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IiEi'hShURCH, MAY t. A Copy of the follov.g Rescrip t o f Hi s Itn periAl Majesty to Couni MARCoFF, Counsellor of State, cbted Feb. Is, was read in the Directing Se. rate by Prince PETER Wyssl LIE VUTSH LAt'UCHIN : RESCRIPT. "Count ARKA.Iit I v Ar. r o v rsii—Si r i ce I recalled you from your post at Paris, where you discharged your duty with the greatest zeal, and to my e :tire satisfadion, it is very agree able to me to have found your conduA there consistent with propriety, and tcr renew my Thanks to you for it, as well as for the exertions you have made to promote my advantage. Aks 1 wish to give you anew proof of my satisfaction, I have ordered, till an opportunity occurs of rewarding you accord log to your merit, that you shall receive yearly froni the re venues of the Post -office iz,oao roubles, and that 12,000 roubles shall be paid to you from the Treasury, to indemnify you for the expances of your return from Paris. This salary you will receive from the day of Your arrival in Russia in the quality of a Minister in the College of Foreign AiEtirs." --_______ BRICADE OF POLUNTEERS. . _ ---............... His Royal Highness the COLINIANDER in Ca rEi Yesterday, attenl. d by Lard HARRINGTON and Other Military o scers, saw the following Regi pents as a Brigade in Hyde Park : North Brit ons Rifle Corps, with their Lieut-Colonel Lord Rut - Y. - - Latribeth - - - Lieut.-Col one l E DwA a Ds. it ottShuetrrthe i. • . - iet:tt.-Colonet GAIT sKtid... - . Major WELLS. hrist-Ctitirch - - - - Major Toutmtx. st. Saviour it - - - Major POTT. $ I• So hn ''' • • • Major Kr 1 , 46 mt: 9.tavt'S - = = - - - Captain SHAW. Suirty Rifle Corntiav - . Captain Du II as. The LOyal Company - - Lteut.-Col. ALCOCK. The extreme wetness of the day prevented their praftising any stianceures of they p roc Conseque nce, nor did . Parry l e f t t h e Par k b ced td Buekden Hill. Th e DUKE and y ohe o'clock. Tie Emp ,R OR of Rtr , si‘i, has shetvn a proper re. hard to . the rights' of Independ:,nt Powers, in re- monstr.ating against the atrocioUs Violence offtred.by the French to the ELECTO R Of BADEN. What then must be though t of the relative Continental States which suffered this violation of justice and humanity to pass over in silenc e ? But after quietly' permitting the French to possess themselves o f Hanover; one cif the mtegral parts of the Germanic Empire, and to CM-mit every in that unfo of wickednes s and horror wonder r tunate El e fi orate, specie s the world cannot at the tame and ignominious submission of all the rest of the Germanic Stifles, in the f o rcibl e tteizure and consequent murder of an help less inji " tiros,,l however repogn.ug„ to the Rights of Na_ The Loyal Westbury and Clifton Corps, who have bee n on permanen t duty for some time, on rnountingt'the ma i n guar d at Bristol, and marching to guard the French Prisoners at Stapleton, could not, from their genuine 'File military app and Je. Pcntu nt be distinguished from Tr D ad of earance the Line. 2- ' tt attained, i s a subj et t of exultation to that part of the (nth' acquirements, and t h e un i ted Corps, so justly elated ,;.tith (nth' a cquirements, are ready to follow Colonel Cox E, their Commandant; to meet thc common Elekoy, Confident in the experienced ability of a Lead- r bred in the " Tented Field," and to. whom cie r are solely ind ; b te d f or their military knowled with. Out the assista nce t rom Government of even ge a drill. btrjeant. tv The LORD CHANCrunit has pre sente d the Rev. vittIGHAN THOMAS, A. M. Fellow of Corpus Chri st i C o l lege, Oxford, to the Vicarage of Stone -leY, Warwickshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. Route? SurartErt,,B. D. late Fellow of Kin's College, C am b r i dge. g The Right Hun. Lord &flatus has appointed the Rev, VAUGHAN THOMAS, one of his Lordship's bomestic Chaplains. The Justices of Peace, in a Court held at Hamil. ton, on the 7th instant, fined two servant women of Mr. Cock, of Ailanshaw, . in 31. iv. being the wh o l e of their wages for last half year, on'ac. count of their having left their master's house with out leave on Sunday evening the 29th April, and not returning till next m trning.—We mention this instance of justice, and hope it will serve as a cau- tion to servants in future. As two boys were bathing on M on d ay se'nnight, r Weaver, about a hundred ab the oid B r id ge i n Northwich, they yards obsersieove the ove t c ornets of a p , e k et handkerchief floating ab surfa ce , and near the side of the water. One. of them had the curiosity to take it up. and examine its contents, when he found to his astonishment, a large quantity of guineas, half-guineas, and seven shilling P i ecei. The Iwo boys, having agreed as to the di_ • v isi(in of their • priz e , ran home to inform their P.4.reht4 of their good fortune, when the money was divided equally between the parties. Their joy was so great, that the new s of this discovery soon reach_ ed all their poor neighbours, who with themselves Were anticipating the pleasures they were to have at a feast on the occasion. Unfortunately, fur th e poor boy however, as well as f or t h e i r paren t s, i t w as soo n s, observed that the whole were counterfeits ; of c ourse they were taken from them and cut to P i eces. In a field belonging to J. C, ffin, Esq. adjoining to Tregony, which was to be kept up for hay, and which had every appearance of a several lar plentiful produce, ge spots, in difrirent parts of the field, were observed to fail. All the under grass entirely disappeared and nothing remained but a long naked spill. Several respedable farmers, w h o came on purpos e to be spttlators nomenon of this extraordinary phe , expressed their surprise at the uncommon appearance of the grass. It was at last discovered by Mr. D. Whitley, distinguished by his agricul. rur al knowledge, to proceed from a kind of grub. 'worm, ‘vhich Jl)elt e re d themselves in immense num bers, in the day time. about two inches under the surface. About dusk, they came forth to commit their nightly depredations, and as regularly returned about break of day the next morning. On taking tip a turf six inches square, it On turn out thirty or forty of them. They are about an inch longs very thick, and of a dark brown c..)!our, LAI✓ REPORT, COURT OF KING's BENCH, MAY 24. THE KING v. WILLIAM CoBBETT. THE Counsel for the Crown in this cause were, His nijeSty'S ATTORNEY GENERAL, Messrs. ERSKINE, GARROW, DALLAS, and ABBOT : for the Defendant, Messrs. ADAM and RICHARDSON. The Trial was held on an Information exhibited by the Attorney General, for the publication of certain Libels, with the intent to traduce the Government of His Majesty in Ireland, arid the persons employ ed in the conduft of that Government, viz. Lord Lieutenant the Earl of I-lARDW ICKE, Lord Chan cellor REDESDALE, the Hon. CHARLES OSBORN, Justice of the Court of King's Bench, and Mr. MARSDEN, Secretary in Ireland. Mr. As sot stated at length the Charges alledged in the Information ; and as we shall have suck fre quent occasion to advert to them in the sequel, we will here state the contents of the Libels. The first is entitled "AfFaiis of Ireland, Letter Ill." and is in. troduced into COBBETT'S Weekly Political Register, of the sth November, 1803, page 610. The letter itself is dated Dublin, Odober 29, of the same year, and it commences with the following passages : " S t R,—' F,quo ne creditercucri,' was the advice which, in a dangerous moment, Laocoon gave to the Trojans. It will be remembered that the equus against which that sagacious adviser cautioned his countrymen, was a wooden one. His countrymen did not regard Laucoon ; they received the wooden representative of wisdom ; they approached it as if it possessed authority and power. Its woo len head towerod above their houses. But though the machine itself was made of innoxious wood,the credulous Trojans found its hollow head and exalted sides, nothing less than receptacles for greedy peculators and blood-thirsty 'astassins. The ingenious author of the story did not mean to confine the lesson which it inculcates, to the tale of Troy alone ; he meant to take advantage of the easy metaphorical expression, which, by the common assent of mankind, had moulded itself into most languages, and by which a certain species of heads (which the modems have. ascertained to be a non-condudor of ideas) has been deno minated a wo,len head. - He meant to caution future Na tions, not to put trust or confidence in the apparent inno cence of any auch wooden instrument ; and not to suffer themselves to be led to exalt it into consequence, or to ray it any reaped. He meant to tell them, that any people who subtilitted to be governed .by a wooden head, would not find tneir security in its supposed innoxiousneas, as its hollowness would soon be occupied by instruments of mischief. When I found, Sir, thii portion of the Kingdom overwhelmed by such consequences to our property, as the rapacity of Mr. MA R S DEN and nis friends, and such consequences to our lives, as the pikes of Mr. E NT:a aT and his friends have lately produced when I could. trace all these evils as the inevitable issue front the head anu oody of such a Government as that of Lord HARDW !CK*, and I am told of his innoxiousness and his firmness, I still reply the story of wooden horse, and I shall still, notwithstanding the tate of Laocdon, raise my voice to my Countrymen, and cry, E.gua ne credite Teucri. Not, Sir, that I would be understood literally. I, do not mean to assert the head of my Lord HA RDW ICKE is abso lutely built of timber. My application, like-that of the ori ginal autnor of the tale, is only metaphorical. Yet, at the same time, I cannot avoid suspecting, that if the head of Hip Excellency were submitted to the analysis of any such investigator of Nature as LAvotS !ER, - it would be found to contain a superabundant portion of particles of a very ligne ous tendency. This, Su, is the Lord Ha RDW icitt of Dodor ADDI NGTON, against whose Government not a murmur of complaint has been heard'—while our property has been subjed to the plunder of his Clerks, and our persons have been exposed to the pikes of the Rebels. Still, however, the innocence-of Lord HARDwicKc, as to any intention of mis diner, is held forth.--But, I reply, in the words of Mr. BURKE, They who truly mean well, must be tearful of acting ill. Delusive good intention is no excuse for pre sumption " And, I may add, in my own words, that the Government of a harmless marl, is not, theiefore, a harm lest. Government."— _____---. — 4l inquiry and research are the duty and resource of the ignorant, and therefore I did inquire. The re: •ilt of no small attention bestowed in this pursuit was, that I di ;covered to our Viceroy, that he was in rank an Earl ,• in manners a Gentleman; in morals, a good father and kind h tsband ; and that he had a good library:in St James's-square. Ilere I should have been for ever stopped, it I had not, by acci dent,lLet with one Mr. Li N DSA y ,ascotch parson,since become (and I am sure it must be by Divine Providence, for it would be impossible to account for it by secondary causes) Bishop of KILLAL LO ' in Ireland.—From this Mr. LINDSAY I fur ther learnt, that my Lard HARDWICKE was celebrated for understanding the modern method of fattening a sheep as well as any man in Cambridgeshire." The Letter (continued Mr. ABBOT) is then cited in the information in the following terms, with which it concludes s " While I have been wilting, Sir, a map of the Wes Indies happened to hang before me. My eye wandered, I know not why, upon it, and fixed upon one of those little islands which have been lately, by the British Troops, redeemed from the capitulation of Lord Coatv waLtis, at Amiens. Give me leave to suppose ;kat, in the course of a few years, one of those little Islands should become highly cultivated; and that a considerable portion of British property became vested in its land,and in its trade. Suppose that, by some unfortunate com bination of events, this little Island should be deeply shaken by insurrection within, and should be loudly menaced by invasion from without. Suppose a powerful fleet of the enemies of the British name lay to windward, filled with troops for landing, while a desperate band of ruffians were secretly arming in its bosom, ready to aid that landing of a foreign enemy. Supose in this distress, a Committee of West India Proprietors, whose money had been vested in this little island, should apply to the Doctor Ann I NcroN for assist ance; arid suppose he were to rise up, and to desire them to quiet their apprehensions, for that Le bad entrusted the rare of their island t; a very eminent ,cheep-feeler from Cambrid4esbre, who was to 6:- assisted in all his counsels 6y a very able and strong-built Chancery-Pleader from Lincoln's- Give me leave to ask you, Sir, who know the City much better than I can pretend to do, what would a Sugar Committee, Issu ing turn one of their coiree-houses, say to such an answer from a British Minister ? Why, Sir, the walls of St. Stephen's, and the Chambers in Downing-street, would be made to ring with their vociferous reproaches. And yet, Sir, to this situation is that portion of the United Kingdom reduced ; on the strength and vigour of which, at this moment, not only its own safety, but as I have, in my tOrmer letter, stated, the safety of the British Empire, and consequently I may assume the safety of Europe, does entirely depend. Against the truth of the description I have given of its Rulers, I may chal lenge the most dating supporter of the present Government to produce one single aCt in tile lives of either of those trigy great charaders of the Doctor, which can entitle them to claim one particle of trust or confidence from the Public, beyond the bounds and limits within which 1 have encircretitheir ex ploits. On the Chancery Pleader, perhaps I may have laid too great a stress; lie is not of.the first consequence, though in a future letter I may, perhaps, point out to you the mis chief which the intermeddling of such a man, in matters out of the course of his praffice, may occasion. But, with respea to Lord HARDWICKE, it may he replied, that my challenge is unfair, because it is impossible to justify his having been appointed to the Government of Ireland, by any instances of former political ability, as the acceptance of his present office was his first essay. What ! Is he one of the tribe of the HOBARTS, WESTMOR it 51135, and C4AIDENS ? Is he one of that tribe, who have been Lehr over to us to be trained up here into Politicians, as they train the Surgeons' apprentices in the hospitals, by setting them first to bleed the pauper patients ? is this a time for a continuation of such experiments,? The gift of I.ord llARowlext to us, at such a period, cannot be compared to any thing else than the prank of Fax,sri+ry, at the battle of Shrews bury, when the Knight handed over his pistol to the Prince. For, indeed, Sir, by the present to u s of Lord IlAttowicKE, that sentence has been proved to us in a bloody truth, which Falstaff said in a good-humoured jest.—" Here's what will sack a city." The next libellous passages bear the same title of the Affairs of Ireland.' They occur in the Re. gister, Letter 4, page 804, and are expressed in the following terms : must be done with a give any opinion. As soon as delicate baud. a bare narrative of z t i have . I t o touch myselfupon t facts, and wilt not presuma to the Government had fully recovered its recollection, a Com iSsued for the trial of mission, direacd to five of the fudges, those Rebels Who had been arrested for treason eon - Mated iii the County and City of Dublin. This Commission having issued while the judges were on the Circuit, was filled up (and Very properly filled up) with the names of the five senior of those Judges who were then on the circuits which were like ly to terminate at the earliest period of time. Such was the reason given by Government tor the particular seleelion of the j ridges named in that Cimmission, and it certainly was a good reason. In some tittle after this CommissiOn had been sit ting, it became necessary to issue a new Con - milsSion for the trial of the Rebels in the shires of Antrim and of Down. In the appointment of the second Commiasion, the principle which directed.the seledion in the first was not adhered to. On the contrary, the junior judge of the twelVe was very anxiously called out, and placed in this new Commission, over the heads of a number of his seniors. This, however, could not, and ought not, to have given offence to any of those senior Judges, because, whatever opinion of them the GovernMent may have manifested in such an appointnient, the opinioh of the present Government upon such a subject (known to be in fluenced by motives very different from general justice); is too contemptible to have any elfed upon any ofthe Learned I udges in the public mind. The cireurnstance, therefore, was not at first attended to. There is published in this City a Newspa. per, called The Dublin Journal. It is, in general, concluded with good sense, loyalty, and a regard to truth ; but, in parti cular deviations, it is known to be under the controul and im mediate diredion of Government. In that Paper, of the toth Odober last, a publication appeared, which purported to be a Charge given by the junior judge above alluded to, to the Grand jury of the County of Antrim. In this place I beg now to declare, that I am far from attempting to assert, that the Learned judge did pronounce any such Charge : and when I speak of his Charge, I request you will understand I mean only the newspaper publication : the Learned judge is made to tell the Grand jury, that, through the well-timed efforts and strenuous exertions of a wise and ener getic Government, &c. the progress of such crimes as lately disgraced this Country, had been effectually checked.' If the Learned justice did make any such assertion (which I am far from supposing) with what amazement the Grand jury must nave received such a broadside, poured upon the truth of the fact, I cannot, as I was not present, know ; but I can very welt imagine what the feelhigs of 23 well-informed Gentlemen must have been. Their respeff, and a thorough knowledge of their duty, would necessarily keep them silent. But though men remain silent under the proper awe and con troul of a Court of justice, their language only becomes more strenuous when that restraint is taken off, and they meet to gether in private confidence." The Libel then proceeds, in Edge 806, in the subsequent form, which was read by the Learned Counsel : " But, Sir, suggestion does not stop here. Men ask, how could (if the Learned justice did make any such assertion) the Learned justice be led to give credit to a position which contradicts the evidence of the senses of every man in the kingdom, who was preseetot, or knew any thing of the trans action ? How could a Learned j wi l e be supposed to assert that which no man in the kingdom would assert, unless he had some reasons of the-aame nature as those which prevail ed on Mr. NIARSDFN'S Attorney General on the trials for high treason, to assert something of the same kind ? Men, Sir, couple the extraf,rdinag ,elec7i,i of the Learned justice from amongst hiS fellows, with the extraordinaly assertion attributed to hint in a Government oewspaper ; and they ask, if he made that assertion, where did he get his information ? Was he ever in Mr. MARSDEN'S audience-room since the night of the 23,1 of July What passed there ? What were the pre-disposing causes which induced Government to particuiady, that Learned Justice ? Could Government have foreseen land if so by what faculty), that the Learned Justice would have given an instruction to the Grand Jury, so very useful and so very grateful to the Government ? What night telescope could have been applied to the eye of Mr. MA a S DE a, which, through the dark womb of things unborn, could have enabled him to perceive through this little future star of praise, springing train the creative Jana of the Learned I us tice ? Here, Sir, decorum towards you, aid towards the public, induces me to be silent as to other, and per:l7ll)s stronger ob servation. But I may, I believe, add, what men also say ; that if it were possible the ermined robe of the most awful attribute of His Majesty, should have been wrapped round the ads of Mr. MAR snEN, in order to sefeen the.n from pub lic disgrace, we might then look for another, but net less final end to our liberties, - and to our constitution, than that which rebellion or invasion could produce. And, in truth they say, that, except as to momentary effeels, rebellion and invasion might be viewed with indifference, if it can be supposed, that the stained hands ola petty Clerk had been washed in the very fountain of justice." The information, said Mr. ABnoT, then proceeds to page SoS of the-?ablication, which is ..tititheti cal, and is intended to place, in disadvantageous comparison, the present LORD CHANCLLLO R of Ireland, with the predecessor of the Noble and Learned Judge who presides on this occasion : " Instead of calling him to the high station, which he so ably filled, had it pleased His Alaje,,ty to bless the Western neighbour s of Cambricus (who certainly owe the honest and warm-hearted Principality no ill wili),witti Lord KEN YON for a Chancellor, I can very well conceive what Lord KENYON, in such a situation, would have done, and also what he would not have dune. From a rare modesty of nature, or from a rare precision of self-knowledge, Lord KEN Y ON would have acted with reser ye and circunispcdion, on his arrival in a country, with the moral quality of tne inhabitants of which, and with their persons, manners, and individual characters and connexions, he must have been utterly unacquaint ed. In such a country, torn with domestic s e di t i on an d treason, threatened wit h a Foreign Invasion, and acting, since the Union,. under an untried Constitution, if Do ct or Antal Nc To N had required that Lord KEN YON Should &tea a Cambridgeshire Earl in all his councils,' Lord KEN lON would as soon, at the desire of Lord St. VINCF.Nr, have un dertaken to pilot a line of battle ship through the Needles. Particularly, the integrity of Lord KENYON would have shrunk from such an undertaking, if a condition had been added to it, that no one Nooleman or Gentleman who possess ', ed any rank, estate, or connexion in the Country, upon any ac count shout(' be consulted. His pride would have spurned at the undertaking, if he were told, that the Cambridgeshire Earl and himself, in the cares of Government, a Clerk in the Secre tary's-0 flice,and a couple - ofLawyers, without political habits, political intormation,or honourableconnexions, were to be join ed as assessors, and to be the only assessors ; and Lord KEN. YON'S pride and integrity would have both joined in prevent ing him from being himself the instrument or:introducing such men into a Cabinet of Government. I f any one man could be found, of whom a young but unhappy victim of the justly of fended laws of his country had, in the moment of his convic tion and sentence, uttered the following apostrophe : —` That viper,whom my father nourished! He it was from whose prin ciples and doctrines, which now by their etfeds drag me to my grave, and he it is who is now brought forward as my prosecutor, and who, by an unheard-of exercise of prerogative, has wantonly lashed, with a speech to evidence, the dying son of his former friend, when that dying son had produced no evidence, had made.no defence, but, on the cdntrary, had acknowledged the charge, and had submitted to his fate : Lord KENYoN would have turned with horror from such a scene, in which, although guilt was in one part to be pu nished, yet in the whole drama, justice was confounded, Itu mimity outraged, and loyalty insulted." The passages in the record conclude with the fol lowing brief but remarkable paragrAph, inserted in page 131 c) : " It was said of Lord Ksivv °iv, that he loved money, if so, he loved his own money only, and not the money of any other man. Lord KENYON, therefore, as Chancellor, never would have made any ride, or order, by the effects of which, the Secretary of a Master of the Rolls would be deprived of all fees, for the purpose of throwing all those fees into the hands of the Secretary to the Chancellor, the better to enable that Secretary to discharge the pension of some unknown annul.: tart oil his official profits." Such was the language of the libels, and such the terms in which they were quoted in the mnation, which we have introduced at the commencement, in preference to that step in the progress of the trial, when .they were again read by the Clerk to the Court, because the observations in the Address of the ATTORNEY-GENERAL, Will, with this preli minary matter, be pertettly intelligible to our Readers. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL now rose, and said, that he should occupy a less proportion of time in his address, 'on account of the length to which the record had been extended. It was impossible, that those who were to decide on the subject of this in formation, Could form any accurate judgment of the c harafter of the Libel, and the mischievotis•intention . . ietideriei withotii the and relations of the seieraliarts by this gereral i?‘,; of its Contents. It would sheW alio; that die Pio.: seeution was not commenced against a person Who; in the hUrry of the momciato had trespas,ed a lit beyond the line of decenCy anti propriety, hit it C 4' , , 11 direded to one, who, in a caoljdeliherate, systert4'.l - scheme, had endeatrottretto revile the whole uf the Administration of Governaient in the of Ireland. This assuredly was not merely to f)t.• comtemplated as an attack upon the Lord. Lieut enant, upon the Lord Chancellor, upon the Secierae!. , ; and :Joon one of the Judges of Ireland, but it upon the entire condUa of the Government, for the purpose of exposing it to the indignation and con: tempt of the People of that Country, and to exec;;_ tion in every institution of Civilized Prosecution, therefore, did not encroach upon tE.e right of free discussion, which is the privilege of every Englishinani, which had been abundaro ly enjoyed since he had the honoUr to occupy the sta.: tion he held, and of which the present Delendm; under all the indulgence he had experienced, had no right to complain of the violatiOn. The Jury would have to consider, not only the libellous language Used, but the critical moment in which it was eth. played. When the Minds of time Irish people were in a feverish and distempered state, and liable t;o be driven to a paroxism of madness by the slighte;t impulse, the taking advantage of this perilous in; • terval, powerfully tends to establish that the_ moit base and destruttive motives aduated the Deice dant. Had the Libel not been of that sweeping cha; ratter as to involve the whole political Governmert of the neighbouring Island, and had it simply been diretted to the Noble Earl appointed to preside, it would have been 'his duty to have instituted thii Prosecution, unless he had been repressed by the contemptuous distance at which that dignified . charader would have removed this attack on his potation : but the happiness or misery of a laige valuable portion of His Majesty's Subjeds was af feded; and the fitness and necessity of the Prosecu.: tion was no longer disputable. But it was fit toad. vert more particularly to the separate Paragraphs of • this Publication. The Juty were well awarei tiait the charader of every Government greatly depended on the estimation in o'hich those were held by which it was conducted; both of those who planned the measures, and those in an inferior station, who cat_ ried•such measures into execution : but if there was any thing which might he aeleded as superior in its influence on the minds of the Petiole, it was the oui rity and impartiality with which justice was admi. nistered f.r the proteaion of the life and property of the subjrd yet in all those important respects:, a nefarious attack had been imide on the Go vernment of Ireland. The LORD.Lt cuTFtrAN't is treated as if wholly incapv)le of perfor , ning Public Forikaions, and is represented as "a Greater Caml;ridgeshire." Lord IteDF NOM. , Was placed SO high in the Councils of the Sate, was denominated " a very able and strong built Chancery Plead.:.r, from Lincoln's Inn." Mr. Secretary MAteSDEN was deccribed as " an unprincipled peculator and plun derer, preying on the property oldie. State." Mr. Justice Osrioa iv was held forth as " the most corrupt instrument of a debased and degraded Administiot tion, lending as a screen to conceal the pai:.• lic injury."—The ATTORNEY GENERAL then pro. ceeded to examine minutely the various passages i the Libel, commenting upon each as he proceeded, and exposing not only the falsehood, but the ma, lignity of \ the representations. He justified, with touch warmth, those high charaaers which had l'e'n so insolently defamed in the low flippancy, and vulgar abuse of this Libel ; excepting the LORD CHANCELLOR of Ireland, in the eulogy he ap plied, on account of the fraternal relation he bore to that •Nobleman. He examined the .political situation of Ireland, as to the extensive means of defence ; and enlarged, with peculiar severity, on the flagitious designs of the Defendant, in mi - representing the actual force for the security of that Country ; and he conchided his remarks on the distinct paragraphs, with the following observations : —" I am nor at all aware, what is the species of de fence intended by my Learned O t iponents. Perhaps it may be, that the Defendant was only concerned in the publication, not in the composition of this Libel. The inclination of my opinion is, that the Defendant is not the author ; but this is no nil. tigation of his guilt. I seleded two letters, pub lished at different periods, on purpose to spew, that it was not a careless ad, but that the critrie was repeated with the grossest indiscretion. I may relate further, that since this prosecution has commenced, even to Tuesday last, these libellous produdions were sold by the Agent of the De. Pendant. Whether he be the Author or not, he appears, by his publications, to conceive himself to be the ablest writer, and the most consummate polo, tician, of his time. He seems to imagine himself a species of Censor, who, elevated to the solenin seat of judgment, is to deal about his decisions for the instruction of mankind. He casts his eye downward, as a chatader represented in the Poet of Nature, from Dover Cliff; and looks upon the human race as pigmies in the distance beneath him. Perhaps in the proud contemplation of his own abilities, he supposes he is not to submit to the Laws and Insti tutions adapted to the vulgar herd of Society ; but whatever missy be the vain self-adoration to which he may be subject, we are obliged to consider him as a common bring, and to subjed him co the usual restrictions which he will admit to acconono. dated only to our inferior capacities. Probably, the true ground of the impatience of this Defendant is, that Government is not sufficiently Corrupt to answer his sinister purposes. If I could discover who was the prime mover of this destructive ma chine, the prosecution should not stop here ; but as I cannot prove any impulse of this kind, it becomes me to ditoft your attention to the objed who has thus dared to infringe and to insult the Laws of the Country." The Witnesses on the part of the Crown. Mr. Barry, from the Stamp-Office, produced the Affidavit filed in the office, with the na►ties of Cox and Baylis, as the Printers, No. 75, Great Queen. street; R. Bagshaw, the Publisher, Bow,strt.'et, Covent-Garden; and William Cobbetr, is, Duke.. street, St. Catherine's, Westminster, as the scle Proprietor of The Weekly Political Register. Mr. ADAM, for the Defendant, to , ik two objet.