The National Register. — London, England, 1817-12-22 00:00:00

.- - passion ; it is the will of Divine Providence, and I must the:efore, stshruit. Only le long long days have we been parted, yet it seems bottle as many mouths. 3h !my beloved girl, 1 have have been miserable indeed since you left me ; nights have paAed without sleep Soot:ill thoughts to tranquilize my mina have proved ineffetual. llow ellen has my own dear Nanny told me that my love was not so strong for her as hers for me, but it is not the ease now ; I feel that heavenly ! gin in all its strength. No. you do not love tie more than Ido you. Happy ! happy day ! when shall I press my love to this throbbing bosom. Oh, love! heavenly gift, ! let us not be long asunder. My wish, you know, was to have made you alloy t.val:fore you went, Lot circumstances would not pemnit. Can env love doubt my sincere affection ? No, not nor ran I doubt her sincere affection for one who kvee only for her ! How do you do? Is there any thing new ? Oh, any love, need I entreat you to write to me. I believe mat t it love be as it was, it is superfluous. Console my heart with a letter ; and when k receive it, l will kiss it as I do the precious lock of your sweet hair, which I look at with heart-reading sorrow. I pass your former house frequently, and I always sigh %%Inn I look at the door into which I have so often entered with sincere joy, to embrace my •only life. &c. Believe me, lily only angel, yours unalterably till •• 3. SA M PSO N." P. S. I again open my letter to pen a few lines to my love : God • bless and pres,:rve you my dearest my only comfort in this world." The next letter read was tlated— w May 17th, 1812. e. My sincerely and dearly belocce is the second time I take up my pen to write to one whim I love most sincerely, as I do ; therefore you may judge what are my feelings at this mo w...lit ; you know how to appreiti et'OClll and I cominmec in conte ssuence by t:liing you how I nave been in health since my lust letter. The breakiogs out on my biy.ly &c. have continued until now ; Alan et in : they appear about my carved face, sometimes about my leak and other putts; they hate frequently kill me from sleeping, when my thoughts were only of you , &c. I have been eveisalingly low in spirits. so much as to mu e to Lind S. and Sir P. Hill to have Joked inc freilueurly at table; but all the world knows that I love you dearly, and I glory in the circumstance. Will she then ever forsake her inceno J. T.? No! our hearts only ems.: to love when we s all cease to live, &C. I will now give ycu some intiwina tion respecting cur future union, which shall take place as soon as possibl,2: ht i, wy 'roundel duty to keep nos'iiitg from yon : Imo it likely that Lora S. will be made Ambassador, and then I hope to have 4645. at .5::01. a year, and it so, 1 wilt senti tor you immediately. Do not think that I mean by this to give you any new tie to bind you to the only titan who COO make you happy, &c. To preserve the only ob;ect of my soul's happiness in health and virtue is the prayer of your, till death, "J. T. SAMPSON." A lean dwelt more p6:11110611411? 1111 ate tie f:Y111111 ' 11)0(1 . 11 mil dirties, and silair words es pri sseil his feats " his soaps idol" had (alien into the hands of a lyre aide •aiii - dim' from Rochfurt. A fourth contained t h e ihnowing graph :—" I hope the time is not far distant when our heari will ire united. l have now in thy ouanm your sweet hail ; 1 wish I had yon in my arIIIA, bill that it appities. is 6 .41 to (*Mae I hope the time iv not far od . ; oar hearts are already muted. Remembe whit I told you before your dear father's lia.,e nes* --that w orn I cease to love my Nanny, may that my last, for thou would I close any eyes without so' row " ate. After this letter had been resit, Searlett nicotined Lordship. that Mr. Denman (who was with hun iii the call-e! had taken an opportunity of seeing the defendant, who 114 undonliteilly a roriplete answer to the olaintiffs ease, Omni; he(Mr. ) might reg ret that lie should b.• the iasiro went of layin., it before t he jury. The ilefmdant was vr;; big that die oinject %tumid he privately investigated and I' vateiy iireinged, without the inconvenience of further dis dostio es. Mr. Topping said, that the plaintiff had always been awn shoat° avoid publicity, not wishing, even tinder all the aggra vation of her case, to expose the coirespiindimee of the de fondant. Not nose. than a mouth ago au ineffectual tit [env dyad beep made on her WWI to produce a private if not an atisicab le arrangement. Lord I . :Rents° , ough expressed his satisfaction at the course adopted. and a serdiet was taken for the plaintiff—Da- Wages 2,41inh., subject to the arbitration of Mr. Courtin} . TRIAL OF MR. OI HONE. FO.s.OI)R THE PUBLICATION PA ILS. THURSDAY,—'rat Ilia° V. HONE. an Shepherd stated, that this was an information preferred against tint defendant by his Majesty's Attorney-General, or printing and publishing a certain iminous and profane libel on the Book of Corn elison Prayer, called " Wilkas Catechism." The Attorney General said, the Jury would have learned, from the dpening, the nature of the question which they hail now to try. In mating this ease, he should not feel it necessary to occupy any egemportion of the time of the Jury; for it was impossible to read the publication in question, and not perceive that it was what it was charged to be—wicked, impious, and blaiphemous. It had been said by one of the moat learned, as well as moat religious Judges who ever presided in a Court of Justice in this country, he meant Sir Matthew Hale, that "Christianity was parcel of the Common Law of England." Such were that Learned Judge's express words ; and she Church Service had also been made part of the Statute Law of the load; for in the reign of Charles 11. when the Book of Common Troyer was collected in its present form, an Act of Parliament was to establish this Collection of Prayers as the Common Prayer. 11717(!itlicule that Book was not a crime, then Religion ceased to be land= the protection of the law. If the Creed, Ten Commandments, wad Lord's Prayer, were not sacred, what, on the face of the earth, "wild be called so ? Whoever, by parodying them, rendered them 'ridiculous, whatever might be his object, brought religion into con "Sampt, and was guilty of a great crime and an aggravated libel. The Attorney General here proceeded to compare the different passages of ate Parody* with the original Book of Common Prayer, which lie laid no man could read without seeing the object of the Parody must wto bring the Common Pulver into contempt. During the time the Attomey-General was reading the Parody, the audience showed a disposition to laugh. 54r. J %Mice Abbott immediately ordered the Sheriff to place Officers Ss the Court; observing, if any per,on could be found so lost to (keener/ as to consider the publication as a subject of merriment, they must be taught to know that this was not a place to sliew their diaposition in. The Attorney-General then resumed. and having concluded his *dams, called witnesses who proved the fact of the publication by defendant. Mr. Hone then proceeded to address the Jury in a speech, which 'listed nearly five hours. • The following passage at the commencement will give ail ides of the whole : . 0 . A CATEcrilsm, that is to say, an Instruction, to he learned by mery Person ktbre he be brought to be confirmed a or by the vguestion. What is your came?—Answer. Lick Spittal.—Q, 'Ono gave you this name ? A, My Sureties to the Ministry, in my 'political Change, wherein I was made a Member of the Majority, ibis Child of Corruption, and a locust to devour the good things of Se Kin ,dom.—What did your Surities then for you ? A. They did promise vow tl,-ec in my Name. Fir.t, that I should renounce Refor.iosta and ;JI their works, the pomp* and vanity of Popular Savour, au,i al the sinful lusts of indeptiiiieriCe. Secondly, that 4ltouki Lel tcyi all the Articles of the Court Faith. And tinnily, that should keep the Minister's ante W ill and Contunidspeata, URI Valk llithiaallve th• avid!' wy life,"44. lIQ TIM 14A'llONAL IMGTSII:II.' His ground of def.•nce was, that the practice of parodying portions of the Scriptures, had never bean dzemed blasphemous, and cited r.vious instances of its having been done with impunity, from the time of Luther to the present day. lie was frequently interrupt:d by the Court in his rei;ing of various parodies. Mr. Justic: Ab bott contending, that however high. thecLaraeter of the author, yet the publications w ,:re highly improper. - The defendant conclued, by &teeing his innocence of any intnit to ridicule religion, and Called witnesses to }now having stopped the publication of the parody. • Mr. Justice Abbott. in his charge to the Jtuy; declared it to be de sidedly his opinion, that the publication in question, was an inil'iuus attack on the Christian Religion ; it wus an attack on the law of God and of the country. And with regard to the intention of the defendant, a usen's lineations Mustalways be judged of by his acts. A great number of similar paroli had been quoted, many.of them were gross libels ;and if none of them had been prosecuted, it did nut follow that such anothet libel should not at any future time he pro sccuted. The defendant had certainly stopped the publication soon aft.:r it appeared, but that was nodef,tice, anal could only be adduced in mitigation of punishment at sonic future period. The Jury retired for about half an hour, and returned with a vet ' diet of—Not Guilty. So soon as the verdict was pronounced, as it was in an emphatic tone, by the Foreman of the Jury, the Hull, which was immensely crowded, resounded with acclacuattons of applause. The Judge or dered, that any one found disturbing the order of the Court should be immediately taken into custody, but tic applause still continued without any abatement, and the Judge that said, •• Gentlenien,uuy pleasure you feel, I beg you to exprias elsewhere, and to leave the Court." The people accordingly left the Court, and as they proceed ed the streets, the language. of joy was most loudly and une quivocally espressed. FRIDAY.-THE MHO V. HONE. Mr Shepherd opened the proceedings. Ile stated that this was an informatiou tiled by the Attorney-General against Cie defendant, fur a profane and seditious libel ea second count chareeed it as a libel sport the Prince Regent, the House of Lords, and the Hon* of Commons. The Attorney-General then addressed the jury.—llly speech em braced precisely the seine arguments di that deli% creel in the pre cediog day. He then proceeded to real the Wed nub was a parody of tie Litany or general supplication to Goa, the Redeemer, and the Holy Ghost. lie as. interrupted u, his reiding by an milecorinie lati;ebter of a part of the auditory, ea she., Lunt Ellennonnigh insisted that the Sheiffe should net: » to preserve order. 'lac At tornty-Generel appealed to the jury whether the indecent conduct of the persons proem was not a complete proof of the tendency of such writings to urin e sacred and serious subjects into contempt. The defendant might probably ettempt to vindicate himself by referring to parts of works that it would have been tar better to have allowed to rot upon the shelves ; the answer was obvious ; for an offender to slime that otters had offended before him, could edited neither satis faction nor excuse. None of those to wiiich he would probably refer were, like this, intended to be widely and industriuuely cireuleted ; amp, set all events, this reiteration of a crime, which might not before • nave Alien under toe reprdbation of the law, rendered - it absolutely necessary that the .defendant should be brought before the Court; unites, milted, not only an established Church, but Christianity i.eelf were to be resigned. It was true, the .lury were not called upon in teas case to decide merely the dry fact—they were the judges of the intention of the party, and whether the publication were a libel : but it was their duty no less to decide according to law; and as juries might be mistaken, and that their verdicts might not ii sometimes he governed ar dictated by by caprice, it was also the 'M ein:se of tee presiding judge to deliver to them the directjoa in poi»t of law, and his opinion whether or not the production were libellous. It' me pamphlet of the defenctuit were not determined to be a pro fane libel, there was no insult of the kind that might not be offered to she established religion and to the sacred writings with impunity. With regent to intention, it was not necessary to soy mote, than that where certain effects had Howie:lllcm a certain act in itself criminal, the law presumed that the party was guilty of the ptirpoee to pro• duce those edicts, even though be might not immediately contemplate the cousequeoces. Witnesses were shout to be eall.el to prove the publication, &C. when the defendant agreed to admit all the facts necessary for the prnsecution. '1 he libel was then read by Mr. Law, it was entitled " The Po litical Litany." Mr. Sheriff Desanges entered the Court while the libel was reading. Lord Ellerborough addressed himself to him, observing, that most unreasonable disturbances had taken place in the Court yesterday, and he was anxious that thy should not be repeated to-day ;it was the duty of the eberiff to keep order, and lie was responsible for any breach of it; his lordship conseqeently expected that he would at tend personally to see that his officers dad their duty: The SheriWrenlied, that his lordship might rely upon his utmost exertions. The case on the part of the Crown being closed. Mr. Hone rose and entered upon Isis defence, which was precisely the same as that offered yesterday, and in the course of which he was iepeatedly interrupted by Lord Ellenbierough, who etrora;ly objected to the reading of such offensive matter as the eetracts generally Were which Mr. Hone orodueed in justification of his mode of writing by parody. He concluded a speech of great length by calling upon the jury for justice—not mercy. He wanted no mercy, liecalise he Mt lie was innocent. He now placed his cause in their hands, and he hail no doubt they would send him home to his family, instead of sending him to the King's Bench prison. The defendant then celled witnesses to prove that he stela the publication of the parodies as soon as he heard they were disapproved of. After the Attorney General had briefly replied, Lord Ellenhorough preceded to charge the jury. Ile had no doubt of the seditious and libellous tendency ofthe Publication in question, and believing and hoping the jury were Chrietians, he had no doubt they would be of the same opinion. The jury retired at a quarter past 6 and at 8 they returned a verdict of Nut Guilty. WESTMINSTER GENERAL DISPENSARY.—The elec tion of a Physician Accoucheur to this Charity took place on Wednesday, and so severe a contest was never known.—Even the venerable Sir Joseph Banks came in his carriage to vote for Dr. Granville, the candidate who was ultimately successfUl. The numbers were For Dr. Granville .. 112 • Lry Dr. Granville, the successful candidate, is known to the public, not only by his professional attainments, but also by his profound researches in chemistry- ; and, as a literary man, by king the biographer and eulo gist of Guyton de Morveau, the Regicide. At Brest a dreadful storm has been felt for two days and two nights. An English transport from London was lost with 240 passengers near Pontusval. In the Island of Ceylon, which has of late years ' very much advanced in the progress of civilization and Christianity, the number of inhabitants who have been vaccinated during the year 1816, amounted to 19,530. A iron proof among many others that the communi ion and in ercourse among all nations has greatly incr, aseti, s tending to tile grand epoch of the gt. coral, smelioratiou of meakiado POLICE. AIANSION-IMUSE. TIM It Monday C. W. Whididd, n confidential clerk in the born* of Curls and Co. bankers, iu Imph:lld-street, was charged eith embezzling the sum of SUOI. the property of the firm.— Mu. Pall4ICI, fur the prosecutioy, stated; that there were nu. morons clukges of this natuteagainst the prisoner; and he woo as yet ptepartd with evidence upon one only. Mr. Curtis do posed, that it was the duly of the prisoner to send in bills or drafts upon-the Bank of England, and to receive the amount.. On the tali inst. the prisoner had a 'Treasury bill fur 5001. on acronnt of the Leeds Bank. There were other drafts, ttsc. amounting in the whole to about 0:101. As it sometimes ire tmed that payment was refused at the Bank, on account of some informality in the drafts or bills, it was the prisoner's duty, in such cases, to entrastlitsimme in a book, runs assigned. On examining the book on the 6th . ipst. the bill for 5001. was entered as unpaid. In order to satisfy the Bank of the gennineness 'Hite instrnment, it was memorial ized by one of the partners,mill again presented ; when they were informed that it was paid with the other hills on the first presentment. The prisoner was in consequence taken into enstody. This being proved, he was remanded. A pretty looking g,irLabinit 14, was charged by Mr Mlntoe. landlord of the Three lierring% public-house, In Crec Church lane, Aldgate, with sit olio, :t di.k et, confaiiiing necklaces. ear-rings, and other trinkets of considerable valve, the pro perty Olds daughter. The complainant was formerlyair Of. licer in the army, aid the articles in question were presented to him while on service in India. for the use of his daughter. , ' They were on that account much prircd.by the latter, and ways kept locked in her apartment. A short time ago the prisoner came to the boost, and stated hersdtfi.to be wholly:: destitute, that she bad an aged father in great distress, and..,. requested to be employed. Mr. M. with no other recom mendation than her own story and appearance, took her into his service. She had been ban a few weeks in his house when . she was observed to be repeatedly intoxicated. This led to inquiries; the casket was missed, and the coutents traced to her possession. Mr. M. had no wish to prosecute the girl 1 but . hoped that. something might he done to save her from destruct. don. The Lord Mayor ordered her to be remanded, and he would endeavor - 1r to provide for her. BOW-STREET. Saturday se'nnight Bishop the officer arrived in town with Henry Peisse, lute a principal clerk in the Navy Pay Office at Poi tsmouth, charged with having absconded from the of= lire about two months since, with .12,01. in his possession.—•• Bishop, who was cmploye•d to pursue him, traced him to Lon don, m here he took his place in the name of Parsons, by a Dover coach to Dover, from there to Calais, and on to Paris. Tile officer obtained the interference of Lord Castlereagh atm 10 Charles Stuart, our Ambassador at Pails, and his lacclh icy applied to the F reach Police. It being a Govern ment Jobbers, they sanctioned the execution of the Euglish - warrant granted uy Mr. limn, , in France. The French Potter Office's, however, insisted upon accompany iii M t n till he was out of France. The partienlars of the (mat ce were not gone into on that day bid on the application ol• the So licitors to Or Navy Pay Office, the prisoner VI .1,4 of tiered to be conveyed to Portsmouth, wnere the witnesses to support the charge reside, and the otiotee having been committed iss Ilampshire, he will tre tried at W int litster at the ensuing A!.suzes. HOW AT TUE ECCESTRIC SocseTv.—At a Society called the Eecentite, held at Great liussel•sti ern, the' c uru^e uu the uight of the 4th instant a dispute among some of the members, when Lieut. Church was expel.ed the society. Ott the Sunday night follow, mg Mr. Num, a gentleman of the lass, aho is a„ member of the Eccentric Society, was supping at the Shake., speare, when he was called out into the passage by Lieut. ' Church, who charged lulu with has iug used very coarse and. opprobi ions epithets towards him, and C ave him a very violent blow in his face, notssitlistandims Mr. Noel's positive denial of having used suck language. Since that time Lieutenants Church and Breery, and Mr. F. Clan ise(the two last still mem bers of the Eccentrics), having acted towards Mr. Noel and Mr. liemilersou, a friend of his iii the law, with the 'mende' of provoking a duel, warrants were issued against th.ms foe a breach of the peace ; and OW their being brought before Mr.. Birnie liar examination, Lieut. Church wished to go into the question upon which he svas expelled from the Eccentric So ciety ; but the Magistrate refused to hear it, obwreing, that the laws and regulations of the Eccentric Society were not before him; it trassuflicieut for him that a breach of flue peace had been committed, and as had been clearly pros eit against him by his assaulting Ms. N out.-- Lieutenant Church said be was a stranger in London, and was nut prepared u ith bail, our could he procure it fur a day or two ; lie was, therefore, ordered into custody. Lieut. Breery, against whom it was proved that lie had sent a challenge, pleaded a similar excuse of being a stranger in London, and therefore nut being pre pared with bail ; a professional gentleman, however, an agent of hisatteruey at Hull,agreeu to bail him. It not being proved that Mr. Clarke knew the contents of the letter he delivered. and that lie gave his name and address on his being asked to do so, he was discharged. Font: ERILS.—A man, mimed Thomas Fagan, was on Moa• day brought to the Office, iu consequence of the vigilance of Brown tilt Officer, who, having seen hint at a public-house with some suspicious property, determined at once to have him examiaed, as a probable thief'. He turned out to be a snore mischievous character than Brown suspected ;and with the improvidence which usually and most fortunately attends roguery, himself gave the clue which led to his detection.ass He said, lie belonged to the Co iiiii nasal iat Department. Ex inky was made, and it was found that he had been discharged limn that Otlice on suspicion of having comtnitted several forgeries. On his being put to the bar, there appeared against him a Cashier of the miles: of Mr. Campbell, the Army Agent, who charged hint with having forged the name of Mr. John Wyatt to several receipts for pi izesantmey, and having receiv ed the mouey in his personated character. A clerk from the office of the Accouutanf-Geuvrahprctcrn Cuba similar complaint. Ttie prisoner was remanded. THAMES POLICE OFFICE. RonnenY ox THE Tli AM LB.--.-A110111(.1' instance 4.f rob bery nu the river Thames has recently ueeureil. The offen ders ate two lightermen, iu the employ of air. Sage, and the value of the goods stole,' to the amount of 2UOOI. 'the cit ruinstaiwe, under which the robbery was committed are these:—Mr. Pope, of Manchester, having putt:int:ma sonic goods of Mess's. Gilman and Co. of New gate street, erdercd them to be packed and shipped on Wald the John Palmer. lying oil Gravesend. The goods were accoidtattly packed ove boxes and one trunk tinder the direction of 'ti. Cross, belonging to Gilman's house : and after being duly examilted at the Custom-house- were delivered at Galley Quay, Thames street, to W. U. &Wilton and J. itollinsoo, two lightertuelt