The National Register. — London, England, 1814-06-26 00:00:00

*VIP NATIONAL REGISTER. TTTN'E 26: "Crowning gobtets with roses ;" at another time is seen hrindidling " the torch of revelation.," and sometimes is fund "sitting like Marius amidst the ruins of Carthage !" Now tins ig filhomue, :Ind off lido; us more Than slo only neglect and conseneis Nouid. Morality is professedly the chief concern with this de set iption of preachers. It may be questioned, nevertheless, whether the interests of morality are likely to be ultimately advanced by " sermonets" of this sort ? Attention may be interested, sympathy awakened, rectitude commended, he neticerce extolled, imagination gratified, without amendin , either the dkposition or the character : in a word, without a!IY permanent and salutary effect whatever being once pro &Iced. Gilead yields thus no balm, and here is no phy sician ! There is an appearance of pedantry, which Mr. Pitman in future will be careful to shun, when we hear any preacher tilkinp-, of the " analysis of his discourse," although in pulpits devoted to fashion, and where even an excessive refinement is not considered to be ine:igible on his part. By what ele tz int licence, notwithitantling, does the present preacher feel I►imsclf at hbeity to conclude • his sermonic performance with a " Now to the lloly Trinity," rather than abide by the ancient folin of " Now to God the Father, Son," &c. ? a form alike adwirable for its sublimity, its conciseness, and its imptcssion. When will such pulpit follies be utterly banished from our laud ? ONE‘I M U AGAINST MR. SIIEIII3_IRD. Opposition went so far, resPecting the Rev. T. ShcppaTd, fis to enter a Caveat against his being finally Returned for t'!eilicnwell. It \Y.ulil not do. Being of course summoned to subitantiate their objection to him, by evidence, his an at once declined the task ; and withdrew their eayea , , after no very enviable reprimand from the Bishop of Londun! LAW ENTELLIGEACE. COURT OF KING's itENC.II, JUNE 20. TITE CONSPIRACY. , . THE KING V;LORDCOCHRANF A-ND OTHERS. 415 Mr. Gurneymoved fur the judgment of thtsCaurt upon the &fen. dints.—Lord Cochrane, Mr. Bet, Messrs; Light, Sutans, and !follow:1y appeared. Mr. Cochrane Johnstone and.M'Crea did not ap pear. they beinu understood to have fled to France.. Mr. Serjeont Best, fur Mr. Butt alone, moved for an arrest of judg ment, upon three objections to the indictmept; of a technical nature, t Y.fter touch argnment the whole were over-ruled. Lori Cochran' then addressed the Cont.!, and lamented - that his rminet with others slystild have phred him in this lamentable si ro,!;i,,o. Of Lieu t, Holloway, am! Sandont, he solemnly declared ha knew nothing. Borenger he had seen but once or twice, and with C. Lir stone he lived on those terms as might naturally be expected.froot their near affinity in Wood. He said he bad been accused of making an affidavit without incurring the dangrr of legnl responsibility for per jury. Tie now had made that affidavit afresh., He then commented upon the evidence . , and argued, it was not conclusive tJ support the conviction against ; and after solemnly protesting his intmoenee, and declaring he could not live under the disgrace even of an errone ous verdict of guilty, lie hoped the Court would grant a new trial, an far us he was concerned. His Lurdship then put in a repetition of his former affidavit, and tendered the affidavits of his servants to support that part of his testimony which described Borer as being' dressed in a green coat.—The Court said they could not re ceive the testimony of persons who might have been examined as wit nesses. Mr. Butt said a few words, in which he declared his innocence. De Berenger pin in an affidavit, stating, that his father was an A►uerican loyalist, who had lost a fortune of 30,00.01. by his adherence to the Government of this country, and that he had served this country as an officer of volunteers ti►r' several years, and that he had received no reward, but had, on the contrary, spear considerable sums of his own money. They were ordered to be committed to the King's Bench, except Berenger, who was remanded t 3 Neugate, and to be brought up again to-morrow for judgmen'.. THE FINE All S. ft has long been our desbe to extend this department of our Paper, and we arc shoi fly promised the assistance of a gentleman of the most refined taste, and extensive knowledge in the -arts; and, we hope in our paper of Sunday next, to preseit our readers with an account of Mr. West's last inimitable production "Christ Rejected," any casual review of which, would but weaken the claims it has to the general ad- miration. We cannot. however, defer noticing the bust which we have seen of the veteran Blucher, modelled within the last few days by Turnerelli. It is distinguished for its perfect likeness, as well as the subdued air and intrepid countenance td the philosophic llero, It has all his magnanimity without ostentation--classically arranged and 101 l of benign repose. It certainly accelerates the rank Turnerelli . s t.dents have all along promised him, and must raise h:s teputation with those who are tenacious of fidelity and expression. As soon as this valuable production is finished, we shall, from the same source, have the pleasure of laying before our readers, an essay upon this branch of the art, as connected with a: r a perennius of celebrated men. The NEW LOTTERY begins on the Ist September;-- There are three days of drawing;---No fixed Prizes;—The highest Capitals ale Twenty Thousands, the lowest Prizes 20/. and the Tickets aie selling at nineteea Guineas each. JUNE (21. This morning. at ten o'clock, Lord Cochrane, together with Mott, De Berenger, tight, and Sandom, appeared in Court pur suant to the order of their Lord hips. Mr. Justice Le l%lanc addressed them, and ob.erved. that they ha ving tires, convicted a' the crime of Con piracy, on evidence of the nuest unequivocal description, a'ler a patient and impartial heav ing, there remained now a duty for him to nct form, teal which the law ordained him to execute, namely. that of promrincing the judge ment of that Court upon each and all of them for the ofieuce which they had been so found guilty. His Lordship said. that the partictilar parts of the aggregate sation urged against the offenders were ot thatnatitre and kind, from the testimony of the various witnesses called forth on behalf ot the prosecution, and indeed from the kind of defence set up by all the conspirators themselves, it was as clear as demonstration could make it, that they were all connected and united in the same extee sive and wickel plot ; and that although it was ramified into dis tinct branches, it had only one object its view, and was directed to one and the sane end ; namely, that of putting money into the pockets of a few; at the expense of many, by the foulest and wicked est means. The immediaee means adopted were those of spreading false news, thereby to raise the price of the public funds, and thence to enable the principal co ispirators to enrich themselves, and. their meaner agents to be benefited and be rewarded for the respective pails which they had taken in this Lefarintis transaction. The plan was concerted with deep design ; it was conceived upon a scale of ex tended magnitude, unequalled in the history of crime, awl intended to gorge even avarice itself; though it happily failed in its execution, but that, said hi.; Loydship, did not make the crime. the Jess. It was proved, incontestihly, that Ilerenger on the Saturday, the 19th of F bruary, had purchased the dress of a foreign officer, and ap pendages of for .;ign decorations of honour, and that in the same di e.s he was seen at the hour of one in the morning of the Stst of Feb. at Dover; thence lie was traced to London, and into fhe house of Lord Cochrane, where he changed this attire, and put on plain clothes in the presence of Lard Cochrane ; and it was also in proof ti Dover he assum 1 the panic of Colot;c1 De Bomgh, that the, well as on the wh of the way to London, lie propagated the news mentioped i t the indictment. It was further in proof hat i4t erc talsr f OILS.