The Sun. — London, England, 1816-05-09 00:00:00

fi .. y ithy , LATE ALARMING A'irRAY. N • - . AStrither tneeting to investrgate the pqractdafs ar,the late outrages at the Old Ship Tap,, took ph la! this d ty r at the oM'e of My. Colbatch, soli citor, and the Citrk of the. IlagissiAtes, at which the Lieutenant-Colonel of the slst, and several other Officers, the wounded men, 8:c. attended.. - Mr. Serieant RitisNiNOToN regretted that the parties who had given the wounds 'could not be identified, hut said, that no doubt remained on his mind that the fishermen had been the aggres -' hail provoked what had occurred, though the provocations offered "could scarcely - be regard ed as an extenuation, and math less a justifica tiou, of tilt d'readkt proceedings that afterwards tOult place. He professed his readiness to bring the offenders to justice whenever they should be discovered, and ekharted . the Lieutenant• Colonel tend the Officers to use their sit tnnst endeArvx+nrs to find them Out, and deliver them over to the ;Civil Power.' He instanced the brilliant services of the Regiment abroad, and deplored that any circtim stances should occur to dim ~the lustre of their fame at home. On. the poor fellows, wounded, xyliu had been passive spectators of what hail hap tetied, and had innocently suffered for the guilty, Lc passed many encomiums, particularly for the 'cautious manner in which they had given their Vepositions. The Lientenant-Colonel spoke of Lis regiment ts.a (Inlet body of men, and not more quiet than brave ; and expressed him;clf hurt that any of should b.l ye been guilty of the late out - ttges The iosulting conduct of the fishermen tunards the tttu uaty, however, he said, had come to his knowledge fn repeated instances ; it had been of the most retwehensib!e description ; the langnage made use of had been too gross for re petition, and of a nature to induce even the most forbearia to acts .of violence. It Wct9 hard for me n , ni ter ardtsons services abroad,-tp be insulted at home; and he felt satisfied, that if insults were refrained front, so tar from Causing complaints, . the corps would live in the estimation of the town. lite Lieutenant-Colonel spoke With a Spit it that Ura characterised by good sense; amt professed his readiness to assist the civil power, and tdeti force obedience to good ogder on all occasions. Mr. Serjeant RuNNtNGTONT, then, after a‘lvis ing the fishermen, in case , of insults, to apply to the Magistrates, and not to take the law into their own hawk, nod the military to do the same, ordered the man in custody to he discharged, and ' for want of evidence, 11114gi, 6er! the complaint. NUPTIAL BALL AT SALISBURY. A halt, siwpassting in sitlendour any ever wit laessed in Salisbury, keas en at the Council C ., am - !ter, on Tinirsday evening List, by the Worthy the Rev. CifiIIiTOPHER in honour of the 'Nuptials o. her Royal Highness tie Princess Charlotte of Wales. Numerous ✓irat'ions had hero given to families of tashion and respectability in, the city and neighbourhood, and • brilliant assemblage of upwards (4,2,30, persons traced the room: The dresses of the'Ladies, be ing almost invariably white, added not a little to the gaiety of this festive scene. Mr. Reymilds, /rota. Biar, the celebrated performer on the harp, 'was, engaged on the occasion. The dancing rum- Inenced ibout ten o'clock, a . ud continued till four *;I the morning. A profusion of delicacies and refreslinients was served to the company, who de parted, all highly pleased with the very polite . and unceasing attention Which had been ,paid to them by the Mayor'and Lady. The, front of the Colincil Ch am ber was b r illi ant l y and most taste fully illuminated With variegated lathps. 'I he floor of the ball-room was beautifully ornamented (by. Mr. Farr,, of - Salishory,) with the King's Arms in the centre how ; tinder 'which, in the centre of the room, appeared a Rising Sun with " Sake Coburg" in the middle. , In two :coin. partments, on each side, appeared the Prince of Wales's Plumes and Coronet ; at the upper ettd of the room the Arms ol the City Find supporters ; at the lower end the Mayor's Antis, between two laurel branches. The whole surrounded with a boarder. Extract of n letter . from Hobart -town, V an bieman's Land, Sept. 23, 1815 :-L." This colony has been in ani alarming stole tor Ft considerable that back. A great number of the convicts ran I%%vay into the woods, apd commenced a system of living by plunder. This settlement having no criminal court, the chances of escaping ' , twist). ment induced them to verscvere : atter committing numberless robberies, they began to burn houses, awl committed severed murders. • At length, the Governor caused 'inertial law to be prodthaied-; niter which four of these desperadoes were taken tried by a general' court-mai tied, condemned, and Lung in chains; tipow which the rest ,gnt farther otf into the woods ; -hut, as several armed parties are out in search of them, it is hoped they will he 'tsoon caught, and P stop pia to these. atrocities.' Air. SHERIDAN - lieS sublet ed a severe illness, li l y Nve are happy to hear that lie is recovering, and has nearly regained his strength. The ItoYAL ,OUTFIT is 60,0001. ; yet, mlignifi tent as the stun appears, only Two Tickets bought at CARTHR'S, 8 Charing cross, may pro- Attlee 60,000 L and rival Royalty itself. These are istlient hopes ; but deSpair itself must admit. the Possibility, apd without hope, what is lire It appe a rs by returns move d f or i n the House of Conimons, that on an average the Revenue de rive). ball a million per annum from Lotteries: the " 13 :nitude of this sum, and the lecollectikan that it is a voluntary tax, to which the public cheer fully co,„rib„fe,' might have been expected to re. , foncile every one to their continuance; neverthe- , ims, the su bj ect b as b een ser i ous l y ta k en u p b y 1 ” . " 4 . 1 menillets, who are anxious for the aboli ,ton :anti it is shortly to be disc u ssed in the house. i however, this is to be the last Lottery, as ex the Contractor seems, tietertnined to have ; for, by the Bonus given to pur,. iilseis berwe next Tuesday, every one is HOW t t rt;in• h et sontOhilig, over and above the their Own number, whia Mien gain 4,) '.. , ; tp,101 4 or even 60,041, IM. EWAL lIAIIMANi:ENt - , HOUSE OF LORDS, IVRoNESDA : I"; Itbor flt The nottie met nt ten o'clock in tite-inQtnln:,:, proceeded in Appeals. Leach add !turner, Cirri; aacid , fieard in the Itout ltdgv Cause; and hearing 6niahed. lhuinsun heard hi t! Cartuiehael Cause., . . Evidence was given on the AI d 7 Mei); ce Bill, to iliew that Lady .tidy was at Paris, and servict of the Bill ofi tier Agent ivas ordered. 4. A Pviition was presented from Cenerii.Dyott, stating that the trustee had re4nlarly paid her`pni-mooey to hi; wife, and Fraying that his hill might pfuceed. The trUsti.e,.&e. older ed to atteod.,tt The Earl of 1...11:0E.ft DALE, as we underitrhul him, irhiv ed the„ printing of the Bank report, and to Other papers on the same subject.; which were ordered.. The Cotton Bill, Gerwan Prunes Bill, and St Cenrge the Martyr Ono eh Bill, were brought tip front the Goan:twos, and read a 111..1 time. . . The tUrk Duty and Tonnage Duty Bills were Committed and reported,—Adjoupied. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Petitions were received from the Tanners of Truro and Warrington. 4 :General THORN TON gave notice, that to morrow he should move for Accounts of the ExpenceS incurred in Pro secutions for E'urrery by the Wink since IRl‘2'. . . Mr. 'I'HORNJ'ON mentioned his intention to object to it. The Wroughtlioods Bill was reid• a third time.—The I rish Treasury Bills Rill went thronigh the Committee —Post-office hiperi, and Accounts of Broad and Narrow Cloths, and of Exchequer Bills, were presented. FRENCIi PROTESTANTS. Sir SAMUEL RomiLLY, gave notice, that gn Tnesday tie shout() submit a Nlot loft on' the con dition of the Protrstants in the South of Fritnee. Alr, H. ADDiNGToN obtained le•tve to bring in a lid! 10 amend the Act respeiting C+intitt ti Lunatics. Leave was grantbd, and the Lim was brought itt, to answer to ti gnestiOn frorn Sir J Ne.wport, M. H. Addington said, tile report of the , Seo;cli Commissioners v. 0o1(1' be produced iy soon as possible. • BANK AFTAnts. Mr. GRENPELL gave 'voice, that he intended to call the attention of the nonce to the 4181li ot the kingl, awl to move to reduce the charge or the Bank for managing the public debt : he had al o) a view to the application or part of the uaciainted dividends in the Rank to t tie service. tie would give no :wilt:L. of a 11)(111(in Oil the sonject, ag he nuderstood t: e Rigitt Hon. Gentleman had promised to hying it forward. If he (tilt not, he should certainty call the considerati9n of the House to the sithiect. The CHANCELLoR of the EXCHFAUER intimated, that the might on Friday natne_soine day for this stihieet. . • • The Bank Restriction Bill itepgrt tvas brought T!TLIE LAWS. Mr. tuttUrsti moved fur certain papers respect ing Tithes, to which he saw rto real groutot of objection. 'But, however, .be consideied it his duty to make a it!ti, obserVaticHlS justify his filo ' tfon. It had been proved to ;he [louse, oy the . number of petitions pres.Ated, that Tithes were a great soorce of complaint for the Agricultural Interesti' nor were the imposition of them, -any great athantage to the gent:tat interest of the country, for they placed Cie, gymett iu a very in 7 %idiot's point of view... He lid toi,rr). pose any thing in respect ,o a commutation. I'lic Hon, Gentleman contended, that in respect to seizures for Tithes, the case should be tried by a Jury,' before a .decision was made, as at present, toy the Exciesiastical Court ;. which, without reflectiug on the Judge of that Court was a :.neat oppression On the subject. lie stated th e opinion, of Sir G. Wood as' being, contrafy to the decision of the .Coltrt,ot Exchequer, which that Lamed Judge thought was an inimical One in respect to composition ISO plea of tuodus. He conceived that sending these cases. to a Jury would ,give material relief. There were above 100 Tyyle Cases now pending in the. Court of Extbequer, the disputes from which caused divi sions in parishes, and much ill-Will qiid calumny against the Church.of England.. There were in stances in whodi the Tythe Proctor, tinder the Lecclesiastieal Law, has entered the garden of a cottager, and, in the process-.tit=' collecting h.s Tythes, committed great inittry.. The H Gentleman concluded with moving for the first de- . cision in the Court of litteheytur (in 1687) On the . , subject of moth/Bes or composition, in respect 10 Tithes ; aiso the,mimber of Tithe C a use s tr i e d within the las t seven years, &c. Sie. and those pending. Lord CASTLIMEAGn agreed to the production of the Papers, though ill' the way the subject hail been entlainett.bY . the Hon, Gentleman, it would; he imagined, lead to much' difliculty.—The mu - (ions wtre then agreed to. • ROMP...NI IN •PARLIANIENT. -• ••••' Sir F. Bo artF.TT presentetr;Petition from bureham, 'in Scotland, praying for Reform in Parliament. Lord MwroN took occasion to advert to to Pe tition preaenreo on a formal night by the lion. Baronet, purporting to be signed by 10,000 in habitants of Huddersfield and its neighbourhood. tie was authorized to declare, by a great ntimber of his constituents of that town, that they bad not authorized this Petition. At the same time, he did not mean to %ay that the Pedant' had not been properly signed, though .privately. At the cOmmenceMent of 1813, a venerable Patriarch (Major Cartwright) had visited the town of Hud dersfield, and left a petition to he signed. How this petition (nhich he supposed was the same) came to lie dormant for three years, and then to be presented in the Spring-of 1816, be could not tell. It was 'for the Hon. Baronet to At the time Ire spoke of the town and neighbour hood of Haddersfi'eld, it was tnenaced witli:those riots which afterwards became the subject of in quiry at the Assizes at York, anti during those Assizes it was that the Major paid his visit. • Lord LASCP.I.LIIS re-stated his former account of the proceedings of the Major 'in this respect. No man of Character.had sanctioned:his appear ance. He had chdsen the time of his visit when the dead bodies of the rioters were brought from the place of execution ; but so little countenance did he get, that lie was obliged to decamp, after appearing before a Magistrate, with a 'bundle . of Papers with which he was travelling the coantry 'to obtain signatures. Sir F. BURDETT could not ice to lvkat the ob. j • servatiO'iis of the tv - fo MobleLords 6hdza : he alintlea to a - Vetition' Troth ,Wiktitira which had . been presented, tlntkii not signed at a public ineeting, its itibfflication of ltis conduct iri :Fencing the 1-Iml4o-Iffield Petition. No'inanzota for R maink,itt ittspeet• thexbarnoter of 114,tior Cart wright. And with , i'r.lpeet to the Petition it was respyet;ihly signed—tht: signaturei 'consisting of '7,806 perotts. .4 s'•to the time Of presenting it, lie had eieFeised his own jmigment, Aiishing to, present it at the time is !rich appeared Most proper to hini ; anti ‘'vbeli the greatest impression would be made on the flouse.—The Petition was then laid of the table. LORD PRESIDENT OF ; SCOTLAND. Sir F. 111,11DET1 ittid he had atiother Petitinn _.„.. to present-of a total!) , different nature. It was against' the - condue of the Lord President Of the Court of Session, in the case tif a Lady of high retliectahility, wholwayed the intelferenCe of the Honse, she having been deprived b,y the deeiSion of tlOt Court of the gitartliiinship of Wer childi•en. It was a case of great impciiiianee, as involving the administration'of justice, mid therefore, if re ceived, it was riot likely that it would long beH suliered to lie on the table without farther no- tiet The SPEAKER. having: asked the Hon. Batonet what wits the Ingyer of ; the' Pitition Sir I l li;aby:TT said he could not state the pare iieniars from n ti.wv, but the prayer appeared to be, th.i.t the House would interfere to bring back the v,wirdietnship of her Children; so that they might be plitCed under the iirotecilon of the Court of Chi-otcerriu Fqihind. It ith, o a c cuse d t h e L o rd President o f injustice and opnreiSion. • Lord OssoLsToN secondrd the motidn,,that he might hove opporttmity, when the Petition had been read, of reltuing tie calumnies it contained. Lord CACTLEREAGLE said the Howie ought to be cautious how they lent themselves to a course which would mislead the subject. If it u'as sup. posed that the House could interfere ip the adttii nistration of the course of justice, that course would become.diSturbed and confused. If time tis no charge in the Pvtition of the great Law °neer in tinchtion having conunitted inalver tion or. oppression in the exercise of his hi g h office, and if sucl74 ChargeA were not borne out by a statement of facts in the Petition, the House ought tmt to interfere. if, however, it were al lowed to be read, hebegged he iniglit not be un derstood as giving his support Tait. •fir JOHN NBWPORT c4ntended that its com plaining of great itjustice and oppression on the partiif a high Law Officer, was kt sufficient reason for it, being attended to. Some farther conver=ation ensued, in which Mr. Bibogh,tin, Mr. IV. Dnhdas, and Sir A. Hope participuti.'d ; it was, agreed that the. Petition shotErti he brought up and read. It was of consi. &rabic length. It began by stating, that ositlow of tlfe late Colonel George Cole btoolo, teas left by her husband in 18W), sole guardinit to their two daughters, With a jointure of 12001. a-year, besides-property to the amount ot• 8,ut)(11„ in •the New River Company, and 5001. sa-year for the education and lupport ot etch of the children': that she afterward!, tnarriet! again, and, 0 444,41teiggiest ion of Tier puele 9 t hustywd, prayed the Court of Session to remove her cli:ldren front her guardianship, h then accused the Lord President of using .Coarse n,id c,thunniuns lan guage to her, acid charging her with being such a corrupter of the trtor.ds of her children that it was proper to send them tinder better confront ; tlfat he eat tied his persecution so far 'as to pre rent professional gentlemen from affording her a*istatre ; that be threatened her w i t h fi re years ' iMprisonment, and afterwards committed her front March till. November ; theft he called iari thl chit drentogiveup theirmother,as she wagon ahandoned , woman,. and that she was finally compe ll er, not to correspond with them. The Petition, after many ot h er & ta u s , %Ten t On to arp,tte on the 46115 r -ice 'and oppression ot this conduct, denying tire tfuth of the allegatiOns against her, and praying the interposition of ' the r House to procure for her retires*: Lord Osstns . rotg strongly reprobated the con duct of the Petitiontr, The n'iterlocutor stated 'that site wits not a proper person to be intrusted , With the guardianship of her children, and the children ii,ul no desire to return to the 'custody of their mother. Slie was justly attached and punish ed for contempt of Court, having Made,. in de riance order of the Con! t, an attilek by force of arms, and at night, upon the house in which the children were, for the purpose of carrying them Out of the kingdom.' Mr. - 3. P;(;11ANT was sure the House wonlrl not enfler.the Petition to lie ,on the tabl e . tie argued that die Colin was,fully authorised in cominhal* file Petitioner for contempt ; justifi e d t h e eon duet of the Lord President, who could' not act On his own authoilty ; and insisted tliat there was not one word in the Petition which authorized the inference of corrupt motives. There was no. thing . of more it4rirtauee than for the House to ripen its doors to the , Petitiona of all persons who felt themselVes aggrieved, unless they arraigned the official aihninistratioo of justice, without bearing out 'their charge's by facts, lint it might to shut its doors against all lOosa allegations of thiS Lord Br 1.1;/ IN° rejoiced that the No . ble Lord and the tine. 6eattetnan hail been beforehand with hia . i n the jt!stilicatio u of the condtict of the Lord President, - . who, he %vat. proud to say, from the knowledge. he hail of 'hint throngh his near con nexion with hi, family, Was totally in - Capable of any of the allegations made against him ; but, above oil, be knew him to be as utterly iniOpable LIS any man who ever lived of exercising oppres sion over an unfortunate anti defenceless woman. The House cif Lords was open ,to the appeal of Latly, , iand he was almost sorry the Petition had been bruit& up and read. fle should now more 't that the Petition be rejected." I Lord Ctimi,rots said, the Petitioner, by her cowl marriage, had, according to the law of Scotland, given up the guardianship of ber . Chil drvn, Mr. no ßtatt stated, the the impression on his mind was, that the Learned Jude . ,, wh o h a d h a d a dithettit task to perform, nor ouly done his duty, but h a d appcdred animated by an nflee tion.tre concern for the welfare of the'petitioner And daughtea, tic thought it riht tg . • . on, the present Occasion, teed tilt More so aate shOld on a futon? (1.4 Ii u e to - auidatiliert the tone elf a report madi) by that person tu tliurse, Wiachto him (\ir noi.ner) appeared by Ina Means ivitat:it o u gh t to h ave, hi en. The ATTORtkV-titt.tiEltAL took Ctis .fippohnnity of saying, that printed papers o n th e su bj ect of the - proceeding in Scotland on thi question had been forced iipOn hint. tbe4)raCti4 which he had mentioned were continued, he wiihed the parties to understand' it would not be suf f ered to pass'unnnticed. , • Sir F. ButiDETT, in reply, asserted nothing had bean 'advanced that proved the 'Petition ought to be_r`cjected. lie contended the facts brought be fore them made in favour of the character of the LulY, and `thonOtt the Only question they had to decide was, Whether the Netiiiciu con.. rained any , •rdlegationi, true Or . falie, that came' propoly under the Cognizance of the Muse.— Such allegationi he 06414 it cnntuined, , therefore he could no t help hieing of opinion the Petition ou g ht to b e rece i v e d ; and if it were permitted to lie on tote table, he should certainly move that „wine other steps should be taken on that matter of it. Mr. Bitou6twst made a feict Obs'ervations on the reply of the Hon. Barmier, iwbich were In answered by Sir FRANCIS BUintirr ; after wh;(:h the Motion for th'e . Petition being laid 'on the table, was negatived. The iluestioti on the rejec. tion of It was then put and carried. Lord COMPTO4 • presented iii, P,tition front Northaininon against the Leathei rak.—Ordered to lie on the table : A. new Writ *WS orilered for Warwick, in the room of Lord 13rook, called up to the House of Peers. LITIERTY OF THE PRESS. Mr. Bannonam, in bringing forward the Mo. tion of Which he had given notice, on the subject of the Liberty of the Press, called the attention of the House, partieularly to the law as it at pre. sent stood, with respect to. prasecntions for libel. Some bad thOtight the offence of HIM ought to he clearly defined, as that of treasbn had been . by the Statute of Edward the Third.. r He, hosV. ever, apprehended it was more difficult to define `. the offence of libel than that of treason, and, in deed,, he was led to belieVe it impossible to do More in this respect than had already been done. He thought the chief evil to be coMplained of under the law as it at present stood, was this, that if an individual were prosecuted fora libd, it was of no importance to the accused, whether the publication was - yerfeetly 'consistent With , , truth, or from beginmng to end an arrant f a l se . hood. This appeared to him One of the greatest defects of our law, and this he proposed to remedy. Ile approached the subject with touch appre }tension, as " he was w e ll a ware o f the difficoltiea which lay in i h ds way. The• objections which might he urged against which he Should pro-. pose, be would - state, end endeavour, to answer theini kle•would first suppose a libel on the Go. vermitent, or oh' a private indiVidual, to be per+. ftctly.trite ; though true, the trublication of the 1, libel might be a clime. It might be proved to have originated in guilty intentious, anti to have been - maliciously published; and it would in comic= quence be liable to punishment. 6clll,ll6wever, though the truth of the allegations, 'it contained Might not b 6 a justification or defence, the crime certainly was not so bad as if the libel had been talse, and this ought to go to the Jury, though not I ,to influence their-tied/lion on the q ues ti on o f gu i lty • or not guilty. Be would suppose a person to have publishes! that A I 3 bad been guilty of n felony. Though the truth of this .assertion might be undeniable, the- publication of it might still be ' a crime ; but he contended this fact ought to' go hefiqe the Court where the libel was to be tried.; Th e truth of the statement ought not to entitle 'the accused to an acquittal, but it ought to be taken into consideration to enable the Judges and July to decide on the mottves,by . t,e party from whom it ploceeded had teen actuated. This the low in prosecution for libel had not hitherto, ner i ttnited, though in all other cases every thing that could throw a light on the motives of the - liceissed hall been allowed to be e s tablisher). It was no justification that a man had heel) prey!. • ' otisly libelled by the person against whom he `might havelmblislied a libel, as it was his duty to punish the fit st offence by law, and not to commit a new one ; but though it could not be held that this was a justification, still the feet, as tending to ; throw alight on the history of i the transaction in question, ought to go to the Jury in cases of libel, as in those of every other description. He next came to speak of the publication of libels in the form of Siu4clies delivered in . Parliantept . , or itt Courts Of Justice. in the case of Walter and Cnnie it had been determined, by the Conit of Common Pleas, that a correct report of the pro ceedings in a Court of Justice was no libel, 'Phis, however, was not time view which the Court of King's Bench had subsequently taken of the pub lication of a speech made by a Member of that House (Mr.Creevey); and, froM the decision come toin that case, he ties inclined to think, that if Walter and Cerrie's case were to he tried Over again, a different result might be looked for; It had been decided, that it was no defence for an individual to plead that he was but the reporter of that which another had a right t o say in the prime where hi's speech was made hut, at time sane' time, be (Mr. Brougham) thotight, while this • principle was admitted, that the tact ought to be proved—that the Jury might knoW that which pufported to be the report of a speech semis not the invention of the defendant, as this established,' though no jostificati6n or defenee, would bear materially on the matter at issue. In cases of high treason, every thing that could throw light on the question to be sent to the Jury was soffered to be 'proved. This was seen in the - case of Lord' Russell, which Ice referred to,as it was that in which least indulgence had been shewn to the accused, who had, in.fact, been murdered, io that case, however, Dr. lillotton, aftermato rds A shop of Canterbury, Was permitted to give evmdenee to the moral and religions habijs of the pri,oner, that the Jury might tOnSider,- after.hearing this, whe titer it w s as probable he could 'have contemplated the crime imputed to him. In the sante way. in 1794., in tIIC trial of ,jr. I.l , lrne Tooke, a f,