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OLD BAILEY lefore the Commo N SFIIGKANX and a London Jury. • CIIAIIGF, OF LIIIEL. TI-IR KING 1/. S HN VIATTI-IRw GUTCI4. Ye*Oerd.‘• john Gulch was indicted for baying printed and pnhlislted in London, on the 18th of juiy, I 8 8 , a certain false and scanclalons libel agaitst James M'll , , in a paper called '' Felix Farky's Bristol Journal," of which the following is a copy : " 1:eally, Mr. Mills, this exceeds all those b,.refaced perversions.ot truth, whirl. I have so often heard you make. [low cats you know what account ut your trial I have chosen to publish ?- 1' . .“1 h a ve uot seen it : Only part of the it•Opression of my ,lotto nal being printed, and of course not befote the public eye. Much as your it letter on the jail business, addressed to me in The Bristol Mercuty of September last, might have justified me in copying from arty print that report of your trial which bore ale hat des' on your cha racter, 1 think, when you* read the report which I have published, that you %will give me credit for toy iutpartiality, and less malice than you seem to allow me. I have copied your trial in tie first instance front The Bristol Ohserucr, becatcse 1 WAS given to understand that a legal relative of the Editor of that Paper was in Court, and took times of the proceedings ; but with a charitable feeling towards you, which you really do not deserve, I have copied also foom your brother's raper (The _Bristol Gazette) the reasons I supposed both of you would wish the public to believe, were those which. led ,to the unfortunate nonsuit. Your affi davit forming no part of the trial, 3 was at liberty to insert or rekct, as 1 pleased, gutless you paid for it as an advertisement. I consider the Col4lllllls of my journal too valuable to deVote (bent to a vindicati9n of your character, unless I receive a suitable remuneration." Mr. James Mills, the prosecutor, requested to be allowed to address the Court and Jury on be half of the prosecution, on the ground that he bad on a former indictment employed Counsel, and that be did not think proper to pay for' the assistance of a professional Gentleman on, the pre- sent occ►►sion. . . . Mr. BOLLAND, on the part of the defendan►, objected, :and cited the opinions of Lord Ellen borough and Lord Chief Justice Abbott, to prove that rrivate individnals were not..allowed in such . a case us the present to address the Jury. The King ►vas here the prosecutor, and Mr. Mills could come into Court only in the character of a wit- ness. The ComMONeSPAGEANT WSIS Of opinion that Mr. Mills had no light to address the Jury. Jr was the invariable practice of every day, in cases .of felony, to s►►ffer the prosecutor to act only in the character.uf a witness. Mr. Mills.—!. claim it as a right, and if the • Coin twill not allow me to speak, 1 will give sip tl.e prosecution. The COMMON-SERGEANT.--I cannot. I dare • not al(er what has been decided by such high au- thotity, Mr.; Mills was then called as a witness in the ordinary manner, and after a short pause he took Itbe customary oath. Lle was examined by the Common-Sergeant, and stated, that be was an engineer residing at Cotham v near Bristol. Tur ning to the Gentlemen of the Jury, he said, " I will state the facts of the case to you, Gentle men." The COMMON-SERGEANT..— .. ` The Court is not to be trifled with in this manner, you must address yourself to me, and . answer.the questions put by me." Mr. Mills then proceeded to read the facts of the case from the record ; but he was again in terrupted by the Court, and was compelled to de tail the facts in the legal and ordinary manner.— He said, (that on Friday evening, 17th July, 1818, lie called at the office of Air. Glitch, in Bristol, end found that he was from home. 11e saw, how ever, Mr. Gutch's agent, Dennis lfill, and wit ness asked him whether Mr. Gina) bad inserted the account of his trial in his Vaper. _ . consequence In of the answers he received, he dessired that an affidavit which he had made might be inssrted in the (*Japer, it having appeatcd in the other Bristol Papers. About two or three hours after be had left the oce, he received a message,. and he in consequence again went to the office,. and wtote a letter, addressed to Mr.Gutcll, request ing the insertion of the affidavit which was to be :charged to hint. The next morning Mr. (hutc h's paper appeared in pritat, chntaining the libel in question. Cross:exantined by Mr. BOLLAND.—The Paper was not ptibished ivheti he first went to office : it was not the publishing tta)c When he wrote the letter tequesting the insertion of the affidavit, be had not seen the itccuitul of the trial. Ile had ma:!e A charge against Mr. Gulch, at Bi istol, for a libel, which fie did not substantiate, because he was in Londun tit the tithe it came 00. Mr. Ludlow, his Counsel, said, Ire would give him notice, but he never did, and Mr. (hitch was actpiitted iii consequence. Mr. Charles Keeling. lived at No. 5, Budge row, and was not now in employ. Ile applied to the tamp-office to know who WWI the pioprietor of The Bristol Journal. The crt titivate was pro duced and read, by which it appeared that helix Farley was the original proprietor,-anti that Mr. Glitch was the present - proprietor. Witness saw the instrument signed by the'COrtiolissioner. ‘Villiam Moore was next called, but did not appear, and there being no proof that the lihel css plitljiiied in London, as charged in the in tlic'nient, the itt4endatit was acquitted. John Matthew Gulch was again indicted for hav ing !Hinted and published the following libel against James Mills in London, on the 6th Fe binary, 11+19: " To our trotters at home, Mr. Mills's chat-ac t • r is too well k 1105511 to need description, but nu ~ant readers ought to be informed that he is a modern political demagogue, and a great adyu. rate fur the wide extension of the liberty of the rrets. But we shall be indeed surprised, it tares bitch conduct as this, if after another pioceedinv, tt a similar description against other respectable cititco's of Bristol. iu which he was disgraceluily, uoirsoited, Mr. Mills should ever find himself at t in 014 city. We will torbe+it to partieta larize H prnipcotiwt now pending be the same Pa ttiot Ahd t,,,,kr of the lii ilts of I\l4n, `tig,tinst another te.nert4ltle foi• peti,ry. flow bk.s•erl %Twill be ti,e etiects iti rei , thing modern consistvtt in colidtt-t—ito , c nit• livoitic. May tleaVeil aver' c1 ,1411 .. 1 y tram nod may it pirase to visit the distant s'inres of America, the dernier vet); t tin't asylum for otingee vitriots, and no - bmger dist ot b the peaceable awl indtistricws citizens nt i istol in the enjoyment of their good ftitne, by bringing actions agnioit them which he crwitnt stspintrt, ;nit prosecWions which be is to ~,niwtinti,t(e.” Chaitc, firehlig W,tS caliert anti gave evidence to ilc ..ifect on the last indictment. as also examined, awl vated that he tv,i; be.id waiter at the Chapter (7 . lie pioved that he received Tice Thislol Journol of t he 6ls of February, but lie knew no thine of the Printer or Publisher of the Paper.— Ile pris , htecd a the of papers, among which was 7he Bristol Joulnal of the 6th of •February. Mr. BOLLAND observed; that there was 39 yet no pr.ol of the libel being published in London. Mr. 111i:ls.--1 can prove that a man has read it .in London. The COMMON SERGEANT—That will not do; we milst have legal evidence, or none at all. it wool(' he hard indeed if the law allowed a man to be dragged up from Bristol . to London, and to be con victed upon illegal testimony. Dennii Hal %vas then called. He was agent to Mr. Gutch at Bristol. Papers were occasionally sent from the office to the Chapter Coffee-house, but Ire could not tell whether the identical paper produced was sent hone the office of 11r. . Glitch at Br ittol. Mr. Mills was asked, whether he had any more witnesses to. call, and he replied that he had nt)t. The 6iNilMoiN SEHGRANT.- - 7Then you have not proved your case. There is no proof that the libel was published in Londrin. • Mr. Milk—l will call "no more witnesses; I conceive myself to have been very hardly and Un justly treated. I came here not as a wit ness,. but to address the Court. The COMMON7SERGFANT.—L adv ise, you, for your Own sake, Mr. Mills, not to hold that lan guage, or the Court will be compelled to deal harshly with you. 'the proof not being sufficient, the defendant was Acquitted by the Jury. •. Mr. Milts during the trial was allowed to re main a? the Barrister's table, and was treated with . every politeness. the Spa-fields Orator, was in Court - doting the whole time, and assisted Mr, Mills by hii advice. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY. George Brooks was indicted for stealing a quan tity of Manchester goods, the , property of Edward ; Bartlett. . . .The _following are the circumstances of the . ease ;—.About the middie of April last,' the ware houses of Alessi's. Stubbs and Worcester,•common wharf,. were entered byi carriers of Paddingtonwharf, some person or persons in the rig o ut time,. and se veral valuable bales of goods stolen thereout. The prisoner lived upon the wharf as a kind of foreman to Mr. Dove, the proprietor of an ex tensive brick field in the neighbourhood, and on the day after the robbery he was found in his lonise packing up in a large case a quantity of the goods which had been stolen. _Upon heiog ques tioned as to his possession of them, he said he found them in the dungheap on the wharf. He ' was then asked ttbetGer he had any more, and he replied in the negative; but on searching his house two other pieces of vtiveteen were forted, one under the bed, and one within it ; and in a stableiof which he had the care, a bunch of pick lock keys were found. Mr. Anaritsi, the prisoner's Counsel, called the following witnesses in hiS. defence : Stephen , Braithwaite said, that The prisoner came into the Horse and Sacks public-house' two days before he was taken up, and 'decl ar ed openly in the tap-room that tie had . found some things in alre clung-heap that morniug, tbes_satna time desiring the people' there to let him know thuuld • . I they hear of a robbery. Cross-examined by Mr. ALLEY.—Witness did not know whether anybody else beard what the prisoner said, nor did he know that there Were posting bills all about the neighbouihdod deScribi W I? tine robbery, and 'offering a reward fur the discovery of the - - Mr. Dove, Ibe pris,otter's master, said he bad been in his service upwards of fifteen years, and be always believed Km to be perfectly hottest.' a vlBl - finger, anti Grove North, aihn gave the prisooey character. kitown trim for a her of years As to the picklock krys, he find seen them lit Mr. Dave's stable tool years ago. WitliesS was by when u J,ittnirer who . was digging sonde niiinnre opott the w.harf thrill ill with leis . . The v,itness underwent a long cross-examina tion by Mr. ALLEY. Among other tOestions, he was asked whether he dill not say to a Mi. Holt, (lie morning alter the prisoner's apprehension, th,it he was surprized the ictisoner had not men tioned having posses in of the goods sooner, be cduse he himself had told him of the robbery • The witness denied this most solemnly ; and (le dared, upon his oath, that he did not know Of the pi 'suttees apprehension till between twelve and one o'clock on titat'4l. Mr. Holt was called to this fact ; and swore, as positively, that Mr. Ball had used those words ; about nine o'clock in the morning, after the pri boiler had been taken up, in conversation which he had with hint on. the %Awl% The Constable who apprehended the prisoner w a s also present, and heard Mr. Bali woke the remark, as stated, • Mr. Ball peisisied in denying that he ever made use of any such words. The evident e was re capitulated, and the Jury almost immediately pcd uounced the prisoner Guilty. The moment the verdict was delivered, Mr. ALLEY moved the Court, t h at the last witness, Mr. Bali, be Committed for wilful perjury, and lie would undertake the prosecution a4ninst Hilt! himself. SOme little hither conveis.ttion ensued, and Mr. Holt and the Constanle were then hound over to proseente him, o r tl;e nrxt t""essinns , and he was instantly taken into C,isfridy. Almost immerliatelv atter, Mr. Dove, and an. other-person, appeare4 atithe Counsel table. to be hail for lrint ; bttt Mr. ALLFy ohjectel to 7-:Ir I) , rve's h,il, unless twenty-tour boors notice were ti ven of it, end percmp! ovily ordered him to quit tiro part of the Corot; which order Mr. Dove instantly complied with. - HIGHWAY Ronnnr.v. Samuel Dennison and Edward Macey, were in dirled for feloniously assaulting John Lemon' on the King's hightyay, and takiog from trim his prr.ket,book', &c. The prosecutor, a seatwin, was nAlking along 0:(1 Gravel• lane, be' ween eight and oitte o'ctork in the evenin , g, hen finding that he iv as in a bid neig,hbourhood, he tho , ight he kvouid put his pocket-book into his cravat, and to tie it von mi his neck. as a place of safety. Whilst he was busy doing this, however, the two pri sonk.t •came up, and Macey snatched the book from him, whilst the other 'prevented his pursuit, by putting his leg before him, end throw ing hint all along on his face. They then ran away, but they were takesi before they had ran far. The prosecntoradded, that he could swear to the po4et-hook by its containing a memoran dum of his being shipwrecked on the Coast of Africa, and making a voyage from thence to St. Helena in open. boat. The officer who stopped them doposed to finding such a memorandum in pocket-book which he found upon the prisoner. Macey.—Macey guilty, Dennison acquitted. COURSE OF EXCHANGE, TuzsDAT, JUNE 1. 11 13 C. F. A nisteithim • Ditto, at Sight 11 14 Us. Rotterdam Antwerp 35 - 2 • 21 Us. Hamborgh Aitona Paris, 3 Day's sight 24 85 0 Us. Ditto • Mourdeaux, ditto . , 25 15 0 Us. Franhforton the Main Niadrid 37 Effective • Cadiz 3i Effective Gibraltar . Baieecona . , ` 3 Leghorn - 50 Genoa... 451 -Venice, Ital. Liv. 2 -Malta... ..hu =Naples 4O 'Palermo Lisbon ..... Oporto Rio Janeiro Dublin.... .. ~. 133.....C0rk.....133 iser CeUt. • Agio of the Bank on Holland.... 2 per Cent. BARBAROUS Mu anea.----01 Friday last were; comMitted to 1 1 / 4 1onntuath gaol, by the Rev W.' Edward Jones, and RI 7 thard the murder of John Gunter, a pOor harmless shoemaker, who lived on the side of the Skirrid Hill, about three Utiles froM Abergaitenny. It 'appeared, on the eotifes-: sioit of cliuggand Jones, that Owen, about two years agO, had stolen a game-cock !rpm the de r `cease'!, with caused him to •y a guinea to make pa . , it up ; When Owen observed, ". that he would he, sure to fetch it out of him, even if k were. t arenty , years afterwards ;" and on Monday night last, he put' Ills dreadful threat into execution, by going with the other two t i nfortunate,prlsoners to Gun ter's finttat, about 'tWelve O'clock at night, first pulling `off their clothes in a field adjoining the house, and blacking their faces, 'lmmediately on breaking in, they dragged the deceased out of bed,• pot a rope round his neck, and endeavoured to bang him, but the room was too low for that purpose. Owen'then struck' bins on the bead with an 'axe, and . completed his bloody intention 'by cutting him aunts the head and temple, until he had killed him. ()Wen lived in a cottage about a mile-frontAbi-rgavenny, and has been a bad Cha racter for some years ; .Chngg is about IS,• and epptar4 to•baVe 'been drawn in entirely from giv ing way to.b‘ad company.; and Jones is a travel hug tinker, but has been acquainted with Owen f or s on i c time past. Great credit is clue to the Magistrates of Abergavenny, and particularly to Njr..Prothetoe, of Newport ; by whose exertions alone. Jones and Chugg were taken.—.-(Gloucester joiirnal ) SRlClDB.—Yesterday a young man, named Widen, recently from the country, who resided at. the Shears '1 a ver n , Wood • sneet, Cheapside, put an end to his existence by taking poison. The deceased had since his arrival in London formed an attachment to the servant of a chemist ia Wood-street ; site did not discourage, his ad dresses, and his affection.tor her was of the most ardent description. Within the last few weeks his mind bad been distracted with something, but his friends could not divine the cause ; he grew cheerless and : titulanchoy, and could not attend to his business. Yesterday he went, into liollaUen, and to9k leave of :a friend, aid Culled a , t viuce vaults, and'drank an excessive JuJantity of spirits ;he went borne in - a state. of intuxica i;ou to IVoml-street ; somebody expressed their :stupri;e at his situation; he. immediately left the lioast;,.,, w ent to achemist's opposite, tsnd.purchased an ounce of sugar of lead, with which boot-tops. are Cleaned, and which he afterwards swallowed,. having mixed it in some water in >i tea cup. tie soon was in the most excruciating pain, and run - ;ling over to the chemist's, told hint what .he bad done ; be also acknowledged what was the cause of his taking it. The -female whom, he 'loved had transferred.ber affections to another.— ehernit administered a most powerful anti tiote,*bat'the coat of his stomach wavalmnst en tirely desti'oyed, and he died in the shop Mai tew minutes. Neatly 400/. in base shillings and ,half-crowns, . were seized last week at a house near Moortields, just after their arrival from the Birmingham ma r . nufactory. A father and son, named Dalton, are in custody. The celebrated Mrs. Charlotte Bird King, who :duped the innkeepers of this town, of Chester, and Birmingham, by fictitious grief, and at• tempts at suicide, has practised the same ma neeuvres, at Gravesend, Margate, Chatham, and Canterbury. At Portsea she used to throw.blood off her stomach, and pretend delirium. , She dresied very plain and neat, bordering on, th; custom otQaakers; and generally, in her discourse,. used yea %tit( nay : she said her mother, Was 'Qaskeress. She was con fi ned in Gosport Bride well.--(Shrewsbury Paper.) MIDDLgSEX SESSIONS. George Herbert Vl'aS.indirte(l for havingOtrain• ref l Is. by tslse representations, trom,bis„maer , Giffin Wthon,, Est] , of the Chancery Par, one, t l 3 is Majesty's Conosel. * • ' M .Wii:on state:!, that the d e f en( l4 n t i , : # N bolvisi his coachman about two years„hael, been itiJir habit of t Axing his horses to the blacksmith when ever there was occasion; His direeticin4 were, th a t no hill should-be run up, burthat 'payment he instantly given upon the .pertortna.uce of every job. 00 one occasion the.rielelltitill t b,o , agl!t to him a piece of paper, purporting•tribif a receipt for I I for work done out a irecifs44l day by Thompson, the blacksmith, who Was,ift thebabit of shoring Mr. Wilson's horses. Mr 4 ‘Vitc o n paid the money, not having entertainer! * dont)► of los servant's integrity. An orFettrrenas however, soon after triok place, which induceii Mr. Wilson to make some enquiry about the 4* mand. Ile was assured by Tbrimpson and li' son, who produced their bookec sh=it no dern4o l of the kind had peen made by them, and that money of course had not been paid to them ; anti in this (tedaration they were borne out, upon or awl:lll6°n of the books. Mr. Wilson having '4.4% sired that those witnesses should be - called, The two blacksmiths got into the box, and tea nished the prosecutor in no slight degree, bf swearing that the work bad been dOne,"aistf e ven that an additional job bad been performed on 111 day alluded to, .by which the demand became is. 6d. more than the lis , so that if they west now to be believed, Mr. Wilson actually nwed•his servant Is. 6d. instead of having been cheated by him oat of seven times 'as much. - There was s difference between the testimony of the blacksmith and that of his son, but it was' a matter of veil( hide moment in their eyes. The father VO I Weil that it holies were nailed and shoed thesamedal• it was always a rule with him to charge for bad' jobs, while the son swore that nailing was n i•veir under any circumstances paid for after shoeing hail been done on the saute day. • Mr. ALLEY, who was for the defance, maties joke of the Matter. Ile said, as if there ccAl exist no doubt of the defendant,' '` Well, GeV" tlemen of the Jury, I ask you whether you think it necessary that_ 1 should proceed any further its this case: is alt evidently it mistake. Tat LearneclProsecutor, alt hough an excellent Lai - wyeAr does not understand a blacksmith's books." The Jury riochted to each other, and said, thee 'vvits no occasion. The CHAIRMAI:IiSited, very significantiy, - whio Vier it was awe defendant's innocence they woo satisfied. They replied in the affirmative, and the v.erriii:i Not Guilty was recorded. . The CHAIRMAN then _said, he by no mewl. ir tended to throw an imputation upon the verdict but it wait a lamentable thing to see two fetiotsli who bad sworn to a circumstance point blank lam' fore a Magistrate, come forward and .awear qu the reverse upon the trial. On Monday several vagrants were brangbt /IP Who had been committed to the Sessions thro4lo the medium of.the Society for the soppressitm 4 Mendicity, an institution which, whilst relietiof real7distiess, spares no exertion to export 0454 punish imposition anti fraud. The Officers of 14 4. Society attended, and the cases were brotightbe" fore the notice of the Court by Mr. Watford, rte' ing as honorary Counsel, when John Lewis,Jols‘ William Molyoeux, Mary M`Cawly, —Thomaii Parker, Neil Turner, Thomas Wheeler, Corot" lies Rogers, John Stephano, and:Robert.Notkle were convicted and sentenced to be liirther prisonedtor different periods, and to,be pasted it their rei , pective - parishes. Several of them bt. been before convicted of similar practices, ao.d particular Moiyneuv, who was slat& to be stitivill notorious impostor and dangerous-character. 1 Court sentenced 'him to six months' impritose mew, and during that time ordered, trim to Well flogged. . . BIRTH. . . . • On Monday nigla, , at Cho - cling, .he Countess Stankitr 4 . of a sun. , . i MARRIED.. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LlFE.—Yesterday wait married, CAA • White Melvile, of the Royal Lancers',: to Lady car‘issWi o Oshorlic, only datighter of the Din.liess Dowager of Leek' The interesting and lovely bride was the favourite compatriot and fiient of our ever-to-be-latuented Prince,ts tharWW l • Wales. lailuediately after the ceremony the happy ?air off , flout the .buirse of the Duchess . Dowager ? ot•Leedi: Lower tiriisretior street, for the residence of their Noble ev; lative, Lord Francis Osborne, its ,Nottingham.) _ . DIED. • Orr . NlundO , last,'' it hit house, Cl'aphani-toinnton., in 1 4 26th year, Charles Adanis , Kervble, bsq.. , , fin Sui:dar last, suddenly, of an apoplectic attack, at V. • lodgilis 1,4 tirrent• Ornitnit-Areeti-Queen.aquare, -„Ildr.„.141 01 % Greurwiontl Taylor, aged 32: . ..... • • PROVINCIAL BIRTHS, NIARRIAGES,..AND 'MATO.; In Pandas-street, F.,dirdnirgh, on tbe.2.7l.lliostant,'Mra:-S • Gillespie, of Sonnyside, ut a %mt. At Perth, on Ti St iiiStant, the Lady Acheson •Frencli. fidth Regiment, Supesiniending Ofchter" , ' that Station, ot.a son.. , . ' At St, Ci;lunih, Cornwall, the wife of a laVenr?rtg , mall! named AtidEisV(in h r S2d year), of her twektili klt3ld. t ~/ • , PA RRIED,. By special licence, at Epping Church, , Estelc, Wrotiesley, Wrottesley Hall,, in the coutity9f .ford. to the Hon. Mrs..lohn •liennytt, rtiuglaei 4 theVP' .J ( din .conyers, F,sq. of Coot Hall, Essex.- - , On sti l Kby'se . nriight, at Loclangtini, Leleeite'rshirGlk,,E n tV Colonel F. S. Miller, 41;13: of lt , a4scaV Grienke; (late of the Dragoons),, to fi et woam:filitill P ' Story, fifth claueibtcr.o,f the Rev, Philip. Si oil, pf.i.vc.iiisaie i Hull. " PIED. . Lately, at. Mansfield._ in the 82d year of-his age, GeoT 4 'Cartwright, Esq. eldest son of William Cartwright,. EN T - 1. lklartihatu, and brother to the renerable . lajor.Ol the mune. , . . At Sandwich place, Edinlinrgb, on the 19th ult. WO ) Glassford, Elsq..of Lkougalston. At Inveresk, Scotland, on the 19th 'instant, Are6*,; l4 . Skirviog, portrait painter. • On Wednesday last, at the age of 21, after a short illueo of four days, at the town residence of his Grandfather th d ; Right lion. Lord Wodeltonse, Norris' John WiidettoNists, ' F :44 ' the eldest on of ilia Hon. Colonel Wodehouse,.ei Park, in 'Norfolk. • LONDON: Printed II.). Ij. CARSTAIRS, of NO. V, Orntond-street, f.incen-swotre; and publish4;d fir W. St Ri PPS, o a f No. 7, South Molten-stree t , at; TN %1 1 ' Office, No. 114. strand ; whertt Adrettisements, Orde r 't ice. (past-paid) Lutist be tthiressed. < t „r 4 !.4