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RIOTS IN THE MANUFACTI'IIING DISTRICTS. [From the Pr(Van Chrookle of Saturday. The Quarter Sessions for the Ilittvireila at Athounitier nes!, Blackburn, anti L , were opened at the Court house in Preston, on Thoratily hat, More T. B. Addison, E-q. Chairman, anti other Nlagistrafes:— The (rand Jury being sworn, the Mama@ reatedled to ad dress them. After some genera; observations. he remarked that there was one casein the colentior, where the party wee accused of an offence not very common ; the period' was charged with maim. ing a domestic animal. The Learned Chairman explained the law in this case to be. that where a person. either with the latent to steal, or nut of malice az the owner. aromilled et disabled any va luable domestic animal, the individual so acting wasgy m eahigh misdemeanor, for which the Court might, in.lts ►lip, pun rentence of tranvort tion or imprisonment. There wisi ember de vriptirn of offence the Jut y would most likely hoe to in. ,loirc MM. upon which he ( the Chaimpm) felt c a ned upon 10 say a lba ientls. The c:ime to tthich he allotted had been the subject of much painfol pu , die Ll:trio—lie meant the hreaking of power looms by ! o nions coniltinit. ions. The rl.l low was vv) severe upon persons guilty of brc...kingt. taking swat', or destroyinginmirmeets, or tools used by 71 :rkp , ople. 'Metre Inns were now embodied in a rtatme passed in the 4'h rear of his present Majesty's reign. The :11.t.rman here veil a long clause from the Act, and proceeded to remark, that it :Mewed the tit termination of the Leg:slit:ore to pro tect tile property of di tse who might einha-k their capital in eats ldis:tments of this kind. The ('curt was all bur aid, in cases of conviction, to inflict tic It:ght.st penolty short of death. namely, transportation ; but they might. at their discretion, mitigate it to Imprtsonotent thy tea oriainnl aistitie is was mode capital ; but in this respect the 14 . t2islature had eser, iced n merciffil dit , cretion In softening the In ' , shy. It are. a roatter of 17 6 0 0 " t(ll.'ctiaa• that great numbers of pers ins had collected, with force nut or erpowerekl tat resistance, to ele.att in tit sae lawl.‘ss proceedings ; not from a spi rit of hostility or malice against tha oaners t.if these machines, hot not of is mist:then notion that the machMes themselves were an injary to tl r workmen. Pon folio...ions this notion was, we hind the concurrent opinion of ;CI the al lc rearoners who had turned their attcmion t t ; and the grcateit friends of the working mechanics ha! it...trot:ll most these imprudent as criminal courses. If there I,s:ess ine:t could have succeeded, the nee,issary coosegoettee or their :lets v , 011 , 1 hare been, not the dis t,: of the power l i t,t, 1,.:t return-A of its employment to other districts, or to other coe:ttri ts, where the advataages could he baler appreciated. Hu! to long as the Gorernmeot was strong enough t.. resist these outing.-s. there could be no danger of this result. The Jory m o st ob:erim, that the art of rialoodc assembling for the purpose of engaging .1 then? practices, tend the persons so coglgrd- wool I he ittlii!r nt riot and an outrageous misitmeannr. In concluding ids reinatks,the Cimirinati ohsened that hr regreved to find the calen•lar so hi I : ho feared that it was to be ascitheil to the tlistreV4 every one s must regre , , had pres , tiled so genertilr in this pa-: of the eottetry. It was not, however, Sithin the province of this Court to devise iiirons for isit..ri , g this things. It must rest wit' Government. 1011 thus, bole:intent per ama wham Providence hod blest with the tuenrs, to do what lit .c could to remove the cid. lac could not doubt but the Gavern ment would immediately turn its attention to the stthi.tct ; and his tamest wish. tome, and master was, that ssinetlaing could be speedily undertaken to relieve. the !tuft erng roplc. MANCIIYSTER, JULY 17•. We regret to 'owe, that timing the pret‘ent wee k so u r unt•etin of a chtmeter hit tot likely to les , l to a breach of the pe tee. I nce ben had i n 04i4 ;,ow 1. 01 CV.rline:, between seven and eight o'ci •cit. una'a-els of 1.p.7n people hoa , c merited we have nut been able to le (rat roll fried in the vac:in:4o°mA near S•. George's road, and remained a.s:mideel all nit an hour. during which time some very intboommory redelres•cs were made to theme by two men, one. re ei:d.crsand. a delegate from Leigh. and t! , e other a resider( 1.. Toe for 131.1 told the 11:0- ply they had born, ill it s•til . erb-gs long enough, and they must new elossomething to p,,t an end to them. Ile urged them to meet in greater nuntt eye ; that all who could ;hid arms should bring them ; that the milers should arm themselves at the gatismirl... shims : that tiler should then help themselve. ut the provision shops and the ha.;' The triter speaker i.dvite. , e , ' the people to pretty nearly the same (Feet, and they separated nhYtl after eight o chick, w i th an tenderst te ding that they were to meet again the follow mg night. They consequently assembled in greater nmuhrrs on rittr.day evening, about the smile hour, when speerhes of a simil r charov et to those uttered on Wednesday, were again address' 11 to but by dill rent pet sot,. One man was particularly viole . d. Ile stroady exhorted the people to come the next night armed. mart in tne CI owd here lifted rap a lorge bludgeon, and asked if they were to Inn them.elves in that man. err ? The speaker replied that %nuh'. do for those aim ennui not get bet weapons ; but they must get m , ..msion of the gun smiths' shops. and iii leirracka; they %venial then be master: of everything. and coedit help theer,r.elves to what they wanted. 'rite meeting broke UP about half-;tout eight. The greater part of the rmple mined along Cropper•mreve into Oldham-road, where it h eprienel el , ,t col. h:virney, of the 21 Dragoon I; uartlw, aid Eekellley. Were riding. attended by a single dragoon. .14 soon rs the umh ptrceiv..d tho.a officers, they pursued them femora. New ers.s. I,noting, and, in one or two instances. throwing stories at them, but, we Vlivre, without doh:4: thetis any injury. . . Last night, a winch larger number of pifrwroe, amounting pros bably altogether to between four and fie* thousand parsons, as. setableel. alinut eight o'clock, not in St. lieorge's.road, but on a vacant piece of ground opposite Me. James Kennedy's factory. After ante time anent in making a ring, an Irishman dressed in a short frock. we believe the s tom individual who spoke os the pre ceding evening, was appointed Chu raven, and addressed the people for about half an hour. the first place lie called upon the dele gates, who had gone to Blackburn on the preceding day, to step furs and into the ring, and state the result of theit mission. No de legates. however, made chair appearance; and, after a short pause. he -tilled tor the man who, he said. had arcompanied him to Ashton-orate r.leyne; but its he also was not forthcoming, the Chit:rotate proceeded to address the meeting. with a good deal of vehemence, telling them that the weaveta of Asinine wcrc brave fellows, who were determined to have their rights, and weld" nut run away like the weave-s of )Manchester. whom hr a:iglu:Aix:id as cowards. Atter a lung harangue he tald the people that he ex- , peeled they would have come with something like this (holeliwe up ! a stick) in their hands ; but they haul disappointed him, and there. tore he would ranched,' his speech. Another person then stepped forwant, and said he was unfortunately under sureties to keep the peace. or lie would hare addressed them as boldly as any man ; but it he were to say any thing, it might coat hint a great deal of money. lie would. however, observe, that they, no 'build, thought them gel% es ( - formed. and men valor were oppressed had always a right to stand up for themselves. The incessant efforts of so large a body of people to hear what passed caused the ring to be broken in, and the people then separided. It apperrcel very evident to its that the balk of the people assembled felt very little sympathy with the vio 1-me: n.anifaetted by the speakers. f•svE or Tact nr.—There is little this week for us to remark water this lieael. We fear the number of p arsons out of work, or very partially employed, is still on the increase; and in some sorts in I ebony there has been a fur liar reducflon of wages. But withal. though we do not see yet ant .air- l.rent, we trust that the demand fur pieces of goods and yarn cannot be said to hare been getting worse since our last report. We understand the churchwardens and sidemen are desirous of finding employment for a number ot able.hodied men who have ap plied to them far relief; and that they will be glad to receive mtg. gestiona and applications front those who may have work which they want to have performed. Such a time as the present is very favourable for t fleeting, on reasonable terms, any public improve ments, fur wheels means can be found. Lrr.ns, SATI*RDAV, .irLY 15. The moat interesting of all subjects at present in the weather. So dry a spring and summer, as far as it has advanced, were per haps never known in the memory of man. The average fall of ran in the West Riding of Yorkshire, during the first six months of the year. is 10 inches ; but this year it appears, from the meteo rological report made at the hall of the heeds Philosophical eie:e, that we have had little 11107 e than five inches from January to Jane, both ieclunive. The draught has not been a lased visita tion, it has extended over England and Scn'land with different de grees of intensity. During the list week, rain fell partially all or-r the kingdom ; in some (Rorie's the showers were ropinus, and Wednesday and Thersday. in the present week, we have had some tine diffunive showers, which we hope most sincerely have been very general. This rain has much improved the after-grass and done incalculable go ed to the corn, though more moisture is still wanted. The hay hatvest, which is now drawing to a close, has been extremely deficient, not exceeding generally half a crop. and in many places falling far short of that quan tity. Not a blade of grass should ire last ; the road sides, and every little patch where cattle are not grazing, 'should be mowed and the hay gathered. Wheat is in general lookir.g very premis lag ; this is • crop which requires but little moisture, and as it is the principal resource upon which the people have to rely for their food, we have much reason to be thankful that it Is likely to yield • fair average produce. Oats and the other spring corn are very deficient, and we snppo.e \liniment' will speedily exercise the discretion given to then, of opening 'he ports for the admissim of grain of this description. Potatoes are much in want of rain ; they ate in getteral small, though the quantity is better than usual, and if rain s ho uld come, the autumn crops are still in a state to become productive. The temperature of the weather has mode rated greatly within the ling ten days, and the process of absorption is so much diminished, that the fields, refreshed as they have been by the rain, are beginning once more to assume the verdant hue of healthful vegetation. The difficulty of finding labour for the poor will create a great drain upon the parochial rates during the approaching winter. The Society for aff nling relief to the unemployed poor in Leeds has been under the necessity dooming to the resolution, not to relieve more titan once, any poor family resident here whose settlement is within 30 miles of this place, that has not made application to its parish for relief. While we bear frequently of the Impositions and exactions of the poor, it is only fair to state that in many cases where relief has been voted to ditermsed families in Leeds, at the time they were out of emeloyment, they have, on obtaining work, declined to receive the money, stating that they could ndw do without it, and that it had better be given to others who were more in want of it than themselves. DIsTRESB AT HUDDERSFIELD. The distress in this district continues undiminished, we fear that Me might add ; has Maimed ; and though 500 L, in addition to ii a 1000!. before transmitted 'elbe &witty in London. has been tisk week received from that &day by the Rev../. C. Frank.. View. ' the sum in hand at present is soweelyequal to three weeks' supply. The account of receipts and itipendipare stands thus t.— A mount of money subscribed biliwidasdeld yid the neigh. bourhool . . . - 1.2187 First gr.iit from the hostiles owdety • . 1001 Sueund grant, this week • . . - - 500 raw - 2787 Disbursements in nine weeks, to 10,709 persons In hated The Huddersfield district iaaludt• the perishes of Haddentlield, Alum-Abney, Kirkhurton. Ilifrkbeataa, sad Mirlidd, essprehatd jog a population of 100,001 owls. On Monday last, a ntestintar the unempleyed_workmen of -Al mondbury and the neighbourhood. convened by public Attrertia•- ment, took plate on Almondbury-bank. fee, the purpose of " tak ing into consielerazion the peemeolooperalleled Almelo , of the la bouring classes, and the best method of making their case known, and of obtaining relief." From 18011 to 2000 persons were present. A number of Re..olutions were puma. eaptessive of their distressed situation, the most important a which was one, to memorialize the End of Halewood. Lind-Lieutenant of the West 'Winger York shire, to make their case known, that carne mesas may be adopted to relieve their present calamities. The conduct of the pee* was perfectly pracenble. gloom pervaded the whole assembly, and even hope, which tomes to all, seemed almost extinguished. The following is a Copy of the Memorial to the Earl of Hare wood : " TO 111 E NIGHT HON. 1.000 LIEUTENANT OF THE WEPT-AMINO OF THE COUNTY OF YORK. " Mir hoan—We, the undersigned weavers, spinners, and la bourers, of the town and neighbourhood of Almondbury, humbly beg leave to make our most distressing case known to your Lord ship, fully confiding in your known gentrosity of disposition, and your with far the pmce, happiness, and prosperity of our country. We are men, and though from our humble situaion in life, some may deem k presumptuous in us to approach into your presence, yet the necessity of our families demand at our hands every lawful exertion to obtain bread for own wives and children, since the sources of our labour and industry have failed. These blessings have Sed hem us for some months past, and after having tried pa rochial and charitable aid, we find them quite inadequate to our wants. The greatest proportion of our employers, alter having used their best cutleavouts to continue our work, we tear are fast faliing under the diffacultiesohich are now overwhelining the coin ruercisl RCd manufacturing classes in one common ruin. " The few who have ventured to memorialize your Lordship under the -c a nst trvingeircurnstai.ces, only form the outline of hundreds and thousands o f their fellow-workmen, whose cases are equally distressing and appalling. And we most humbly beg your Lord , ship to make the necessary inquiry into our state, and to coder such relief as will keep our faini les in existence, and preserve the pe:tu of tlh, eotu.ty. The tale of our distress and sufferings is too long for a memorial; but, if your landaltip will condescend to give us a personal interview, we will relate our various trials and suffer , logs, and we doubt not but your Lordship will use your best en deavoun for our relief. _ " And your Memorialists will ever pray." IiEC77 ON IN BRAZIL. NEW YORK, JUNE 20. Letters from Para to the writ of May were received yesterday, via Barbadoes - and Hartford. They state that an insurrection hail broken out at Cameta, a place about 150 miles from Para, up the Amazon, where upwards of Sot) men had embodied, and committed some excesses. A letter of the :nth says, " the expedition sent to quell the in surgents at Cameta has been entirely defeabil, with the loss of its artillery, and mere than 40 wounded. The latter have arrived here. This business, which was at first thought unimportant. begins to assume a serious aspect. An embargo has been laid here, and the President is fitting out a brie: of in guns, with several smaller vessels, includ ing a New York schooner, and declares his intention of destroying the town in case of further resistance. NEWS FROM CAPTAIN FRANKLIN. The following is enntaincil in a letter to the editor of the Detroit GazPlie, from a gentleman at the Sauk St. Marie, dared April 19:— _ _ " The ground is still covered with more than two feet of snow, and the river fast held in the embraces of winter. During the win ter the weather has been incredible severe, though the extreme cold (at indizatcd by spirits of wine) wan but 36 delfrees below zero. Front a correct register of the depth of snow ' taken as it fell, we find an ageTegate of seventeen and a half feet, and it is now snow ing quite fast. " One of Captain Franklin's party, who is the bearer of de. snatrlitai from the Admiralty Office, passed this post on the 2d of April. front whom we learn, through the agents of the Hudson Bev Company, that Captain F. reached the shores of the Arctic Sea on the 14th of August, without encountering any of the &qui maux in descending 3l•Kenzie's River, they having retired to their ghteint habititions still nearer the magnetic pole. After remaining two days on the coast the party returned to Bear hake, where ar rangements had been made for their winter residence by theHridson Bay Compativ. at which place the bearer of the despatches left them on the lith of September. Dr. Richard had in the mean time been in search of the copper mountain alluded to in the printed journal. • it is to be hoped that the severity of the weather will not pre vent an early movement of the party this spring. We have reason to baiter that the rigour of their winter hes been increased in ratio corresponding to their latitude, from the number Orrin deer that have been seen 'lli. quarter, which would have taken place only in consequence of unusual difficulties in subsisting themselves in a region still more inhospitable than this." SHIPPING INTEI.LIGENCE. FA t. MO VT H JULY 13.Artved the Thalia, Hammond, from Messina—on the Gth inst., in lat. 41, long. 10, spoke a Colombian privateer, c.uising against the Spaniards; the P'elortis, Goodwin, from Catania; the Enterprise, Hoskin. from London; the Syren, Locksay, from Handnirgh ; the Mary, Osborn, from Jersey ; the ►fetsey., Johns, from Liverpool for Genoa, with her bow. sprit sprung. OW the poet—the Isabella, Wildgoose, from LOT). don for Dorneritra; the Jahn and Robert, Swinton, from Mira inichi, in twenty days; and the Albion, Hardy, from ditto.— Wind W. Poursatourts, Jur.r 14.—Arrived the Cleveland. Havelock, from London for the Mauritius; the Highlander, Mitchell, front ditto tbr New Providence; the Redman, Royce, from ditto, for Barbadoes. Sailed the Comet Post-office steam packet, for Liver pool.—Wind W. Dcrit., JULY 14.—Arrived and sailed for the River, the Va liant. Bragg, from Grenada; the Salamanca, Boyd. from the Mediterranean. Arrived front :lie River, and remain, the Princess Amelia, Kellaway, for China; the Pliwnix, Anderson, for New South Wales; the Oscar, Ilenderwell, for Gibraltar. PRESTON Esecriorr.—True bills were found by the Grand Jury against twenty-seven persons, charged with assembling in a riotous and disorderly rianner, and by vio lence preventing divers persons from approaching the hust ings erected for taking the poll at the Preston election. Eighteen of these men, who were taken into custody on the spot, immediately after the arrival of the military, as stated at the time, having traversed the indictments against them to the next sessions, were brought into Court yester day to put in bail, when the sureties offered were taken for fourteen out of the number. Nine of the persons charged have not vet been apprehended. It is supposed that the trials of these prisoners will be removed by writ of cer tiorari into the Assize Court at Lancaster, to come on at the March Assizes. The following is a list of the nine persons who have not yet been taken into custody :—Sam. tVilson, Wm. Dauber, Jonas Frith, iirrn. Slater, Richard Walmsley, John Grundy, Win. Butterworth, Edward Riley, and John Cowell. The intelligence of Mr. Bell's success at the Northum berland election was received at York with the greatest enthusiasm. The news was received by the Iligliflyer coach, which was drawn by six horses, a postilion in a blue silk jacket riding the leader. A man in the front bore a placard, on which was inscribed, " The Protestant Cause triumphant—Bell for ever !" The Union Jack and a blue flag were also displayed from the coach. In the evening a number of gentlemen (clay belonging to Colonel Wilson's election Committee) paraded the streets, with a band of music and colours. They were attended by a large con course of people, which, when they arrived at the George Inn, could not amount to less than eOOO in number. After the band had played "God save the King," Mr. Bewley Graham was loudly called for, and he addressed the crowd from the window in an animated speech, at the conclusion of which the populace gave three hearty cheers, and then dispersed.—Dar/rani .4drirtiser of Saturday. MAtetteAcTuitlNG DisTsicrs—The only new feature in the accounts from the manufacturing districts is the fact, that several emissaries have been detected proceeding from one distressed town to another, whether for purposes of dis affection, or merely of communication, is not mentioned. PENANCE.—On Sunday last, Isaac Gaskill, of Bolton le-Sands, near Lancaster, stood penance in a white sheet, and without shoes and stockings, in the parish church of that village, during the morning service, agreeably to an order from the Ecclesiastical Court, for having married the sister of his former wife, and under peculiarly aggravated circumstances, soon after her decease. It is scarcely need ful to say that a great number of persons attended to wit ness the ceremony, which we understand is to be repeated on the two following Sundays. THE BRITISH PRESS. HUM of f/Ciar. CttMarosn, ittLY 15. - J. it. jgogempipc .:.v. 3. Cw rano, Elm. i n Titlesow an action , e proprle of the Krul awl Eve". Mercary, for • - ":1" ( . , i defam e libel on Mr. Je ss opp , the barrister. tending to I .., him in hi dession. The defendant pleaded t ' rend is —Not Guilty. Me. Sergeant TADDY( with whom was r.K No% ) stated the ease. This action was bmught bril r. Jes.npr..whote fitnily had resided in the county of Essex for sgne generations. He cite • practising barrister, and sertice of the Wes Sessions, aad, me was probably lat t,e known to matted the./ was a gentleman who had acquired conalderabk rapellailen M o!ession. On all occasions he (the Learned Sergatost) wished to a the C3/60 of his client with temper and moderation, bat more 'ally in this, when he was advo cating the eaves of a gent in his own profession, he was de 111Mtlf of abstaining from se topic of infloottopt ion. This was solely a question of character, I: wt. so felt by himself as well as by Mr. Jessopp. Cbsteriar to every than, whether his station in life was public or privet% wet his best posses:ittn ; it was his dearest interest. aid IN* valuable Ito bin even than life itself. In all situations. Issi - panicidarl, those connected with a public profession, it was Ifikeiractet of the party by which his es.imation in one sty was la be in Iged. It happened to many persona in a public statism 110 I'd reports circulated respacting them, which were either endrely false or greatly exaggerated. Independently of private feeling, such reports must have a most injurious tendency, as reverted the interests of a person so si tuated. The Jury well knew the state of the public prom at the present p eriod . He (the Learned Sergeant) would vesture to say land the observation must be borne out by Ale expel ience of every man who heard him). that never did a pert bil exist, when private character was so much invaded as it now was by those who conducted newspapers. Private character was now the subject of attack, with a degree of malignity which was never known In former times. No relation of private life was now exempt from public slander and malicious attach in the daily press. Having made these generui observations respecting the value of character, he would explain the cireunistandes out of which the present action had arisen. The defendant was the apparent and nominal pro prietor of the Kent and Esser Mercury, a newspnper which was in general circulation in both those countless Mr. J essopp had been employed as Counsel to argue a demurrer to a quo war r ant," infor mation, filed in the King's Bench, against a .Mr. Downes, who claimed to exercise the liberty and franchise of a free burgess of the borough of Colcherter. In the last charter of Colchester, the King had specifically named certain corporate officers who were to be the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the borough. Sonic of these persons had not been admitted as free Burgesses ' and a Bquestion arose whether they had a right to be considered as free urgesses in respect of their noroin Mon as corporate officers in the charter. The question was argued by Mr. Jessopp in the ne gative, but the Court thought the affirmative of it was too clear for argument, and held, that of necessity the persons so named by the Crown must be considered as free burgesses. Mr. Jessopp had urged every argument that the utmost ingenuity and zeal could suggest for the interests of his clients, but without success, and the Court gave judgment against him without bearisg the Counsel on the other side. This decision took place in January last, and on the 21st February the defendant published a statement, not pro fessing to he a report of the argument, or of what passed in Court, but ridiculing Mr. Jessopp, holding him up to contempt, and ion. outing to him not only professional incapacity, hut a roes derelic tion of his duty as an auvocate. It was signed by a person calling himself "No Party Man." The Jury would judge whether it was conceived in the spirit or the terms which such a signature would import. It was addressed "to John Clay, Esq. Mayor of Colches ter," as follows: " Six,—l address you not as an official automaton, the mere busy, bustling meddler of the hour, but as one who can and does think for himself. For albeit your political notions are somewhat out of date, yet there is a commendable candour in your adherence to principles, which not a few of your calculating colleagues aban doned the instant they cowed to be profitable. Those persons who are the most sparing of their praise, and who even doubt your firm ness, concede your anxiety to pursue the kilter course. You, Sir, have now an opportunity to silence your enemies, and all are such who have tried but cannot make you a tool—act convert dime who are sceptical of your capacity, while they doubt not your desire to do right—and, above all, to cheer and elevate your friends, who think they discover something in you that tells them you are sen sible of the dignity of your station and its dude", and that in your hands the important rights of your fellow-burgesses shall be upheld front foreign pollution, and your name guarded from the reproach of present and aftermoming times. It is the *pose of this letter to tell you how this may be done. You are swage that it has long been a darling object with some half-dozen resoles beings, who re side within your ancient borough, to be made fin bargemen there of; and having, by a certain hocuti-poett% cajolery. got their names inserted as corporator% in the new charter stilt wens other really respectable characters (who, quickly perceithig do kind. promptly renounced their new associates and ambiguous liesesurs altogether), from thence inter that they, being corporatnrs. times, ncrerailatr rei, be free burgesses. Poor deluded souls! they aid like a aquabby. smutty scullion, who, being seduced and made the mistress of a coun try bumpkin, fancies that she is his wife. Now, Mr. Mayor, there is not more difference between a mistress and a was, than between • Corporator and a Free Burgess of Colchester ; and may that High Priest be strangled on his own polluted altar who shall ever dare to unite them ! You are farther aware (for by yaw manly conduct under the immediate sanction of your lifget:enisided Wotherinirgeee was the attempt defeated) that these power. pursuing prowlers some time since presented themselves in your ancient hall, and demanded to have their names inscribed on the long and venerable scroll of your freemen, and even bearded the seat of justice with vulgar threats, when they found that the patriot throng indignantly spurn ed the daring deed. Foiled by your firmness, and cowed by the courage they encountered, they retreated to the council cell of liti gation, and after much debating and doubting, hit on the inge. Mots device of a feigned quarrel amongst themselves. It was of this sort:—An application is made to the Court of King's Bench by one of their own squad (a horse breeches-maker) for a manda mus calling on one of the foreign corporators (Derry Downes by name) to allow cause by what authority he exercised the franchise of a Free Burgess of Colchester, who, to avoid the expenseof a bona fide investigation, and to blink thereat munition, and in furtherance tat the trumped-up scheme, pleaded his right as a corporator under the new charter ; to which plea, still In furthesat:ce of the plan atimesaid, the horse breeches-maker put in a demurrer, and on the sufficiency or insufficiency of this plea the whole question was made to turn. Now, to any nothing of the quackery of all this (as that might be preening Perkins and Nunn unkindly), look, Mr. Mayor, I beseech you, at the Counsel employed to uphold the invaluable 1 rights of our fellow-burgesses, and whose solemn duty it was to resist the hollow pretence af Downes, who was thus fighting the battle of the Coventry crew. Mr. Jessopp !!! the big-wigged fellow who bellowed in all the papers that not a candle was placed in his window, when all the inhabitants of Cheshunt illuminated ct site triumph of the late Queen over the hellish plot of cowardly perse cutors I—and this, forsooth, because he had seven daughters ;—and for this reason it may be presumed he was employed by these seven devils ! Why, Sir, the claim of a hog to a right of turbary ought not to have been left in such hands ! Well might the Court stop Chitty; by saying lie had nothing to answer. Not one word was said on the essentiality of admission to constitute the right and title of a free burgess. Not one syllable was etrered on this point.—The only point in contention, if that can be called contention which no one disputes. is, that the burgesses having accepted a charter, in which cetain persons are named as corporators, not being bur. lenes, they arc, to all intents and purposes , curporators. 'o be sure they are—but they are nothing more; nor has the Court decided otherwise, though it is the drift of a long, laboured, one-sitled report of the proceedings in the Co/chea ter Casette of the 4,11 instant, to stake it appear that these corporators are Free Burgesses, and have a right to act as such. Now, Mr. Mayor, this is the sole point in issue, and a most important one it is. All eyes are on you. Now it is your ditty to act; and what are the real merits of the question shall be the sub ject of my next letter. Certain parts of your Corporation are, like our national affairs, somewhat ricketty, and require to be dealt with most delicately. Perkins will tell you that there are some strong ingredients in this premonition, and that a t l eas t one wee k must elapse before the dose is repeated. I ant, 3lr. Mayor, yours, " No PAITT-MAN. " East-bill, Colchester, Feb. 10, 1820." No doubt, it would be said, on the other side, that such libels as these, ought to be despised. In many instances they might ; but those who were libelled were the best judges of the degree of for bearance which they ought to exercise on such occasions. finless everybody was possessed of a krowledge of die circumstances which compelled the party injured to make hit complaints the subject of public inquiry, he was in no condition to judge of the propriety of his conduct in taking serious notice of such publications. I t was with great reluctance that Mr. Jessupp had instituted this pi tweed ing ; and it was only in tonsequeoce of a series of attacks of the same nature, that he now felt it his imperative duty to seek redress for the gross insult which the publication in question contained Who the defendant en the record was he (the Learned Sergeant) did not know, but notice bad been served upon 31r. J., which was expressed in such terms as manifested that some person of the legal profession was connected with the paper of which he was the sup posed proprietor. That notice called upon Mr. Jessopp to produce his books, containing a statement of the refoiners and fees lie had received since the publication of the alleged libel. With what mo tive such a notice had been served, it was not easy to divine. It was known to the defendant that the sole object of this action was to vindicate Mr. Jessopp from the insulting and contemptuous libel of which he complained. The Learned Serjeant then dwelt upon the injurious tendency of the libel, as it affected the plaintiff's pro fessional reputation, and observed, that in the hands of the Jury his client placed his interests, with perfect consciousness that from them he would receive an ample vindication. With respect to the liberty of the press, compared with former days, he would only ob serve that in those days, satire had done its best in the exercise of that liberty ; but now that liberty had done its worst, by vilifying private character, and bringing before the public unobtrusive indi. viduals, for the purpose of wounding their feelings and disturbing the repose of domestic privacy. It was the province of the Jury to correct this abuse. anti exercise a salutary control over those who trailed in the slander of private character, and the sacrifice of indi vidual reputation. Admissions were then put in of the publication of the libel by the defendant, and that the plaintiff was a gentleman of consider able reputation, and of extensive practice in his profession of a bar rister at the time of the publication. 3lr. Sergeant Oxstow (with whom were Mr. GUIIWCY and , Mr. Rot; xn) then addressed the Jury , in an ingenious speech for ' the defendant, and contended, that taking the whole of the paper together, it was quite obvious that the author did not mean to libel the plaintiff who was a gentleman or witnowledged reputation and honour, loth hi public and private life. With re•pect •ri the criti ciom of the Learned Sergeant, is ill the character of the press in modern times, he pmfessed his incompetency to judge Arita propri ety, for he hardly read a newapaper once in three years. It WAS obvious that the object of the author was on , y to impeach the pm priety of the decision upon the Corporation qiiestina, and not to. cast any imputation upon the general eom?etericy of Mr. Jeasopp an aft advocate. The very terms in which the paper was wt itten demonstrated that it was the production of an angry man, (Haan. pointed at the result of question in which lie conceived the rights of the burgesses of Colchester to he compromised. There was one expression in it which the defendant was extremely sorry had been used, namely, in the application or the term "fallow ' to a gentleman of 11r. Je ' , TWA station. That expression, how ever, was not libtllolll. The defendant. however, regretted ex tremely that it had been used. With respect to the notice ' , treed upon the plaintiff to produce hie retainer hook, the object of it was very natural, and perfectly legitimate. when the cause of the plaintiff's complaint was ctmsiderett. The allegation of 'rend damage was, that by reason of the libel in flues ion, the plaint:lF had sustained great Imo of professional gains, and that ninny me sons in ennaequence thereof had ceased to retain him as Counsel. 'Now. so far from this heii g the fact, he (the Learned Sergeant )11% well as the Jury, most have tolioerved with great satiafartion that there was not the tightest diminution in Mr..lessopp's professional practice. Ile was still in full business at the Assizes, and he tin + rstond that he maintained his station at the Sessions. of which he was determinedly the hauler. both in point efrank and ability. As the plaintiff 11,141 declined prothicing his remitter-hook. the necessary result was that lie had sustained no actual damage whatever from the publication. At the u'inost, the supposed libel 'oily amounted to an Impeachment of his knowledge of Corporation Lawn ; hot this was a point upon which the sound:st lawyers might very fairly plead ignorance. w ithout any diminution of their general reputa tion. Ile submitted to the Jury t h at there wait nothitig libellous in the paper; hut that it' they found themselves bound to limy a ver dict for the plaintiff', their damage. ought to he v...ty inconsokrdtle. Air. Justice II ot.noYD charged the Jury that the raper in ques tion was a gross sad scandalous libel on 3:r. ilessopp's professional reputation ; and if they were of the same opinion, they would give the plaintiff such damages as the circumstances of the case would The Jury found their verdict fur the plaintiff—Damages, i'ifiy Guineas. SAT t 7 R DAY. CNRTER r. MOTIETOK. This was an action for slanderous words, imputiog to the p'ain. tiff that he had cheated certain inembera of a Lottery subscription club, of the sixteenth Share of a 20 OW. priz.,, drawn to a ticket purchased by the plaintiff on behalf of the club. Averment of special damage, that divers persona who Ir.tl been in the habit of frequenting a public-house kept by the plaintiff wholly Cett%t!ti to tin an in consequence of the slander, whereby the plaintiff . was neatly impoverished and damnified. The defendant pleaded the general issue. Mr. Sergeant Tannv and Mr. Thintirticie cmducted the plaintiff's case, and Mr. 61.711% Eir and Mr. Cut 'cry the de fendants. _ _ The plaintiff was a publican, keeping the sign of the Red Lion at Hockerhill, in flcrttordshire, and the defendant was keeper of a tutnpike-gate at Saffron Walden, in this county. In the month of September, 1819, a number of persons in humble Ire fomied a subscription club at the plaintiff's house, for the purpo4e of ow chasing lottery tickets. The plaintiff himself, and some of his ser vants, were members of the same club. After continuing together a short time, the club was dis.olverl, in consequence of its ill sue- CCU in the tickets which had been purchased. the autumn of last tear the defendant circulated a report that he hail made in quince In London, and had found that a sixteenth of a 20,0.114. prize had been sent down to the plaintiff as the proceed% of the sixteenth share of a ticket, No. 4123, purchased by the plaintiff on account of the club, and that he had appropriated the money to his own use. The slanderous words were proved by two or three witnesses, to one or whom the defendant said that hir statement wait true, cid he called on God to witness the truth of his asser:i Severn' persons were called to prove the special damage alleged. None of these., however, distinctly stated that they had ceased to frequent the plaintiffs house solely oil account of the alleged slan der. Some of them staled that they t entered into a conditional resolution, not to deal with him any longer unless he cleared up the slander and vindicated his character. The case went to the Jury under the Learned Judge's directhins, and they found their verdie: for the plaintiff—Damages 301. The Assizes ended about six o'clock this evening. But for the assistance of Mr. Nolan, who tried nearly halt' the pi i.oners in the calendar, the good could not have been delivered wi•liin the week. Of eighteen causes entered for trial, two were made ecotone's. The whole would have been tried had not a long watercourse cause oc cupied two days. Of thecaltital convicts only one was left tar I xc cution, namely, a wretch convicted on the clearest evidence of best:2l4. MIDLAND CIRCUIT. NORTHAMPTON, FIIIDAV, JULY 14. (Before the Lonn CHILE BAttos.l • SLANDER. BALFOUR V. TWYFORD. This was an action brought by the plaintiff. to reeover compcn. tuition in damages for slanderous words uttered by the defendant. and whereby plaintiff's character was seriously injured. The damages were laid at I.110(g. Mr. Sergeant VAUGHAN stated the case to the Jury. Ile regretted his duty required him to occupy their attention with a narrative of the painful circumstances attending a case like the present. The plaintiff was a respectable farmer, residing near Dunholme, in this county ; the defendant, a retired officer of Ma. rinca. The parties had been for some years on visiting terms, and lived in the same neighbourbond ; but some time since, it so happened that the defendant forbade the plaintiff his house, Mr. Twyfortl alleging that he had heard the plaintiff was addicted to certain vicious propensities, which it was lamentable even to be obliged to hint ut, much less openly to state in a Court of Justice. lie would assume that the charge made by the defendant wr.s alto gether unfounded, as no justification was put upon the record ; and taking all the circumstances as they appeared to him, he thought the conduct of the defendant to be highly improper, and such as called for heavy damages from the Jury. If the defendant wild prove the truth of all he had asserted, it would have been his duty to have done so; for society, and justice, and the lave of virtue, demanded that a wretch, indulging in such iniquity, should be brought before the public, and held up to the scorn and odium of mankind. But. in this case, the truth of such au accusation cotifil not be sustained ; nor did he think any such attempt to do so would be made by his Learned Friends at the other side. The defendant's conduct continued still to be reprehensible—continued still to he unjustifiable. lie continued to circulate the slander he had first pro pagated. and the plaintiff now appealed to a Jury of his country to award him such damages as would convince the world how ground less were his accusations against the character and fume of a re spectable man, who had hitherto maintained an unblemished repu tation. _ Ann Wilson examined by Mr. BMX UV —She deposed to hay ing heard defendant say to a pour woman, called llannah Bowman, that lie forbade the plaintiff' from coming on his premises, for " his company was scandalous, and he would have no more of it ;" and that " lie came to measure the ground, in order to know the distance between an honest man and a liar." This occurred about the 21st February last. Defendant subsequently met witness, and wished her to go to Nottingham to speak for him, as if she did not he would be likely to lose 1,5001. by it. NVituess was to deny the truth. The defendant said it was scandalous and disgraceful to keg the company of the plaintiff. This witness was cross-examined by Mr. CLARKE, but Welling could be made of her; she kept to her original statement, only ad mitting that yesterday, fur the first time, she had spoken of the 1,500/. to the attorney of the plaintiff. David Laing examined.—l am ferryman at Dunholme. I rent the ferry from 3lr. Balfour. On the day in question. I recollect seeing 111 r. Twyfurd, who called me aside and said, " Why. David, this is an extraordinary thing about your master; I am sorry for it. Your master will be obliged to leave the county for what he has done. I should be glad if you would tell his bro. tiler, in order that measures might be taken for his escape from this county." NVitness further deposed to alicga:imra which he can not mention. The cross-examination of this witness went to thew, that such ' were the violent suspicions of abominable practices being cat ried on in the vicinity of Minimhue, that police officers from London had been down there in order to discover the gang of offenders; and that one of them had absconded. The witness ad r itted that he had told defendant of certain rumours and actual indecencies on the part of the plaintiff. Witness heard that the plaintiff would not be associated with at dinner, at Newark, particularly in the same room with the farmers. In re-examination, witness merely said he had never seen or heard of the slightest impropriety in the conduct of the de fendant John Rose, a gardener, in the employment of the plaintiff, de. posed to hearing conversation pass from defendant, reflecting on the character of the plaintiff, in the way alluded Aci by the witness Wilson. Another witness deposed to having heard the dcfeneant say that lie was obliged to forbid the plaintiff rowing to his house, in consequence of rumours which were in circulation. Mr. CLARNE addressed the Jury for the defendant, who, as al , honourable man, only wished the plaintiff to set his charaver right before the world. When the defendant heard certain rumours were in circulation, he expected that the plaintiff would have contra dicted them ; but the reverse was the case, and up to this hour they remained uncontratlicted. The plaintiff's own witnesses left his character in such a situation as that the least piece of coin in the realm would amply compensate him for the injury it had sustained. The CHIEF BARON recapitulated the evidence, and the Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 201. Thomas Allcuborough was indicted for stealing two lambs, on the 28th of June last, the property of Thomas Borrows, both being butchers. residing in this town. John Gibson deposed that, on the 23d June, he brought some lambs and nine sheep to Nottingham market, two of which he sold prisoner, two to a person of the name of 3larchington, two to the prosecutor, and the remaining three to different persona. Borrows paid, for the lambs, and took them away ; marked them with some sheep's dung behind the ear, and placed them in a in with some other sheep. Three other lambs were taken away by other per sons. and 31nrchington took his two, as well as the two bought by the prisoner, to his slaughtrr.house. While Gibson was at 1 dinner, a per on of the name of Taylor found the prosecutor'. sheep straying shout the Market-place, and put them into Oiboon't pro, in which were twelvt. sheep. When tiibson returned, tie knew that lie watt paid trm :11 he had sold except Mow to the pri -40,,er, and, as It, WAS not there when Marchington took the four away, he, naturally tnough, thought the two in the pen were Allesahotottglett. and went to his shop to requett It! would fetch . them away. Alleuborough, however, was not at home, amt bits near followed him to the sign of the Shoulder of 'thief's) ptddie house, where he salted the prisoner why he had not &tithed tin lambs away 4 upon which he said he had not had time, and the lambs were then and there paid fur, end one of the prisoner's Wye went and brought them ht,rue. Alarchington fully conoborated this statement, u far as Di wt. concerned. The ',earned Jt:DrIE, in summing up the evid . 'tee, rated is the Jury he had great doubt that the offence of the pt her amounted to the crime of sheep stealing, rind that in the besnt of Mt it llodir.g him guilty, he would reserve the case foe the amide. to ion to the twelve Jutlgss. The Jury, after a few minutes' consultation,tatoteed a Verdict of Guilty. The prisoner is a respectable ycung Man, and received an Keels lent tharactur. CRIMINAL UWRT. [Before the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE:I Abraham Sfephonson and Charles Swifts were capitally indicted for binglariously entering the doelli:ig-house of Mr. Emma, Calirerton, in this enti . ty, on the night of the 11th May, 1828, ard stealing and carrying away one silver watch, six silver ?moons./ and a of wearing apparel, the proptrty of the said loafer. Foster's wife deposed to the entry of the two prisoners Into her hoshand's house, on the right of the Bth May ; of their demand. ii cash, nod threatening the lives of theprosecutnr, his wife, and prosecutor's aged fath'r, if they did not deliver their property. Hudson, a framework knitter, was in company wi'h the prise , nt-rs on the night of the robbery. tip to ten o'clock. Neither entice prisoners returned home that night. Mary Oxley proved that the prisoners lodg e d at h er h im *, in Ma y last. but tha t . neither of them slept at home on the eth of May last. John Sanderer, a co-stable, atiprehended Stephenson at Mrs. OxloY's Minn. Statiliwell, on the 111th of May t lie asked if Vrilliant Trog w a s litcre ? The reply was, that that was not his name t but witness knew him to he the man he Wanted, and took him into custody, The prisoners., in their defence, strongly protested their inno. cence. .lo:eph I'rnder knew the prisoner Smith up to the time ha wad 23 years of age; he is now 28, and witness knew little of him during dome lice yours. Two other persons also gave him a good character, but knew little of loom for the last Live• year,. The Lone CutEr JL , ri IcE reespittantett the evidence, and tkte Jury returned n vcrotict of I;llll.7—Death. and Grorge .11ilnex were indicted for feloniously an l burglatino.ly breaking into the house of Ann Wheat, of Ittutipton, in this county, on the lllvt of 31 ay lavt, Intl %Icahn"' and carrying sway several piec , :s of woollen cloth. four pieces of linen. and veer, tl other articles. to tire value of :PM/. ,Several witne,sri were (-Ailed, who deposed to the shop being ravened up o the night of the 31st of .3lay, and of its being broken upon volt morning, and of the article% charged in the indictment having heen taken away. John Vaa:y, one of the accomplices in the robbery, deposed to the manner in which it was etreeteit. _ The stolen property am identified, and the prisoners wen fined Guilty—Death. 'ESTERN CIRCUIT, IJ EsT En, FRIDAY,SITLY 14. The Aas;zes for the county of Dorset commenced this day, Mr. Justice lati TEEDALE and Mr. Jumice Gassr.ss: having arrived here early last evening, no , opened the Commission. The calendar contains ‘e description of only twelve case. of which there is but one of peculiar importance, that of William Wheatley, who was remanded at the last Assizes. and is charged with forgery and obtaining money on false pretences. A great pro portion of the causes entered for trial in the \ill PAIN COlfft are Special Jury cases. CROWN COURT. [Before Mr. Justice Oatmt.tx.l Sarah Slopes was first put to the hat, charged with stealing a 101. bank-note, the property of Robert Downing, a butcher, rtaidurg at Blontiford Forum. It am -wed that the prosecutor was in the habit of keeping his money in a drawer in his bed-room, and very imprudently lett the key in an adjoining drawer, which was unlocked. The prisoner war a servant in the hewn., and it seemed, from her own admission, that she oprned the drawer. which contained a conederable auto of money, and took away the 101. note ; but upon finding its amount she burnt it, fearing it would lead to detection. The plisoner'a entifession was the only evidence against her, and- as it appeared that she had made this confusion under the influence of something like an inducement, the Learned Judge directed the Jury to acquit her. John Whit.- was charged with breaking and enterinc the house of Walnuts loss, an innkeeper at Chartneuth, on the night of the 19th of April. ' The prosecutor stated that. on the night in question, he had oc casion to leave his bed between twelve and one o'clock, and hear ing a noise in his kitchen, he entel el it,.and discovered the priso ner. Not idaniedlitely perceiving in what manner the prisoner entered, witness asked him it lie had come down the chimney. or how he got there and the prisoner replied tl:at " the hands of the Lord had brought him there." It afterwards appeared, however, that the prisoner had broken open the window-shutter, and emceed by that means, closing the casement when he got in. l'pon being called on for his defence, the prisoner, who Wu* squalid miserable-looking young man, said that he had been turned out of his lodging on the night in question, and was in so much distress, that he did not know where to find a place to rest in. It was staid that the prisoner's family reside rat Islington, and that he spent some time in the navy. He was found Guilty. and sen knee of death was recorded ; but the Learned Judge intimated hir intention of recommending that the punishment of transportation should be substituted. Jolts Burt and William Vardy were indicted for entering.the dwelling house of Molly Oalpine, at Vetininster, and stealing there from a quantity of bacon, on the night of the 12th June. It ap peared that the bacon was hung in the kitchen of the prosecutrix. and that some persons descended during the night through the chimney, and conveyed it away. The bacon w - as afterwards dis. covered concealed under a quantity of reeds and hay. and a person.. having been placed to watch it, the prisoner Vardy was observed to conic in the middie of the night and move the reeds. Upon hearing some noise from the person appointed to water, %oily ran awry : but was pursued and taken into custody. The prisoner Burt volun tarily matured the offence before a Magistrate, and also Implicated Vardy. Both prisoners were found and sentence of death was recorded against them. John Duru fo rd ar.d 71i.Lnrd I.ronard were indicted for enterir.g the house of Robert Payne, at Gillingham, antk stealing a varier , of articles of wearing apparel. The evidence went to prove th a t the prosecutor is a dealer in second-hand clothes, at Gillingham, and that on the night in question his premises were entered. and ten coats, W waistcoats, thirteen pair of pantaloons, and several other articles of apparel, to the vulue of 501., were stolen and co':- 'eyed away. A great part of the property was found in the sternal possession of the prisoners the next dry. When taken into custody they were both attired in the stolen clothes. They stated in their defence, that they were employed to carry the property in question towards sulisbury, and were conveying it thither when they were apprehended. Not having produced any witnesses to support this defence, therwere found Ooilty. Sentence not passed. li i illitltlt MINI was indicted for stealing bank notes to the amount of 41W., the property of Edward dl itchcll, of Bruton, in the cowry of Sommer. The fries of the case were as follow. Mr. Mitchell left home on the rith of June. leaving money to the above amount locked in a drawer in his bedroom. The prisoner was in the service of Mr. Mitchell, and on the 7th June he a"i. aconded, after having broken open the drawer and taken away the money. The next day the pr isoner offered a 20/. note to a silver. smith, at Sherborne in Dorsnshire, in payment of a watch wt ich he desired to purchase. The silversmith's suspicion having bee excited by observicg so much money in the possession of a persol of the prisoner's appearance, detained him, and an examinstio. , took place, the result of which was that the prisoner was committed to custody. The prisoner was found Guilty, and sentenced to be transported. CIVIL SIDE. [Before Mr. Jusice LIT T LEDALE.I EER ES r. MILLER. This was an action to recover 101., the amount of a tailor's bill. Mr. Sergeant WII.DE stated the plaintiff's case. H e saidKe would prove beyond all doubt that the debt now claimed was in. curved by the defendant. With respect to the defence, he under. wood what wan intended to be submitted was, that Mr. Miller wss under 21 years of age when the debt was contracted. Under the correction of the Learned Judge, however, he should inform the Jury, that if they had evidence to prove that the goods supplied to the defendant were necessaries, and befitting his condition, if it w it s admitted that 'itch a defendant should wear any clothes at all, they must find for the plainiitf. The sum claimed was only 101., and after hearing the evideeko they could have no hesitation in finding a verdict to that amount for his client. The plaintiff's 'per entice was the only witness called to support the ease. He proved the delivery of the goods. Mr. C. F. Wldeta MS addressed the Jury fur the defendant. Ile said he held in his hand the account delivered to the defendant. It exceeded the sum of 301., and it was stated that a debt to dist amount was contracted by his client for egg-fillips, brandy-frog, beer, &c. In fact the plaintiff appeared to be a tailor, a publican, and to make money likewise by letting out apartments to young men and women. Mr. Sergeant WILDE interposed. He knew nothing of the 3 count alluded to by his letarneil Friend. All that he claimed to the present action was, the price of the clothes furnished to the de fendant, as appeared by the evidence of the apprentice. Mr. WILLIAMS resumed. He would now apply himself to that part of the case to which the Learned sergeant referred. He eau. coved that no tradesman had a right to supply a young man of eighteen with necessaries, even much less with articles which were not necessaries, without first consulting . his parents or friends. The defendant's mother and sisters lived m the neighbourhood of the plaintiff, and yet this tailor and publican never went to iaquire whether he was right in furnishing the defendant with the articlea for which he now demanded payment. The defendant was not a young man entitled to any proNsty. A legacy of 1001. was all it: .i