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''' ' Vi / II /7 ~~. be tried, that such notice has been given, it shall be lawfu for such defendant to give evidence of the truth of such mat ters as aforesaid : provided always, that his Majesty's 'Attar ney-General, or other counsel acting on behalf of his Majesty, or the party prosecuting the said indictment or informa tion in the name of the King, shall be at liberty to give evi dence of the falsehood of the said matters, both before the said defendant shall open his case, if he or they shall think proper, and also by way of reply to the evidence of the defendant, if he shall offer any evidence of the truth of the said matters ; provided likewise, that the jury who shall try the said issue or issues shall be at liberty to find a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upoithe whole evidence, and shall not be required to find a verdict of not guilty, by reason that the truth of the said matters may have been proved to their satisfaction, or to find a verdict of guilty, by reason that the said • matters shall not have been proved to be true, or shall have been proved to be false: provided likewise, that the Court before whom such issue or issues shall be tried may give such directions as it shall think fit to the jury who are to try the said issue or issues, upon the impart or nature of the evidence given, as well for the prosecution as for the defendant, touching the truth or falsehood of the said matters. " Provided always, and be it further enacted, by the autho rity aforesaid, that nothing herein contained shall be taken or construed to prevent the jury before whom the said issue or issues may be tried from finding a special verdict, if they shall think fit, upon the whole circumstances of the case, in like manner as they m i g h t h ave done if this Act had not been made. " Provided always, and it is hereby further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that in all prosecutions by indictment or information against the maker or publisher of any libel, or against the person uttering any seditious words, o against the person uttering any defamatory words, of and -toncerning any other person o r p ersons, i n which the definidant shall h ave given notice to the prosecutor that he nrant to give evidence of the truth of the matters contained such libel, or expressed by such seditious or defamatory w ords, and shall offer no such evidence at the trial of the s,ai d ., indictm en t or information ; and if the said d e f en d ant shall_ be found gu il ty b y the verdict, it shall and may be liv c. .a . l for the Court before whom the said defendant is broP4h t to receive sentence to take into their con sideration tl notice so given as aforesaid by the defendant, and tio!:, no evidence of the truth was offered by him. " Provided always, and it is hereby further enacted, by the au thority aforesaid, that in all prosecutions by indictment or infor mation against the maker or publisher of any libel, or against the person speaking any seditious words, or against the person speak. ing any defamatory words, of and concerning any other person or persons, in which prosecutions the defendant shall have given evidence touching the truth of the matters contained in the said libel, or expressed by the said seditious or defamatory words, if the said defendant shall notwithstanding be found guilty by the verdict, it shall be lawful for the Court before whom he shall be brought to receive sentence to take into their consideration the evidence given by the said defendant touching the truth of the said matters : and if they shall think fit, to give such sentence as they might and would have given if no such evidence had been offered ; and if they shall think fit, to order and require that the defendant shall suffer a greater punishment by reason of the evidence which he has given touch. ing the truth of the said matters. " And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that in all prosecutions against the maker or publisher of any libel, by indictment or information, in which issue shall be joined between the King and the defendant, it shall and may be lawful for the said defendant to give in evidenrie that the said libel was made or published without his privity, consent, or knowledge : provided always, that the jury before whom the said issue shall be tried shall be ht liberty to find a general verdict of guilty, notwithstand ing such evidence ; provided likewise, that the said jury shall be at liberty,to find a special verdict upon the Whop`" matters in evidence b e f ore th em , i n like manner as.if Act had not pa sse d. " And be further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that from my!. after the passing of this Act, it shall and may be law ful for the plaintiff or plaintiffs, in any action'brought for defa matory words spoken of and concerning him'or them, to sue for and recover damages for the uttering and speaking those words, provided the same are in any way injurious to the cha racter and reputation of the plaintiff or plaintiffs, and notwith standing the same words may not impute to him or them any indictable offence : provided always, that the Court before whom such action is tried shall be at liberty to direct the jury upon the import of the said words, if they shall think fit. " And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that from and after the - day of in the year 1816, if an action or suit shall be brought against the maker or publisher of any libel, or against the person uttering defamatory words, of and concerning any person or persons, it shall not be lawful for the defendant to plead in justification that the matters con tained in the said libel, or expressed by the said defamatory words, were true, but it shall be lawful for the said defendant to plead the general issue, and to give notice - days before the trial of the same to the plaintiff, that he means to give the truth of the said matters in evidence, and thereupon, and upon proving that such notice was duly served upon the plaintiff, his attorney or agent, it shall be lawful for the said defendant to give evidence under the general issue, of the truth of the said matters, which evidence shall be taken into consideration by the Court and jury before whom the cause shall be tried : pro vided always, that notwithstanding the truth of the said mat ters shall be proved to the satisfaction of the said Court and jury, it shall still be lawful for the said Court to direct the jury to find a verdict for the plaintiff, with such damages as they shall think proper, and for the said jury to find such ver dict, if they shall think fit." T o PAOrINC lAL ICE W SPAPER PROPERTY. be DISPOSED OF, a PROVINCIAL NEWS , PAPER of lib era l P o li t i cs, and of fa ' r c i rcu l at i on, i n one o f °e Mi dland Countie s . Th e cap i ta l requ ' s . te, ow i ng to pecu li ar vu Tumstances Forbroo, will be ve r y mo d erate . vi___ ____l_4pertk ic L ul o a n r d s on apply to Mr. S. Deacon, Newspaper Agent, 3, To FIRST RATE TAVERN IN BRISTOL. Abe LET and may be ENTERED upon IMMEDIATELY, N OLD-ESTABLISHED and HIGHLY RE SPECTABLE TAVERN, in one of the best situations in THE CITY OF BRISTOL, Equalled by few, if any, and surpassed by none. The above house has a capital bar, excellent parlours, good tap room, convenient bed-chambers, spacious brew-house and cellars, ! .°4 eh-house, stable, and every other convenience ; and must, as it has always dope, command an extensive business. bus T i i e only r eason of the present occupier quitting, is retiring from ness. part of the household furniture, with the plate, brewing utensils, &c., to be taken at a fair valuation. Coming in about 1,4001. F or furthe r part i culars apply, if by letter post paid, to Mr. Alex der, aPpraiser and auctioneer adjoining the Guildhall, Bristol. 7 , LONDON, SATURDAY FIYwN r ING AUGUST 30, 1834. No. 13,096. PRICE 7D. TRASER'S MAGAZINE, for SEPTEMBER, Price 2s. 6d., contains : COMMITTEE ON LAW OF LIBEL. cute, that there may be a pardon, I believe ; and at any rate there is no wager of battle. most absurd I ever saw any where, was in a learned work of great pretensions, carried on by scholars, and, it is said, by persons connected with office. It gave, among other ridiculous slanders, a very elaborate and piolix comparison between myself and Judge Jefferies, to whom, it seems, my resemblance is, in every respect complete ; and no doubt it is true that I am Chancellor, and so was Judge Jefferies ; and the publication in question may in the same way be said to resemble the Iliad in every respect, for both are works of pure fiction, and there ends the likeness. I certainly cannot pretend to have his abilities, nor have I, I trust, any one of his other qua lities. It is there said, that I resembled him in my love of tyranny, in being the ready tool of every despot, and also that I imitated him in his habits of intemperance, the utter falsehood of which is known to the hundreds of pensions I daily associate with, as well as to all their servants, and to every servant I ever had. Indeed, there cannot be a more ridiculous absurdity. It is insinuated that I appeared in toxicated in the House of Lords, an untruth which has no other origin than the excuse given by a respectable daily paper for not reporting a speech of mine last session. Some of the Lords insisted upon the editor being brought to the bar, which I would not permit. lam aware that there is a new doctrine of late, that if you do not prose cute, you admit the truth of the statement. In the present case, you may know bow inapplicable such a rule is, for it happened that day that I had tasted nothing but tea, fk.y r breakfast, and no fermented liquor whatever, not having dined till I left the House late ; and there could be no mis take of the day, for I never in my life tasted above three glasses of wine in water before going to the House. Now, such untruths as this, invented by political parties, through spite, or published by those to whom something has been refused, have no kind of relish for the common people, who would not stop five minutes nor give one far thing to read a history of all my predecessors for the last half century, most of whom are known to have been free livers. But the upper classes delight in such tales, and base creatures are always found to furnish them ; for this is a publication which is conducted by divines and digni taries of the church, and patronised by scholars and ultra loyalists. The common people would not believe such trash ; they have more sense than to suppose it possible for any human being to lead the laborious life I have always done without habitual temperance. But there is nothing so absurd that many of the upper ranks will not believe of an adversary. _ _ Politics : J. The Past Session of Parliament. 2. The State and Prospects of Toryism, September, 18-34 ;—Gold ;—The Mael strom. A Fragment ;—Gallery of Literary Characters. No. LII. The Rev. R. Gleig (Portrait) ;—Men and Manners. A Series of Satires. By Pierce Pungent, Satire VII. ;—Concerning In ternal Intercourse in the British Islands ;—Literature and the Jesuits. (From the Prout Papers) ;—Whig Foreign Policy ; The Poets of the Day. Batch the Fourth ;—Frazer Papers for September. James 7raser, 215, Regent-street. (Continued from our f`3.per of yesterday.) MINUTES OF EVIDENCE TAKEN BEFORE THE SELECT COMMIT TEE APPOINTED TO CONSIDER THE PRESSNT STATE OF THE LAW AS REGARDS LIBEL AND SLANDER, AND TO REPORT THEIR OBSERVATIONS THEREUPON TO THE H0UN1e......M0N.. DAY, JUNE 9. (The SOLICITOR. GENERAL in the Chair.) Your Lordship would give a concurring power of pro secuting to the individual ?—ln case the public prosecutor might not do his duty, I would preserve that right certainly. What is your Lordship's opinion of the effect of the stamp on newspapers, as to whether it is calculated to check the introduction of personal abuse or other demoralizing matters into newspapers ?—According to my information, Most certainly not. I should say just the reverse, and that the stamp has had an effect of the contrary description. It has undoubtedly an effect of the contrary tendency, if it gives a monopoly, or a partial monoply, to one class of men, and those the least respectable. The writers in these news papers,. and the persons editing or publishing them, clearly would not have the same scope for effecting their malig nant or sordid purpose, if they had a competition to main tain on equal terms with respectable writers, who would not pollute their pages with such trash. At present the bad journals are protected from the competition of the good ; and there is, pro Canto, a tendency in bad journals to rise and keep down the good. By far the greatest violence I have seen in opinions, and in general abuse of institutions, rather than of individuals, is in unstamped publications. If I were to say that the greatest, number of libels, or the greatest amount of slanders on private character, is to be found in those unstamped publications, I should not be stating the result of my experience ; but as fax as regards ribaldry against religion—against the institutions of the country—against the Sovereign., and against men in public stations—the greatest amount is to be found in those pub lications. PARK HILL. TO be SOLD, a FREEHOLD RESIDENCE and L ESTATE, with reasonable purchase, or may be taken on Lease, near the pleasant town of Winchelsea, in the romantic and tuch admired county of Sussex, a mile and a half from the sea, _o.l,llTaanding most delightful scenery of ocean and land, and eight Tiles from the fashionable and retired bathing-place, Hastings. 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By the Author of the popular volume on " The Horse ;" In a large handsome volume, Bvo., price 10s. 6d., clothlettered, BRI TISH CA.TT LE; their Breed; Ara.nageznent, and Diseases, with numerous Cuts, which include many Portraits, drawn from the Life by Har vey, and finely engraved by Jackson, of the best Specimens of British Cattle in the possession of the most eminent breeders ; with a Copious Index. London : Baldwin and Cradock. Also, in Bvo., price 9s. 6d.. cloth lettered, BRITISH HUSBANDRY; Does not your Lordship think that that is attributable to the class for which they write ?—To a great degree. I have no doubt, this is attributable to the diseased appetites of those for whom they write ; but we ought to increase the supply, and at a cheap rate, of that kind of matter which will give the public a better taste. Does not your Lordship think that the stamp duty tends to give a monopoly to those of the worst character ?—lt gives them a sort of monopoly, no doubt. _ _ • latter 133 ,. e l :at w hen n have bee l ii t l dded , wing 113°the irst sa W pened to u Exhibiting the Farming Practice in various parts of the United Kingdom ; with numerous Cuts of Farm-buildings, Machines, Instruments, &c. ,Volume the first, to be completed in another volume, 4 .* These two works form a portion of " The FARMER'S SERIES of the Library of Useful Knowledge," which is con tinued in numbers once a fortnight, at 6d. each, the last published being No. 61. The following Works in the Series are complete USEFUL and ORNAMENTAL PLANTING, price 3s. THE HORSE, with a Treatise on Draught, price Bs. Od. SELECT FARMS, in five numbers, 2s. 6d. MOUNTAIN SHEPHERD'S MANUAL, 6d. ADMINISTRATION of the POOR LAWS, 6d. AT REDUCED FARES GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION . COMPANY. r Incorporated by Act of Parliament. I 11 E GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COM ' PANY'S FIRST- - RATE and SUPERIOR PACKETS e7e th e C ustom House or o ri d i PEURG (carrying his Majesty's Mails), every Wednesday ethi,r atltr day ; returning every Wednesday and Saturday. Chief ; fore ditto, 41. COTTERDAM (carrying his Majesty's Mails), every Wednes eu._7 Ind Saturday morning, at Seven Majesty's Mails) returning (IVWednesday and Saturday. Chief cabin, 21. 10s. ; fore t o, 21. • rfe AN TWERP (with a Bag of Letters from the Post-office), T ▪ 'unday and Thursday morning, at Ten ; returning every uesdaY fore ditto" Sunday , at the same hour. Chief cabin, 2/. 105. ; e „, • lE ND ev ry Saturday morning ; returning every Tuesday • Chief Ca e b• 1/ 10/ • fore ditto, 1/. ss. return DAIS , in ' • • ' tetur„,: , every Sunday, Wednesday, and Saturday morning; . _ e ib i . ung every Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday night. Chief u fore ditto, 1/. f°l-ILOGNF. every Tuesday and Thursday morning ; return og every Thuscla and Monday evening. Chief cabin, 11 . s s. ; ditto, 1/. r e !IIGHTON for DIEPPE, every Wednesday and Saturday ; fore -rl 'ing every Thursday and Monday. Chief cabin, 1/. s s. ; ditto, 1/. G A )eket s f rom St. Katharine ' s Steam Packet Wh ar f to RAMS with h E , every morningkat half-past Nine o'clock, except Sundays, k an extra P ac k et o ff Satu r day s, a t t we l ve . Chi e f ca b i n, Bs. ; re ditto, is, oriIt,4II,UATE, every morning, at Nine o'clock ; an extra Packet e for s•! l uYs, at Nine, returning the same day. Chief cabin, 9 s. ; ditt o, 8 , toltbPPlicatiOn's for Freight on the Rotterdam and Antwerp . stations 4n4 ! made to Messrs. De Bie and Rahn, Crescent, Minories; and I n i o ue other stations to Mr. Norman, 1, Water-lane, Tower-street. Ca to may also be obtained from Messrs. Hall, wharfingers, a84,11-house-quay , Mr. Scates, Agent, Ramsgate ; Mr. Carter, lo w t, Afargate ; Mr. Black, Agent, Brighton ; at 56, Hay ; at Alr. Colman's, 61, Charing Cross ; at Mr. Chaplin s, N a rit Circus, Piccadilly and at the Office of the General Steam ec u i r g e a d t . i ° ll Company, 69, ' Lombard-street, where Berths can be done w erful Steam Packets may be engaged for towing and Excur- CHARLES BESSELL, Secretary. Gener a l Steam Navigation Company's O ffi ce, 69, Lombard-street. If a man more instructed and more able were to come into fair competition with them, and furnish a better article, your Lordship is of opinion he would undoubtedly drive that clsss out ?—Yes, that he would drive that class out, and that there would remain none of those ribaldrous and blasphemous publications, except just sufficient to satisfy the pampered appetite of the very few, for I believe those to be very few, who would prefer such matter. Thus, in like manner, there is, at all times, a certain amount of most gross and obscene books ; and they will be published, be cause there is that diseased appetite in a certain number of persons which is sufficient to furnish a demand for such works ; but it is confined to them, and is very limited. _ that a t th e 85 110 1 h e 'l O to P ass n e • Liar that 5 for a CO b3 ' a t which ALBATA, OR IMPROVED BRITISH PLATE. WHALLETT, AND CO., 41 , Ludgate-street, • having made considerable reduction in the prices of their manufacture, beg to submit the following list, and respectfully solicit the public inspection of their extensive stock. Fiddle Head Table Spoons and Forks (Per Doz.) 30s. Od. Dessert ditto 24 0 Tea Spoons l4 0 Sugar Tongs ....(Each) 3s. 6d. Butter Knives (Each) 4 6 Sauce Ladles 3 6 Soup Ladles l5 0 Fish Slices 15 0 Salt Spoons 1 6 Tea Services, Candlesticks, Cruet Frames, &c., on equally low terms. Has your Lordship ever considered the matter, so as to shape a law that should draw the distinction between libels dangerous to the public or hurtful to individuals, and those that are harmless ?--That I have always found to be per fectly impossible ; I think the Attorney-General having the prudence not to prosecute those whom it would be indis creet to prosecute, is the best thing that can be devised. Any law preventing prosecutions of one class of libels would be mischievous. I should be glad to shape a law, if I could, that would safely and advantageously define his dis cretion ; or, if any one will do it, I shall be happy to give my opinion it. rso ng oral P e i i e nt he e%c e. 0150 i e bed,nt laii 1t lota he hat hat the eefe: ,ainst the for the c ase did itnesses t p o tisb the . 0 11 l lied there...o ,and be then am_haig• BAYONNE, AUGUST 24. (FROM THE CORRESPONDENT OF A MORNING PAPER.) oi t of ti l e s ac' aiust toe or hate an the o es ills - w itne c'. 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Lady Charlotte C am. ected a subject of diil9culty and delicacy, requiring a skilful • She has been eminently . successful."—Times. co l , e Lrl4erly, touchingly, exqu isitely told ; and the denouement is to the last page."—Court Journal. ch a e re is a charm in this work which there is no resisting—a the influence of which young and old must feel with equal •••••.. _ Morning Post. Richard Bentley, 8, New Burlington-street. N ow . • k eiptuplete, in 20 vols. post Bvo., price only 4s. per vol., bound N A in morocco cloth (or any set separately), ."" V AL AND MILITARY LIBRARY OF ENTERTAINMENT; 4 Ser ies of Works from the Pens of Distinguished Officers. t aPtai, CONTENTS. 11? 'O4 Marryat's Naval Officer, • Tales of Military Life, by the Au thor of the Military Sketch Book, ,t4Crtitera Pensioners, by thevols . . g a i',vi,i s. Lae Subaltern (Mr. Gleig), I The Night Watch, or . T . ales of 'l)4 ___, _ . 1 the Sea, 2 vols., comprising the attmain, a . 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They take, like Sterne, ' a single captivF,' or nt ' of hi s ' i inded soldier, and we are more affected by the simple - th e f..ii ()individual sufferings, than by the high-sounding recital 1 11. m o ' s : . f thousands.inbuh Review. 44 ftit e , ~ Published for H. Colburn by R. Bentley ; Bell and .c4dinburgh ; and John Cumming, Dublin. lINBALINIANACS AND YEAR-BOOKS FOR 1835, ___ TC.ift."...,,t1-1E SUPERINTENDENCE OF THE SOCIETY ht-,-TIE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDG E . REPEAL of the STAMP DUTY on . A i .on ~ li ~ 444 " 3 1 1' nopened channel for spreading useful information 4'44,0a:3 of a people. The Society have therefore de b T it '' e 11,;( 3 issu s e e lhe the following ALMANACS for 1835 : and _ t a , lle , iri ,71TISII ALMANAC, extended to 96 pages, em u_ r t 4: ,nIY of information suited to the tradesman, the man 4l i l ' ' ''''' merchant, and the professional and upper classes gene -8 a 'i "' and ITI SH HOUSEHOLD ALMANAC, consisting . of 72 t o 4 f l i%, :, containing a variety of temporary and permanent infor rk . cially adapted to the wants of families, and calculated tile iiissoinestic Manual, 9d. 4t)iii4.B pa;TISH WORKING-MAN'S .. ALMANAC, consisting . ~„I t Y t o ~,' °r a smaller size, furnishing information . of practical t er :ti . e WTI employed in handicraft or agriculture, 3d. iltsive s h,, , 8 11 SHEET ALMANAC ;—a large and compre j'out , ', c onsisting of the calendar, useful tables, and miscel he illlisTelc.f”or thecounting-house and office, 4d. . 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Whilst some of these journals inform their readers, in the most confident manner, that Burgos has opened its gates to Don Carlos, and that, after publishing I know not what proclamations, he set out on his march to Madrid, that ill-advised and, as it would ap pear, incapable personage, is wandering about close to the French frontiers, almost reduced to a state of destitution, certainly to one of great personal privation and continual hardship, being obliged daily to shift his position, and seek for food and lodging, and that in a country from which all the wealthier classes have fled, and the poorer classes are reduced by the exactions of both parties to the most miser able state, almost bordering on starvation. I heard to day from a Polish gentleman, apparently a man of fortune travelling fcr his pleasure, and whose pre dilections seemed to be no more to one party than the other, having indiscriminately mixed with both Car lists and Christinos, whilst, -in Spain, that on the day lie quitted St. Sebastian (yesterday morning), it was positively known there, that on the preceding night, Don Carlos, ac companied only by fourteen persons, all on foot, had slept in a wretched village close to the French frontiers. He fur ther added, that the total absence of energy and capacity, evinced by this personage since his arrival in Spain, had completely dispelled any prestige his name might have at first given birth to, and that the most clear-sighted, even amongst his most devoted followers, would wish, for the present at least, to see him well out of the country. Zu malacarreguy, he added, was completely tired of him, as his presence was rather an obstacle to, and dead weight upon, his operations, than a help. Were he unencumbered with the care of this poor pageant of royalty, he thinks he might act with more decision and daring ; but the King being in the field, he is obliged in some measure to make known his plans, and act in some manner under the Royal orders. The Polish gentleman abovementioned, saw in a village some distance from St. Sebastian, about 60 Carlists, who came to exact from the wretched inhabitants 2,000 rations. These Carlists, from their looks and clothes, appeared in such a state of destitution, that under other circumstances one would have been more inclined to offer them cha rity than submit to their arbitrary demapd of a forced contribution. As to the full and particular details relative to the state of things in the Spanish pro vinces, contained in the French Papers, and even in some of those not in the Carlist interest, little or no faith should be attached to them. No such details are received here from Spain, though many such are manufactured here for the Spanish press. The knowledge of what is going on in the disturbed provinces is of the most scanty and naked nature. The country between this and the seat of opera tions being chiefly inhabited by Carlists, all the peasantry at least being so, and the Carlist cause not prospering, they of course let as little intelligence of the real state of things as possible transpire. So that even when something of im portance, such as the action between Rodil and Zuivalacar reguy, on the 25th of the last month, occurs, still nothing but the bare fact, which somehow or other always makes its way is known. Of that action, up to this moment, no details unless the very scanty ones contained in Rodil's bul letin, have reached here. This may account to you for the apparent want of plenitude in my communications. But I thought it worse than useless to send you mere conjectures or rumours, which I should have had to contradict the next day and I preferred incurring the charge of silnce rather than run the risk of misleading you by ungrounded information. The following is the latest official intelligence received here this evening. On the 20th inst. Don Carlos made his appearance at Lefra in Navarre, and the next day continued his march towards Escarra. He was accompanied by four battalions of Guipuscoans and Biscayans, and two companies of Na varre guides. Early on the morning of the 23d, the troops under General Rodil divided into three columns, left To losa, and went in pursuit of Don Carlos. At the same date Zumalacarreguy was in Navarre, with four battalions of Navarrese, two of Alavasians, and one of Guipuscoans, closely watched by the columns of Lorenzo and Ora. The famous convent of Aranzara has been burnt down by the volunteer bands under Brigadier Jaureguy. The celebrated image of the Virgin, which it contained, has been trans ported to Arpeitia. Some of the principal men of their respective neighbourhoods have been sent with detachments of 150 or 200 men to garrison Roncevaus, Sanguesa, Sos, and other villages, and protect the inhabitants from the exactions of the Carlists. The white charger, supposed to be destined for Don Carlos, and the purchasing of which was one of the causes of complaint against M. da Cruz, the ex-Portuguese Consul, who has been forced to quit Bayonne, has disappeared from the stables of the Hotel St. Etienne, and is now most likely between the royal legs of true Pretender. CANTERBURY, AUG. 28.—Our races commenced yesterday under favourable auspices. The weather, though fine, was considerably cooler than for some days, and the course greatly improved by the rains which have recently fallen. The city at an early hour presented all the usual bustle and gaiety attendant upon such occasions, and at noon carriages of every description were rapidly proceeding to the Downs. The theatre and fire-works were numerously at tended, as was also the first ball at the Assembly-rooms. We noticed present—The Earl and Countess of Winchilsea, Lord Maidstone, Sir E. and Lady Dering, Sir W. Geary, the Rev. Archdeacon Croft and family, the Rev. Hughes Hollet and family, the Rev. W. F. Bayley and:family, Richard Holford, Esq., Colonel Baldwin, T. M. Forster, Esq., &c. Weip pert's celebrated band is engaged, which is a great point of attraction, and it is expected the grand dress ball on Friday will be most numerously attended. The quantity of coals consumed in England and Wales is calculated as follows :—ln manufactories, 3,500,000 London Chaldrons ; in household consumption 5,500,000, making 9,000,000 London Chaldrons consumed from In land Collieries ; the quantity sent coastwise on both sides of the Island is 3,000,000 chaldrons making twelve millions in all.—Dorset Chr9nicle. EVIDENCE OF THE LORD CHANCELLOR. I ought to have stated, when I had last the honour of attending the committee, that in consequence of the opi nions which I entertain upon this subject, and the result of my observation and experience of the law of libel, after the best consideration could give to the matter, while 1 was a member of the House of Commons I obtained leave to bring in a bill, and did bring in a bill, which was read a first time and printed in 1817, and of which I gave a se cond notice a very short time before I ceased to be a mem ber of that house, in November, 1830. Its object was to alter the law of libel materially, permitting the truth in all cases, civil and criminal, to be given in evidence ; but in no case to be conclusive, either as an answer to the action or a justification of the misdemeanour, only allowing the judge and the jury to take it into consideration in deter mining the question of guilty or not guilty in a criminal case, and in deciding for or against the plaintiff, as well as in assessing the damages, in an action ; in short, cous:*.ter ing that it is an unilateral test, falsehood being strong evi dence of guilt, and therefore to be taken into consideration by the jury and also by the judge, as a circumstance of ag gravation in determining the punishment ; but the truth of he matter being not so decisive on the other side, although a nltost important ingredient or element in the defendant's case. That was the prikcipal object of the bill ; but it comprehended also the alrolition of ex officio informations and special juries. 1 have since reflected much upon this measure, ar,:d I adhere to my former opinions, with the exceptions of tL!! abolition of ex officio informations and special juries, on w Nch I have some doubts. I question if it would be convenielt altogether to abolish ex ,?fficio in formations even in the ca:e of libels. In some cases of an other kind, it seems plainly (Ltsirable to leave the power in the hands of the Crown counsel I particularly allude to revenue cases. With respect to pro,ecutions for libel ex officio, that may be matter of more doubt I wish, however to state my opinion with respect to a public prosecutor ge nerally. It appears to be a very great error to suppose that a grand jury gives more protection to defendants against unjust prosecutions than an individual public prose cutor. The Lord-Advocate, who in Scotland performs the same duty in all cases which the Attorney-General performs, by filing ex officio informations, is much more averse, generally speaking, to put a person on his trial, than a grand jury is with us. My opinion is, that the subject has a better security from such an individual officer than from a grand jury, where there is hardly ever any diffi culty in getting a bare majority of 23 men to find almost any bill. They have no responsibility ; they are shrouded and concealed under the name of " the grand jury ;'' they are encouraged to give rash verdicts by the num ber dividing the responsibility ; and indeed each person is protected by the impossibility of saying which of the 23 were concerned in the finding, 12 being the number that is required, and all being sworn to secrecy, so that nobody can tell whether any particular individual was concerned in what may be deemed an obnoxious verdict, or was one of the remaining 11 who may have dissented. My experience of the office of public prosecutor in Scotland would lead me to say, that it affords a very considerable security against rash and groundless prosecutions. The personal individual responsibility of the officer prevents, in most instances, any thing oppressive being done. We all recollect what oc curred in the year 1804. The Lord Advocate of that day happened to be a Member of Parliament, and had to come and answer a complaint in his place ; but if not, he would still have been liable to be called to account by the Mem bers of the House of Commons or the House of Peers.— Those who have had experience of grand juries, and know the verdicts frequently given, must be aware that in times of violent and arbitrary proceedings the Crown was never at a loss ; bills were easily found. At a later period, when Sir Vicary Gibbs was Attorney-General, there no doubt were 20 or 3Qex officio informations filed about the same time ; but that is a rare case ; there is always a restraint by the expression of public opinion,which has not much weight with a grand jury. And where there is any strong feeling, especially in the upper classes, against particular opinions, or the expression of them, the bills are sure to be found by the grand jury.. I will put the case of the violent out cr y against the expression of liberal of opinions at the begi nn i ng of the French war, or the case of the religious outc r y, t h at the church was in danger, which prevailed in 1807 ; I w ill venture to say, there was hardly a grand jury in all En g land—l am sure there would not have been a si ng l e grand n i n all Scotland —who findinga truebill against any p would have hesitatedartysuspected fora mo mentjuYr' of what was called disloyalty or sedition. That is my deli berate berate opinion. I have no hesitation in saying, that I could name 50 respectable and even highly-eonnected per sons in Edinburgh (and I lived in Edinburgh at the earlier of these periods), against any one of whom any grand jury would have found almost any bill that was preferred, b u t against whom a Lord Advocate or an Attorney-General would not so easily have consented to file an ex officio in foi mation. Has it occurred . to your Lordship that there is a risk of public feeling preventing a grand jury affording that pro tection to the character of an individual which is due to it? Very often ; that is the converse of the proposition. I once knew at the assizes a case of a Catholic gentleman, a most respectable man of 10,0001. a-year, tried for murder, th e grand jury having found a true bill, to the great indignation of Mr. Baron Wood, who tried him. The case arose out of an old woman on her return from market having fallen across a string which the gentleman's workmen had drawn across a road they were repairing. If he himself had drawn the string across and death had ensued, it would have been only manslaughter at the utmost ; but he was tried for murder, because his servants had done this. Now, in the worst of times no Attorney-General proceeding by cx officio information, nor any Lord-Advocate, nor any person who acts under the Lord-Advocate, would have ventured to put that individual on his trial for such a thing. Unfortunately, in times of violence such as I am supposing, when people's minds are very very much inflamed with political or religious animosity, grand juries afford no such security as there is in the case of an officer of the Crown, responsible personally for inva ding the rights of the subject by an oppressive use of his power. He would have at least some chance of being called to account, and having to justify his conduct before the representatives of the people ; and therefore I doubt whether there is any good reason for abolishing the power of information ex officio, and substituting only the grand jury in the case of libel ; but I think it is a question on which persons of enlightened opinions and extensive know ledge may differ. Has your Lordship in your experience known instances in which bills have been found by grand juries for various offences without any evidence at all ?—Very frequently ; it is rarely indeed that grand juries throw out bills, unless when there are cross-bills, and than they are apt to say both parties are probably in the wrong. I recollect an in stance of two gentlemen connected with the public news papers having attacked one another, and the grand jury got the bills the same day ; if they had got the one bill one day, they would no doubt have found it ; but they got two the same day, and therefore they ignored them both. It would have been far more just to have found both. Were not grand juries found useful in the reign of Charles 11., when Roger North mentions that the mon ster Ignoramus was in existence ?—Yes, but the period was also that when Lord Shaftesbury said that he could do anything with his " merry b o y s o f L on d on ," as he called them ; they justly threw out that bill for high treason, but so they probably would any other preferred against their favourite leader, however guilty he might have been. Your Lordship's objection to grand juries, after all, ex tends to other cases as well as those of libel ?—Certainly. ' I am afraid that in other cases also I have not so good an opinion of grand juries as I have of public prosecutors ; at all events, I am sure the addition of public prosecutors would be of great use ; nothing can be more clumsy and in artificial than our law leaving it to private parties. In Scotland the Lord Advocate upon his responsibility may restrict punishment from a capital to what is called an arbitrary punishment ?—He may ; at the same time, if the public prosecutor either neglects or refuses to prosecute in any case, the private party injured, or any one being a re lation of the party murdered, may prosecute for his own inte rest criminally and before the Court of Justiciary with what is called the concourse of his Majesty's Advocate, which it is generally supposed he cannot refuse ; and when the Lord- Advocate of the day was supposed to have improperly al lowed the military to escape prosecution for their conduct at the riots of Aberdeen in 1802, I myself saw a private prosecution, the trial of which lasted for nearly 24 hours, of those military officers who had commanded the troops. They were all acquitted. In the nature of an appeal ?—Yes, but with this differ- i - Even supposing the stamp laws could be carriej into full effect, are there not stamped newspapers which do address themselves to that line of personal abuse and obscenity ; and supposing we could carry into effect the laws against those publications, would the stamp have the full effect of preventing it ?—I certainly do not read many such publications ; for I read but one paper, and not that every day ; but I have at times had occasion to see, chiefly professionally, publications of the grossest nature, regularly stamped newspapers, contain ing the grossest libels, and which appear to me to carry on a trade in personal slander, not unmixed with obscenity. There has sprung up a class of publications within the last 14 years which t believe did not exist before ; but in one particular they appear to have operated beneficially, for they appear to have formed a sort of drain for the other newspapers, to carry off their worst trash ; for I do not think so much slander is to be found in the daily papers of late years. Since those weekly papers have been carried on, the respectable papers have become ashamed of it, and have not dealt much in it. It has been supposed by some persons that the lower classes are desirous of that sort of reading ; has your Lord ship found that writers of that kind address themselves to the lower classes exclusively ?—My experience is very little in those papers ; as I am generally the object of pretty copious, abuse in them, I do not feel bound to read them, and still less to pay for them. Ido not go out of my way to avoid them, but I certainly do not go out of my way to read them. I have seen them occasionally, and my expe rience would lead me to say, not only that they are not adapted to the working classes, but that those classes have no taste at all for what they chiefly deal in. Every writer who publishes for the discontented part of the common people ' abuses the institutions of the country, and all public men ; but I do not think such writers abuse men's private character ; they do not care to be personal, and to attack men's wives and daughters, and mothers and sisters ; their readers, generally speaking, do not care for seeing private slander about individuals ; that they do not trouble their heads about. On the contrary, I think that the appetite for such vile and often indecent trash belongs to the higher classes of the community, extending down to the mid dling classes. There are some people among the latter who like to read the gossiping stories put in the newspapers. They say, " Let us see what Lady so and so is doing with Lord so and so. Also men milliners, ladies' maids, and upper servants, are I believe, great " patrons" of these sort of publications ; and I have been told by many gentlemen and ladies that they have found th em i n t h e i r servants ' h a ll s and upper servants' rooms very much. But no doubt it is the drawing-room that furnishes the effective demand for such writings ; and the upper classes are very unjust in blaming the press and its licentiousness, as they are so prone to do on all occasions, seeing that they themselves afford the mar ket for the worst sort of scurrility. I have an opinion on the subject of libel which is not often entertained by Chan cellors, and hardly ever by Att orney -G enera l s , an d t h at i s , that public libels do very little harm ; but private libels do a great deal of mischief. Many persons say they had ra ther give 1001. than hav e t o prosecute suc h a lib e l ; an d i t makes them and their families uneasy. This is therefore a real injury, and one from whi c h nu - pur it y o f c h aracter or correctness of conduct affords the least defence. By public libel, your Lordship Means a libel abusing the Government ?—Yes ; and the institutions of the country. Your Lordship . would hardly extend that opinion to a wr i t i n c, which incites to a breach of the law ?—Decidedly not ; I wish to make a distincti on . A ny lib e l w hi c h i nc i tes to a breach of the peace, or a felony, as murder, arson, and so forth, is hardly to be taken as a libel merely ; it is a mis demeanour of the class consisting in procuring the com mission of crime ; and I am not astute enough to perceive that it makes any great difference in what mode such an act is done ; it is as if I offered a man 101. to knock an other on the head, which is clearly indictable ; and if I do the same thing by strong speeches and inflammatory writ ings, it is akin to that offence rather than to mere libel or spoken slander. Your Lordship would hardly distinguish between an of fence committed by a man by act from that which he com mitted by works spoken or written ?—Certainly not. Your Lordship is aware of a distinction sometimes drawn between incitements to general resistance to Government and incitements to resist the laws in detail ?—To a particu lar breach of the peace. lam aware of the distinction. I should say there is no danger whatever from libels which consist only in strong and violent, and, if you will, harsh, vituperative, and unfair observations against the Govern ment. I think no people in the world ever was excited to disturb the G overnment , or to j o i n i n revo l ut i on or insur rection, or even to wish for revolution or insurrection, merely by writings in newspapers or pamphlets which stated that there were grievances, that there were abuses, and used in flammatory language, inciting the people to throw off the yoke which perpetuated those abuses. If the people do not feel aggrieved, if there is no truth in the representations made to them, they must be persons of greater folly than any people that ever existed, to be excited by such fictions to resist a Government which they do not suffer from. I can understand a demagogue getting 2,000 or 3,000 people together in a square, and inciting them to go and break the peace at the close of his harangue ; but that comes, as Hon. Members are aware, under another head. From discus sion, however intemperate, I have no fear, even from the most false and unjustifiable representations. I remember an anecdote related by the late General Fitzpatrick, which I thought quite a parable upon this subject. The late Duke of Queensberry was a great alarmist in 1792, like many other very noble, very rich, and very honourable men. He thought there was an end of all things, and he used to be abusing principally the seditious writings of the day, giv ing them and their authors ill names in great abundance and variety, as infamous, detestable, abominable ; when one day some toad-eater who attended his person added, " Ay, indeed, and full of such falsehoods." " No," said the Duke, " not falsehoods—they are so true--that is what makes them so abominable and dangerous." If his Grace had felt all that was said on the corruptions of Parliament and office to be groundless, he would have let them write on in the same strain to the end of time ; but he was too sagacious not to be aware that the state of the representation was not such as it ought to be, and he wisely dreaded the effects of such a topic powerfully handled. lam quite sure the pub lications alluded to in this examination are not merely for the lower orders ; but it is only fair to the weekly papers to say that they are far from having a monopoly of slander and falsehood. On the contrary, the last publication of this description I have seen, and about the grossest and Suppose there were a publication that advised people not to pay taxes, and advised the forming of associations to resist the payment of taxes,would your Lordship think that a fit subject for prosecution ?---My opinion is d ec id e dl y aga i nst it ; and for this reason, I think it would have no tendency to prevent the evil, and therefore would be injudicious ; but any Attorney-General would be perfectly justified, upon prin ciple, in prosecuting a combination or conspiracy with such an object ; because, although I will not assert that no circum stances could justify .a refusal of taxes, I can conce i ve none such that fall far short of justifying resistance of a more ac tive description, and no one ought for a moment to contem plate such a possibility. The reason against such a prose cution is, that it would not effect the purpose, but might even increase the evil. Only see the excellent effect of not legislating with respect to the unions, and of not prosecuting them. Lord Melbourne received a communication this day, that the great Birmingham central political union was at an end ; the sensible writer of the letter says, " We are all per suaded that if the Government had taken any steps upon the subject of political unions, I should not have had to write you this letter to day, announcing our body's dissolu tion." That this has been my opinion, and upon which I have acted ever since I have been in office. I speak as to the circumstances of the cases before us, without by any means intending to assert that I should in any other case abstain from prosecuting, because there may be cases of such aggravation as to leave no choice. Is your Lordship aware that in Ireland the press was never prosecuted to such an extent before as at present ? Indeed I was not. lam exceedingly sorry to hear it. For I have just said, that there must of course be exceptions to most rules, and I am sorry to find that in Ireland such ag gravated cases have occurred as I alluded to. (TO BE CONTINUED.) The following, we believe, is the Bill alluded to by the Lord Chancellor in a preceding column. It was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed on. the 31st of May, 1816 : " A BILL FOR SECURING THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS, AND PRE- VENTING THE ABUSE THEREOF. " For the more effectually securing the liberty of the press, which bath been the chief safeguard of the constitution of these realms, and for the better prevention of abuses in exer cising the said liberty, and in using the privilege of public dis cussion, which of undoubted right belongeth to the subject. " Be it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and. Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assem bled, and by the authority of the same, that from and after the - day of , in the year 1816, it shall not be lawful for his Majesty's Attorney or Solicitor-General, or any other person or persons whatsoever, to exhibit or file any cri minal information in his Majesty's Court of King's Bench, against the maker or publisher of any libel, or against the speaker of any seditious or defamatory words, unless the said Court shall first have given leave to exhibit or file such infor mation, upon application being made for that purpose in open Court, according to the proiisions of an Act, made in the 4th and sth year of the reign of King William and Queen Mary, entitled An Act to prevent malicious informations in the Coutt of King's Bench, and for the more easy reversal of out lawries in the same Court.' " And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that from and after the day and year aforesaid, at the trial of any indictment or information against the maker or publisher of any libel, or against the person uttering any seditious words, or against the person uttering any defamatory words, of and concerning any person or persons, it shall not be lawful for his Majesty's Attorney-General or other counsel acting on behalf of his Majesty, or for the party prosecuting in the King's name, or his counsel, to be heard in reply, after the defendant or defendants, or his or their counsel, shall have been heard, unless the said defendant or defendants shall have produced witnesses or otherwise given in evidence in his or their defence ; any law, custom, or usage, to the contrary hereof in anywise notwithstanding. _ _ _ " And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that from and after the day and year aforesaid, in all cases wherein issue shall be joined between the King and the de fendant or defendants, in any indictment or information for making or publishing any libel, or for uttering any seditious or defamatory words, in case the same shall come on to be tried before any justices of assize or nisi Arius, in any county of England, or before the justices of any county palatine, or by the great sessions of Wales, the same panel shall be an nexed and returned by the sheriff to the jury process, as the sheriff returns to try the other issues joined at those assizes or sessions, and the said issue shall be tried by a jury taken from such panel ; but in case the same shall come on to be tried at the bar of the Court of King's Bench, then, that the sheriff of the county or place out of which the jury is directed to come shall return such persons only as are qualified to serve, and for the time being do severally and actually serve upon common juries for such county or place : provided always, that any party or parties moving the Court out of which the record comes for leave to have the issue tried by a special jury, the said Court shall have power and authority to order and direct the same to be tried by a special jury, upon the consent of the other party or parties, signified either by counsel in open Court, or by the signature of such parties, their counsel, or agents. " And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that from and after the - day of --, in the year 1816, if any person or persons shall maliciously speak of and concern ing any other person or persons any defamatory word or words, injurious to the reputation of such person or persons, the per son or persons so speaking the same shall be deemed and taken to have been guilty of a misdemeanou r , and may be prosecuted for the sa me by i n di ctment or information, and upon conviction may be p un i s h e d f or t h e same by fine and im prisonment, at the discretion of the Court before whom, he, she, or they may be tried. " And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that in all cases of prosecution by indictment or information, against the maker or publisher of any libel, or against the person ut tering any seditious words, or against the person uttering any defamatory words of and concerning any other person or per sons, in which - cases issue shall be joined between the king and the defendant, it shall and may be lawful for the defendant to give a notice to his Majesty's Attorney-General, or other counsel acting on behalf of his Majesty, or the party prose cuting in the King's name, or his attorney or agent, free days before the day upon which the trial of the said issue or issues is to come on, that he means to give evidence of the truth of the matters contained in the said libel, or of the mat ters expressed by the said seditious words , or by the said de famatory words, and thereupon, and upon proving. to the satis faction of the Court before whom the said issue or issues shall GERMAN PAPERS. BERLIN, AUG. 18.—The speculations in Spanish Stock, which have exceeded all bounds, have caused great losses among our monied men. One is spoken of as having lost 200,000 dollars ; it is, however, so solid, that its business goes on as before. But the ruinous consequences to the less opulent speculators, is truly deplorable. Most of these people, who have not acquired their fortunes on the Stock Exchange, but by the industry of many years in their re spective callings, now lose at once the fruits of the labour of their whole lives. We hear that the differences with Russia, respecting the frontier between our p rov i nces and the kingdom of Poland, are nearly adjusted by the respective commissioners. It is much to be desired that the children employed in manufactories, as those of Silesia for instance, should not be wholly abandoned to the discretion of the manufactu rers, who give themselves very little trouble about the moral and physical wretchedness into which the children are sunk from a total want of instruction, and are intent only in getting as much work from them as they can. An honourable exception to this want of feeling, is, therefore, the more worthy of mention. M. L., a manufacturer, of the Jewish religion, takes the greatest care to provide for the elementary and religious instruction of the Christian children employed in his manufactory. MUNICH, AuG. 19.—His Royal Highness the Crown Prince set out yesterday morning early for Vienna. The exhibition of Bavarian manufactures, works of art, &c., which has been long talked of will now be realized. It is to take place in November in the Royal Odean, and to be open from the 3d to the 16th of that month. Prizes will be adjudged by a Committee, of which Baron Von Melden is president, to those manufacturers and artists whose works are distinguished for beauty of execution or ingenuity of invention. SPIRES, AUG. 20.—A report has been circulated that proposals for a subscription, to which contributions were invitea., had been distributed in several towns in the circle of the Rhine, and that the object of the subscription was to erect a monument to the ex-Deputy Frederick Schuler. The truth is, that the proposed subscription is for the repair of the monument of the celebrated poet Frederick Schiller, in the Valley of Frankenstein.—Frankfort Papers, Aug. 23 BERLIN, AUG. 15.—L as t wee k 17 stu d ents were arres t e d on account of a placard against the Government which they had fixed on the block table of the University. The new censorship, which will shortly be in force, will contain among other clauses that the Journals, whatever be their tendency, must be submitted to an examination of the College of Censorship. Since the heat has diminished and cold rains have taken place, many diseases have broken out. The mortality among children is very great. It is reported that flub cholera is again among us, but this is not certain. HESSE CASSEL, AUG. 18.—The Prince Regent willnot return from the waters till the end of the month. He has authorized the Ministry, in case the States should not be able to terminate their labours at the regular period, to prolong the sittings for a week, as may be deemed advisable, and - to discharge the assembly at the close of its proceed ings, without w a iti ng hi s re t urn . A n or di nance, prohibiting th publication of the reply of the Government to the States, gave rise to a motion on the part of the Deputy Gadez, de manding the distribution of the document in question to the members of the Chamber. The Commissary of the Govern ment, Messterlin, combatted the motion in vain, and it was adopted by an immense majority.—Swabian Mercury. An inquest was held on Saturday last, at Trawden, on the body of James Blackburn, who met his death under the following singular circumstances. It appeared that on the Tuesday previous to his death, he was climbing over a wall from a field into the highway, when he unfortunately fell. He had a pipe in his hand at the time, and having fallen upon it, it was forced into his eye. He lingered until Thursday, when he died from inflammation.—Yerdict, accidental death. —Blackburn Gazette. iNG..._ Th e publ i c h t n a g !: very UP AND DOWN FIGHT y offi much indebted to Lord Lyndhurst, for his att e m p ts to put we believe transporting for life prevails nowhere except in the manufacturing dis. down this most brutal and disgusting ki nd which tricts of Lancashire. His Lordship, b several of the parties convicted of this offen ce itdown; at the Lanca shire Assizes, has done something to put and after the opinion which he has expr esse d , we should not be sur prised if some of the persons charged with this offence were in future to be arraigned for . in the course of a pugilistic battle Any man who s hould seize a bludgeon, and kill his antagonist, would certain l y and a clog used in be liable to be tried for his life; bludgeon, especially wh en kicking is as f • ormidable a weapon as a a helpless man. safety of the For the honour of the county, as well as the people, who are in the habit of fighting in this barbarous manner, th e practic e oug ht t o be put down, and we Judges hope that all future will punish it at least as severely as Lord Lyndhurst has done.—Liverpool Times. 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