The Sun. — London, England, 1823-04-10 00:00:00

1' ' .~ t , 'rrii LONDON JOVILNALS. EXTUACTS riteim TUE DAILY MORNING PAPERS, April 10, 1823. • [MORNING POST.] Private letters from Paris, after.mentioning the • Pnexpected return of the 'Duke of Belluno, state that he had experienced the mortification of having his services rejected by the very valiant , %lid distinguished Commander now about to lead the armies of France to ravage the surface, and slaughter the inhabitants, of an noon - ending ,country. If it required any other than the , slightest evidence to establish a fact which in volves a charge against the Duke d'Angouleme of a presumption and extravagance violating de cency, nay, even torching the verge of treason, we should hesitate to yield belief to such infor mation upon such authority. But in truth the character of this Prince and of the Party with which he is connected, - either as its leader or its dupe, is now so well established, that any im putation upon them of folly, absurdity, or, crime, is entitled to a more prompt and unscrupulous credence than it would obtain if attempted against any other human beings. The imagination must be indeed active which in this direction can out run facts, and the enmity impatient which can form a wish to forestall them. It is quite as decent, and probably quite 'as safe, for this Prince, at the head of a French army, to set at open de fiance the decree of his Sovereign, as it was for him to place himself there, in pursuit of such objects as lie and Ms party have in view. -. LIMIT PRESS.] Sir John Malcolm, we have good reason to believe, is shortly to be appointed Ambassador In Persia, Ministers having, at length, brought themselves to believe that it may not be,quite prudent to trust to the magnanimity of the Em peror of All the Russias, should his influenie in the Persian Cabinet give to his councils a greater preponderance than the legitimate interests of this country might render safe. The Russian has , long since manifested a wish to make his dominions morel conveniently extensive, and this we all know is " an appetite that grows with what it feeds on." NVe have not quite forgotten , . the Ukase issued about two years sinc e, respect ing the ,commercial regulations regarding the Pastern coast of Asia and the north-west coast of America.. This. was, of itself, enough to weaken any superstitious' respect which his Imperial Majesty might have inspired' into our Govern ment in favour of his moderation. Our Ministers have no objection to his taking the liberties of Spain into his holy keeping ; but to take a hundred mi.leg of the open ocean under , his exclusive pro tectiop, is an imperial. stretch of benevolence, and . heing " righteous overmuch," The present aspect of affairs make it, no doubt, extremely ad visable to attend to the `di.Terent objects which may actuate the ainbition oftis rni .y Monarch, end no one possesses higher requisites,'.or it in every respect better qualified to be sent Ambas sador to the Persian Court, than the distinguished individual to whom that important mission is about do be confided. [Tux Times.] The Proclamation which ere. nowi we presume has been addressed to the Spaniards •by their invaders, found its way into our journal of yester day. It bring together all the no-reasons for one of the most abominable and cruel acts that modern times have witnessed. We have often compafed this invasion of the Peninsula to that of Buonaparte iti 1808. Besides the general simi litude of two measures, each has.its peculiar and character4,c f . eatures,of atrocity. In some re spects, the more recent is the more criminal.— Buonaparte was certainly invited, as an umpire, to settle the differences between the father and son, however perfidiously he may have provoked the appeal to 'himself, or however dishonestly he availed him Self of the arbitration. after he had accepted it. 'Da what party has ever called in the Bourbwcs to decide the difference's now ex isting in Spain ? or, where has the document appeared in which the call was made ? The Duke, of Angouletne's .Proclamation has no reference to such an invitation:: it in truth declares. the invasion of the Peninsula to spring from the mere motion of the. Bourbon Faction in France. They have waited with patience, they say : " Two months and a half have " passed, and they' have in vain expected the 64 establishment of an order of things in Spain." They, therefere, unsought, unwished-for, now step forth of themselves, to impose those laws upon an independent country, to which they had thought the native inhabitants would subject ther*elves, from the mere surmise of what might , please foreigners. But the Spaniards, it seems have carried 44 their efforts beyond St their own frontiers." " They have tried 44 all means to corrupt the army of his Most 44 Christian Majesty." Bur whence came it, we ask, - that an army of his Most Christian Ma jesty- was - within corrupting distance in time of public peace? A foreign army upon the fron tiers of an imkpeodent state is an aggression ; and who would not endeavodr to weakeit the force of those by whom they are to be invaded ? Let.us put a similar case :—suppose England de prived of her navy, and hostile fleets hanging upon our coasts and stopping up the outlets of our ports,' while party; fury raged ,in 'the interior of the country, Should not we endeaveur to seduce the foreign seamen 'to desert L Should not we invite them to run their vessels u:;der our batteries and join Us ? And should not wo be • justified irusuch proceedings upon every prioeiple of self-defencel -,The aggression Is in placing the fleet in a menacing position, not in the efforts made by those who are menaced to draw part of it away. Upon: -what a frivolous lying Buonaparte-pretext was:•the French army firsl assembled on the Pyrenees : it was a sana tory cordon,: then it was an army of observation. Was it ne_vcr to be approached, even with fair words till it. had drawn Spanish blood ? CMOUNING cifitosicl.t..l Those of our Readers who yesterday perused with attention the French Generalissimo's Ad- dress to the Spaniards, preparatory to his cross ing the Pyrenees at the head of an armed force, must have 'been struck, not only with the false hood and canting hypocrisy of the language made use of, throughout the whole of this State Paper, but also with the bold and barefaced avowal that the French Army enters the Peninsula,not to avenge injuries received ; not from any actual motives of provocation, but to stir up parents against their children, to arm a band of furious fanatics, in short, to plunge, in the first place, the country in all the horrors of anarchy and civil war, and then, if the effort is successful, to give UP the in habitants such a code of laws as a Committee of French Ultras, with the Duke d'Augouleme at their head, -shall condescend to enact. Never was a greater insult offered to the understand ings of men—never was a greater outrage com mitted against national independence. By every means of artifice, by an appeal to the basest passions, and by the expenditure of immense sums of money, the French succeed in collect ing and arming bands of hirelings and disappoint ed persons, such 'tis for pay may be found in any country ; they exultingly denominate them the Army of the ,Faith, as if their countrymen who follow the constitutional banners were so many heretics ; and having done this, they call the country anarchical, and insult it for the work of their own hands. The chief employment of the French Government and the Paris Police, during the last two years, has been to devise means by which they might be unable to dis cover every fanatic, and disappointed Spaniard and Portuguese, both in and out of their country, who could in amp way serve' their base pur poses.' WTith this object in view, both portions of the Peninsula have been thronged with agents and spies, whose only occupation has been to corrupt and divide. In both the Madrid and Lisbon Palaces, the effects . of their vile machi nations have been felt.—They have prevented Ferdinand from seconding the efforts of his loyal peOple ; they were at the bottom of the revolt of the Spanish Guards on the 7th of last July, and the projected massacre that was to follow ; whilst, in Lisbon, it was they ho set the Queen at variance with the new order of flans, which she hAd previously sanc tioned and approved of in the most open, enthu siastic, and complimentary manner. Yet all this the Duke d'Angouleme now calls " the counsels of benevolence and reason," and says that he is going " to put an end to the anarchy that tears Spain to pieces ;" that he is going to restore despotism and the Inquisition, and replunge the country into the same state it was in from the year 1814 to 1820, when the dun. geons were crowded with victims, and the liberal minded, who were fortunate enough to escape, were exiles in a foreign land, many of them at the time `fed by the bounty of Louis XVIII. himself. These are the blessings the Duke and his amiable spouse would gladly bestow upon the Peuinsulars ; these , are the acts of ." bene• volcnce and reason " they are so eager to 'dis. pease; acts which, if they can only succeed, eventually enrol their names among the Roya Saints of France. [MORNING} HERALD.] Private accounts, and some journals of Mon day's date, were received yesterJay from Paris. They states that the French army had commenced the passage of the Bi dassoa on the Gob. One of the journals gives this intelligence, on the alleged authority of the King, who observed to persons admitted to his presence before mass, that the army was to pass what may be called the Rubicon on that day ; and another an nounce~ the actual receipt of the intelligence by telegraph.— The commencement of hostilities a few days sooner or later is of no material importance. The arrival of the Proclamation to be issued by the.Ditke of Angouleme upon entering Spain, and which 'was given in the Herald off' yesterday, not only renders die war a matter of absolute certainty, but proves that it must commence without delay. This Manifesto is studiously unaii hurtling. It remains to be seen whether it is equally sin cere. It holds out one pledge which deserves sonic notice, viz. that " occupation" is not the object of the invading army, which will confine itself solely to restoring Ferdinand to the plenitude of his power. But how is he to be maintained in his new position ?--llalf a dozen conspiracies exploded in Spain in the interval between the destruction of the Constitution by Ferdinand, upon his return, and the successful conspiracy of the Isla. It is pretty obvious that the changes effected by the Constitutional Government and Cortes, during the last three years of peaceful legislation, in the civil, municipal, and mili tary powers—in the interests of property, by the sales of na tional domains—even in the very constitution of' society—for a society receives its spirit and character from the laws—Must, independently of the progress,of constitutional education, have marshalled a new and greatly increased mass of strength, 'in support of the new order. If the King of Spain could not muster resources to prevent the resurrection of the Constitu tion which lie laid violent hands on in 1814, is it likely that he will be able (supposing the French successful) to maintain himself upon the ruins of the Constitution of 1820 ? The evi dent probability is, that Foreign troops will he much more ne cessary in Spain than in Naples or Piedmont. The disclaimer of occupation, therefore, may be regarded as fallacious. The Duke of I3elluno arrived at. Paris on Sunday. Ile appears to have gone upon an idle errand. - It. is evident that the Duke of Angoulerne did not receive, him as Major-General of the army; and it remains to be seen whether he does or does not resume his functions as War Minister at Paris. The Ultra Journals state, that his quick return,is to be ascribed to his having found on his arrival that his mission was unnecessary. The most contradictory accounts are given in the French Journals of the progress of the Royal Cavalcade towards Seville. Ac cording to one, it is as sad as a funeral procession; Record ing to another, it is a continued triumph. No attack, it is said, will be matte by the Bands of the Faith on the Royal Party, lest the Constitutionalists should kill the King, Queen, and Princes, rat h er th a n yield them.. But a dash, it is threatened, would be made upon the Cortes, Madrid has the air of being wholly abandoned. The troops and militia with. drawn from it to escort the King on the 20th, and the Cortes on the tath, bad left- it wholly unprotected. The Government appears to have had no intention, froth the beginning, to dis pute the possession of the capital •witit the French. It is the capital only in reline. A Freneh statistical writer says Of Ma drid, that " it wanted all the ittibstantial attributes of a capital —riot central—unconnected with thetranaaction of public busi ness—sittieted in a desert—that the real capital was to be sought in the great maritime cities on the coast at the Mediterranean, and in Cadiz—Madrid being a mere Versailles." Under these circumstances, its abandooment by the Spaniards, and its occu pation by . the french, are not of real importance as affecting the contest betrecen the two nations. ' [NEW TIMES.] The Proclamation - of the Duke d'Angouleme has been universally received with sentiments of decided appro bation. Its tone of perfect candour and moderation; its total disclaiming of all views of aggrandisement; and its positive pledge neither to impose laws on Spain nor to occupy the coun- try, have effected a considerable change in the opinions of many who had hitherto doubted the justice and integrity of the French Councils. Two circumstances come strongly in aid of the favourable impression made by the Royal Duke's Proclama tion.; one is, the flight of the Cortes from Madrid ; and the other is, the avowal of the Marplot in The Morning Chronicle. The flight of the Cortes really places them in a more despicable point.of view than their prototypes, the runaways of Naples.— The Neapolitans did not run away till they had actually smelt the Austrian gunpowder, and had even had something like a battle at Ried ; but the Spanish Carbonari have more of " the better part of valour" than their Neapolitan brethren, and gravely move off to transact business at Sevilla! By the bye, they inform the Gentlemen who may be interested in the late Spanish Loans ; that the accounts relating _to them will also be kept for the future at Seville, which must be very satis factory to those individuals who could not obtain such answers as they wished from Mt. Ilaldimand. It is observed, too, thar, the insurrection, which according t o Th e Times has been so often suppressed, seems to survive its extinction in an extraor dinary N eu) , ; and the factious, who never consisted of more than a few miserable Monks and vagabonds, multiply themselves, and perform very singular feats. Theyhave, for instance, taken the Castle of Morvedro, near Valencia, which has induced _the Republican Commandant of the latter city to declare it "in a state of siege." The Royalist General Bessieres, so often killed and annihilated in various ways, had his head quarters at Albacete, on the road from- Cuenca to Murcia.— IJlmann, his confederate, is believed to have joined two other Royalist leaders, Sempere and Chambo, who for some time have menaced Segorbe and Castillon de In Plana. The Politi cal Chiefof Valencia informs his Republican brethren that the Royalists were at Xerice, and had levied contributions on Se gorbe ; and instead of announcing any punishment that bad fallen on these audacious Royalists, he only desires his friends to " wait with tranquillity the result of the measures taken to destroy those men." In short, let us cast our eyes where we will over the map of Spain, we find Guerrillas rising up in all parts, not to oppose the French, but to shake off the yoke of , the Descamisados. PROVINCIAL JOURNALS. [Frona the Bury Gazette, April 9.] So sunk is Radicalism in this county, so diapised has the very name of Parliamentary Reform become, that but for the efforts of the Tory press to do' justice to the proceedings of the jobbets in representation, the party would be left unnoticed and unknown. The County Meeting on Friday last, which we re port faithfully, was the forlorn hope of all who call themselves Reformers. It was prepared by the head of the party, and the requisition by which the Sheriff was induced to call it was hawked about for eight weeks, by every descriptiopf Radical Reformers. The press of the party pompously pkraded the preliminary proceedings : " pine tenths of the freeholders of Suffolk" were to sign the death doing document, which was to drive Ministers in despair from the seat .of office, and " leave the world to darkness and the 'Whigs." ..Never, no never, since the days of Guy Fawkes, was there such an ex plosion as this was to be in the county of Suffolk. But, ales ! their light is extinguished, their combustibles have indeed ex ,ploded ina little flash and a great deal of smoke, but have done no harm, except to those who fired the train. Even " the vehicle of the faction," pretending want of time,,dares not pub lish a faithful report, but:gives the world a partial and garbled statement, and refers its .patrons to its compatriot Post for the whole story. Now As, unluckily, the 1 relied upon " the vehicle," whose duty it by right was to give a faithful report, the party would have been left in the lurch, but for the praiseworthy dime of the Ipswich Journal, seconded by our own strenuous exertions to complete the work there be gun, and give the world the truth, perhaps not the whole truth, but certainly nothing but the truth, deny it who dare.---• The Sitrolk Chronicle says. that—" the Meeting fully demcin strated, as well by the attendance of the Nobility ! Gentry ! and Freeholders I ! ! of the County, as by the unanimity, or der, and Anneals of the prikeedings, that a Reform` in the Re presentation of the Commons' House of Parliament, to be ef fected by constitutional means, is the ardent and unequivocal desire of the county at large."—Sips, when a man wishes a story to be believed, the best possible plan is, to tell it boldly, and put a good face upon the matter, as if it were literally and substantially true ; fur, the first thing necessary to obtain be lief pi, to put on the appearance of - being convinced. Thus, the Svpll: Chruniele, in all the conscious dignity of truth.! and patriotism ! gives its faithful version of an event, which few will contradict, because very few were present, who wished that the fact should be known. We .happen licivever, to be'pretty well infbrnied, and shall practice our old fashioned trick of telling truth, though i e shame the Devil.— First for the Nobility. There was one Lord present. The Lord deliver us ! and there were two Letters present, from two Dukes, who appeared by proxy, we presume. Grace be upon their representatives ! The " attendance of the Nobility" then, in the Siffiblk Chronicle, is not true ; and if it were, we ask, how dare any Peer of Parliament presume to interfere with the Repreaentation of the Commons Great Britain ? We boldly tell all Pukes and ra di ca l L or d s i n t h e rea l m , that Constitution,they break down the barrier that fences the violate radical te in the aristocracy, and culpably encroach upon the rights of the people ; rights as valuable, as inherent, as holy as dim they poi mess ; whenever they appear but to Sanction the stivillest varia tion i ll th e principle of the construction of the CoMmons House of Parliament ; save only in their legislative capacity, when the question of reform in the representation of the people, may fairly and constitutionally be brought before them in their own house. Till that time, their interference is not only iiiiperti nent, but is an outrage upon the privileges of the people,.from whom they are set apart, and with whose representation, they have literally nothing to do. We do not then CondeMn the reform meeting that it was not graced by the nobles of the land i but it is untrue to say that it was so graced. But there was u portion of the gentry of the county present, is true ; but that portion was so small, so very small, that to take their opi nions as the sense of the county, would be madness. Let us, in d r iller to understand the term, agree to call those the gentry of the county, who are liable to serve on the grand juries of the county ; •of such men, we think we are liberal, when we estimate them at a quarter of a hundred--a score, we believe, is nearer/the mark, but tslimporte. Next for the freeholders, a class whom we consider of more real consequence, in regard to any public question, than either the radical aristocracy,or squire archy ; and of these we shall find a woeful deficiency.— The whole meeting, on the estimate of one not at all inclined to tie grade the cause, consisted of about 1,000 people; weave assured that this is an extreme calculation ; of these, not less than 000, perhaps more, were residents iii Stownutrket, who came to see the shew, as they do when Punch exhibits in the market, or the learned Pig grunts wisdom to the mob. If we admit that one fourth of the remaining four hundred have votes for the county, we think we accord more than' the . fact, and then, gentle and simple, we shall find about 125 persons ready to vote for Parliamentary Reform. We frankly admit, that we have no data, by which to prove th e acc u racy of our estimate, but a. few trifles may serve to shew, that we cannot be far from the truth. County Meetings are held at Stow-market for the purpose of enabling the inhabitants of the two principal towns, Bury anti Ipswich, to meet, as it stands mid-way be tween what may be called two County towns. Now, we have pretty accurate information, and we cannot enumerate twenty-four persons out of both towns, who were present at the Aleeting their joint population is twenty-four thou sand. The innkeepers at Stowinarket, did not find the day so advantageous as some market days. Neither post-horses nor gigs were in re qu i s i t ion : but four pair of horses passid trough the turnpike on the principal road, during the whole morning, The weather did not deter people from travelling, for the Morning was remarkably fine, although about noon it began to rain, and continued wet during' the remainder of the day. There was no crowding round the waggon on which the orators exhibited; people walked about at their ease under their umbrellas, and now and then stopped and listened. The " unanimity, order, and firmness," of the Suffblk Chronicle, was apathy and listkstineas in the hearers, mortification and disappointment in the speakers and leaders. These things will !thew whether we were not justified in saying that the County did not wish for a meeting . ; and whether we are guilty of mis representation in pronouncing the whole proceeding a , palpable contrivance, to serve an obvious purpose, which has miserably failed, to die manifest discomfiture of its contriver. 4 % 11 ' Here follows sonic pertinent, spirited, and judicious comments on the chief speakers at a Meeting, the substance of which we have already given. As, however, the Party Prints have ende avoure d to aliew that Mr. npocii is a Prose lyte to Opposition, we subjoin what the Editor of The Bury Gazette says respecting that Gentleman:— ".The speech of Mr. Gooch needs no remark, practical sound sense and plain English feeling are its characteristics. He involves hims e lf in no labyrinth of sophiatications —he tells plain truth in plain terms—he stands before a part of his con. atinients, violently politically opposed to him, in all the se curity of conscious rectitude ; ready to defend overy'act of his public life, and manfully reply to his accusers, Such conduct cannot but be appreciated by Englishmen, and we are proud to record another instance in which our valuable representative has singly ventured to stem the torrent of faction, and like Mr. Edmond Wodehouse at Norwich, and Mr. Stuart Wortley at York, sturdily maintained his ground against the congregated force of radicalism!" SPRING ASSIZES. LANCASTER, APRIL 7. BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE. HIBBERT V. BARROW. This was ail action brought to recover a compensation in da mages for the injury sustained by the plaintiff', by reason of the defendant refusing to perform a promise of marriage, which it was alleged hebad made to her. The damages were laid at logo/. Mr. Bnouoits Ai stated the case for the plaintiff. The plain tiff, Miss Hibbert, was the daughter of a hatter residing at Fails worth, near Manchester; the defendant was a publican at the same place ; he was himself the owner of a public-house, and was a man in opulent circumstances. The parties were, there fore, i pretty much on a par with respect to their station n life,' and he'believed equarin point of age. The intimacy between them had subsisted for a considerable time, and it unfortu nately happened that the plaintiff relying more than she ought to have done on the honour and the repeated promises of the defendant, had been induced to surrender her virtue—a cir cumstance which did not form a material part of the present case, but might he made the ground of a separate complaint. After being deluded' by reiterated promises of marriage, and put off from time to time by the defendant, her hopes of that union which he had led her to expect, were at length totally blighted by the marriage of the defendant with another wo man, with whom he received a considerable portion, anti no thing was left to the plaintiff but that compensation which she Was seeking, and which he trusted she would receive at the ' hands of Jury. Ann Ogden, wife of David Ogden, of Failsworth, had known the plaintiff for a long time ; her father was a hatter. Knew the defendant, who was a publican at Failsworth. The 'plain tiff' and the defendant had been intimate for 12 or 14 years.— Witness was in her father's house with them in the year 1818; they were talking together; defendant said if ever lie was mar , ried to any woman it would be to her; he repeated this twice. He afterwards asked her to go out at the door, he had a few words. to say to her, which he did not wish any one else to hear. He took hold of her hand and led her to the door, and said she and he must be married very soon. She had a child several years ago ; she was 30 years of age, and he either 32 or 33.. fr Cross-examined by Mr. iwasis—Pray, Mrs. Ogden, what is the age of your oldest child ?—Twelve years. And your second P—About eight. , And your third ?—lt is dead ;it would have been three if it had lived. And pray, 31a'am, when were you married 2—About two years ago. • Bless me ! had you all those children before you were mar ried ?..:-Yes, Sir. What was the age of Miss Hibbert's child when the conver sation took place which you haVe mentioned ?—Between two and three years. Re-examined—The defendant married a Miss Simpson, did he noti?--Ares, Sir. And old Simpson built him a public-house ?—Yes, Sir. Miss Hibbert's father never did build him a public-house, did he P—No. Mr. BROUOIIAM—Aye, that's the difference, you know, be tween the two ladies. Charles Stott produced a certificate of the defendant's mar riage, which took place on the 2241 of August, 1822. Served defendant with the writ in this action. Ile said he had paid money enough on account of the child ; he did not want to pay any more. Mr. WI LUAUS, for the defendant, contended, that before the plaintificould recover in this action, the Jury must be convinced not only that the words imputed to the defendant were really uttered by him, but also that they were understood by the parties at the time to be a distinct promise of marriage binding upon both. And what were the witnesses who were called to prove this notable case ? There was the particular friend, the intimate associate of the plaintiff, who came shamelessly into the box, and admitted that she had had three bastard children before marriage. What sort of reliance could they place upon her testimony, when they saw such a laxity in that point of morality which was so essential to a female ? Even if they be. lieyed the promise, of which evidence was given, what did it amonnt.to ? The defendant led the plaintiff to the door, and whispered in her ear some idle words, which just as much amounted to a legal and binding promise of marriage, as jum ping over a broomstick constituted a binding ceremony.— It was in evidence, that the connection between the parties had subsisted for years, and that so long as the defendant remained unmarried, the plaintiff' did not give herself any trouble about it. " Cursed be all laws but those which Love has made," would, he supposed, h ave b een h er motto, i f e ve r s h e h a d read the Poet, so long as she could live in a state of concubinage with the defendant. But when he got married—when this sinner became publican—she was inflamed with the sight of his i cr n ey bre m a i d glit of be p h r ro om t f i r s o e m of h n ir ar , ri tui age d house—sheshe se herself prov by the testimony of that witness Whom they bad heard, but who, he .trusted, they would not believe. Mr. Justice 11oLuovn summed up, and the Jury returned a verdict for the defendant. TAUNTON. George Clerk, the coachman of a Bristol and Bath coach, was tried under the new Act of Parliament, for manslaughter, in having furiously driven a coach so that it was upset, and a person named James Hamilton. Jailed. The Counsel who conducted the prosecution, in stating the case to the Jury, urged the necessity of visiting those to whom the safety of the lives and limbs of so many of his Alajesty's subjects was intrusted, with severe punishment, whenever by their carelessness either was lost or endangered. The first witness called was Jr. Smart, who stated that on the evening of the 14th of February last he started from Bristol to go to Bath in the coach of which the prisoner was the driver. The witness described the manner in which the prisoner drove on the several, parts of the road when the deceased with his nephew got up. The prisoner appeared to be in liquor, and as they went on he whipped the horses furiously. As he drove through the turnpike-gate near Bristol, he nearly ran against the gate. The nephew of the deceased told the pri soner he had " skimmed it near." One of the passengers told him if he drove so fast he" would upset the coach : hut the priSoner kept increasing his violence on the horses. He in creased the speed very little, for the coach was going at such a rate, that to increase the speed a great deal was impossible. After they had palsied' the bridge which goes over the Avon, about 100 yards, the coach was upset by the furious driving. The coach was not upset, in witness's opinion, by running against any thing. It was running straight when it was upset. All were thrown off' the top. Witness saw the deceased, and thought his skull , was fractured. The prisoner requested as. sistance in getting the coach to rights, but witness gave n o assistance. lie was too much bruised about himself. The deceased was carried to Bath. The coach was going at the rate of about fourteen miles an hour, when it was upset.— There were four passengers' at the time inside, and eight outside. The coach swung'from side to side as it went along. John Anthony, appther passenger, said, after he had been on the coach some tune, he thought the prisoner had been drinking exceedingly. The coach drove furiously on, and witness felt very uncomfbrtable at the time, and thought him self in danger. He requested a person who was talking to the prisoner not to speak to him or divert his attention from the horses. • Mr. Ackland, a surgeon at Bath, stated, that on the 14th of February he found the deceased labouring under a very severe wound. After lingering► a considerable time, he died from the effects of a fracture on the base of the skull, as the witness ascertained afterwards. Mr. Smith, of the White Hart inn, Bath, proved that the deceased, on the night the coach was upset, was brought in in a state of insensibility, and languished there until he died. The defence set up in behalf of the prisoner was, that a spring had broken accidentally on the road, and thereby thrown it on one side, so that it upset. A witness proved that the coach arrived at the White Bart inn with one of the springs broken off; but on his cross - examination it turned out that this spring had been broken before, and Was only mended by a thin piece of iron. On the re-examination of all the passengers, there ap peared to be . no reason for believing that it might not have been broken by the coach oversetting. Some witnesses gave the prisoner a good character for hu manity._ • The Jury immediately found the prisoner —Guilty. Mr. Justice BURROUGII, in passing sentence o n the . soner, observed that by a recent act of Parliament he was empowered to sentence him to transportation for life; but as this was the first instance which his Lordship knew of, of a conviction for the offence of furiously driving, he did not think it •necessary to visit him with the full measure of punishment which the law enabled him to inflict, and he should impose a more lenient punishment, in the hopes that that would operate as a first warning to those of his class. Ili* Lordship, however, couldnot help observing, that a great portion of the evil was occasioned by the inattention of the proprietors themselves, who encouraged this system of driving furiously, for the 'purpose of out-stripping each other, and getting more money by perforMing journeys in a shorter time: Such itiate of travelling as 12 gr 14 miles an hour by a coach laden with passengers, was a rate which could not be sanctioned, tor it was dangerous and illegal, and those who adopted it must be aware, for they did it at their peril. lle was afraid itowever,they would go on dnving;faster and faster, until by repeated accidents it became necessary to put a stop to the sys, tem, by sentencing those who in the pursuit of it occasioned the dctith of any of his Majesty's subjects, to be transported for life. His Lordahip sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned for ' 12 months in the County Gael, and during that time to be kept to hard labour at the treadrnill.—There were niany Jams in Court, amongst whom the conviction andienteuce appeared to excite a strong sensation, FOR THE SUN. CATHOLIC E3IANCIPATION.,-PROTESTItNT SUBJECTION. P,L E ° Thetio P us E r E C N a G t 11 L c D ! CausesW e c r o e m a e r s e y o o n u n P e t t h i e - House of CoMmons in a few days, and ifyou coo tinue to sleep while it is carried,'you will be wakened in a few months to the greatest afflic tion which ever befel this land. Do you mean that Englhnd should be the slave of Ireland ? Protestant England sacrificed to Catholic Ire land 41—Your Altars and your Throne trampled upon by Popish superstition and Popish Bulls ! Do you mean to let all the liberty of conscience and of person which you enjoy—which your forefathers gained for you with their blood, and trafismitted in confidence to your keeping, sported away without remonstrance or appeal,. by those who should be foremost to maintain it-- by those who are sacredly 'entrusted by your selves with the defence of it ?—llo you mean, by your apathy and indifference, in the moment of extreme danger, to put yourselves to the neces sity of contending again hereafter for the Consti tution which now shelters and is dear to your the Ascendancy which you now possess, and must possess, or endure the worst of tyranny—the tyranny of Papists ?—They are prepared to execute it—they have begun.- Look at your ill-fated Protestant brethren in Ireland ; not one of them has escaped Catholic hatred or Catholic outrage—thus tenements are burned, thjir lands and crops destroyed—thus persons murdered in cold blood —ell thi s is daill and hourly transacting by Catholics. Look at tiee unfortunate family of sixteen persons (the. Shee vengefully beset, surrounded, and unrelentinglY, burned in their homes, at midnight, by assemble° hundreds of ruffians and savages. This was by Catholics, and is the mercy which Cath ol p r will shew Heretics (which is their ,ph t rase hew Protestants), when they can get them in power. Look at half a million of moneys more,drained from the unwitting beneYolo n "l o an public purse of this country to relieve those u s ; by their conspiracies, and burnings, d devil aio„ na tions in Ireland, had reduced themselves t their uniqforming neighbourhood to starvation and disease. This too was Catholic worlfr-4/1, the av representation of the distress, Catholic — tine ministration of the funds, Catholic. book at language of fervour,L---prelude to yourowo ,u ts , pression, now g rowing in daily vogue. The I • be' sessed 'raxes,are remitted who*, in !relent , ea cause Ireland is Catholic—Tithes are co nim i e,%,, in Ireland—" and it will please the. Calli?'; • forbidden —the statue of King William is of he to be dressed, the most g lorious era . e it Constitution is snot to be celebrated, . 1 , I. :` ote , should offend the Catholics! The Lord Wove , nant is insulted in consequence at the which is usual enough for public a ctors t as :_a and because the favouring of Catholics .17C s I w il ' ho the disturbance, the Protestant ntrendLer.. might deserve some punishment, are to n ted sated highireason, or tit least to be inn" Uc re l° a riot and conspiracy,—Grand Juries lop of Ca" grossly insulted by the Irish Advocate ~.t ). or Supremacy (there is no punishment for .. ";; I ,:or acquitting their consciences, and thr?: n i t o n the Bill; the acquitted are again to u their trial by virtue of the ex-offico and the Jury will not unite to find them oil?twitit they shall be threatened, notwithstantlin,l 9 open' a THIRD prosecution for this trernendoku 0 _ a; of a glass bottle thrown by a ntis n isfribe benches violently rapped by gY may bora play and singing interrupted, oIY , at the astounded ; his Excellency alarmea es , iles a 44 awful" disturbance, and not the weakor rs,ther broken ; all this straining of the law,. _„,, at ion no law, was for the.,sake of or at-the 105"b•treo If e of Catholics against Protestants• w her frees then people of England to continue fr o . 0)& 14,9 are your petitions against the comma's.l, every city, town, village, parish, and individual among you ? 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