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AlvJ [RIM addres•ing the Jury, .aid he presented himself
on the part of the wdh • demand for damages at
the hands of the Jury to the full amount of the lain in the
declaration. They were only laid at 8001, he wss sorry that
sum had not been extended to 5,1W0/. The action wall
brought by Mr. Williams, a solicitor of considerable emi.
settee, for the vindicathen of his character against line of the
foulest and moss scandalous libels that wan ever published.
Ile elated it to be %kiwi of that description, because it had
already been found to he such, and there was no doubt Mr.
Allen knew at tbe time he was gushy of publishing this
libel, there had been a conviction fur the same publication as
far back as the year 1810. The Plaintiff had for many yeas.
resided at Monmouth where he had cue reM on an extensive
prictice al an attorney and aulicitor, but in co/sequence of
some elect' diaagreentents there, he found it more suitable
to retire to the city of Hereford, where he had received the
rudiments of tide education. Mr. Allen, the Defendant, was
well known ; he was the son • respectable bookseller, and
a very young man. There was in the city of Hereford
• permanent library, consisting of many subvcribers ,•
their object was the diffusion of woeful knowledge., soil
they were p•rticeslarly solicitous as to the exclusion
from their imetitution of all books of so immoral or ir-
religions ieuelency. It was difficult to assign • motive
for the conduct of the Defendant towards the Plaintiff, sin-
less it was that their political principle's were extremely dif-
ferent. Al a hue istio•l 'netting of the members of the so-
ciety, it had become the ditty of also were a•semblcil
to consider whether books of an tendency should
be sufferid to continue us their shelves. Anomie other
bunk, which had found their say to the library were Bar-
deen'. Materiels pr Thinking, !lone': Aprocryphal New

Testament, and seversl others of the same description. He
hoped the Jury were Igporaut of them; be would take the
liberty of cantioolog them against the pullutioo of tomb
books, fir they were titter deislieal or atheistical. Accord-
Wilily, ate meeting Consisting of 44 subscribers, it was deter.
mined by the members present, with the exception of Mr.
Allen mud three other., that three hooka should be burnt,
and that Rae?: Ettettenssery, and flame and Gibbon's tits-
tory should widesgo the some fate. Soots after this look
place the Defendant thonght 41 to publish the libel in tires-
lion.• It was not a work printed recently, not attractive for
its novelty, but it had been printed in.Loedun in UHL by a
person who probably it,. Lordship would recullect, a pir.,
Andrew MtMahon. The Learned Counsel proceeded to de..
'crib/ the mode by whit* the Defendant bad, through vari-
ous hande, caused the libel to be conveyed to the library,
and read a number of pamages fruits the wuik. Ito title was,
" The Farmer against the Three Anoraks; or, Justice Wet-
dicated.—High Court of Chancery, illichaelms. Term, 1808,
and Hilery Term, 1800.-.Jostes worms Williams, Pryer, and
powol.—marasing Woe Hankroutcy superseded—with the
hem 'mini. Doc mew of Sig Samuel Roroilly, in his admirable
reply Is this ease uporterehe severe hardships of the Bankrupt
Leos, and the .ectimps ,tlt,rieh imppressors *most the op-
pressed. By Andrew APillsherti, E.q. of the Middle Temple,
Barrietee, LLB." The general scope of this pensphlet was,
that Mr. Williams, with the assistance of Pryce and Powell,
had oppressively issued a cuouniseion against Jones, founded
upon a debt which did nut exidt, and that, glee a variety of
prsceedinp, both commission was set aside at the experts
of .blessrs. Williams, Pryer, and Powell, who were Mum,
pelted to pap upwards of 2,0001. to Mr. Richard Hill, as
Solicitor of Jones, in satisfaction inf the costs, and to prevent,
the consequence: of so action brought against them fee
their illegal conduct in issuing the commission. The'
Learned Couissiri ittreadieg the vat ions passages of the libelf
which professed to give en wettest of what had passed kg
the Court of Cb r y, and particularly of the Lord Chan.
delta's Iddment;'ittoolended that the statement was highly
dlyravatrd aarl *belly unlike any thing that had been said'
tallier by the Conned, or by the Learned Lord Chancellor
r who heard the petition and decided spot. its merits. The
Plaintiff had preferred the present action to an Indictment,
io tirtirr to 'prelim Defendant so opportunity of justifying
the libel, which he had nut dared to do. He understood that
upon the prreeist °minim the Defendant had the benefit of
the allemleeef of Mr. Hill, the Attorney for Junes, the
Jury would consequently hear from Mr. Hill and the wif-
e the Deft-adapt might examine, what there wag of
troth in the libel.• lie woe confident it would be (wind
there was very little truth in it, on the contrary, the grossest
misrepresentation. The Learned Counsel baring detailed
very moth at length all the circumstances of ibe ease, re-
peated his assurance that the Jury would consider his Meet
entitled to exemplary damages.
The preliminary proof was then gone through sad the
libel was read.
Mr. Ten wrote observed, that if this was a case of any other
description than that which in the simile' it would turn oat
to be-oil it was a case, the watement of whichon hie part I'M
quired any thing of talent to ley it before the Jury—or if, ei
the other hand, the case of his Learned Friend was not se•
pable of a satisfactory answer, be undoubtedly should rift
with feelings of painful and intense anxiety, consider's', as
be did, that the future (trinities and homm pre young sae
who had just made his entrance on the OW scene of life
were committed to his care and protect iue. He was, beer.
ever, satisfied that nothing more was called for from him at
present, then to make a very few Ma-ple and plaits observa-
tions upon the case stitch hal been proved ois the behalf atlas
Plaintiff, and to lay before the Jury, as he was sorry to Mir
he should be under the necessity elwisit, I ha real errors-
stances of the trammelled, an seminal of which was set forth
in the pamphlet complained of as a libel against Mr. Wil-
liam His Learned Friend had opened a great many Mr-
cunsstaurres of a highly aggravated and irritating nature, not
one of which, save the pamphlet statel in the record, had he
proved ; emcee other things it bad been stated, that although
the libel Lid been sent to the library without the offensive
caricature originally affixed to it, yet that the Defendant bad
circulated the libel sith the obnoxious print to I per-
iwig. Of that there was not the least proof. He would now
proceed to that which was the taste substantial part of the
case—the libel itself, and the nature and contents of the
libel. The observations he should be under the painful tie-
versify of making were furred upon him by Mr. Williams;
they wets not, with rtspeet to himself or his client, volun-
tary observation.; Mr. Williams himself bad brought the
cause into Court, and had instructed his Counsel to ask fur
the full amount of the damages in the declaration, accom-
panied with am expression of regret that they were not laid
at • higher amount. The Def. 'Want, therefore, for his own
sake and his own defence, and the Learned Counsel himself
acting as he was bound tout for the protection of his inter-
est, they sere, he mid, both (arced to adopt the line of con-
duct which had been imposed upon them, and with pain and
reluctance be was obliged to make obaervstioos pertinent
to the matter itself, bat in the course of which be should en-
d to avoid any thing of wineeessary reproach or in.
vective The pamphlet tit questiou gave an account of a
proreeilin in the Court of Chancery is the year 1806 and
1807, connected with a commiesiou of bankrupt issued
•gainst Bucher,' Jones. A petition had been presented to
the Lord Chancellor Eldon to have that commission super-
seded, and although the petition contained a great deal of long,
tedious, and multiferiow matter, yet it contained sufficient
to induce that Learned and intellment Lord to supersede the
commission with costs: now that could no: have been done
unless the Lord Chancellor had been of opinion that there
was enough of the substantial nfiegation contained is the pe-
tition verified to his satisfaction, to render it au imperative
duty in him to supersede the commission of bankrnotcy with
costs. Unquestionably Jonee's petition contained the state.
menh of a great meoy irrelevant particular., but in substance
the petition slated this—that Jones had been a farmer is
the county of Nlonnustb—that a commisaton of bank-
ruptcy bad been issued against him on the petition of
two persona of the manse* of Powell and Pryce, found-
ed on au alleged debt pf 150/., which, i• the result, was
proved sot to have been due to them; the ratios also
(loosed the Plaintiff with bevies, been the person who in-
stigated the taking oat the commission of bankruptcy. The
pentium stated in substance, that the debt of 1501. upon
whirls the commission of bankruptcy bad been taken out,
had Item reduced by taxation by the proper officer of the
Cuutt, namely, by Master Stanley, with the assistance of the
Prothonotary of the Common Pleas, to a sum infinitely be.
low shat was necessary to form the basis of a eunitnts.too of
bankruptcy—the petition prayed that the commission might
be eispersedrd with costs, to be payed by Mr. Williams and
the others who were iintranteetsl in taking it out. The pe-
titiuu came on to be heard, and it was for giving
such an stemma a. this pamphlet contained of the proceed-
ings upon the petition before the Lord Chancellor, and of
Ms Lordship's judgment upon the occasion of the petition
being heard, that the Defendant stood before the Jury as
the supposed publisher of a libel. It would be incumbent
on him 10 give evidence of what the circumstances of the
case really were, and when the Jury had adverted to the
teal cirenonsteneer, they would ask themselves what amount
of sausages the Plaintiff had a right to demand at their
bends. He would lay evidence before them distinctly prow
tug that Mr. Milian)s was instrumental so taking out this
commission. Ile should lay evidence before the Jury nut
to verify the whole sat the statesmen', or to go the length of
an entire instificatom of the contents of the book, but suo'i-
c,,..l totally to pooimtate any claim on the part of Mr. Wil-
liams to any thing beyond itemise', damages. 'the Learned
Counsel theu entered into a lung detail of the ducumeo-
tare evidence, which would be proved by Mr. Hill, consisting
of letters seinen by Mr. Williams, mut a variety of proceed--
inks brought down from the bankrupt's office, all tending to
sheer the interest Mr. Willies's took iu supporting the
commie-ion against Junes, and his managionent and inter- 1
fen thrcughout the trauterVou, from the commeuceweut

Mr. Jeans said, that such evidence bad been lecture re-
sisted, and he bad only objected to it that he might not ap-
pear wiser than hie predecessors.
Mr. Farquharson then read a considerable goelton of the
Lord Chancellor's judgment, which detailed the r,aimns
upon which be superseded the commission, gave the 'monism
certain of the loausactions, and refused them with regard to
others.
Mr. Jan Via made a very able reply, combating Ibe :User-
tiuus of the Defendant'. Counsel, and repeating that the
question was of momentous importance to Mr. Waimea--
of much greater importance than any sum that could be re-
ceived by him in this or any other action, fur it depended
epos the verdict whether he should longer retain the jually
high character he was koowo to have possessed up to this
present period. The Learned Counsel then commented et
large upon the whole of the evidence, oral fad documentary,
and at steady 12 o'clock at night concluded a must energetic
appeal to the Jury in his client's favour.
Mr. Baron Giaaow asked the Learned Counsel on both
sides, and also the Jury, whether at this late hour it was ne-
cessary for him to recapitulate the whole of the evidence, for
which be was prepared, or do more than concentrate the case
into that concise form which would enable the Jury at once
to form their declaim,. The Jury and the Counsel ou bush
sides observed that a detail of the entire man of evidence
was quite unnecessary. His Lordship then stated the nature
of the action. It was an action brought by Mr. Williams,
wbu its hi■ declaration described himself as a person who
had hitherto preserved an unsullied name and reputation,
having acted oppressively or injuriously towards any of
his Majesty. subjects, particularly towards Richard Joon.
is relates,* to the bankruptcy issued against bins. His
Lordship then adverted to the preliminary part of the case,
namely, the fact of publication, and the libellous character
of the publication; upon both these points his Loolehip's
mind was satisfied ; first, that the act of publicatims by the
Defendant was complete; and secutidly, that the publicatiou
was is itself of • scandaloint:y libeilols character. 'liking
it to be a libel, cud to have been published by the De.
fendant, the next question was, this not being UAW-
ment,but an action fur the injury dose to the Plaintiff's good
name and character, what damages Pletutiff was entitled
to. Upon that subject it was secessary to look at all the
proceedings in which be was • party concerned. The Plain-
tiff stated that be bad always conducted himself with pro.
priety in his profesairs--that be had never been guilty of an
act of oppression, particularly against Jones Iu suing out a
commission of bankruptcy. Letters lied been produced from
which the Jury might draw their conclusion as to what were
the feelings of Mr. Williams before the commission was seed
out—t►ey would judge from the language he had employed,
and the manner in which be bad wtilleu, what was Isis
disposition to inflict •ll the puoislinteat within his reach
upon Junes, and whether the commission of bankruptcy wan
not one of the mean■ of punishment. The proceediup is
the Common Pleas, the proceedings in Chancery, the able
and luminous judgment of the Lord Chancellor, all had
been submitted to the Jury, and the only question was the
quantum of damages to which Plaintiff was eutitled. It
appeared that the Lord Chancellor considered that the com-
mission could not be sertained, and had therefore sup. .
aided it, wi is costs, to be paid by the Plaiutiff, and all
who had soy t►ing to do with it, and that .his Lordship
had eudc•voured to place Jones, as well es be could be
placed, iu the situation he would have been if the commis-
sion bad newer Wolter'. It had been stated that the Lord
Chancellor did nut gise the cods of an action in the Com-
mon Pleas; but the Lord Chancellor, who always gave
a good rename for what he did, hail distinguished be-
tween the costs of the action in the Grosso Pleas, and the
costs of superseding the com•erissiuu. ass Lerellehep bad
been of opluioui, that with respect to the p ocorthogo is

Goats Harway was rspinally indicted fur truetti•riously
breaking and celeriac the dwellioc-house: of M.. Jusepti
Tidy, Regent-street, Bet mundmy, and steahog therriruai
rums articles of linen, &c his property.
It appeared in evidence that to the month of December
laid the Prosecutor's house was rubbed to the night wale by
some person or persons, whin I. their progress tlssialaied a
thorough acqusin.auce with the most Ingenious modes of
boveebresking, au I contrived to carry off almost every
portable sr tack •boot the premises, without distu.bing any
of the firmly. The property 'mien was of much a nature
a. to require a cart at least for its rentoval, sod the Prom-
color having no doubt but such articles could be es.ily
traced, issued band bills' and offer, d • liberal retiraid fur
their recovery, but without producing the least effect. In
the meals time ibe houses of toe ueighbi.ou were robbed eta.
after the usher, in a minuer that defied every effort at de-
tection. About the latter end of February, Welfare, a eon-
stab'e, received salivate info. mature that the gang lobo runs-
mien d a I these depredations, urge egauised by the Pi iso”er,
who occupied a house in Julio...court, Satte's,fields, at iris
sei•ed att • depot fist. the •loleti property, anti the brat
ingeiry had ceased. Ou • Sauday I reissue Ile officer, .s• .1-
04 by Reeve, ibe Marolsaltssass, end GIV, an officer of Union
Hall, pr tteileJ to the house, MeL,..l•lltte, is Ley especial

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treat resistasica ; but hloriosiately happeasid thst the Pei,
ianser was from home, sod his wife woistatiog then for sodas
of bar ins4baistrs associates, admitted them law the
mange. Os searching the house, they fogad piles of fee.
thee heel% pillows, timid holsters, concealed In the rellar; shoe
a %naafi,' of watches, *eels, and other @elicits of jewellery,
linen of rimy description, sod • box containing loaded
pistols, daggen, sad other deadly wearoomi, as Imemealie
of 4,444“ • Irrlesthreetel AM! flagman, mat lam:
rill' to sail, boxes of phosphorus and matches, sod
even other +porta of tools used is breaking it'll" houses.
Timm sae alas .pith a tad heath in site W 14 et tams, lmith
OW Priaissei. tali Woo ;
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by-teate a guilialiliT ...4. ie via; to
attperbn
Motel de attimilloddintle'oll mitre* hie real Piraiiiti,
tislt'bie mieenputlems Oat ' pelfly In tusking sitilMeli keys
cod anw•baes ea She' - ilipreeetprtnelpies. After se.
verb( Arse sibyl; it hal agreed smougst the otilleei that
leis deal acetify the beak, eihiht smother placed lbw&
in flii street, ea Hutt the Pritletter could not reciting 'him. '
Tamie preeestiews hued out in the end to he Wry Weep. '
vary, de Priaimmer Wilted I+l the Coarse of half at leer,. slid
',Acre he Inineledle'dillked le 'tie wheats*, Which seems
t s Mire Wen lib WO Peatber ; lit a .'trod froiii hie wife,
cnuaeil lots' iestedrifystriiim ; et the end of Ike court hi on'
slopped by the ellter, gibs dwelt him oil the trite/di and
sclera him lieforellia ehdld attempt aay resisteare. la his
ram Forte*, ware deed a choice wlectiou of master-beys,
from 'shirt it was modtiuded del he had tome impoetatit
baslaCii es limed hi the time. Oa the property foetid is the
• Insowelitrisig odelrefloell, Were, riroseri were discovered whine
Imams had Wee Pfamidied of +Wool every artiste of false
whim* they roateitseMt.
The shot! itfthe•.Prisepoet's litiumbeNtieg Ple*Phergalia
were predated I. Coast.
M. LUer!ll readmitted the Prisoaer's defesee, sod called
two otineswei ti groin'. me alibi. They score, that at the
hoar of die voilikey Hal weie drimihilie Pa. with him at his
hoses. Mei they phdroseel i Iseameetweeso be mere miblic.hoisse
neammehlawaw of I'k4 east as Mar erearesaasioadoit doh.
'levy lepOsiMii very 4r4rilverri. '
likelier, famed the Primmer itleitlr.-DivitA.

FOREIGN INTSLUGENCE.

PA RAN *ARCM J.
Letters received in emit Irons Copasapfisipple,
sod dated 'boot the tad if February, mineariee,
that on the 23th a rialrlcnoncil was held at the
Porte, et which ihecontarandents of the Janispiries
oad the headed ilte.Corsatritioug •1 the city were
in-recut. Oa the 26th same disturbaoces broke out
in the city, which were only &stormed by orders of
P Norco; nature frntn the GovernMent. lr is
arfirtioA that subsequent to' those disturbances the
Nei* ttfendi trisisainted to the Ailibm.sudora of am.
Allied tour*, • Note, which i% not so satisfamary
in. bad beeu expected, arid whieli does not )tirtify
the hopes held out he preceding conurianiculioos.
It it believed, say, the liiiche d'afyribiiise, that
flerhois is' in some measure concerned iu the plot
set 1.0 IZoehrUe. What is certain is, that he ho.
I.llewn himself et a fair wish seven others well arta.
ed. 'and endeavouring to get new recruits.
Telegraphic dispitches from Toulon of the 26th
sod 28tleof March anaorace the sailing from that
port of the Medea frigate, mid the schoeurr La
'/Ipeche. The Medeti, commanded by Captain
/Figny, is going to the Levant to ,„117 his h!lijesty'll
41nadron, after having cruised Off vatioa? psOp of
Cls. enlist of the Aletliterrimean. The lerehe„ earn.
wooded by Ai. llrlirlrl Thousro. it gene to Algiers
and Bona, to protect the coral &her, in those path.,
*here treaties gire the Preach emelt . the right of
pursaing that fishery.
The trio de l'Oriene complains, that in contra.
ventiou of the cooeurdat of 1801, attvnpis haft
been nude in the diocese of Rennes to restore the

skippressed fetes, and instances those of the Virg;
Mary, which were before tioised with the Sunday,
gut during this year bare been celebrated in the
tliocoar on the day when they fall. The clergy
publicly announce that the parish priests time.
rally the observance of them to their
liocks, who iiVe•vi4idocile, that labour is interupted,
&toil the stlioceiltbe civil authorities induces oleo
obiegruent of the law. The same of the Bishop
is put forward to authorize those innovations ; and
it vi ems not to be known that he slime has no right
to change what his suioeine head lois thought
to establish,. which the rest of the French clergy 4.
serer, probably, without resistance. and to whit*
Ise is bound by a law of his country to submit.
The same Journal mentions The still more haistO.
able conduct of an ecclesiastic at the heist! of • e•t-
',ie.., who suspends the studies Of ils;',Ossth N i
hilidays thus illegally restored.
euumuTtuooLe, YAttcu 3.
(FXlftlrf Angie a- volute Loma.) •
Lorrl Sttangliird tra hail untidier conference with
The Reis Effendi about the rod of Ferhuary. to
induce him to accept the Russian whimetui with-
out soy modification. He even offered a further
trim of four weeks, and endeavoured to obtain a
promise fiom the Reis Effeudi that a decisive
arnoser should br given by that time ; but he
pretelitleil that •rrangemrtits in the interior of
the empire prevented him from entering into
a formal engegement ; he added, however, that
he might iwohape wake a definitive declaration be-
fore the expiration of that period. Lord Strang-
ford proposed to send Commissioners to the fron-
tiers to effect an arrangement, but the Reis Ef-
fendi replied that the Porte being in a state of peace
with all Powers, there was nn occasion for entering
too negociations about it, The Divan, it appears,
wishes to await the result of the expedition to the
Motes. We ore very curious to kilos, the reply of
itie Porte to the two notes transmitted by the Aus.
man lisieraut cto, Count Lamar.
The Einreror .1 011,14 liar satisfied tile de.
mends mule by the Itch's Ellett& in his Note of
December St, by ordering the removal of Prince
Michel Serso, and disbanding the corps of Heti.
riots is, Bessaialsia. There is little probability of
any farther concession on the Iran of the Russian
Cabinet ; it would at least be an instance unex-
ampled in the annals of Russian diplomacy. with
the exception of that short period when Russia, like
the rest of the Contiueut, bowed before Bonaparte.
111ARCa 23.
Subsequent to the arrival of the last courier Irmo
Constontioople, the result of the coufereoces with
111. de 'fatiischetf was, that a courier should be
dispatched to that capital ; lie is the bearer, it is
',oil, of • Note, in which Austria urges, for the
Last time, the beets:illy of a decisive reply. M. ile
Tatitscheff will await the answer here, which may
arrive rhont the VOili of April. Affairs are then
suspended for four weeks. This delay is not un-
pleasant, as strong hopes are entertained that the
Porte will yield.

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