili out bet:AWL' the Itoriley• al came and said, that this count'' had be en iingai.;• d it, 0 War fir the hew tit of nt.inkind, Ih,t.br wilt to lake it ir A:1;1mill. Ili, opinion dill. red on this p lit from Vint of the Leaf:led (h..ao man, and until he had •todt.-il putiv o ., he ( 11 . 0 1)- I 11 .1. 1 : 11 ) had thine, lie V.l/11111 1101 take the i pa , 4..,•il c ; ;,i• Gentleman, whose en/ieties weer Net ely of a legal 'min t ft, I/11 thill —lt Was said St lie hail gi ell MU:, I e bane been ',opt entire 111411 an hour 4 1; bi• wt. hot wheal lee felt 1'01144 pleßst d its a r w eland 133 W to his Okidiewlurb; it Was breat: , e oleo A I i , t ht , eit Weak em l Rb to do so, that tiore , es had Plot hero fudy examinittl, and proptriv r•owdlill. He lkol for five specks b e co i m pei• o ixi on a ,)‘l.lite's warrant, lie hail 611 d that leipribuirinviet, because he %Wird to expose the injustice ofa i :t ought to lie tnet with the execration of the pi °pie. Ilch id bee it refused copies of the infOrinaliong "sire; aaa.iest he et as thercritre obliged to gather ili• out what 114 J from thee Attorney-Gent leo :wielded) ho had re,ci vcd a little good advice on ;his oil,tswil.e, perhaps, hr would not leave had any i o sa y j a It s &luxe, littppose Itis.oise bad been just THE NATIONAL' REGISTFIt. Ole reverse of what it wirs—blipp446e,' instead of being a 6111. ;;le man, caring faro at .d for %hoes few cart-A, he bad men s trademan vt i ,ll:i large family —appose he had been in di health, tend trytrruh all the attention persons in sorb a slate demanded —wltal then mould have been his I..ireition in :his toasted laud ul homiest to a prison, he -Anse ht dared to caffehs 144 opinions. Thev were told that he likirty of the preps must have its bounds and limits. If it must lint those limits, he hoped Englishmen would not stiffer au Attorney General to prescribe theme. They !OYU.' nicety ton lunch ill mist it in steels hands--and, if the orphan were ton wtak to walk alone, they would not, he was mire, rot rnst the leading-string', to that individnal who stool di rev! iv , between die Government and the people. The 1./(ferelitiit lien acne on to animadvert On the whole of die pionies&on iu veni.-11 the alleged libel was contained, con. tirielmg with energy, that as a public writer, he was instated in tleseataing on the conduct of pnirlic men - %the. ..he inoinvist they Orraine public men, merge.) their private in then ;with.. character. 'I he I)efesulatit neat adverted in the prese.tt law of Intel, whicii, lee observed, was harrowed the proceedings of Ilse Star Chanilm., and might be traced ultim itely to the Jaistieian Code. That which etas 111- "Odell to pat ttOW a the last spark of tleedos in ('onstanti nople ;Nadi was our consinercial enterprise) had been im ported iiietc—tint it was nut naturalized—and be trusted the Jot y would look at it with a most suspieions eye; and that, iy their verdict tins day, they would declare, that no cha racter in a pubic sitnatunt, should hereafter he exempted from infinity, nor front iiii , whim aecusation Wll4 served. In COIICIII6IOII. he 4411 he left his ease in the :oils of the Jury, as jll.lgei nf the law and illy reel. It was 111:•.1* pliv liege to step between the all'11 , 1:1' a n d the accused, netweeti the oppressor and the o..ierr.tild. The Jury would inf•rpose the a3; , ‘ of ileglish linrsty to pi otect the intioetin 111/111-111ey WOIIIII to 'fyrantly and Oppression " ye shall pt creed no farther!" He threw himself on the justice of his entintry, derlarititt that if Ike priarent systeen.Wrire to be continued, he would rather be ils.vactitii than its %tippet ter. [ hie speech of the Defeudatit, of winch our limits admit us to insert a triclinic sketch, lasted for two hours. In the t'om'e of it, the Curvet iiiieriered several times, in conse quence °folic introduction of objectionable matter. Th., tle c,mry wisti h shauld chmartetise a Court of Justice was repeatediy violated by the class(' whom the Vial cellecte 1, wan applauded difierent.pasaages in the speech—a - line of einailuet which was strongly it probated by Mr. justice Aobot.j The Attorney G , tiers! repiied at great. length. He de fended the course of proceeding which Mid -been adopted with respect to the Defeticliwit, as • strictly legal. the De fend:no might rail himself a pi.iilic wt Uri —bat he would not take the lass of Enulanst-from hint, he otaild look fur it in the judicial deti-iiiim of the Courts of I.aw. Mr. Justies: Aaiun charged the.Jary. It was, he observed, open to sit ry 1111!/ . 11.1 - 1, 10 11: , 1'11,11/1!.. VI . the Govern provided he did so reas.iiiably. fairly, ;tad calinly—bat if, iustoadof to disrussing measures, a prison chose to litter and newe testis to Ali , 4.4W1 , 1111y u Givicrninent or the individuals elllap0!111g it, he was guilty of a libel. here Via... a 1/0 . 111:, 11.11(!re 1 . 1.45011111/; CPll4e it, and sander and cal y Organ ; stud it wea for the Jury t I (in sider whether the paper In 1.111( . %11011 was, 111 roint of law, A free, fair. (WWII dist 11%4.144 or whether it ilia not 14., be yond treat line .cf aignme.it, which euldit to preserved. The Learned clodge, after 11111 . :111.1g, 011 the principal point, : rgeil by the Deltrothiiii, oavri veil, that the question was now a moat iiiiimitaitt one, since, by the set-Mot of, the Jury, it Was to be tice,ued, iiticitter zneh a i. i, rr as that istfure die Gant Was to be Ms...initiated M J1;1 inns 1' y. Iles of osier, was. that it was a scandal lie. inalicion-,..0d siaitmits The Jury reth,sl, and, afrzt de.ti'aet:ing an hour and Itch, the Foreman, with some of Ms f.:llaws, arpsiared in the Com re mainder of the Jury, from Lie structure of the Court coald not be been. 'f he Foreman, as we ttnierstoqi, stated, that a part of the Jury wished to return a candltionsl ver lict. _ Mr. Ju:•tlee Abbot ...aid. he world receive any verdict from the whole of the .Jttry, but he could not reeeivt any Icing ofiesed by a part of them. Tile usual queztion wag then put—whether tie Jury found the 10efivadant guilty or not guilty ? To which the Ferernan answered Guilty—and the senile: was recorded. At a late hour in toe alay, Mr. Cl•itty said, he was instructed to state to his L.ordship, that the verdict was not legal—three of the Jury having dis, , ,ental nom it utile time. One of them. he understood, wished to proiunt to his Lorciihip on behalf of himself and two of his fellow:, a parr relating to the verdict, when they came into Court, but he had not an opportunity of delivering it. Mr..lu,tic-: Abbot said. t nu objection was made at the time.— The eprrstion was icit, and the answer of Guilty was given, in a ton, that must have been a-d throughout the Court. Nu paper had been ter.d,red to him—and in answer to a question from the Foreman, he had stated. that he could only raeive a verdict float the whole of the . could receive no communication from a part of tiler:. 'i he IR:fold:nu said, us an Englialtinan, 'he maid prstea against the verdict, DA ille!.;31. But four •f the July appeared in Court—and, if a tedstake had been made. his cause ought hat to be prejudicAl by it. tr. Justice Ahhot said, his cau:e sustain no prejudice; but that oas not a place ti,r discussing the qtyy,,tioa. 111 E KING V. T. J.WOOL EN. +This was aninfornTation tiled by his :11ajerty's Attorney-Gcneral agaiml Defendant,for a libel contained in a publication The Illtuk Dwarf: The ir.fonnation charged the above Defendant with endeavouring, by the said libel, to bring into hatred :mil contempt the Cor.stitution of Einglat.d.—.the Host-es of 10-ii and Commons— and the rigl.ts of petitioning t!it said thereby seeking to excite tlisafritent and disatiettiotrin the minds of his Nlajesty's sub- The Defendant, in a sp?ech of great lenlth, argued in justifinatlon of what tie had written, and the Jury acturned a venlirt of—Not Guilty. Tire Spectators received the verdict with acelaraat;ons. Sir Francis Burtly.t, w:io listened art.-ntively to the twa triale. was :mull/ chvered On L.:Wing Mr. Ilarun Gitriow and Mr. Camiing were in Court timing a considerable I are of the Guy. At cevm o . c.:(Pck r. IVt.ciler was taken hark to the King's Boncli Plilm in.& carriage, secumpanitd by tl.e l'ipstuff of the C urt and several l'eace rm. Tal crowd followed the carriage into Clicap• side, cutting the w: ole of the way. Mr. 0 aghtreil, cf Si;atittleet,Wkent, had last wed; a polyanthus grtnving in hid garden, upcn one stalk of which there were at that time one hundred and ninety five blossoms. The eight convicts from the Ely Special Arsizes, owing f their extreme geod conduct, I..ave been liber ater?, even bAbre toe eapiraticn of the t‘t. , elve months for which they were sent to Sheerness; and Govern ment, we underttani, very liberally allowed each run viet sufficient numey to bear his t,:rc ises to his native place. Theyx:acht.:l Ely un .TIJNP. 4. THE KINCIS EIRVH-DAY. Wednesday his Majesty completed his 79th year, which was celebratei with the usual demonstrations of rejoicing, except a t 7ola Court, fee. which has been dis continued since hi.: indisposition. The morning was ushered in by the ringing of bells, which continued the greater part of the Mir. The flags from thv church steeples were displayed. Grenadier Guards in their white gaiters, with the birth-day co. lours, marched from Knightsbridge Barracks to the King's. the Queen's, and all the other guards for relief. At one o'c1o:•k the Park and Tower guns fired a double Royal Salate. The Firemen in new clothes belonging to the dif. ferent Insurmco Offices paraded the streets; preceded by bands of music. The day was observed as. a holiday at all the public offices and other establishments. Mr. Fidler, the builder of the mail caches, gave a grand dinner to the princird mail contractors, at his house in 3tillbank-row, attached to the manufactory ; Mr. Hasker, the inspeetnr of mails, in the chair. All the mail coaches were new or new Varnished and de corated, which had a very handsome and unifium ap pear.mee. The hammer cloths were all new, of scarlet, ornamented with geld lace. The harness of the horses were mostly new and seine of the here were orna mented with light blue ribbands. The horses are sup posed to be the finest eolleeti , na ever assenibled together, and which attracted a great number of gentlemen to view diem. Barrels of beer were distriburel at the gates of Si. James's Palace and the Adwitalty, h as usual. .1-;onte•of the public others, the oi:era House, the Theatres, and the Houses of the royal tradesmen wer:, illuminated. The Queen received the congratulations in n private manner from a number of personages, at Windsor Palace. NAVAL rrTE. The follow NI 'renew of an entertain/trot given by the o°lcers of the Nasal Establishment at i l i gra n d slice of Ca nada on the 17th of February list, is taken hum a Quebec Paper " A very numerous assemblage of visitors had reiehed the Naval Depot.by four o'clock, p. n. and were received by the cornioandstit, Captaisi Piing, and his Lady, in the net.st affable and hospitable manner. A sitinptisoits dinner was prepared m the Officers' niess•roons, is the canipatiy. upwaids of sixty iii number, at dim a, v here they ;omitted till the limy was announced as ready to commence. Tha ladies wine conveyed to the theatre in sleighs, nhich those ?pod ttttt ned lads, the sailors, insisted on drawing theme. selves, a distance of a quarter of a talk. The Mould loft hail been tilted op for the occasion. The entiance was through an :on ails' Of e%erereciis, tt itt Med with lamps. The hoonery as dveorations of the theatre, painted by the joist tfloita of the (dicers, were esecnied in a very superior style. An appropi ate pri.logne was spoken in s a masterlY manner, and the celebrated cut, Site Stoops le Cunliter. wits performed by the Naval Amateurs, in a stl,le abuse Me. diorrity. Between the stets a comic song was given with lituri humour and st.“!!e stem, was encored by thi .1 - !tn cniwoly over at ;ea, p. m. the I'olllol re» turned, imich ,lelit:Lted with the pet tainialici , to the mess and partook of refreslimcii;... An agreeable 111111111011 S was a.) N received, that the h.:11 :moot was ready; and, on re torniug to the nsould loft, all were sur prised to find the [lustre vanished—Me boxes, pit, scenery and all had disappeared, aval, like some paWnirionic track, the linle was chao,,t d ie3,la hail room, seventy feet ial length. well alumni:lied stud decorated with flags—l'weniy-live anti thirty couple at tittles, OCClli.it'4l the boor till live in the morning, m hen the niproiy it.:ain retired to Captain Pring's quarters, where ass chltaut repast was prepared for them, and where mirth and giant humour prevailed tuna daylight gave its intrusive warning. if the visitors stele really well pleased with the cordial ecept ion they met v. ;Oa, both trona Cavt ato Priug, his amiable Li.dy, and ah the Officers, they uu dan h t mast have been equally pratitied iu seeing so euinerusis em asst 'oblige of nil The reApettable part of the country vision Mem— front Yu: k,. from Lone Poitit, and from the Nll.Lata froutier. Cots ardsof thirty lathes were iiieseut. Ibe foilimiee morning the etalipany Pct n..t no their re. torn home, pleas d with the amusements, atid gretifieti wan Iles ottalidity tied politeness Willi th.ey bad beep .arrived and uitertaiued by the Otßeers of use Naval La mine 111141,t. M. TiILMA, THE F3ENCII TRAGEDIAN. v.lin is now in hi Spilt year, ilflB 11111 a in Fratec and seinained is, his native country till he attained his rightb yi st hen hr was sent to reeelse a pat tof his ethicafenit in this country. 114 retnurinl to France iu his rith }ear, to tiiii-ti his eddealiuu, remained :it Course a tine yt •s isat d Engloild in 1783. It oab at tli:» period that lit tii; au inclina tion for that rinfessioa, of %%Lich he oas deeiint d to tweet:ye An cii,iitattishril 0811111.1eill— 011 scriag Mr. Is.. 11114e:1'1 i Mts. S6111.111r1•1 in 1141:11.01y. lie tout te - il toFrancein 17i t;, and began to app: dinistil . to surgery, as his Intuit. pi 4; t*t.5..4.1; but Ida pretionsinant paAsion still carrying him to the i•tat e, in 1.757 he made hi , first appealanre in the c l inacu t of St tG iu tairr's " He W4Bllll'll uho s,t 2:1; 1118 11111.1'1!,4 U. 14 ; !le 5004 ber.enti ce.r !pitted u• 4 1141:14i:411.111111 L r, 11 aho fete Tii:laa made his alycari.iieii Anne el 111n4 forced to retire front the slay. ti.at 1-11.1r4eler sFhirit he acquit td AO rally in bi• plot, rsiunal eer. ckpi truce in las art has aiVell additioatil 'Lite Finch almost pair of Ps er equal—lt's a:lw line tory thick impos tlinaks Logli , ll best iders not int. ntl perfot in any c illtraetvr iu an play ; isideed, is it certain t Lat i.e will in a Fil.alt:a one, a* be tame to Esigiond art ely fur his amn.emcttt. the pi it Opal *etas of Covrst. 1;141111'1111.1'4114• pri11.11111! to .11(• a Jinni r 10 AL Tails I, as a I.L 6 ii t. r. ) viitcrtai4.ll bib tog ; 4 ? 4 01 • - " • • •••