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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extract, front the Morning Papers, dug. 13, 1825. [MORNING POST.] An Extraordinary Express from Paris has just brought us the Etaile of yesterday, filled with gratifying intelligence. First, a telegraphic dis patch from Brest and one from Calais, announce that the proposals made by the French Govern. merit to St. Domingo have been accepted, and that the independence of Hayti is recognized. The terms are of course stated very briefly from- the nature of the communication, but they appear liberal' and just. The Haytians are to pay a com pensation of 1'50,000,000 francs to the ancient proprietors, and to levy on French ships and mer. ehandize in their ports only half the duties im posed upon those of other nations. The confir mation of the avenging triumphs• of Greece, though not yet-official, has assumed a more set. tied and definite character, and has poured in from so many additional quarters, all hostile to the Greeks, that if it be not true, the only won der will be that it could be false. An Austrian Captain boarded by a Greek man of war off Hydra, was informed, not only that Ibrahim had been defeated, but that he had been brought to and was then a prisoner in that island. A French vessel from Cyprus states the news to have been known at that place when she left it. Advices from other ports, describe the various attacks made successfully by Colocotroni with 16,000 men on the rear of the enemy ; the retreat of the latter and his successive defeat at Tegea and. Phloros, so that particulars and localities are no longer wanting. But what is still more decisive than the rest, if it be authentic, is an extract of a letter from General Roche, dated Argos, July 2d,in which he states that the whole Pelopotmesus had risen in mass, and that the Egyptians were annihilated." " Never," he says, or is made to say, " was there a movement more terrible or more just ; for the life or death of a population of 400,000 souls was at stake." The mere fact of General Roche, who was shut up within Napoli di Romania on the 28th June, being at Argos on the 2d of July, proves that the enemy must have abandoned or been driven from that city,, or rather from its smoking ruins. The capture or surrender of the Pacha must have occurred soon after that period, as on the 2d General Roche represents him as completely surrounded. [BIUT[SII PRESS.] Last night, by an express from Calais, we received the important intelligence, that the differences between the French Government and the Haytian Republic have been finally adjust ed. The latter will purchase the recognition of its independence by an indemnity of 150 millions of francs (about six millions sterling), which will be divided amongst the old proprie tors. We view this transaction with more satis faction, as it gives us further and unquestiona ble evidence of the sincerity and soundness of the views of M. de Villele with regard' to the New States which have arisen in the New World. After this measure, he will be in a con dition to press with effect upon the Spanish Go- Vernment, the early performance of that act of equal policy and justice by which the South American question will be relieved from all the difficulties that attach themselves to it , under the circumstances in which France is at prasent situ. ated, in relation to Spain. [THE PUBLIC LEDGER.] I , was reported very currently yesterday, that Villele, not , caring any longer to brave the storm, . had actually tendered , his resignation. Though vie have not been able to. trace this report to any source worthy of credit, still' we think it so pro bable, that. we cannot reject it for wanting the requisite authority. If he has tendered his re signation, it no doubt took place on the- occa sion of. the extraordinary Cabinet-meeting ; but whether the King made any effort to dissuade him, is a speculation upon which we do not wish to venture. In the mean time, we look upon his fall as inevitable, as there never was perhaps an instance of a Minister getting over so signal a defeat as he has obviously suffered in this instance. His failure in this , instance will iead to another, which would be sure to over whelm him, should he be even able to brave the effects of the foriner—We mean the loss of the indemnity to the emigrants. These gentry will be furious, when they see that their hopes are -- (Us - appointed, and as they occupy all the avenues' of the Court, and constitute three-fifths of the Chamber of Deputies, besides forming a majority of the Upper Chamber, their rage is certain to crush the obnoxious Minister, to whose in- 1 irigues they will ascribe the loss of their indem nity. This circumstance may have contributed to the depression of the Rentes; as a change of Ministry, .in the actual state of parties in - Fra-nce, is rather an alarming reflection. A change of a favourable nature is not anticipated even by persons the most sanguine ; and a Cabi. net more ultra than the present would probably be formed in the event of.Villele being forced to resign. There is not the least prospect that we can discover, of Moderate men- being appoint ' ed. to administer the affairs of that kingdom; and as to a Ministry being selected out of the liberal' • ranks, the idea has not entered into the bead' of a confirmed dreamer. Moreover, either of these plans would produce so complete a. revolu tion, that, however desirable, the Court would not leave nerve, enough to .act upon it. All the employes from *one end of the kingdom to ,the other, who are generally at this time Anyalists- of the most • uncompromising- cast, • 'it would be necessary to- dismiss, in the event of. as Administration being formed upon mo derate principles. 'A check would be also imposed upon the encroachments of the ,Clerfy rand as the Court has neither the Con- Av .g nor • ithe inclination .to proceed to these length's it is more likely that it will have recourse to the ranks of the Royalist Opprition, if it,see ithie absolute'necessity of forminiitfiew - Ministry._ Be this as it may, one thing is certain, .we mean the failure of the plan for the conversion of the rentes ; and we congratulate most of our contem poraries upon the manly, judicious, and most disinterested view they have taken of the subject. NORNI NG CHRONICLE.] - - - The Money Market was at an early hour yes terday morning thrown into a state of great agi tation by the intelligence express from Paris, of a fall of 4 per cent. in the new French 3 per cent Stock, bargains being reported at one time so low as 711. It was stated that the fall was occa sioned by an extensive combination against the Finance plans of Villele. Another version was, that extensive time barg ains had been made, in the anticipation that the Minister would have the power of forcing the new Stock up to 80, and that the buyers were unable to take the Stock.— The reduction in the prices of the French Funds would have had a very serious effect upon Con sols, had it not been ascertained that the ord Rentes were only 4 per cent. lower. Consols for Account opened at 900, fell to 891, ad vanced to 8941, and are now 891, buyers. The Foreign Market was comparatively ne glected. All the prices were, however, nomi nally lower. Mexican Scrip 4 dis.; Brazil 4+ discount; Colombian Bonds, sellers, at 84; Greek Scrip has again given way, 154 discount. —There was a great agitation in the Share Market, in consequence of the near approach of the settling day, and the very extensive specula tions in the minor shares Lower Rhine were about 251. premium.; French Brandy about 201. premium; Castelle about 11/.; Gibraltar Steam' Shares 51.; Salt Shares 9 premium. The rise of the latter has been gradual, in the others a rapid advance within a few days, the sellers not being able to deliver the shares, which they have sold so extensively. In the rise of all minor Com panies, there was a great deal of trickery em ployed on the part both of buyers and sellers, and the price of any one day is no indication either of the real value or of the probable sale able price a week after. [NEW TrmEs.] The manufacturing labourers of France seem to have taken a leaf out of the book of their con temporaries in England. Rouen and its vicinity have been greatly enriched by the establishment of manufactories. A very large population is sup ported from this source, both in the town and in the neighbouring villages. In one of those vil lages, called Houlme, a combination was form. ed of the workmen to obtain a rise of wages. The conspirators appear to have very closely copied our English models. They subscribed to support those who were out of work. They struck themselves, and they forced those who were willing to work, to strike also, by means of threats and violence. The next step was to as semble with clubs and staves, and to assault one of the master-manufacturers ; and he being res cued from their violence, they proceeded to break the windows of the manufactory, and to pull down the walls. A communication was made to the workmen of the neighbour ing villages, and they, in obedience to the suggestion, also turned out. In short, there were some thousands of workmen in a state of riot. The military were called out. The rioters, like madmen and fools as they were, resisted with stones, sticks, pitchforks, and even with fire-arms. The result was such as might naturally be expected ; the military prevailed, and above forty workmen were brought in pri soners, to be dealt with as the law directs. We shall see whether the French code is more tole rant than our own, of outrages which are utterly incompatible with the prosperity of manufactur ing establishments. A severe and rigorous pu nishment of this first attempt at riotous conspi racy will be mercy to the great body of work men, who may otherwise be persuaded to engage frequently in measures exposing their lives to. forfeiture. [TILE TIMES.] The spirit of Combination among journeymen seems, from the Paris Newspapers, to have ex tended itself to France. Thousands of work men engaged in the cotton-manufactures near Rouen, in Normandy, have not merely left their work as with us, but have gone some steps fur ther—attacked their employers, demolished the windows of their factories, and resisted the troops and gendarmerie who attempted to reduce them to tranquillity. Bad lessons, we see, are easily learned. But it is curious enough that the rival manufacturers of France and England should present simultaneous exhibitions of this nature. No doubt, if the masters over the whole civilized world could agree to raise the wages of their journeymen at one and the same moment; each might preserve his place in the general com petition, relatively to all his neighbours. It is clear, however, that the manufacturing ca pitalist who accedes to an increase of wages, while his brethren elsewhere decline to grant it, must lay his account for being less able to sup port a competition in the general market than he had been before. If, therefore, wages be raised in England, and not in France, French manu factures will thrive to a greater extent than they now do, at the expence of the English ; and some of our capitalists must return to the old standard, or dismiss their hands, and suspend or lay aside the business. If the manufac turers of both nations proceed pari passu, and give up to their workmen a share of their own existing profits, the relation between France and England may not be changed ; but the Netherlands, Germany—nay, North America —will step in for a larger portion of the ex port trade than formerly. '[hence may arise a persuasion in the minds of Flemish, German, &c., journeymen, that their masters retain an undue share of profit beyond that which the capitalists of England and France enjoy : so combina tions will take place among tLe " Operatives " of Germany and Flanders, and either their wages must be increased, or the French and Eng lish lowered. Perpetual fluctations are display ing themselves where labour and capital exercise equal freedom; but if violence be permitted with impunity, the result is no longer amenable to fixed calculation. LMORNING lIERALO.3 We see that the tithe-cause gentlemen are be ginning, to stir. again, 'respecting. Henry the Eighth's Act, by which was given 2s. 9d. in the pound to the Clergy of certain parishes. The Rev. Mr. Owen, of St. Olave, has addressed a letter to his flock, calling upon it to reimburse him for the expence part of the said flock put him to, in calling in question his proportion of the claim to the said tithe. Some of the flock seem to think that this letter of the Doctor's is merely a prelude to telling them that he would like to re ceive the whole of the 2s. 9d. It is by no means improbable but that the flock is correct in its sup position, and that such are the Clergyman's inten tions. But why should he ❑ot claim the 2s. 9d. ? Is i►e not entitled to it by an Act of Parliament ? One of the Doctor's oppo nents is a medical Gentleman of (he name of Hill. Now, if Henry the Eighth had made an Act in favour of the medical interests of St. Olave's parish, would Mr. Hill be for rescinding such Act ? We do not know whether there is any solicitor opposed to the Rev. Divine ; hut if there he, and the Doctor were to ask him if he would give way in any professional bill he might have against the Doctor, so far as the 6s. Bd., 13s. 4d., and other legal fees were concerned, what would the solicitor say ? Since the, failure on the part of the Civic Body to prevail on the Ministers to second them in their endeavours to mulct the respective City Shepherds of as much as they could of the 24. 9d. in the pound, not only Dr. Owen, Mr. Wilson, and the rest of the City Pastors appear to have taken courage, and are determind to resist any farther encroachment of their flocks ; but it is probable, that as the Pas tors have seen that the Ministers and the Parlia ment will not interfere, the whole of the 2s. 9d. will gradually be laid hold of. Now the flocks have, in a great measure, to thank themselves for this unexpected termination of the affair.' We thought at one period, after having read the splen did effusions of certain of the City orators, that the Pastors were beginning to give way that they were apprehensive of the consequences of the Civic effusions. In one or two instances compro mises were made ; and the Pastors agreed to de viate from the Act. The rock on which the patriotic portion of the Civic Body split, was the Catholic cause. When the Catholic cause was agitated, and the Catholic Barristers, in con junction with Sir Francis Burdett, Mr. Plun kett, and Mr. Croker, stipulated that a provision for the Catholic priesthood should be made—at that time the patriotic portion of the Civic Body held its tongue ; there was not a speech, not a word escaped the civic lips, not-an iota in opposition to such a montrous proposition.— Though there was such a bare-faced, proposition, yet, because the civic patriots had embarked in the Catholic cause, and liecause this payment of the Catholic priesthood was to be understood as being part of the Catholic cause, so rivetted were they to the Catholic cause, that they never uttered a syllable—not one specimen of speechifyiug.Now did the Civic Body think that the people of Eng land did not observe this silence, when it was so impudently proposed to fasten on the country, the very first year of Catholic Emancipation, a new clerical establishment of 250,0001. ? Did the Civic Body think that the Civic Pastors did not observe the dilemma into which the Civic patriotic portion of, the Civic Body had brought the Civic flocks. But the fact is, that the people, as well as the Civic Pastors, saw it; and the shepherds have recovered from the panic into which the City speeches had thrown them. The Pastors now see that the flocks have no chance. The Civic Patriots abandoned the Civic flocks in a critical moment. They did not object to a Catho lic Clerical yoke of 250,0001. Why, therefore, object to the two-and-nine-penny yoke ? The parishioners of St. Olave's may depend on it that the Rev. Mr. Owen never would have brought them into this predicament, of having the expences to pay him in resisting his demands, had the City orators stirred in the Catholic Clerical Wing affair. The Act of Henry VIII. gives a rate of 2s. 9d. in the pound on every house in certain parishes to the Rev. Dr. Owen, Mr. Wilson, and others; and until that Act is repealed, the flocks inhabiting the houses of those parishes are liable to pay the 2s. 9d. in the pound to their Pastors. And it is probable that the Pastors will levy it. The Medical and Legal in terests of those parishes will not abate one tittle of what the Law allows them. Why, there fore, should the Clerical interests ? We shall not be sorry should the Pastors squeeze from the patriotic portion of their flocks the uttermost far thing. The latter deserve it for their hypocrisy in making such a fuss about the 2s. 9d. and say ing not one word when the Papacy, in conjunc tion with the Catholic Legal interests of Ireland, assisted by Sif Francis Burdett, Messrs. Plunkett and Croker, were going to fasten on the country a Clerical Establishment, with which, as Protestants, we could have nothing to do. Whe t-her Dr. Owen, Mr. Wilson, and others, will act with wisdom in pushing their rights to the extent the law allows them, time will discover—but in our opinion, the Clergy of England should pro ceed with great caution, lest in the next po litical convulsion the tithe system should be made an end of altogether. Shepherds should not drive their flocks to desperation. But to conclude, the parishioners of St. Olave's, and the parishioners of all the other City parishes, have to attribute to the silence of the City Ora tors in the late Catholic Clerical Wing affair, the effectual fastening on the several parishes Henry the Eighth's Act. They neglected to stir in the Catholic Clerical Wing affair. How, therefore, can they with any face resist the de mands of their own pastors ? Their silence gave consent to the Catholic proposi►ion—why there fore should they think of resisting the Protestant one ? SOUTHAMPTON, AUG. 10.—The Theatre on Monday night was tolerably well attended to see Mr. KEAN in his favourite character of Richard. lie was received with deafening shouts by the pit and upper boxes, which continued a consider able space of time, and which he repeatedly bowed to. After this interruption, 11. 7 EAN pro ceeded with his performance, of which we shall only remark, that we recollect what his Richard was ten years ago. We cannot say the remem brance is in-his favour. TRIAL FOR A LIBEL. CARLISLE, AUG. 9. WHEATLEY v. GIBSON AND ,ANOTHEU. Mr. 'ARMST RONG opened the pleadings. The plaintiff in this action was George Wheatley, an attorney of the Court of King's Bench, and the defendants were Robert Gibson, the printer and publisher, and John Peile, the sole proprietor of a weekly newspaper called the Cumberland Packet. The plain tiff brought his action to recover a compensation in damages for the injury done to his character by the publication of two, separate libels upon it in the newspaper which they jointly con ducted. The defendants pleaded the general issue, and there upon issue was joined. The action was altogether of so trumpery a nature, from the insignificant character of the libels, that we should not report the case, except for the sake of some passages in the speeches of the two leading Counsel. Mr. BROTTGIIAM stated, that the defendants in this action were the proprietors of the Cumberland Packet, a paper which he recollected ever since he could recollect any thing. It had formerly been a very inoffensive and a very dull journal ; but it had recently become very offensive without ceasing to be very dull. The motto of the paper, which inculcated temperance and moderation, would not serve the defendants as an antidote to the libel, which they had disseminated throughout the country. On the contrary, it would only prove the dulness and aggravate the malice of those who had written it. It was contained in one line of poetry, which in point of length and magnitude was su perior to any that he had ever met with in the course of his studies. His learned friend (Mr. Scarlett) and himself were not so conversant with poetry as a gentleman whom he now had the pleasure of seeing in Court, (Mr. Wordsworth)—a poet, who had cast new glory over the county in which he was born, and whose works would be remembered when he and those whom he were addressing were consigned to one common corruption. He thought, however, that even that great poet had never met with a line which drew after it so long a train of measured syllables. The line ran thus :—" Where moderation dwells, the soul admits distinct ideas, and matured debate, an eye im partial and an even scale, hence wisdom sound and unrepent ing choice." That was such a line as he had never heard of, except at the end of a fishing rod (a laugh) ; and he should not be surprised if there were found dangling at the end of it that which was sometimes — said to be dangling at the other end of the fishing-rod from that to which the line was attached.—( A laugh.)—They would, however, learn from this enormous line what it was upon which this newspaper particularly piqued itself. It was moderation, distinct ideas, and matured debate ; and not only that, but an impartial eye, an even scale, sound wisdom, and unrepenting choice.—( A laugh)—Now, a motto to a newspaper was like a sign to a public house ; it portended the cheer that was to be found within it. The Jury would therefore expect particularly cau tious conduct from those who dealt in such large professions as those which he had' just detailed to them. He would, how ever, give them a specimen of the manner in which they car ried their professions into practice. The Learned Gentleman then read the first libel, commenting on it at great length, and contending that though it was insufferably stupid, yet it was not the less malignant. It was, he said, an advertisement to all mankind, or at least to all mankind to whom the Cum? berland Packet was sent, not to employ such a man as Mr. Wheatley for their attorney, inasmuch as he was destitute of all those qualities of'discretion and conduct which it was essential for an attorney to possess. Such was the first libel of which his client complained. He then read and commented on the second libel : and added, that the Jury would now see the way in which things were conducted by the polluted part of the press. It was proceedings like these which brought the public press into disrepute, and rendered those who were its best friends almost doubtful of the be nefits of unfettered and unrestricted discussion. He condemn ed in the strongest language the warfare which the public press had recently carried on against 'private individuals.— If a public man displeased those who conducted that mighty engine, he was straightways attacked in his private character; falsehoods were disseminated with the most active industry, not only against himself, but against his wife, his children, his female relations—nay, against the whole circle of his friends and relations. He was sorry to find that this practice had crept from the metropolis into the country. He was sorry to•find that if for private pique, any skulking villain thought fit to put into the slight slit in the window of Messrs. Pelle and Gibson, any anonymous slander, those gentlemen were ready to print it after' the manner, he would not say of their betters, but of those elsewhere, whom they professed to imi tate. If those gentlemen chose, for the lucre of gain, to print the anonymous slander which was deposited in the lion's head in their window, they must be made an swerable for it, as if they had written it of their own free will and imagination. For his own part, he would say that he had a worse opinion of the printer than of. the write: of anonymous calumny. And why ? Because. the former gave eagle-wings to the slander which the latter fabri. cated, and so enabled that which without them would hut " be horn and die," to fly abroad in every direction. He asked whether calumnies, such as - the defendants had disseminat ed against the plaintiff, could be tolerated with impunity ? The plaintiff said that they were utterly false, and dared the de fendant to justify them. His assertion was confirmed by the conduct of the defendants, They had pleaded no justification; and yet, if any part of their story had been true, it would have been useful to plead it, as it would have gone far in mitigation of damages; but it was all false and unfounded, and they there. fore knew better than to attempt to justify it, since a failure in such a course would have had no other effect than to aggravate the damages given against them. The purse of the defendants was strong and heavy. Mr. Peile, besides being the proprietor of this Newspaper, was employed as the coal-agent to a Noble man of great influence in that county. Mr. Gibson was only the printer and publisher of the paper; but if the two defend ants were taken together, he had no doubt that it would be found that they had a purse strong enough to meet any damages which they might give to his client, in reparation for his injured cha racter. The Learned. Counsel then called witnesses to prove his case, among whom was William Wordsworth, Esq., the author of "The Excursion." He was examined by Mr. Brougham. I am head distributor of stamps in the whole of the county of Westmorland, and in the district of Cumberland in which the Cumberland Packet is printed. I produce an affidavit from the Stamp-office • also two numbers of the paper—that of the 29th of March, and that of the sth of April last. Cross-examined by Mr. SCARLET T.—My Learned Friend, Mr. Brougham, has alluded to you, I believe, Mr. Wordsworth as - a gentleman more conversant in poetry than either himself or me—may, I ask you, have you read the poetical line taken by this paper for its motto, of which my Learned Friend gave so flourishing a description !—I have many a time when I was a boy forty years ago. When you and I were at Cambridge together, Mr. Words worth, should we not, from the rhythm of the syllables, have vided this enormous line into four verses ? In my younger days it used to be printed in four lines. In the course of your poetical studies, did you ever meet with a line containing so many syllables ?—I did not know that it was printed as one line till I heard Mr. Brougham say so. I never met so long a verse in my life. The papers containing the paragraphs charged as libellous were handed in, and the paragraphs read by the usual officer; Mr. SCARLETT then proceeded to address the Jury for the defendants. In the course of his experience he had seen se veral extraordinary actions for libel, but he remembered none in which the labour of Counsel had been so great, and in which the libel complained of had been so trifling, as in the present action. When he reflected on the speech which his Leared Friend had delivered, and also upon the subject matter of it he was irresistibly reminded of the mountain in labour, and the-mouse which it produced. The throes of his Learned Friend were immense whilst he was endeavouring by his speech to repel the attack which he said had been made upon his client's character ; and if he (Mr. Scarlett) had not previously read the alleged libels, he should never have dreamt that the eloquence of his learned friend was expending itself on paragraphs so harmless and insignificant as those which were now submitted to their consideration. He was thinking in his own mind, during the time that his learned friend was addressing them, how often he had seen attacks similar to that mode on the at torney, Mr. Wheatley, made upon counsel without any person thinking it worth his while to complain of them. His learned friend, amid the difficulties by which lie was beset, in the ma nagement of this cause, bad thought fit to wander out of the record to vent his indignation against what he called the pol luted part of the press. What part of the press his learned friend meant to designate by those expressions he did not pretend to know ; but probably it was that part of it which differed from him in political opinions. He should like, however, to ask his learned friend what part of the press he considered that to be which had recently accused them both of using.to each other the language of Billingsgate. He would undertake to vindicate his learned friend from the charge of having used. such lan guage, and he was not conscious that he himself had ever used it. He would not, however, call the press polluted because it had made such a charge against him,nor would either his learn ed friend or himself think of visiting it with an action at law because it had bestowed his rebuffs and its reprimands upon them. Mr. Wheatley, the attorney, however, was more tender than either himself or his learned friend; he was wrapped up in cotten, and was so tender that he felt the slightest breath of reproof wound him to the very core. His learned friend had been so hampered with the weakness and tenderness which his client had imparted to his cause, that he must wander out of his road to abuse the line which formed the motto of the paper published by the two defendants. His learned friend had re presented It as a line as long as that appended to a fishing-rod. It might be so, according to his learned friend's mode of reed. ing it ; but he read it as four harmonious and melodious lines; He said nothing of the poetry which they contained ; but four lines of verse they were, if lie had ever seen a verse in his li fe " Let the Jury read them thus : " Where moderation dwells the soul admits " Distinct ideas and matur'd debate : " An eye impartial, and an even scale— " Hence wisdom sound and unrepenting choice." In that University where he and Mr. Wordsworth had the guy - , fortune to be ed u c a ted, th ere wou ld b e no d ou b t t h at t h es e lifi h e e , were four lines of blank verse , w h atever d ou b t t h ere might "ci as to the fact in that University of which his Learned Friel: w ii a n s m t g o h b am e the d.— e r we f ie A laugh, rigliayininforthmeemd,,id,s,tAotf any y ich N r. ra te w, a will not write four verses in one line."l—His Learned Frie n " who could not allow an opportunity of hitting his political 0 E : ponents to pass by him, had a ccuse d th e d e f en d ants o f publis" ing a very offensive and a very dull paper. He would not Ss; that their paper was a dull one; but if it were, he would say much the better for the plaintiff; since the calumny it c ontain. would be less read. What was th e c h arge aga i nst the plui°,ll in this libel ? That he had rece i ve d a repr i man d f rom a Be° of Magistrates for rudeness and officiohisness. For his ownl/ 5 , he could not see how words like these could be construed into. libel libel on the character of an a t torney . H e h a d never hear". stated that it was necessary fo r an attorney to b e t h e very P .„ 1, r o of politeness. Why, ev er y man i n t h e pro f ess i on o f the 00 ° was busy, bustling, and officious. He himself was so ; was his Learned Friend. To be officious was to be over zd ous, and to be over zealous was to be too active. Now e° ° ,,f, any man, who had c o m mon sense , d ec l are a c h arg e Of coo ficiousness to be a libel upon a man of common sense • sides, to say that a m an was gu il ty o f .ru d eness an d uffi c , j ; I ousness was not to say any thing libellous. There was °° r e newspaper published whi c h did no t ever y d ay ma ke ogi, a, grievous charges than that both a g ainst himself ante. every one of his Le a rn e d F r i en d s . S omet i mes there Ti t in the newspap e rs s p eec h es p ut i nto hi s mout h, which of was not possible that he c o u ld ever h ave ma d e; sow' , be them were of such a nature that if he had made then] , 0 should have been ashamed to have held up his head agai n .b e. a Court of Justice. Th ere were speec h es a l s d p u t into ` io mouth of his Learned Friend, which, though he did n ot h ve them, lie could take his oath that his learned friend haan e t t p f uttered. It was but th e oth er d a y t h a t h e was as ked in c b street if it were true, that h e and M r . B roug h am h a d had 5 ,, t1 1 , 0 , a quarrel with each oth er a t L ancaster , t h at t h ey h a d throb, their briefs in each other's faces. On his laughing at suc" idea, and asking his friend what induced him to put so cil i a a question to him, he was told in reply that such a siorY appeared in the Courie r . Hi s l earne d f r i en d an d he had IT, O had an angry word with e a ch ot h er i n t h e i r li ves; a nd if ' 4 ft did not complain of th e news p a p rs , w h en t h e y pu blished o. 'o falsehoods to their disadvantage, why should an attornelere so angry, when similar falsifications, if they were such , "'"_,,b published about him ? Th e L earne d C ounse l t h en rea d thro u to the paragraphs complained of by the plaintiff, and cOntel e ' t he at great length' that they contained nothing lib e llous. hit defendants had said that the plaintiff was so ignorant 0.,,,t0e profession that he could not sue out a latitat, or serve r i l.' s ee in ejectment, I admit, said Mr. Scarl e tt, th a t he would I, _ lo been damnified in his character as an Attorney; but if,..i h o strike out the words "as an Attorney of the King's 13 101 1 the libel upon him is quite the same as it w a s b e fore. - I .° these paragraphs, if they be libellous, which I deny. 11 ha quite as libellous applied to me. as the would be wh..„e n oti plied to this Attorney. The Learned Counsel again conw; po at considerable length that these paragraphs containteir reproach upon the honesty, integrity, talent, and 0 0 tion of the plaintiff. Instead of doing him .injury- of were calculated to benefit him in his profession. S h e the jury dislike an attorney for being rude and officl o ol their behalf? For his own part, he did not know t . e f or he should not like himthe better, if he were rude, 'w e the gaged by his opponents. In conclusion he called ur n oo jury to give their verdict for the defendant, because thesej itl ii ' graphs did not affect his character as an Attorney of the ot Bench. whic h . • Mr. Baron Iluttocx told the Jury that the question , he di they had to decide was, whether these publications of 1 4v ill fendants were published maliciously, so as to warrant te' inferring that they were intended to injure the plain''., er el putation as areattorney. The charge was, that they ha d published, and that in consequence of them the plaint' hips" lost large gains, which otherwise would have accrued L° and that be had been in otherways much damnified. hiA l Mr. BROUGHAM interrupted his Lordship, to inf 0,0 that it was laid both ways in the declaration, not 0 11 q attorney, but also as a common person. jurilyir; oßualdrosnayHwlLlLthoecrxinprthoceeierdoepdinioAnsthseuleihbeilswtahseelleaseic.onallitt" to injure the plaintiff in his individual as well es in h i t r i eliiv sional capacity. The chief point in the first paragra,P;i his Lordship read over was, that the plaintiff had reeel v & c ioti r , primand from a bench of agistrates for rudeness and 07 opts ness. Now a man might he rude and officious, and Yir bad attorney. The question therefore came to this—e7' 4 olo l :: imputation made in such a manner as to amount to 1 .0 1 1 1 0: imputation against the plaintiff ? If they 'thought thon, her were calculated to injure him in his business, then.t":44: libellous in point of law. For his own part, he certainlCr o pe, it to be an imputation upon an attorney to impute to n_IT O want of discretion and gentleness of demeanour, as or every man with whom he came in contact his enemy; " 10 of temper'and discretion, both in an advocate and lu_ gre e ney, recoiled upon the party on whose behalf they:r ch ployed, and did more harm than good to the cause s o . 3 .„' h bei;;, them forth. He then read the second paragraph, Wh i 'id the ' explained and so tened the first. In conclusion he told that if they thought either paragraph libellous, Ver/27,00 .3 • damages would in his opinion satisfy the justice of tuf. to lee" The Jury considered for a few minutes, and then .t verdict for the plaintiff—Damages one shilling. - ifid tJ Mr. SCARLETT.--.-Is this a case, my Lord, for c i 4 11Ir. Baron HULLOCK.•••-••1 will consider of ; .t. - thin JO under the circumstances, it is possible that I may grt,j, Mr. BnOUGHAM.—If any apology had been off"-fojite action would never have been brought. Mr. Baron Hur.LoCIC.—I think your client badly 314 bringing it. CO TUE REV. C. CoLToN.—Two gentle' F ir; Tiverton, who have been for many le: rs c oll„ sonally acquainted with the author of " Ig e a °'" whose mysterious disappearance has elcoiti,o4sl much attention , shooks hands with him in i ) th about a month since. —(Dorset Chronic le . ) d o s It is with regret that we announce "t e . o too .e f of Sir Mic HAEL SHAW STEWART, Baronet, Lordl, l lerr ic i; of the county of Renfrew. 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