The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-02-12 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF Cl/B.UtßY—lss. 11.
LI) in.<l W.
This day. at the rising of the Court, etc Lome
Cu ANC ELLOR direCted r;tat Mr. Ludlam, theltinatic,
who, he observed had for some time been placed
immediately under his proteCtion by the Laws re-
la.ing to Lunatics, should remain undisturbed in
his Loose in Tenterden-street, under the guardian-
ship of the Committee appointed to superintend his
snits. and •he care of Dr. Munro, who had hitherto
attended hi.' in his illness.
fie cor.sidered the means which had hitherto been
resorted to for the purpose of teeming Mr. Ludlam.
injudicious, a.,sl prejudicial to his health, in his pre-
sent disturbed state of mind ; as noti.ing could be
more impiorel than to force a deranged person to
seek an asylum from that imprisonment he seemed so
much to dread, by flying front his putsusits across
the roofs of several hi-Imes adjoining his own. Such
treatment, howev•r jn.iifiahle on the part of the
officers entrusted with the ezecution of a warrant
of the C:.ief Magistrate, must certainly he produc-
tive of the worst consequences, with respire to the
individual concerned, and might perhaps finally end
either in the cor.irmation of the deplorable ei,order
under which he laboured, or some disastroes acci-
dent, which mi?,tst pot a period to his eristente.
Althnut h it was dnt within his jorisdiaina to dielate
to the Magistracy, I.e however wished 414 arAti to
extend to warrants wanted by the Lard Mayor, or
, other Magistrates, and that it &odd be enfderstood.
that the Lunatitt was not to be molested or removed
from his own house.

At the suggettinn of the SatictToq.Gtosset.e
his Lordship. dive/fed the' keoister iro-n,diately to
dram no the or. 'er. lest Mr. Ludlam should again
he visited by the omcers charged with the execution
of the rarrants Issued against him.

COrIIT OF RINGS BENCH, WESTMINISTER.

MARQUIS WIWI-11Y AND MR. r&111.1..

Mr. Grestow applied to the Court, for leave to
file a Criminal Information for a foul and atrocious
libel He mated that be had received his instructions
from Marquis Wellesley, wit, having held the ex-
alted office at Governor G:neral of India, for a con.
siderahle time, tetdrned to this con :try, flattering
himself with the hope of receiving the that-. ks and
approbation of the public. The Noble Marquis,
however, had not been long here, before he found
some persons, whom it would be but a waste of the
time of the C out to enumerate, who made him the
c -instant subjea of repeated libels ; but which, re-
ly:ng upon the integrity of his own character, that
wankl bear the sttidest investigation, he treat-d
with the contempt they so jestly merited, and
essed them over at that time without notice.
WI ileiheselihels were repeated in speeches delivered
in vie heat and narty spirit of a contested election,
he made every allowance ; hi" although forbearaace
was a virtue, yet there m gist be a period when for-
bear:usee could be no longer preserved, and when
the chara&er of an individual might be sn treated, as
to make it a duty not only to the individual him-
self, but to the cott.srry at large, to take notice of
such preceeding. The libel complained of, was
published in a new Daily Morning Newspaper, in the
shape of a speech, supposed to haw* been spok-n by
a pitsna who appeared to have some knowledge of
the affairs at India, and who addressed himself to
upwards of 1500 persons, at a late dinner at the
Crown and Anchor. It was nut now necessary
for him to inquire, whether what was reported had
actually passed t. he could no:. suppose that any
Gentleman of education, or any man of honour,
could have expressed himself in such terms ; but
whether he did or not, could make no difference
with respell to the libel itself. The Author of the
libel not beiiig known, the course taken, therefore,
was, to prosecute all those who were within the
mach of the Court, and as this was not the first,
he would take care it should not be the last
prose-
cution against such infamous aumniators, who
found it their interest to increase their profit at the
expence of others. In the libel now complained
ot, it was stated, that Mr. Paull, at a Meeting of
the Freeholders of Middlesex, at the Crown. and
Anchor 'l'a vein, ad fressed himself to the com-
pany, and having prefaced his speech by express.
ing his thanks for the honour conferred on him in
drinking his health, adverted to the necessity of
bringing to justice " that great delinquent, Marquis
Wellesley." lle next alluded to the late Eleason for
Westminster, end said, no less than five titled Mem-
bers of the /louse of Commons, paid sums of mo.
ney to exclude hi:n (Mr. Paull) from his seat in Par-
liament. Stating also, that his (skied for bringing
forward an impeachment against ularquis Welles-
-I.iy, was nut from any private pique, but from mo-
tives of public justice. Ile then was represented to
charge the Noble Marquis, as a perica uho had
been guilty of the most wanton prolusion of the
public money, and of the most wanton and atro-
cious murder, perpetrated upon one of the most in-
dependent Princes of India, who was foullfmnt-
"tiered by the Noble Marqiiii, and whose bloody
garments he caused to be sent to his it: happy mo-
ther, as a proof of the commission of this atrocious
crime. bile parties against whom he now moved,
were .sautes Carstaits the printer, John Clarke
the puhlislier. and Samuel Osborne and Stephen
Linsey, the ptoplictors of the Paper belore men-
tioned•

The necessary :Attacks being put in, the Court
granted a coaditi• nal rule.

LLISL UPON PORTER SRIEWER%

Sir Vice-ITT GOSS moved for leave to file a cri-
Minal information against the pruners, puhlishers,
and proprietors of -fire Neverpapers, tor a gross
libel upon the Porter Breser,rs nt this metiopnlis,
tending to king that wholesome b,:ver Age i..to
disrepute, end to ruin and destroy the 'lade angle ;
charging Orem with introducing poisonous ingre-
dients in porter.
I.Jrd Eitteionouon—rt Is this a libel on the
port -r of ea y particular individual r'
Sir V. Grass—" No. my Lord. it does not state
the name of any paltticular hrewer ; but if iv is to be
held out to Newspapers, that they may nithon!d at
pleasure the names of individu.l4, they may ruin
tiem vth impunity: this certainly is as offence MO
corn •isly comm::.ed.
Lord rit,•%aneerm seeeurri 0.4. it .tar ..w. belloreaigut.