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THEOB.ILD WOLFE TONE.

The last number of the New Monthly MacaziNe is
scarcely equal to the preceding numbers in the interest or
variety of its articles. It has several articles on Ireland.
Of these, the first is the most entertaining and instructive.
It contains an auto-biography of Mr. Theobald Wolfe
Tone, who was at one period a very distinguished member
or leader in the Irish rebellion of 1798. Ile was a fel:ow la•
bourer in the same vocation as A.O'Conner. More confidence
was placed in him, and a higher opinion formed of his
abilities by the French Directory than of any of the other
Irishmen who took a lead in that rash and desperate en-',
terpriae. We are assured by the review of the authenti-
city of this auto-big It doe. not—at least the part
• .
published does nut make any mention of the means re-
sorted to, to induce the French to embark in the expedi-
tion for the invasion of Ireland. The auto-biography re-
-1 Isles to domestic events, which, though of ordinary oc-
currence, yet derives an interest from the simplicity and
sincerity with which they are narrated. It was written
in France towards the latter end of 17911, while the arma-
ment for Ireland, under noel*, which he bad prevailed
upon the French Directory to fit out, and with which he
subsequently embarked, was in the act of being organised
at Brest. The opening paragraph adverts to his situation
and intentions at the time.

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A„s I shall embark in a business within a few days, the event
of which is uncertain, I take the opportunity of a vacant hour to
throw upon purer a few memorandums relative to myself and my
family, which may amuse my boys, for whom I write them, in
csaethey should hereafter fall into their hands."
. .

The Commencing teems are accordingly taken up with a minute
account of the members and circumstances of his family ; but as he
advances, the subject expands, and finally assumes the more com-
prehensive fiwni of a memoir of the part the write had acted, and
was acting in the public history of his own time. The sinle
throughout is natural and simple; some of the details are given
with a degree of playfulness and ease that firm a remarkable con.
trast with the solemn trains of thought which must have habitually
pressed upon a man on the eve of plunging into the most doubtful
and dangerous of human enterprises.
Ile was born in Dublin, on the 21.1 th of June, 1783. His father
was a coach-maker, and having acquired by inheritance some free-
hold leases in the county of Kildare, became involved in a Chasten ,
regarding
suit them, which ended in his ruin. His mother. whose
maiden astute was Lampurt, was the daughter of a captain of a
vessel in the West India trade. Both his parents were ordinary
peraor.s. All their children were remarkable fur • romantic spins
of enterprise. After specifying the early voyages and adventures
of his three brothers, William, Matthew, and Arthur, and his
sister Mary, he proceeds—
" I come now to niyself. I was, I have said. the eldest child of
my parents, and a very great favourite. I was sent at the age of
eight and nine to an excellent English school, kept by lesson Dar-
hag, a man to whose kindness and affection I was 'ellen indebted,
and who took more titan common pains with me. I respect him
yet. I was very idle, and it was only the fear of shame which
could induce me to exertion. Nevertheless. at the approach of our
public examinations, which were held quarterly, at which all my
parents and friends attended. I used to labour for sonic time, and
generally with success, as I have obtained six or seven premiums
to different branches at our examinations, as mathemnics, arith-
metic, reading, spelling, recitation, use of the globes, ate. In two
branehes I always failed—writing, and the catechism, to which
last I never could bring myself to apply. Having continued with
Mr. Darling about three years, and pretty nearly exhausted the
circle of English education, he recommended strongly to my father
to send me to a Latin school, and to prepare me fur the University,
assuring hint that I was a tine boy, of unemninon talents, particu-
larly for the niatheinatics,—that it was a thousand pities to throw
me away on business, when, by giving me a liberal education,
there was a moral certainty I should become a Fellow of Trinity
College, which was a noble independence, besides the glory of the
situation. 1 became, I may say, my own master before I was six-
teen ; and as at this hour I am not remarkable for my discretion,
it may be well judged I was less is, then. The superintendence
of my father being removed, I began to calculate that, according
to the slow rate chalked out for me by Craig, I could very well do
the business of the week in three days, or even two if necessary,
and consequently that the other three were lawful prize : I there-
fore resolved to appropriate three days at least in the week to my
amusements, and the others to school, always keeping in the latter
three the day of repetition, which included the lusioess of the
whole week ; by which arrangement I kept my rank with the other
boys of my class. I found no difficulty in convincing half a dozen,
of my nhooLfellows of the justice of this distribution of our
time; and by this means we established * regular system of what
is called mitchin, and we contrived, being sonic of the smartest
boys at school, to get an ascendancy over the spirit of the IMMO',
so that, when we entered the school in a body, after one of our days
of relaxation, he did not choose to barn his fingers with any of
us, nor did he once write to my father to inform him of my pro- ,
ceedinge. for which he most certainly was highly culpable. I must
da myself and my school-fellows the justice to say, that, though
we were abominably idle, we were not vicious. Our amusements
consisted in walking to the country, in swimming- ies in the
sea, and particularly in attending all parades, field 's, and ea-
views, of the garrison of Dublin, in the Phenix Pm. 1 mention
this particularly, because, independently of confirming nit in a
rooted habit of idleness, which I lament must exosediaglg 1,
trace to the splendid apparatus of die troys, and the poolV iind
pafide of military show, the untamable desire 1 have ever since
had to becomes soldier, a desire which has never since quitted me,
and which, after Mitten years of various adventures, I sin at last
at liberty to indulge."
The two years of 1783 and 1784, were chiefly dedicated to a
hopeless passion. lie formed an acquaintance with a married lady
of rank, and, to his youthful fancy, of surpassing attractions : she
had, he says, extraordinary talents far the stage,. which she this.
played on a private theatre, fitted up for the occasion in her own
house. Young Tone, " being somewhat of an actor," was invited
to live in the house, and bear a part in the tepresentations. The
perilous familiarity of rehearsals, fainting scenes, am. followed;
and, " having an imagination easily warmed, without one grain of
discretion to regulate ir," he in due course tell desperately to love.
We pass over the details, though there is nothing in them which
would not bear to be published. He was miserable for two years,
when an accidental dispute with the lady's husband separated hazel
from her, arid he never saw her more.
" But," he says, concluding this sage of his life, "if I suf-
feted, as I did most severely by this pas
unfortunate passion, I able'
reaped some benefit from it. The desire to render myself agree.
able to a woman of elegant manners and a mind highly cultivated,
induced me to attend to a thousand little things, and to endeavour
to polish myself to a certain degree, so that, after the first trans.
port of rage and grief at her loss had subsided, I considered my.
self on the whole as coosidembiy improved ; and as no human pap.
don is proof against tin:c and absence, in it few months I recovered
my tranquillity."
A more permanent attachment quickly succeeded. The olds'
lowing is his brief, but characteristic account of his courteldifl
and marriage.
At length. about the beginning of the year 1703, I became at.
guainted with my wife. She was the daughter of Wm. 'Witham
ington, and lived at that time in Grafton-street, in the house of bee
pandfather, a rich old clergyman of the name of Fanning. I woo'
then a scholar of the house in the t'niverslty, and every day
after COllll'lloll% I used to walk under the windows with one or two
of my fellow-students. I soon became passionately fond of her,
anti she was also struck with me, though certainly my appearance
neither then nor now was much in my favour. So it was, however,
that before we had ever spoken to each other, a mutual atfiction
i commenced between us. She was at this time not sixteen years of
age, and as beautiful as an angel. She had a brother some years'
older than herself. As it was necessary for my admission to the fa-',
milt' that I should be first acquainted with him, I soon contrived se
be introduced to him ; and as he played well on the violin, and se
I was myself a musical man, we soon grew intimate, the more moy,
as it may be well supposed I neglected no fair mears to recommeai I
myself to him and the rest of the family with whom I soon grew a
favourite. My affitirs now advanced prosperously ; may wife and I
grew more passionately fond of each other, said in a then time I
proposed to her to marry me, without asking consent of any *me,
knowing well it would be in vain to expect It. She accepted the
ProlmaM as frankly as it was made, and one beautiful morning in
, the month of July y
es ran off together and were married. I carried
her out of town to Maynooth fee a few days, and when the firsteelat
of paesion had subsided, we were forgiven on all sides, and settled
in lodgings near my wife's grandfather. I was tiow fora very sheet
time as happy as poseibte, in the possessim of a beautiful creature
that I adored, and who every hour grew more and more upon my
heart. The scheme of a fellowship, which I never relished, was
now abandoned ; and it was determined that when I had taken my
degree of bachelor of arts, I should go to the Temple to study the
law, and be called to the bar. I continued, in consequence, my
studies in the University, and obtained my last premium two or
three months after I was mistrial. In February, 1766, I commenced
bachelor of arts, and shortly after I resigned my scholarship, and
quitted the University. I may observe here that I made some
hgurt as a scholar, and should have been much more successful if I

had not been so inveterately idle,—portly owing to toy passion for a
military life, and partly to the distraction to which my natural dis-
position and temperament but too much exposed me. As it was,
however, I obtained a scholarship, three premiums and three silver
medals fmm the Historical Society, • m..st admirable institution,
of which I had the honour to be auditor, and rJsu to close the Mi-
nion with a speech from the chair, the highest compliment which
that Society is used to bestow. I look hock upon in; college days
with regret, and I preserve, and ever shall, a most sincere affection
for the University of Dublin."
Soon after his marriage, disputes having arisen between him and
his wife's relations, he removed to his lather's, who resided in the
county of Kildare. The midnight rulers of Ireland were then as
active, thoilth probably less ferocious than st present. The ful-
lowing account of one of their domiciliary visits, which happened
neatly forty years ago, has such a modern air about it, that one al-
most fancies one Tats already read the details in sonic of the recent
despatches from t.:!e Hock districts. We extract it, as affording
from the comparison of dates an edifying specimen of the stability
of mime and danger, with which particular plans of government,
heroically perrvered in. are ever ours to be rewarded.
. .

After :t-n
interval of a few months, m wife was brought to bed
of a girl, a circumstance which, if possible, increased my love for
her a thousand-fold ; but our tranquillity was again broken in
upon by a moat terrible event. On the night of the Itith of Or.
timer, 171:Ii. the house was broken open by a gang of robbers, to the
number of six, armed with pistols and having their fares blackened.
Haring tied the whole family. they proceeded to plunder and de-
n:dish ;ray article tl:cr could fiful, even to the unprofitable villainy

of breaking the china, looking.glames, act. At length, after two'
hours, a maid servant, whom they had tied moo/lige-day, having
made her escape, they took the alarm, and fled with precipitation,
learit.g the house such a scene of horror and confusion as milliard-
ly be imagined. With regard to myself, It N impossible to conceive
what I suffered, As it was early in the night, I happened to be in the
coun-yanl, where I was seised and tied by the gong, who then pro-
ceeded to break into the house, leaving a ruffian sentinel ores me
with a case of pistols cocked in his hand. In this situation I lay for
two linure, and could hear distinctly the devastation that was going
on within. I expected death every instant, and can safely and with
great truth declare, that my apprehension for my wife had so totally
absorbed the whole of my mind, that my own existence was just
then the least of my concern. ‘Vhen the villains, inrluding my
sentry, ran off, I scrambled on my feet with some difficulty, and
made me way to a window, where I called, but received no answer.
My heart died within me. I proceeded to another, and another,
but still no answer. It was horrible. I set myself to gnaw the
cords with which I was tied, in a transport of agony and rage, for
I verily believed that my whole family lay murdered within, when
I was relieved from my unspeakable horror and anguish by my
wlfe's voice, which I heard calling on my name at the end of the
house. It seems, is soon as the rubbers fled, those within had
untied themselves with great didieulty, and made their escape
through a hack window. They bad got a considerable distance
from the house, before. in their fright, they recollected me, of whose
fate they were utterly ignorant. as I was of theirs. Under these
terrible circumstances my wife had the courage to return, alone and
in the cleat, to find me out, not knowing but she might again fall
into the hands of the villains front whom she had scarcely escaped.
or that I might be lying a lifeless corpse at the threshold. I can
imagine no greater Aims of courage; but of what is not woman
capable for him she truly loves ? She cut the cords which bound
me, and at length we joined the rest of the family at a little hamlet
I within half a utile of the house, whither they heel fled for shelter.
Of all the adventures wherein I have been hitherto engaged, this
undoubtedly was the most horrible. It makes me shudder even
to think of it. It was some consolation that none of us sustained
any personal injury, except my father. whom one of the villains
scored Oh the side of the head with a knife. They respected the
woolen, whose danger made my only fear, and one of them
had even the humanity to carry our little daughter from her cradle,
where she lay screaming, and to place her beside my wife on the
bed, wherein she was tied with toy mother and sister. This terri-
We scene, besides infinitely distressing us otherwise by the heavy
bra we sustaintsl, and which my father's eirchmstanees could very
ill hear, destroyed in a great degree our domestic enjoyments. I
slept continually with a case of pistols at my pillow ; and a mouse
email not stir but I was edl my feet and through the house from-top
to bottom. If any one knocked after night-fall, we flew to our
arms; and to this manner we kept a most painful garrison through
the winter."

SWEARING IN OP THE NEW JUDGES AND SER-
JEANTS AT LAW.
Vestenlay morning, the ceremony of administering the oaths, &c.
took place before the Lord Chancellor, in his room in the House of
lairds. The room was thronged with gentlemen of the law, and
on the Usher placing the mace. dual.,
The Lord Chancellor entered the room, and having read the ap-
pointment of Stephen Gazelee, Esq. to be Sergeant at Law, that
gentleman advanced in full robes, and took the usual oaths.
31easnt. Spankie and Adams then came forward, and also having
gone through the usual ceremony, received, with Mr. Gamier.
their appointments u Sergeants at haw, and the congratulations of
the Learned Gentlemen present. At ten o'ettock they entered the
l'ourt of Common Pleas, accompanied by the Sergeants of that ,
Court, and, on the Learned Judges taking their seats,
The Officers of the Court read the motions of Court, and the ap-
pointment was continued by the Judges.
Mr. Sergeant Guelee haring received his appointment as Judge,
entered the Court and bowed. At eleven o'clock he took his seat,
and entered upon the duties of his office. Stephen Guelee. Esq.
the new Judge of the Common Pleas. is the son of a highly res-
pectable Surgeon at Portsmouth, and was many years Recorder of
that town.

PACKETS &lawn ENGLAND and BUENOS AVILES.

Buenos Ayres, April 10.
The Government having considered the proposals presented by
the Consul of his Britannic Majesty, tue the regulation of packets,
has decreed as follows:

I. The Captains of the British packets may land with the mail
(correspondences, without waiting for the officer of the nom
2. They must, however. on landing, present themselves first of
all to the Captain of the Port, that he way take those sanitary
measures from which no vessel is exempt.
3. The Captains shall go with the whole of the correspondence,
to the office of the British Consuls, where they will haye the offi-
cial despatches, and will then proceed to deliver all the private
letters to the General Post-office.

I. The postage of a single letter shall be two reels instead of
three, which it lisa been hitherto. Double letters in proportion.
ft. Every packet shall remain in port ten days after its arrival,
unless detained for sonic extraordinary reason by the British
Consul.

N. The British Consul General may establish in his office a box,
to receive from the English merchants the letters which the packets
are to take bark, the Captains of which shall receive them without
the intervention of the General Post-office. _

7. The other letters which the packets ass to take for the mer.
chants in general, shall be delivered to the respetlite Captains by

exemp _. po
duties, but the and crews are subject to t the regulauonsrt
and general e of t to counuy.
10 Three days aria the arrival of (sob packet, a mail shall be
despatched for Chili.
IL With respect to which a* change shall be made in the pre-
sent practice till an *greenlet is made with the Government of
Chili.
12. The official despatches for the public agents of the Govern-
ment of his Britannic Majesty, in Chill and Poru, shall be taken
by the mails from this capital. postage fret; it being taken for
granted that none but the letters in the service of the said Govern-
ment shall enjoy this exemption. The Consul General at Buenos
Acres mar put them into a separate bag, pod seal it.
"ta The decree shall be sent to those 111013 it may concern, and
inserted in the official Ilea ister.—Arcal.proemos Ayres.
A most interesting and well written work, from the pen
of Monsieur Ponr-- -ille, has jugs been published at Paris,
entitled Ifistr- •

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driven to despair. His acqualotaneo being un—ahle to account for
the disasters that had befallen hingoag*r otmeluded that It was
the effect of supernatural agency. 1%1110 this idea, Fhateh went
to consult a celebeateal wizard. wbpresides in the North of Devon,
and by whom he was assured t!tatlls couaecturcs as to the canse
of the death of his hoists was cermet ; a very particular description
of the witch—an old woman—by Whom these deeds were perpc:
anted were also given, and the dupe returned fully pasuaded of
the truth of the story and with a resolution to search In the
neighbourhood for the person se aceutaiely described in order to get
the value of his hones*? inflict on her an exemplary vengeance.
However, as his horses were dead, he was Induced to sell the hay
he had provided for them to die clergyman of the parish, who was
in want of that article. In a few days after the hay was removed,
three of the purchaser's horses were suddenly taken ill and tiled.
The clergyman not being a believer m witchcraft, thought proper
to discontinue using the hay, and sent the contents of the stouif.clis
of the animals to Lamer, to be subjected In $ chemical analysis;
when it was found that &considerable quantity of arsenic had I..eeu
swallowed by the banes, mixed with their provender. The only
way in which this tan be accounted for is, that the poison was
mixed with the hay, when put into a rick, though by whom or from
what motive cannot be conjectured. It is, however, hoped that the
miscreant who has so wantonly caused the death of nine valuable
horses, and brought a large family to poverty, will be discovered.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, blownvr, JrLit b.

IN THE MATTI!' or SIR otwooar PAGE TERMER. •
31r. Srannw said, that he had been instructed to appear in this
matter this morning, in consequence of his Lortishp's intimation
on Saturday.
His Lou wimp observed, that he had just seen Counsel on each
side in his private room.
Mr. Sur; on,/ was surprised to hear this. He appeared for Capt.
Turner, the brother of :sir Gregory, who of course wan much in-
terested in whatever might he done, and, therefore, as he had not
been heard :a the same time as the other Counsel, he hoped his
Lordship would suspend any order that might have been made
until Captain Turner had an opportunity of stating his case.
Ilia LORDSHIP did not like to suspend any order. If Sir Ore-
gory was really in a fit state for a commission to issue, the matter
standing over hoot time to time without any final derision would,
in all probability, tend to make him worte ; therefore, it was neces-
sary that an order should be made immediately. or else, that the
Court should say, no order shall be mule. If Mr. Sugtlen thought
proper, his Lort:ship would go into his private room at once, to
hear what Capt. Turner had to say by his Counsel.
Mr. SUritIEN at Once consented' and went with his Lordship
into the MOM, from whence they returned in shout ten minutes.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, 31oximr, Amy 6.

NUISANCE BY A STEAM ENGINE.
ThE KING V. 5Y31310X5 Aifla AxoTtinst.

It will be recollerted that an indictment was brought against the
defendant for a nuisance by a steam engine, established near Ame-
riai-square, fur the manufacture of vinegar. ft was volved, after
the trial had Proceeded a considerable time, that a verdict should
be taken for the prosy:ido:l, and that it should be referred to Mr.
Barnwell, of the bar, to inspect the premises, and to report whether
the nuisance was abated.

Mr. BkOUGII.OI this morning moved, that Mr. Barnwell's re-
port be received and read.
The report was read, and stated, that Mr. Barnwell had in-
•prrted and saw no nui-ance; but that lie had not conceived him-
.elf entitled to examine witnesses.

Mr. tittaxxx said he held in hit hand an affidavit sworn by
five persons, which stated that although much of the nuiaaneu was
abated, the smoke still annoyed the neighbourhood, and proved
fruit nuisance. He hoped, therefore, the teems of reference would
be amended, 6' to enable 31r. Barawdl to examine witnesses,"
otherwise the prosecutors would be obliged to bring another in-
dictment.

Sir. Hann:mast said, individuals mien briig themselves to
swear that a cmnmon chimney was a nuisance. There was no
doubt that the atmosphere would be purer and clearer without it.
Rut after the report of Mr. Ilarn well the Court could have nu
doubt of the removal of the nuisance.

The CtlenT darectetl the reFercrc7;o be amended, so u to enabk
Mr. Barnwell to examine witnesses.

LIBEL.
TILE ZINO V. MANSTIEE.

Mr. ADAM, in this cause, pnyed the judgment of the Court on
the defendant. editoeof the Bri:Ijl illerchr4l, fur two libels, pub-
lished in that paper. The first on the 6th of May, and the second
is August, 1822. The libels charged Sir Akxanticr Wilson with
cowardly and improper conduct on the occasion of being ordered
with the Chepstow Yeomanry crepe to put down a riot..
Mr. Sergeant PELL appeared on behalf of the defendant, and
put in his affidavit, which stated, that he conducted the Bristol
3krerry for five years ; that previous to the present charge, the
paper had never been subj:.-eteel to legal complaint ; that he looked
upon the par.:graph complained of in the present instance as
mefely a squib, and that he would not have given it insertion, if
he supposed it to convey a serioia imputation on the character of
Sir Alexander Wilson. The affidavit further stated, that the de-
fendant offered to insert any document on behalf of Sir A. %Filson,
which might amount to a refutation of the charges which the pa-
ragraph complained of contained against him. This offer was,
however, rejected by Sir .1. Wilson. Previous to the trial it was
offered by the defendant to give up the manuscript, and the name
of the author of it. This offer was not:accepted. As to the
libel inserted in August fast, It was not inserted with the approba-
tion of the defendant; on the contrary, it was inserted against his I
will, by a person whom share In the paper gave him a greater con- I
trod in the management of it than he (the defendant) possesmd. Far
neither of the libels did the defendant receive any payment. He
had three children dependant on his exertions for their livelihood.
Under then circumstances, and with the sincere expression of re-
gret at having unintentionally wounded the feelings of Sir A.
Wilson. he hope.! the Court would extend an indulgent considera-
tion to his case.

Dir. ADAM appeared for the prosecution. There were several
affidavits by a Magistrate of Oloncester by Captain llifford, It. N.
anti many other gentlemen, which stated the hnputstions cat upon
the conduct of Sir A. Wilson were a holly unfounded. After the
insertion of the first libel, an offw wan made on the part of Sir A.
Wilson to forego all legal proceedings, provided the editor inserted
an unqualified contradiction, and gave up the name of the author.
With this ►equisition the editor refused to comply. Sir A. Wilson
refused to take the name of the author shortly prior to the trial
( which was not until then offered), as on the very day of the caw
there was a paragraph casting fresh imputations on Sir A. Wilson.
Ia further aggravauon of the defendant's conduct, and as a proof of
how little he regretted what he had done, rubeequent to the trial he
published in the account given in his paper of the trial, both Vistas.
acrimonious observations of his counsel, and the
estuary with which he conducted the defence.
it Part. then addressed the Qom Ia
Me less seedy 46 admit thee ow (mai
&mesa of Sir A. Wilson, or the erecter of the
•b he was connected. His character, if that was his
indicated. and cle-red from slur or censure. He

, that the contrition of the defendant would entitle
• •
him to the mercititl consideration of the Court. Besides, the de-
fendant had been at a heavy expense, and subjected to great incon-
venience, by being obliged to attend for the three last terms to
wait the judgment of their Lordships. He did not mean to impute
to the Inosectieor an intention of wilful annoyance to the defendant ;
but he trusted the circumstance, although accidental, occasioned
by the pressure of more Importaat business, would not be without
its weight in mitigation of the punishment which it might be their
Lordships intention to award.
Mr. C. F. WILLI.% Ms followed on the same side.

Mr. ADAM then ad.lressed the Court in aggravation of punish.
mem. The conduct of the plaintiff subsequent to the first libel
evinced a continued perseverance in a disposition to wound the feel.
ings of Sir A. Wilson, and to aggravate the original offence. Sir
A. Wilson had a right to give an unqualified contradictien to the
first statement. This, however, the defendant declined to do. The
object of Sir A. Wilson was, to vindicate his character front the
imputations cant most unwarrantably upon it. This object being
o►tained, he was not desirous of pressing for a harsh or severe eon-
taus against the defendant.

Mr. Justice BAYLEY then addressed the prisoner, who appeared
the Judgment on the Hoot of the Court—The ()fleece (or which he
was now about to receive sentence was, for having published two
Rheas In May and in August without having inquired whether the
allagatioes they contained were true or false. It appeared that the
conduct of Sir A. Wilson was such as merited the highest com-
mendation. It was the duty of managers of papers not to insert
anything without having first ascertained its truth. Sir Alexander
Wilson di.. not adopt the prosecution hastily. He waited for an on.
qualifiedcontradiction, winch he could not procure, but the origl.
nal offence was followed up lty similar articles of attack, and even
the very article termed an apology was of a similar tendency. The
defendant said he was controlled by a person who had a larger
share and interest in the paper than he possessed ;—if he
was so controlled, he should have withdrawn his name ra-
ther titan have yielded so far to any superior as to lend him-
self to such a publication. The report of the trial was by no
mons calculated to mitigate the offinee. The animated obser-
vations and sarcasms of Counsel against Sir Alexander Wilson,
were accompanied in the report with the expression, '• A laugh !"
and In the account of the trial the libels were repeated. The
Court lied attended to what had fallen from the Learned Counsel
relative to the expense and inconvenience to which thr defendant
had been subjected,!as well as the circumstance of his having three
children and a wife depehdant upon him, as well as having con-
ducted the establishment which he superintended without hating
any complaint or legal proceedings, previous to the present, insti-
tuted against hint. They took all the circumstances of mititmtion
and aggravation into consideration ; and adjudged the defendant
to be imprisoned in the custody of the Marshal of the lilarshalsea
for one month ; that he pay a fine ef 1001.; and this he find • se-
entity for good behaviour for three years, hinisellin 21.10/., and two
sureties in 1001. each.
• PERJURY.
'CITE RING v. POWELL.

The ATTORNEY•GEWERAL moved for a rule, requiring the
prosecutor in this case to shew cause why the verdict of ~ttilty, ob.
taped against the defendant, should not be set aside. 'lhe verdict
was given at the last Middlesex Sittings, by which the defendant
was convicted of wilful and CJlrupt perjury. The subject matter
constituting the perjury was alleged to be contained in an answer
to a bill In Chancery. The ground on which he moved was, that
the allegations on which the perjury was assigned, were not sus-
tained in evidence to warrant the finding of such a verdict. After
commenting on the evii:ence, and arguing its insufficiency to sup-
port the verdict, he concluded with the expression of a hope, that
unless their Lordships were convinced of his g.ttilt, that. from Mr.
Powell's high character and respectable station in society, they
would not deny him this opportunity of vindicating his innocence
from the charge of perjury that had been wrongfully preferred
against him.
Their Lordships consulted together for a few minutes.
The LORD CDIEF JCSTICE asked if be moved on the pay
cunt of costs.

The AvrolvelYZErvt.tt replied in the affirmatice.
Rule grunted.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, MoyDAy, JULY &

'r) t'. JEKYLL.

This was an action of asounVps and was tried at iVestminoter in
the sittings after Hilary Term 1822. before Lord Chief Justice Dat.
las, when a vndict was given for the plaintiff, subject to the opi.
nion of the Court. The facts of the ease were there:—The plaintiff
was the Lord of a Manor in Essex, of which the late Sir C. Bun.
bury was one of the copyhold tenants in respect of 14 different shares,
which were united in his person. These general shares had origin-
ally been held by two tenants, and descending to their heir, became
subdivided Iraq, 14 ‘iifferent ohares, in reopen of which a bent* of
the best horse of each tenant had been paid on the death of each of
the tenants. and the same usyrnem was now claimed (amounting ho
the whole to 14 hones), the estates having become united in the
person of Sir ('has. Danbury, of whom the defendant is executor.'
The plairtiTconternleil that the estateo having been once subdivid.

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three months sines the sudden death of his ti
expired in grata •nt agony en the same di
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