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ASSIZE INTELLIGE.)ICE. WARWICK, AuGug3 1. POLITIcAI. LlBF.l,—Ttiv, KING v.BRAND!ti. This wa'S ari i n di c tment against - . the e prisoner, it young man; . abottt"2 yeals. of age, charging him with having. : written and. published tions and inflammatory libel, tending tO bring the person of the Ring into hatred and contempt, eViting his Majesty's subjects to open rebellion, with an intention to subvert the laws of the country as by the Constitntion established. The pleadings lt' - ere Opened 14 Mr. Itt.knEn, and Mr. CLAR4. - S stated the ease to. the Jury. (. - Diflinento with inuchstrength on the atro city Of the publication, tihich., iti its seditious and libellous tendeneY; he had seldom or ever seen equalled. • 1t was one Of the grossest fallacies Imaginable that had been set up as an excuse for the pablishin 4 g.- - of libels of this nattire, namely, that they emanated froth the pens - Of obscUre per sons. The faCt was, thatthe effect.produced by them on the minds of the'lower orders was More considerable than if they proceeded froth More erninent Writers, as they were generally written by persons in the habit of associating "with that class 'of individuals to .horn 'they were ad il'essed, and on that account read with more avi dity by thern. Yet, While lie admitted . this to tie the conviction of - his mind, be could, not help deprecatingin the StrOngeSt Manner' the fOIIY of rpen in the situation oflifewhich the defendant Meld, .attemPfing to dictate to the COuntry the course it ong - ht to putsue in •matters, the nature of which were wholly beyond their comprehen . lie felt satis fi ed, that When he_.hadprOved . the writing and publication of the libel, the Jury :would grant him a verdict of guilty. He then Rroceeded to read several extracts from the pabli tation.*. The printer of the pamphlet was then called to prove the printing by order of the defendant, aS also witnesses to prove the defendant's hand -writing-, the prosecutors - having obtained posses sion of the manuscript, and the pnblicatiOn by him, and the case for the prosecution dosed.. The prisoner then, in a very hurrible manner, 40dressed the Court. Ire began by observing, that owing to the great length of time he had been in custody, and his total deprivation of all pecuniary aid, he had not - been able to make those arrangements for his. detente which the pecesEity of the case required. The first notice lvhich he had of the proceedings having been tornnienced was in riecem her last, when he was brought up to the Quarter Sessions and found bail, at which place he conceived the present case was to be tried,; a short time afterwards, however,_ the case was removed by certiinytr to the court of King's Bench. .on. the 1 ith- of rebrtiary he received a notice requiring him to bput in-his . plea, which partly from ignorance, but ore particularly from want of pectidiary assist fnCe-, he neglected to do. Ile did not do this rom any desire to evade the Courts of Justice, - tuld he assured - the Jury, that it be had commit ted an error, he should bow with humble sub- Mission to the verdict of a Jury , of his country. —From this period for a considerable time he nothing more of, the prostrontion, and . he very' naturally concluded the proceedings had ten dropped, when to his utter astonishment, on'the 19th of June he was appreliettded, and in defult of bail was committed to, prison. tt was Pot ,until the 2d July Mat he received a copy of he indictment and notice of trial ; still being in the wile state of pecuniary destitution, he had heen deprived of the means of making that de teriee)vhich. he other Wise ‘slioutd have done, and tie . Sincerely hOped that:the Jury would consider such a, deficiency on his part rather as a misfor tune than a fault. Yrorn this statement of facts they would perceive that this prosecution ha,7. leen hanging in . terra' em over his head.for Up -wards of eight months, the anxiety and. vexation consequent upon it, as well as the confinement for iiearlY2 months which lie had already under gone, had.been more'dreadful and distressing to him than any punishment which 'they might by their vordiCt award him. lie could . not conclude his address to them without remarking in a Manner an the charges in the inClictment. One of the counts charged him With - haVing writ fe4n the alleged libel with a view of exciting the liege subjects of his Majesty to *rebellion ; he so li riinly to. the _Jury that such an hiten tiOn.bad never in the remotest degree entered his hreast. A's. 4 proof of What he asserted, he as sured them that as soon as he ascertained,•by the Jo resent Prosecution, that the parnprilet contained finale': Which *Was charged to be' Seditiods or li bellous, he had made every endeavour, and 'Sue . tessfully, to check its circulation. The question theyhad to consider was, whether, in'the publicatiOu, he had "-been guilty of the Olrence: iniPuted to' him in the indictment. Upon their. dcision 'would. depend whether he was still tongerto remain immured in a prison, or whether 'he. was to lie - restored to his wife, his friends, his. family, Or, what -,Was still dearer to him, his '-berty. lie hoped, in coming to their 'decision,. they would dismiss all' party prejudices, and judge on the merits Of his case as it fairly stood - before them ; they ought -riot to be biassed •by any unworthy feelings, but, by virtue ortheir oaths ; act fairly and impartially. Pe should with these few remarks, leave his 'Case in their bands; hp placed in th 4 the fiiileSt'confidence ; - he looked up to a Jury of his COUntry as the 'great bulwark which te ConstitutiOn had Pro 'Tided, and which enabled the weak to Stand 'Manfully against the attacks of the powerful and with such a conviction - he willingly plac e d his case in' their hands. . The 'tong ClnxnF 13.11t0N 7 iii summing u p s stated. t4i tire hiry that they' were the. Judges A Nforn - in; Paper, notorious for its hostility tr./ Govern went, has this , day inserted the Ott of these Extracts, which area theraost inffatninat_oey and se,ditiouS tendency, no doubt, from tile same niotims whicb they were written, and it is thtrefore much' to: rye! regretteii that tiltrwheY feel a in;i lignarit delight in . circolating mischief, should not be ex K' ed 1" .are eqtYo Pstrfribinervi the wicked' Contriver. ay, it -is Stithaesre , a4roeiosis iri the quartir alfild'ed. to, be cause the miserable author niiglit be urged fry ,desperate poverty, but thase'vo n , propagaAc the evil, are WiiiioWiTlS' itt imniCrited stscress. Upon the law 'of' the case, bat he coulttnot - refrain from ,expressing to alai his opinion upon. the r,9.- tnie and tendency of thelndictinent,. and they would have an opportunity of forming an opi nion whether his conviction was right or wrong; in order to bring this properly before them, he must read the whole of the indictment, as by so doing they would be enabled to see the bearings and effect of the extracts already read to them, and whether they were qualified by any remarks that might - either precede or follow them. After reading the indictment, the Learned Judge gave it as his decided opinion, that the libel was of a most violent and atrocious nature. • The Jury, without retiring, found a verdict of Guilt s '', and the defendant was reconducted to 'Hon. The ca -se of the KING 7". CARTWRIGHT and . othel;i is not likely, it now appears, to come on before Thur,day.—All the defendants are here. st4i.SF.X ASSIZE..—LEWES, Auo. I. MANSLAI,3OIITER. Picktiell was indiCted for feloniously killing and slaYing John Archdeacon, a youth, nine years old, by kicking him on the abdomen, at Hastings, on the 2d June. Mr. AN nnEws conducted the prosecution, and Mr. AnoLrnus' the defenee. • It appeared in evidenCe, that on the day men tioned in the indictment, the deceased, and two other boys, were teasing some mules, the property of the prisoner, who, in a great passion, came up 'to them with a stick in his hand, and beat them, pretty severely all round, and in the gcuffle The deceased received a kick on the right side of his belly Next daY the deceased appeared as well as usual, but Was taken ill with an inflammation in his bowels, and lingered until the sth of June, When be died. The body being opened, it was found that the liver was in a morbid state, from natural causes, but that mortification had been caused by the external injury from the kick. The Surgeon, however, was of opinion, that a very slight injury would have hastened death, in the state in which the liver was founcL After the deceased was beaten, the prisoner had ex pressed. himself us an unfeeling . manner of the transaction, saying that he had given the boys " a h—ll-fired good beating, and bad. laid it into 'ernd—d. well - , and.he had given one of 'em a-sickening." There was no distinct proof that the Prisoner had kicked the deceased. It was proved,on the part of the-Prisoner, that he was the father of.six children, and was a man of very humane disposition ; that the stick with which he had beaten the deceased was very slight, and that the beating was in fact very trifling.. The CHIEF JUSTICE charged the Jury to in quire first, whether the Prisoner had kicked the deceased ; if he did, then they were to consider Whether the kick had caused death. If death was not produced by the kick, the Prisoner was entitled to an acquittal. The Jury found the Prisoner—Not Guilig. REMARKABLE .VISITATION. The following. remarkable visitation happened about fifty years ago, in the neighbourhood of in the County of Antrim, and remains yet fresh in the recollection of many living witnesses, and from its singularity is worth recording. In. the ploughing season, for Some, years,. a number of sets' of plough-irons had been• missing in the neighbourhood, and not the smallest trace of them or - the thief could be discovered.—This was considered the more extraordinary, as it was then, and still is, thought next to sacrilege to steal any thing connected with ploughs or harrows. At this time there lived a man in the neighbour hood, very . industrious, but rather of a parsimo nious and miser-like turn, to whom the slightest suspicion of dishonesty was not then attached. One • mornin g,however, at breakfast, this man was missed/hy his family. The alarm was given in the neighbourhood, and UPI} diligent search he was found drowned in a hole he himself had from time to time made in the bog by cutting turf. His feet and legs, which first attracted notice, were above the surface of the water, near the edge :of the pool ; but how were the spectators astonished and horror-struck, when they .found a plough-chain about his neck, and all. th.e irons belonging to it, and a number of other plough - -irons under him-in the water ! 'whioh, from the position he was found in, plainly shewed he had, been carrying the burthen on his back, sus-. pended to the chain about his neck ; and when in the act of - stooping to throw it into the pool, the weight 'from hiS back coming suddenly round : with 'a jerk . put hint ofrhiS balance, and dragged him into and kept him wider the water until he' was suffocated '; but the astonishment of the neighbour's' was still 'more increased, when they : found is the pool not less than twenty-eight . set of plough-irons, which had front time to time been :deposited there, by this miseiabfe . wretch, who could not think to make any use of them &rina' diiS life for fear of detection: - The writer of driS has read in an old English paper a, coincidence of visitation,.equally remarkable, Of a man whohad stolen pig, and was 'carrying Won: his back, suspended - by - a . rope round his neck; when, having occasion to rest upon, a wall, the pia slipped over', and the rope caught the'thief's th ' roat in which position he, was found strangled by the owner of the pig, who not only recovered his property,. but found the:thief . pOiiAlc,l4 in a summary way.---Stich are -the worlis of Provi deuce l ALARMING TirtE.,----The house. of ..R. Pou.t.- T ER, Esq. Cheyney Hall; 'Bucks, was consum ed by : fire early on Monday morning. It ori, ginated in .the laundry, where a :fire was made over-night, preparatory to washing. There were two servants only •in the.house, the owner being in. London, and one of them was much burnt.in escaping. The flames were so rapidithat in less .than an hour the whole was a_heap of ruins. A range of coach-houses, stabling, ecc.,caug-ht lire and,Were consurried with two small tenements, hefOre.any , assistahce could be had. TNV Ohorse.s locked up iii the stables were btirrit. The da rouge done altagether is to a very great anion:llG VitENcii VoYAtal OP titsCOVEnY. MINISTRY OF THE MARINE AND TIIE COLONIES, Report addressed to his Excellency the Mini ster of the Marine and the Colonies, by M: Louis Tit FREYCINET, Capitaine tle Pre4trie .6 Falkland Islands, French Bay, April 22, 1820. Sin=—Expeditions .of maritime- discovery -would excite little interest for those who perform them, were voyages of that kind accompanied by less . privations and dangers.. Hitherto ; in ren dering an account to your Excellency of the pro- gress of my voyage, I have had_ to speak _only of the advancement of my labours, and of the hopes we had cherished of accomplishing withoth acci dent the tedious enterprise we had Undertaken ; but that Power which smiles at the prudence and fhe vain projects of Men had ordained that we should undergo at the end of our voyage a very severe trial. . " The corvette Urania will never again enter the ports of. France. In announcing this misfor tune to ymtr Excellency, I at the same time feel much satisfaction in informing you, that it did not occasion the loss of a single individual, and that all the stores, all the instruments of the expedi tion, were saved. The expedition itself was, I may say, finished : I have now, in fact, nothing more to do than to effect my return to France, seeing that the ditty I ought to execute at the Cape of Good Hope was in effect only the veri fication of the instruments, which can be done equally well at Paris on my return. " Ihese considerations support our courage ; and as Nsf e believe that we are the only sufferers by this event, we are pleased to think that the object or the expedition will be fulfilled upon our arrival in Enrope. As I intend to give your Ex cellency a brief account of my proceedings since my departure from Sidney, I will not interrupt the historical order of my account, but will im mediately refer to the period when I set sail from Port Jackson. _ _ " I departed from this harbour on the 25th of December, and directed my course between Van Dieman's Land and New Zealand. On the 7th of January, 1820, I doubled the southern ex tremity of, the latter island, passing in sight of Campbell's Island, of which I determined the po sition, and made the geography. From this-mo ment till my making land-at Terra del Fuego I experienced an uninterrupted course of favourable winds ; I stood southward to the latitude of 59 degrees, and met with floating ice to an extent of about five or six degrees of latitude, but which quitted me as- I advanced further towards the south. " On the sth of February I made the land of Terra del Fuego, on the passage from the Cape of Desolation of Cook ; the weather was as fright ful as the coast. I made many attempts to enter Christmas Harbour, but the unfavourable weather prevented me. I- then determined to steer for the Bay of Good Success, in Lemaire's Straits, which Cook mentions as affording very good shelter. " I doubled Cape Horn on the night of the sth : the next morning the weather was very fine ; and although the clearness of the sky was the indica tion of an approaching tempest, I was far from anticipating the violence of that which we were about to experience. I, however, arrived in safety at Good Suc cess Bay ; but scarcely had we let fall the anchor when sane violent squalls from the south-east, blowing 'from the mountains, compelled us to drive before the wind. The violence of the storm was such as left no time for hesitation ; I therefore immediately ordered the cable to be cut, lay-to under try-sails, and it soon became necessary to take in every bit of sail.. We passed a dangerous night in Lemaire's -Straits, and as soon as Ave got through them we were obliged to leave the ship to the mercy of the wind. This hurricane (the most violent that any of us ever recollected) continued two days, and it was not until the expiration of that time that I could re cognise my position With certainty. I found the wind had driven us so far to the north, that it would occasion the foss of much time to seek to return to the south in the Bay of Good Success. " I consequently preferred putting into French Bay, Falkland Islands, which Bougainiille and Pernetti praise so highly, because I judged that ' place perfectly proper for the business I had to I perform. 44 We were off these islands on the 12th of February ; but the maps I had were so inaccu rate, that it was 'very difficult for me to deter mine on what point we were. We arrived, how ever, at the mcfuth'of French Bay on the after noOn of. the; 14th, at which time the weather' was frne, the sea magni4cent, and the winil fa vourable. _ • , • cc We were_ trying to double a point which I; took for - that called L'Aigle, by Bougainville,; • when some little rocks that we observed in the o ffing obliged us to bear up: • We sounded con- . tinually fro* the :main chains . ; and the look-out ma n, placed on th e fore-top-gallant cross-trees, Was every moment interrogated. 44 Finally, .abOut.'thrce &Clock, when we be lieved that we had only to sail into a spacious harbour, the .ship,,was all „at , Once stopped by a • severe, shock, occasioned by striking against a sub-marine rock our, soundings gave at this time 13 fathoMS at the :sta:rbOard'and 12 on the tar boarck'side: By backing all the sails, we gat the corvette afloat again without difficulty. " We did not at first perceiVe that the corvette. had sprimg a leak, but it soon exhibited itself with such v:olence, that, netwithstanding all our pumps were at work, we could not master it. I saw then that it was absolutely indispensable to seek ' a place to run ashore, in order to save at least my crew, and the fruits of 'my voyage : but to add 'to our distress, we had before .us only perpendi cular rocks,'in;attempting to land among which we should, without doubt, have been last`without the possibility of saving a single man. " lii thiS dreadful situation L beat to windward a.great part of the night, in order to work into the :centre of the baY,. towards which I had al readY:diimtched - ,a,boat under the command' of ;IVI-DnPerrei, to look out-for a Part of the beach free of rocks s but in-tbis night of grief) bVery thing 'Vas to Conctir to dislOpoint us, the Wind, which was weak, left:us all at once. I n° %° cast anchor and got ont my boats, which the. l :na nvedvring of the ship and the working of the pumps had hitherto prevented me from doing. " The corvette was already half under water; but a light breeze having sprdng Up, I wished to try my fortune by advancing with the corvette towards a part of the middle of the bay, near whit!' Pernetti had marked a sandy coast. veered out the Cable and sailed with a wind scarcely strong enough to steady the ship. 1‘1.; Duperrez, whom I met on the way, conducted the ship to a mil table place. Arrived at the bog' tiers of the beach, the corvette ran acrrotind,with'. out ail- shock, at three o'clock in the morning of the 15th. 'c I will not undertake now to give you an ae" count of all the attempts I made to get the tres s sel off and repair her ; it must suffice to tell yott;4 that the damage was too great, and our resource° to weak, to allow us to effect our object , soon as 1 found it impossible to save the ship, 1 - occupied myself in landing, under tents, all that could possibly be saved ; but the acquisitions of: the Expedition were .placed in safety imme' . diatel "My long=boat Was already decked,• and about to depart to seek assistance at Rio de ia Plata, when an Ameri,,an vessel which bad sus' tained serious damage, and was obliged to put in here to refit, Undertook to convey us to Rio . Janeiro for the sum of 18,000 piastres. It is ne• cessary to remark that we had with us every thing requisite for the support of 'the officers and crew during the voyage. Observations on mug' netism were made daily durinc , our voyage from Port Jackson to Falkland Islands ; they have . bees continued here with the greatest exactness; I have even been fortnnate enough,notwithstanP ing the great impediments which have occurred , to make some experiments with the pendulum' Upon departing we will resume the course of ouc .labours. " It is for Me a pleasing duty to have to rev der an account to your Excellency of the e xcel' lent conduct which my. officers and crew neve r , ceased to exhibit during our great and pain ful labours. Their discipline was never relaxed fog . an instant in the midst of privations of all kind?: and of the sickness which they occasioned ; bt" which, however, has disappeared under the care and skill of M. Quoz, senior surgeon. " MM. Lamarche and Duperrez have 0 01 proofs of possessing I:.s much talent as ac tivity' M.M. Berard, Raillard, Guerin, Pellion and all the other cadets, have shown a steadiness and $ character that belong only to experienced officel Among the crew I could cite a great number ° seamen worthy of praise ; but I ought part ic° : larly to recommend to your Excellency's no tic ; M. Baltaraza, the master, and M. Roland, tb gunner, who merit for their zeal and talen t 4 the particular consideration of your Excellency' " This letter will be carried to Europe by s° . English whaler, which has put in here for w ater' As for me and my crew, we set sail to-rnorrO' unless a contrary wind prevent us. " I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) " LOUIS De FaEYCINET.' MAYOR'S COURT. THE CIiftMBERLAIN OF LONDON V. i'l This was a case which came 'on before RECORDER, and interested the laborions part the Community in the City of London co p ' ' deralily. It was an action brought by the City of don against a porter, for having unloaded a (I° 3 tity of meat from a cart; he not being a freellr a of the City. The penalty for which the aci° ,t , was brought was 5/.- and 'the proceedings l e ,, i ; grounded irpon an order of the Lord Mayor, dermen, and Ward Representatives in Co'' ° ' Council assembled. • Upon the part of the City of London it, ale - contended, that a power Was' Contained 4 1 Charter giving to those who had obtained t!' freedoma very important preference with r es P ,e to to labour done within the bounds of the and fixing a severe responsibility upon those a n, by accepting a job while a ticket-porter wasr e i employed and willing to work, made thelnse'' liable to the inconveniences of litigation- Ere (ff. Upon the part of the defendant it was life o f that the order 'Merely affected the unload ing i4 foreign goods ; and that the meat not c° n : be under that denomination, a verdict could 0' recorded against the defendant... oll' The REC 0 DD,ER ivas of - opinion that the a jection was a goo One, and the Jury,- o°° : verdict for the daendant; The 'issues of the new Bank of Ettglandf"tea are, it seems, again postponed, some twO-F e o ri• difficulties having occurred in this rnanuf 4 c7 and doubts are entertained, if the ;American will not ultimately be adopted. BIRTH. On 'Tuesday, Mrs. Tegg, of Cheapside, of a daughter' twelfth child. MARRIED. Yesterday, at St, ;Mary-le-Strand . , Ge o rge Parfr.on s ' 14P Surgeon, R. N., Nlnriborimgh-place, -W;ilworth. Polhill, eldest daughter of the late David Polbll' builder, Royal Dock-yard, Chatham. , In hy Fr t a h i e )c ß e : , v t . h rs e lr e . i :a i Lu t u d n a ta n i g n i , a , T e u r li o n f l i , li l t r c . li ; losold. oCf2rCne'lld idge, ialfout St. Giles, Bucks. • DIED. t" ifc ° On the Ist instant, at . Enfield, Mrs. Thomas , Rev. Thomas, of Wareham, Dorsetshire• On Tuesday morning, at 'KeW-green, atter a ',. (1 . 1 f,, •Nt a g George FBAs, Barrister-at-Law, , and one 0, • os t or trates of Police, Bow-street, ageaged 43. J • • . . Yesterday morning, Mary, second da u p ter Knowles, Esq., of Wanstead, Essex. 5°- c 'Yesterday, aged 16 years, Benjamin, the You" Mr. It. Dawson, Beelsford-row, Walworth• Gro s 29, is r. LONDON: Printed 4.1. B. CARSTAIRS, °' d 'hY' Ormond-street, Queen-square; rnd publishe Office, . rf olfl2N,oS;t7 S ra , • Letters, are. 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