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lb) _ {Lapin l'.e!;:t.o..sit continued fres page 117.) nitENco OF ritivtlxon• rose for the purl 05.4 u? oalliog the attention of the house in all edict: in n tiewspnper respecting the pending istpliry jute the conduct of the Shetill of Mt r.ductant to propose the bringing a printer to the her of that ; but the object of the paragraph to ssii'mh he alluded was ao ohviottsly to impede the course of public justioe, that be felt ohliged to notice it. Tice oletcurity of the paper in shioli it was contained might induce hin t t o page it by i n si lence, were not its wickedness end falschliel such as to make it unlit that, upon the limited nanther of the ristlers of that papers, arch en impres.ion should be suffered to remain. Ile thee proceeded to rea d an article front sincerity* , paper. ani madverting upon the conduct unit character of the tkange party in Ireland. RIO commenting upon the evidence given in .the Hamm of Commons. The ben. member then reftryd to the ease of Sir Elijah Impey, ie 1788, in which the house had recommended a prosecution by the Attorney-General ; and concluded by moving that the 'printer of the paper should be called to the bar. Sir M. W. RIDIrtIY thought. that the paragraph read by , the hon. gentleman di,' not c ontain any reflection arm the chit racier of any member of that house, although its insinuations were injurious to the charactere of others, enough had been dome in the notice which had been already taken of it. As those iodisidusle, who by some accident obtained a knowledge of the proseedings of the house, had in general abstained from commenting upon the inquiry, he would suggest so the bun. gent. the expediency of withdrawing Iris motion. Colonel BARRY had no objection to adopt the course re commended, if the house were of ottioioe that the article which LAC bad read wan an instance of gross injustice. lie did not wish to briug the ;loose iota collision with those people.— • lint unless something be done," said the lion. member, " the press will beatome our mestere, instead of we being their's." Mr.C.W 'TM , : said, that witnesses and even culprits charged in that houses were under its protection. He, however, thought, in the present instan e, sufficient bad bees done to prevent a repent:ono( the offence. Mr. ABERCKOM BY thought the newspapers had, in ge neral, been so well advised, as to refrain froui commenting on the inquiry. The hon. gent. (Colonel Barry) wished to draw forth the opinion of the house as to the paragraph lie had-just read—for himself, individually, he bad no hesitation in saying, lie ►hogght it was highly coloured. He would, however, take this opnortenity of stating, that he had received a heap of newspapers and pamphlets on the other side of the question, and particularly before the motion of ►he lion. member for Armagh, containing much more exaggerated statements rela• tive to tie conduct of the Attorney-General. 1k did not, however, feel it necessary to take any notice of them, because if the house should enter into a contest of this sort, they would not easily get rid of it. Mr. PERIL added his advice to that which had already been given. Ilia loon. friend's (Celouel Barry's) character was .proof against any insinuation front such a quarter as this news paper. When the liberty of the press was abused, its !leen ,. tiousness carried its own antidote withfor it was the na tural coosequence of disgraceful es.aggerations to lessen the credit of the source from which they proceeded. Col. BARRY then withdrew his ?untie's. The oilier orders were then disposed of, and the House „Adjourned. FRIDAY, MAY 9. Mr. T. WILSON presented a petition from silk manufac- 1 totem traders, &c. in London, Westinitinter, and the ..ounty of Middlesex, praying for the repeal of what was known by the Fame of the ',SpitsWields Act.” That act threw many obsta cles in the way of their trade ; and he could not bat think that if they came to be fairly considered, the :Krouse must see the propriety of revising the provisions of such law. The silk trade hod greatly encreased ; hut such was the operation of the SpitalSelds Act that the honcho silk-maoufacturers beheld the silk imported, and sent to Coventry mod other places to be aninufactured. Mr. HUSKISSON observed, that he bad intended, end he I MOM gave natioe of his intention to move on Monday for leave bring iu a bill to repeal the acts. Ile trusted he should be „Able to accomplish this object without opposition. Lord MILTON complained of the duty on the importation of raw silk, &e. as being founded in prejudice equally as that which had supported the Spitalfields act. • Mr. F . BUXTON said he was so perfectly convinced of the -.injurious character and operation of such act, especially in its .effects towards the workmen, that he should feel it his duty to support the repeal. Alderman C. Smith, Mr. W. Williams, and Mr. Ellice like wise spoke in support of the propriety of repealing the act. After some remarks from Mr. Alderman Brydges, &o. the petition was read and ordered to be printed. Lord CHAN 1:0U1INE postponed till this day fortnight, the .ezeond reading of the sale of Game Bill. Follett.% Arv4llo..—M. BROUGHAM asked whether gee vernment had received intelligence of a large Russian army having been collected on the banks of the Vistula, on the fron tiers of Poland ? Mr. CANNING replied, that there certainly was a It nsiian army collected at notch point, but whether it was a large army uf not lie could not answer. ftle. BROUGHAH then inquired whether there was any trth i n th statement that the Austrian army, which had eva covaited tile Neapolitan territorins, bad been halted on the batiks of the Poi ? Mr. CANNING answered the the Austrian troops hai left the Neapolitan dominions, lie understood ; but whether they Lad been ordered to loth, not was assumed, he did lost know. The House then resolved into a committee, to resume the inquiry into the Sheriff of Dublin's conduct. The other orders were disposed of, and the House adjourned. NATIONAL It~GIST~It as Lord Clifton was driving his sister inn gig through Pimlico, the defendant came up oa horsehat '., pursued hint towards the strucly him most violently with a horsewhip, and thee rude furiously away. The exlsibitant, in conclusion, deposed that he did nut exhibit the articles from any motives of hatred or reveage, but from the fear of his life or seine grievous - bodily injury. Lord Clifton having been sworn to the truth of the articles, Mr. Gurney expressed his hope that, under the peculiar eir- OUnistatices of !hi. case, the cunt, persoeivin ., that the trans mit already imposed on the defendant was ineffectual, would take such tucasurm es might afford sufflcient protection to the *Ale lord and the reunify of which he was a member, from the oontinual annoyances to which they were subjerted. The Lord Chief Justice said, lie would defer making any order in the cage, till Mr. Justice Bayley (who was then iu the Bail Court) should 1e present. After Mr. Justice Bayley bad entered the court. The Lord Chief Justice ordered that no day relee should be granted to the defendant, without a special application to the court for the perniisaima to issue them. Lord Darnley sat on the benoli during the proceedings. TUESDAY, MAY 6. The KVAG V. JOIN AMHROSE WILLIAMS. The defendant, it will he recollected, is editor of the Durham Chronicle, and was conv ioted of a libel on the clergy of Mrham, at the late aosizes for the county of Durham, wben several weighty objections to the verdict of the Jury were taken by his Counsel, Mr. Brougham, and the Court, daring Michaeltnas Term last, grouted the rule Nisi. Mr.Searlett, in • speech of considerable length, showed cause agaiest the rule. Mr. Tyndall followed on the same side. Mc. Alderson referred to the case of Lewis and Wolters, and contended. that if the description was incomplete in that, it was so in this case. The Court said, as this was a case of importance, the Judges would take time to consider it. WEDNESDAY, MAY 7. THE LING O. ketewomrltT. This was a writ of error from the criminal court at Chester. The defendant was found guilty at the last summer assiews of perjury, and sentenced by the court to be transported for seven years to New South Wales, or one of the adjacent ielande.— The error alleged was that the statutes etnpoweeing the court to inflict trattsportntion, directed that it shuold•be awarded in addition to some other puoialtment, instead of which it was here awarded in lieu of other punishment; and that the place i ought either to have been definitively fixed by the court, or specifically left to the king in Council. The court, were ciearly of opinion that no regular judgment bad yet been given, and therefore that sentence might still be passed by the court below. They would therefore remit the record to the court below in order that they might give judg- went. Mr. Jones submitted that the court below were now divested of all power to pass sentense. They bad passed sentence already, and could not glee two judgments on one conviction. The court observed, that if they were wrong in issuing a procuiesado, the defendant might bring his writ of error ; but it was the nuly coarse they could pursue. Mr. Jones said, that as the defendant was Dow in custody, without soy judgment to warrant his detention, he would move for • listtseat Corpus in order to his discharge. The court said, he could only do this on affidavit ; amid if he chose to procure *inch affidavit and move, it would probably produce little benefit to his client. At present they would only say that a pp ocedtuttio must issue. THE ICING v. JOHN sTUttOESS. This defendant, a man in a respectable situation of life, was convicted at the sittings after Michaelmas Term, in London, of indecently expoeing his person in Moorficlds. When be was brought up for jddgmeid in Hilary Term, affidavits were put in disclosing that lie was subject to a determination of blood to the bead, which sometimes prodnesid. • temporary suspen sion of his faculties; that immediately before the melancholy oncurrenre in question, he bad been on • journey several hun. dred miles, and had been five nightstwithout rest ; and that he had borne an unlilsmished character. The case then stood ever in order that the prosecute .s might make inquiry into these circumstances, and consider whether they would pray for judgment. The court, adverting to the infirm state of the defendant's health, and to those mitigating circumstances which led them to hope that sonic degree of alienation of mind had prevailed, sentenced him to be imprisoned in the House of Correction in Giltspar-street for six weeks. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. ERNESDAY, NAY 7. EX-PARTE eoctifottat. Mr. Sergeant Pell having obtained • role to show cause why the Warden of tha Fleet prison should not refund the sumvd . 11, 10s., which he had illegally received from the applicant, who stated upon affidavit that lie bad been discharged from twelve actions, and for each discharge the warden bad taken a fee offs. W. Mr. Sergeant Vaughan glowed cause against the rote. lie said the fees which had been thus demanded were not received by the warden, but were part of the fees of office due to the clerk of the papers, in the prison, for mitering the discharges. The warden male an affidavit, slatiug that the complainant was discharged leant thirteen actions, by an order of the court for Die Relief of Insolvent Debtors, in dere° of which detainers bad Leen lodged against him h and from a warrant for on as sault, which Mel been left at Hue gate. The affidavit also stated, that so far beck as 41.37, the fee of lis.od. was deter mined by this o°oll to he due to the clerk of the papers. The court iieerriipted ibe learned sergeant to say, that the only question was to the number of the discharges from sctiona on which detainers hid been lodged against the applicant. Mr. Sergeant Vaughan said, lie was discharged from 13 :jail actions, exclusive of the detainer for the assault. The warden had therefore taken less than tile order of ITV enti tled him to. Mr. Sergeent Pell, on the other side, said be did not mean to urge any other against the warden perennially, who was un doubtedly a very respectable officer. There might have been some mistake on this subject. A table of fees was hung up in the prison, and one item contained in that table was 7s. 4d. fur the discharge cf a prisoner ; and the question now was, whether an additional charge of 2a.Od. was to be demanded for the same purpose. This fee was not mentioned in the table, and the statute Geo. 11. peremptorily reguiring • tattle of all the revs to be taken in the prison to be hung.up its • conspicu ous part of it, no fee not inserted in such table could be legally elni med. The court drained the table of fees should be handed up, Mr. Brown said lie bad not tie table in court. 7 here were two, one containing the fees to be taken by the wardeu, and the odicr those to lie taken hi the clerk of the 'llse court then amid. they 11103 i ate these talus before they 411..Pilict..t their Oct i•ort. MIN The Lord Chief Justice said, that whatever might be the ultimate decision of the court in this case, he retina himself bound in justice to the warden to aisle, that lie would not !dive discharged his duty if be bad net oldoined those lees, sanc tioned as they were .by en older of the Judges of this Court, which order bad been acted upon fur a period of 96 years.— 'I lie warder Wlll the trustee of those persons who should in the course and order of time succeed him in his present siturttion, and it was his duty to take care that none of the lees of that office should be lost through any neglect of him. It was also due to the party making the complaint to say, that the questios was brought before the court in a very proper manner. no complaint being mode spinet the warden personally. With respect to this gentleman (the wooden), lie wished to observe, that when (the Chief Justiee) concurretin his appointment to his present office, be had not (to his knowledge) even seen bini ; but lie was induced to do so by the universal voice of approbation raised in his favour when lie filled anctlier situa lion (keeper of Newgate) of great difficulty, and partioulorly at a period of peculiar delicacy. It had been said that there never was a time When the steel'd gaoler was the friend of man;' bet )lr. Brown bad at all times and on all occasions. however painful, proved himself the hiend of maw It was by his character in this respect that liel(tbe Lord Chief Justice was induced to concur in his present appointment ; end Lie could not resist the present opportunity of laying these few words is testimony of his admiration of his humane and upright .00n- duct. The case then stood ever for the production of tits tablaJaf fees. Police. GUILDHALL. On Thursdiy last considerable bustle pees:ailed at this Justice-I°oin, in consequence of an official visitation having taken place, the night before, amongst the fair promenaders of Fleet-street and Ludgate-hill. The satellites of authority succeeded in capturing 16 of the veatalivotaries of Versus, of the Corinthian order, possess ing all the alluring charms that dress and art could be. stow to captivate the eye of the admirers of peripatetic beauty. The whole party were planted in the boudoir of St. Bride's, Fleet-market, alias the watch-house, where they were detained by his worship the night constable till morning, and were then brought before their old favourite Mr. Alderman Wood, to answer for their misdeeds. The ladies' names were—Caroline Williams, Henri etta Lewis, Louisa Davis, Amelia Montague, Matilda Seymour, Eliza Henderson, Eliza Tomlinson, Harriet Groves, Mary Ann Ross, Caroline White, Caroline Kendall, H. Bedford , Mary Stevens , Maria Davis, Mary Ann Purchase, and Elizabeth Grubb. The first batch that was brought into the presence of his Worship, were the Misses Williams, Lewis, Davis, and Montague. The Alderman praised the night constattle for his con duct, and said that the streets were now worse than ever; no modest woman was suffered to walk without her eyes and ears being insulted by there abandoned women; and consigned theirs to one mouth's hard labour in tritiewell The next batch consisted of Miss Seymour and Miss Henderson. These ladies were recognizeil'to he profit signals, and were pursuing their worldly callirg at half past one o'clock in the morning. Tlie4 nymphs were consigned to the same depot for the stunt period. Miss Tomlinson and Miss Groves next made their appearance • they were found strolling at? half-past one o 'clock in t he ' morning on Ludgate-hfil. Tomlinson was a fine girl -not more than 15. and am being asked if she had any friends, she wept hitterly,.and indistinctly said, she had an mit that was then present, A very iespectable looking female then stepped forward and stated that she was a married woman, and resided in the London-road ; the girl Tontlinsee<was her niece ; she h it not seen her till now for the last three months, but had heard she was !following the business of a dress maker, to which six had been brought up ; her parents; who were dead, paid 70 guineas as s prent.um for her instruction. She was .t girl of considerable accomplish-. ments, and if the Alderman would permit her to go at large, she would take her home and keep het secluded. The Alderman said it grieved hint much to see such a girl in so disgraceful a situation, and asked her if site would go home with her aunt if lie permitted her. The girl cried bitterly, and declared she had seen so much since she had been in the streets, that she would retorts to her friends and never more transgress. She was then discharged, but her companion Groves was remanded, in order that her parents might attend. The next on the list was Mary Ann Ross, a dashing voting woman of the hi pest water, attired in a green Gros de Naples pelisse, covered with glittering steel clasps, a large Leghorn bonnet and a preposterous plume of white feathers adorned her Stead. The-Eight oonstable said, that this lady gave him and the watchmen more tillable than eny of the others. She would, to decene him, change her dress four or fire times a night, and was called " Dandy Ross." She was skylarking with two gentlemen at two o'clock in the ittoriiiiig, and he took her to the watch-house. Miss Ross, in an affezted tone, said, " Pun honour, Mister Alderman , this fe llow behaved ver y rude ; 'poll honour, was walking with two gentlemen, friends of trine, when this fellow cam and dragged use from them, and took me to the watch-house, 'lion honour ; very hard indeed. cat''t walk the streets." Aldermen Wood.—Madam, I behove I once had the honour -of Peeing , you before. If •I recollect tight, llritauuswiebareii,thv,e,iiii,ici ott il b n 2 ig ie l u to o t % t v ie .t r u a l t i l e i d tw y o ou fri a e w nd a s y front I Vaosht.stl, wi i it t he ieUow - l uulle d you away Irwin Brent. Mss Ross.—Very possibly, Sir, yon might. Alderiti4al.—You must go to Bridewell for a montbs labour. Miss Roas.—:Pun honour, Mr. Alderman, Ilut's very hard. Nliw Ross was then pla , .-ed in the strong room amonzu the rtt her ; and the Alderman eirlo,Lised the (Aka lUf ill) Itt0114,111Ut:C• MIL LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KINGI BENCH. MONDAY, MAY 5. ?sir. Gurney gloved, that Lord Clifton, Iberian of the Earl of Donley. might exhibit articles of the peace agaitint Robert 11101, Esq. and that they might he filed. 'Elie articles were then rend. They sa forth that the articles hail been exhibited some yearn agu by Lord Darnley against Vie defendant, who hail been bound over to keep the peace towards him and his family in the coin of 6.0001. and hail been compelled to find two sureties in 5001. each ; which sureties ssere now in force, and would run for 112 months longer. Not withstanding these obligations, the defendant, vein was n pri soner, and obtained opportunity of absence by means of day roles, continued to mistily Lord Darnley and his family, by paraffin, before his house in Berkley-square, insulting hint and his son. following his carriage, assailing him with terms of •irtilest erase, and even asnaulting him with a bor..whii , . v.:About the shilitest prAtication. the the first of ll4is 1:1911::1. amoisw•Pm 03 Salmi thrown ism r . .at $ liillll • ,, glll. alt -Agate?. tit toot ottanti Mary Guru onsy swallowed tat 01Pwriet a u al c. ; l, i t t i t r in i ew f 4;1. a^of . 11 rag. presi c t ,,ted In the Mr. D I 11iai y t WV curt* the broths ssi;tit i as harly or tl cfressrif, Mr. Ms Distv 13.4 It frirlA " the girl loraltvd re —sow Sp it (lead. a Am.* Iris lu A er teased— riept valtl t i.ersoseir about ter was 119 I 19011. 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