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eottrer.otantrt.
the vocal corps already very strong, as compriz-
lag Vl.aars. Incledou anti Braham, Miss Parke and
Mi.s IvrOnday, alai last night reinforced by Mrs.
Billington. Thu! commanding combination of ta-
lent attracted one of the most elegant and crowded
atulieneet we have eveteheen at this species of enter-
taitutent. Mit. Balington was in fine voice, and
wit reocived with enthusiastic applause.-4, Her tol-
ls& tired," displayed her astonishing powers in the
Arannira style to great advantage. It was encored,
as was Mr. Braharn's " Softly 'wed in Lydian area-
auree," and Mr. Ificledon's .4 Come rfyou dare." We
have never observed the feelings of an audience so
strongly excited, or so great an impression nude at
Any entertainment of this class.
FASHION.

LADY SALTOUNI BALL.
This Lady, so universally admired in the fa-
shionable world, gave, on Tuesday night last, a
Most elegant Ball and Supper to above three hun-
dred and fifty of the first rank and fashion in the
Metropolis, at her house in Ilertford-street, May-
Fasr.
The Ball-room, in front, was elegantly lighted
up, with side-lustres and chandeliers; the drawing-
loom, in the rear, contained tables for forty, ele-
gantly ornamented with frames with various de-
vices, medaliont, trophies, &c. &c. The front and
back patlouts, containing five tables for seventy,
*ere also elegantly ornamented with various frames,
tepresenting a pavilion, with trees, flowers, foun-
tains, medaliont, warlike trophies, &c.
At eleven o'clock the dances commenced with
Sir David Haider Blair ; the Ball was prned by
Lord SAtTotni and the ROM Mks K twirmi D.
At two o'clock the middle drawing-room was
covered with tables for fifty, and the company, to
the amount of two hundred, sat down to supper.
At three, the dances resumed, and continued till
seven, when, with reluaasce, the company de.
Fatted.
Among the fashionable visitors, we noticed the
following, Viz.
Prlnec of Wales, Pfinee of Condi.
Atomise of Waterford.
Tad of Limerick.
Vacuum Fitaharris.
eoudt Polignac.
Lerds-.Vukr . If. Petty. A. Hamilton, Ma.xleinaW, G.
kradley, G. L. Gower, and Borringdon.
airs-A. Clarke, R. Buxton, R. Thornton, W. Call, D.
6enegie, A. Gordon, M. W. Ridley.
Admiral Young.
Governor Bentiiick.
Crecrels-4scoigne, Craig.
Colearto-Robinsou, Murray, Arrowroot.
Ceptaisw-.Dalrymple, Otto, Woodford, Callow, Drum-
Resod.
lion. Mr. W. and J. (*.onion.'
Mears -Trotter, W. Fraser, Bailey, Sullivan, J. Cassatna-
joe, R. Thome, Tlionspion, Garthaliore, Campbell, Stio:;,art,
Law, Eakin, Freeman, Clare' M'Donnell, Murray, Banker,
billow, Adams, Midland, Spalding, Gosling, Lush ington,
Call, Sankt, Fleming, Long, Gordon, Andrews, G. Herbert,
Mow, Churchill, Ridley, Murray, Latouche, Upton,Willtams.
Dottiest of Athol.
Cutiodissarßoulies, Aberdeen, Limerick, Cardigin.
Laoiles..sOttl, Ross, Irvington, Auckland, H. Townshend,
Call, Yostng, A. Murray, A. Ilsshwmod, M. Corry, H. Sulk.
yak Handers, Smith Burgess, Dowager De Clifford, F. So•
talent, J. Diandae, Emmersley, Brownlee, F. Erode", Kin-
stoint, M. Hornio.
bfatersses•-•Nugent, Caldwell, Rose, C. Trottet, Balfour,
Plaokenair, Sullivan, Robinson, Thompson, Campbell, Garth-
sure, Flint, Wycombe, Cornwallis, Milner Butler,
:::::•11, Elliot Banker, Robinson, Gosling, Lushington,
k, Gibbs, iowman, Harcourt, Fitaherbert, Macdonald.
Nielow.Wright, W. Epley, Gray, Trotter, Balfour, Sul-
Bean, Eden, Elleker, M'Clnud, Campbell, Call, Hays,
talbot, Thoospoiae, Buxton, Tbourlough, Ormby, Law,
dot, lbw Toweibends, Rallies, Miner, Byng, Johastooe,
obinsao, Dalrymple, Gibbs, Bowman' Rose, Stuart,
Wortley, Essonly, Brownlow, Haggerston, and Kinnaird.

Yesterday morning. soon after nine o'clock, his
1411•Jyrry and the Dtikeof CUMBER LAsto, attended
General Mitosis's, left Buckingham-house for
Mew, where his Msusr v inspected the new house
Arhich is building. and walked a considerable time.
148 returned to town at two o'clock.

About half-past one her MAJ MT and the Prin-
cess Maar. atunsded by Lady CeAsicsv, wok an
tiring in the neighbourhood of Parson'slreen. In
the evening their MAJtsiltil and the nunctuts
?honoured the Concert of Ancient Music with their

Presence.
Lord Rt !astute is expe4ed in town this week,
from Dublin, to attend his parliamentary duty.
Marsois of Haatroax gave a grand dinner
yesterday at his house in Stanhope-street, May-fair ;
among the company present were, Earl of BASItY.•
Moak Lord BLAYNLY, Lord Ms, ItEwsi Colonel
304.Gosssav, Colonel VIIIIIIZR, Meskrs. BUTLEII,
PAULA/4214 DtLLOY, LaroucHt, IScrti.a, jun.
2111Ab$11AW, &MAY, &C. &C. &c.
Or Sunday nest the second Ladies Subscription
Concert, this season, will take place at Mrs. Firs-
kraal Rl's honse,iaTilney-street; Madame BOLLA,
,Signora Itortotrio, Vicariorir, &c. will exert
their vocal powers upon the occasion.
Sir H. MILDMAY, and Lord Kir:mitten, are
among the last arrivals in town,
Loa BOY LS sets off in a few days from his house,
in Baker-street, for Ireland.
The Marchioness of A szscoares rout in Grove-
itofoiltiare, Countess of Police ESTE a's, same place,
Ind Lady CAMP trt. es, in Wimpole.street, were last
!light very numerously attended.
Ftrzuzaasaa's rout this evening will be
timed by stlo persons of the first rank and fashion.
Mt. Gattswoob purchased, last week, two
capital mansions it. Stanhope-street, May-fair, one
the lase Colonel the other General Ho.
visa ties.
Countess of Srarteti was truch better last night,
bat it not yet declared out of danger.
The Earl of Liveiteoot was yesterday declared
*tit of danger.
Colonel ltftwat Wooer, M. P. for Catton, left
town for that Borough cis Monday last, for a few
days.
Lord Wa Lsotou are gives a grand dinner on Sun-
day.isest ; the Cabinet Ministers are invited.
Vitcount Ilia.ser.v left town on Tuesday for
Englefield-greern, *here he will remain for a few
The Countess of Aseseette, Lady S. Hoa vow,
and the Hon. WM. GORDON, have taken up their
fesidence, for the season, in the Duchess of Gos-
port's late house in Piccadilly.
telebtated Poet Kriestoce, the atithot of
the Afruisi, died at Hambargh on the 14tb instant,
in the 79th year of his age.

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NORFOLK ASSIZES!
THE L FORD, Ntmica

Before Sir Nssel Cause and a Stscut JUR?.
AiTLEY, RAIL, V. HARWOOD, ESq..
DEFAN NTION.
Mr. M'ltsrosmopened the pleadings :—He said,
this was an anion brought by Sir Jacob Astley,
Bart. against W. D. Harwood, Esq. and the decla-
ration stated, that a short time before the speaking
and publishing the false and scandalous words
therein contained, the Plaintiff had served in a for-
mer Parliament, as Knight of the Shire for the
county of Norfolk, and at that time was a candi-
date for a seat, as such Knight of the Shire, in the
present Parliament ; that the Defendant, well know-
ing the premises, but contriving to injure the Plain-
tiff in the esteem of the freeholder*, and to cause ;:nd
procure him to he looked upon as a man of no inte-
grity, and as an assassin, and a murderer, did, on
the tith day of July last, publicly state, that the
said Sir Jacob Astley was a liar, an assassin, a
coward, a scoundrA, and a murderer, and that he
had murdered his own father—to the damage of
the Plaintiff of 10,0001.—The Defendant had plead-
ed Not Guilty, and upon that Issue was joined.
Mr."Easeisit Gentlemen of the Jury, I have
the honour to attend as Counsel, at the desire of Sir
Jacob Astley, Bart. by your favour and indulgence
one of the Representatives of this County. I attend
to submit to your judgment and consideration an
attack made on his honour and charader—an injury
at all times, and under any circumstances, most
grievous, hut heightened greatly in the opinion and
feeling of the Gentleman who applies for your ver-
did, inasmuch as this attack was made in the pub-
lic face of the world, and at a time when he was not
present to enter on a vindication of himself. Above
all, at a period when he was soliciting the suffrages
of his fellow-subjeCts to represent them in the Great
Council of the kingdom—a trust which, permit me
to say, nothing short of the most unsullied integrity
ought to ask or receive from the judgment, wisdom,
or favour of the people of any part of the empire. The
circumstances which go to the constitution of this
tense, are so perfectly notorious, that there is not a
man, if my voice was loud enough to extend to the
limits of the County, who would not be perfectly ac-
quainted with them—con seq uently all the observations
and reflections which I shall have to address to you,
must have occurred to every person present ; and it
is for this reason, I feel myself under no small de-
gree of embarrassment in performing the duty which
is required of me. Gentlemen, notwithstanding the
hot debates which have taken place at various peri-
ods in this land, on the subjeCk of the liberty of vot-
ing and speaking, with reference to public characters,
and subjeds of a public nature, yet as regarding
private slander, nothing has ever been brought
into question. Lawyers, moralists, and all classes
of mankind, have uniformly been agreed.—The
reason is plain ; there is an invincible sensibility
in the mind of every human being, for the good
opinion of his fellow-creature : it is a principle im-
planted in the breast of every individual, for the
most beneficial purposes ; it fits him for social life :
it so strongly pervades every department of life,
that there is no person, whatever may be his rank,
birth, situation, talents, or qoalification, who is not
actuated by it. It is the principle which, operating
on the human breast, is the parent of every social
duty, and awakens every sentiment that is great and
good. If I were to ask you what, at the late awful
and critical period of the country, has stimulated
oar brave countrymen to deeds of splendid and glo-
rious atchicvernent ? What is it, when the shrill spirit-
stirring trumpet sounds to battle, urges man against
man, army against army, and navy against navy ?
What is it has made British valour triumphant in
every part of the world ? What is it but that princi-
ple, the effefts of which I have stated. Do you think
a man sits down to moralize upon the duty he shall
perform to his country, by assisting in a well-fought
battle ?—No: he considers only how, when he re-
turns to his native home, he shall be received by his
friends, and how his name will be resounded from
mouth to mouth; and the fame he shall have ac-
quired, and the glory he shall have atchieved, be
celebrated among those of whose esteem and good
4101i03 he is most anxious. If we look back to for-
mer times, we may find the truth of what I am stat-
ing exemplified, in the conduct of the Christian mar-
tyrs. When they felt the flames that were on the
point of consnming them, it was not only the reward
of an heavenly crown they anticipated, but they
looked forward to the applause and admiration of
after ages. In short, the love of reputation, and the
d 'sire of a good name, is the foundation of all pub-
lic and private worth; and it is therefore that the
law of this country, ever attentive to the best inte-
rests of Society, gives an nation to a man who re-
ceives a reproach from another, of that which if true
may subjed him to punishment. It does this that
Society may live in peace and tranquillity ; for it is
in vain a man is in the enjoyment of riches and the
luxuries cf life, if in consequence of his diameter be-
ing destroyed he cannot look his neighbour in the
face. Tnese are the principles which must govern
this cause—The fads I ought rather to refer, to than
state—they are Familiar to every one of you. With
these prelim na7 observations I will, however, now
proceed to state the tads :—The Plaintiff and the
Defendant had b 'en companions and friends for 25
years—They livel together during the remoter part
of that period in habits of friendship, which are or
ought to be h ,bits of confidence. There is no con-
sanguinity hal!' so endeared, as the spontaneous con-
sanguinity of friendship ! A man feels himself not
in one of the t mmon situations of life when he is
with his friend, he feels he is with his brother. I do
not speak of any obligations which the Defendant
received from th: Plaintiff. He was not, I admit, in
a situation to require them ; but he received his hos-
pitality, and every favour urged by friendship, which
ought to have made an impression on his mind.—
You know that Sir Jacob Astley represented the
County in former Parliaments, upon the advance..
ment to the House of Peers of the worthy and hon.
Gentleman whom he succeeded. You know too,
that Sir Edw. Astley, the father of the present Plain-
tiff, recently died, and that previous to his death he
had, in consequence of elpences he was led into, fre-
quently been undzr difficulties, but at no time had those
oitEcuitits produced any thing dishonourable-on his
part.—Vs hen the eletioss was proclaimed, and the
Plaintiff was seekirg the suffrage of his countrymen,
allow me to ask this question. What is the situa-
tion of any man at such a period, in such a country
as Great brita D? You do not meet like the people
of Switxerland, to chose 3 LandaMillath who de-

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mauls your sufrages whit the sword ilk his hand I '
you chuse the man, whom you conceive competent
to legislate fur you, to prote& you ; you chuse
not because he is forced upon you, but because you
approve of him. lam addressing you as men who,
as freeholders, occupy situations such as are filled
by no race of men under the canopy of Heaven,
except tale inhabitants of the United States of Ame-
rica. It'*as at this particular moment, when, as I
have stated to you, the Plaintiff was soliciting the
suffrage of the freeholders, the Defendant, who was
at a ball at Norwich, elevated himself, as on a ros-
trum—called aloud for silence; and having obtained
it, applied these epithets to the Gentleman I re-
present. Speaking of Sir Jacob Astley, who was not
then in the room, he used these words :.—•44 He is a
liar, a coward, an assassin, a scoundrel, and a mur-
derer ; and he murdared his own father !" I ask
you what any man must have felt under these cir-
cumstances ? From whom did this slander proceed ?
Had it come from some man who was a Mounte-
bank, or in a low situation of life—lf such a one
had said Sir Jacob Astley was a liar, he would
have been kicked out of the room ; he would have
been considered as a man who could have had no
acquaintance with him or his family : but, on the
contrary, every one who saw Colonel Harwood in
that situation in whicl) (I am sorry to say) he ever
was placed—a man who was bred in the family
and acquainted with all that confidence could com-
municate ; who had lived under the roof of Sir Ed-
ward Astley to the moment of his death ' • who was
acquainted with all the transaftions of that Hon.
House : every one, I say, who saw and heard him,
must have concluded, that there was some founda-
tion for such an assertion. What must have been
the feelings of my Hon. Client, when these things
were reported to him ? I think he must have felt
that sentiment, so beautifully expressed in the Di-
vine Poetry of the sacred Psalmist
is not an open enemy that bath done me this dis-
honour, for then I could have Dorm it.
" Neither was it mine adversary that did magnify himself
against me, for then peradventure I wuuld have hid myself
from him.
" But it was even thou my companion, my guide, mine
own familiar friend."
The first question I would ask, (and I humbly im-
plore the attention of the honourable and learned
Judge to it) is, Are these words such as must have
been noticed in one way or another ? I repeat these
words with as much emphasis as I am able—Must
they have been noticed in ear way er another
my learned friend's prudence permit him to say that
the words used by the Defendant, instead of being
tried in a Court of Justice, should have had a trial
in another Court, a Court of Honour. This is a
tribunal the law will not hear of. What if a man
accuses me of murder, am I to become his murder-
er, or he mine ? I thank God there has been on this
subjeEt a considerable alteration in the public opi-
nion—lt is owing to the noble Lord who so long
administered the justice of the country—l mean the
late Lord Kenyon, that we are to attribute a disuse
of the praElice charaderistic only of the most bar-
barous people. Since that noble Lord's time, Offi-
cers whom I could mention—Officers -who have been
carrying the fame of the British army to the remot-
est corners of the earth—Officers who have placed
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in the shade the atehievements of former periods,
have come to the Court of King's Bench, appealed
for protation to the law, and reserved their cou-
rage for that cause in which the exertion of cou-
rage becomes a moral and religious duty. The
law has said, that the first person who shall
meet and destroy his adversary in the field of
honour, falsely so called, shall expiate his offence
with his life. But what is it induces a man to
rush into the field and stain his soul with his bro-
ther's blood ? It is reputation—fame--a sense of
public opinion. There is no danger a man would
not brave, rather than that the hand of scorn should
point its slow and moving finger at him ; there is no
manknows what the dread of public opinion may drive
him to ; and a man will be justified in taking the
law into his own hands, when it will not afford him
its proteaion. This observation is as old as the Re-
volution ; for whoever will look into the Reports of
Lord Raymond, who lived about that time, will find
that it was said by the Lord Chief Justice 11014 when
an attempt was made to explain away words, and
give small damages, gg I am" (said he) “ always, for
supportingadions for words; forl remember a saying
of Mr. Justice Twisden, who was present when judg-
ment was arrested for words, and the Plaintiff ex-
claimed, if I had thought this, I would have had his
blood !" Such was the opinion produced on the
mind of that able Judge by the circumstance I have
mentioned, and thertfore it does appear to me, that
this is a case of a similar description. But you have

a further duty to perform—rtiat duty is- to hear
both sides of the case with impartiality.—l know
there are topics of defence which will occur to
an ingenious man, and which my Learned Friend,
in the pressure of the case, will not fail to have
recourse to—l shall therefore, as I may have
no opportunity of a reply, endeavour to anti.
cipate the arguments he will probably address
to you. The Learned Counsel supposed that
the first topic urged by the Advocate for the
Defendant, would be drawn from the circum-
stance, that the charader of the Plaintiff had not
been injured by the aspersion of the Defendant.
It might also be said, that the slander was uttered
in the evening, at a Ball, and at a time and
place, when persons throw aside those restraints
they carry about them during the hours of busi,
ness. It might also be inferred, that the Defendant
had offered an apology to the Plaintiff. Having
stated these supposed topic, of defence, and replied
to them at considerable length, he concluded by
saying, " I have to apologise for the time I have
occupied. I am aware that a great part of what
I have said may be . unnecessary ; but I am
not conscious that I have laid down any principle
which it will not do you honour to adopt.—
You will have the verdietto pronounce—my province
is over. I have made such observations, in the
hearing of the Judge, the Jory, and the Country,
as I have thought necessary. if you should give
small damages, I shall lament deeply, that Sir
Jacob Astley ever brought this attion ; I shall
lament, that in endeavouring to vindicate his repu-
tation, he has lost it ; I shaillament that you should
say to him, Go any where else for redress, for we
will not give it you ; I shall be sorry, for the sake
of the country. It is an awful trust, which, as
Jurymen, you have reposed in you. I cncerelt
lope you will preserve ito by discharging from your
minds all passions and prejudices—ail pulitcal and
private considerations, and by dismissing from
your remembrance every thing you may heard span
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The death it Sir Edward Astley was proved by
the register of his burial.
Lieutenant-General Murray stated, that he was at
the ball at Norwich, on Tuesday the IGth of Joly.
In the evening, when the company were beginning
to withdraw, the Defendant mounted the tea-table,
in the corner of the room, and addressed the com-
, pany. The witness proved the Defendant's having
used the words mentioned in Mr. Erskine's speech.
Mr. GURN Y.—" Gentlemen, I have the honour
to attend you on the part of Colonel Harwood, who
it called on by Sir Jacob Miley, to render to him a
compensation in damages for having, as he asserts,
maliciously defamed his charader : and, Gentle-
men, I am not at all surprised that my learned
friend, Mr. Erskine, should have treated this case,
not in words expressly, perhaps, but in the manner
he addressed you, as if it had been one of great im-
portance. I confess that to me it seems to be a ca,e
of as little importance as any one can well be. To
me it appears to have no other importance whatever
than what it derives from the talents of my learned
Friend ; talents which can confer importance on the
. most trivial subject, and can make great things
small, and small things great. Not that I think the
character of Sir Jacob Astley, or any other Gentle-
man, a matter of small importance. There is no
person who thinks more of the value of character
than I do, but it behoves every man to consider well
before he comes into a Court of Justice, whether his
character has sustained any injury, and whether cir-
cumstances may not have occurred subseqaent to
the surosed injury, which make his appearing in a
Court of Justice as a Plaintiff' the most improper,
as well as the most dishonourable step he could
take. It would have well become Sir Jacob Astley
to have considered these matters ; and I am persuad-
ed if he had done so, without his Attorney at his el-
bow, he would not have come forward with this
action ; a circumstance he must in my opinion re-
gret as lung as he lives. My learned Friend, Mr.
Erskine, has said, that the law. gives an action to
every man against whom a crime is unjustly im-
puted : I wish he had referred his mind to a case in
which one of the ablest lawyers, Chief Justice de
Grey, laid it down, that the words must impute a
charge, not merely affeding the maral character of
the party, but which, if true, would subject him to
punishment ; otherwise they are not actionable :
Therefore it is, that the declaration on the face of it,
states that these words were uttered with intent to
have it believed the Plaintiff, Sir Jacob Astley, had
been guilty of the crime of murder—the horrible
crime of murdering his own father. It appears to
me to be worthy of your consideration in what sense
these words were meant to be understood. I might
call witnesses, and as them in what sense they un-
derstood the words. My learned Friend had many
witnesses to prove the words ; but when he found.
from the course of my cross-examination, that it
might become a question in what sense the words
were uttered, he stopped short in examining them.
The reasonhe did notexamine any more was, because
he was sensible there was not an individual present
who understood them in the sense imputed to them
by the declaration. How often do we in popular
language use words, which, taken abstratledly,
impute crime, but are of perfedly innocent
interpretation when properly explained. An its.
stance of the kind very lately occurred with
regard to a Learned Friend of mine. I happened
to ask him what he thought of a certain Clergyman,
who was a man no less remarkable for his piety than
his learning. My friend, after describing his emi-
nent qualities, added, " but, after all, he is a
great pickpocket." Could any words be more des
famatory than these were ? Yet when they were
explained, they rather conveyed a compliment. He
said, " I went to hear him preach a charity sermon,
and his sermon was so persuasive, that I did not
bring away a single shilling." Had my friend stop.
ped, and not been allowed to have entered into the
explanation, he might have been called upon to have
made compensation for imputing to a respectable
Clergyman that he was a pickpocket,. Other cases
might be imagined. Suppose a man were to de-
bauch an innocent female, and by desertion and
cruelty break her heart. If it was to be said he had
robbed her, or that he had murdered her, would
any one conceive that such a robber, or murderer
was meant, as could be the foundation of a crimi-
nal prosecution ? It consequently would not be that
species of defamation which could be the subjea of
an action. I ask whether there is one man to be
found who understood the charge of murder made
by the Defendant in the legal acceptation of the
word ? 1 admit the words were uttered, but at the
very moment when the Defendant was on the point
of explaining them, he was pulled down. Had
these words been uttered respeding the death of any
mart whose death was suspicious, there might have
been some room to have attributed slander to them,
but it appears, and it is a fa& well known, that he
died at the advanced age of seventy-two, and that
his death was the consequence of a slew and gra-
dual decay of nature ; but why has not my learn-
ed friend shown the manner in which he died!
It is extraordinary, that having the power of
calling as many of the domestics of the family
of the late Sir Edward Astley as he pleased, he
should have rested the evidence of his death
on the mere produdion of the certificate of his bu-
rial ; the reason evidently was, he did not wish to
spew that he died a natural death, or that the cir-
cumstances of it were above suspicion. But there
is something else most important for your con-
sideration. I will suppose that the words have
'been uttered in the sense charged in the de-
claration ; and even in that case, I will shew you,
that this Cause ought never to have come here.
I will prove to you that it has been brought to
trial in breach of faith, and that a reconcilation
was effected between the parties—a reconciliation
which of course ought to be a bar to the anion.
It has been proved to you, that these words were
used at an assembly the week preceding the elec.,
tion ; after which, Colonel Harwood, who had
been in town, came down and voted for Mr. Coke
and Mr. Woodhouse, and appeared on the bust.
ings as the friend of Mr. Woodhouse. I will shew
you, that a Mr. Dinmore, and a Mr. Gardener, and '.
another gentleman, went to the Plaintiff, and toe.
posed themselves as mediators between the
Pendant and the Plaintiff. The Plaintiff stated. th
he knew not exadly what the words were.
Dinmore gave him the words, and observed, that
Defendant, when he spoke them was in liquor. Upon-
which the Plaintiff replied, a I freeiy forgive him,
lam sure he is my friend." Upon-bring informed
he had voted against him at the elution, he sad,
" That is no matter, I shall be happy to meet bun
and forget what !lulu:soli" and he 4404 "

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have been Ilion& feet many years- .Can T ceer 1
otherwise than love a man. who after rendering me
such great services, came with his trunk. wider 10;
man wet offered to go France with me, which he ac-
tually did at a time when I era:, deserted by every
other person." These Gentlemen, who were :Laing as
mediators, reported to Colonel liarwood what
tiir Jacob Astley had said, and he reillied,
" Go back, and tell him I am satisfied, but
I think he ought to do somethir.g for Ludt
skstley.' The result of this negotiation Was, a re-
, onciliation did in point of fait take place, though it
was thotight proper to defer the public avowal of it
•i:l after the eleaion was over, lest it should give (se-
ssion to some of Sir Jacob's enemies to draw in-
i. from it injurious to his interest. Now, I ask
von A 4 hether, after all this had taken places there
(eight to have been any affirm brought into Court ?
Yon- will say there ought not—yet, in order to ren-
der this reconciliation of no effea, conditions were
afterwards required, which no man of honour could
sa'amit to—l think when once I prove there was a
ete-fea reconciliation, and a mutual forgiveness,
you will be of opinion. that the Plaintiff has
ailed ill-advisedly in exposing this cause to.
the animadversion of the public. If the cause is
not to stop here, I must do that which will be most
t: :pleasant to me. I must infer and prove that
which Colonel Harwood, from long intimacy in the
lam& of the late Sir Edward Astley, knew to he
the fait. I must shcw that Sir Edward repeatedly,
and to the last moment of his life, declared that
the ni;scundua and nukindness of his son, the
Plaintiff, had broke his heart. The learned Counsel
'ere -tated the circumstances of Sir Edward Astley
becoming embarrassed ; his assigning his estates in
trust to Colonel Harwood and a Mr. Jones, for the
benefit of his creditors ; the scorn and ill-treat-
n:ent be afterwards nut with • the mortificae
tious he endured ; his being refused even the
privilege of cutting a little fire-wood, and a va-
riety of other insults and deprivati, ns to which he
was forced to submit. Mr Gurney terminated his
obiervaticau by saying, " My learned friend will
have his reply; hut when be has done all he can, I
.have only to intreat you to icier to your own
minds, in order to tell you what you think of
a Plaintiff, who, after such a reconciliation, can
provoke a discussion in a Court of Justice. 1 trust
your first an.cwer w ill be, that the Hun. Gentleman,
my client, never meant the words in the sense im-
puted to them ; and, secondly, that after the par-
ties had been reconciled, all idea of an anion should
have been driseped. The consequence of these
answers m ill he, that you must feel yourselves
bound, if you should return a verdit in favour of
the Plaintiff, to give merely non.ival damages.
Mr. Ward said he was present when the Defen-
dant used the words ; lie was attempting to explain
Clem when he was pulled down.
Mr. Christopher I)inniore proved all the eiretim-
:-emees stated to the f/efendant's Counsel—Mr. Er-
skine objeaed to his stating the iuipressitai the
words made on his mind.
Mr. Gardener deposed precisely to the same ef-
fea, hut the same objeCtion was taken to his evi-
dence.
Mr. Barnaid vas called t. the same points, but he
was not allowed to prove either his conception of the
• irds, or that the Defendant had it in contempla-

lion to have explained them.
Mrs. Allison proved the death of Sir Edward, but
she was not suffered to state, that he had not seen his
gm for upwards of a twelvemonth.
Mr. Eisei et replied, in a very eloquent speech
• —lie insisted, that his claim to damages *as not in
• the least degree removed, but that he was irtitled
to the full amount laid in the declaration, w:thout
the least deduction.
Mr. Justice Gaost informed the Jury, that in
nrirr to their returning a verdict in favour of the
• Plaintiff, they ought to be satisfied, that the words
seem spoken, and that they conveyed the meaning
stated m the declatatinn. His Lordship recapitu-
* lased the evidence, coMmenting upon it as he pro-
' eeeded. If there were any circumstances that could
induce the Jury to give a different interpretation to
the words, they were bound to do so. The conversa-
!tioh whic.h had passed between the mutual friends
err the patties, he considered as, strialy speaking,
not sufisciently authorized by the Plaintiff, Sir Jacob
Astley. If the Jury should be of opinion the words
were used in the sense attributed to' them, they
mould then consider what damages the Plaintiff
was entitled to recover. lie observed, that in no
case ought a Jury to give vindietive damages ;
• all they were justified in doing was to give such
'reasonable damages as the Plaintiff was entitled to
'for the injury he had sustained.
• The'Jury consulted together about half an hour,
and returned a verdiet in favour of the Plaintiff,
2,0001.
It is impossible to convey any idea of the interest
'this cause excited in the county. An immense con-
tourse of persons assembled round the Court House
'before the doors opened, and the access was attended
If ith extreme difficulte The heat of the place was
;oppressive to a degree.
• An eleitieent cause was to have been tried between
Nile sane patties. It was hreught by Sir Jacob Ast-
glee, to recover firm Mr. Harwood possession of a
tlirm demised to that Gentleman by the late Sir Ed-
' se.ird Astley, and upon which Mr. Harwood had
*NM considstable sums of money. Sir Jacob,
pro'bahq thu.king it would ptejudice hi 3 action for.
de:mutt ion;'e iitklrew the record.
There was epxy little buainess at the A
The l'aisoneis on the Crown side were tried by Mr.
lieraeahr
riggir—T•me
According to relipeable advices from Madrid,
under. date of the. Tohluit. received by a Spanish
house ae ni jlaburgh, eintruded cession of Loui-
siana to FrAece has oticasioseed..the-presenting of
some strorig inemorialA agaiatt Cis measure, on
• the part ot the Diplomatic Age Ats of two different
Powers ; to which the Court ot Strain 14; not, how-
ever, thought it pri2per to make :thy reply. Other
memerial.., in mote urgent language, have since
succeeded the former, yet -with tio, farther seems.
The Spanish blinisery have 'sent a courier to Paris,
probably to desire advice of the French Govern-
ment bow to an ender such an emergency. •
The law Middlesex regiment of Militia are ova
&red to muster At wren o'clock.in the morning, on;
Friday next At Edmonton:.
Corner av Et Lev non.—At the close of the second
dayis poll, the numbers were, .
rut Sir. !Whore •
. SU:Stratum

-FOREIGN INTBLLIGENCIC
•
V!IRMIWA, NIA Ring TS.
The Palatine of Hungary has set out on his jour,
ney for St. Presburgb. .0"
A great commercial Home at Brett has Niel : a
commercial house here has likewise stopped pa; .=
meat.
There-is a report of a long journey which their
Imperial Maje,ties propose to make in the Spring.
They will go, it is said, by the way of Pisa and
Rome to Naples ; thence to Venice, where they
will receive homage ; from Venice to Trieste, to
inspea the harbour ; from Trieste to Gallicia, to
receive the Palatine and his Consort ; from Callicia
to Dresden. to be present at the marriage of the
Grand Duke of Tuscany, and thence back by the
way of Prague to Vienna.
ROME, FEL 24.
According to a private letter frinn Messina, the
Maltese Bak Tomasi, has accepted the dignity of
Grand Master of Malta, for which lie was origi-
nally proposed; but a certain great power rather
Prince Ruspoli. Tomasi is of an ancient
'Unica» family, nearly related to the Spanocchi and
Manfred i ni .
There is talk here of a new French Expedition
against Algiers. In the Treaty of the 17th Decem-
ber 1801, the I.ky promised to restore to France all
the establishments on that coast, in the same condi-
tion in which they were previous to the year 1792;
but he now reftises to give them back, unless he tr-
ceives the old trilmte.
The Republic of the Seven United Islands has
sent a Minister Plenipotentiary to St. Petersburgh
(who has already arrived at Vienna.) In these
islands a National Assembly (Nazionale Conise•so)
has been convoked, to settle the internal regulations,
relative to which Count Moncenigo and the Presi-
dent Teotechi lrave issued Proclamations.
MADRID, mi. 21.
On the 19th inst. the Santo Domingo arrived in
the Road of Cadiz from South America, with five
millions of piastres on board. As soon as advice of
her arrival was received here, the vales rose five per
cent. and will be still higher.
HAGUE, MARCH 12.
Our Loan, which was.scarc,ely opened, is already
filled, though on the whole it is not so advantageous
as that of last year. More has been subsc; ibed.than
was wanted, that is, than 'twenty-three millioni of
florins, for so much was thergcit. The Landgrave
of Hesse Cassel alone subscribed a million. Many
other foreigners, espeCiiilly. friom Germany, likewise
subscribed considerable mans.

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NAVAL .1711112LLIGENCE.
PLYMO‘IfI4, MARCH 21.
Came down to their respeEtive ships the Malta,. of
fit guns, and Tonant, 74, Captain Bader and Capt.
Sir E. Pellew, Bart. This forenoon a Captain,
three subalterns, six serjeants, and 100 rank and
file of the Royal Marines, marched from Mill-Day
Barracks to the North Jetty Stairs Dock-yard, and
embarked on board the Mart, 74, now fitting for
sea in 1 lanioaze. The propriety' of embarking
Royal Marines thus early in the fitting cat of nt&
of war is perfealy obvious as they are, front long
habit in the late war, good seamen, and very bt
for rigging and getting ready for sea ships put into
commission.
The long coaches for several days past have been
crowded inside and outside with great numbers of
fine fellows, neatly dressed, volunteers for the
Royal Navy, all in high spirits; number, of men
also enter ter the Royal Marines. Tlp• Prince Pre-
&rid, of 64 guns, late convalescent ship, is to be
refitted for a receiving and examining ship for en-
tered seamen and landmen for the navy. Admiral
Lord Keith is very active in receiiing the daily re-
ports of the ships getting ready for Sea, and issuing
orders in consequence. Great aCtivity prevails in all
departments of the arsenal here, all ranks seem ac-
tuated (whatever may be the event) with one com-
mon spirit to repel the aggressions of France.—
That fine ship the San Jos f, of 110 guns, is order-
ed to be hauled down the harbour, preparatory to
being commissioned.
Orders tone down on Sature'ty from the Ord-
nance Office to General Moose and Colonel STE,.
P HENS, to get mounted directly at the lines, dock,
and citadel here, all the guns usually mounted on the
different batteries for the war establishment, to be
immediately 'taken out of itore and got ready for
immediate .service. In consequence or which orders
The Royal Carpi of Artificers and Royal Artillery
hive been turd at work ever since Saturday.
PORTSMOUTH, HAICH22.
Sailed from St. Helens his Majesty's ship gum, of
32 rains, Capt. Richardson ; and remains his Ma-
jesty's sloop .Vorgiana, of 16 guns, Captain Rayns-
ford. And at Spithead, his Majesty's ship Neptune, of
98 guns; Venerable, of 74 guns ; Itit, of 50 guns ;
Calcutta, a 51. guns ; 41:ntene, of guns ; attkeu.,_
of ;i2 guns; Airora, of 28 guns; La Lteternunca, of
24 guns; and Port Alaht,n, of 18 guns; with the
Admiral Chapman Danish East Indianian. Wind
S. E. blows fresh.
This morning arrived bete the Right.H.O n. Lord
Gardner, and is .expeaed to hoist has Rag on board
his Majesty's ship Ngitiore, of 98 guns, to-morrow
morning.

DOrtß, MAUCH 4.i.
Arrived last night La ymephiae packet, Lam-
bert, with Mr. Martin, messenger, with dispatches
from Naples.
Sailed the Didebett of TA passage-vessel, Wat-
son, for Boulogne, with his Highness the reigning
Prince Auerstorg of Germany.
LLOYD's LIST. •

The twirteo, Casey, from Cork 4r Liverpool, is on shore
ne.r Holyhead

The Mary, ilahley, (coin Hull fur Lisbon, is lost near
Brea.
Alt It rico.
At Clydt.--.Dunlop, M'Gregor, from Virginia.
At Cork, Carleton, Car:ee, from Virginia.
At Cuxhaven, Gitcte Eseitarting, from London.
At Antwerp, Hoop, Joann, (ruin London.
At lieleoetsluys, F. dins, Farrell, from Virginia.
At Virginia, 1 Jerald, Wh:te, from London.
At Rochester, the Jackson, Salmon, from London.
At Honduras—the Thomas and Rebecca, Rochester; and
th• Jackson, Salmon, front London.
At Bengal—the Cullands Grove, from London. •
At China—the Minium, Royal Charlotte, Brunswick,
Chinon, Persererauce, Rltiwick Castle, Thames, Ciiffnells„
Marquis of Ely, Canton, Neptune, Oinstsester, am:WI/der
Calle, from London. t •
At Botany Bay—abo Cescsnandel, and Hercules, from
London.
At Jamaica—the Aleiander, from Lit:erpoce ;
Diamond, Claris; and Crisccut, Cowan, (ruin LAW: •

-itsctlss.•rettnat.
The you'rne AT nehatf contains the &Hosting
,hservations on the present administration, the de-
bates in Parliament, and the awful crisis in which
...ranee and F.ngland are bow placed, our readers
must discover the genuine char.icter of a French-
n, who alone coutd treat such grave and me.
Illelltt,JS matters with such unbecoming petulance
anti levity.

England has created two singular privileges for
itself : the first, in considering the commerce of the
whole world as its exclusive property ; the second,
in induiging itself in the boldest public discussions
on the conduct of all governmeuts, and in treating
them with an insolence of language often insu&za-
ble. All the nations of Europe have been grossly
insulted in the debates of the English Perlieinent
since the Treaty of Amiens. No person can deny
this assertion, which is proved by the Public Jour-
nals. By virtue. of the first privilege, England
never patiently stile. • . eetion to exteed its
commerce ; by the se:. .. con,iders the slightest
observations of ()tier e, . e• eats on their privi-
leges, as an attack upc:, t it.gni.:: ; its pride is even
offended when its own Lteclerations are repeated by
any other nation. It is in these two assumed privi-
leges, and in their consequences, that the. cause of
the present extraordinary couduk of the- British Mi:
nister must be sought ; for it is impossible that any
thing new could have occurred in the negotiations.
Let us take a review, in a few words, of what has
passed since the meeting. of Parliament. In his
speech, on opening the Session, the King did not
affirm that his conduct towards France should be re-
gulated eccording to the Treaty of Amiens, but by
the situation of Europe. This was to announce,
clearly, that the treaty (of which his Majesty took no
notice) either should or should not be executed, ac-
cording.to circumstances.
'l'];w party, which disapproved of the peace, in the
midst octhe most indecorous charges on France,
loudly aemantitel .the non-execution of the treaty,
in censuring the Ministers for having concluded it.
Haves the Ministers denied the possibility of a re-
newal of hostilities, and the disgraceful idea of a
violation of the faith of treaties? No ; they justified
the
.peaVe with timidity ; they claimed thanks for
having concluded it; and they
-positively declared,
that thil would take the rust favourable oppor-
tunity of renewing the war. ' Lord Hawkesbury
urged no ebjeClion against war, but the danger of
undertaking it without Continental alliances ; no
Member orAdministretion obje6ed that the national
honour was
.pledged to tile fulfilment of treaties ;
and the Minister himself, at length avowing that he
hesitated between peace aue war, has demanded an
establishment bordering upon both ; that is to say,
double the peace establishment. Such has been the
condud of Englend since the Treaty of A miens, and
it mai be asserted upon good grounds, that the
party in that country most inclined to peace, was
that which willed to gain time to sound the dis-
positions of the Powers of Europe before they ap-
peal to arms. •
The French Government has not utteted a com-
pleint, but, leaving wholly to the English the li-
bear of discussing a veiny, which all parties had
originally approved of, has confined itself to the cor-
dial exec trine of the articles agreed on.
' Three,:houths after the opening of the English
Parliament, the session of the Legislative Body,
commeeteed in France : the Government presented a
review of the situation of the Republic ; and, :ac-
cording to custom, published to the nation the state
of its relations. As the whole world saw and was
acquainted with it, it was unavoidable to say, that
. the contending parties of England left the question
of peace or war in the same uncertainty ; and that
Malta had not been evacuated, though it ought
three months after the signing of die Treaty. 'I his
public filet *was mentioned with all the decorum
shish nations owe each other, even in their differ-
ence; ; and all that .regarded England in the review
of the situation of Frauce, was so far from any hos-
tile disposition, that it concluded with the following
sentence
" Yes, no doubt, pesre will every day be more consolidated ;
the relations of the too Governments will aasuane that charac-
ter of benevolence which accords with their reciprocal inte-
rests. IL happy repose will obliterate tho long calamities of a
disastrous war.; and both France and England, in promoting
-their mutual appiness, will destitve the gratitude of the
whole world."
The French, who all remember how many pro-
spats of peace and happiness the review of the situ-
ation cf France presented by the Government gave
rise to, will scarcely believe that it could become,
with resped to England, an appeal to oppression, to
invasion, and to arms.
We well know that the state of our finances has
struck the English with astonishment ; they have
not known France since they regarded' it but with
animosity, whilst we know England bettor than
ever, because we view it without jealousy, as well
as without admiration. We know also, that the
revival of our commerce, the adivity which the
First Magistrate imparts to the nation, our mutual
confidence, the prodigious effeas of a single year of
peace, must be displeasing to the English nation ;
but the sentiment of envy so natural to every people,
exclusively commercial, cannot sufficiently explain
the condud of the English Minister. " What is it
then in the review of the situation of our country
that could give him so much annoyance ?" Could
it be this expression—" The Maritime peace is the
want and the desire of all nations ; to preserve that,
the Government -will do every thing compatible
with the national honour essentially conneded -with
the rigid execution of treaties ?"
• To demand the rigid execution of treaties, and
to make that the foundation of national honour, is
this to be guilty of blasphemy ? Is this to threaten
war ? Is it not rather according to the consent of
all nations- to speak in favour of morality, of true
policy, and of peace ? And must not England.have
seriously determined, beforehand, to fail m the exe-
cution.of treaties, thus lively to be alarmed at a de-
mand of the rigid execution of them ? la case even
that political motives should induce the French
Government to modify with good will the articles
of any treaty whatsoever, so far as it saw no lib•
cessity for them, so far as it had not accepted atty.
compensation ; in a word, so far as it had ,
come to no positive or publicly declared resolu-
tion ; is it not its duty in addressing itself to France
to make the rigid execution of known treaties the
basis of national honour? In Get, it is only. in the
%English Parliament, that the safety of the State *ILI
the national honour can be supported on contrail
principles.: but it was chiefly within the last yearei

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that the falsest principles of polic2 liecarne v•.•
lent in England, that a Minister was heard to ailirrn,
in a full- House, even at the time he acknowledg,
the want of continitytal alliances=" It is true, war
on the Continent is otlen unsuccessful to our allies,
but is always advantageous to 11%."
Tlit English Minister, who had till then been
content to apologise fur the peace, whi.l he cot,-
eluded with the approbation of the whol:: nation,
takes advantage of a very iiii,ocent phrase, addressed
by the head of she French Government to the French
people. Every thing is carried on
.with such rapi.
dity, that the King is scarcely allowed time to re-
turn to London to subscribe the message, on a pro'
jest of invasion, which existed only in tl:e .s of
those who desired to excite an alarm England,
which they felt not themselrei. The English must
have very soon lost the practice of 'watching the ports
of France, to he ignorant that there was neither cons-,
pleted, nor preparing, any hostile armament in them.
This Messag(!; succeeded by a demand of 10,000
seamen„.in addition to 50,060 already granted bpi
Parliament, was produced with such precipitancy,
that the public funds fell fifteen per cent. ; a cir-
cumstance unexampled iu England, u ithout paral-
lel in any country under an ali!e Minister, because
the art of government. consists avoi2i;ig the
shock, whenever so great an alarm as the for-
midable possibility of war is given ; it apprises
the holders of Stock.; it avails itself, in support of
the public credit, of the numberless means that are
always in its power, and' it su.cceads in regulating
the motions of tar: public funds. In a countrj.
where, as in England, the finances depend entirely
on opinion, it does much more injury to lower the
funds 15 per cent. than the certainty of the rep
tended armaments in the ports of France and Hal-
land could. What will be the issue of srch Ines,
plicable conduct ? It would be difficult to dpciiie.

CORN EXCHANGE, MARCH 23.

This day there are not many fresh samples of
Grain here, and rather thin of buyers. Wheat 114 A
very plentiful, and fully maintains its prides. We
have plenty of Barley, with many of Monday's
Parcels unsold ;it;s at -something less. Peas in
good supply, with Beans, go off almost unvarivd.
I here arc many Oats at Market, they appear to
sell (id. lower ; but the superfine .quality for seed,
arc some shillings higher than the currency. We
note the prices of Flour as our last.

MARRIED.
On Thursday last, at St. Butoiph, Bishopstsii, hy the
Rev. Dr. Conyheate Mr. Thomas Min, of Noun.ls-
di ch, to Mrs. Elizabeth Gladsome Clarks of Union-tow,
On the Ist inst. at Prestwould, Philip Hamad, Esq.
s cued son of Anthony Hamoad, Esq. of West Acre, Nor-
folk, to Mi,s Anne Pace, youngest daughter at Charles
J. Packs, Esq. of Picstwould, Leicestershire.
DIED.
Monday, at his house at Chiswick, the Hen. Thomas
Walpole, in the 76th year of his age.
On Monday, at his house ill Blackman-spat, Soritt,
wark, in the both year of his age, John Parcliaii;'Essi.
Treasurer for the County of Surrey.
Tuesday morning, at his house in the Crescent, the
Lady of Mr. Alderman Flower.

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