The National Register. — London, England, 1812-12-13 00:00:00

TUT: NATIONAL -REGISTER. '7 8 e mind already ited by the ritsapooint men. oceas:oned by the Prince's measures, etaleuvoured to point out its ridsehood by some incidental observations his Royal Hielioess, which otherwise would not have been made. Mr B. quoted the ,xample el Burke, who might been pr. +scented fur bbel• on Royalty, if some passages of his work had been separated from the rest, although he was a decided chom pioo t M eiarchy. and rewarded as sie:h. He then commented or various expressio - •s in which the pteotut libel was said to consist. Whee Mr Hunt termed the Prince " a violator of his word," he (lit snot, in it in a prie.ite but in d pehlie mid political seise, atid it Indict t the disalumitinent of tli • Cadioties. When lie stated tilt Neat• ttobe in delo, it wet nude hservhig th It one branch of the re venue we• in arrear, sieen the latgislatui e had taken upon itarlf pa% went of his- Royal li -dutess's debts, and l• told the pubic dolt la vol t t, twist oot, contract a debt to the amount of sixoenee, or, It the. suffered it, tie's they should not be paid." Mr. B. next cinie tr a wi,ich lie would fain loos over, but his duty compelled hitu to notice a. Al; ew to wh e at Mr. Hnnt referred when he said the Prince %vas 4 a despiser of demestic ties." lie would go no further but content Ishii:vit . with saving that the author alluded to that event whirls had occrsioned 1 setter to establishment to form a part of the Defect of the year. The defendant then phrased the Prince the com panion of gamblers and demireps ; this too coutil be justified by public record Haying heated himself with a perusal of the srech of Mr. Curran, the present Master of the Iln!ls for Ireland, agienst a Nohas man, now one of the Prince's hoeschold, for criminal intercourse with a lady in that country, and then seeing in The Gazette the ap pointment of that same Nobleman to a hie!) offieial situation about thr • . Regent, the author exclaimed, " See whom it is you are praising—see whom it is you are thus wounding with the sat ire of pier panegyric !" They who had the resources of this mighty 'Monarchy at their com mand might %redl despise censure, if severe notice of their conduct wos to be deemed libellous. Fenced rotagal then with all the maenilicenee of Monarchy, with every thing that tended. to d.tzzle the senses, what had they to fear from a line a , two in a Sunday Newspaper ? Oliver Cromwell lidel said, 't limy Government is made to stand, or deserves to stand, it need not dread paper shot." lf, then, a year or two after he had obtained possession of an rotten Throne, could so despise paper shot, why should nut the Prince Regent? If he had not Mil tons for his private Secretaries, still the Throne was leeitimate. and our Monarchy aced lint fear the effects of " paper allot ;" for the person who filled so exalted a station was far bevond its reach. Were the Jury prepared to say, that the failings and vices of c.mrtiers were to be as ar above reproof fron the press as they were above legal con trol? The vices and failings of such men were {testator the reach of the law, and they had only to dread the visitutions of the press. It they were prepared to open the Hood-gates of-innueralities, if they were prepared to let loose upon the world the race that wets disfigured by them. then must the verdict - go aeninst his clients. But he talked of inepossibilities; he was sure that truth and justice would prevail, that they would do their dots, and that his clients would be acquitted. The Sot MINOR-GENERAL in replY--expressed his surprise at its being asserted that she libel was not written with an anxious de•ire to pull down men le high antlinrits, but that it had only bet I, composed merely to anseer some. doggerel ryhmes. The deceit:Loa by his Counsel went much Prater Blatt this, fir he said that unless you allowed him to do this in the way which lie had done it, thee there would !aeon end to freedom of di;cussion and the liberty of the pres•. The expressions it seemed were to he pardoned, because the defend ants' hones of the Prince le pecting the Catholics hart tint been rea lized ! He stood nut there either to justify or to question the Princ. 's conduct as Regent. Ile had been termed a violator of his word, be cause, being called to the exercise of the supreme authority on accouut of the lamentable situation of hislloyel toe-, he took care not to forget it, and to act as he knew that theinenished person would approve if he were restored to his health and- the ructions of Royalty ! The author told his readers that his Royal Hiehness was in dcht---but did he stop there NO, for he added, that he was a libertine. and in dis grace, thus bolding him up as a fit ehiect for the detestation of the Public. ' He would put it toohe Jury, whether they (lid not con,eien tiously believe, that the libel had been connereed with the delibersoe view of writing down the Prince Regent ? Mr. Hunt acknooliebool that they were hard truths, but then, he asked, were they not truti•s ? He would tell. hint that they were not ; and lie would tell him more, that the litae was calculated to alienate the feeltilos of the people from his Royal Highness: In conclusion, he would not threaten the Jury into a verdict, he would merely calleni them to pronounce their ho :est whether Ale publication before theta was not a most gross, wicked, and diabolical libel ! Lord ELLIIIO4 uoaouG it charged the Jhry, and sail, that the Learned Ccuusel for the defendant had imbibed the soiot of his client, aed svelued to have inoculated himself with all the poison and mischief MT. 13, wui •11 (his lily-I was calculated to effect : hut he w.,tild ho rc things of hint, and attribute what bad liven AnI , I /0 OW °pint." S client, and not to take them acs lOS The Jury hoti to deei:;e to-day whether we were in (Mare to live under the t,f or the controul and government of the law ; fur against all tke 1 its provisions had tin , libeller set his K hole fro• t at di-nia:cr.---1 proposition was no kaS than dolt every' twin, from the Iii;:) 't u . „ :ewer, who accepted an idfiec of publc trust. should Iv nounce the protection or the law; and that any in.tivohol rase and aba 4ionvd, should, Cr in thenceforth, be at Imeit v ;,, the slats of calumny nt his brea.t. Wlad man w.ts come forwaid to st rve los country on such ctilitious? Lord then recapitulated tit? heacls iii the and rcinal.ed colic:tiding words of it, " These are hard tratlot, but are tit./ t truths ?—he observed would ill beco..ne into to flatter any pen„ t, •owever high a: t 1 exalted his rank % he had never d tie i• ; wou!d. He did not sit there as the comoieudator of the P. ioct. , hut wag it he endured, that his ltryal highness s'lf.Anti he dtlcrii , , , a as a man, wit t, ittler living half a century, hrd never d ole s.ll 21e act wind) should deintind the approtaation ot . hi• ciety. It was holding that illustrious person up as one ‘ilio hurl E ca worthless for the past, and ly peless for the future, who would hvc the world without benefit to it, and gait it without brim; o• ;. 1: t• ; •,!, Under all the cliciitustancca the caw, iti, Lord.l.lo it Ve —ell .eition, he was confide 11 nt there was not 0... of the t .WP. C; I he was addressing, Who could lay his haul upon hN heat and this was not a foul, atrocious, awl 0n0.% The jury were then directed to Nost-ter ttr. it verdict., and a'ter few minutes consultation, they were ii,ked, whe.her 017 in their verdict " Yes," a tswcred one of the uryiern, . 1 all ha perom." The Jury were thvit desired to revile, watch tlwy did. ai, returned in About- a quartet of an hour. when they pronounced both the delemdants--Guilty. CRIM. CON. CTIAMTEttI.AVNE V ABOonttgAn. This was an arlion of Cries. Con Ti. Plaitaitf was a clerk in Ole 'Packet Agents oilier at Lisbon, and the defeno -ot ()I a mar, of war. The evidence stated that the Plainti:f ..;(1 sent his wit away (rota Lisbon s me time nao in eon.ecpteace of her aduiter us ca n . duet, and from that period had allowed her tier loot resided for four years in London, and became acquair,ted with the dv lentlant, with whAn it was clearly proved she 11:,(1 t,ct,tt etinutl.l:‘ but it was proved that her gvuet-ai conduct was imleerlit, aid that she was als - .ot 'infrequently, in a state of beattly int(A.eltion. Lord Et.I.IN flu or it here ioterfereii, anti observed the acCeal uid lie, and there must be a verdict for the Plaintiff but he Ott Jury would not give any serious damages. Verdict fur Plain gi Damages, One Shilling. DVNILIS V. T.OIND SEMVf.E. This was an action against the Defendant, Lord Semple, for conversation with the Plantifrs wile. The Sotrcrror-GENLR At. stied the circumstances of the c . i'e which were as follows : - Plaint . 'l l ; Mr. I)iitidas, was a Gi'l/1e": 1 1 cd small fortune, who hail connections and property in n%eilea. ta which country be frequently resorted. lie had inarrie'd his Lady mike year 1801, at which time she was about cars of age. Loist yor hr went as usual to SA but Oir acciillitt of the d•sturbeil stale "t ' l :e country lie left her at home with wsister, in Berkshire. During sei.ce she became acquainted with Lord Semple, mid helm e his reftra she It.id eloped. and was now living in open adultety. T tie Noble Lord made no defence, and the Jury found fa the nuin. tiff—Damuges, 40001. OLD BAILEY. On Thursday these Sessions ended, when Sentence of death V:IS plssed on Martha Hughes, fir ste.iling privately in a sliop ; A" I.ock and Susannah Forster tor z like effence ; John Lernere, „tor forgery ; Th-mas Simmons for highway robbery ; Geer; :e tior . Elizabeth Lindsay, and Erlw.t.l Lloyd, for . robbery jii &Sell' ' , rig house ; Jovn Rowe. for stealing a sheep ; .sa-:th Butler, ani Sarah A rmstrcng, for ovinitw, hello, " uttering counterfeit money ; Andrew Tiffin. frr foam mei . portation ; William M'Kone and lohn 1) glrity, for a ii;ehNr l ) ribbery ; John Manclwell, for SiCi *nig in Dwelling house ; W111!:"..‘ Taylor. ecnvictel at the last Session of steanng goods on the rivet Tl4,ines. Jame,Wheeler, John Wo-d, Sarah Smith, and Sarah N1.1: 31 •"" :1 to be transported for life ; John Rickards a' d Eir.nry Rogers tor tool: ten years; John Thompson, Thomas Ellis, Th- mas H 3:12:11 31 "'l John Mitcham alias Symonds, Francis Di•nrellv, it •••! 1 -t , '• Andrew Macademaw, Ann Morris, Henry Hawkins, Samuel hams, Aim Clerk, William Shrphatt, .EV.zabeth Lescrfe, I 1)