The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-08-10 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

" NORTHERN CIRCUPY.
DURUM AMMO 4.
A I.LEGED LIBEL ON THE ESTABLISH ED CNURCH,
AND PARTICULARLY THE EPISCOPACY OF DUR-
HAM.
Till RING C. JOHN AMBROSE WILLIAMS.

Bel*tete stifled that this was a criminal inforasation
grained by the lodges of the Court of Ying'• Bench fur *
bhel on the Established Meech of Editilni! and Clergy of
Datitift, by the D fendant, who is printer rod publisher of
• newspaper entitled the Durham Chronicle.
The obeeslots, of the lib.l in question arose out of the
eiseres death, which the Decades, laid hold of fur the
purpose of dealing oat slander upon the Established Church,
and particularly against the Bishop sod other Dignitaries of
the Cathedral Church of Dathatn. The mischief each
slander war calculated to produce ass considerably Joint's-
• ity the Defeudint's choosing such an occasion to vilify
the Establiebed Religion and Clergy. The libel appeared in
the Ihrhenn Chronicle of August 18, 11121, and charged she
Bishop and Clergy with brutal enundy le—and es being
among the veinrcutoes of—that illu.trioua Princess; be-
cause, forsooth, they had, it seem., negleetrd to 101 l the
bells of the Cathedral on the occastue of ►er hlojestin
death.

Tbe Leonora Counsel, after commenting with' greet
severity nuns the scandslors, wanton, and malicious motives
a Ilse Derndsni, cal!ed Jubu Sutherland, clerk. so Mr.
Griffiths, who proved that he purchased of the Dereadaat
the paper in question.
Criumegannited by Mr. BROIIOOI3II for the Defestlant.—
Dd you recollect the accounts coining down tram Loudon of
her late lamented Majesty's persecution, and which caused
her death'—Yes. _ _

I presume that on the *cession of ber death, you beard
the hells lull in the uso it +ay '—Nu.
You are mut deaf?—Nu.
- -

a. Ids late Majrsty's d. ath you beard them tell, and eist
his present 111,.jesty's Itirdt.dly you beard skim dug ?
Yes. _

And at the late Cumuli°, all the bells, sad eves isles belle,
were set a rinciag ?—Yes.
Pray, on the death of the old Queen, the p►eseot King's
mother, was the usual cumuli" observed us that oecasios !
Yes. I believe they lolled.
Mr. ettounnast's speech on the Defter, was peculiarly
energetie, and received wills repeated bursts of applause from
the audience.

Mr. Barn. Wool) repeatedly called out to represolbeot
indecent manifest■lions of etiiknee; sod desired tint who•
ever slight be detected (twitting with the feet, clapping
of bond.), might be take■ tutu custody, sod be woold
commit them.

The J•ry retired, and after being abut •p for several
hears, returned the fuilowiug reedier, at the Jude.'. bdg-
inZs:-" That the Derreadaut tries godly of a libel e• the
Clergy of the city of Durham and it. sabarbn."
The trial exederi the must intense interest.

TRIAL FOR MURDER AT SXSTRR ASSIZE&

Jahn ( Avalon, "one who loved not wisely, but
ton well," stood chsrged with the murder of Sarah
Chspmati, his wife, at %%trek, St. NOM., on the
40th of May last. It was a ease of as deep interest
as ever was heard in sny Court of Justice, and one
in which en 'missend degree of pity and commisera-
tion was manifested for the unhappy being about to
be tried. It appeared that the prisoner had been
married to the deceased only mini months, when he
had bet too much reason to doubt her fidelity to
him. The sequel proved his suspicion to be well
founded, as her virt.lahty for other men became in-
disputable, particularly to a person named William
Robinson, with whom she had gone so far as to
have the ceremony or a sham marriage performed
over a broomstick and a prayer-Gook at o }Wilt--
hurts, on the very morning of the day on which she
lost her life. The Prisoner was told bv a person,
that his srife was seen walking in afield wet fir
off with this mass, and intending only (as he said
in • written defence put 11110 the Court) to frighten
Robinson. he went fur r guN which lie did not know
to be loaded, and which it was sworn to have been
clone by a person to whom it belonged, to kill crows
in March last. On his overtaking ahem he told the wife
to go back, and on her refusing to da so, he lost all
recollection of himself, end in a state of misid border-
log on madness, fired the piece. which was loaded
with small shut ; she instantly fell dead. Several
witnesses swore to the subsequent agony of his mind.
He had been a most kind acid affectionate husband,
sod treated his wife in the tenderest manner.

The Learned JCDGE charged the Jury on the law
of the case, at the heariog of which scarcely AI dry
rye was to be seen. Thera were two questions fur
the consideration of the Ju►y. Was he (rhe lois
son•r) at the time he committed the act, in such a
state of mind as to know what he did ? for, if he
were, then wan he guilty of murder; fur the c•tn-
duct of his wife, however bud it might have been,
could not justify the act; nor could passion, put in
the scale, weigh its his favour. The law presumes a
madman to be a person not capable of judging
what he said or dud, and io such eases it did not
seiount to murder ; but if the Prisoner was at the
time in his right reason, sod knew the gun to be
loaded, then it amounted to that crime; on the
contrary, if he chi not, it would only amount to
manslaughter. It was, therefore, fur the Jury to
consider this in their minds, ■ud if any doubt
existed, the Prisoner would be entitled to that
doubt, and he wished Do misunderstanding of the
law to go to the public. l'he case was left to them,
and the life of the Prisoner depended on their ver-
dict, which he had tin doubt would be founded on
u richt view of the case.

ftir Jury consulted for a short time. and brought
the unhappy man in Guilty of Aleutslonelier, to
the high sitisfaction of every person in Court.
The. Judge, in the must feeling manner, sen-
tenced him to one year's imprisonment cud hard
labour in the Huuse of Cori-idiom

The Beazer sloop of war has arrived from Rio
Janeiro with advice. to the ails June. Very few
letters, however, have been received by this coo-
vevance, as the packet was to sail the next day.
The Denver has ou board part of the bullion brought
from Lima by the Creole, the remainder is shim ed
in another vessel of war. The letters from Rio
mention that M. ANDRADE, the brother of M.
Jose BON FACIO DE ANDRADIt, the present
Prime Munster, who was one of the Members, awl if
we mistake not President of tie Junta of St. Paul's,
had been expelled from the Junta, in cousequence
of which the Prime Mini►ter sent in his resignation,
which the Prince refused to accept. The Prince
had convened the Brazilian Cones, intended to he
composed of Deputies from all the Provinces, and
establishing, as a principle he intended to act upon.
that as soon as t wo.tl.irds of the Deputies were as-
sembled in the capital they should proceed to
business.

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