The National Register. — London, England, 1822-05-20 00:00:00

.:::~ LAN INTELLIGENCE. --o COVET OF BING'S BENCH.. UAS 17. THE JOHN BULL NEWSPAPER. allll Slap U. waAßaa r SUACILFLL. •ND The Commou Sergeant proved the jedgnseut of the Cued oo these duce defendants. who were found guilty at the sitting before List Hillary term, at Guildhall, of See libels WI liff lute Wl:ijesty. The Lord Chief Jaidee read his notes of the evidence, by which irappenred that Ave at-tic:es. reflecting in gross terms on the late Queen, were beetled in the Juks liall iir•isspaper at intermit betueen the latter end of February and the end of May, leil, and Shat the defendant.' were the proprietor. primer, and publisher of that journal. The libellous pus. sages were set forth in our report of the trial. On the part of the deft odant Arrowunith, an affidavit of a medical gentleman was read. statism, that he laboured louder au indisposition which imprisonment bad akendy ln ereased. and which further imprisoonsent would probably render dangerous. No affidavits were pat in nu die part of the oilier defendants. On behalf of the prosecution an nedimit was read, stnting ant the deponent. named William Allen, had regularly purebasi d the numbers of the John Dell almost from its euninoweement t that the paray,raphs selected- were only pads of a regular system of calumny carried on agalust the kale Q.seet't idol the defendents, baying been convicted of a libel non deceased lady. and senteured to imprisonment and Site. boasted of their indepondeace of prosecutions, and icaerted that they bad receit ed 900.. its sulit•cri pitons toy/aril,. itttieutetrying them mg:iliac loss. It also Muted. that in oar of 'heir pavitt it way stated that more thou 470.000 copies of the newspaper bad been .old. - - The defei4l4;ots being severally asked whether they wished to urge any taing la mitigation of punishment, booed res pectfully to the Court, and intiomsed that they bud nosiness to olTer. The Common Sergeant tien.addressrd the Court in aggra vation of the punishment. The defendants hail. be said, mimed a very discreet comae in waking no wham.' to the Court—s coarse which, nn doubt, experience had showu them to he the wisest. !lard as ir was to attack those who made no resistance,. he should be guilty of on abandonment of that duty which first ciimpelled him so brier these disrusi. tog parlieuhus even into discussion, if he were induced by any personal consideration to say nothing of the henious crime of which the defendants stood convicted. It had been thought uecessary for the public good, to bring for ward these individuals furju.tice, as they had gratified the matig uity of the must muliguant, against the highest subject of the realm, now ou more. The libels of which they were timid guilty were five in number—of the grimiest and most infamies kind ; and yet these were sworn to be but n sample of that venomous invective which could not be impended evea by the death of its victim. After she bid been consigned to the silent mother her ancestors, they still pursed her me. irony with the same unrelenting slander with which they had inst.itsend 'ter life. In these libels, they dared to cho lla( !nine the first subject of the realm use shameless woman —as a•female lost to sit sense of propriety and decency— us use-now sunk into ohlisiun, iu which site would do well to remain for shelter—as heartless, hardened, an " example of profligacy, astiuess, and depravity!" The imputed to her iiitensperanee the host disgusting, wantonness the most odious, profligacy the most apes and bold. Could it be per. 'bitted es any one human being to speak in such terms of another e Even if tillfhese imputations wete ns trite as they were scandalously false—even if these defendants bad been uppuinted judites of the ease of their vlctim—moult. .they lisstc heen justified lh tieing •rangaiere, ftur more degrading, indeed, to the pony using it, than to the party against whom it was adopted a Judge were called upon to express his mural reprobation of the conduct of an Initividanl beferis lola, he availed himself of that right, or rather of that prat.' leg,, with the temper, cahoot..., and moderation. becoming I his Mike. If an advocate, required to defend any eines fame which he might nut shrink with tmour, war, in the' course ut his duty, compelled teranimadvert on the coadaell of the adverse party—if he were called to give vent to * moral indiguation,maidst all the -cattlemen which a zeal for his client would enkiadle—yet if he could he tempted to direct against a female calumnies like T hese. instead of retiring with the boast that. be bid viadteated the lindepend ace of tits' profession, he would be cousigaid to univeral mid to meriteir infamy. As the defesidauts had said molting on this acclaims. lie would only speculate on those topics which might pins Ably occur to their lordships' minds, In extenuation of ski enormous offence before them. Could it be said that the just liberty of the press authorized these slanders? No s-! there was not among them one shadow of discussion—not 'young these or all which proceeded from the same saint, one vestige of argument—soothing , but foul invective which could gratify the basest malignity, or minister pleasure to the must vitiated appetite. Would it hr main-. trained that libels on one side could only be put down lay libels on the other? In the first place, he denied that the annals of the purse furnished any parallel to the system titivated by the Jahn Boll; and, were it otherwise, he should only say that the interference of the Coen was more decidedly called for to prevent individual obarsicter from being destroyed betsveen the combatants. It lied been said by an eloquent friend of his (Mr. Den i.iii7s) in reference to this topic, that vermin could only be destroyed by vermin; but surely if those vet • crawled to the throat auntie noble ;mina', they required prompt destruction from mightier hands. The •pruseco. Lion was co 11111 l enced soon alter the publication of the last of these libels'; the counsel fur tier Majesty "'talented, so long as any thing like discussion was inter ttt i t igLed with the slander, Irons prosecution ; but no one email read over this series of calumnies a about feeling that their duty to their Royal Mistress compelled them at least to bring her slanderers to justice. The great feature of the system of this infamous paper was cunsistently sustained Here was no rootrition—no statement that the Journal was suspended—no disclaim of an intention to poi:veil in a • •lar course ; bat the same machinery was still at work, and hopes were yet sherished that fines would be paid from some unknown soma., or that other individuals would come forward to sustain the burden.— Who was the author of this contemptible stuff, he knew not the parties stated in pilot that they received no as• sidance in their detestable labonis. hir. Justice Rayley.—There a no affidavit of that, Mr. C , miuoit Sergeant. The Common Sergeant.—No, my Lord ; but it is in the J 'An flail. This, howeser, is sworn to, ti at the papas contents a boast that tens of 118001104 of English mamma, wan would lIIVC believed lit the innocence of the Queen, bai bers undeceived by the labours of the editors; and • shim, that if any woman should dare to give her pnblist kTIONAL REG: sanction, site would be laid' open to publ:e obloquy. In spection, and contempt. Was there any t ine.; equal to this lathe whole history aide press? No wonder if her Majesty wait - nhfatoutebly received at the opera—no wander easitrld ladles. who i woold have been proud and happy to united her the consolationt of their soeioey, shrunk back; for these defendants threatened an expos sure which no female mind errata brave, and to defy which required an heroic courage scarcely consistent with the softer virtues ()Ellie sex. The detemlants, aceordorg to their own statement, had made large profits—something near 3,0001. (setting the subscriptions against the iledirc lion fur fines) by their detestable and unmanly traffie.—. He would well believe they were not only the publishers of the nook, but its authors; for he declared before God, that lee would accuse nu mall of so revolting a crime w itle. out the clearest proof. He felt That he could not pursue the topics which this cane suggested a We that temperance which he was hound to i e and therefirre he would . forbear. The national morals, the national character, the public peace , aN iolated by le defendants, called ow the Court to sustain them. Their Lordships would nut allow these men to glory in their ill-gotten wealth ; they would not suffer them to enjoy the thonght that they would be indemnified by their readers, who thought their mass of atrocity an ex , ellent Sunday repast, from all harm. If one of the defendants should suffer peculiarly from impri sonment, It was matter of regret; but the Court had scarcely any option, now that another mole of punishment was abolished, but to inflict Imprisonment or fine. He called on the Court, on behalf of she living and iliedead, for that protection.which the living, and the memory of the dead, bad ever received from their bawds. Mr. Brougham followed on the smut side. The Collet would, he said, perceive at once that the defendants had been guilty of a most deep and trebles offence, for which they had expressed no. co 'on; the Motives of their labour was avowed—their tendency was °henries—their edicts were matter of lameretahle history. 'Eisele Mande, s had tended to Whitler. If not shorten, the life of ihe first subject of these realms. They had been engaged in a conspiracy to mellow that illustrious lady flone thus society of her fellow-subject', and had vaunted of their IIIIC:e411 to the world. They had degraded tire press, that hest in strument of public instruction. and hat, made it their boast that they introduced into it one mighty mass of cor roption. if they were holden to be the most atrocious of criminals who poisoned the wells of a great city, what should be said of those who infected the springs of know ledge at the fountain head, and made its waters fit only for unnatural and degraded appetites to banquet on ? They might or might not be the authors of these odious works; and If they were only the base hirelings of mis creants lurking is the back grined, the Court omelets re gard them with no less indignation. Their sentence mould reach these miscreseits..ifseich they were, and wunlel place them in such a situation nut to be envied by the lowest of human beings. They would know in the hands of what agents their secret was deposited; they mould t.. amble bossily for its disclosure; null when that disclosure come, as come it must, they would be pointed at with mingled feelings, which were 'usually incompatible, of the uttermost contempt. and she interment Moire', sod. would be peersned with the indignation and sculls of the high ' led English people. The Lord Chief Justice, after consulting with the other Judges. amid, " Let the defendants be brought up fur judgment on the last day of Teem." MR. CUMILES SIUCRAY. Mr. Roteb moved, on Wheeled the parties who originally intersected Mr. Murray in the c..se•of appeal to tic. High Court of Admiralty, her re rule to show cause ahy he should not account to them for money received, nod pa, over she admitted balance In his hineds.. The upi.lecatioN lie appre beaded, was free from those formal sohjections a limb proved fatot he his late rule. The Court granted the rule, but intimated that if it should appear that the real -applicants M ere the WIMP no sin the former repplientiou„.the same erhj •ction would againarise. The Lord ChiefJustice•.ns the Judges were retire:, in quired of Mr. Retch if his aM .avit Stated that Mr. Morley had refined to account, to which he repliedin the ufßrounive. SAIMIDAT, MAT IS. . . JlloG7aftle ON Tien Rini. o' 'vatelltaTill• Oo llr. Jnttice B qltry taking his seed sia the thatch, the &tendons being called, appeared on the boor of the Court for its lodgment. • • • This ease, its tow senders may remember, stood over ft om last term to give She pros. eater, Mr. Wood. xn amigo hinny of answering the matter contisiiied in the alliiinvit pat In by thenohledeendnnt, which imputed to Mr. Wood previous word. of defiance: nada' course of iiiteacienee %%ilk the concerns of his Lordshp's femitt. AthdaVii% is reply weir now rend on the part of Mr Wood, den3ing or explaining the chief puiiihs-in the affidavits for the defendants. The noble defendant begged to make a fesrotnervations in justification of his . condur I...mid read iron Mille papers several pas:lees to that eireet, non concluded b% rlionk,ng their Lord-hips for the indulgence they had granted him. Mr. Janice Bayley, in proninmeing judgment, toed at great length ou the ottent.e a hick the detention had com mitted ; nod observed it was n very painful duty. he hld So p. rform, on a pi.esniiwf his rink.aisd Intent. Tim Court had taken the case into their mint serious cuinidorntion and under all the circumstance s, doth order ni d adjudge, to, t ihs off.sice you he imprisoned in the custody of the Marshal of the Munsholseu ort he Court of King's Bench. for a period o' three months, and at th e ex pi ra ti o n of that time you enter into your own security for three years, to the Suns at %0001. and two sureties in 3001. each. Tae well-konwei Samuel W.iddissoun as brriogi.t no in cuunily from the new prison, to plea , ' to an iilictm. (erred agaiiht him by the Society fur the Sappressinit of Vire, in plibtishing a hla%pliemous wor k e dined," Painter's Principles of Nature." The cterkvf the Court read the libel and caned upon the defendant so plead. Waddington sus about to make a long spa eh, an d Prn• duecd u bundle of papers and some law b.niks, tied he did not %alit to plead, only to show how he had bred irealeck they had sent him to prison, and •by refusing to reeeise his bail had troubled their Lordships by sending hits before them this day. The Chief Jodice intetrupted him and said the (Court could not hear him say any thing now, he ocusi 00. Wadd:ngton replied lie %jibed to explain tile allow his Lordship must be aware that n road mint be made before he tout,' walk upon it. Ile should explain the petal statutes as.they alined to him. Toe Chief Justicc.—Yon most plead now or 3 ou can base four dais to Wend. Waddington after some forth( r said he should plead out guilty. ";.A. MON 11,1 The Judges she. ordered bin to withdraw, mid if be had nay ibiug to say, to do so by affidavit ; nod if the Corot turd time they would 'nub at it is the course of the cloy. RIOTS IN STAFFORDSHIRE.' • • • • The south. western districts of Staffordshire still con. times ire a very unsatisfactory state, the miners generally refusing to work for the reduced. w.,ges; and the masters • pe •g in their determination not to employ them at the old ones. Indeed the few masters who have het berm continued to pay the old rate of wages have lately taken the determination of reducing them, a very' erotic meeting havinx been held at Walsal on Tuesday last, when it was unanimously resolved not to give any other waxes than those fur which the men refuse to work. lit consequence of the disposition which had been manife.ted to offer violence to perm., and property. it was deemed adviseable to make more extensive artattge . mann for preserving the peace of the district. and lour troops of the Yvtiosaitry Cavalry were ordered on duty in the neighbourhood till thvir places could be supplied b3r regulars. Mr. Littleton, their Lieutenant Colonel, lets- town to take the command of thesis. In the • course of the week, Earl Talbot, the Lord Li menam, visited • the neighbourhood, where he con- cer ed such measures with the magistrates, as it is hoped may prevent any et it consequences to the public peace from the continuance of the struggle between the ma and the men. The Yeomanry cavalry have been since relieved. after having been thanked by the Lord Lieutenant for the promp.itude with which - they turned out to support the civil power. They, hare been replaced by a detachment of the 73J regimetrt of infantry, another of• the 2J, and another of the Scotch Greys. "e • The following pathetic appeal from the starving miners is generally circulating through the disturbed districts:— AN HUMBLE ADDRESS THOM THE COAL AND IRONSTONE, ' MINIMS OP BILSTON, AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD. " To the worthy and honourable Magistrates that attended' at a ' Meeting of the Coal and Iron Masten, at the King's Anna Inn, Minna, April W. 1822. " hapnears. eccording to the publications that are in circula tion, that soar meeting was respectably attended by apart of the Contend Iron Makers, who blue declared that themen are re ceiving from Two Shillings and Sixpence to Three Shillings per day, with the advantage of three pints of pit drink. But uistead ' or three pints, a many of us mane but one pint. and that worth no more than One Halfpenny. And allowing we have Two Shillings and Sixpence per day in the Ironstone Mines. as has • been suggested. and that there shooed , be Five Days per Week done (but upon an average-there is lot above Four • Diets per Week) which-will amount to Ten Shillings; and out of that. suppose we deduct One Shilling to buy Coal.•and Three pence which the Masters stop for Club. that will • bring it to •Sight Shillings and Nitiopenee: then in most places we are obliged - to . pay One Shilling for Ale when we receive-it. Then in the neat place there is about Two Shillings and •Threopence• foe Rept. , which will bring it to Six Shillings; the nets money foe a [saly . to subsist on. . . . . • " Now, Sirs, we humbly wish that you. wonalinwagjagt these things minutely ; considering the. many damps" exposed to. the hardness of our labdur,..and the tenaEnuns Mae we rebeive for it, you must be led to think that •we milk br• almost in a sum of starvation!! So we hope you will reßent Be • a moment. and not draw too hasty conclusions by hearing an reports of mains, who are almost' always acting too inutir for self, and not listening to the cries of 'the poor And needy. • But we believe jou have been infOrdied wrong by these Gentlemen. • if we may soul! them; who would wail us(' the gray! without 'any feeling for our case. But considering that - we alioulti - be in itliee'natiao, and not born to be 000; 'we take the liberty of addressing you in this plain and simple manner. hoping you, will interpose for us according to your wisdoin t and we pray that God may direct yopste that three May be. R speedy 't:an. ouillity between matters and servants; that makers might - nos ' make their servants like the 'Egyptians of 'old to serve with rigour; and that servants might pay that reged - that is due to Dusters, not as a slave. but as a strvant:--Sigue4 on behalf of oeewlvs and brethren.' " B. HARTSHORNE, S. LISTER, W. HA RTSHORNE. W. JONES, R. BROOKS." By thy MarprO, arrived at tit from Dahill, whence she sailed on the 2sa of February, we have received intelligence of a confllct having taken phut*, on the 19th, between the native Brazilians and dm European troops stationed in that city. Their cow- - mender, Ignacio Luiz Madera e Mello, had been, a short time before, appointed Brigadier-Governor of Bahia; and had superseded Brigadier Manuel Pedro de Priem:. Guimaraez, whose dismissal had given umbrage to the British Independents, which-was the cause of the commotion. The European Por tuguese defeated the Brazilians, and at the time of the Margaret's sailing, they were in possession of the Fort of St. Pedro, and masters of the city.— Commerce was, of courae, completely at a stand ; but the writers of the letters received by the Mar. caret seem not to contemplate the least danger to foreign property. Belay in sales, and in the .coliec don of debts, was among-the more serious inconve niences experience d. The Abbe Sicard was buried on Monday. His remains were attended by a military escort, Mem.. hers of the Institute, and the deaf aced dumb pupils of the deceased. Two days betbre his death, he addressed these words to the Abbe Goudelin, the director of the Deaf and Dumb School of Bourdeau —" My deur brother—Ready to die, I bequeath tti you my dear children ; I bequeath their soul, tie your religion, their bodies to your care, their intel lectual ficulties to your enlightened capacity., Perform the noble task, and I die tranquil." _ _ The Right Hon. Major General Sir Benjamin Bloomfield, G C B. and G.C.H. on Monday las-, took his seat, in his Magisterial cqueity, on the Bench, during the Special Sessions held at Nenogh. In the course of last week Sir Benjamin tithed his extensive prdperty in the vicinity ut Newport. • • r.`.- - ;.4 • 4, • .• • ••••,, • . ••••