The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-04-07 00:00:00

POLICE.

flow SIRCI T.

Tc !MIA:Iy Remy* rtfaiersh tram folly cotnnootted f.or it ial
for ble shut lite wslrh er * %li. /hewer,. HI Ihe 114 m•trkei,
n r. we sights sissy, while he we. talking to a trica.l.—The
subletly was committed i.os demist darieg manlier.

SURRgY ASSIZAS.

KINGSTON, APRIL 5.

This morning tilt- Court was completely fillet!
With persons, in expectation of hearing the trial of
Thomas I►sborve, Pietist.ly nt tante &clot k the
Prisoner was put to the bar, charged will; the WON!
111111rder or Ely Cox, a gamekeeper to Mr. Tessler,
of Ernto.
The whole of this charge rested on circuntittuatial
evidence, which, though very strong iu 11111111 y of its
parts, wens cot sufficiently SO to justify a verdict of
Guilty. Accordingly be was (acquitted.
He is a sveli-luaking young unto, about 25 years
of age.

LANC'ASTEIi ASSIZES.

180RDAY, MARCH 29.
. NISI PRIGS.—LIDEL.
THE alga o. TAT Loa. _ _

This waist) indielinroit tag-Ansi the Defewdstit,
John Edw: id Taylor. of itlasivhester, for publi,h-
log * lAA upload JulitiGreenwoud. Esq. Borough-
tNl'Ve of blutichester.

The De:readout appeased personally in Court to
conduct his defence, and he was permitted to call
',Masses to prove that the allegations alleged to be
htuAlous "ere true. _ _

Mr. Schlts.t.A.v stated tie case very briefly on the
part of the priotcution. De said that some tins.
understanding (which he did not explain) existed
between the Defetidaut and Mr. Greenwood, and
that the libellous mutter of which the Prosecutor
complained was contained in a letter, written by the
Defendant, and sent by his direction to the Prose-
cutor, and which, among other matter, contained
the following words:—" You have proved yoarself
a liar, a scoundrel, and a slanderer." The hand-
writing of the Defendant. and the sending of the
letter -having been proved, the letter was read ; it
was to the trillowiti4 effect :
a Ste—Your not having given up the name of the author
of the slanderous report you hare propagated respecting mr,
compels me to you as the fabricator of the report in
question, and to till you, th.it as you have had the baseness
to traduce my charactu, without having hid the manliness
to justify your emiduct--as you hate treated my repeated
applications by letter, to ',bison an explanation, with con.
mptiuius silence—as you have nisi the personal endeavour
of oily tricot,. Me. Preittis, iu avowal of the grounds on
which you made tie assertions, with insinuations more elan.
derous than your original assertions—that you have proved
yourself a liar, a scoundrel, mad a slanderer; and I shall
adopt every 1101:311S: of making public the opinion I t oteriain
of your conduct; and I shall tzke the earliest opportunity
of telling you, to your face, w hat I think of you.
'6 I am, &r.
" JOHN LOW ARD TAYLOR."
This finished the c.se on the part of the prose-
cution.

The Defendant, after tmking a technical objec-
tion to the indictment, which was over-ruled, ad-
di
eased the July lii a speech of considerable ability. j
The defence vas simply this, that the allegations
contained in the o flensive terms applied to Mr.
Greenwood were tr-ue. We shall state the circum-
stances of this cast as 'nit lly as possible. In the
month of July 'meting of the Commissioners
of the Police
.cf Manchester was ho Id to appoint
assessors fur the ewuieg year. AL this meeting a
paper was laid upou the table, cositsitinig the
tOnneli of *a hombre of persons, proposed us proper
to till this office. In the list was Mica ibed the
name of the 'Defendant, Julio Edward Taylor.
Mr. Greenwood, the Prosecutor of this iudacturtrit,
who iv a Conimi,sioutr of the Police, aUeuded upon
this occasion: sloir the name of Mr. Tailor was
mentioned, he said, " 1 herrd some gentleman fib-
, jest to Mr. Taylar." No observation being made by
any person in the room, he repeated his remark. Mr.
Gill, another of thr Commissioners. acid, " Who i*
this Mr. Taylor ?" Mr.liaeeuwnud replied. that " lie
is one of those reformers who ~on up and down the
countly making speedos ; aid that he was the
pinion of a mend-1,111 %%hid. .a as that' cause of the
Manchester Exchange being set on fire." These
observations of Mr. -Greenwood being retreated to
Mr. Taj lur, he wrote steers! letter. to the Prosecu-
tor, couched in respectful terms, requesting to
k.luiv the uuthoerty upon which lie had charged
lino with being die author of that placard. To
ihtse letters nu answer was returned, and an at-

tt mitt of Mr. Ta)lor's friend to obtain air txplAna.
11011 from Mr. Greenwood was equally tinsuccess-
fut ; and he, on thisoccasiois, iusiuunied, that Mr. I
I'll 3 for employed himself is going up and down the
country exciting disaffection. In consequence of
this refusal to explain, the I3tfendant wrote the
letter in question, sod which, together with the
other letters, WWI lad into the Iwa* of Mr.
Coodroy, ;wilder, of Manchester, fur pul,li, inspec-
tion. Defendant proud the whole of this state-
ment. by the most respect:dile wilnesse•, except
that Mr. Greenwood sr• turd to have used the quali-
fying words, " I underabind that lie oaf the tut bur,"
&e. and did tiot lrhwluteiy n-•rit it.
After hearing Mr. Sc %MATT in reply.
'Baron %Vow) charged the Jury. Ile snit the
mutter cootairied ii, the letter was clearly hl►ellons;
the publication of it bart been provad, and the
1)elt 'Want had failed in proviiig that the Prosecu-
tor deserved the appellations lie Mul applied to 1111111
Mille letter in queatiou ; but in law the truth of a
libel would nut justify its publication ; the condi.
tion of society would be iirtoltrahle, at•d breaches
of the peace would be perpeinally occurrnig, if
every Wile and crime of every tndtviduul might
be published iu all the Newspapers throughout tl:e
kingdom.
'l•he I)efendatit requested that the letters which
hail been reti:l to the Count might be haunted to the
Jury. This upplication was ret•used.
The Jury retired about eleven o'clock in the
forenoon, trial did not agree lir their terahcr
eleven o'clock at night, when they irturned, et the
Judge's lottgiugs,u verdict of—Arot (initty.

Mr. (ir:Er:mom). ni.t of the Counsel who al.
trotted Dorham Assizes, had hol pocket pick..l of
a cahoible stoul:.hox, as he passed through the
rt:wd ',entitled in the pusuge In OIL theatre, on
.1'10.? night last.

MA 1? ATS.

Frons die " London %reamfilp Prfre Currenl,"of Tue.da;,
April 6, 15419.

Pf CST INDIA AND SPANISII MAIN rnoDucil.
Corm: kin hero drooping in price* siuee our last, and foi
Si. Domingo Coll; I. of firm tomboy 109 s. were sesserilay Pok-
ed, and Ioss. °tiered; but the uncertain stale of the Coffie
market readers it inipusailde to affirm any but nominal
quotations.
The stork of W. I.CufTee is now 3,159 tons, bring 1,400
less 'bash at ibis flax last year, present prices. 10s per cwt.
higher.
The Phistal SVGA% market Ilan been dull sister our
hit. Middling, good, and fine support their prices. Mid-
Ming Jamaien. 780. good new St. and fine Antigone
875.; ordinary Isrowu Jasnairas 71s. and suit brown Deme-
rara 695.
The stusk of It. P Sonr in now '2,030 rank. mire than
last year's at Ibis time; the present prices rate 7s. per cwt.
lower, per Gut-rile :sveraze.
Dunn Minot be !sought lower, but see extremely difficult
of sale. .

The proutit %lock of Mint is 10,414 puncheons, sod price
of proofs 2s. I 1.1 per gnilim.
Shirk last year same date, 14,429 puncheons, soil price of
proofs is I Id. per g Moo.
Dveotoops rt main strady. lu FIVENTO nothing done.

SOUTH A MF.IIICAN PRODUCE.

The demand far ComTos rommucs very trilling in this
market, and nearly emitiord In a few oriki a far export, yet
sufficient to keep prices steady, particularly of the g
qualities, which are catmint:ly scarce. The sales of the week,
ditty Flirt, are, 130 Upland, middling 131.1. fair to good
14101 a 151.1 ; 150 Permonhocco, usilittary 10 middling 18,1
a 1941. fair to good a !Old ; 110 113,11sia, g 11:t fine
181 d. a 19d ;60 Surat iis kind, wool to fine' il loe,rl ;
BM Bengal iu bond, nrdir.ary to middling sel. a *I fair to
goud 6.1 • 7.1 Tidal, 1,250 hags The Imports f the
week aniontit (a 5,701 Ilsi2s, viz 497 United States, 195 De-
merara and Berbire, 4,301 Sat at, 600 via Uristol.