The National Register. — London, England, 1813-03-07 00:00:00

tiO • ) 4 MARCH 7. I'L'wever, of a malicious nature, had forced him to alter his opinion, and even to think that both pia regret and his indignation were uncalled . i°r, and misplaced. The only act of feeling, the Royal Duke had shewn, in the course of his life, was his interfering to prevent the ignominious interment of the body of Sellis, in the way which the law directed that the bodies of persons who fell by their own hands should be interred. This, however, the writer attributes to the fear of creating additional speculation by the exposure of the body, &c. and expresses his belief, that though the body of Sellis has not partaken of the cere monials of a Christian burial, through the medium of his Royal High ness's Chaplain, his better part has taken its flight to a place of per fect rest - arff happiness, where he has no cause to dread a second re encounter with his putting to his Royal Highness eight queries. In the first the writer asks, whether it he not true that several attempts were made, before a Coroner's Jury could be found hardy enough to declare upon their oaths that his Rey al Highness's servant had met with his death .by his own hand ? The other queries go to the other facts of the case, as long since laid before the public, in relation to the razor, to the basin, in which it appeared that h ands stained with blood had been washed,—to the bloody coat, of them ping to insieuate that Sellis could not have fallen by his own hand. The second part of the libel is contained in a letter, which also appeared in the paper called The Independent Whig, of the ( 27th of September last, where a correspondent, under the title of " Plodding Toni," having questioned the propriety . of charging the--- with any share in the death of Sellis, giving it as his opinion, frcm looking into the documents, copies of which, with the plan of the apartments, he incloses to the Editor, for the purpose of sheaving to Philo- Junius, and his friends, in order to satisfy them that the observations of Jun'us are incorrect, and that Sellis must have been his own mur derer : —The Editor, after declaring the subject to he one of great im portance, gives it as his opinion, that the observations of Philo-Junius are so strone, and the case itself so doubtful, that tit! strictest inqui ries are called for, and that, till the matter is sifted to the botte m, and the Queries of Philo-Junius are satisfactorily answered, it•cannot le taken ai any thin like a clear point that—Sellis fell by his own Land —ln other parts of the libel, the Editor and his Correspondents tleelsre that tiny car not sanction adultery, though the adulterer be rc b.d in Ermine ; nor murder, though the murderer be crowned with a Coronet. Tie Soexcrroa-C ENER AL I in stating the case on the part of the prosecution, took occasion to observe how ix possible it would be to main . ain the common bonds by which society was linked together, if such publications as the present were suffered to pass unnoticed. This was prob bly more peculiarly the case, where it was sought to throw odium and disgrace on the Son of the reigning Sovereign, there by implicating the whole of the Royal Family in the obloquy endea voured to be cast on one of its Members. All lie asked, however, on the part of the Duke of Cumberland, was, that the same measure of Justice should be meted out to him as the most humble individual in the country would have a right to look for. If the publications in question were not such as would entitle the humblest individual in the kingdom to ask reparation for the injury which had been done him through their means, let net any redress be, On that account, affirded to the Duke of Cum berland. The publication of the libels, and also the inuendoes, by which they were made to apply to the Duke of Cumberland, being proved, Mr. SCAR LETT addressed the Ju• y on the part of the Defesidart. lie confessed that when he first read the publication in qu. stion, he bad been incleied to think that it applied to the Duke of Cumber land, and that it meant to attribute to him some participation in the murder of Sellis, who, at the time, was his Royal Highness's ser vant. On a second readii n ', however, and on receiving from the Defendant, who seemed to be a very ingenuous young man, his view and understanding of the matter, he heel conic to regard it in a very different light, and to he' satisfied. that it was capeble of receiving, aed ought to receive, a very different construction. As it had been represented to him by the Defendant, and as, upon his ho nour and credit, he now viewed the question, he could not conceive it to be nothing but this,—" There Stems to be great reason to sup pose that Sellis did trot die by his own hand ; it is a matter of great doubt, who were the actual parties by whern his death was oc casiooed ; and, in this state of uncertainty, it being a point of impor tance to ascertain in what rummer his death WaS or ioned, 1 rihe Editor of The I telepeedent Whig) th; ow my paler ellen to every' , person who thinks he can cast any light on this interesting subject."— That this was the intent ant ince n sing of the Delenoaia, and that he did not wish to impute it ro the Duke of Cuinberlan t that he was the murderer, ' r concerned with the murderer, of Sellis, appeared from this, that the very article cenerined in Ott-. paper of the 07th Septem ber, and stated in the present indict:rent, under the signature of Plodding Tom," dift:eed from the sent inieets expressed by " Philo- J unite: " and exculpated the Puke of Comberland from all blame AS to that traesastien. The present information was not fled till &ionic time in the manila of November. .1 i;I then, it was obvious t hat the Detendant could not have aeticipated a prowetairm, ai tho any measure adepted by him, or, more properly speaking, by his Correspondent ?lido Junius, to set themselves right as to any false constructions wliith intent have been pot on the publication in ques tieo, must nece,serly have ye ceeded from the iineulse of fear. THE NATIONAL. REGISTER. . 159 - _ Yet his Lordship,.;uld the Jury, would see that, from the period of the 27th Septesiber, aid berore the time of filing the information its question, The writer of the letter under the title of Philo-j unius, os seeing that his meaning had been misinterpreted, put hlmselt right in this respect, declaring that it never had been his intention to impute to the Duke of Cumberland the murder of his servant Sellis. The Papers containing the explanatory tinnier, posterior hi date toths libel of the V7th September, but prior to the day in November in which the information was filed, were then tendered in evidence on the part of the defendant, but Were rejected by Lord ELLENLOhOUCH. WhO re , fused to receive any explAnatory evidence not coi,taioed within thy four corners of the paper containing the libel, ur nut referred to in tins body of it. The SOLICITOR GENERAL. in reply, conceived the case of the de fendant to be rendered worse than better by the observations of his Learned Friend, who, it would seem, thought the defendmt entitled to throw open his newspaper-officer as a sort of Court for the adminittra tion of criminal justice, and the lion's month at his letter box as a legiti mate depositary of the indiscriminate eirres which every avonyinont correspondent chose to confide to his care, through whom they would find a safe and speedy transit to public notice. It . any thing were wanting to prove the fact that the libel could only be .leant to apply to the Duke of Cumberland, it was to he found in a paragraph in the paper of the 27th of September, where it was asserted that, in-ad ministering justice in this case, he would have to exercise " Roman virtue." Mr. WILLIAMS (in the absence of Mr. Scsrletr, who had been ob liged to retire on account of indisposition) shortly remarked on this new piece of evidence. Lord Er.LENUoROUGH then addressed the Jury, &welling in strong tern's on the atrocity of the libel in question, which, he thought, it was impossible not to apply to the Duke of Cumberland. The tyrannical despotism here assumed, exceeded every thing he had ever heard or read of; and sooner would he submit to the domineering sway of the Despot of France, than to this more deirading and more despotic tyranny assumed over the rights and feehnes of individuals by , uels Joni nalists as the present defendant. What was the case of the Duke of Cumberland to•day, Wight, in their humbler walk, be the case of any one of them to-morrow. The Jury, without retiring, imrcediately found the prisoner--"` GUILTY. DEATHS. On Monday, at his house, Stanhope street, Mayfair, Thomas, Vis count Cremortie, Baron Dart ray, and Baron Cremorne, of Monaghan, in the Kingdom of Ireland. His Lordship was in the 89th year'of age. He is succeeded by kis grand nephew. At Kingston-upon-Thames, J. Cook, Esq. He was sitting very cheerful after dinner ; but on a sudden, said 1 . 1 - a was very ill, and lit-. stantly expired. In Donoughmore, Mrs. Mary Meighan, at the 3(lvulced age cfli9. She had her perfect recollection and memory until :he List two years, At Derryinore, in the vicinity of Newry, Charles Haseran, aged 115 years ; he retained his faculties until within a few days of his de. csase. Parish of Saint James's, Westm:nster. FOUND HANGED. On the iron-railing in Catherine Wheel Yard, Little Saint James's. street, on Thursday night last, about half-past , a man decently dressed, supposed to be about 45 years of age, !ire feet sx inches high, dark complexion, dark brown hair, anti round visage ; had on a blue coat, mottled cotton waistcoat, blue pantaloons, Hessian hoots, and round hat ; his shirt marked " Hawksley, 1 , 16 ) 10. "—Ha was conveyed to James's InKrrnary, Puland-stiet:t, to b uwned. 6th March, 1813. 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