The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-11-06 00:00:00

COMMISSION INTELLIGENCE.

On Saturday last the Commission of Oyer and
Terminer was opened by the LORD MAYOR, hefure
the Hon. J ts.tocen FLETCHER and Mount:. When
the Grand Julies were sworn—
Ittr. Justice FLYTCIIIR addressed them, and observed that
be had such coofictence iis their eaprrirure and acknowledg-
ed attention to their important official duties, be felt II
would be suortitisous to !mint uut to them any part of the
hue of conduct marked out fur them by the Consiituti tttt .
The great advantages held out to the public in the Act re-
cently passed for regulating the mode of inveatigatiuu
criminal bill. before Grand duties. lie thought so prom
neat and important. that it would tee remiss in him nut
to make some obsereations on them. The present anode
is nut a newly-introduced one, it is merely revived
from the ancient snit established maze founded on the
common law of the land. How it came to be neglect-
eft, and the other eery unconstitutibord one of taking the
evidence from written examinatium merely, can only he
accounted fur flum the very unsettled and alarnaiiiet state
of the country daring the disturbances occasioned by
%Vltlleb..ya sod other violators of the public peace.
The multiplicity of such cases, uu many occasions, rendered
the emoniiiatiou of living wituesaes a work of much fatigue
and difficulty: sod the Judges and Grand Juries found it
necessary, at such times, to dispense with the regular and
legal fors; so that which was at first admitted thrtnegh ne-
cessity only, gradually became the practice of the Cum Is long
idler the necessity ceased. Here the Lemma Judge recare
'dialed is the clearest and moat couvincing manner nil those
popular benefits resulting from the present practice, stitch
he bad on every occasion that pretested itself so ably cepa-
fisted upon before- He thew adverted to the stmt.( the
Calendar, and congratulated tier G 4 •tlenu nof the dries um
the comparative paucity of the number, mid above all, use the
gesture of the offences, which, he said, were merely slob as
must be expected to be perpetrated in all popular societies,
however well governed, while men have strung paasium,
which, in defiance of religion sod law, they are resolved
to gratify. But there was nothing alarming its them to the
general peace and order of amiety. There was row crime,
indeed, that made the strongest 1 store im the City Caletolai,
which it would be well to guard ag dint in future. Several
houses had bee., forcibly entered by desperate prelim's and
plundered in the mum day; this the law did not call burgla-
ry, though it had all the ill effects attending it. The Lord
Mayor (Sir W. Stainer, Bart.), that at his side, had just
hinted to hits that it would be a good means of pieveutiug
the recurrence of this species of outrage, tie save the oily
watch set an hour earlier than had been usual at this seaoun
of the year. He agreed with him in opinion, and doulsted
not that such a regulation would Ise adopted.
To the Police of Detain he paid every just and well-
merited compliment, fur their uuwraried vigilance and at.
toady, which acre never scare sullied by any charge that
could derogate from their universally respected character.—
They had au completely hunted down the profligate and an-
principle.' Jisturlwrs of the public peace in 011 city and
county, that on his last circuit Ice found sonic solitary out-
casts of their dispersed gangs had tofu reduced to infest the
adjoining counties, where they arum fell into the bands of jut.
lice. He felicitated the Josses, and the well-disposed and
peaceable in general, that the state of this cousitry was so
very different, at this happy and memorable period, to that
of the 10061' country; their, disaffection and tionultuary
• meetings distracted the country, anti spread dismay acid
alarm through nil quaities—,ctfle Ireland esjor the swat
perfect tranquillity, and obedience to far and order,
from Skis her splendid cont.'ss to She most remote and OS-
sC are (wile? of tie litord. As Ireland for many yews*
had out experienced au great • Messing, lie would
wil-
Itngly, soil be believed truly, ascribe it to the happy rum
ciliation which has fur some time past taken place hr.
toeta all teaks and professions of the people. Differ-
ence of opinion is forgotten en the mutual itichuatiou
to confer obligations mid return grateful acknowledg-
ments. The late worthy and deserving Lord Mayor bad
done much towards diffusing this good feeling towards each
other, amongst all classes of the community ; sad a erate-
fnl people were beam, ime ea Mat tie great reward of hisjus-
lice sod philanthropy—their thanks sad blessings. He the
Hue- Justice) had herd ham enough is the world to Witness
a great deal of what had been passtug in it ; but so aunty
affectionate and grateful addresses be never before knew,
limanimuusly mud cordially ruled to any rasa, as there had
been to him

At the Quarter Sestions of Athlone. two persons.
of the mune of Devilly, were convicted of au ais.
vault of a very daring and aggravated nature, and
whilst he was actually employed in the execution of
his duty. in quelling • riot at the late Pattern of
St. John's,. upon • highly-respectable Gentlemen
and a Magistrate. Oliver Hodson. of St. John's.
EN. They were seideoced to he Sagged ou the
high rood, the vcrile of their (attune. fur the apace
of a mile and back *gam.

The Norwich moil-coach was overturned ou
Thursday warner% withos a rude of Loude.. on the
Bow-road. The cum:hamar lost the command of his
horses through the reins breskiug: the horses then
ran against a loaded hack-cart. when in a moment
the mail-coach. the brick-cart„ and all bye horses,
&altogether in 004 promiscuous heap. the whole
occupying but a very anion *puce. But we are
happy in being able to state that as bones were
broken. though woe were such bruised : there were
three Upside yrs. but only the coachmsu and
guard ou ide.