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and In but those principles down by force, they could not conquer by reason, has 'been .the industrious endeavour of Government for some time past. Ile commented on the ge- Heral character of - Meetings for Reform which had been allowed to be held. If the proper .authqiities did not interfere with the existence of such Meetings, they were privy' to their crimina lity, if. indeed it were so, and ought not to en trap, as it were, individuals into the commission of acts, of which they afterviards took advan tage. lie challenged the Learned Gentleman opposite to produce any statute that by the most Ike construction or interpretation could induce the great body of Englishmen to imagine that . these Meetings were illegal. Ile contended that lie had a right to maintain the free exercise of any political opinion he, might think proper to adopt, and without being obliged to answer to any one h:s reason fur entertaining such an opi ion. With these few remarks he - should pro cued to the consideration of the particular_ Case before him ; the first notice that he or any oile else had received of the illegality of such Meetings as those complained of, was the pro clamation of the King, published about twelve months ego. He then ; went into the history of - which he detailed wish considerable ability, and commented in strong terms on the uuhecoming end unfair manner in which the case had, from its commencement, been so - unblush iogly persevered in by the prOsecutors. He al luded particularly to his favourite topic, the striking of :`..;pecial . Juries, and said, that a more k case of mat-administration of justice, ever in 'the most prostituted country, had never oc, curred. His great objection seemed to lie the small number of individuals who were on the Jury list of the county; the greater part of whom, he said, were in the Commission of the Peilce, and several had been on the Grand Jury. He alluded to the case yesterday mentioned, in the person of Mr. Peech ; he thought the impro per conduct of the stinimoning °nicer had been .clearly proved to any unprejudiced mind. His Lordship did not certainly say the pannel was vitiated, but he observed, 0121 it was not a ques tion upon which he was ,competent to de cide. How far that might be just in law he knew not ; but the Learned Judge must be aware that it afforded 'a strong reason for corrdemning that system which, admitted that error in one place could not be corrected in another. Ile had - been charged with an intention to degrade the House of Commons ; he would refer the Jury.to every article which he ,had Written on various. subjects; and he would defy the Learned Serjeant to prove in any one of them the remotest aim at any thing of the sort. If then he had not clone so in that charat ter in which he had the opportunity of diffusing his sentiments, it would be too muck to say, that by any particular act, or on any particular oc casion, lie had evinced that desire. Such an at tack came very badly from the Learned Ser jeant. Was he not, by this very act, which .was cemplained of, begging the House to recur to its privileges, and upon them to act ? They merely asked for the restoration of the House of Com mons in the purity it fOrmerly held, and that alone. It surely would not be said, that no abuses existed in that House, and was a petition for the remedying of those abuses to he consi dered a crime, and punished 'as - such ? Then' as to the right of representation, the people Of : Bir mingham had as inherent a right to representation as any' other town or county in the kingdom.. If the real offence - Charged by this indictment was committed ; then the Jury ought immediately tp find a verdict for the defendants,' as they would thereby have established a great national advan tage. But the Jury would recollect that this was a case occurring every Sessions ; there were many instances where four Members have been returned; it wits so at Bishop's Castle the last election. Surely there was a conspiracy to return two of those Memberq, and yet the House of Commons had not punished the parties interested. —Then as for -the objects of this Meeting. The defendants were charged with an intention to the ca effect a change in the Constitution as by lazo esta blisAed (the last of which words furnished Mr. Wooler with an opportunity for a speculative ar gument, which he did not lose sight of, as he oc cupied the Court for some time with a " play" upon those words). Nov, from all the evidence produced, he did not see the least tittle which went to establish the assertion of any such inten tion on the part of 'the defendants ; indeed the charge was equally consistent with the Learned Serjeant's introducing, hi his opening speech, the existence of other meetings, which had no more to do with this case than with any criminal case that might occur in the other Court. He then , . commented on the evidence relating to the meet inf.'. of the defendants at MajorGartWright's, who formed the only part of the conspiracy. What was the fact? Did they meet in private were they closeted together for any length . of time .j No ; on the 'contrary,. they casually dropped in, and the house was open to any friend of.the Major's who might call upon him; but then there were flags, and these are designated ensigns of rebellion : the flags carried for the PuPpt-shew of Punch and Judy were not so termed. But he understood,• the inscriptions were considered inflammatory; he reminded - the Jury 'Of . the nature of them, and asserted that they had not the ,least semblance of sedition or even i•apropriety of exkession. One of them, " the Sovereignty of the People," was a toast universally given at the Fox. Anniversary,. even before the health of 6C the Ki n v, and generally .adopted at other meetings of a similar nature. ffe would not have taken up the time of the Jury With them triflin •remarks, but th ey were 'g brought • in condemnation against him, and it was necessary for lii'a to refute them. Anothe r inscription related to himself, It was ful-- swne. for him to- speak of himself ; but he wotag merely remind the Court, that for three Y's*Oe had not been selected as a proper object of prosecution, and, therefore it was a fair infer ezce.that. heAras.nnt- a libeller—that he was not a ddicted. to any thing of the kind ; and as soon as he was Tonnd guilty or a ,prlvate slanaer, he hoped •he should be properly and severely pu nished, and that all the weak powers he then possessed might from that moment cease to have effect. Mr. Wooler then went to the general points that 'Occurred atethe Meeting, as sPoktui to by the different witnesses, in opposition to Whose testimony he read copies of various letters from Mr. Spooner, a - 11fagistrate at Birmingham, to Lord Sidmouth, shewing the peaceable nature of the Meeting and the town from the time of the appearance of the advertisement Calling, it until it was actually held,•as also . or the tenor of the speeches made at it ; after which he pro ceeded' to read seriatim the Resolntions which have been already given, commenting upon them as he went along, and very ingettiouSly justifying their tendency and effect, as the fair and legal echo of public opinion. As to the question of Keform, when it was greatly agitated dur ing the Administration of Lord North, the answer to the n.umeroUS ,complaints th - en made was, that there was' no appearance of petitions from the manufacturing towns, and therefore a, doubt existed 'as to the general wish for it. The contrary was, now :the case : the 'manufacturing towns so sending petitions were considered tur bulent and seditious, and the promoters of these petitions were branded with the epithets of de magogues or Itinerant- orators. lie had only a few observations to make ; he considered this as an attackOn "the principles which guided his nub ile conduct, and not-an attack on the particular acts to which they alledgd to refer ; he, however, felt confident; that the Jury would do justice to tne case in a fair and honotirable manner; they were thejudges, and not the Learned Gentleman on the Bench, he is the expounder, and not the administrator of justice, and he' hoped the Jury would judge fairly for th e m se l ves , an d conscien tiously give their verdict 'on the real merits of the case, and the merits of the case alone. %Vooler was speaking three hours and a guar ter. Major Cartwright bad just obtained permission of the Court to read a written defence, the mo ment the express left Warwick, half past two o'clock, whith was likely to last three or four hours. TEIEATRICAL REGISTER. Prrformed 'list Night. 'THEATRE ROYAL, HAY3I.' lOC ET.—Th e Actor of All-Work. After which; The Beggar's Opera. To which was added, Three Weeks•atter,Marriage: THEATRE Rur.it, tmir.isn On:RA HousE.—The Purse. After which, Woman's Will—A - Riddic. To which was added, Walk for a Wager. pracE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock • 2=23 3 per Cent,Bed..... 69 68i G 9 3 per Cent. Cans 6B-14 31 per Cent. — 74 4 per Cents 5 per Ct. Navy Ann. 1031.103 Batik Long Ann. 18i 3.lGtlis India Bonds 225. 235. pr. Exch. Bills, 2d. 'is. ss. pr. Oannauar► Cons. for i .lccount - - MAT I, S. Aatrrver —t I)111/11n, 1 WatPtford, 1 Cuernsey and Jersey, Hotiaml, 1 Lisbeu, I France, 1 Leeward Islands. DuE-IGottenlitirgh. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Nloriling, I 'minute fillet' Evening, 32 imnpites atter 12, Tti F,' 8 UN. - - SOL E.ll QUIS DICEIIE FALSUM AUDEAT LONDON, SJTURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1820. We received this morning the. Paris Papers of Wednesday last. They contain no further news from Naples. The following are Extracts : " PARIS, AUG. 2.-The King yesterday tran sacted business with the Count Angles, Prefect of Police, and the Duke de Richelieu. His Ma jesty gave private audiences to Lieutenant Ge neral the Marquess de :liaison, General Carra Saint Cyr, and the Marquess de Mongrand, Mayor of Marseilles. " The, effects of the fire are dreadful, seventeen warehouses, containing about 80,000 pieces of wine and brandy, have been destroyed ; the space left vacant by the fire is 376 geometrical paces in length and 200 in breadth. The fire ;Jter de stroying the warehouses of MM. Cabanis, Hart aux, Benjamin, l)uchatelier, Verbois, Allier, Levaux; and sever . al others, was at length check ed without damaging the warehouses of M. Lang let. The ruins were still smoking, and more than twenty engines were at work yesterday evening; two of them were worked with wine, which formed a pool of about 40. feet surface, and one in depth,; eight individuals were killed, and about .50 wounded:--(Journal des Debuts.) " It is unfortunately too true, that several sol diers of the Royal Guards have fallen victims to their exertions. In the third Regiment alone five soldiers were missing. Yesterday morning, the number of wounded, several very severely, is about 80, amongst whom are several of the fire men. The damage is -estimated at from 6 to 7,000,000 francs.—(Journal de Paris.) "13 , an •ordolinance of the 260,1 ult. the King has declared to be. included in the amnesty granted - by . the law of the 12th January, 1816, Lieutenant4leneral the Count Clatisel and the Chef de gataillou Auguste Lepelleter de Cham bure. " A Letter from Bayonne states the receipt of intelligence from San Sebastian, according to which the Dutch and Algerine Squadrons met FIVE' PER CENTS Tuesday 73 f. 80c. DEFERRED STOCK. Of the 22d Maich, 1317 • 104. f. 40 c. 22d March, 1320 93 f 90 c. " PETEnsounon, JULY 7.--Acconnts fron' IrkontSk (frontiers of - China), dated the 28t1: April, Old • Style, state, that a shock of an earth. quake was felt on the 25th, in a northerly direc . - tion; the different buildings inclined t3wards the south from the effect of the shoc s k but happily no damage was dope. ." - .A.L.roNA, JULY 4,—Private Letter's era Copenhagen mention a very curious event which engrossed-all the conversation there. A young man,abont 30, an officer in Danish Navy, has claimed to. be the legitimate son of the reigning King. It is added; that the Minister of Justice revealed to the young man the secret of his birth, and transmitted to him documents- to prove it. The new Prince has been put under arrest. According to another version, the pre tended Prince is nrad, and has, been conveyed to In. hospital to be cured." By a private letter from' Paris, received tlii day, we learn that the Ele - ctions and M. CT, Ali SEL DE COUSSERoUEi divide public attention ; poor It. CEAUSEL had printed all his proofs - against .M. DE‘C.IZES, and his friends finding his ground untenable, the publication is withdrawn to make place for one to be published under his name, and written by, we are told, the Duke de FITZ JAMES, M. VITROLLES, and himself. The thing. is nearly batched, and we shall see what the Triumvirate can make of it. New York Papers arrived this morning to the 13th July. By a communication from Dr. BEri.r. it appears, that the. yellow fever has disappeared at Middletown ; and by a series of documents iii the Bahimore Papers, it is equally apparent that there has been no such fever at that city during the present season. Thus far this part of the country is, at least for the present, happily ex empted from immediate apprehensions of being affected by this terrible scourge to our cities. There is in The Times of this day a Letter addressed by Lord JOHN Rti , SELL to Mr. - Wu- BERFbRCE, w hich contained a proposed Address to His MAJESTY, humbly imploring him to put an end to the proceedings against-the QUEEN. T h e. articles altogether are too long for insertion in our Paper this day, and it is sufficient to notice the main points. We join with The Tinies, which speaks of Lord JOHN RUSSELL as " a Nobleman to whom belongs the praise of having already, even in the dawn of life, imparted 'resh splendour to the illustrious name of Itus SELL," and most heartily do we wish with the Noble Lord that any means could be devised to avert a measure which we consider as• pregnant - with danger to the Country. The Noble Lord observes, that " the Act by which it'is proposed to degrade the QUEEN, is not necessary to the State." As a proof that our Opinions concur with those of his Lordship, we observed on Thursday, that " the security of Govern ment, the safety of the State, and the tianquil lily of the People, are essentially•concerned in this unfortunate business ; but as the abstract rigour of Law' and Justice are not neces sarily involved in those vital considerations, the Nation would derive greater advantage from a suspension than a perseverance in the impending proceedings." The Noble Lord justly observes, that as the Royal Personages had been separated many years, and as the QUEEN had been six years out of the Country, that therefore "it IS impossible for any sober-minded man to maintain that there, is a danger lest the succession of the Crown be tainted." Hence the Noble Writer asks, " is there, then, a paramount State neces sity ?" Certainly not, and for that reason, consider ibg the turbulenc e that prevails among the lower orders, and the controversies which exist among all classes on this interesting and distressing _question, it would be most desirable to put an ex tinguisher on the subject. The question essen tially relates to two individuals, however elevated. the rank of the Parties, and therefore if it were possible for a private settlement to take place, we do not see why the people in general, however they may wish for the full manifestation of her MAJESTY'S Innocence, should wish for the trial to proceed, in order to gratify curiosity upon fo portentous a subject.. We know but one way in which it is possible to avert these omi nous proceedings. It is evident that the • at" Anctalusia. and atter an, oVstlnate tonibat Algerines . were completely defeated. " The Milan Journal of .the 13th nit. an nounces the arrival there of MM. Lodegarie Persico, Physician to the Queen-of England, - and .Bergami, both from Pesaro. Legislature cannot recede, because her i J EST . Y has repeatedly, and in the most sole" manner, demanded an op e n a nd na ti o nal trial . ~) Ministers cannot recede, because - it would ; be inferred that they were conscious 'that t he l had not evid en c e t o support t h e c h arges . The 'KING cannot interfe're, because the most illiberal constructions would be pint upon his motives, ever grounded u p on a regard for t h e Pea" ce ,and security of the. Empire. There is, therefore but one measure In our opinion that can tend avert all danger, and that must proceed f rill ! THE QUEEN herself. A large 'portion of O f People believe her innocent, and will not thiv l ; her guilty, aft er h er ve h ement d ema n ds f or tr'al , if -she makes a generoas sacrifice of her feeling s ' and, reflecting on the lamentable consequences •f may result from th e t r i a l t o t h e S t a te, s h oul d testi', l her regard for the national peace arid safety, bi really wafting all claims for farther inquiry. is the only expedient that occurs to us 3; .placticable or possible, and by such a we v sure her MAJESTY would add a larg ,, nurnlj, er of the true friends of the Country to those wfio cordially rely on'her innocence ; nor would `h e shake the confidence of the latter. Hence the 0 011 Persons who ought to he disappointed are tb' who render her the—instrument of faction, 0' care not whether she- is innocent or guilty, 0.1- who- Would readily assent to her destruction if it would involve the destruction of the Monarch,' Nonivren.---A Common Hall was called lil E Requisition to the Mayor, for the purpose l. considering of th e p ropr i ety o f presenting, an A; ( 1 dress to th e QUEEN. The Meetin g was 1 -I ° J , on Wednesd a y l as t, R eso l ut i ons were pa:OJ" and the Address agreed. on. Mr. R. lhavil the youn ges t son of Alderman J. 11.kiivEY, related to one of the most respectable families Norwich, was grossly' insulted on the conclusio° of the Meeting, because he had held up .leis h' against the Address. The account received from Oatiands,,rester l day, at York-house, Stable-yard, St. James's, r e ' lative to the state 'of her Royal Pighness the Duchess of 'YORK, was, 'that her Royal ness was no bett er . She ki not able to g e t out.° l , bed without assistance. The private report ° t her physicians is, that her Royal Highness is p 3 ' s recovery.—(lorning . _Herald.) Yesterday the Duke of CAMBR IDGE had dinner party at Cambridge House. Among t 1 .16 company' were the Duke of Y ORK , th e Duchess, of GLOUCESTER, theTrincess Augusta, &c. • The Duke of YORK, the Duke and Duclo s of CLARENCE, &c. visited the Princess .AUGII4 3 ' vesterday at her apartments in the late QuEO 'Palace. After-the review yesterday, the QUEEN big; peued to be drivg-Im inro town as the king,wg returning, and it is said the carriages of their 3“; JESTIE,i passed each other at the Kensington ca" of Hyde. Park. We are glad to see the beautiful harmony e that admirabl e mus i ca l Veteran Si-HELD, revive tl by the repr e s en t a ti on o f Rosina , one of t h e m ost interesting operatic afterpieces of which the stag! Scan boast. The character of Rosina, which 15 assigned to Miss Coiuu, is well suited to the gentleness of her manner, as well as to her musics talents. We advise her, however, not to imitat ° the folly of those-who dress the simple - Englis h rustic like an Arcadian Shepherdess of Romance; and also not t o i n j ure th e b eaut if u l melo di es sr the Composer by, ornamental extravagance. CREWE V. Bat:NET...--W e understand that the late Decision hi Paris respecting the ditferen° between Denization and Naturalization, is laid! to he brought b e f ore P ar li ament. Mr. ScALLETT opinion was in favour of General CREWE. At the General Meeting of the Yorkshire TA W Society, in the Assize week, an unanimous vot e of censure was passed on a professional Gentl e ' man (Secretary of a certain Political Club), I.or soliciting business by a printed circular, stating the terms on which he was ready to practise. A sumptuous entertainment was given °I I , Wednesday ev e ni ng , b y th e Offi cers o f the 1' Life Guards, in Hyde Park, to which his Grac i e the Duke of ‘V - ELLINGTON, Earls C ATti cAar an ILutnINGroN (as Gold Sticks,) Commanders 01 the three Royal Household Regiments, and the Officers of the 2d Lif e G uar d s were respectfulO i t invited. The company assembled precisely °, l eight o'clock, a n d th e f es ti v i t i es w e r e continue" to a late hour. The widow of Arthur Thistlemod has returne d to her friends at Horncastle, and is accompani e ' by the illegitimate son of her late husband. Tut QuEEN.—This illustrious Lady has O ct : been distinguished for her Patronage of the Ar t ; and discoveries in Science—always anxious t . . 1 honour by her sanction whatever was ca lculate: to benefit society, her Majesty h as l on g been t h avowed Patron of a disc over y o f a c k no wledg ed utility —we refer to Row LAND'S MACAgSAII ° 11 :•1 on which it would be folly to expatiate - wa s not to expose the malignant and barefaced a r , tempts to imitate an Arti c le th a t com bi n es el' e . thing which can rend er th e H a i r b eau tiful, asst s , growth, and prom o t e i n every respect the ela ranee and durability o f th a t gran d orn ament the human frame. mun. On 'Fuestiav last, at B m a m rton upon fiunther. Mr. r ",,, t er ;atty, jot). of Fi ns b ury square, to Mary, eltlest b jai f Graburn, Esq of Kingsford). r )NDON: Printed l,t J. B. CARSTAIRS, of N"' W. P . Ormond-street. 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