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rtiE LONDON JOUAMALS. ENTRACTS FROM THE - DAILY - MORNING PAPERS February 13, 18'22., •[THE TIMES.) • Our copious report in yesterday's paper of the discussion in the House of Commons on-the pre ceding nigllt, will prove that it is no want of attention to the subject matter`of the proposition then submitted.to that assembly which dissuades us from • entering upon a minute analysis of the speeches then delivered. Mr. Brougham's pro posed resolution, went in substance to pledge the House to obtain a reduction,of the taxes. No, says the l'ilinister, ".,Don't pass such a'vote, be " cause we (the Cabinet) have certain plans of " our own to recommend' to you." The infe rence from this evasive answer must, therefore, of necessity ly.s, that among the schemea of finance 'about to be disclosed by Ministers, a reduction of taxes is not one : for why else object to a re solution, which affirmed nothing but that it was expedient to reduce the public burdens, and which •pledged the House no farther than to that parti cular policy ?. The Government, it is pain, could* have felt its designs embarrassed or incommoded by the record ofsueh a vote, on no 'other hy pothesis but that of its,being, their determination to act in defiance of the principle so recognised. Let, however; the Budget, and its attendant troops of voters, .determine the question of re lief or no relief to the community pro hue vice how they may, it is to, be esteemed a solid:ad vantage that the sninect itself of the public dis tresses, their origin, and their appropriate reme dies, should be frequently brought before the nation. Hardly, indeed, a debate occurs. within or without the walls of Parliament, in the course of :which some old folly is not cried down and thrown out of circulation, and in. which some sound and *valuable counsel is not received and established in the room of it.—We heir little now of prohibitory laws, as a protection to the agri cultural interest. So it is owing to the active at tention bestowed upon the sufferings of the landed interest, within the last few.- months, that public opinion was prepared to reject without difficulty, and indeed with instantaneous coutcenot, the notable proposal of the Finance Minister, to distribute five millions among the insolvent tenantry of England, to whom (for.otherwise the scheme was an unmeaning one) no private indi vidUalwould be silly enough to lend a groat. This expedient, too, whatever may be. its fate in •Par . - liarnent, is one among the exploded fallacies of thediour ; but it-is, as we havissaid, owing to.the inquisitive and informed state of the middle classes of the people upon national subjects, and upon this as one of the most interesting among thern,•that the designed' gift of five millions of money, by an immediate increase of the unfunded debt, was inn moment exclaimed against as a double bribe to the tenants to suppress their cla mours, by being. enabled to pay their rents, and to a certain class of landlords to accommo date the Treasury with their votes, during yet one other session: [MORNING POST.] We are this day enabled to give a translation of the Official Note delivered by the Turkish Government to our Ambassador at Constantinople in December last. - It is a curious specimen of the style and ,diplomacy of . Barbarians.. In „volved.and obscure to such a degree as to be come in' certain parts AlniOst unintelligible, it still. displays considerable art. It glosses over all the acts of atrocity committed by the people, encouraged, if not commanded, by the . Govern ment, and makes - the Sublime Porte. appear, a most harmless and peace-loving Power, unjustly threatened by the ambition of a mightier neigh bour, and' disposed to make every , concession rather than to endanger the repose of Europe.— These concessions,, however, are little more than nominal. On no single point does the Porte pro propose to abandOn her objects ; she only,consents ~to" adjourn" their attainment. As she finds Rus sia resolute in her refusal to surrender up the Greeks Refugees to torture and assassination, she 64 adjourns her just claim upon them." The de mand .that she should evacuate the. Principalities .of Wallachia' and Moldavia, according to exist ing treaties, is met by, a declaration that such a proposal, if persisted in,. would be " a thing con trary to the rights of men and of Governments." A middle course is then suggested, which is a complete evasion ; for it would leave those pro vinces in the occupation of, her Officers and troops, only diminished it) number, and would postpone the restoration of their ancient form.of Govern ment, though guaranteed by treaty, to the,, pe riod when, the Greeks had been entirely crushed. ---The manner in which the question of the re building of -Churches is treated, is equally - eva 7 sive. All positive pledge on this subject is wanting. After jhe rebellion shall have been"sub dued, "consent will be given, as far as the law allows, to the repairing and reconstruction ot the Churches which" formerly eisted." .Now it is a fact that the Mahometan laNi does not permit the : building, ,of.;thristian Churches; ,vague consent :promised, .but tot given . ,js therefore domPetely nugatory •when coupled with . snch a condition. With respect to the freeiexercise of the Christian' Religion itself, the assurance is still i more insignificant, as the Potte'enly appeals to her past conduct on that subject—an appeal • which can only have been made through'an igno rantiieligf tbat.no history ofOttotnatipolicy had . ever , been•written. An attempt-iS made .to .jus: tify .the executions Which were then daily taking place at Constantinople (the wholesile massa cres are left quite out of the question) by de claring that the greatest care was taken to sever the innocent'from the-guilty. [MORNING, HER -41.A.1 It some time sinte.we have had any authea tic documents relating to the question solong pending betweelohe Porte and Russia.. We therefore looked with some interest to an,afficial note of the V.orte, addressed to Lord Strainford, which brings the "state of the negociatioasdown to the - 2d of, last: December '!Fhe toye'of this document,. whirTT is an indirect answer to the pretensions of Russia, is not the most amicable to that power, which, indeed, it openly accuses of bad faith and ambition. There appears also a coldness and reserve towards the Austrian Am bassador, notwithstanding his being honoured With the title of Friend of the Porte." But to Lord Strangford, the Divan is prodigal of com pliments, and England is mentioned as the great est and most affectionate friend of the Porte, both Courts (the Turkish and English) being mutually bound 'to each other by " a' real and unequivocal friendship." The note next ad verts to the refusal .of Russia to deliver up the fugitive Greek insurgents, as a violation of the law of nations, and treats the Russian de mand of the evacuation of Moldavia and Walachi a as a pretension, the secret object of which is to make Russia: a more . prominent figure (B'w:quer* du rel ef) in Europe, by shewing what she can do at her good pleasure. To prove, however, to its good friends, the English, the `sincere anxiety of the Sublime Porte for the continuance of peace, the following is proposed as a modification, by way of counter-projet. " This affair then (says the note) maybe modified, in the last resort, as follows—viz. that until the rebellion shall have ceased, the two provinces •(Walachia and Mol davia) shall continue to be occupied by the offi cers therein established by, the Porte, with merely the' number of troops sufficient to protect the country against robbers, without the least vexation, to the Rajahs (Greek sub jects;) that the evacuation of the provinces, and the nomination of Greek Princes in them, should be postponed ; that as to the affair of the Greek churches, the Porte will con sent to the repair or re-construction of such as have suffered, so far as the law permits." The document concludes with. 'soliciting the inter ference of England to induce Russia to accept these terms. Its complexion is scarcely pacific. There is an evident disingenousness in the allu sion to the re-edificatien of the Greek churches —for it is not the " consent," but the perform ance of this act that was demanded biltussia. But the consent even is hampered with a reservation which nullifies it—viz. " so far as the law will permit."—The only plausible indication of the desire of peace is the pro - posal to postpone their claim of the delivering up of the Greek fugitives until the insurrection shall have been suppressed. I [BRITISH PRESS.] . , • - Every day affords clearer and more certain proof that the Ministers will not consent to the reduction of any part of the burdens that now press upon the people. They have not indeed ventured so to express themselves in direct terms, but such is the fair conclusion to be .drawn from, the general character of their speeches. Even their reserve, when pressed to explain themselves upon this important subject, is alarmingly ominous, and the people, if they desire an immediate relief, *must look for it to other counsels. The recent coalition, though it certainly has brought into the Cabinet a largein crease of influence, ought not to deter the people from . still pressing their demands in Parliament and if the public feeling be unequivocally ex pressed in - support of the motions which will be made in the house of - Commons by the sincere advocates of economy and retrenchment, the Ministers must yield a considerable portion of the taxes. Mr. Brougham's speech on , Mon day night placed the justice and necessity of a reduction in the amount of the taxes in the clear est and most satisfactory light, and the country has seen with how much levity and indifference the matter was treated by the Marquis of Lon- i donderry. The Noble Secretary gave no an swer to Mr. Brougham's statements of facts, nor did he venture to deny the propriety and cor rectness of his' inferences. Mr. Brougham's able exposition of the effects Of the return to cash payments upon the actual_ amount of the taxes, involved a question not merely of expediency but of justice. The alteration in the intrinsic value of the currency has produced a grievous effect upon all persons who stood in the relation of debtors, their engagements having been al most suddenly increased fifteen ) twenty, and even in some instances twenty-five per cent.— The contributors of taxes stand in this relation to the Crown, and they have of course endured a like measure of severity. In the cases of private contracts the legislative • power of the empire cannot interfere to relieve a debtor frOm the con sequences of this measure, although no foresight of his could have preserved him from its effects; but in the case of the public, considered in the aviation of delitors, Parliament has the power to interfere, as was suggested by Mr. Brougham, for the purpose of preserving the income or ca pital of the nation from the evileffeets of a legis lative act. The Parliament did indeed interfere, but.how ? It imposed, at the suggestion of the Ministers of the Crown, additional taxes to the amount in the reitored "currency •o13,"500,0004 . [MORNING Chit-ONIGLE.] Too many of the Gentlemen of England (to judge frOm the ,Itinguao made use of by them every dn'y) have_very incorrect notions with re spect to the present distress, and the means by which that distress may be mitigated. At the Late public meetings, several, joined in the con demnation of wasteful expenditure, and the call for economy and retrenchment, w"ho, we have every reason to think, still ,hope that an unfa vourable. year or two would produce a continu ance of high prices, and enable them to receive undiminished rents, without renouncing their slfare of the good things which an enormous taxation enables MiniSters to 'give away. The Members who share these sentiments (would they were fewer in number l) will gladly listen to any excuse offered by Ministeri for delaying the work of retrenchment, and keeping up all our ruinous establishments ; and in - the hopes of 'high prices, they will swallow the admirable suc cedaneum which Lord Londonderry is to give for .reduced taxation, with the same ease with which they voted with Mr. Vansittart, in 1811, that the promissory notes of the Bank of Eng= land' had hitherto been, and were at that time held to he, in public estimation, equivalent to the legal coin of the realm ! An unfavour alile season may undoubtedly' (so long as the trade in corn is not free) once more -raise prices very high, but this rise will as cer tainly be followed by a ruinous depression. The gentlemen of England may depend upon it, that prices cannot permanently be kept in any one country much above the level of those of other countries. If they knew their real interest, they would endeavour to put an end to this ruinous oscillation- as soon as posSible, by removing the obstacles in the way of a return to a free trade. These obstacles are the taxes, which raise the price of production here so much beyond that of other countries; and the first thing to be done, therefore, -is, to diminish taxation and expendi ture with an unsparing hand. [NEW TIMES.] Mr. brougham's speech was exactly such an one as' we anticipated, very long, very ingenious, very eloquent, but altogether inconclusive and unsatisfactory. It might suffice to say, that his argument of four hours reduced itself to a single proposition, which single proposition another Member of Opposition encountered with a direct negative. Mr. Brougham said, 44 Tax ation is the cause of the present agricultural distress"—Mr. Ricardo said, " Taxation is . not the cause of the present agricultural distress."— In deference to both these Hon. Gentlemen, however, it maybe proper to look - a little more closely into their respective arguments. We fully agree with Mr. Brougham, that the late war was one of unexampled magnitude.—" Every sea," says he, 44 was covered with our fleets— every part of the' world was filled with our armies--we were surrounded with vast perils— great battles were fought abroad—at home we were not free from danger and apprehension."— Through such a tempest the vessel of the State held on her way, certainly not unshaken, cer tainly not without the dread and the imminent hazard of being dashed to pieces among the breakers, or swallowed up in the yawning gulph ; but by the blessing of God, and the energy of her-brave crew, she weathered the storm. Is any- one weak enough to sup pose that so wonderful au exertion of national power could have been made without straining our resources to the utmost ? Can we suppose that a war for liberty and existence, a war in which we stood alone against the Conqueror of the Continent, and triumphed, was to, be main tained without disturbing the nice arrangements of property, or interfering with the steady and regular course of industry ? No. All interests in their turn have been benefited : all in their turn have suffered : but though we deeply and sincerely regret that the landed interest is at the present moment involved in so much dif ficulty and distress, - yet we cannot. regret those exertions by which the whole nation has been saved from utter destruction. There was one part of. Mr. Brougham's speech abOve all praise. It was where he contemplated the possible" ruin of the landed interest," and ex plained what could alone be meant by that phrase. ‘ 4 People talked," he said, C 4 of the ruin of the landed interest; but it was not meant to say that the proprietors would be dekxoyed ; that the land would become sterile, or sink into the sea, or that the houses would be levelled, and the owners exterminated. No : what was meant to be understood by the ruin of a great class; and by the destruction of one 'of the most com manding. interests in the' country was shortly this—a great change of property—much indi vidual misery ; the whole relations of the class destroyed, both those which it bore as a class to the rest of society, and those which its members bore to each other ;"—and elsewhere he spoke of this supposed event .as one, which should it ever happen, must involve " the laying • waste of a large and fair portion . of England, the breaking up of all endearing connexions, the de struction of all local attachments,the most fright ful agonies to which the human mind could be subjected."—This is indeed a dreadful picture ; but, God be thanked, it is, and we trust ever will be, in this island purely imaginary. But we have seen it realised with 'tenfold horror in a country within view of our own shores. We have seen the whole gentry of France—the• en tire -landed interest—robbed,' plundered, pro scribed, ruined—not by excessive taxation, but by a power which rose up against all taxes—not by the necessary expenditure of a defensive war, but by the rapine and devastation of a general anarchy; not by theoretical defects in the na tional representation, but by mad Reform, swell ing quickly into Revolution. HOLVIIEAD ROAD.—The centre of Corwen Bridge was carried away by the torrent last week, but it was immediately repaired; and on Saturday a mass of Penilyog Mountain near Ogwen Pool, .detached itself, and fell into the road. On the mail coach arriving at the place, bags were conveyed by the guard •in a chaise to Shrewsbury, and the obstruction was, next day, cleared. HIGHWAY ROBBERIES.--Monday night two daring robberies were committed in illackfriar's road ; the first on Mr. WYLDE, a banker's clerk, residing in Prospect-place, Lambeth, and the second on SARAH CARRUTHERS, servant to Mr. YONAS, watch 7 maker, No. 12,John-street. They were severally attacked by a gang, consisting of three men, who robbed Mr. W. of a gold re peater, and the girl of her shawl, and a.silk um brella belonging to her master. CORONER'S - Inquisition was taken yesterday at the White Lion, opposite St. Giles's Church, before Mr. STIRLING, one of the Middlesex Coroners, on the body of Mary Lees, otherwise Duggan, who lost her life at a wretched brothel, 41, Charles-street, Drary-lane, where she cohabited with Wm. Abbot, the keeper of the house, who was remanded at Marlborough street Police on the preceding day, on the cha rge of having murdered her. Verdict—" Wilful Murder against Wm. Abbott."—An Inquest was also held last night at the Grange Inn, Carey. street, before GELL, Esq., on the body of a man unknown, which was found on Monday night near Arundel Stairs. The deoeased ap. peered to be about 40 years of age ; he had on a jacket, waistcoat and trowsers, all of fustian; the body must have been in the water more titan a week. Verdict—" Found drowned." LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Frß. 12. LORD BYRON'S ." CAIN."—MURRAY V. BENBOW. The LORD CHANCELLOR came into Court a , few minutes after nine o'clock this morning, and, after hearing a motion of course, he addressed Mr. Shadwell as follows (the Attorney- Genera/ was present :)—ln that case in which you have applied for an injunction, I shall tell you what strikes me on the sub ject. This Court, like every other court of justice, holds Chris tianity to be a part of the law of the land. Its jurisdiction in protecting literary property I take to be founded on this : — Where an action of damages will lie in a court of law for the piracy or imitation of a work, it will lend its assist ance to aid the defective remedy which such a proceeding affords : for it is obvious that pubhcation after publica tion might take place, which you could never otherwise hunt down, But when the work is of such a nature that an action for piracy will not lie, then this Court will not grant an injunction to protect the copyright. Now, if the object of the present publication be to vilify and bring into discredit that portion of the Scripture history on which it is founded, it is a publication for the piracy of which the party could not re cover any damages at law. This Court is not armed with a criminal jurisdiction to punish offences of that nature; but nei ther is it called upon to interpose its civil jurisdiction in the pro. tection of works of such a character. You have alluded to the noble production of our glorious Milton ; in the course of the last long vacation, amongst the - " Solicits jucunda oblivia vita," I read that beautiful poem over from beginning to end ; it i s , therefore, quite fresh in my recollection ; and it a pp ears to me impossible that any one can for a moment doubt that the object of that production was to promote the great cause of Christiani ty. There are, undoubtedly, many passages in it, which, of themselves, could not by law be vindicated. ; but taking it al together, it is clear that its object and effect were, not to bring into disrepute, but to promote the reverence of our religion. Now the question is—looking at -the work before me, the pre face, the poem, its general tone, and manner of treating its sub ject, whether its intent be as innocent;as that of the other with which you have compared it, or whether it be to bring discre dit upon Scripture history and doctrines ? This question 1 have no right to determine. It is one which is only fitted for the consideration of a jury. All lam new called upon to say is, whether I entertain a reasonable doubt on the character of the book ; and I trust I shall not be considered unreasonable when I say Ido entertain such a doubt. You must, therefore, take another mode of trying what is the nature of this production. It may appear strange that I should th us a ll ow th e multiplica tion of copies, if the object of the poem be mischievous, which Ido not say whether it is, or is not ; I cannot help that. The defendant (Mr. Benbow, I think his name is) does not appear to oppose this application ; and it is pretty obvious why. The question, therefore, cannot now be argued before me ; but if it turns out hereafter that I am called upon to do so, I will ex press what my opinion upon it is. At present, all I can say is, that I cannot grant this injunction until you shew me that you can maintain an action upon it. It is true that this mode of dealing with the work, if it be calculated to produce mischievous effects, opens a door for its wider dissimulation but, sitting here, II have no criminal jurisdiction to punish or check suck offences. The way to put a stop to them is by proceeding di rectly against the offenders in another mode, and through another channel. But I again repeat, that I pronounce no opinion upon the character of the present work. Mr. SHADWELL—I do not mean, my Lord, to dissent for a moment from any . thing which your Lordship has said ; but I have one observation to make upon an expression which fell from your Lordship in alluding to the preface as affecting the character of the work— The LORD CHANCELLOR—Mr. Shadwell, 'I owe it to my self to state, that I have not only considered the nature of the work generally, but, having separated the poem from the pre face, I have most anxiously recons id ere d it t h us separate l y. r. SHADWELL—I ought to apologize for having troubled your Lordship ; but I wished to apprise you that Mr. Murray claimed no copyright in the preface. It is not on the record ; nor does it appear by whom it was written. It happened to be bound up with the work; but a claim upon it constituted no part of the ground of my motion. My client was desirous that the poem might be considered separately, without any reference to it. The LORD CHANCELLOR—I 'assure you that the conside ration of this subject has been very painful to me. My mind, however, was somewhat relieved by g i v i ng it a cons id erat i on sepazate from the preface. All I can say is, this is a work the character of which may be of a nature not to sustain an action at law. I don't say that it is ; but it being doubtful, this Court cannot interfere to protect it. Mr.. SuAnwELL--Then, my Lord, I suppose the result is, that I take nothing by my present motion. The LORD CHANCELLOR—Just so.—lnjunction refused. In a few minutes after his Lordship had pronounced the de cision, an officer of the Court gave Mr. Shadwell the copy of the work which he had upon a former day handed up to the bench. Mr. SHADWELL—I w a s almost afraid, my Lord, after what your Lordship had said, to claim a property in this book. The LORD CHANCELLORI know I have nawish to claim a property in it, I assure you. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, FEB. 12. MANCHESTER MEETING. REDFORD V. IHRLEY—JOHNSON V. SAME. Mr. EVANS now showed cause against the rule in these cases calling on the attorney for the plaintiffs to give information of the places of abode of his clients, who h ave b roug h t act i ons for injurie, which they allege that they received in the disper sion of the celebrated meeting at Manchester. He con tended that none of the Authorities which probably would be referred to on the other side sanctioned the application now made in a case of personal injury. These authorities were to be found in 1 Strange, 141 ; 2 Barnadiston, 2 ; 4 Barnewall and Alderson, 93 ; and a case not yet reported which arose in the common Pleas ; but they all seemed to confine the advan tage sought for to qui tam actions and ejectments, in which the defendant may, from th e na t ure o f th e act i ons , be well' sup posed ignorant of the real plaintiff, In opposition to these, he relied on 2 Strange, 705, as a direct authority to show that the Court would not thus interfere in any but these . peculiar ac tions. It might be urged that the affidavit to bring back the venue into Middlesex was not sworn by the plaintiffs, but by their attorney : this, however, arose entirely from the lateness of the time when the motion to change the venue was made by I the defendant, which rendered it impossible to send to Man chester. Having thus disposed of the legal part of the ques tion, he would ask what were the motives of those by whom this application was made? In begging the Court to estimate these, he would observe, that it was the bounden duty of every advocate to make all such observations as were just and relevant to the matters in issue. This he would ever do while he had thnhonour to appear in that Court, whether there were powerful defendants, whether there were private prose cutors or public prosecutors, against whom he had to struggle, without any wish to hurt private feelings, but with a determi nation to do his duty. , The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE observed, that this really was not a case in which such observations could fairly arise. Mr. E vAris said, that his observations were essentially ne cessary to the case. He would characterise the conduct of the defendants as it seemed to him to deserve ; he would never shrink from the consequences of bis assertions; he would never screen himself by saying that he had spoken under the protec tion of their Lordships, from any legitimate mode of redress to which a party might regard himself as entitled. What, then, were the motives of obtaining this rule ? Was it to be fol lowed by another rule to commit the plaintiffs , to prison until the time for trial was over ? Was it secu r ity tOr costs which was desired ? That, undoubtedly, the Court would never com pel the plaintiffii to give. Cr. Justice BAYLEY here interposed, and suggested that the defendant might wish for this rule in order to prepare for his defence, as the transaction took pl a c e i n an immense as sembly in which several persons of the same name with the plaintiffs were probably present. Mr. EVANS asked for what purpose was the identity of the individual to be ascertained ? Was he not one of 60,000 persons all attacked by the same violence ? Had the defendant ventured ' to swear that he did not cut down and trample on the party complaining ? No ! the true reason of this application was, that a poor man might attack a rich man or a powerful body, and that they would not suffer him to conceal himself from their resentments. He spoke not of things which had no existence. Their Lordships might remember that some time ago if a man dared to bring an action against a certain noble Lord in the north, he was never safe until he quitted the country. A little time ago a number of poor tenants whO gave offence to another noble family were turned from their homes in nakedness and in want. Here the defendant had violently assaulted and wounded the plaintiffs. Mr. JusticC BE rr said this did not appear on the affidavits. Mr. :Eva)/ s read a passage from the affidavit, in which it was stated, not positively by one of the plaintiffs, but by their attor ney. on his information and belief. This gave him full oppor tunity of denying the charge on oath, but this he had not ven tured to do. It might well be conceived that a poor man, who had scarcely escaped with life from the violent outrage of the defendant, should now hesitate to expose himself to his power and that of his supporters. The array of Counsel for the de fendant showed the spirit in which the case was taken up; the plaintiffs might well desire to conceal themselves from its in fluences ; all the authorities were against the motion, which would give them up to its power ; .and every feeling of justice c.illed on the Court to refuse it. Mr. BINGHAM followed on the same side. Mr. SCAItLETT, in reply, observed, that there was nothing in the present motion to call the warmth exhibited by his Learned friend gr. Evans, which he would do better to re' serve till the trial. In the earlier periods of our legal history, suitors had no r i ght to appear by attorney, but avereqabliged to carry on their suits in person. . _ln the affidavits, theee, was not the slightest suggestion of prejudice or danger ? of whick the plaintiffs had reasonable fear. The • alleged injury took place in August,' 1819, and the action was not brought until Michaelmas Term, in 1821—an interval which shewed that the plaintiffs were in no great haste to obtain redress, and in which the defendants might easily forget circumstances which occurred amidst violent agitation in a great assembly. There might be a . variety of defences from whi c h a f u ll k nowledge of thesecircum stances could alone enable thedefendant to select the true one ; he could only seize on the leading facts of the transaction, for he was' in the dark as to all which personally affected the plaintiffs.-- Inquiries had been made in vain, at Manchester, for the infor mation now desired ; the suspicions on one side were at least to great as those on the other. The Court, however, would not decide on suspicion, but would order th a t t o b e d one wh i ch wa s absolutely required for the purposes of justice. The CounT were unanimously of opinion that the ruld should be made absolute. If it were followed by a motion • for security for costs, they would refuse it, because they would aot thus embarrass a poor man complaining •of personal injury. But the def e nd an t i n every case had a right to know ' who the plaintiffs were ; and here the difficulty was increased by the distance of time, and the vast numbers of people all ambled. The defences would vary according to the situatiott of the plaintiffs—if they were in the line between the hustings': and the magistrates—if on the outskirts of the meeting—or .1 taken in flight after all was over; in which last.case there might possibly be no defence at all. The Court must do equal jns" (ice between rich and poor, without respect of either, and not allow the administration of justice to be libelled by a suggesr. tion that the laws were not su ffi cient to afford protection t o those who sought for aid. _ Mr. SZARLETT then proposed that the other rules for brink' ing back the venue to Middlesex, and for referring it to tht master to consider of the pleas, should be enlarged till next term: Mr. Ev Aws refused t o accede to this proposition. The plain tiffs were determined to allow nothing to prevent them from going to trial at the next assizes, and they were ready to give their places of abode directly, in obedience to the precedingrulei Mr. SCARLETT then proceeded to shew cause against the rule for bringing back the VENUE from Lancaster to Middlesex,' where the actions were originally brought. Th e a ll e d g ed ground on which the ru l e was obtained was, that violent pre hjudices existed on the su bj ect i n L ancashire ; but that county appened to contain a greater number of jurors than any o ther, many of whom were quite as li ely to be as fre e from prejudice as the jurors of a ny o f the neighbouring counties. I n Illiddle sex, where the plaintiffs wished to t r y, t h ere h a d been many meetings held, and s t rong f ee li ngs excited by the transactions in issue. gt The Loan CHIEF JUSTICE asked if all this did not strongly point to a third county ; and suggested that the Learned Cour!' ad could probably arrange among themselves, for a trial in some place to which there would be no o'•ijeCtion. Air. EVANS accordingly conferred with Mr. SCARLETT, and afterwards informed the Court, that he had proposed four neighbouring counties, an d a l so t h at t h e causes should be tried in Lancaster, by a Jury from the division of West Derby, but all his proposals had been rejected. Mr. SCARLETT offered then to exclude the Salford divisioU of Lancashire, in which the 'fleeting was held, but Mr. Evans declined the offer, and the rule was discharged. The causes will, therefore, be tried by Juries from the body of the count,' of Lancaster. The rule for referring the voluminous pleas to the Motet was discussed at a subsequent pait of the day, when the CoU were clearly of opinion that they ought to be so referred, and made the rule absolute, directing the master not to form his de; cision until a reasonable time after the places of the plaintiffs abode were given. THE KING V. DOLBY. In this case, Mi. SCARLETT shewed cause against the rule obtained on a former day by Mr.Tindall, tbr directing the JurY process to the Coroners, the Sheriff being found a subscriber w the Bridge -street Association, by whom the defendant is in' dieted. He said that the proceeding was erroneous, as the pro' secutors ought to h ave entered a suggestion on the roll, instead of moving the Court. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said, the motion ought to hang been framed for entering a suggestion, but the Court Wou l " modify it now to that effect, and, with this alteration in fogy, would make it absolute. DUNCAN V. HILL. In this case, which was mentioned on a preceding day, the Court decided, that a M em b er o f P arl i ament cannot be b a because his person is protected from arrest by his Parliament 3r Y privilege. This being the last day of Hilary Term, the Court sat 0 hear motions until a late hour. Extract from a METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL for January , 1822, , kept at the Observatory of .the ACADEMY Gob PORT : " This month has been dry and •v..dni, and the state of the sir • mild for the season. Several hor-frosts, however, appeaied iA the early part of the mornings, anti the thermometer was undc' . . 36 deg : on . ten diffe r ent n i g h ts , an d t h ree t i mes beloWthLtreva ing point. The mean temp era t ure o f t h e a i r i s 1 deg. 33 _.„ higher than in last January, and rather more than 2 cleg.2-0 10 above the mean of January, for seven . years past. The rass il k temperature of spring water at 8 A .m. is 2 , deg. 4-fifths hie" - . r than in January, 1821. " The aggregate of the spaces described by the rising and falling of the mercurial column, is unusually small for Januar 4 and the pressure of the atmosph ere very great the metal heigu r of the barometer being nearly 7-t en th s o f an inch above that the preceding month (December.) " The wind having prevailed 23 days between -the West North points of the Compass this month, the depth of rain/ therefore, does not amount to 9-tenths of an inch, even with Pluviameterplaced on the ground; and the Evaporation is maly as much again as in former Januaries. " The atmospheric and meteoric phenomena that have' corn e within our observation this month, are 1 parhelion, 3 lunar halos, 3 meteors, 1. rainbow, and 3 gales of wind, or days °- which they have p reva il e d, namely, l from S. E. and from N.E. " Summary of the Weather,—A clear sky, 4-; fine, with 0 rious modifications of clouds, 11 ; an overcast sky, withoutratnr 11}; rain, 4i.—Total 31 days." COURSE OF EXCHANGE, February 12. Amsterdam .. 12 9 C. F. Ditto, at Sight l2 6 Rotterdam l2 10 Antwerp l2 6 Hamburg! 37 5 If E fi Altona Paris, 3 Day's sight • 2s 40 0 Us' Ditto Bourdeaux, ditto Frankforton the Main Madrid . Cadiz - Effect ° Bilbao. 36i Effecti/ 1 Barcelona Seville Gibraltar Leghorn Gei,t , a .., . 414 ----Venice, Ital, Liv 27 60 Malta 45 -Naples ' 40 Palermo Lisbon _ Oporto IlioJaneiro .. Dublin ...'. 9,1 Cork 9i pct Cent._ BULLION. Portugal Gold, i Coin Foreign Gold, in Bars New Doubloons New Dollars Silver in Bars, Standard BIRTHS. At Ferregles House, Dumfries, the Lady of Alexander a °l ' don, Esq., of twin sons. f 0 Yesterday, at Blackheath, of a so n, M rs . G eorge C r oat Oxford-house, Oxford-street, being her 13th child. On the 10th inst. at Puttenham, Surrey, the Lady of R!‘ 4-- Sumner, Esq., of a daughter. • MARRIED. On Friday, the Bth inst., at Burstead, Essex, Mr. , te r Eagles, of Billericay, to Miss Sarah Wilson, eldest (bug!' of Mrs. Wilson, of the King's Head Inn, Rockford. t r, On the 9th inst., at St. George's, Southwark, Mr. riuor t be of the Surrey Dispensary, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter 0 Rev. T. Walker, Vicar of West Hoathly, Sussex. • DIED. who On the 2d ult., on board the Princess Elizabeth packet/ mas Fergusson, Esq., of the fi rm of M e s srs . We s t, Fowlet 4 ) ° ' ingston, Jamaica. h Co., r jes On Monday, the 11th inst in his 64th year, Mr. c -3 , e r Beswick, of the Kingsland-ro a d, upwards of 40 years in the vice of Messrs. Puckle, Costeker, and Co., Cornhill. e d On Sunday last, Mrs. Stower, of Gracechurch-street, slgtb, 43, having survived the bi r th of h er l as t c hild on ly one , ° °l/ eaving a family of nine children.. • On the Ilth inst., Miss Margaret Bruce, of Soutßo be rt t treet, Bloomsbury, aged 11 years, only daughter William Bruce, Esq., of Madras. „ea., 4021. Printed and Published, for the PROPRIETORS, at the - Orrice, 112, StKid, by 3'. B. CAR`TAIAS• tv :l•F V"r 6 rig kti