The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-02-04 00:00:00

IR ELAND.

It is reported that early in the next Session of Parliament the
question of the distilleries will be again introduced. As the Act
now stands, the monopoly, though opened in law, is almost exclu-
sively se:ured to the great houses, the small capitalists having no
power whatever to enter into competition with them.—The condi-
tion of the Irish brewers will be taken into consideration, and it is
reasonably supposed that an rt of the Malt Duty will be repealed.—
The Union Duties will again come under the consideration of the
legislature ; and it is more than probable that they will be entirely
done away with—lrish Times.
There is no doubt, whatever the indisposition may be in certain
quarters, that the affairs of Ireland will be brought before the legit-
' lature frequently during the approaching Sassion.—Dahlia Freeing
Port.
TOE On AIeGENEX.—The Society of Orangemen, we have fre-
quently tepid, are more numinous now than at any former period el
their History. At a late Shtvill's inner. consisting of the Corpora-
• and otheva, when the health of I.tied (V Neill, as tirand Master'
was toasted, the Orangemen were desired to sit dapa, and only
three or four of the 20-s. ona present stood up. In slider._
_the: Sone:),
Dania that itincla almost every member of the establishment.—
Puprr.
TreitE COMMVTATIOR ACT.—The Tithe Pill has been re-
4eeteel in two places in Tipperary, and in a parish near Dublin.
l'he latter is curious, on account of one of the resolutions, which
questions the right of I 'atholica paving Protestant Clergymen. In
the county of Mayo a composition has been made with two l'itthrs.
—Dublin Erc.tinr Port.
LIN,:EICIC, JAW. 28.—0 n Saturday night last, the post-boy
conveying the mail from Itathkeale to rehannagolden, was attacked
at Kilcool-heidge, near Riddle:mown. by. four men, two of whom
were armed with short guns, and had their faces blackened: they
forced him to deliver up the bags with which they got clear of.
The police are making every exertion for their apprehension—
Suiehervt lieThorte,.
Hte M AiI:WIV.S SLOOP SAPPRO.—We are much gratified at
being enabled to remove the great anxiety which has prevailed foe
the fate of the Sappho; as we have now before U 3.11 communication
from the Admiralty Office at Cove, in which the cheering intelli-
gence is contained that there is no inundation for the apprehensions
entertained respecting her, letters having been received by Lord
Colville from her Captain (Jones) dated on board. from Ardbest
harbour in the county Galway, so late as the 2lth inst. reporting
" All Well."--Cork Paper.

Tne Searrow.—The weather continues ter be dry and
unusually favourable for getting on with country labour.
The fields have a fine orpmtrerce : the leaves are appear-
ing.on the goosebtrry bushes; and the polyanthus, and some
other;sprint: flowers, are in bloom : the buds are appearing
on the hedge-rows and a number of the trees. The lark,
the thrush, and the blackbird, have resumed their songs,
' and young hares have bt en observed in the fields.—Cale-
d eiian 11friesry.
The small-pox still continues its ravages among the
children at TrAirbLidsr, 11'ilts. A letter from thence
dated. Tuesday ettting, says, " A distressing insult-tee hs;
occurred : three children were buried together thi morn-
ing, being the whore of a family, who all died in tnat dis-
order, and were lying dead at the same tithe, and on the
same bed."

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING % BENCH, TUESDAY, Fri.

THE KING r. MEAD.
This was a prosecution instituted by a person named Jowl
Iwo against the defendant, for perjury, alleged to have been earn,
misted by him on a charge of smuggling, which had been Irani
against the prosecutor. in the Court of Exchequer, in tbz year
11121. The facts, which have been often -before the public, owe
shortly these:—ln the year 1120 the Cumormhouse °thane( Sear.
borough, its Yorkshire, havirg received information that it "was the
intention of certain persons to make a nos at a particular plate en
the coast, Called the Salt Pans, they repaired to the spot for the
purpose of effecting a seizure. Several persons we're on that octa-
-1 stns apprehended, and others made their escape. When the ewe
came to be tried in the Court of Exchequer, the present defendant
anti other witnesses swore that James Law was present at the rya.
The latter was however acquitted, and he afterwardapreferred an
indictment for perjury against Mead, on the ground of the evidence
he had given on the anuggling transaction being false. The case
I was tried before the Lord Chief Justice and a Special Jury, at the
Sittings after Michaelmas Temi, 1822. and the defendant found
guilty. A rile to show cause why a new trial should not be
granted, on the ground of the verdict being against evidence; and,
if the Cart should not be disposed so to do on that pul.it, theft
that there had been sufficient doubt excited by the conflicting tee&
mony produced on both sides, to authorize the Court in granting •
new tnal, had been obtained by the Attorney-General.
31r. JONES now chewed cause. He should submit that thee
question agitated on the trial was purely for the Jury. It had beds
left as such to them, by the Attorney-General and the Lord Chief
Justice, who tried the cause, and thee had found a verdict, which
their consciences pmtnined. In fact, there had been two verdicht
confirmative of the innocence of the prosecutor, and conclusive of
the perjury of the defendant. Mr. Law had been honourably ac-
quitted, in the Court of Exchequer, of the charge then exhibited
against him ; and he really must say, that, if a new trial were
to be granted, the conclusion would be, that any person who had
conic undtx the animadversion of the Excise ()Ricers, niust
actually fight the Crown twice. The Court had seen the aka.
vits on both sides, and he would leave it for them to say,
whether them was the slightest ground for granting the present
application.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL mu about to reply, when
The LORD CHIEF JUST:CE, after some consultation with the
other Judges, said, that under all the circumstances of ,rte cue,
the Cum was of opinion, that it was paper foe a new trial to
take place on pa7..tnent of the costs by the deferdant, in order the.
the prosacuusr, thentioth his poverty, might not be prevented front
bringing the defendant to justice.
Rule made absolute, on payment of costs.
THE RING v. TROST.

The A TTORNEY-GENER•L moved the judgment of the Cowl
upon the defendant, nix having published a certain blasphemous
work, entitled Palmer's I'r iNcrplra of Notate.
It will be recollected gnat the defendant appeared on a forma
day, before the Court, to receive its judgment. On that occasion
he promised to deliver up all the copies of the objectionable work in
his possession, and make an affidavit elatin that he had midges.
An affidavit to that effect was now produced by the defendant.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he had no desire to pets a
severe sentence upon the individual then before the Court. His,
and his client's only object was, to teach persons who might be se
inclined, that they could not commit such offences with impunity.
The Loss Citizr JUSTICE thought that the object of justice,
in this instance, might well be attained by the defendant entering
into his own recognizance in 11001. to appear before the Court to re.
ceive its sentence whenever he should be required. If be should
behave himself with propriety, that event would never take place.

THE KING V. " THE BRITISH PRESS" NEWSPAPER.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved for a rule to strew maw
why a criminal information should not be filed against three per.
sons. as printer, publisher, and proprietor of the British Press
newspaper, for a libel which appeared in that journal on flaunts),
December 27, Ma. against George Chetwynd, Esq. in which his
conduct had been aspersed, both in his situation as a Matrate,
and also as a Member of Parliament for Stafford. The Learned
Counsel then stated those circumstances out of which, he said, do
libel had arisen. A person named Richard Stafford Cooke laid claim
to the title of Earl of Stafford. and the estates of Sir Edw. Jerning.
ham. A man named Wilkes claimed to hold a piece of land from:or.
Cooke, which was in the possession of a person named Picken, who
held it from Sir E. Jerninghani. Mr. Picken, in order to prevent
any one from depriving him of possession of this land, nailed up
the gate. Wilkes and some other persons forced the gate open.
In this they were assisted by • person named Charles nat. who
was a clerk to an attorneyin Siafliwd, and it had been said was
employed professionally by Wilkes. Charles Flint was afterwards
indicted at the Quarter Sessions for the county, of which Mr.
Chetwynd was the Chairman ; and, under the authority of an Act
of Parliament passed in the 3d year of Geo. IV., that gentleman
sentenced him to be imprisoned, and kept to hard labour, for thret
months, and at the end of that time to enter into sureties to keep
the peace for twelve months, nimsell in 501., and one surety is
301. also; or two sureties In 231. each. A very inflamed and es-
aggerated account of this transaction had appeared in the above
newspaper, which the Learned Attorney-General read. Great past
of the circumstances mentioned in it as facts were completely con-
tradicted by the affidavits with which he was then prepared. That
was on the 27th of December ; but on the 11th of January a coo-
tinusten of the libel was published, in which froth mis-statements
were made, and the conduct of Mr. Chetwynd again arraigned.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, after some considerausia. pro.
flounced it as the opinion of the Court, that the Attorney-General
ought to take a rule to show cause.
Role granted.
The Ar roitserT.Glesi ERAS then said, he had another applies-
' tion to make to the Court of a similar nature to the last. It was
founded on the same libel, but which had appeared in a news.
'paper called The Briar's Traveller, shortly after the former pub-
lication.

111 r. Justice nATLEY icquired whether the Learned Colima
ad got the nect,sary certification as to the identity of the printer,
üblisher, and proprietor in that case.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL replied in the affirmative.
Rule granted.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS.
.-.......-_
FER. 2. IR2I.

Sir—l am not only a theoretical but a practical admirer of boxing
and other gymnastic and athletic »ports, though unfortunatelr re
this era, such sports are not viewed in the same light that they
were laccordingto history) by our forefather', the reason for whiet,
Sir, I cannot divine, unless it is this, that there is so little him=
to be found among both the professors and antaieurs. I have fought
in the prize-ring three times. and have been linemen! each time,
and I am told 1 hare given satisfaction. I did not think of erstcrine
the ring again, neither should I, had not a bombastical challenge
appeared in the public prints from Mr. 11. Halt, which I accepts,
nearly upon his own terms, and I cannot divine any reason why I e
should not fight me, unless it is the fear of being well beat by vs
whom he has calk"' a boy. 11r. Holt knows lam ready to make
a match with hint for 1001. '.side, at any time, to fight within two
months.
No sooner, Slr, did my acceptance of his challenge appear, &an
up starts Mr. Alexander Head, Gipttey Coupe?, Bishop Sharpe,
nd half a don others, all ever for time combat; in answer to
hem all. I would just give them this hint, that as soon as I hare
disposed of Mr. H. Holt, I will endeavour to accommodate them all
an as convenient a time as possible.
1 am, Sir, yours,
PEACE LNGLIS.

•
S P NG AND LANG.% .—Reynoltla, the friend and train►
of the latter boxer, arrived in London yesterday from the ►est of
England, to accommodate the Champion Spring in another match
of 500 sorcriltros, the sum he has &mantled if (NCI' he 'Win
again. Reynolds asks the tight upon a stage, anti he is ten:, to
deposit SOL Langan will show in London in a day or two. gel-
molds offers to fight any man in the world of his own wcight, and
he is not particular to a few pounds if an opponent is not taller
than himself.

PR EFERRED.
A Dispensation has passed the Great Seel. enabling the Rev.
Dunsfonl, to hold the Vicarage of Frampton-upon-S:lcm.
Nth the Rectory of Fretherne.
The Rev. C buries Henry Ilat!, .D. and Dean of Christ Church.
Oxford, is appoin•cd to eve Deanery a/ 1./Warn, Turin
by the death of East Bishop e( Lichfield act
Coventry.

At Hereford. rivet, May-girTyt;;;ttiday, the Ludy of P. (Moue.
Esq. of a daughter.
1 esterday, at Dulwich Couessom, Mrs. Baugh Albs, of a ace.

MARRIED.
In Sitirst Ossoryre's Church, John Kirwan. Esq., eldest on of
Francis Kirwan, Esq., of Diann, county of Galway, to Jane, eel!
daughter of the late Captain 111'ham linokman' of the 11th Heti-
ment, and step-sister to Major-Genera: 'lead, of Ashley Park.
county of Tiorerary.
On the 17th ultimo, at Gretna (:rstn, I). Cafe Wall, FA-
third ROO of Chas. Wm. Wall. Esq., of Coolnamcck Corrt. counts
of Waterford. to Catherins Isabella, eldest daughter of Alderman
Sir David Perrier. of Cork.
On Monday werk, at nothing', Mr. Joshua Sehelefield.
Ito Miss Jane Ilitkby. aged II years ands months! daughter o:
er Mr. Ilirkhr. card-mak, all of Hunalet.