The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1821-07-25 00:00:00

CELEBRATION OP HAS MAJESTY'S CaiIiONATION. Yesterday the principal inhabitants of the parish of St. James, Westminster, dined together at the Thatched House Tavern, to celebrate the eoton•- tion of his MAJESTY ; Mr..HAIIIIIER*LEY, the Banker, is the Chair. The liable was decorated with the most rump. twins provittions, and every delicacy that the season could produce, • great profusion of the choicest wines, &c. After the cloth was removed, Nos Noble Do. 'nine was sung by Moors. Goulden, Neild, Hawes, Clark, Molyueu*, &c. The ettAtati•ff addressed the company and vaid, that he would not detain the effusions Ortheir hearts in giving the health of the King, as he was sure every man must respect him as a King and live him as • man, which was drunk with the great. eat enthusiasm by the numerous company present. The following toasts, glee*, &c. aueceedee:—. " The Duke of York and the Ariny."Glre, " Dail star of Itrimetdek." The Doke of Clarence and the Navy." " The Date of Some: sad the Volistrers."—Glre, " How slimily we live that moldier. be." " The Mahe of Cambridge sad the kingdom of Hanover." The Doke of Gloucester and ,the University of Cam. briikw." " Primes Leopold."—Three lion three. Among the excellent glees sung was, " When 'order i• ibis land began." by MAZZINGHI, to which the following new verse was added by Mr. GLona COLIIAM The glorious reign of George the Third Demands • nation's praist, Ararwith It may by Heaven Se heard, The isrvosi prayer we rains. • May George the Fourth on Enghind's throne With-equal glory reign, • And by his people's lore done His sacred seat mainiam : • Ties round his throne may blessiop throng, Pence, health, wllb balmy wing, And may this long be Briton's song, Ond save great George our King. HAYMARKET THEATRE. Last night the opera of Lave in a Village was re. - wined at dna theatre. Mr. LSON 1 Lau gave the songs of Voting Meadows in • plessiag style. His next goer-emaill efforts were, "'Oh ! had 1 been by Jade decreed," which was much applauded ; "Where a Heart that never loved?" which was rapturously encored; and. •• Together let us range the Fields." 'Mr.Wittt.lASlS'll Justice 'Woodcock was a highly ere dotoble display of his powers.. The archness of his humniar in the garden acme with Hound, and in • shatorida the supposed music-muster, left us nothing to desire, and lost little by our recollection of old established favourites in the part. Mr. J. RUSSELL gave a strong and finished colouring to the unreel- H' selfialineas and rustic brutality of the profligate * Areusant Hodge; and Mr. YonsGelt was a respects- Lle representative of the old, Baratta Sir William Meadows. bins CA acw was au interesting Rosetta, *ad executed the songs of the part most charmingly. To reeling of " Centre youth," and "How blest the enflid," she gave the Tallest effect. In " The Traveller benighted," she was bosomed with a well merited encore ; and her " Go, naughty Merv " was characterised by the graceful ease and playful gaiety of a lady•like and accomplished female. Mrs. JONES in Madge, affectingly pourtrayed the .anguish of the ill-used country girl. Mrs. Deborah Woodcock was spiritedly played by Mni. Pumice. MR. KEAN. ( From the Nem York Commercial Advertiser, June i 2.) • The Charleston Courier, which has always been a well-conducted twerCiwitile pew, has-recently brightened up in its editorial department ex ceedingly. The writer fur it has a rich imagination, compoqitiona are always sprightly, and often beautiful. Speaking of the late affair be tween Mr. Kenn and the Bostonians, and Mr. Heart% letter, in which lie promised to return to .Boston, the Charleston eaditur thus happily hits off both parties : On his re.appearanee let the audience be seated with their hats on, and their backs In the stage. Let the play be Richard the Thirlf, it being most proper that he should heti'. anew where be left tiff; appropriate too, for another remelts, Richard beast, as Mr. Kea. sap, the foundation .01' his fame and fortune, may well `tip how to regain what he has lees. Mr.lieen heiseon the stage, let him repeat from Rickard, . . . " I de asespeet I have dune mpmeeffesee That stems &I/gracious in the etty's eye." Then let one of the Boston Editors, from the star.box, reply M the words of Buckingham—mid by the bye that is the traine•of one of them— " Yon shave, my lord—would it might please your Grace, On our, rutreatier, to alumni your fault." Kean. altar lUehord, "Else. arherrfore. live I in a Christian land?" The andiritre may then lake off their bats, and look for givinglren the Renitent offender. The play may then proceed, maims Mr. Kean, file Richard, should say to the people ‘• Thou troableai ame-1 its Dot haat vein." A coanderable inspreventent has been made in I '.,‘ ritt-gsrdett Theatre within tin se few days, iu of the IDIOM trnplo3ed to ventilate. tendered considerably cooler and pleasanter than before, thewgh the attractions of the Cocoon lion Win cuottnee; nor is this improvement e ff ected _with any correspoudisig incouvenimice, bet ni pro ilticed by u general plan or operation, which takes liideesiinultancously in every partof the Theatre. Ventilation does not Consist in letting its meld cur resits of air on those previously over-heated, but is 4:1 imperceptible and constant interchange of the ni•trinti and interim' atmospheres. The heat and oppression experienced ire Thearm, without tide (luate reulilaiuu , wuuld be hitolintble during the presra *MOO. Mr. Maims., the new tonnages of the York the '"" , has declared his intenimii of givisig eight hundred fire admissions the flirt login of the opening of the house, in honour of the Coronation. The operatic play of Don John is getting up at the Dublin theatre, for the purpose of nitro aiming Wes STEPligni in the same character tbat Phe. arieuf*d 'Si% ist . Covent-getcicu. ~„ VAGRANTS. • —. m a-. On Saturday l ast at the Middlesex Sessions, William Bespin was prosecuted by the Society for the Suppression of Meadioity. This fellow is a notorious impostor, who usually has one arm bound mead tightly with several yards of lines, so as to appear as if he had lost kii hand. This deception has been repeatedly exposed to the Society's Officers, who had at different times lastituted several pro• 'aerations against him, without however succeeding I. pre treating a repetition of his fraudulent practices; is fact, the peritaacity with which he adhered to bls professional pur suits, conferred upon him a degree of notoriety amongst others of the same description, and 4 .e was in consequeace elected chairman at the meetings of " Confirmed Beggars:* which are held in St. Giles's. The Court sentenced him to six months imprisonment, to be twice &aged, and kept on bread and water. J. W. hlotyttena, mho known as a most incorrigible rogue, received a similar nesstence ; several others were ordered to be imprisoned fur various periods, Two were takes under the Society's care, and five Italians were discharged on their undertaking iminedistely to quit the country. We cannot help congratulating the public that the often ties of this laadakle Instiiiitiou has been directed to the abominable nuisance of these Italian boys who infest our streets, annoying the passengers (particularly females) with disgusting exhibitions of monkeys and other animals, many of whom ere trained to commit acts of gross indecency. Frequent conferences have been held by the Secretary of tha Mendicity Society with the Secretary of State for the Hums Department, the Heads of the Alira Office, &c. and it has been wronged that a specific measure, calculsted to exter minate this alarming evil, shall be introduced to Parliament during the next session. la the mean time the efforts of the Mendieity Society will M anianiatly directed to Ibis description of vagrants, and the Court intimated on Saturday that the most severe punishment which the laws allow As ill be inflicted upon those who are found again offenditig after having been thus eau. tinned. The public will, it is hoped see the evident ins Pr opriety of affording them any encouragement, fur it has long since been discovered by the Me•ilicity Society, that. CHUM individuals in London make • trade of importing buys of this description, whom they stud out to bog, and who ac count to them foe their daily earnings. DEATH OF SIR JONATHAN MILES, ENT. - Between fear and live o'clock ao Seaday morning, Lady Miles was awake out of her sleep, by hearing Sir Jonathan main an unconsotois noise • she shook him, and received .no mower, on which she beetese alarmed, and called for as. andante. The towhee:a, who happened to be up, end was crossing the yard, hearing her Ladyship scream, salted what was the matter—she cried out in great agitation, s Fur God's ;almoner: in, your master is dying." The coachman called up the rest of the family, who repaired to Sir Jon.. thaw's bed room, where they foiled him in had, breathing his "last. Several sorgeons were sect for, sad Mr. Dickinson ar rived i• a few iniontes afterwards; he opened a vein, and tried every means, but to no purpose. as he died almost immediately. Sir Janatan was in the 60th year of his age, and in remarkable good health and spirits the night pieced. .ing, when going to bed. An inquisitive was held on Monday evening on the body, before Mr. St idiom, Coroner, at the family ITMUIiOIII in Ealing, where he died. Verdict—" Died by the !thiamine of God.'" Notice is given in last night's CazeNe, that the Court of Claims will re-assemble in the Painted Chamber at Westminster, on Monday next, at two o'clock in the afternoon, to constrict of the services performed at the Coronation, and the fees to be taken in respect thereof, where all persons having performed services, and claiming fees for the saute, are requested to give their attendance. A Daily Morning Treasury Journal on Monday stated, that the QUSEN had vet off in her travelling carriage hum Brandenburgb House, at six o'clock on-Saturday morning, accompanied by Lady Ann H•isturots, Alderman WOOD. and Count V AV-. SA LI ; and that the answer yesterday to inquirers was, "Her MAJESTY is gone, we know not whither." Her MAJESTY, if she really dirt go out on Setur day, did not go far. A small party dined with her at Brandenburgb House on Saturday *vesting. The cntlery used at the banquet of the Kimo's Coronation amounted to— 8,000 knives and 8,000 forks, 650 pair of e rrrrrr and 12 dozen of cork screws. The table-linen, am covbisted of— ?SO yards of elegant damask tabk•rlolhs for the Hall, 1,100 ditto for the vitriol's moans, 170 dozen of damask napkins, 100 dozen of 'gawking ftw waiters' kaife-clotbs. The glass for the tables, &c. was as follows :- 600 quart decanters, 1,900 pill decanters, 5,000 wise glasses, 2,400 Insablsrs, 709 salts and spoons, 96 sets of castors, and 1,460 carats. As the workmen were employed in excavating t►e fortis for the cellar of a house to be erected in ■ field at the top of Friar-gate, Penrith, they discovered about twenty beaus skeletons. The teeth is many of the skulls were quite per. feet, as were the skulls themselves, the thigh-bones, dr.e. The bodies must have been ►aid very close, as the whole did not occupy a greater spare than about 21. yards by 6. his strange that shire are no records of the deposition of these bodies. it is well known, however, that • busty of Grey Friars existed in Penrith, about the place above•mentiuned, as the street leading from the held fully anthersticatea. In digging the foaadation also the groundwork of some part of a Fruit age lots been discovered, in a very pet feet state. It is more than probable, therefore, that they must have laid, at least, nearly three hundred years. _ _ Yesterday the Lottery finished, when No. 6,054 wits drown a Poise of 15,000/. Consols, and sold in *bares by iIaSARD and Co. at their Old established Of f ices, Royal Eschange-galr ; 28, Currant!; slid 324, Oxfordsdreet; who have shared sad mold in the prtsent Lottery:- 15,702 1'21,000 6,054 4,606 5OO 7.752 4OO 1,630 300 4,236.. 402 230 1,842 220 913.... 4,191 2lO 4,079 2OO &e.t.a. Three per Cent Consols. _ J. and J. SIYZWRIGUT have the pleasure to an nounce, that the Drawing of Tounins's PICTURE larTault is to take place en Saturday next, the 28th inst. Specimens of which may be seen at their old established Offices as tinder, and where Tickets are on Sale in great vu. riety. A Purchaser of • Red and Black Ticket is sure to gain a Prize. The State !Annoy finished on the 24th inst. when J. J. N. sold and shared the largest Prise therein, being No. 4,421, 25,0001.; 060, 1,446, 4,0001.; No. 9,182 and 12,730, both 2,401. and Ten other Capitals of 2,1001. Sec. No. 37, Cornholl, 38, Haymarket, and 11, Hulbert'. T. 81211 respectfully informs his hest Friends, the Public, lie is selling Tickets for Mr. TORRINS . B PICTS/RR 11.0TTARY, Which is to be drawls asst SATURDAY. The Price is 31.35. per Ticket, snit the bolder of two Tickets of different Colours is sure to ...limits a Prize. Particulars of the Capital and other Prizes may be had at Rim's Offi ces, 4, Combat, end 9, Charing Cru►s, n here fitsti sold, in the State Lottery, just finished one 21,00411. one 20,0001. one 16,0001. Me 3,0001. and various other Capitals. ETTON is happy to inform the Public, that Mr. TOMKIN.'II PICTURE LOTTERY will ire drawn on SATURDAY next, and that it is a Lottery highly desirable stud advantageous to the 'Public, as every purchaser of a Red Tieket and a Black Ticket is sore of gaining a mutt inte resting Prise. The Tickets of ToOkilts'S PICTUDIR LOT TRRT are DUD gelling at his (Mem No. 2, Corobill, and i■ Lopnbard-dreet, at 31. 3.. each. • LAW INTELLIGENCE. !couirr by 'Otto . ftrrtir, G oitnaacr Y Vpieguy, JULY ft. Before Afr. Joake BEST fail a Special Jory. THE ICING C. lETE, Oa iiittat.. This was en inforniatiori died bylhe Artolll4Elf. GgNIIRAL against • f he Wend:int, for a ite,ditious libel published in the 'Republica. O aß e f , o n th e gOth October; Is4o, printed by Jant*Carlile; • Mr. LITTLYDALE opened the pleadings. The SbLieliroi4ANgsAi stated' the nature of the libel totfltiliy: It wits a grotts libel on his Majesty, whiCh he (the Solieitor-Gtential), would content himself with reading to the Jury, for he was of opinion that if. en the bare reading of the libel, it did not satisfy everr well-intimated man that such was its neture, no ingenious col: lateral arguments maid have that efrect. The • libel ran 'thus..." There is- not one vice that the King can put his hind to his heeit and say, ',I am innocent or it.' Re has inherited the gross obstinacy Of his father; and the avarice and mean ness of his mother, without any of their domestic qualities ; to this hr has added all that vice ha• taught or conjectured,' " The Defendant stood in the situation of servant to Mr. Wile, and sold the number of The Kepwbfican'iii which this gross libel was publi s h e d, an d cou ld not be ignorant of the , titre of the work. 'rhe Learned Counsel observed that a masted change had taken place in public opinion with respect to Ex-trio informations— formerly it was considered a sort of hardship on a • Defendant put on his trial by that Officer, but it was now thought better that owls • power should exist and be exercised 'by p known and responsible Officer, who could be called to et:count for any misapplication otitis authority. Evidence was then called. Samuel (Mittel' messenger of the Press to the Stamp Office, proved having purchased the number of the feepsiblkan of 20th Oct. 1820, containing the libel, from the Defendant, whO diu the shop in which witne,s had seen him for some months. --- Chapman, an officer of the Bow-street establishment confirmed the testimony of the last witness. The libe:l having been read, Mr. Paqspeaciaa'r adilresked the Jury for the Defendant, and urged that lie was merely acting as the servant of Cairl4l4 and could not know the contents of the papers which he sold. He had also, inunediattly he learned that he had fallen under the antquidverinon of the Atte; tiey-Generidi waited on the . ffcilikikir to the Treasury, and offered to quit the situation immediately, and not enter into any mher of the like nature. He trusted also that the 4 61 1 *48 1 4 consider the extreme youth of his client, who was Anne only nineteen ,years of age, and was 'merely' ,in the exercise of His lawful endea vouring to procure an honest livelihood. H. I'. Willis was called and examined ; he gave the Defendant a good character for moral and reli• gious principles. The SoLtcroeGsteuitat., in his reply, observed, that, although the Defendant had called on the Solicitor to the Treasury and made some proposi tion, he still kept his plea on the record, and still continued to set the law at detiince. Mr. Justice BEST charged the Jury, that the publication was certainly a most gross and scanda lous libel. The Jury immediately fouud the Defendant Guilty, There was a second indictment against the De fendant for a similar offence, which the Solicitor- General declined going on with. THE NINA V. MARY ANN CARLII.E. This was all inrictrneiit by the Society for the Suppression. of Vice,. against Mary Ann Csrlile (the sister of Richard Cathie) fur a blasphemous libel on the Holy Scriptures. At the request of the Defendant, the Jury were asked if they were members of the Society fur the Suppression of Vice, but none of them were so. Mr. MARRIOTT opened the pleadings. Mr. GURNEY stated the cue tb the Jury. The libel was put in and read, and the sale of it by the Defendant proved. It spoke of the Bible as s , a book to full of wickedness and contra dietiost,•dint it could not be the word of God." 'lllte"Difendant had no Counsel; but she put in a loug, written dereuce, which was read by the Officer of the Court. It justified the pamphlet as s moderate and argumentative examination of the C1,61411'0 religion, from which it could not be the intention of the law to shield it. Mr. Justice BM interrupted art reading of part of the defence which stated the " common law was a common Auer," and said tie could not allow that part to be read, but the Defendant, though re peatedly requested to expunge it both by the Judge and Jury, declined doing so. Mr. Justice HEST charged the Jury, that in his opinion the publication w question could not be considered as Lur reasoning ut moderate and respectful language, hut in the terms of the tinhorns sit. It was a scandalous and blasphemous libel. The Jury, without any hesitation, found the Defendant Guilty. THE KING V. MARY ANN CARLILE. This was • prosecution at the instance of the So. ciety culled the Constitutional Association, for a seditious libel on the Government and laws of the country, published in the hepaiblicen, laud sold by the Defendant. Mr. TINDALL opened the pleadings. Mr. Gummy stated the case to the Jury. He observed, that in all his experience, which had not been short, be never met wish a libel which in the some space contained more mischievous matter. It purported to be written by Richard Carlile, and was dated from Dorchester gaol, Ist January, the second year of the Spaniih Revolution. It was sold by the present Defendant (who was his sister, at his late shop), and was - entitled A t'Vew Year's Address to the lirfornters of Great Boitain." Learned Counsel then read the alleged libel. It stated, that to talk of the British Constitution was a sure proof of the dishonesty of the speaker, and that our very laws were. corrupt and partial, not only in themselves, bet in their administration. It went on tostate, that refosto would be obtained when the existing authorities were no longer able to withhold it, and he again put fortb his opinion, that some thing more than a petitioning attitude was neces sary at the present moment; and he concluded • with saying, that he would not sat a ..wprd !shout imurrectidaltheu, recowlaseuilid ateiltiomta vilanimil-:'Sith. the - Leitted Ctiutitsil •the_libef ;loud tie irostilltot . .sruittettie 3 thiMOr Jury. eirleoult.their underrtaudiiegs. by miff unit upon it. The Leurnett Counsel called James Rignilf, leito roes • Examined by Mr. TlNiiii.L.—Witness, ptirebatedithe publication, ca t tai l - ' l " k v libel, la . . the No 65, Fleetolireet:' ''Aes Caride,` the gift 61 March hat.• •' .7 Cross-exanefsed bir Nfe.lCooill*.wine is aryl for the 'Society bir the Suppre.siiit f Vice. and is in-this - instance eniployed by !hi Constittitionol .Autociation. Mr. Murray, the Solicitor of the A* lodation sent him to get the work, •but he did r!lg :putticulariee any that he was to . purehase. 'He laps - no wages from the Constitutional Association, bdt •he made a charge 'for Wrist tie had done. He is Ulet a member of the AssoCistion. What he received yob : 'better than seven pounds, and less ,than seven guineas. He did other business for the Society 'besides. • Mr.'Cooeue asked what was the natttte of that business, but time witness was reluctant td disclose 1 it. and appealed to the Court to know if it were•l necessary. • Mr. Justice Bert-told him he had better answer 'the qu'estiou. Witness then said, that he went to different •bockvellers shops, mid purchased works which he •considered to be libellous. He has been employed -about one year and a half by the Society for the• Suppression of Vice, Dud before that was en Officer -in the Customs, but has lost his situation, and has . sio pension. Horatio Ortoir examined by Mr. GURNEY.— Witness purchased the book containing the libel on the 10th October last from the Defendaut:- Cross-examined by Mr. COOPER.-14e i►as di rected to purchase the work by Mr. Murray, en lattorney, and Honorary Secretary to the Associa tion. Witness is clerk to the Society; before he. was so employed, he used to assist his brother, who. takes reports in the House of Lords, and transmits them to the country for the provincial newspaper's.. His salary is not Axed; lie does not work by the Piece; the Committee have not yet fixed bit salary,: nor proposed any sum, neither has he. •He could not bring to his recollection whether he had done any jobs of this kind before. He knows a may named King, and has made an affidavit respecting him, but that was since this business; he his been euiplo'yed by the Society from the Bth January "last ; does not know how many jobs of this sort he has done since the Bth March last, as they were so "numerous he could not recollect. He has had ge 'Bend directions from Mr. Sharpe, the Assistant_ .. Honorary Secretary to the Association, to purchase • other works. Mr. Jounce BEST put it to Mr. Cooper whether this course of examination could have any beneficiak effect for his client, and whether he would not tr i as. , . self regret it, seeing the sort of abswar which hl 'questions must elicit? Mr. COOPEe said, if he did any thing to impede ▪ judicial proceeding he should exceedingly regret it, but he disclaimed any such intention. The cross-examination of the witness was then continued. The Honorary Secretary was to super intend the business of the office; witness consi dered him as having the management of it. This closed the case for the prosecution. Mr. Coosa rose end addressed the Jury on the behalf of the Defendant. He began by regretting that some more able advocate than himself had not been employed in this important cruse. Unable, so he should conceive himself at any time, lie felt •the difficulty still more from the short space of 'time that lie had had to consider the case, his brief having been placed in his hands only last. *eight ; this delay arose from the Defendant having imagined that she should have had a similar notice of trial to that which she' had received in the cue I ust tried. From this circumstance it was that be! Came in a manner unprepared to the defence of his; thew. fits Lear-tied Friend (Mr. Gurney) had adopted the trite arguments used in such casel,and which were beaten like a turimitoroad, but had: left untouched the policy of prosecutions like t 11& present. The Ju►y were the judges of the law, that his Lordship would tell them; and also that be :Was bound by the statute to give toetn his opinion ; 'ho after giving due coosideration to that opinion, tbe Jury were bound by their oaths if they saw tit `to tire the preference to their own. They had r right to take into their consideration the policy of• :this prosecution. The Defendant was prosecuted for ■u offence in the nature of a nuisruce, and the Jury were to inquire if it were truly so, though 'former Juries had determined that similar pub- lications were libellous, that sbould be no• guide to tlitm here; they were bound to judge of each care from its own circumstances, and if the' thought that no mischief had resulted. from the libel, it was their duty to acquit the Defendant. For, supposing that time out of mind nuisances had been indicted, but suppose that 'at hart a person so indicted were to prove, that so far from being a niiirance, what he had done was pub!: • benefit, as in the case of hops, which. *hen first introduced, were considered poisonous, ind the use of them prohibited by sn Act of Par ' lfament. Had a Defendant been indicted for the offence created by the Act of Parliament, and bad :Shearer t!i.it hops were nutritious, would the laity have found him guilty ? Certainly not : neither if there bad been ter, thousand convictions for political libel, should this Defendant be handed over to punishment, if (as he thought lie should coovince them), libels of that description, so far from being *injurious, were beneficial. But what evidence had they that any of these pamphlets would have been in circulation had it not been for the base, forward, and obtrusive conduct of this Constitutional Am. elation. The Learned Counsel proceeded to cont. merit on the evidence and the character of the wit rinses, and cited the conduct of the Counsel in that respect iu the Dean of St. Ample. case. "There Mr. Jones, the Marshal of the King's Bench prisms, wae, though he had no visible course:ion 'with the case, held up alternately to the keenest sarcasm or mostjeering ridicule. • Mr. Justice BEST put it to the Learned Counsel • 'trhether his observation were conformable to the practice of the Bar, or Whether it was fair to reflect on the character stud conduct of a person not present "so defend himself. Mr. Coma said, he could bare no intention of r AR'4; !R ik ,lesse, .;11. 4 1, he lidmitie4that nrhOf . 4ftir*%utiou• to altuo!linic hi! jatomic. theit le file A tterney-Generer Led' pollettlidil titeeral_proireWtions against Cailite he 1s fully 'ware of this.. publication. and from ins uot 410-- 'ceedingagdiatit it he had a right to eliew.theinfeer tem, that the'Law OM eets of tbe Crupw dtdtiit 'think this it se ',hitt called PT . peeisecutitia. As ix had • Were °bee t led, there was not i'iWilt of 'evidence to Thew that those peruplilefil roirltt have ever heeh circulited till the writs of tins Hawser ilile Society had gone and seduced (voluced.'he would say, for he knew tin other fitting wool) the 'Defendant to make this publication.- Mr. Sonic, BEST—" You mean to offer atnne evidence of that ?" Mr. CoOPEa would only offer that evidence 'which was befote the Court. What, he continued, conk be said of those who provoke crimes in.order to inflict isunnehmeeit, who tempt to sin that they may haVe the power to damn; what could be said - but that they were devils and nut meet. liebeg ged pardon ; he laid uo intention of wasting much 'time on these witnesses; but so much his indiges tion had wrung from his contempt. The Learned Counsel then minutely examined the alleged libel.; 'and by a coarse of ingenious arguments .autlarkilfil cam ',orisons of the context, endeavoured to. Lew that the writer of the pamphlet never intended to ad"- cate resistance to authority by phy.ical force, %tit merely by au union of legal .efforts to obttio reform. Neither did he, when he said that Eng land had no constitution, mean any thing more than that the practice and theory of the constitution "dried. When he spoke of corruption, he in fact alluded to and used the words of the Speaker of the House of Commons, who had stated, .4 That there were practices in existence as notorious as the sun. et noon-day, at which their aucesturs would have started with iodignation.' Mr. Justice HEST wished to know where Sr. Cooper found that recorded. • Mr. Coorea said it was in ill the usqal-recotds of parliamentary proceedings, the daily papers, and the Amid Register. Mr. Justice Best. said them was no authentic account of speeches in Parliament. Petliantent had privileges; but had that which was quoted been spoken out of Parliament, Mr. Abbott would have been a libeller of the British Constitution ; but it could not be known that he lied used such languages. Mr. COOPER said he knew there was nothing that could be called a legal record of parliamentary speeches; bat he was only using the circumstance for the purpose of argument. Mr. Justice BEST s nd, lie had only intimated his 'opinion, if the Learned Counsel thought fit be might proceed. Mr. Coorea thought it essential for the defence of his client. Mr. Justice BEST—" You had better go on then." Mr. COOPER resumed his argument, and (egged to the-Jury that it was impo.aihle to doubt that the writer of the pamphlet alluded to that speech of my Lord Colchester's, and that in saying England had no constitution, he had merely used an exaggerated figure of speech. With respect to the policy of prosecutions like the present, the Learned Counsel said, there was no opinion in which he was more firmly fixed than that political prose cutions were worse than useless, for oftentimes they served to call the public attention to what hod other wise dropped " still-born from the press." The danger from free discussion was considerably aggra vated. There was no instance in history of any .state which had fallen by the assaults of paper pel lets; such was not the cause of the decline and fall of Athees and Rome. in more modern times the French Revolution was ascribed by some persons to the writings of Rousseau, Helvetii's, and Voltaire'; but he thought there could be little doubt that had it not been for the corruptions of their Government and the disorders of the finances, these writers might have laboured in vain. The Vir g inian Le gislature had recorded in the preamble to one of their Acts, their opinion of the impolicy of poli tical prosecutions. Mr. Justice BEET observed, that with the Acts of the Virginian Legislature they could lave uothisig to do. Mr. Coorea said, he stated it to spew that other men thought in the way he did upon the subject. He then quoted the authority of Locke and Milton to the same effect, and contended that it was im possible to prevent such writings by prosecutions. for were every other mode impossible, men would write in mountains, and scatter their produc tions about the streets during the darkness of the night. To repress them by prosecutions was like the conduct of the Society fur the Suppers- Anon of Vice, who once resolved to put down all 'the houses of ill.fame in the metropolis, fur which purpose they placed a luminous Inform at the doors of such houses. The ouly consequence pro duced was, ilea strangers from the country, who were ignorant of the localities, were thin informed of that of which they were before in ignorance. The Learned Counsel concluded a loiig mid able speech, of which our limits lisee enabled us to give only a mere sketch, by citing the ,opinion of Lord Loughborough iu fasour of the free discussion of political topics. Mr. Justice BEST then charged the Jury, He said it was his duty to reeml their Linea iiiiii to th.. question which they had to try. Many of th. serrations which they laid heard might fur slight he knew be very proper for a Virginian Aesembly, but hscl very little to do with the present question. The Jury had been truly told that they were to judge whether this were a libel or not, hut he must beg to deny that either they (the Jury) or he had any thing do to with the propriety or impropriety of the prose cution, or with the Constitutional Asausiation, by by whom it was iustituted. The questions for the Jury were, Is the writing a libel of not, and has the Defendant published it ? His Lordship raid. he would not yield to the Learned Counsel, nor to any man in his admiration of the liberty of the press. The improved state of Europe, compared with the other quarters of the world, was the result of free iinrptigation, and God forbid that any act of his ah.ald tend to diminish that free discussion, hut it wee /pettier! to inquire what the liberty of the press M. It consisted according' to'llost writer, whom the Learned Gentleman had q.soted, in the permission to publish all opinions but hold ing the writer onswensble fur them ; but me cording to the doctrine which they bad bets `'.