The Sun. — London, England, 1802-04-26 00:00:00

PARIS, APRIL 244 ..CoR MARcH • 6.—The Sublime PORTE, as ,_ m ight ha ve b een expeCted, has declared its disappror "ation of the Democratic Constitution of the Seven isi Cs ; and has in It fin_nan denounced the innova_ t ors as beresiarchs. T he SULTAN there commands, that things be im_ nlediately re.e%tabiished on [he same footing as they were hetor e t i•t- 21st of OCinber, x Bot. The order w as widi, as it was enforced by .86cio Then, disembarked a few days ago from an English s q ua dron from Malta. The English have put a trrisori in th e fO rtress, an d occupy t h e gat es of th e sn it Y• The sa me announces the speedy arrival of 1 41 e Russian b atta li ons f rom N ap l es t o secure pub tranquillity. I t i s certa i n enoug h, that th e c? rte . England, an d R uss i a a re efficaciously in.. It 'ed to establish tranquillity here ; the 'question tnts they will be always so, inclined. It is said , firmar, th a t France herself rtvould not 4.°l " e ) but be °fended 'with the illegal issue of , 2 4th of Odober. We wait the t'sspe of al4 th ese t hings ; but it seems a singidar phenomenon, d at a ne w P ower, solemnly proc l a i me d f ree an d in ofePendent, shall h e obliged to bend tinder the yoke r fot 'r masters. Yet it must - be confesSed, that the w a r mth of i mag i nat i on , an d the violence of passion . ver ie n Prev a il i n t hi s I s l an d, w ould:be apt to con, g reat __ t , 1 into teen tiousness and to prOduce even the Fr atrocities than have been witnessed during elil Revolution. Th e hu mb , , kiemocratic Party, however, is rather self, e(1 th an suppressed ; and being unable, of it-, t " execute its favourite projed of destroying. p o, '" Nubility, it wishes to engage Sonie'Fore - tgrt etrter in i ts support . I t was certainty a great a ur r of moder at i on i n R uss i a and Turkey, with r u ls in their hands, to allow this Isflind a Repub. ;an form of Government ; but neither these ty‘ c!wer s , nor England, will ever look upon the esta. 4r/writ of a Democraey with dfavourable ey.. r _ n F RANKFORT, APRIL I;.--They write from the p .. 7 tiers of Westphalia, that all .the regiments of t oi l S ian troops which occupy that part of Poland ti i , te d to Prussia, have received orders to place e r O se lves on a war establishment; and have, in is4' et. P.,'"ce, commenced' an extraordinary — recruit-. he corps of Hulans is to be considerably divid e - ci nte d, and it is even believed that it will be ?to m 'ni b two regiments Of light -horse : Many be rn , cu ts of Eastern P r ussia a n d Po meran ia a r e to , dr ehed immedi a t e ly a f ter t h e Spri ng Review toratioG% and its environs. Th e se warlike prepa„ , t a li us, un the p art o f t h e C ourt o f B er li n , aro gene i - ANnY at ttibuted to the assembling of an Austrian el an G.-Aida, and of a numerous corps of Rus r°ops on the frontiers of Turkey. riAt tr 4te t? APRIL I 3.—:-We hear on all sides the t s orrowful news of shipwrecks caused by the l orh `cmpest s %A. hick we experienced between the - a nd z zth inst. 1 11 , 1 , 1 - cording to public report, SCHIMMELPEN. Wili L el C will go to London as our A m b as s a d or ,' who replaced at Paris by VAN BECilTEßNe— reaLre is nothing certa i n , h owever , k nown w i t h rft to this. L Sittings to, nl egislativelody will resume its • ass emble W. All the - Members who compose it have tit t ruied here for that purpose. It will remain ' l t here till the end of the month of July. APRIL 22. 'rile Me rc h ants at Havre being informed of the esterice ; °f a fur x' Projea for a National Establishment d mauttfaaure and sale of Tobacco,' have ad resse Memoir on this subjea to Government, the obd a ie ' t 0 f which is to place it on its guard against the }' call proje6ts arising from avarice, and pf ' lO P e of realizing a large fortune at the expence Soci ety. d; IiERBoU RG, APRIL 14.-The Corvette /a S r - 7 , 4te ' 01 32, guns , C apt . N I ru p ok -r, which lef , t ' on the 7th of March last, has cast an 01' in thi s R o b& C this V essel, which made part of the Division of , it , e Admiral GANTHEAUNIS, was separated from to. l n the course of the voyage in a storm, and having l ' s ed Br est H arbour, came in here. Immediately ;. if is arri va l the Captain sent his dispatches to the thineiPal Commissary of Marine, who expedited rn t ° the Minister. It ti !E NNA, APRIL 6.—lt is said that the Count de - ,,, Nrt l'itiLLE tt , who resides at Milan, will_go to R o me in the quality of Minister of His Imperial and ° ., Y4 , 1 Majesty. - N-Ity will shortly assume a new opal, as t here i s a talk of sending into the suburbS all persons YLng on any no i sy b usiness, such as smiths, cart b:lghts) farriers, braziers, &c. The two gates, la 4 4 ; 414 ar and la Kaerntnerthor, are to be enlarged, . en, new Paths, s h ut i n b y gates, ma d e f or f oot pas _ P ET t 1 1 4„ Itsa uaGH, MARCH 25.—Many Gazettes ann ounced an a p proac hi ng i nterview between ,err ' Monarch and H is PRUSSIAN MAJESTY, but tha P t ° rt is considered here as wholly unfounded. at isLE' APRIL 16. Ciur Gove rnmen t a ppears t t , v e P r esent moment to pay considerable attention EktittlAc, the Minister of the French Republic. at iss "id that our Landamman, REDING, has had as nlPort ant conf erence w i th that Minister. It is pre ted al•se:), that t h e Constitution which is at tot ent under discussion in the Cantonal Diets, does eet with the approbation of the French Go- Qutjo vern_en t, and that it will not be carried into exel getica,. Many o f the Cantonal Diets have ener th,..llY, "P r essed a d es i re f or the Constitution of ' 29th of March, 18or, which was trans r mitted to Paris, and whiCh united in tie-ivisest manner, the system 'of Unity with that of Fecle 'ralism. Amongst these, the Diets of Turg:,vie and Aargau are much distinguished for the ener getic manner in which they have explained them selves relative to this point. We learn from Vienna, that the departure of the Baron de Cittrmr IPEN, who was to'reside in S'rwit zerland, in the quality of Minister Plenipotentiary of the EMPEROR, has been deferred for some time• This Minister will not come to Pie le till the Hel vetic Republic shall be no longer in a provisory state. CORN EXCHANGE) April 26. THIS day we had a good supply of Grain in gene ral ; Wheats, from the many Samples, had a heavy sale, and cheaper; Malt maintains a good price ; Oats, from the many parcels of last week's unsold, and having many buyers, had a brisk'sale, at small advance ; Beans and Pease but little alteration; Flour great quantities, dull sale and lower. Wheat 485 a 515 a 68s od Beans - 2gs A 33s od Fine do. - 6gs a 7c4 od Tick ditto . 26s a 3os 6d Malt -38 s a 4{ss a 43s od Oats - - - 145 a zos oft Firie ditto - 44 5 a 465 od Poland do. 215 a 225 Od Barley - 295 a 325 6d Rape Seed 331 a 35hper last Rye - - S6s a 3gs od Fine Flour 45s a sos per iack Whitp . Pease 305 a 345 od Second do. 405. a 55s pei . do. We learn with concern, that General LAN MRS'S entry into Lisbon, has been produetive of some in convenience to the British Officer who commanded there. The French Envoy declared that he would not enter the City, while , the Emigrant' Corps; in British Pay, wore the 'white'Gockade of France.— The Commander in Chief, of his own authority, ordered the Emigrants to strike that emblem of Royalty, an order which, we believe, he was not anthorised to give. Preparations are making in every hart of the town for the grand Illumination, which Will surpass every thing of the kind before seen in this Country. The French Government has giVen instruCtions that no expence should be spared in 'rendering Mr. Orro's house as splendid as possible. His illumination alorie will cost 8001. The Band of the Coldstream Regi ment is engaged to play through the evening in, the gardens of Portman-square. M. OTTO's preparations for the General Illumina tion have subjeded him to some inconvenience, as they have been ,subjeft to the criticisms of JoRN Blymr., who has not failed to suggest . such improve ments as he has thought necessary. Not satisfied with disapproving of the word Concord, which was interpreted with becoming indignation by some . of our honest Thrs conquered, these same Tars shrewdly observed that the initials G. R. had no crown over them. This M. Orro, with great good humour, likewite assented .to, and a Crown is accordingly laced over the G. R. While we cannot but admire and applaud the national spirit ,of our,honest blunt countrymen, we are willing to render all the respetl dtle to M. Orro's wish to conciliate the good wishes of the people of this country. The contribution at Notre-Dame, on Palm Sun day, .amounted to seven hundred louis. it was collefted by MADEMOISELLE, the Daughter of the CoNsr.a.; MadeMoiselle DE LUCAY, Daughter of one'of the Prefects of Paris; and Maclaine SAVARY, Wife of the Aid,de-camp of the •Consul, Colonel of the Selea Gendarmerie. Each of these Ladies was condu6ted by an Officer of the. Guard, and followed by one of the train of the Futsr CONSUL. The Press, in Russia, now enjoys as much free_ dom as it can possibly dO under an obsolete forM of government. The good effeas of this freedom in civilizing the people, and refilling, their manners and sentiments, will, nb doubt, be speedily per ceptible, as it has already been in the rest of Europe: The Lord Mayor on Friday intimated to the Court of Lieutenancy for the City, that in con-, sequence of a conference he had had with the Se cretary of State, the order for disembodying the two Regiments of London , Militia had been counter manded ; and ,that he could not tell at what time the reduaion of those regiments would take place- The Honourable East India Company's ship the Herculean, Captain THOMAS BUTLER, is now under dispatch for 'the Presidencies of Bombay and Bengal. She is the only extra-ship for Bombay this season. We understand that seven new ships; of the bur_ then of t,zoo tons each, for the service of the East- India Company this season, and two new ships of Soo tons each, will be launched in the course of the present year ; and will be taken up with the ships which are expected to be engaged for the Company's service in oElober next. The average Price of Sugar, computed from the returns made for the week ending the 21st day .;:f April 18oz, is Thirty Nine Shillings and Five Pence Three Farthings per hundred weight. Forestalling of provisions has become as preva lent in America as in Britain : meetings were held at Philadelphia and other places last month, for the purpose of petitioning the Legislature to adopt such measures as will repress the practice. In a Report lately made to the Legislature of New-York on the. subject of the State Prison, the increasing depravity of the people is ascribed to horse-racing, bull-baiting, and the vast number of petty publie-hotises (upwards of 20o), in the city. On the night of the 9th of Ft:binary last, in .lat. 24. 30. long. 80. 54. while the Diana, of Baltimore, was hailing the Nancy, of Natchez, the Captain of the latter cried out to the former that there was some one overboard : the master of the Diana im mediately hove his sails aback and lowered his boat, when a voice repeatedly exclaiming " I shall be drowned," directed them to the spot where a man was floating, sustaining a woman apparently dead; the poor fellow made them tak-. her in first, and by pro_ . per means life was restored. The woman was pas senger in the Nancy, and in a heavy roll of the ves sel to leeward, fell overboard, when a sailor, who was likewise a passenger, plunged after her, and supported her under one of his arms until the boat picked them up. LAW REPORT. COURT OF KING's BENCH, APRIL 24._ SITTINGS BEFORE gIR. JUSTICE ROSE AND A srEVIAL JUKY,' IN GUILDHALL, LONDON. TI4E KING ail. leLEOM THIS was an Information filed by the late AirrO NEY GENERAL, now Chief Justice, against the De fendant„ Allan M'Leod, for a Libel on the late Lord Clare, published in aLetter addressed to his Lordship, in the Albion' Newspaper, of which the Defendant was Proprietor and Publisher,' on the 9th, and 14th of April, 180 t . Mr. AuBoT opened the Pleadings. The ATTORNEY GENERAL , opened the case on the part of the Prosecution. lie said, he had to call the attention of the Jury ; upon this occasion, to a Publication, which was charged to have been edited by the Defendant, Allan M'Lcod, which had been thought necessary to be submitted to the, consideration of a Jury, for the purpose of their pro nouncing their judgment upon it, and to say, whe ther or not it deserved to be charatterised, as this Information described it, which was that of a most gross, scandaloUs, and infamous Libel, on the cha raeter of an excellent and distinguished Personage, now unhappily no more. In doing this, and in . discharging his duty, by laying this case before the Jury, he should have occasion, as it appeared to him, to trouble them with but a very few observa tions. Here. Mr. SCOTT, the Defendant's Counsel, re quested that the information should be read, which, after observations on the part of the. Prosecution, importing that, as the Defendant had alledged he was too poor to pay for a copy, he. might have been in dulged with the brief of it being lent to his Counsel, had he intimated a desire to that effeet ; and an ac.. knowledgment on the part of the Defendant, that, he had every reason to believe it, but that the non -application for it was merely from misconception on his part ; and after the 'Learned Judge had observed that when , it was recollected who the late ATTOR, NET-GENERAL was, and who the present ATTOR NET-GENERAL IS, no doubt could remain, but that the Defendant would meet with all the humanity, he could possibly expe& in his situation :—the Re. 'cord of the Information was read in Court at length, and then ThZ ATTO R NEY GENERA!, proceeded to say, that. from what he was about to state to the Jut y,he thought , it would, not be necessary fur hith to trouble them much. at length upon this occasion; and. the course. he at first intended to take, was, now considerably abridged, whatever necessity there might other wise have been to detain the Jury with reading different parts of the libel stated on the record, which was now before them. He should now feel, that it was discharging the duty which fell on him, by making a few introdudory and explanatory ob servations on parts of this libel. The Jury had already learned, that this was a libel publislied in_ a certain Newspaper called the Albion : a paper charged to have been printed, edited, and published by the Defendant, in a letter addressed to the late Earl of Clare, Chancellor of Ireland ; " A person," said the ATTORNEY GENF.RAL, " whose charaler, I am persuaded, will be long revered ; for as long as great and splendid talents—as long ,as extensive knowledge- , -as long as unremitting industry and diligence, in the painful and laborious discharge of great piofessional duty, in an exalted station—as long as an ardent zeal for the real interest of his country,. shall be considered as circumstances en titling a man to the admiration of the hest triends of the country to which he belonged, the memory of the Earl of Clare will be revered ; but do not think, Gentleman, I have any intention so absurd as that of detaining you to hear a vain panegyric or eulogy on that great man : his charader, in my estimation of it at least, stands far above the reach of any panegyric ; and I shall not attempt to lower him by any praise of mine, he is as far removed from advantage by praise, as he is now personally removed from the assault which the libel, of which I ilOw complain, ,was calculated to expose him to. I shall content myself with saying, that in the ar duous and trying times which Ireland has seer., times of difficulty which brought forth, as in every . age and every country, times of difficulty have : brought fonh, and' will bring forth, persons of splendid talents and distinguished virtue, to aid and assist in public affairs, by the wisdom of their coun sels, the magnanimity of their designs, and the courage of their efforts, which, while a . country is visited by calamity, rescue it from destruttion— while men of the greatest worth 'are called forth to exert their powers, even among the first, there will be :prominent oharaders. So it was in Ire land, for in the illustrious rank of the most re nowned patriots, my Lord Clare was conspicuous. He then stood in fad, and he now stands in recol -anong the foremost of .those whose efforts saved their country from ruin. Notwithstanding this, or rather I should say, in consequence of this,. he was selected by the Defendant as the objet of the defamation that you have heard read, and which we call your attention to." Having disposed of the introduaory parts of the publication, he stated the parts of it to which, he said, he wished more particularly to direa their attention. After stating that Lord Clare had called the Peasantry of Ireland a blood-thirsty race, the libel proceeded to say,. ' But the character of the Irish People is different from that which you have said to belong to them, and that you are, in exist. ence, at this moment, is a proof of the injustice of your charge. What Nation upon Earth cpuld, with justice or decency, be accused of any ungovernable propensity to'violence and blood, in which a man has been for so marry years• suffered to live—whose. heart never overflowed with beneficence—Whose head devised no counsels which wero not cruel-and unjust, and whose month was Ili ver opened except to utter National Invettive,—And yet such a -man is living, not certainly without apprehension, for a conscience such as his, must always be filled with terror of its creation, but without assault and dan. gee---going every day into the public streets and high roads without guards, and though he himself has asserted the contrary, apparently without arms, daring to bring a general charge of .vitatence and ferocity ;pilot a People wits; such patience and so inueb provoked. A . ;econd attack was to be made on yOu—beare - the third- 2 —BAingham had direr warnings before he:fell by the daggef 'of Fe.ton.-- Perhaps public hatred is trot the (only circumbtange in which your case may be sirn:lar to This the Arroit NET GENERAL sdid, . he reaci i ßA .„, that to which h e thought the a lien (ion of the Pfiy. ought to be particularly called. 'lTey woald see the description of the passage : It was slandet of the greatest malignity, and a diabolical calm. ny on this great Personage to whom it pil.thled, and it was r.'xessary to do no more than merely to advert to the expression--c' What nation upon earth could, with justice or decency, b accused of any ungovernable propensity to violence and blot(, in which a man has teen for many years suit: red to live whose heart never overflowed with beneficence, whose head deviSed no counsel which was nor cruel and unjust ; whose mouth never opened except to utter national inveftlye ?"--Was it possible fur any thing to be plainer than the malice of this caiumn) , and infamous spirit of this sentence ? Indi'ed it ap peared to him quite 'unnecessary to labour, by ar_ gurnent, tb shew the tendency of this publication; it was of itself manifestly defamatory et, and intended to be disgraceful to, the person to whom it was.ad dressed—notaonly was Lord Clare, a high charae. . ter in the nation at that time, libelled personally fir • 'his qualities, but the effect of his counsels was also calumniated—he was here stated as having no heart for benevolence, and no head for , counsel—it was most manifestly the tendency of this libel, to point oui to the whole' nation, my Lord parr, tt:, v. 4e .4. jed. olassassination—he was persuaded that he was not staring it too strongly ; it was, he believed, impossible to read the words, and annex to them i any other objed in the view of the person who wrote them,LLLord Clare was pointed out-as the • cruel oppressor of . the whole Nati". ;—lt stated, that he had orice already been attacked by the Po. pulace and Pelted with stones ; that a second attack was to have been made upon him : and then the Libel proceeded to advert to the Case of the Duke of Buckingham, who had three warnings-- s aying to Lord Clare, " beware of the third !"—That Bock.' ,ingham had three warnings before he fell by the dagger of Felton—" Perlfaps public hatred is not the. only circumstance in which your Case may be similar to his !"—lt was impossible to read this without being convinced that the objeft of the Au. thor was to hold up Lord Clare to the hatred of the People of Ireland, and. to -induce them to destroy, him in some such mariner as the Duke of Bucking_ ham was destroyed. It was -not necessary to trouble the Jury with more observation's, 'to produce in their minds a hill convi4tion that this was, as•ic was stated in the In. formation; a scandalous and defamatory Libel. He w o u ld nut anticipate any thing which was likely to be said fir , the Defendant in this Case, by way of defence to this charge ; nor would he go through, in detail, the whole of what was stated in the Infor mation ; 'nor would he recapitulate the points which had been pointed out to the Jury as the suhjcts most material for 'their attention ; these . things were done already ; and, when he had gone thr oug h the necessary. Proofs in- this Case, he could not pos sibly doubt what the Verditi would Gentle man ofgreat talents had the care of the Defendant's Cise,-and the Jury would hear from him, much of ingenuity, a good speech would be ably delivered to the Jury ; but it would be matter of great sur prise to him, if the Learned Gentleman- himself could prevail upon himseff to say, that even in his judgment, this publication was nor a Libel.—He should wait with patience to hear what might be :said, and he should . have. an opportunity of making a reply., - The necessary previoUs steps in proof were then gone throngh--Such as, that Lord Clare was a Privy Councillor in December 1793 : that he was afterwards created Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and Baron Fitzgibbon': afterwards Viscount Fitzgib bon : that in 1795, Lord Camden was Lord Lieu tenant of Ireland : that in June /795, the Lord Chancellor of Ireland was created Earl of Clare, in Ireland : that on the 24. th of September 5799, he was' created :in English Baron, under the title of Baron 'Fitzgibbon, of S;dbury,, in the County of Devon : that on the.zBth of January 1801, he was sworn of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, and took his place at.the,Board accordingly, as one tit . the Lords of Council.,--These proofs were matter of necessary form to support the allegations in the- Information, charging the Libel to be against his Lordship in the charader of Privy Couneillcir,&e. J. Cl:midge proved, the Papers called the Al bion, of, Thursday the 9th and Tuesday the i4th of April I,Bor, were signed by the Defendant as Printer and Propietor of them, in Newgate, in the presence of the Witness, who took them to him for 'that purpose, as a necessary form previous to their going to the Stamp-Office ; and here the Case for the ProSecution ended. Scorr then entered very much at large upon the subject matter of the Defence ; in the course of which he entered historically into the manner in which he had made applications in behalf of the Do fendant, to the Court of King's Bench, for tile pur pose of having this subject tried ; of the treatment he met with on that occasion by the late Attorney General, the present Chief justice of England, who, he complained, treated him severely, and excited against him a very injurious prejudice, the c!reCt of which he deprecated ; but expressed a confidence that unless :that prejudice was allowed to operate, he should be able to convince the jury they °ugh in this case, to find a, verdia. for the Defendant. Here. he entered upon a long vindication of himself, ml particularly of the share he had taken in defendirg this cause. He alledged that he had been accused k .defending this person gratis; which was not the luCt. The truth was, he had received of the Defendant a fee of five guineas in this case, which he now re.. turned ,to hit% in Court, ,and said he would plead his cause gratis, a course which he defied any gentleman at the bar to censure. Having stated tne eircurn, stances which Ile thought necessary in order to set himself right before the j74tv, he proccedA to open the nature of the defeC,',...- he had to offer for his Client. This was a charge of a libel: in that - word there was nothing technical, as in Felony, Robbery, or other words which convey ed a definite meaning ; but each case was to stand upon its own cucunistanc4i, and tha jury