The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-12-07 00:00:00

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him beau sow Mete masher .f those two Couseils, a
therefore ail theme remark* are equally applicable to hits.—
Gore& nor Palo., go /Weld had so ot!, to the state of their
cuawiences. In his etsternetit to the Colonial minister,
dottier the article Relati..iti; The Houten l'aibulic
rei.s..rn, by au article w Caw schedule, was an iii4iirpensable
qualslicatiesso to the admission of settlers. That circumstance,
however, was little enfwcer: 1., the late Governor, whit was
sot a lire. Natives of IraJnif were received tcit4ant ernuiti-
*Vibe. the Catholic faith being, in the Spanisls islea, as in-
herent to CLIC nation as to their Ws' The, ellY be '4,7
sa othiug,to the old settler• in gemeral; but thoughaseither
Mr. flick, Begg..rm., nor Laugtou, were 'A-omitted in their
settling in the island. Me) anal hare beta sesta info the Spa-
kidt foam./ u. 6waii t r.tiheties ; and in Ike Engti.4
then ten., rrolastatits, if they over accord-
lug tat the principles of our Comstitstioo; and, if they were
not, then its bulb eases they are ineligible rue His Majesty's
Cussed

Upon the first of these he remarked it had been
imagined. Out if no dirict charge was wade. there
was nn danger; but it hail lung 'Mee been enter-
tained, thatlibels were to lie taken. and under-
stood, within • Court of Jostler, in the same man-
ner u,c they would out of it ; that juries were to look
to the general tenor of the work. for the purpose of
the writer; and when they found Mews. Black
and Beggorat appealed to fur their knowledge of
runhawass, it was .for thrill to say, whether or not
the Defenilaut meant to apply the imputation to
them? As to the second part. he would produce
the Oath alluded to. by which they would see the
insinuation was uithmeiled; the Oath itself being
purposely framed bt• His Nlwiests's eumnwtal, po as
to suit with the situation of the tipailisli
as well as the otlieni. The work its.•it had theca
originally published by Mew,. Cadell anti It.tnies,
Strand, iu the beginning or this la ,t year. It wits
but justice to say, they were no pit folediet, of hltel.,
and they had been induced to publish the prey:•at,
upon the repreaeututioul of the author of it. heitig
a political work. Mr. Nlarrpttt, the Agent for the
Island of 'Trinidad, bought the ImoL, upon
reading it, cautioned Mr. DUclell ag:1111:4 CUM:fill-
ing the side of it, who thereupon th,contnined the
publication. The Defendant afters/mall !.rl-s411;,11
nit Mr. Richardson. of Cornhill, to :
when the Prosecutors finding the publication per-
bitted in, gave directions for the present indict-
ment to hr pre...reed.

A copy of the R urk WI4II pra411114.11, ■ud proved
to have hero port:hafted ut illeharsh.oo...
Mr. GatJabot proved the priuting the Work for
the Defeucluut.

Alr.Datiesproved hr had pnblisherl it iit the de-
sieeof, s Defendant, but. upini the representation
of, Slr. Ainavarr. be hail discontinued, and re-
tornetrthe reniaiiiim; copies.
Mr. Kiehard.on also roved he had afterwards
Pahhithedthe isisok at the rrti uest of the Defendant.
Upoit lue crom-examination by Mr. NOLAN, the
(!oonsel fur the Defendant. he said the Defendant
lied stated to him Mr. 31arryates ohjectunz to it,
ofiered to indemnify him by putting his name
tothe advertisement.

Coitus...! proceed...4l to read the parts charged to
he Moellotez; Lilt upon comparing them with' the
passages ita act forth in the nicht talent, it WWI found
that the latter were garbltd ; whole pawiages halug
omitted, bringing nthera auto context, and others
nn-placed, thereby altering the sense and weaning
of the author.

The Cuter upon this declared it we% impossible
to ihistaiii the isolictineot, .stain-. if thi- orris to
he allowcil, there wet* which might not be
tortured lute a libel.

The Como.. I for the Defendant lamented that
the forms of how prevented lisan from 40iug into lots
defence, which he did not doubt would he found
perfectly satir.fittory.
The Jury found the Defendant—Not Grdilty.
The luau e. teL Let sad cHELL aed %let:.
Mr. KNAPP stated tins row for ties prosecution,
a Inch was au Wahl:l went 10r a cooispiraey, in most-
tug lrinsumley to eloompe out of the Fleet Prison.
whieh he cfected by means of dressing to female
attire.
The l)eputy IVardea, Mr. Nixon, proved the
cotwoutoneut of %Viiistaaley, in execution for debt.
A aromas, also ll:V.llth' rf,t ‘Vaastauley, proved
that OIL the 16th of September she called fur him
at the Fleet Prison, awl was informed by Utell
that hr aas gone ott. This she told to Mr. Noma,
that she nei4ht not he suspected of aidiug him tat
his escape ; she Own went to %Vardrolie-place,
Doctors'-Coninions. %here W. had lodged, and
fouusl hien with-Mrs. Chell, who was tyoug up a
bundle, apparently containing a dark cotton gown.
When she told him that she had been to the Fleet,
sad told Nixon, hr said, theta you have spoiled all.
Ile dOstA her to hike a letter to Chen, but she re-
fused, sayiug that sloe had not time. She called,
however, on Mr. Nixon, and informed Imo where
W. was, wwl lie was taken ult, and brought back to
prison, ovhsoir Ite we. locked up in the strong room.
A feu cidi • after Clitli was put there also.
Letters west also produced, one from %%Instals-
ley, basin;,. that if Nison would punish bun ouly•
hr would tell tou:y how lie had essayed, and by
%hone assistainee.Asiothei from Cisellsainploriug mer-
cy of Mr. Nixou, and say tug, that the assistance
hasl gives, %Visousaley, was to the belief that it was
indispeto-ably necessary that he should go to his
edgier,-, and that he would retnni immediately.
lle added, that be was worry. as a man, fur what
Le did. %Vitra:nil( y also said hr bad escaped iu
oinaso's cloatlis„ as any other man might do.
Mr. Sul en. Counsel for Chen and wife, took
sci end ohjectimis to the elide-nee, and contended,
that there was not sufficieut woof that Mr. Ales
was %V`a"11.11 of the Fleet. because the apponstmomt
of that gentleman, by his patent, ass hot proved ;
and also that, as it was stated to be an escape with-
out the consent of Iles, he should be called to sheer
that lie had not oast-sited.

Thcsc point. being over-ruled, Mr. REYNOLDS.
Counsel for IVinstanlev. and Mr. :.•vtitu, each ad-
dressed the Jury, and contended that the conspi-
racy was not proved.
The Jury admitted all the three Prisoners.
The RiCUILLIER. late on Mo:iday night, pro-
reciled to plus the awful sentence of death upon
the Allowiu capital convicts, v z Wrigkl.
fur a rape ; Th.,mas Camaun an 4 James Ceddelf.
for hnoway mhi.ery ; Edward Starke/ alms
Samuel Laspar, alias Co/inis, and %%oases C /e.
for banstary ; and Reber: Simply's, for house-
breaking.
The Lousiness of theSeasion being finished, this day,
he passed the several se.itelier4 of transportation. tiue,
inierirountent, 8:c. upon the mt of the convicts.