The Sun. — London, England, 1811-03-05 00:00:00

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' ' "1" COMMITTEE he,,,, , Y to state, that iher6 are /se:,t upwards ,ii I ci,e - ao British eritonel'a,irt the ~ a `,,,, r 4 1 . 4 ,tts of France, tor the Must p..rt in great di,- ri ii i :''it the Stillikeription ht. intended for ,;he alit vv.. ~. __. their s Airings, in $0:11e etegiw, by assisting,. them ' 1 1 2,11 .. 1i s ot Clothing, heddirg,raid , auch other b::',?_ 41 . 1 they stand the In in need of. ,-,,'l'°!l!htlitte Coneerie NO this is a case which musk 4"tin"".of their countLymen at large, and there t ..... _ l4 . eilerii.g 'any 14,7 1 4) 4-.04 nuutartity, for supplying .4 Sum cunt. , eto the keaSiii i ,I,49...lciipitarir' are r.ii: l .:lved at :Lloyd's, and by all the c 4 ,' 4 , 7'!.t , !k5. in, Lull :an ; likewise i,' Sir W.11'1,, Furb . eS 1.2• hiluiburi'; Latorwhe and Co. Oubbn ; 'Robert 7 44 Co. Uubltll.. ttlatHtlin,ons advertised Subscriptions since received : t kitlit t .,,, s . 4 . '. • "-••• -Ir Henr • Crant Es q. .IP 1 ° 1; 41 '4 ; l':'1". 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In a Committee of Privileges it was moved, That an Address be preseoted to the Prince Regent; pray r nig his Royal HightteQs %ironid be gracioil:Oy pleased to appoint a Law Officer of the Crown to attend to the .interests of the younger brother in this - impor tant cati4e. • • The Resolution wis alterttards reported to the House, and . an Address moveclaccordingly; • The Coroner of the County of Surrey, in com pliance with the motion of Lord Holland, and the Ordt.r of their Lordships, prOs,entect a. Copy of the Proceedings of the Inquest on the Body Of William Cullatn,‘w Ito died in the Marshalsea prlon, In‘ con sequence, as it was. of the extreme Waht. of the necessaries of life: , tit4LAND. • Lord DAnsn4y, alfuding .to ,certain documents which hid been moved teipeCting the revenue, and other circurostanees of Ireland, wished tq know when these, docuutenis would be produced ? Every thingvvhich`regarded that p.irt of the Enipire, elaitn- In hisopinton, the must ,serious.-attention of their tardshios, particularly n the oreiept 'moment ; and lie should, feel it his duty to bring these 'oircom stances uuder, their,ortishys' timsideration. Tate Easl of LlVaitPOOl e liknovOledgetl, that the Afriirs of lyelan4 clatmed.twery attention on 'the 'ital. • of that. House, airl promised 'to iognire when' the Pipers referred r% by the. Noble -Lord would be rracly. 19 be laiO on the table:' , , Cord D'Aususp.v could not now fix-the partidular day - on Wh,cli he:should bring forward' A motion on , he subjed. hellactallodeoo, but it. would be some itne about t close of the' ensuing Week. FORMA: HUNS EX OFFICIO. Lord 1-40,L,t4-Nn rose to twing : forward the motion ,f ;which -he had, gi:Veo. dnetiotiee, - respecting the ,of. the number..of infOrmatiOns filed cx ()flier° Majesty's At to'in,y• Oeneral incases of libel, which had taken s place Within - Oise few years, and in which, In'hitt'opinion;.trieni might bajust grounds of suspicion,., that sporitieltl...partiality • and biai bore, ric).l,Mall'share.: . ht .ventured to give that noinie, he ciinceiveil he :was seling a part perfcailY .COnfolmalile to the spirit of the Constitu tion, and :indeed; so.:•Cons•ni,atit :to' pat iiamentary ra4lee, that,l)e, by no . iiiebns,*apprelitincied that "1)) 1100 . with any /..pcisition But be; . h. n i since: leirned Altar' it was the I,:tention of some Noble Lords to Oppo: : e . il 3 and ta..reture. hit himself onder.the necosity oflating more leogi than intended, the grorioos 0t,,.n w I,e fiad to rest4he propriety of Ili.: rtfotiun. lie considered the nature i,t tharpOtion, he eettain ly was at a 'Gas to, conje4ure the Aort:Ot. ~i;jettions "fie.n.rged against it. For, in the first • place,. ,it did not go to plede their•, Lo,dshipas :House to any partic.ular opinion whittsoever ; but merely called for the produttion of docutnents rela tive to the administration at justice in cases of lithl ; documents which, in his opinion, should be open to every one,' and whioJi should be inSpe.ted with frig gilance and jealousy. At the opening of every Par-; liameot, a Cumorittee of Justice Word appointed,' arid to :every case where the rights and liberties 'of the subjea' were concerned, Mt:attention of Paths-. tent was dtreae.l, not ocyasionally and ttcc;ident;elly,: but onitbrtnly and Unrernittingly. In cases of.libel they lights and liberties were . affe4led, and there— fore it behoved Parliattient .to inqpireinto the num ber and nature of the informations tiled-in the lower : Courts, and into'the proceedings which had Deep' had in'conieqneace. 'fbere wag a Committee pow; sitting - on the nature of the Itevd,nrte Luta, as fat as they might atiett the life of the subjitet, in order to gain infOi illation how those laws might be amend ed. In the sainemanne . thought there could be no Stnpioriety in inst ;luting an inquiry into the objed of his pres'ent motion, without making' any reference to. any particular .ahuae. It wits well ; known, that, mo later than two or three yea's ago, an Mt M. , 33 pissed, which Otte& the unent;►l lasii•of th'elai,i to matter of-libel, which .altered the . i ttuititerropteo stream of precedcn:s upon .) inch all law was founded, and which gave to. the will, to. the . Sititple con - I/idiot) and conseience. of one Alan, aft the'torde. of a regular Bill of Indictment, without the necessity of Offering any reason for such a mode Aof iirocc;eding, - .The °My reason- *htelt he could see to tostity - such apractice was, that it alight enable the. Attorney General to hold the sensed - period to 'bait, and• thus secure hint until he could be:iouve. niently brought to' trial, Hai this. authority and power, TeCell Ily •itivested' the Attorney-Gentral, tended to prevent or rather, has nut their number' increased ? This was a point he should nut now dwoll upon j net. 'would he , proceed on- the narrow grontul the late alteration in the law. He might 1 - ).:!. of pre-111)1,6ot) in calling,the at tention of their Lerdships to the adinitostration of justice in this parilcuLtr, white persons so emioently quahned for , such an' undertaking, persons so fully and enrree.tly cenvei:olit with all the };race dings, persons who equally enjoy private.lespeti and pue rto admiration;, see: no - necessity for such ati under taking. It. Would indeed! be high .pres s uropiiou in hitin to risk such an attempt, 'ii he - was not coutite 'nanced in it by the u;:inion and authority of the must dist;ne,niclied ,awyer,), ho' contended - A that no (lass of , persc.ins should Monopolize to.theatscikes tlx:'observalions Mar slits* he tuade tor the MI. provetneot ofthe.law ; and he. not hesitate to : 14,eak tats int:id to that eife(* . it) the presence of a t‘Yo , oteattd, Lear4d L s c)t - Li (Ellenborougli) ttiSn by hotp, justice watt never more : purely or ably, 4 1Di nistertd. fie should now Sync the l i n e o f, tai (ion. ohputd not meddle: with tne.la-w ut tine, till less Would 'lre attempt to define. what a lil e) the nature of.things.such a deflt4o9ll. was 43 1110 MARcu 1811. very difficult. The la w4fli . belmftPr.titePitillittiop,;, of tr::?.son, stands on - more cliff - knit - iiouti t it - iliqt aaty other, beCause how can libels well be t4eparated from. the political feelings of the dziy, or froM ,exislimprejedices with respeCt to the persons whop' they linty ateed ? This influence pervades r veb the J'‘iries, and even those. who bring such -offrndei - s, to punishment may-, be copal lered as !So - biassed that they are led already, to hold the accosed in thelight oft! , Por in cases of libel, as well as of. treason, it is tiaiural to feelunfavoutably.with.regard to those \t lio - would stand up in'opposition to power; , and men are inclined to consider, ti iibellguit • these who attempt at free disotssion, and to treat ttiern ai r . such, 'chiefly with a viesvo stifle tree di , ,eussion,. It is impossible so anxiously to guard against such a disposition, as.would check the (rhCllViioll of public 'affairs, nod prove fatal to the liberty of the press. In what he had- to offer on these points, he slteuld be guidel by the highest law au:horities, nor would he deny, that in no case„, and under no . neCe4sity, were Informations . r.z. officio legal. Their Lereestdp , Would recoiled t be dioium of Lord Hale on ► hit coh.. jed, which was afterwards adopted by 'Chief Justice ttolt, viz. that it wits the ahuse, and not the legality of I(tch information ihat vvas to be'cptestioned, alkw ing the expediency or necessity of the existence of such a power-- . -neither did ire wish to s•uppresi power, when - it Was eltdreiseii‘*vith - a view to the Const . nution. It was the jitinse of it; Whieh he 'dreaded, and therefore would he - propose inquiry, it) orrdertt# deted and punish the it existed.— If he looked to taier authorities who disapproved of the power assunmed by infOrtnations oticio_, he had ots his side My. \V. a !rrnirne l ' and Mr. Dun mow, whose acutene , o. of ju(lgrwin and knowledge (ft- raw was only equalled by lii-ilove - nt liberty. ,Now there 'were two modei of pr(:.-,..edhcge.:l;linst li el, the one by civil action,-the other by inditttnent— the former was only as tiet'weem party - and party.-- In the Titter, •no man coidd be convicted of libel r rilistierueabor iti.lcFs weie proved before thee upon oath. Ilui in the cokes of. which he was conipm laing; treic in infornvitiior ex organ w.is filed against an individual, - he.;was brouglit ten trial as if ii Boil had been' found against him.by a 6iand Jury. ' . To the higtrest ahthonties hich •Ite had already- Lite'd, he 1ni,;14 . &:4' adduce the faith°. hty of Jtif.. ! e Illacksione.--filackstorie was tiot a mini riiiearita .iy strong in' hil"aniiiniclversiolis' on the alio& of po.ver. His book; equaliv'conspica on, tor the soundne of hiti reasoning and the - de: gance of his style, might rather .re cottsider,al•as a panegyric on the Constitution aMI tic 'La ws•ol. Groat Britain. it.d, if, dares, indeed, that • . . the Arorite; lietie;il) m iy piocven oy totnirnations ex! only he proceed When the'ortsdetnclinoni ;,,;•Opst Which' he is ''pro ceerlinere. .•hat they -thretten the des•iraeti rt or 6(wOri:oleol, and so urgent and clan ge-ous dirt not a moment's delay' should' intervene oet weeo , the suppressitip and punishment of ti;enr. What do these observatiOns 'imply ? They imply, lud4ed, the urecessity of ' the • existence 'of 'Sven a power," but that' when it is exerted for any purpoies short of the stippressian of dangers of the twist fatal magnitude; and . of most, urgent erbergeney, the exercise of:it is a Most flagrant abuse. - Now who will' hazird the assertion, 'that the lib'els 'agairm wbich informations ex officio; have-latelY'beon tiled in such iminbeYs, •were of • the • deseriptum of that urgency, and that fatal TrognitUde io the State, Which : these-great ablhorities - allow may. justify the' exercise Of •such a power) . Otttbe contrary, was there any thing in them which carried with it any of toe characters of snch urgency and . 'ertorinity of an '%tylticlt,. was' immediately 'to' be suppressed by' extraordinary . .exertion of poWer ? and if these charafters did not justify its.,.are, not '''sare'war tatited,' with Bllckstone, in describing •it awn most flagrant abose ? NoW;• it not onry appears from the best authorities that' this • power is liable, to,abuse, bust that such a made of proceeding is less favOura, ble to theliecused than any other Mode of 'orosecu. torn, and that therefore n is irreconcilable with the spirit Of our • la'ws, It the Mere liability -to abuse ought' to be guarded 'against, w:,,at ought . not to be clone if rho power Itiontd be: perverted to the worst' of purposet? • 'ls it not clear . that Aulch s po”Mt' rrray be exerted wit b'a vleW ite extortion s oppresstoo; and influence ). That it may extend seven icy' ' even be yond the Crimes • -. t.vhich it is .. employed to punish*. Itvert •case of a lEbel, what 'delays t-ag.• 'been allowed to iitterirene between a cooviLtion and the bringing tip for'. jodgment t Fie hoped their Lordship, w(Yuld relltt how etivrtnotisly 'this evil has increased fiir the last thiee_Or. four years. Since 1806, no leSs thlin forty-two 'persons been 'iuroceedeui against in' this Manner ; and oiii of those 4t,i only sixteen have been t;onsiaeu.. Were their otKoices of that deseription, of enortnour misdeineanOiS,tho pnnishment• of which ennui not . be alloed to itsffer a moment's' delay without imminent danger of ' detruction ,fo the Staie ? Have 36, of those enormous crimes been stif fered to go on unsuppressed, end yet pc:" danger has accrued train theta - to the power aid security of the State ?' In what absurdities Would such doetrines and such praCtices' involve us ? It is also to be.cibserved that the number of persons so proceeded against has iiKreased; so also has thit,power been most point edly directed againstlhase whO are engaged in the press. With 'wh*At 'purposes than is not' this power rif 'information ex officio used, if 'not tar the purposes tf terror and influence ? He was one of those who did thiok that soiiie distinction should be trade be tween-the inalienius iutettlii4l 61 the•man who utter.' Rte. libel, - and the situation of the person who, -withosit ever having . harboered tiny such intention, might•be entangled in the consequences of it. He .had with. .hun . in this opinion the ant trinity 'of one Attorney-General, (Sir A. Pigot), a man of the most constittuinnal principles, of - the cnob.t unvaiv. ing steadiness olcharaaer. •During the peri o d that Sir A. Pigot held . the high office of Attoiney•llene. 0 6 1 1Z 2 7 [PRICE-SIXPENCE ITALFPENNY. _,:.__..a.__. _,.._.. only .one. information ex officio fa , - libel, a libel of the - Moat, attiiifinu§ aud d.stle.ron; nature, wicillated to liroduee,-no tesi tr ett ,a tha I a mutiny among our'ttoops. .There intkei.l w.sit 1 evil. that might prove tlestehetive to the State, :,it I. subversive of Pot Art: Authority. -flaw r. Pigot act in . that case? . Wished•to get IA tilt) e.l author of. de Jibe!, and no sootiOr was Of: le author of: it given up, hut a 716fi prosegui was , ss.:t-.1. He (Lord, I-loll:m(1) was always anxious io.see : t principle- of: Sir A. Pipes acted on. - The fe ,.. : "} A i. thor of a libel is theperson you should eti4eavour to get at, if 'joked he can be produced. It w 11,) e . . inarkable That . the neWspaper ,spoken of by Sr. Pigot was The Morning, , Post, distinguished ter its 'almost unvaried support of every Ministerlil (1143.. • sure :•yet though judgment in that *ca-e teas suffered to go hy'defauit, the offender was never brought up •fo judgment. The Administration, indted,, sitar-0y titter ch.:oged ; although it is no tare - prt4tice of the Attorril7,C4tarn-rai to keep judgmetir hell ;mg over the heai, ut loose who have been cona:ted, ,altno,l the only exception was nixie in favoor of. that P.iper, with v,hicts the Attorney-General wsi politi6Py connect:xi. It would not b.: sitnpnedy, ,bot stupidity on hits pan if lie cl.d. not suspect it, extent of abuse such a power .might He should not enter into an eXalliill3tiOtl of any of ibe.patticular Cases which had rectin.ly 'oc• citryt-d. It was too ohviuus howev,r tt t to re. mirk ?:ow in sr)ineinstanCes the putti.di.ne seern- ed to 1,0 aggravated. No &Lax it was right that the Judges should have the pmver to con per:,:os in' different pri,otts for good re.a. sons ; but the reason ceased . to be a gotm• tine, if icy were Lo confined with a view toile a ggravd . fo of the putiiinnent. Nor tt the out hor of he libel oily, .itid the proprietor of, the paper that . . coma . in.:6 it, vet(). were thus puttighed, but ter .; , ;ti pobl,sher, of it likewise. Was, ik uot a severe ,a4,u vatiou of their putti,lvntent, thus .14 separate thein and . send .roam a ati4auce tar from their trade and occupation, and contkquent ly far .froto the means, not only of their 'pre. . sent, hut ptrharS'of their future subsistence and i;ippurt ? The Noble Loldnext-atiiinadvertedu,;;Linist [IA,: employment of , Special oc . c4 . 1", o them. the sown remark b e no i lp,a air lylrd .applie:l to tistor;uations rai'Liu.— . They Weft' t;ivouri.ihie than thZ; wait:ivy totirse, vi justive and com::iiiiently not so cowormlble to tot law . of ilia had 01 the bpiyit,ot On! isk l ey %,vere notallowed . in eat itier. should they in c.t-os of libel. 11,, re n ti nn abase ivhicit ingaitc.t Otto, tor b ih-iituted were n only to prove tio ,et_. such abuse existed. lie was far from w ... i‘;:hin it to throw out any ungrw4iikted ltiiti tltiltl)~ts all ,1,. the adrnitsistratitioot justice; but this that ii,should not only be plate, but that it tiliou;ki, not even be auspeP.led... The only Object ot 4 airpo 'nishment was example; but inttead of cit-t..-rmitiing by example, it now often happened that the 4 evi t consequences of a l ibel 'were aggraVsited by the taken of it, when perhaps it might be . wore-m, to have left it unnoticed. The notice taken of •it ' only gave it a more rapid and extensive citcpl and thus increased' the evil consequences of the libel itself. Such abuses . wete obvious; and th e y f u ll y justified theiptopriety. of his intended motion. tits wish 'wits,lo prevent the , filing of informatio.:i against peribdical publications, atter a c,rtai h had elapsed subsegoeni to the publication of the • bet. , It only went to revive an evil that had alrettak ceased to exist. He should therefore , move a Reso lution; to compel the Attorney-oc, meral either to prosecute forthwith, tn, enter a.. nun- proseqi,i. lie should.. Move that Judgment be playett'againit the individual to due time alter litqConvlcttan. '.111614 . : . • also had strong claims to redress • who Were exposed to heavY . eXpenCeS, and after not brow lit to trirl, AI these were points . Which required ;to be gated; and roorn -should be given".to pcimt ornsute,: aitaitist tinaseWh(rtuay abuse this perver 'of infornia. lion ex cificio, and who. : tor• that pOtr.o . se 'skew is di' inclination thelaw of I.ltirt have its . course: Much had been said of the present lict ti titiu ! ness of the press, and if our best, Our Ist , st claSsical writeta were. examined,. they would perhaps be !quad to couta , n much , strong e r censure aga•tist public wets and public .nteastires' than what is nok.v loot co on with such horror,..`and• punished \s itjt iliCh seventy, Who would now venture . direcny, alltid, to the harsh adistinistration of ntl 111) . 6' an individual in, his eye as Pope had \Viten ha tote the following lint: : t. liird %vitas and haaiing if your l uoge be Page t." Such pratlices us those ‘t/•iels he had been con demning were only calculated to degrade the Our anxious effort, stiouit however b e t o pre,r,, it pure, and re,cue •it. from the corruption of hands. . It is idle, to say, that since the Vr,t,cli Volution the licentiousness of thepresS, which 'inen produced such fatal efietis, should bec4tition:i . ) guarded against. No doubt th e li cen tions , ne,s of ti;:" press may be produtive.of, gen , evils, hitt them. will never be found the et'll .01 dirai.isliWg' the will or the means of a country t o resist a iorei&tt enemy. Pas the licentiousness of the pi t .•s France enabled the Noble Secretary (Lord . Ltvcr poOl).to March to Taris? ISTo. It has'iilw;.tyi' bven the, means of defeating, the attempts of O: .tions to subjugate France ; and tt.will ever tet!lo:t an engine, a powerful eogine, against - the aggresOon Of a foreign foe.. The Noble , Lrad cot,cluited wit Li Moving for a list of all then:formations which i.ase beets filed, e qjficio, from,,tiit! ist Jalluitry,' 1 gni , to the 3 ist 1)eo. 18 ti, together with copies ul Otte proceedings had tr. consequence. . Lo l a ELLENIv.,MOO4ti aziisi, that such a Ml:Miter; as that urged a h o y . i t z b: t e er N , : l th; l e lat.l l4-o c r h d a , : - ( w ,ft t e te n h y w ea a r s k fur ol a ou li t s: t at the er ofticio liifortzttions; in eases of libel . , d, - be accompanied by some grountls, why suds a p' ceeding wureileCeSairV. —r Q . ~ y~