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r try i Trim are vir;led Inch r;dieule 311 (hat inoplieJ is obiervntion of his Hon. Frond. M.% RICARDO explaDord, that be blended no ridicule, but was vrry much ill earnest. Mr. SCA R LETT thought that the printlple ought equally apply Ulan animals of whatever slate of dimensions, whether they suffered unnecessary cruelty from the sports of the field, the pleasures of the table, or any other enlist. The rosin ohjec. lion to the Rill wan, obit it interfered with the rights of pro. prey, and that the abuses which R emit to remedy bet.llllCra to that dems of hum-to action over Mildh it wa. useless to threaten penalties which would he rarely enforced, and which were much safer when left fur their punishment to the man arth of manhood, The ATTORNEY GF.N ER AI, could not see where letis taloa was to end if the principle of the Bill were to be admitted. Mr. R. MARTIN defended the Bill both as to principle and expediency, and asserted th't almiist •i 1 persons who Aar rooriiilerabie property in horses and other cattle in the United Kinirdiiin hail express-d their anxiety for some measure of the kind to Ire rosawd. He had conversed with all the Magistrates of the Metrrionlra on the subject, and they all eflmilte.l the nerewita of some law to eoable them to punish that class of ofllndrrs. The House divided— For the Amendment 3l Fur the motion ...... 34 Majority 3 +be Report was ordered to be brought up on Tuesday west. The other Oribra of the D•a were then disposed of, and She Moose adjourued at Two o'CLoca. (Pbr Foreign lOW/rice, *c. see last Page.) THE BRITISH j-,I3.USS. LONDON, SATURDAY. JUNE 4, itl2l. The proceedings in the Court of King's Bench ysterday were possessed of considerable interest. Judgment was pronounced against Major CART WRIGHT, GEORGE EDMUNDS, CHARLES MAD DOCKS, and Tuosias J. Woor.ta, for the part they perforated at the last great Birmingham meet ing, in the lure of electing what was rather loth crottely called " • Legislatorial Attorney" to the [louse of Commons on behalf of the good people of Birmingham. There never was any doubt, as far as we could understand, in the public mind respect ing the illegality, and we may indeed add, the rank absurdity of such a proceeding, and no at tempt was ever made by Sir CIIAREEs ‘VOLSELIIY, the elected goardian of the ioterests of Birmingham, to give validity to the election. The country laughed at the proceeding, and it was at the time generally conceived that the Ministers of the Crown would suffer the memory of such an occurrence to perish like that of the various (eller follies that for a moment amuse the thoughtless curiosity of the multitude, but they Lave determined otherwise, and have placed it among the records of the em pire, there to remain as a memorial either of the imprudence of the individuals accused, or of the disorganised state of society, which could have in duced so large a portion of the community to con cur in so extravagant a measure. From the judgments pronounced by the King's Bench on this occasion, ae may estimate in how very serious a point of view the Judges of that Court regarded the pretended election of Sir CHARLIIS WOLSELEY. Major CARTWRIGHT was sentenced to limy a fine of 11)0/. to the KING—GEORGE ED MUNDs to be imprisoned in Warwick gaol for nine months, and to enter into securities for good beha viour for the space of five years, himself iti 400/. and two sureties in 100/. rasa—CHARLES MAD DOCKS to he imprisoned in the same gaol fur eigh teen mouths, and to eider into the ssme securities_ end THOMAS J. WOOLER to be imprisoned in the same gaol for fifteen months, and also to enter into the like securities. The sentences were graduated by the Court upon a dispassionate view of the cir cumstances connected with the cases of the parties individually. The lenity of the judgment pro nounced upon Major CARTWRIGHT seemed to aTord very general satisfaction to a very crowded Court. This Gentleman, who has long appeared lAffore the public as au enthusiast in the cause of Parliamentary Reform, is so far advanced in years, that the public, we are convinced, mould not be well pleased, whatever may be his errors, to see convigned to the walls of a prianii for a political 4.irttlee of this suture. What influence this feel ing may have exercised upon the Learned Judges we cannot pretend to estimate, it is indeed probable that it did not enter into their consideration, but it is gratifying to think that the Judges in re viewing the venerable Major's case, should have f•teend in it such circumstances of extenuation as have enabled them iu the exercise of their discre tion to pronounce such a judgment upon him us will please the public, while it satisfies the ends of justice. 'rise judgments affecting the ether Dr flarlsute appear to be sufficiently severe. There is in WOOLEIN case a particular hardship, foi an imprisonment for fifteen mouths in a gaol so far removed as that of Warwick is from the ordinary place of his business, must exercise upon his pri vate fortunes a most destructive effect. The COANCILLOS of the Excatensft opetv'd Ili. Budget lost night is the Ilowee of Commons. The Right lion. Geollcems's speech contained e'etailed exposition of the Asmisaial state of the empire, ernbrisciwa a view of the general prodwee sf the reenlist and of the expenditure for the smi•ee. As almost every pini.t to %Inch reteretica cools' he mods in such an exposition has • 6 'en larrady discossed hi the Hruse of Commons dining the previt.us putt of the prevent Session, nothing very novel could be expec!e.l :a this slate merit. The question relating to the general prin ciple of diminishing the expenditure and taxation of the country, was tried upon the motion of Mr. Matfett ; the propriety of removing or modify.. iug particular taxes was ably and anxiously de bated upon the various motions of Lord Mt trots. Mr. IVESTfiIiN, anti other Members of the licuse ; and, thanks to the industry, energy, and perseve rance of Mr. 11012,, the policy that guards every the minutest item in the extended estimates fur the public service, military, naval, or miscellaneous, has been developed or exposed : so that there really remained but little for the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER to give ititertSt to IOS CSlositiOlt, at least by the charm of novelty. No loan is re. ?aired, no new lox is imposed, or old one increased or diminished, turd the only circumstance in his speech not absolutely told to the public during any previous part of the Session, is one for which, however, every man in the country roust have been as fully prepared as if it had been made the sub ject of special notification. We allude to the in tention of the Government to divert the sum or 13,000,0001. from the Sinking Fund to the service of tliu current year, of which 12,500,0001. is from the Sinking Fund of Great Britain, and 500,0001. from the Stoking Fund of Ireland. Thin applica lieu of the Sinking Fund, as our readers may re member, formed a prominent feature in the fins,,. cial system contemplated by the Lards of the Treasury when they proposed the imposition of ad ditional tuxes to the amount of 3,000,0001. in the year 1811 p. Their Lordships at that time fur ther conjectured that so operative Sinking Fund would transits to the amount of 5,000,000/. an nually. This hope has, however, mint been realisrd—for. according to the estimate now former! by the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, the ope rative Sinking Fund, that is, the amount of re venue exceeding the income of the country, will not be more than 4,000,0001. annually. Now far the produce of the new taxes has realised the esti mates formed at the time of their imposition, will be seen from this fact, that in the 3-ear which ended the sth of January, 1819, the total amount of net revenue of Great Britain, exclusive of arrears of Property Tax and War Duty nit Malt, was 48,330,8951. while in the year which ended the sth of January, 1821, it amounted to 50.255;8981 ; so that the increase of revenue by the imposition of taxes estimated at 3,000,000/. does not exceed 1,925,0031. The following is • connected view of the Supplies and of the Ways and Mean., for the list and the current year, as coritained in the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'S exposition :- le4o. 611PPLY. 1821, 9,443,243 Army 8,588,895 Navy 1,199,650 Ordnance 1,195,100 2,444,100 Miscellaneous 19,673,688 18,021,800 1,000,000 Interest on Exchequer Bills 410,000 Sinking Fund oq dill° 21,083,688 By rednei ion of Unfunded Debt, viz. 9,000,000 Irish Tr y Bills 500,004) Bills fur Public Winks .206,400 19,311,600 706,400 30,083,688 20,0 I 8,200 Granted for 1820. Eatimale for 1821. WAYS AND MEANS. 3,000,000 Anneal Taws 4,000,000 2,500,080 ( Exri.e Dade►) Tea Dulles 240,000 Leilery 200,000 260,000 Old Stores . 183,400 Surplus of Pecuniary Indemnity, pay. able by the Freud' Government.... 000,000 198 000 r Exr , b pa eri o i l i ler Bills for Public Weak, lt , 125,00 Surplus {Ways and Means, 1820 ...... 81,830 6,570,030 Sinking Fund Loan, wiz.— Great Britain 500,000 13 ' 000 ' 00 0 12 ' 0°0000 Ireland Bank of Ireland, increase of Capital Currency tieing in British Currency 461,539 12,000 000 5.000,000 Loan. , 7,000,000 Funding Exchequer Bills. 30,193,000 20,031,569 UNFUNDED DEBT. 1820. f Exchequer Bills, 1 Gen. IV 111,000,000 Iriuh Treasury Bills, 1 Geo. IV. Exchequer Balla, fur Public IVoiks, B.c. 1821. 30,700,400 F.xrherper Bills 29,0110,11C0 ibh 'IIV2lIUt Bind 30.000,000 By reduction of Unfunded Debt £30,706,400 w e have received the Puri% Papers of Ttiewl.iy lavt. They entioulice the return of the King of the Two SICILIFS In N.iplvs. His MAJEsTY was re ceived i❑ his caFital by the acclaistutions of its whole popu lut A Lisbon Alail lin4 arrived with Pipers to the 20th May ; ►xtracts from which will be found in another part of our Piper. Yesterday the Duke of YolltiL visited his MA JESTY. ti tt U • - te -. 4 ., • lir' ek• f - - V cat • ='. P/SffIONAILIS .MOVR.VE.VT.S. The Doke awl Duchess of Redford arrived yesterday tit their house in St. James's-squarr, from their seat, Wuoburu Abbey. Sir David and Lady Gould left the %Valerian Hotel, Jr,- il3rl street, yesterday, for their seat in llei Iv. Arrival,. at FeIItOIN Wait St. Jamm's street :—Captain Carberry (ruin Suffolk ; and Samuel !stead, Evq nom leis seat in Nurthetniptonabire. Arrivals at Hodason's Hotel, Dorm . ..tree! : —Mr. and Mrs Bevan and family from a tour ; sod R. S Nrohy, Esq. nom Ireland. Captain and Mrs. Murriso o h ave l e ft d i tt o for their seat near Norwich. The Drat, of Ossiiry. Mrs. Burke and family arrived yrs irrday at Payne's Hotel, Lower Grossenor.strret, from Paris. Departures from the Royal Hotel.St..lantes's-street :—Col. Baker fur Brighton, and W. Spathe.% E.g. at. a Me. and Mrs. fames W. Stuart and family areited 'ester. day at Blake's Hotel, Jeranyes.street, from their seal, Sun ning Hill, Beaks. EASHIONABLE PA !IT! ES. The Duke of Devonshire gave another splendid rout on Thursday evening at Devonshire Howse. The company present exceeded 490 persons iaf the first rank sod fashion, among whom were his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, Prince Leopold, Prince Lishoinersky, the Duke and Duchess De Friss, Prince and Princess Este. hazy, Count and Coun tess Lieven, the Duke of Grafton sad the Ladies Fitzroy, the Duchesses of Rutland. Marlhoionth r and Richmond ; the Marquis anal Marchioness of Lansdowts, the Marchioness Cholmundeley, the Marquis and Marchioness of Camden and the Ladies Pratt, Count and Countess St. Antonio, the MainMouess and the Ladies Cornwallis, the Marchioness of Londonderry, the Mirehinness of Salisbury, the Earl and Countess and the Ladies Grey, the Earl stud Conning of Clare, the Countess of Harrowby soil Lady Mary Ryder, Earl and Countess Cowper, the Earl and Counte•• of Eustrari, the Earl of Roselyn, the Countess of Jersey Lady G. Wel lesley, the L a di es L ennox , t h e E ar l and Countess of Ux bridge, the Ladies Paget, Loud Loughborough, Lord and Lady Morpeth, Viscount and Viscountess Granville, Lord and Lxiiy Dungannon, Mrs. Vitzherberr, Miss Seymour, &c. The Earl and Countess of Darnley eirterisitted Mr. and Mrs. ‘Vatanan Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hope, and a dis tinguished patty at dinner yesterday, at their house in Ber keley-mit/are. The Earl and C teas of Aberdeen entertained the Mar quis sod Marchioness of Lanailawn and • large party of dis tinguished personages yesterday rtt Argyll House. The Marrhioness of Chulinondeley has issued cards of in►itation for • ■plendid rout on the 11th instant, at Clio'. mondeley House, Piccadilly. The Countess of Harrnoby has issued cards of in►itation fur • rout on the 10th init. at her bowie in Gros ..... Countess Browntow has issued cards of invitation for a rout on the 2511. instant, at her house in Ca►endish-square. The Earl and Counteas of De. by ha►e issued cants for an entertainment on the 14th instant, at their house in Gross.- our-square. LONDON FASHIONS FOR JUNE. [From " Bogle Assembles."] FRENCH. DINNER PARTY DRESs. Frock of net over white satin; the frock ornamented with embossed stripes of white sitin, And bordered by a rich em broidery in white dorTe silk. The edge of the border trimm ed with crape bouillosF, and craps folding. confined by roses of white satin. Short satin sleeves and hotly trimmed to cor respond with the skirt. Long sleeves of falls wreathed round the arm with stripes of white satin, and termin 'ling •t the wrist by • full lace ruffle ; a tucker of the same. Cornell* rap of striped gauge. with • full half-wreath of rus.•s and jessamine. Ear•rings and necklace of Egyptian pebbles and diam"uds, intermixed ; white satin shoes, and white kid gloves. ENGLISH. COURT DRESS. Petticoat of white satin, covered with a beautiful and supesior kind of toile, trimmed at the border in full antique cornice trimming, consisting of rosare foliage of peach coloured satin, edged on esch side by a bouilloni of peach satin. Train of peach satin covered with toile, and trim med to correspond with the petticoat ; corsage of white satin superbly trimmed en coquilloge, with rich blond lace: zone of velvet, fastened with a diamond buckle. Head-dress of feather, and diamonds; n►cklace of diamonds, fastened iu front with a splendid brooch; court lappets of point or Brussels lace; white satin shoes. DEATH OP THE EARL OP STAIR. His Lordship, we regret to state, died yesterday at his hou.e in Spring-gardens. Re wall the sixth Earl, and suc ceeded his father, John, in 1719. His Lordship's titles were. Earl and Viscount of Stair, Viseount Dalrymple, Baron of Nrwliston, Glenluce, and Stranraer, and a Baronet, all Scotch titles. His Lordship dying without issue, is suc creded by his nephew, John W. H. Dalrymple, uuw Earl of Stair. The Princess AUGUSTA and Duchess of Gz.ou. i CESTER went to nagshot yesterday, and returned to town no the evening. Prince LEOPOLD had a select party at dinner yesterday. One of the Messieurs ROTHSCHILD, brothers (CHARLES), who is now at Naples, has obtained from his NIAJESTY the title of Margais.—(Journal des Debars.) The remain• of Lady MARIA Gaßy, second daughter of the Earl of STAMPORD-AND-WAR RINGTON, pasard through Newcastle-under-Lime on Thursday last, en the route from the hle of 'Maid, where she died, to Dunham blowy, his Lordship's seat, in Cheshire, for interment in the family vault at Bowdon Church, near that place. The rid lowing gentlemen were yesterday (Friday, Julie Ist) called to the Degree of Barristers at Law by the Honourable Society at Linerdn's Inn : Henry Ntittiltewa, Wiliam Grove, Edwio Muddy, Robert Lucas Y It, Robert George Cecil Flute, Thomas Henry Hope, and Robert Brandt, Enquires. The Royal Academy of Paris has made a report to the Minister of Marine and Colonies, on the soy. age of circumnavigation of the corvette. the (ironic, commanded by M. L. FREYOINET. This report is published in a Supplement to the Moniteur otTues day, and occupies an entire sliert. it states, that the principal object of the expedition was to discover the figure of the globe, sod that of the elements of terre.tiiiil magnetism. It then proceeds to recite briefly the various observations of M. FREYCINCT, in the course of which he visited the Cape of Good (lope, the Isle of France. New South Wales, the Scidwieli Isles, Rio Janeiro, Monte Video, &e. 0,1 the 10th of November last he arrived at Cher• burg, after a voyage of three years and nearly two months. The Royal Academy conclude their Re• port with their approbation of the zeal, taler.tp, and diligence of M. FICYCIWET. LAI, ANTSLUIVENC F. toURT• OF SING'S RENCR. WLITMOISTER, refuse, hint I. The Lord Cour Justice sit fir s Omit time this morisiug at hfei !'rims. and dispe.ed of souse trirdefended causes, river which some ►notions were made. RIESIER v. SIR ROBERT PFAT. The SOLICITOR GKSRRAL pAirwrti cause a role odecit had been ontatiled by Nlr„ penman, for staying the procerdol g s on a cognacit, on the ground that at the ttrue .f the execu:ion of it Ilse Derr v4:14 Not as , ..re of the nature of the in- Strome''', awl tabO that no proceediags had been takeit on it front 1811 to the year 1819. The SOLICITOR GENERAL HOW seed the affida vit& of James Lowe, bumf/tug partner of Conner and LOWY, winch sheered that the Defendant had applied to 'toy, the piroverdiogr4 in an isciton brought by the Plaintiff o.i a bell of exchange for 1001. accepted.by lone, and eel forth elan that he had received a letter frOttil Joseph Da::1 1 "9, the Defendant's .4 ttornry, stating ihtt Srl Robert Peat having informed itim that his (Mr. L o ge's) el:east would take a warrant of attorney for the debt and costs, hr begged to know the amount of them. The l.earned Gettilerwisi stated that judgmel.t was signed nu the cogmorit tin ed July, 1911, and execu tion matted in March 1814, though the Defendant had said that. be had heard nothing of it till 1819. The reason of the delay was, that the Defendant had got his name entered on the book at the Secre tory of State's Office as a privileged person, being in some sort of ntlice attached to a foreign tong bossy, and therefore he trusted the Court would discharge the rule. Mr, DENMAN said, the grounds on which his client had moved for this rule had not been au.* swir le d. H e had stated that the eognueil was given conditionally, and was called at the time a memo randum. That ems Sir Robert Peat's statement, to which, he contended, no contradiction had been given. The LORD CMIEDJUSTICE said, the only ground on which he had granted the rule to 'thew cause was the great length of time between the execottois of the tognovit and the putting it in force. Kit bed nut befit for that consideration, he should hardly have been induced to listen to a person in the De ft:n(l4'los situation in life, sat nig he had signed a paper without knowing what it was. The cause of the delay had been satisfactorily explained, and, therefore, there was no ground fur sustaining the rule. Rule discharged with costs. THE KING V. CARTWRIGHT AND OTHERS. The Defenchnit, Maddock*, asked permission of the Court fur a friend to ►rsd his defence. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE told him it could not be permitted. The Defendant then reed from a written paper a series of observations on the Grand Jury who found the Bill, on the Special Jury who turd the cause, on the Counsel who connected it, and on the witnesses who gave their testimony, in the course of which he was frequently interrupted and admonished by the Court. but as he continued in the same irrelevant course— The LORD CHIiiJDITICE,after consulting with the other Judges, told him that unless he confined himself to the topics proper for a person in his situation, the Court would be obliged, though with the grestest reluctance,to impose silence upon him. The Defendant concluded by stating, 1114 he had three small children and a wife almost broken hearted. It was in their Lordships' power, and he had no doubt they would visit him as mercifully as others who had been convicted of similar offences. Mr. MILLS begged to inform the Court that he had been applied to to state something to their Lordships on the part of the Defendant Lewis. The COURT refused to herr hin►, as the De fendant was not present, and the Court were not about to pass any judgment upon him. Mr. DENMAN rose to offer to the consideration of the Court, on the part of Major Cartwright, those topics which it was his duty to suggest in nsi , ligation of punishment. He contended that for persons not represented in Parliament meeting together, for the purpose these Defendants did, however absurd or useless, was, according to his uuderstaiuliug, no offence at law. Had they forged the King's writ, or pretended to any authority which they did not possess, that undoubtedly would have been a great misdemeanor. There was not the smallest insinuation that the meeting was at tended with any tumult or :tot whatever. He would not bring before their Lordships the question whether the Legislature was constituted as it ought to he for the fit performance of its function., hut the belief which his client entertained to the con trary was, he contended, though not a justifies tMti, a ground of mitigation of punishment. He did not say the Defendants were juteified by it. yet in all ages the people of Englend had exercised the right of considering public grievances. Even if there had been any overstepping of the law, if he could shew that their intentions were consonant to those of all the great men of the last and pre sent age who had considered the subject. it might surely be urged with propriety in mitigation of punishment. He felt it his duty to press this point with zeal, as lie feared the real question would be lost sight of, and 'treat danger would ensue to the subject's right of petitioning, one of the best interests of the country. He in ranted the Slave Trade as a grievance %Mich had been put down entirely by public opinion and public meetings. Could those parties he told, You are conspiring to bring into contempt these indivi dual merchants and captains engaged in that trade ? It might be that the House of Commons was the purest imaginable— it might be that no man sat there to represent his own pocket, or to represent the interest of a Peer ; but if the Defendants con scientiously thought otherwise, and met with a view not to excite disaffection, but to bring about a ne cessary and salutary reform, such being their bona fide intention, they could only be said to be exciting that moral disapprobs ' which neces eerily followed from the recital of wrong.— There never was a man, he contended, maitre free from rancour, party spleen, or any corrupt motive, titan his client, and no one could read his affidavit without perceiving in it marks of a pure and patriotic mind. He (Mr. Drumm) did not think perlisps that 108.11)10,y could be reduced to time. nee, hut if his client comicientiously believed it, would mot their Lordships thisik that he stod. in a eitustion free from the ithPutatiou (except in • technical sense) of seeking buy alteration, by means which their Loodships could disepproves. Hi. client less •now eiglity.fonr years of age, and timing cm the seine peinciple which he had dime for huff a century {the promotion of the public good), he went to and attended a public meeting there; betook no part therein; the speeches he hot not hood ; he had merely returned thanks for soin e eomp li me ists which Fuld been paid him ; that sees the head and front of his of ead i seg. for which he hes to receive the sentence of the Cond. Ile bad stated to their Lordships in his Old ono, lb it it itshuuld pleate tlie"Couit to inflict a floe on him, it would not affect his personal comforts only, hot "motif disinherit an innocent and mutable' OtTlia.., the daughter of his elder brother, whom he had ailmeed. Oa the other hand he (%tr. Drnmaq mint call to the coosidenvion of the Court, that a sentence of long imprisonment would confonn4 eegeil ier offences of very different description. mid chan t ro e rv, as different it. light and darkness, which woithl relleet more discredit on the justice of the Court than the per.ott nu whom the sentence was puswd. He begged lease to say on the part of M.ijor efirtwtight, that tie did not deprecute punishment ; having been found guilty by a Jury, be stood ready to beer it as • firm man, and i. 4 would add, with something of the cooetaucy of a martyr. cousidering himself as bearing te t stimony to a greAt principle, had that principle been re. pressed Mitten+ . and Milton would fur:, flute written, sod every matifrous thelseg.iiiiirig of ledie would have beet} prevented Grim lilting up hits voice against abuse sod. oppre.aion. 'rock Lord ships %%mild consider the whole of the caw, so 4 must, he would take ilia liberty to say, pass sentence with a teepect tor the civirerter of hits Client. Before he sit down he tburight it his dory to say. that he had received use intim.. host farm the person in tepid to «how tar lerest .Major Cartwright had besought the Court to punish him by impri.otimetst rather than fvyiwty desiring him not to permit any consideration to in. tarter, in the slightest degree with the accommede e Cots of Major Cartwright. Such were the feeticlos with which those dear connexions came before the Coprt, arid though his Client eat the nominal De. (aian', he would not he the greatest suffiTer ; there were hearts now besting with entirety an his acceurir. and be the sentence whet it migto, there were tit public who would respect hiiw, awl a posterity which would judge and appreciate his. condors. Wheu the learned Comm! concluded there was a burst of applause which was instantly repressed by • sense of what was due to the decorum of a Court of Justice. Mr. Hut then rose, arid said Ile also *au of Counsel fur Major Cartwright, but as he felt it impossible to add any thing to the eloquent oppriii of his Learned Friend (Nlr. Denman), he would not weaken the effect of it by saying a single geoid. The Defendant Wooler then addressed their Lordships. He said, after the full disca.anni which the subject had received, there war little necessity for hint to truoble them with any obseraatinna„ Ike asserted in the most solemn manner i,is belief of the legality of the matting, end the objects fur which it was culled, tl gh he took tin active part in ol•ro calling of it, or proposed any Own there. True he had attended it and moved ilisok• to the Chairman, and as he conceived every subjrct of the King had a right in be in any pqrt of the realm, their Lordships would not, he was sort-, im. flute it to him as to crime that be happened to be at Birmingham Oil the day of the meeting. The Lou! Chief Baton had allowed there was no statute against this meeting, and if the common low wr!e, ss it was said to be " the perfection of reason;' it certainly was not conirary to that, as it was eio principle of COIIIOIOO sense that the people of Mr m;itgliatu should not be represents's! in Parliartient. He would regrind the Court that the meeting took place before the passing of the six Acts, by . which such meetings might be rendered illegal. .Ile‘stit nutted that if any charge of conspiracy .cqulel be proved, being present, he era s t o a ll intents sod purposes s party ; but he had never had tl,le slightest concert with aoir,of the parties. Ile pressed upon their Lordships the_ tojnry which dile Defendant, had sustained by the sort of prrjudica_ tion their case had undergone. A pruchiniuticn from the highest authority had issued, clitirOng it as a crime of the highest degree ; and one of the Learned Judges from the Bench lied charged it as a crime little less than treason. Under such dW advantageous circumstances, the Defendants turd gone to trial. He proceeded to contend not: the meeting did not elect u Member of Porli..ineat, but an Att n n tiny, who was to plead their tight to he represented. He referred to the statute of 38 Henry VIII. cap. 1, by. which, .supeosing that were d o n e which was charged to be (lout, a punishment was inflicted for it. That punishment was the payment or a penalty of ta/. As. thel:(the Defendant.) had committed the one fiftieth pattteif that offei , ce they ought therefore to pay ievenalty of ei. 11, concluded his very juidicious ispektinp perate appeal by entreeting . they Lorilehips to pardon arty excess of leellog which might have limo displayed by ilte.Defendauta, amdto trite into con sideration the . sufferings oad. imemoaerreacm,they had already experienced forcoadttet which they ,bod never. considered as.. crime. The So.r.tcrroa-G.mimaaL briefly addressed the Court in reply to the, topics wlsich had mearyas it o in mitigation, anddwelt marticularly om the slaloms language used at theuseetinig a . .10 • After a short consultation with his Lemrmod Brothers— Mr. Justice BAYLEY declared the judgment of the Court at considerable length, discriminating with his usual accuracy, the different degrees of criminality which by the evidence appeared to at tach to each of the Defendant.. Collecting that evidence as it regarded the Defendants Maddock% and Cartwright, from the Judge's report. .of the evidence delivered at the trial, arid loulting . to the tinblicatioris which Edmunds and Wooler had put forth of the proceedings for their shares in the transaction, he --denied the isiertion frequently made at the meeting, that every man had an in 6rent right to concur in the election of a person to represent him in Parliament. If that were the case, why. not women too, but that had Direr - bien insinuated; yet had the right been as asserted, it , ii~rti .0!471 • 1 • ~.