The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-11-30 00:00:00

miramemp INTELLICENCg. rxstn rem, Noy. 28.—The Wasp brig of mar I arr i ve d yesterday from IRA Audero, with dispatches from Sir Home Popham. It is understood that she does not bring any particular news: The Armide fr i ga te, Captain Temple, arrived here yesterday, be i ng carried away her maineyard in a heavy gale of l o u d ; she has been refitted, aid sailed again on a cruise to the coast of France. sailed the Rhin frigate, Captain Malcolm, on a guise off the Western Islands; and the Stork, Orestes, and Goldfinch, to the Westward. Arrived the Strenuous gun-brig, having captured o ffiellisleand brought in with her two French brigs and a sloop, laden with salt; and the Almons!, Al len, from London. Fiyagoven, Nov. 27.—Arrived yesterday the Midas, from Gibraltar and Guernsey. Put back the Harmony, Fraser, for the Brazils, very leaky she parted from the Java frigate ) about a week since. The following packets, with Mails, on board ) ire g one into the Roads :—Prince Ernest, for Lisbon ; Lady Emilg, for Gibraltar and Malta; Adventure, for the Windward Islands; and are Eliza, for rinam. limortar, Nov. o9.—Atri►ed the,. Soul of Lei cesler packet, i►itl't ti Mail and passengers froni Ile. 'ind. lamed b' thh homeiard-baund Baltic convoy, of :bout 70 sail, under convoy of five sloops of war. Sailed the Beanfoy packet, for oOttenbtirgh ; and the Diana packet, for Heligoland, both with Mails and passengers. DgAin Nov. 29.-4eiled his Majesty's ships Par. &peso and Pioneer on a cruise of the Frentit omit: Poiesmouth, Nov. 29.....aterived yeitercity his Majesty's ship Rosario from the Dowus. Sailed hii Majesty's ships Vettreuti ind Aineess earolfne, for of cliarbergis the Lorre, *124 btla ; and the 'Ciento/a fa►th, Down.. P. S. The ships which Ailed to jilts the Weet unsay at Falnieutl, gait obit of the *fight Yilititt day morning. Arrived the Mipidgunairig; with t comity trbm the Downs. Lximez. GOVT OF RING'S BF.NCII, Nov 'S. , _ it • to vtki. V. ooeiiimeru: Mts. Sc4dtair said,. this was a .guiption en the Meaning of the Reeord: If the Word " Proprietor" meant sok, or 4 Pf4iirj44oK. Lord LiAtineelouem said, it this arse had gone on, he was,*idedly of opinion the Plaintiff 'could have rirc44ed to higher damages than had been even against himself, id t case tried in London; in *Melt the present Plaintiff was Defendant, arid 'and *here his Lordship having directed the Jury to die utmost divines *bleb the Plaintiff, in tlidt Mimi, could have suffered from loss of character; they very properly ger' a verdict—Damages One Farthing: Thu his Lordship was satisfied MUst have been the height of damages in ,the present am: There was here Such enOrnieus slander on both sides, that the best thing he could do tor both parties Weir to recommend a. stet pi-aces:lli. By desire of Mt. Scarlet' this matter was allowed to stand over till nett term. TUE SING; V. Jtssttcci tit CbMSTIII.AND. The rale obtained by Mr: Billtigham for a mends: mus, calling on the Justices to fix the rate pf wages of the journeymen wearers agreeably to law, Wes enlarged till nett tetra. 'int RING V. AltKEili. The Defendant received judgment or the Court; Fe having been eoniicted of publiihing a libel against Lieut. James Bogle Delapp, late of thh Dragoon 1 4ards, but now lieut.-C:ol°nel of the Seamy Mix Mal, by ca using a placard to be affixed in four dif f:-Hit toffeehoUses, in which, naiOngst other matt *cr, Mr. Delapp *as called a Scoundrel anti a ensiled. The sentence of the Court was, that Mr: Aicken be impilsoned six months, arid enter into retn!gni linen to keep the peace fir tiered yetis, himself id 5001. and two sureties Is leol. each. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Net. MI cducx a. covET. this was a can which stood for judgment: It war an action brought by a landlord egiinst a tenant.-- An objection was taken, that the Pleistiff ought to have been nonsuited, becatsio be bad Mated 6t, his de. claration that the Defendant belying tenant 4d nines teen acres in the parish of Tvddiagton. *mild out in evidence theta Mall 1111,01, occupied by the Defendant, was in another parish. That part of the declaration was therefore represented as unfree, because alI the Plaintiff's land did not lay in Ted dington. The Learned judge, MANIIIPMDD, elmereed, le this it a trivial action, and if the parties are wise' they will put an en d to it. without going farther. It is a pity to devote costs to such an objection is this. It is merely a verbal mistake, but the declaration reads that this man was a tenant of land in Teddington, and part of the fend was in another parish. It is not, .herefore, true,•and sorry we are to say, there most be a new trial; but we recommend the parties to stay Rule IQ' 4 new trial made absolute. • This being the last day of Term, the motions re lated principally to 'latices of practice. The parish of Si. Mary-le-bone have lately ands increased the number of their patrol. and watchmen. Last Saterday night, about nine o'clock, an alarm of fire was given at the Printing-oflice a Mr. STRAIIAN. The engines attended shortly afterwards, but finding that all danger was over, they soon re turned home. We are happy to say, that our en- Twits enable nit to mention that no considerable da mage was done before the flames were subdued, and that ear esereceited the least persOual injury. r jft I: A'rkrEsmms: ,-- - -- -- .- .. - .:........ - : .._-__—.-- -: - —.-!,i-4 4 , pl lig PROSECUTIONS FOR LIBELS. e , . kiripß ON THE is it not one id =HA the persons In poser ea& to Ira -......-- LinERATIOft OF .lIR. Li/14/t4R/J. , . ._, . • 40tdc , and nog/esti dread, , What! 0441 we be Mete TSE STATIPOLDSUIRE ABTEETIBER T NOV. 28.) . -.... 0 0,..-- r.e_r.'-: the ....r vreimilt, pounds,told that ye are abandoned criminals—that ye are all Mt. Lorst.t., the Prop I f : ( 1 M C Mr. lirakard havin g peid his fine of two hPncired anxious to pull down destruction on your coon anl given security for his good be : milder, try—that ye all wish to disorganise . that army on wakbrought up to the Court of King's Bench, Wear- , eras on Monday liberated frotti confinement '; and on whose efficient exertionsyeu relv for the protection of minster; on, Thurscley seentight; to receive judg. • TueSda • upwards " of t hundred meld, for having published a Libel against the Trans; ' y two penults, prom all your lives ami you Parts o,f the county of Lincoln and of the Neighbour. your eropert e— tent ye areali seditious port Board, when he was sentenced to a farther cat- men ? Lit itt'tgla 11;1 answjr these questions—nig ing contieS a ssembled at Boston to etingratulate laud that knows amid &fly appreciates the high mete. prisonment in his •Mejesty's Gaol of Newgate, of him. A ditiner', pursuant to adiertisement, took Wien of the Boston merchants, amid the honest; Eighteen Months, vp pay a fine of Five Iluodred ' lace at the White . 'tartlet', Boston; where Challis blunt, faithful distracter of the %scorn:they of our els.. Pounds, and to give security for Three Years, him. : p lace Esq. Banker, 1 4 i 4, ikled' and wag assisted by trict. Ye now asiernWe round Mr. Drakard, be self in One Thousand Pounds, and two sureties in i tam Chapman , s issqrs. Miley It Bar ' nard and It 'll' . l' cause in veer hearts Ye belleie him- to, be innocent— Five Hundred Pounds each. : of the company attended fieim very considereble dis -1 • This sentence upon Mr. Loyest, Considering the teems to show their attachment to the cause with ! because se believe he harboured no such guilty in peculiar circumstances of his case, Which cannot but mentions as were ascribed to him by his prosecutor — Which they conceive Mr. Dritteuel to' he identified; : bemuse ye believe that his publication was calculated be fresh in the recollection of the public, is certainly one of the severest which it has been our painful duty am the respectability of the astembiy .form._ an and ' ' eat Ito benefit, rother than to injure the army—and there. ample pledge of its honourable motive's. The dinner ' fore that he mCrits praise, and not punishment.— to record for these five last years, dudes Which a prOvided was excellent, and the • i iiirite and liar- I S uc h Are your motives for now asseniblitij hares— yeti Kreider number of prosecutions against Printers and mony of the proceedings gave un i i eg iers i al satisfaction. i meet in the fair exereißo of th e r i g ht c fj e dzine of the. Propr of Newspapers have been instituted and After the cloth wet re m ove d, th e Ceetitsetsi game--- character of the meesnres emanating from authoi it ) , carried on, and we may add with more acrimony, i ..Th e Kiag." which belong to you as c iti zens un d er a f ree Consti than at ally other period of our bittory. Of th e i n - 1 This was followed by . , . 44 The Prim/. ttexPro;ond relay be ealltomlisd !IN dertaratiMi;, token. You so meet; and yatt declare Mr. Di•akard justice of the libel in question, Which certainly re- • • that tleprowit is held it.i a sacred trust ,for the tichetit of the i 'to be innocent—l believe your decision may very elected in grosi termi upon the conduct of the Chin missioners of the Transport Beard, we are highly 1 e . o l f , - , safely challenge competition with that by which fi ~ %Amite te then gedlnegi've-- I was adjudged to he geilty. Gentlemen, perhaes; to sensible. %Ve are also fully aware of the necessity i Th e • • • - be g " The Heal th of the PtillteAl Chariellite of wales." enter minute!) into the merits of the article on mili of protecting persons in important public situations, I 1 Ie prefaced this toast by saying, that it gate him I , tars pitnisloneat is not necessary ; it, no doubt, per who discharge their dqties uprightly and conselen the greatest pleasure to leirrikikat althoifgh yoUng tiously, from liceneems invective • bet Coneidering hevie indubitdble merles of her attachment : ' fectiv lives in !our reeeilection, preserved there by bad ' ' the peCeliar circumstances to which it gave rise.— how essential the Liberty of the Press is to thli site a. - to the pthiciples of the Constioliiftit: . ~; I Thom ure s lewever. some few points coniu.cted whit country, surely the greatest possible degree of - MU .. The • tilde ought to be allowed, and especially to the Edi- • - 5 CuAirtator after an animeted Introduction, ! its prosecutiose to which, with your permission, I tars of a daily press, who, in the course of their Aar- then gave— . . I will allude, because I think they strikingly exemplify sal labours cannot always be so circumspect a s could ' ... :lobe Drokard, who was found chitty by a !Am& Jai*, • its character. You, indeed, have shcwn that you L hut by a London Jury w :.i declared &refine' crime ." ! properly appreciate that character.—tsetas your pro be wished, in what they send teeth td the world. ' : Mrs Dem:Seto rose to secure thanks to the assem- . ceedings will go forth to the woelii,lee's prom% that . The libel in qiiestion is proved to have been pulse ' sly. He stated that it was well knoWit he was wise; ; your justilleation should go forth Also. In the 'first' Wilted without even the knowledge of Mr. Loma,. customed to only speakitie ; his land friend.. there place thee, Gentlemen. let mecefer to the pe cu lia r ity Bat when he was aware of it, he instantly made every fore. would that. be 'should • return his . , , expect in Mr. Drakard's case; alluded to in a former toast : atonement in his power towards r ep airing the injury thanks in plain and dimple language. He felt most namely, that, although punished, he IlAn A VIUiDICT he had occasioned. He published paragraph after; grateful for the suppo r t an d encouragement extended ' ofA JURY IA HIS FAVOUR I I • say th a t he was (=- paragraph, tending to expose the falsehood and folly :to him by the Meeting :he was stow returning home , ~titt,J by a Jury ! The verdict of Not Guilty, of what bad beets inadvertently inserted in his Paper. !to his family and td his business ; and he knew that which set the Messrs. Hunt, of the Examiner free, Re apolegited in vain to the injured parties, and in - be Was returning home undisgraced :he WES also : also vindica:cA my worthy friend—for it pronounced order to make his coutritition complete, whet' he foupd returning home undismayed, to pursue the same line: his publication innocent! It is worthy also of no t prosecution Was commenced agaiitst him, h e guall- Y 1 of conduct which was now honoured with their ap.! tice, by what sort of a Jury this verdict of not guilty suffered j meat by default, thus throning himself ' probation. Reibre sitting down, he could not but .vies pronounced. Special Juries, you know, are usu. 'Mindy is n the mercy of his prosecutor,. We its p lt testify bis gratitude to a personage, not present hi• !ally selected to try cases of Libel—they aredemand cantiot kelp regretting, however; that Mr. Loveit. ' deed—and he did not know whether he could fairly ,ed by the prosecutor in behalf of the Crown, sad by dfd not follow the example of Mr. Wurre, and sub- i call h i m a friend—hut of this he was sure, that in whom do you think are the members chosen? Why, mit his cause to a Jury of his countrythen, from j some respects, a friendly part had been acted towards by the Crown—the Crown chooses its own Joey. whose hands he would have been certain of receiving , him by that personage. He alluded to Sir Vicary . Such, G entlemen, is the "trial by Jury le OW if ample justice. ! , Gibbs !—[A loud lan.-11. ] —It was to Sir Vieaq that , libel; such are its blessi n gs which we public w r it ers s That grandest work of human institution; the Trial ;he owed the satisfaction of meeting the present as- • enjoy. Well, a Special Jury was selected by the by Jury, Wit continues, and God send it may ever I sembly—the satisfaction of meeting many warm Prosecutor, Sir Vicary, to try the Messrs. Hint, remain, our rock of safety, our surest defence against ° friends , to whom he had before been unknown—and who h a d copied iuto their excellent paper the article oppression, and tbealmost only remaining security for I the satisfaction of meeting many old friends with old from the Stamford News--bat, when the trial came our lives, our liberties, and our properties. faces. ' on, the Special Jury that was selected from the lift The present ArTORNAY-GENERAL is a man *ell. Mr. ROBERT BARNAZE, the Chairman of the se- .of tax-gatherers and tax-assessors-1 here speak known aid highly respected in this county, and most 1 cond table, then, after a short introduction, proposed from actual knowledge, for I saw the list :—the deeply shall we grieve if he does not prove a friend i the following toast— 'persons holding situations under Government, sub. to the Freedom of the Press. That he is so in his " Mr. Scott. and Thanks to him for his able conduct of the • servient to its will, because living under its power, heart we are Well assured; bat We fear lest he may Stamford Ness." 1 —the persons Who, from breathing the rank air of hate imbibed some particle of the asperity of his late Mr. SCOTT rose to return thanks, and spoke as office, had become tainted with its pestilential inllo- Colleague. We shall resume this subject at some follows: I ence—this Special Jury, thus if/To:liana chosen, futitre opportirhity, and conclude for the present with 1 Gentlemen, known to yOu, as I am, as one con- did not happen to attend in the box in time—it was hoping that a subscription will shortly be entered into; ; nected with the public press, who takes an active • there f ore f oun d necessary to ma k e up a J ury out of in behr:' of Mr. Loewe., whose sufferings in so good 1 part in the discussion of political topics, you will, a cause, wetrust, will not be attended with the serious perhaps, feel surprise when I tell you, that I now, the common lise—out of the listof persons chosen to decide common causes between man and IHRH, in consequences he appears to dread. for the first tinte let my life, attempt to address a , which the Crown, having no interest, leaves the public assembly. Ido it, however, with confidence, ' matter to be fairly decided.—Centlemen, by a Jury because I know that lam addressing friends, and thus composed,—by a Jury Miss selected from the body with *mare, because my heart, as you may well of the public, without 'picking and choosing, THE suppose, is warmly engaged in the objects of this Its aotiSRS. HUNT WERE ACQUITTED !—AN'o, WHEN meeting. For the very flattering manifestation of THEY WERE ACQUITTER, Me. DRAEARO WAS AC. your esteem, with which you have been pleased to QVITTED ALSO,--FOR IT WAT Ms PUSLIcATIIuN THAT honour me, accept my sincere thanks ; I am, indeed, WAS zurN TRICD.—It was copied by the Ernminer very grateful for it. Concerning the course pursued from his paper;—in the Examiner it was decided to in the public journal which my worthy friend has be innocent ;—in the Stamford News there.fure it entrusted to my management, you sue me the task could not be guilty. [Hear, hear!] But after of descanting at any length, by the support which 111 r. Dreikard was thus virtually acquitted, he you extend to it,—a support which has reared it was again tried:—the verdict of a Common Jury through a propitious infancy to an early maturity. in Westminster was opposed by the verdict of I may, butveser, he permitted to observe, that it is a Specie/ jury in Lincoln ;—a special Jury chosen, certainly our wish to assume a.decided tone, and to picked out from your county—not impartially promulgate decided opinions, when we allude to the taken, but arranged in the box by the Prose evils in our political condition, that are brought , cuter , to further the purposes of the prosecution : : about by those political abuses, which we all so semi- —this Jury found the defendant guilty ? Which of sibly experience in our purees, and which my worthy these Juries, Gentlemen, is most worthy of &utle friend, and many others, have experienced in their tion ;—which verdict is most likely to have sprung persons. Gentlemen, on such subjects, we certain. ' from the Unbiassed dictates of honest hearts ? To ly do assume a decided tone; but it is our earnest , hide the indecency of the proceeding of thus bringing wish, at the same time, to evince a spirit of the forward a packed jury, to render null the verdict of strictest impartiality, and of constitotiotiel modem. • an i mpart i a l one, an excuse was set up, w hi c h I w ill tion. I use the word constitutional, to show that by: not cell the basest device that ever originated in the Moderation Ido not mean time-tervingnas,—u qua- ; cunning of a had heart-1 will not so characterise lity which some find so valuable, and which they tie- it, Gentlemen, but I will describe it to you, and duly dignify with the name of moderation,—from you shall decide on its merits. It happened that; which, however, it di tiers as far as east di tiers from west. , „hen the Messrs. Hunt made the quotation from the Gentlemen, when I look around me, and see this Struyifurd News, they left out a few passages, which room crowded with individuals of the highest reaper- . they deemed less striking than the others ;—not hat'. tability, collected from all parts -of this, and the , rut; room for the whole, they inserted only what neighbouring counties, lam tempted to ask, what - they deemed the strongest part. Advantage was kind of spectacle does our meeting present to the i taken of these immaterial omissions to say that the view of the public? It exhibits an honest worthy ; article in the Examiner was a very different article man,—respected,and meriting respect,—one who has : from that which appeared in the Staa4ford News, and well discharged all the duties, social and domestic, ! therefore that the trial at Westminster by no means thet attach to us,—who has ever sustained the ho- i . settled the case. Now, Gentlemen, of the sincerity pourable reputation of an upright tradesman (anti . of this excuse, do you decide from the following none in this country i s more honourable } — who is f ac t. I n t h e i n f ormat i on , c h arg i ng M r . Orekerd beloved by his neighbours, and by all who know ;with criminal intentions, there were included, in him, as a kind-hearted excellent individual ;—it ex- distinct allegations, the various passages in what was hibits to view this person just disenthralled from con- ' called the libel, on which the prosecutor rested for a fittement,—yet smarting under the effects of a heavy 1 verdict of guilty. All of the article which he deem. fine,--pamithed by the constituted authorities of his ; e d, or affected to deem, ctimlnil, was iscluded in country as an abandoned criminal ! This, Gentle- i these separate allegations—in fact, all the strongest: men, you will say, is a calamitous, a heart-break. ' ; part of the publication. was so included. Now, ing spectacle;—amid so would it be, did it form the i Gentlemen, it happens, that these separate allege.. whole of the picture; but other and more• Pleasing . lions contained sot one passage that was not pato• circumstances accompany it, that convert its effect i fished in the Examiner; it follows, therefore, that into one of the most exhilimting description. I see 1 the Examiner copied all that Sir rimy himself 4. you, forming a numerous assemblage of persons who fated to deem criminal; and, of course, when that ' know Mr. Drahard as a man, and are aware of his paper was acquitted for its extracts, the Stamford conduct as a publisher, rallying, in the spirit of Nears was utterly absolved. freedom, round this persecuted individual; encircling Here Mr. Score, after a most eloquent encomient him in the arms of support, and intending to him t on the character of Mr. Brougham, begged leave to the hands of friendship,—giring the lie, if I may so propose, speak, to the act of power by which it has been is „ The moth at Kr. „ rR coUgns SiO..the Valois derenderfi Mr. vain ATTEMPITD TO I',EOSIADE not,—and holding DrakarJ, and the amount', opposer of military torture." forth the convincing testimony, of your upright cha- This toast was drank, aecompauled by manifesta. racters and respectable couditions in life, in favour Notts of enthusiastic approbation. • of his innocence. This, Gentlemen, is the spectacle Mr. CAALLIS Satinet, the Chairman, then pro which our meeting presents to the view of the pub- - lic, and to the contemplation of Government. ls It onset which we should feel ashamed? Or rat* Atiiiter AT &min.—Thursday morning, about six o'clock, a middle-aged Mall threw himself off Blackfriars'-bridge, into the Thames ; fortunately two beats were going doWn to Rill;ngsgate just at the time. He was immediately taken out by two water men, and conveyed to a public-house et the foot of the bridge on thegurrey-iide, in a senselest state, hut hopes are entertained of his recovery. On Wednesday a whale, supposed to measure abOie 80 feet, was seen off lye Bay, going up Channel. About one O'clock in the afternoon of the same day; two whales Of the above description were discovered by the Dover fishermen, in Dover Roads, which so alarmed them that they all made for the shore; the fishermen say, that a large sloop was alongside of the fiih, going up Channel, where one of them spouted up such a quantity of water as to preclude them from the least sight of the Vessel. Strubre OF:ATM—Thursday noon an elderly min, some years in the employ of Mr. Field, hat-presser, in AddimStreet, Wood:street, walking along the shop, apparently in perfedt health, was suddenly seised with a fit, and almost iustintly expired. A female, of the naive of Gee t in Tebbot's row, Mary-le-bone, took a quantity , of arsenic on Wednesday, but by timely medic/A.lnd she is doing well. Thursday evening, as severs) boys were amusing theniteltes by knocking at the door of Mr. Clarkson, in St. Sepulchre's gate, Doncaster, he became sO irritated, that he fired a pistol and wounded two of them. He is lodged in gaol for examination. A letter from Yarmouth, mentioning the arrival of the itooarnond, Howx,frons Scotland, says , that "on board 44 her is one of the pasties, a prisoner, who States, that he and four others were concerned in the murder of Mr. Mares family, himself having cut Mrs. Mary's threat:" C.ORS MICR &NOR, Nor. SO. Our Market was well supplied with Wheat this day from Kent, Eve:, and Suffolk, whin that of fine quality met ready sale at an advance of 2s. per quarter; but their was Ile aah vaent in the price of inferior sorts. Barley is 3s. per quarter cheaper, having a ennsidrrable 'apply of that grain. Grey PM 4s. per quarter dearer, and White oat' fully maintain lust tweet's prices. Tick Beans are Vs. per quarter cheaper. We bad &good supply o f O a t s to this day's Market, bat the sale was brisk for fine samples, and rather snare meaty was obtained than oh law Monday. In Malt, Rye, and other articles, therh Is au al teration. Wheat (l:ogiish) 103 140 Ditto (t omega) 1(X1 160 Itve Barley 60 69 New aittn ' 00 00 Malt 96 105 White Peas Ditto t Wilco) llo 110 New ditto Grey-Peat 80 64 New ditto 00 00 Hem Tick do OO 00 01d.... Oats Fioe ditto Poland do. Feed ditto 4 40 Li Mita Floor ..... 105 110 fiecoodi •• . . . 100 105 SMITHFIELD MARKET.-410T. ft To sink the OW, per Nail . or m. Beef ....ss. Yd. ow 6a. W. I Head of Oita ebb day t Muttoo ..b.. &I. to 66. 94. I Routs ... 111: Veld ....ti.. U.I. to 7a. 4.1. ISheep .....••• II.II Pork ....64. 04. to 7s, ' 44. Cale. . Lamb ....0;. OIL to (h. Oil. Poo II A Y-SI ARK F.T. Hoy 4l. 0.. dd. to 51. Ilk. 04. Clever II. OP. Mt 4n 71 . 7''' 06. Straw •4l. N. W. to S. it. a " The health of Sir Gilbert Hecticote+tha mun'tleent ap• pottier of Mr. Drakard." 'll iv 4; i , :t1 ~i ~~ li rS = • • : !i• ii