The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-02-17 00:00:00

MILITARY AND NAVAL PENSIONS.

An Account of the several Sums which, pursuant to two several
Ada etch, 3d and 4th of his Majesty, will becumf p_aphle be-
tween the 6th day of April, 11124, and the sth day of AirrlT,llll2,
by the Trustees in whom an Annuity was vested for providing for
the burden occasioned by Military and Naval Pensions, and Civil
Supgrannuations, viz.
15th April - 1824 - X 1,175,060
15th July . .Ittll - - 1,175400
20th Oct. • - 1/14 1.133.1500
16th Jan. . 1525 - 1,133.000

1:4,620,000

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Saturday morning, sailed from Pmtsmouth, the Phaeton frigate,
Captain Sturt, with Commissioner Lewis and family, for ;
and irilitam Marks, Esq. his Majesty's Consul in the province of
Grenada, for Malaga. Friday, the Tamar, 24 guns, Capt. Bremer,
which rived on Thursday, from Chatham, proceeded to Ply.
mouth, to embark (it is believed). four Officers and a party of
marines for N. &nth Wales and Norfolk Island.

SHIPPING INTE E NCE.

CUSTOM-HOUSE, FEB. IG.
INWARDS.
_ . ENTERED .

.......-
Yrouw Maria, Robyret (Borman, broker), from Lisbon.
Auguste. Orandin (Simon, broker). from Havre.
Emilie, V. Kerk bore ( Dc Die, broker), from Ostend.
•
Hazard, Sfdly (Schofield, broker). from Dunkirk.
Duke of Kent, Pound (Ball, broker), from Rotterdam.
Favorite, Billings (Hopkins, broker). from Charleston.
Cordelia, Bulby (Burnett, broker), from Saloe.
Lord Cathcart, Dipnall (Green and(o. brokers), from Odessa.
Oscar. Jamieson (Pirie, broker), from Demerara.
Prince of ‘Vaterloo, Page (Drinkald, broker), from Ostend.
IEIISII/MIY 14.
ENTERED OUTWARDS.—The Jonge Hendrick, for Amster-
dam ; Aurora, ror Riga; Orion, for Elsineur; Eliza, for Kunigs.
burgh ; Pelican, for Antwerp $ and Rambler, for flansburgh.
CLEARED OCTIVARDS.—The Thames. for Ceylon; Elite, and
Earl Bathurst, for Rotterdam y Crisis, for Sierra Leone ; and Eliza,
for Plymouth.
a !NO 01:7 wait ns.—The Thetis, for Lisbon; Atlantic,
Iraq Roston ; Rambler, for Fayel; Cyrus, for Bahia; Heroes, for
Calais ; Brittannia, for Tobago ; and Caroline, for Batavia.

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FROM LLOYD'S LIST.

name-writ, FED. Lt.—Arrived the FIMCII frigate and Dwarf
cutter, and sail*. again for Dublin; Marquis of Queensberry
packet, from Jamaica—sailed 13th ultimo. Sailed the Duke of
Ma.lbormigh packet, for Lisbon; Providence, Antelope, and In-
dustry, for ditto; Zephyr, Walton, for Sierra Leone; Lord Mal-
grave, Orecnslatle, for Leghorn ; Perthshire, Sangster, for St.
M ichael`s ; Good Intent, Temkin, far Tamils 4 Paaoy.liail4.jse
Seville; and Riga, Royal, for Tobago.
FALMOUTH, FEU. 14.—The Queensberry packet sailed from
Jamaica on the 13th of January, and saw the Lord Sidenouth
packet going into Port Royal. Feb. 12, exchanged signals with
' his Majesty's brig Magnet. On the 20th January, fell in with a
brigantine, waterlogged, with " Admiral Fable, of Antigua,"
written on her stern, nobody apparently on board, and both masts
stripped. Feb. 3, passed a brig of about 230 tons, with only one
mast standing, no rudder, and the stern completely open, which
shewed a round-house abaft, and a passage to it from the deck ;
the wheel painted green : she had a yellow side, with a black rib-
bon at the lower part, and a worked moulding on the upper part.
painted light blue ; her name could trot be seen, and she appeared
to hare been abandoned.

PtAcmonctr, Fen. 14.--Sailed the Commerce, Adams, for
Oporto; Fortune, —, fur Palermo; Maria, —, for Saint
Michael's; Prince of (Thum, l'remaync, for St. Michael's;
Prothcvs. Lawson, fur Ferrol ; and Duchess of Somcntet, Stevens,
for Charente.

Cowgs, Frm. 15.—Mailed the whole of the outward-bound.
PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 15.—Arrived the Duke of Bedford, Cun-
ningham, from London, for 3ladras. All the outward-bound have
sailed for their difrerent destinations, except the Duke of Redford,
which ship remains fur passengers.
DEAL, Fre. It —The wind shifted to the eastward this day,
about live p. ni. when the whole of the outward-bonnd sailed. The
Resolution, Gibbs, arrived this morning from Jamaica, and re-
mains, having been supplied with a new anchor and cable.
FEBRUARY 15.—Arrived the Frances Henrietta. Dickenson.
from New York, and sailed for the Hirer. A fleet of outward.
bound vessels passed about noon. from Ramsgate harbour, and
several vessels are passing at the back of thetModwin Sands, bound
down Channel _ _

SIIEERNtss, FEY'. 14.—The Thames, Limon, bound to Cey-
lon, has been got off the Middle Ground, and arrived to-day, with-
; out damage.
14:a n rani' 13. Sailed the Thames, Litson, for Portsmouth.
vi:u root., FEU. 13.—Arrived the Franklin, Garver. front
New Orleans : sailed on the 4th ult.. and front Rehire on the 7th.
The Mount, Woolaston, bound to Liverpool, had been on shore
in the river, and would remain a few days, to repair her rudder.
NEWHAVEN, FEB. IL—Arrived the Gle3ner. Hawes, front
Yarmouth, bound to Liverpool. leaky, and must discharge part cr
the whole of her cargo.
STRANZAEII. FEM. 1.1.—A large bowsprit, measuring
.at the
centre more than five feet in circumference, a part of ashy s bot-
tom, copper fastened, and a jolly boat, without any name, were
washed on shore on the east side of Luce Bay, early this week. A
large mast, about 65 feet long, was washed on shore on the 8411
instant, near Float Bay, between Porpatrick and Portnessock.
JAMAICA (KINGSTON), JAN. —His Majesty's :hip Argus
will sail from Pon /loyal on the 14th instant, with direttions to
see the schooner Judith Farmer safely into the Havannah • and she
will also protect any vessels bound through the Gulph, calling: ofd'
Negril and the I lavannah, a. usual, to give the trade an opportu.
nity of taking advantage of her convoy. His Majesty's ship Bus.
tard is detained until the 13th, to alfottl convoy to the Fan Fan,
loading for Honduras.
JANUARY 3.—The Hibernia put back, in con.equenee of not
being able to get to windward from a strong lee current, and tht:
Captain being sick.
BATAVIA, OCT. 13.—The Woodman, Ford, arrived hereon the
10th instant, from Port Jackson, leaky. She has been surveyed,
and must proceed to Suurabaya, to be hove down, and repaired.
The George, of Newcastle, front has put into Eartholm, with
damage.
1' ess rt. setae w WITIt.—NO,. 211. off the Cape of Good !lope,
Speke, all well, by the George Home, Young, ar-
rived at Cowes. _

[From the Boston Daily Advertiser.'
NEW YORK, JAN. 17.
FROM RIO JANEIRO.
By the Tuscaloosa, Captain Mott, we hare advices from Rio
Janeiro to the •2211 of November. The political concerns of the
nation were in a very unsettled state.
A friend at Rio writes. " a Iteptiblican form of government is
not likely to be established here, although the motto is—lndepen-
dence or Death." The Irene of the Emperor are constantly un-
tier arms. On the 14th, an embargo was laid on all vessels in
port—for what cause is not known, but on the evening of the 19th
It was raised.
At Rio the recent measures of the Emperor were viewed by the I GLARG ow Pot ter.—lt appears by a list just published,
Brazilians with disgust. and as clearly indicming Ilia imention of . that from the Ist to the V9th January last, 1,375 persons
siding with his European friends. The animosity between the Na.! were convened before the sitting 'Magistrate, in the Police
fives and Europeans sins so great, apprehensions bad existed that I Court, of which number there were—
it would lead to bloodshed. The grea:est part of the troops were Fined - . . - 322
kept at the Palace, about three miles front town ; this measure, it Sent to Jail. Bridewell, Fiscal% Ac., above - 197
was thought, hail a tendency to preserve the tranquillity of the city, Admonished, reprimanded, and dismissed, sent home
and was adopted by the Government immediately after the Cones by passes to their native countries, Vic. 0.16
were put down, because it was said the Emperor could not rely
I
upon the loyalty of the Brazilian tamps if they were separated from n reference to this list, the Glasgow Journal, says--" We
the others. smite murmurs having been heard from the native ci- arc happy to 'emit that crime is decreasing, end it may be
tizens, against the recent arbitrary measures, made it more import. remarked that, notwithstanding the cheap whisky, and
ant with the Government to prevent a communication between them January being a riotous month, the number of drunk and
and the disaffected troops, until the warmth of feeling had some- disorderly persons convened are greatly diminished."
what subsides), which seemed to he the case a day or two before tim A .
11.1f1IILAR CIRCUMITANCF.-I.RICIV, MT. Hancock,
Tuscaloosa sailed. The teem, however, mostly remained out of .
of Ttegondale, 3 , .
town, and some of them had been sent several leagues into the fenheniot lost two fine rams in the following ex.
country. traordtnary manner. The rants were coupled together by a chain
Lord (•o-hone had arrived with the Don Pedro, 64, in want of roundnecks, graze in a field with a colt
,heir and turned out to
repairs. The Pevango frigate, Captain Jewett, was getting ready little more than twelve months old. In the morning, Mr. II an-
cock went round to view his flock, he found the rams suspended by
for sea.
the chain across the back of the colt, quite dead. 'DM colt, it is
The press continued tolerably free, and the people spake with supposed, had lain down, anti the rams in gracing passed the
contempt of the Emperor. It was even said he regretted the high. chain across him, when rising suddenly he must have taken them
handed measures he had taken, into which he had been hurried ly .up with hint. The colt was little injured, except exhaustion by
the rancour of the European officers of the army and his househol .1 fatigue.
Aftsrantik AJvcstisa.. Stmettlto Acczottnr—A melancholy accident occurred at
Fans! I'Ea•Cauz. the (thick Boy colliery, belonging to Messrs. Dixon, on Saturday
We learn from Captain Van Dine, of the schooner Fly, arrived I last. Asa poor man, named John Harrison, of i;i‘hop .1 uekland,
yesterday front Alvarado, that the brig Orleans. Captain Smith, I was ascending the shaft, the noose of the rope slipped, and hews.
had just arrived there from Vera Cruz. Captain S. stated that . precipitated to the bottom, a depth of thirty fathoms, and literally
the castle was short of provisions, and the gartison to be in a stare &wt hirl to pieces. A l'oroner's Inquest was held on the •sly CO
of starvation, and that some disturbance luti taken place among 31onday.—Verdict—" Accidental Death."—Dorkoiss Chronicle.

TO THE EDITOR OF TIME ARJTIJII FRES,O;

FIRE IN WATLING-STREET.
TNIVITELL v. BEAUMONT.

Mr. Editor,—ln justice to the character of a remeetabie man,
Mr. Wrlggiesworth, lair) has been 'hatefully nialigeed in the
proceedings against as application for a new wild, decided lest
Thursday, I am Wooed di make known rani facts to the rubric,
through your Weal& which the rules ef Crittrt forbade being re-
ceived in evidence. ft is a lamentable indonsistency, that while
the affidavits in support of a rule are sifted and canvassed, replied
mend opposed by oninter-affidavits from the appopite party, the
aladeeks of each opposite party are precluded from disproof. The.
speeienoness of their connection, the grossness of their falsehood,
the infamy of the characters making them. may be capsule of corn.
plete espepore by !vidence, but nirt a word will be received. In
this unemui conflict, the artful or dishonest teplicant is almost
sure to prevail.
In excuse/it is said, that if affidavits in reply were suffered to
be disproved, the would be no end to affidavits. But this is a
bad excuse. It need not be so. ff some little ailditirmal trouble
be required for an nomination whether AMMO% be true de Nee,
it aught not to bst grudged. Substantial tenth sad justice ettOit
to be the paramount olnett of all legal investigation, not fealty
begetting through them or rid of them.
Mr. Wrigglesttorst hems* a witness in this cause in the fol.:
lowing manner :-.011 the morning after the trial in the Pleas
last July, a Mr. Miran! Batted entered the County Fire Nike.
and Informed one of the clerks, that he called in consequence of
having just sees an account of the trial in the newspapers. He said
that soon after the fire, a man whom he knew, of the name of Brad-
shaw, bad applied to hint and asked hint to make out false invoices
for the Thurtells, as of weds told by him to them, offering him 20
per cent. on their amount for doing so, which offer he had refused.
He was in consequence introduced to me, when he repeated this
statement, Oil added, that Bessishaw was a man in bed circum-
stances, amf he a sum of money, would, no doubt, come forward
and prove the Mike against the Thunclis. I . ,n,• this tends as I
had all others from tits connexions of Thir.-1 refusal to
give or promise any thing, and this piece of evidence fell to the
ground. He then told me he had Aeon the account of the trial
to Mr. Wriggienorth, Who had been the mansee at Meows.
Maroon, and who, upon reading it, exclaimed, " Now the
murder's out I This accounts for Snowden's sales, *bin al-
luvium:led me t" he added, that all the goods e* lmitght by
the Thuttens went Into Margrave's, and that Mi. Wriggles.
worth, trim was a very Intelligent man, and on whom accuracy
I might depend„ could prove the whole of the transaction.
This. of Coors*, led to an interview with Mr. Wriggietworth
and I found him ell that he was deeerib4 I 'hewed him Thur.
teil's invoices. noes from Todd's and Lear& he said, were real
transactions ; he recognised some of Todd's as copies of invoices
which had been deposited with the goods at :Hargraves' by Snow-
den ; he pointed out certainter
s which he ha objected to and
returned • he described the uctions of price at which they had
been sold to Margraves, and the successive steps by which they had
been introduced ; he said that Snowden had substituted invoices of
his own for the original ones of Todd's, which at first had been de-
posited at the warehouse, and that Snowden had defaced all the
old marks on the goods. so that if I traced them I should have
great diflimilty in identifying them. Eventually I procured front
Messrs. .Margraves copies of Snail/dere* invoices to them, and
traced and obtained potemsion of a large portion'of :he goods, when
the accuracy of Mr. Wrigglethorth's information became esti-
blished in every particular. Nothing could be more candid than
his testimony front first to last, nor snore kind than his apologies
for his former employers, Messrs. :Hargraves' share in the trans.
action.

A word now on the affidavits of Snowden and Margraves, which.
to my utter satorlishment, the Court has declared to have ",aun-
pletely answered that of Irriggleuronh. How is it completely
answered? In these affidavits there is a long parade of denials of
things not affirmed, and of averments which are not disputed, and
some immaterial circumstance* arc answered, but all that is mete.
rial is evaded or admitted. The sum and substance of Wriggles-
worth's affidavit is, that Thurtell's purchases of gouda from Todd's
and Leaf's were clandestinely sold to Margraves through the
agency of Snowden, and that tae invoices on the sale and the re.
sale were alike. Is any iota of this ilenied ? Does Snowden deny
that he sold thew goods to Margraves, as agent for Thurtell
No. Does be venture to shear for whom, if not for Thurtell, he
was agent ? No. So much for Snowden for the present. Well—
Do 31argiaves deny having bought the goods of Snowden as
agent." No. 'l%) they not, by the copies of invoices which they
have delivered, corroborate and confirm all that is material in
Wrigglesworth's affidavit ? Undoubtedly they do. The silence
of Snowden to the above most important averments of Wriggles.
worth is tantamount to a full confession. This fatal silence was
strongly and repeatedly remarked upon by the Chief Justice, while
the affidavits were under discussion. How he came the next morn.
ing, when delivering judgment, to pats it over as he did, I confess
myself unable to explain.
The affidavit of one Taylor, that Mr. Wriatesworth is unde.
serving of belief on his oath, for which bold assertion he gives no
reason, is too contemptible to merit further remark. Affidavits of
this description Me procurable by the infamous at a few shillings
each at any time. Many of this tribe of swearers have been with
me, offering to turn upon their erpnloyers if 1 would pay them. I
have two letters now before me, front a fellow of the name of Wll3.
Reeves, 71flith state, that " under orttain coodhlons" he could put
tariff irt informatiOn. I saw this man in gaol.
He told me employed by the Thurtells on the for.
mer trial—that they had not paid him as they promised—and that
several firemen were engaged to swear falsely against us t that he
knew of two men who would prove everything I wanted; but he
intimated that he must be relieved from his then distreas, and he
asked me if I would appoint him a fireman wan agent to the office.
I refused to give or pfomise him any thing, or to have any. thing to
do with him. Rejected by me, this man now swears again for his
old employers, and affirms that he saw a quantity of bombasines
in the ruins of Thurtell's premises, a fact which is denied by every
one else.
The obloquy which was lavished upon Mr. Wrigglesworth by a
Learned Serjeant, who is rather remarkable for his latitude of
speech, I think was cruel. :I! r. IVrigglesworth is a family man,
and has always moved in respectability, and formerly in a higher
sphere than at present. Rename forward without fee or reward, or
the request, or the promise, of either, to further the ends of public
justice. Are net these ends likely to be defeated, if men cannot be.
come witnesses without being held up to public scorn ? Is it ge-
nerous to destroy the fame and wound the feeling•. of a man who
is forbidden to speak fur himself ? I have made inquiry in the
City, and fled that 31r. IVrigglesworth's character stands high. Mr.
Nilson. in whine employ he now is, tells me that he has known
hint, and respected him, for twenty years ; that before he engaged
him he inquired of Mr. Margrave ns to his conduct with hint. 31r.
31argri.ve said that no fault could be found with his integrity and
moral conduct, and that he should be happy to promote his views
in life.

I cannot close this letter without noticing two propositions in
the judgment of the Learned Judge, in which the interest of
the public appears to me very materially comproniimxl. Ora
imputes an impropriety in indicting the Thurtclls and the rest,
for a crime, while an action was pending between one of the
parties and the prosecutor : how is this impropriety made out
Do not all jurisconaults agree that the trial of an offender ought
to follow the offence as speedily as may be, so that the facts
may be fresh in recollection ; that the witnesses may be forth-
coming ; and that punishments, when necessary. may succeed to
the crone, before the impression ,s4hich it has created on the pub-
lic shall be forgotten. If an action for debt or damages between
parties were a bar to nn indictment, offenders, on detection, would
frequently raise such actions to ',revolt a prosecution, or to gain
time, ilisnag *bleb witness might be got out of the way, or
to induce the prosecutor to compromise; or. if an action were
already subsisting, means would be found for protracting it, to de.
lay or defeat a prosecution. I cannot conceive any ate good rea-
son for delaying the course of justice on such an account, unless,
indeed, in regard to the prosecutor. Ile lays himself open to sus-
picion and observation in both the snits; and no doubt there have
been instances where base charaeters have instituted criminal
charges to intimidate a creditor from proceeding in his suit. But
these rases are few. They are always viewed with ample jealousy
and they are open to exposure. They are eases of nnatexception,
which afford no reasonable grounds for delaying the regular ad.
ministration of criminal justice. Will any unprejudiced man say,
that the ends of justice world have been served, if we hail left the
Thurtells to the free exercise of their practices on the public until
the final disposal of their claim upon the County Office.
The other proposition broadly affirms that neither perjury nor
I conspiracy in witnesses are sufficient grounds for a new trial. Ac-
cordir,g to this doctrine, if a case he got tip against a man by false
itnesscs, and a verdict he thereby obtained against hint. c7en to
the alienation of his whole properte--and if, in the interval between
the verdict and jud,rment, the sufferer be able to bring to justice.
and convict the false witnesses, the corrupt proceeding is yet to
stand goad—the false judgment is to proceed ; he is not to hare
the benefit of a new trial—but he must sink under known and
proved perjury and conspiracy ! I aubmit to the dispassionate
Judgment of the public, whether this subjugation of property to
the power of fraud and perjury is not really appalling.
%I e know to our sorrow the proverbial uncertainty of the Law.
We know that, according to the nixie of trial in England, the facts
and witnesses intended to be produced, are kept as secret as possi-
hle, until the hour of display in ('ourt. flow then is a defendant
;rs,lanter to disprove perjured statements, and expose unworthy
witnesses, if such appear ? lle cannot—a verdict must go am into
him—and if, upon proof of the mi,doimr, he he not allowed
relief in a new trial, is he not rendered the victim of h. gallon(
ini!stice ? . _ _

The reason assigned for refusing to grant a new trial, upon
I proof ot• perjury and conspiracy in the witnesses is, that it
might encourage Pale accusations of witnesses. So tiagraitt and
positive a wrong is to he committed to prevent the chance of
another wrong. An excellent reason, truly ! But has it never etc.
cored to our Judges, that by rendering a verdict fraudulently pro-
I cured immovable, an encouragement far more aknning is given to
getters•up of frandule:lt cases--and to desperate men to become
their tale witnesses ? What care men of a base description for the
ultimate fate of their instruments, on that they get t vsnlirt and
costs ? Into what uncertainty is the possession of property thrown
by the above encouragement ?
I thus speak of evils which I have stiffeted under. As ?epee.
meriting the interests of nearly 415,009 p_•rsmm' of property. I com-
plain of the jcopart'y in which that property is placed by the
above doctrines. Already are the crimes of inczniliarisin and
fraudulent claims increasinp in an alarming clever; and if any-
thing be done to give them further encouragement, the sooner Fire
Insurances be put an end to the better ; for the injuries done to
life and property by wilful tire will then eutbalance the value of
the indemnity of insurance to honest sufferers.
I am, &e.
J. F. B.IRBER
C•ou:sty Fire Oilice, Lendon.

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COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MONDAY, FEB. IC.

t the Loan CHIEF JUSTICE, aati a COMAZolljury.l

This was an action for money had and received. The case ex-
cited sem extraordinary interest from the notoriety of the panics,
and the C'our: was excessively and inconveniently crowded. Mr.
Charles Phillips, with Mr. Pattisno, were Counsel for the Plaintiff.
'the defendant's am was conducted by Mr. 31arryatt. Mr. Arch.
told, and lie. Knowles Appeared for the defendant.
'flie Jury having been sworn—
Mr. PATTIION evened the pleadings.
Mr. Pnixt.xes send, 1 am in this case, with my Learned Friend,
.31r. Pavilion, Counsel for the plaintiff. 1 certainly lament much
than it should have become my duty to state to you a Case like the
prevent,. and I much marvel that the defendant, moving in the
sfihere of a gentleman, should have suffered its dismission in a
t octet of Justice. The defendant in this case is John Wilfred
Parkins a name familiar to you all--a gentleman, sho haring
once tilled the office of Sheriff* of the City of London, has since
been better known by his re-ryficio denonnnation. Indeed, Gen-
tlemen, not to know Mr. Ex. Sheriff Parkins, would be in some
degree ' to argue yourselves unknown." He is a gentleman whd
*cense m possess • vested interest in the concerns of every man in
the community—a gentleman, wbo hawing no business of his own,
claimed the frivilege of attending to the business of every one
e:s:. 1 propriiv allx.r ,rerltia rum, might be the weU
r Trite' motto of the defendant. The plaintiffs name is equally
familiar to you, ned in alluding to him, and to his misfortunes,
here to discharge a very difficult duty. In discharging that duty
I have to rter to circumstances that for the honour of our common
mune it ware to be wished had never lammed, and having °c-
ram-el. it were next to be wished that they were buried in pave-
mat oblivion.

The Loan Cutts. Jusetct —I suppose this case cannot be
disposed of out of Court.
Mr. Mauna' ATT, for the defendant, I have no objection on the
port of Mr. Parkins.
Mr. PHILLIPS—I know the inconvenience to which lam very
unwillingly subjecting the Court, but my instructions are prerens-
mry, and with your landship's permission I must proceetL.-Oen-
tlthten, I was allot-hog to the celebrity of the plaintill—a cele-
brity dmised torn his stifTcyings and his misfssrtter.es. An occur-
rence took place, in which it was necesse.r. y fn hint to amuse a high
lofty personage of a revolting crime. TIP, distinguished Lela'
mires of that high person, indignant at ah nrcusation which they
aotteeivel meetly Erni:odic:ls, prosecuted to conviction the present
eintiff. and the consequence was, that Pyme was consigned to a
eterdful punishment. Ilpleased Providence, however, to male his
i.trecenee elver to the world at a subsequeat poriod, anti me had, at
/el., the satisfaction of hrowing that he shall not go to his grave
with the stigma of a jnst candcronation. Ills innocence ap-
pearing so very msniftsp and his anfliring and solitary con-
tioimient so untn'tixd, a subscription was commenetd for the
mitration of his various colon-nits. When Parkif.s found that
amts-riptlnn sas advancing, that notoriety was to be gained,
;,oti corny very. likely to he made, he determined to seise the
r ripporm-xy. Ile invited she plaintiff over hero from Ite-
m set Perne came, and came in a hurry; indecd he had scarcely
11.5 mpe.iimrr.t of clothing to dell him. Ile found on his arrival
'toe the deforda,d had oppo:nt.d himself treasons to the fund,
t •,;:n t!'e trmble, good MD, to receive the subscriptions.
tie did rot :now shoo, however, what he hss sinee found nut, that

rat !:rah c t an limiteti entirely to the receipts, and was never
r nnt :a eefetal to the diekitsemesits. Poor Byrne's hone had
ert Nieto up by cold ite7Crlity, but every till of it burst
tent'' a' the Met surthihe of benevolence. Nothing, gentlemen,
roeti exenel his gratitude, teething, except the premises of Par.
kn..; 11- was to rsetke his fortune—to buy hint a coach and
In hr—to set him up in a teeern--to make him an Irish lidas—
le r.'nder him, in AVM a living monument of what an Ex-Sheriff
eeehl do with the money of other people! Happy was Byrne to
m?s with such a benefentor ; !tapper was Parkins to do it all for
trothu! the one was to get wealth, the other
cry•
's to get eh-In:oer, pretchtely the things which each of them
mint wanted. In the very bloom, however, of the defendant's
itlieranty, you will end that he remembered what indeed he never
foreett, namely, his precious self. He had extensive premises on
ifhends ; the hire of it servant might have been expensive, No in
he pet Byrne, who was to paste bills upon the winchtws, and shes-
die handless to any one who offered. By this means Byrne got a
nrif over his brad, and Parkins got a servant, under pretence Oct
7:ltrily. Here, gentlemen, let us for a moment leave the plaintiff,
n-t 1 follow, if its can, the glories of the Ex-Sheriff. He
• took the round of all the newspapers, modestly adver-
tised his undisemerable virtues, collected subecriptions, held pub-
lic dinner*, took the chair against his will, gave his own health,
ern until every body thought he was full, spoke until every body
tint he was empty, and at Lett left the waiters wondering at the
et....rtegth of his stomach and the host wondering at the weakness
of his memory-":is own set-off shows that that the bill at the
W,nit remains in abeyance up to this blessed moment. hay after
day added to the fame and to the fat of Parkins, until at last the
d.incal one arofte--the day of reckoning—
Thus entice that mekoning, when the banquet's o'er,
The dreadful reckoning, and men eat no more.
Parkins had got no further in arithmetic than addition t his genius
was smear either to division or subtraction. Byrne was unreason.
able enough to expect some of his money. Parkins had nut time
to think of distribution. Byrne pressed ; Parkins promised.
Fete hold the money," Bjrne ventured to remonstrate. " I
do," paid Parkins, " in trust from the people." ••I can get no-
body roc trust me," toys Byrne. " And I'll not give you a sneer,"
refaTied the treasurer,' till it comes to a good round sum : I'll buy
you a jar rev, and I'll make a man of you." " I'll be a dead
rear, your Honour," says Byrne ; " I'll want a hearse mote than
a :tarvey." " Oh, you villain," said Parkins. " you ungrateful
villain ! what did you do with the two pence halfpenny I gave you
three weeks sgo at the Shades ?" Don't think I est, Gentlemen :
you'll find the two pence halfpenny scrupulously recorded in the
bill of particulars—ltem : to two pence halfpenny given you at
slit Stindes!" An omimous name to poor Byrne, who was hurry-
leg to the Shades as fast as hunger could carry hint. Gentlemen,
I. shall not follow this defendant through the mean trickery of his
rea.nifedd evasions. Suffice it to say, they have ended in this ac.
dim, which the indignation of a subscriber has enabled Byrne to
Meg. But I do ask you what you think of any man who could
tires take advantage at once of charity and misfortune.—who
could make publicc-benevolence a pardon to his avarice, and private
misery a purveyor to his vanity—who could turn defrauded po-
perty. from lite door, and then display himself before the world
widt its money in his pocket? Grievous charge, but not more
grievous than true; unken not only this brief, but Parkins's own
hand-writing deceive. When Parkins found himself peened to an
neeount he Banded in one, debiting himself with one hundred and
141 y-one pounds, and debiting Byrne with two hundred and forty-
foor Pounds ; but this account he seems to have sines abandoned,
Mid indeed nothing more clearly proves an unfair dealing, than the
tact that the charges against Byrne, in.the first account, differs ms-
terially front the charges in Ids set-off. So that you plainly see
Pa-::ins taxing his ingenuity to invent the most plausible doduc-
tient that he ran. Some of the: deductions were, however, so
tumorous. that no doubt his attorney insisted on their erasure..
What do you think, Gentlemen, of Ins charging Byrne with B.
Ills. for the printing ofpamphleta, being a vindiuttiou of what he
eine his character? Parkin 's own character! a cheaper produa-
tion never came from the prem, if it did what it mimed to do;
and no doubt his attorney made him withdraw the item, seeing the
Inerant dispropartion between the eat and the service. But what
hic • e we to do with Mr. Parkin's character ? let hint make himself
of sy—its the last thing in the world of which we w. uld wish to de-
prive hint. Thus. then, having abandoned bis first set-off, he run-1
eirgly maturet another, and puts it on the record. The great
men of its items I stall not discuss ; I shall leave it to you to say'
wheelie . with all or with any of them we ought to be burmened ;
lb your consideration of them, I only beg you to remember, that he
oilie.ously invested himself with the treasurership, that he did no
without solicitation from any otte—that in such capacity be put the
poor man to the tepeese of coming from Ireland—thnt hav-
ing trepanned him here, lie paraded him from tavern to
tae:.-n, and did so, as I firmly believe, sad* Is aspire a mon-
grel netoriety. It will be for you to say, then, whether Parkins
should row tarn round upon his dupe, and compel him to pay for
all the emp. y perade by which nobody but Parkins ever profited.
He charges him with the advertisements inserted on his own mere
Motion, in which ltd figures himself the most conspicuous person-
age; lie charges him with the placards in which Parkins stood
ethnic cm every wall of the metropolis—placards which put Day
anti Martin to the blush, and ectually drove the Bonassus into
the country. He charges hint with the cards for the din-
ner tickets at the Horns, and even few the sealing wax with
Which he sealed them. lie charges him with newspapers
sent to his own friends, containing hk own speeches. These,
Gentlmen, are some of the items by which he pretends to bring
Byrne in hie debt. I leave It to your own humanity to deter-
shine between them--to estimate the character of the man who an-
t nanced himself as the champion of the impoverished and the op-
peened—who advertised himself as the advocate of injured inno.
settee—who c !aimed front the world the reward of his philanthropy
—who drained to the very last the cup of popularity, and who now,
Mgt matchless modisty, asks the man who filled it for hint to mg
the rearming. titippene the subscription had utterly failed.
Omagh Parkins's interference, and I believe it was much injur:tl
by it, with what face could he have come upon Byrne for the wirer-
treesuents? Look it the rust item in the ser-eff, and ere whether
Mon/hole is not a bare-fated fabrication. He acteally charges
kiwi With 121. Ina. the wages of his clerks—man who lived with
hint before he even heard the name of Byrne ! lle might as well
Lave charged him with the livery of his servants, or the horse he
rides upon, at his Amadei Appeal, or any ce;:er notoriety-trap
which he has baited for the public : 121. lac for the wages of his
own clerks—money which he solicited in die name of charity ! If
the whole sum were melted into brass, I know net another counte-
r:lnce it could bronze into the application. Bat this item is modest ;
it twinkles into twilitat before the broad effulgent impudence of the
next : it caps the climax—it puts to shame every ingenious device
car Tr yet invented for the evasion of a debt—it out-l'arkins Parkins
._its vcry conception ought to make him Chancellor of the Ceche-
aw.r. Will you believe, Gentlemen of the Jury, that he actually
debits Byrne with MI. being part and parcel oflefti. a-vear's rent and
tons, fur the empty tenement into winch he put hint ass servant:
OHL a-year for Ityme's habitation ! Foe the prteervat ion of your na-
tional accent in all its purity, erase it from Parkins will, or you'll
Lave lilight of Irishmen over here by the next wind. Byrnes enough
m convert Westmineter into one tet. Gila's. Here is the item.,
- in Parkins" sten words :—" To rent of a dwelling,
-house, in Riding-house-lane, Mary.
sober last up to this day, as paid by
'he taxes make up the difference."
you ever hear of any thing like

Was Did yon ever hew of any thing so shameless ? He charges
Byrne, who had nut shoes to his feet. with a coach-house for his
equipage. He charges Byrne. who he knew could not keep a cat,
with two sets of stables. No doubt for his race homes and hunters. 'I
1 wonder he did not charge him with the national debt ; it would
have been equally plausible and far more characteristic. I take thik
one item as a specimen, and I ask you, Gentlemen, though you
now perceive that good Samaritan smiling over the recital of his
benevolence—[[ Mr. Parkins, who eat opposite the Leaped Counsel, I
acted much laboured plinsantry. at this period of Mr. Phillipea
statement}—dom not this one stein taint the whole set off?',
I Can any one in his senses see it, and not see that it could never
have been inserted in any thing like good faith ? Why it is Par-
hine's own case, that the man was most unjustly an outcast and a
victim—that he was persecuted out of society—deprived of bread,
or the means of earning it—perishing for very want--surrounded
by a wife and starving children—with no sustenance to give them
but his tears, and no solace but the assurance of his own innocence—
and yet, when he was in this state of want and destitution, with
famine written legibly on his features, Parkins wants you to say,
upon rule oaths, that he accepted him as a solvent tenant ! Gen-
tlemen, I know not how to speak of this transaction. I have seen
many a freak of insolent prosperity—many a sordid trick of selfish
cunning—but I could Dot fancy this, even if I could fancy wealth
' pilfering from the funds of charity, I would fancy it audacious
enough to call upon the laws to protect the deputation. I askyou
now, when you have read this item, whether you do not believe
the wlio!e set-off to be an invention ; whether you do not helieve he
persuaded Byrne he wag his generous benefactor? Whether he did
not claim to be the almoner of the public? Whether the placards,and
clerks, and advertisements, and speeches, are anything more than
the false dice with which he gamble.. for popularity ? Can you
doubt it and if you do not, is it fair or equitable to give him the
enjoyment, and make the plaintiff pay for it ? You will not, I .
am sure, Gentlemen, you will not take the morsel front the poor •
man's board, in order to gorge this cormorant after notoriety. I
hope you will not allow him a single shilling of his set-oll; except
the pittances which he has interwoven ...to it to give the rest a
colour—pittances which, I admit, he didedole out, though re-
luctantly. in order to save the family from starving. How shall I
prove this case to you ? Parkin.. himself shall prove it ; I will
convince you by his own admissions. He admitted that he
brought Byrne over from Ireland ; he admitted that he received
3001. for him; he admitted that he put him in his premises merely
as a servant; he declared that he would make hint independent:
this from his own lips, though he now sacks to deny it. As to the
set-off, I shall falsify it on the Lune authority. By thin set-off', he;
pretende that Byrne is in his debt ; I shall move his admission that ,
he held i balance in our favour. Why did he not pay it ? eientle-
awn, he gave a reason foe that too; he said he was afraid if lie did,
that Byrne would run away to Ireland, and leave his children
chargeable on the parish. So that he was not satisfied with de-
frauding the man unless he added to it the defamation of the fa- I
:her. When he'found his -equivocation would
.no longer answer,
h: then thought of his set-off: the set-off is at variance with his ;
own aihnission ; it is at Tar...once with humanity; it is at variance
with common sense. ; the audacious and unblushing charges foe his
ptneards, advertisements, clerks., speeches, coacliJmusee, and sta.
hles, stamp fabrication on the face of it. Gentlemen, 1 trust and
hope you will take this view of it; if you do, you will do justice;
yau will give to the poor man what public benevolence intended he
should have, and you will teach the rich man that wealth and
character are only to be enjoyed when their foundations art laid in
huresty and virtue.
The fast witness called wee John Stott who said that he was
employed by Parkins during the rear ISW ; I then left his em•
ployment, but I subsequently. returned to it ; when I returned I
had some conversation with him respecting a subscription for the
plaintiff Mr. Parkins said the subscription was going on wonder-
' fully well; and that he then had 3001. ; after that conversation I
knew of oi tier subscriptions carrying on, one of al. front Sir F. Bur.
Jett, which Parkum told me had been paid him ; I have seen
Byrae and 'Parkins together when they were speaking on the sub-
ject of the subscription. In January or February I heard Byrne
ask Parkins for money ; Parkins said he was to dispose of the mo-
ney as he thought proper, that he meant to procure for him one of
the short stages ; Byrne said he wanted the money, that it was his
intention to set up a public house ; Farkins refused to let him have
the money!; Parkins never said that Byrne was indebted to him ;
I know air. I.e Moyen, he was in the employment of Parkins
while I was there nearly the whole of the time; I remember some
IhitiskTrercllm•r newspapers, between AO and 60. brought, which
were sent off to the country to Mr. Parkins friends ; crosses were
put to the diluter ; I was present at the dinner ; a number of
speeches were made there.
Cross-emmined by Mr. MARITATT—It was in the end ofSep-
, fember,• 1822, I returned to Parkins's ; the subscriptions were paid
into Mr. Parkins; Le !doyen kept the account. I never looked
at it. There was cniy one whom I knew of as a personal friend
of Mr. Parkins, to whom the newspapers were addressed. It
was Mr. Parkins promoted the dinner.
Mr. William Cobbett said, I knew the defendant, Mr. Parkins ;
I had several conversations with hint respecting Byrne . • the first
wits before Byrne arrieed in England ; he informtdsbe that he had
written to Dublin, to send 100. to a newspaper proprietor for
Byrne ; I expressed my surprise that he would send so much ;
and I then understood from him that he had about 150 L • in the
month of November, 1813, early in the month, I saw Air. Par-
kins, and inquired boa Byrne was living, and said I knew a
friend who had a farm-house in the enuatrr;iintas •

his Rving would be very trifling, and whatever that was I would
pay out of my own pocket ; he objected to any such plan as that,
!laying, Byrne was hving in a building of his, which would cost
him nothing; he also objected to Ilvrre's being absent from LOU
don, as he could not then attend at the public-houses with him for
the purpose of raising money.
Cross.examined.—l heard nothing about a coach and horses in
reference to the 1001. ; I never wrote any letters to Byrne on the
rsubject ; it was in the beginning of September. 111.22, that he came
Ito London ; I subscribed something myself.
Re-examined —Whatever I did subscribe, I intended it most
certainly for Byrne.

Catherine Byrne, the plaintiff's daughter, said that the defend.
ant gave her a paper (which was handed to her). There was a bill
in the window while we were there.

Cross-examined—She never knew that her father asked any one
to send their horses to livery there.
The amount of subscriptions was then read, as referred to by last
witness 131 L Us. oid. was the amount of the English sub-
scriptions.
Out of this sum there appeared to hare been received, prior to
Oct. 22, 211; all the rest subsequently.

Mr. Robert Bell.—l know 31r. Parkins : I had a great many
conversations with him respecting the subscription : he always
told me that he had received subscriptions considerably more
than those he had paid. The reason he gave for not paying was,
lest Byrne should leave his wife and children chargeable to the
parish. He told ine ho had employed Bymc to take care of his
sables, and he was then, he said. in his employment.
Croa-exatnined by Mr. 31. in nrar r —The conversation was
either in the latter end of February or the beginning of March,
last year.
Some notices referred to by
_Mr. Phillips. in his statement.
were then put in ; they described the dreadful situation of Byrne.
This was the case for the plaintiff:

Mr. 31mtlICATT addressed the Jury for the defendant, to the
following effect :-31y beamed Friend. Mr. Phillips, has thought
proper to launch forth in this arse into a fanned character of the
defendant, instead of confining himself to the real question at
ionic hrween the parties. lientlemen, when you strip this case of
the fringe and drapery with which the skill of tny Learned Friend
has invested it, I think you will !Ind the plaintiff's ingratitude is
just as obvious as my Friend' fantasy would make the dements of
toy client, and let me in the free instance caution you not to be led
away by vague declamation or attractive ornament from the topics
upon which alone it is your duty to determine. (ientlemen—the
accurAtty with whidi Mr. Parkins kept these accounts has been ob-
jected to him. It is proved, that every single farthing he advanced
to the plaintiff was entered, even to the amount of that sum of two-
pence halfpenny advanced at the Shades, which has afforded so
much merriment to my beamed Fried Mr. Phillips. It has been
said that Mr. Parkins solicited the office of treasurer. I will prove
to yea, beyond all question, that the office was forced upon him,
and that he received the thanks of Mr. Byrne for the manner in
shich he discharged Its duties. Here, gentlemen, is the letter,
mints trent beilled -

" Honoured eir,-1 canoes *lime die ipolliniv Ifu at tits
manner in which you have espoused the natal Van Injured man.
I beg you to receive the subscription on my account, and to accept
my grititude for your kindnees, &c."
Now, Dentlemer. there is the letter. Different plans had been
contemplated at different times, and airoog others I shall prove to
you that the (demises or Parkins were let out to Byrne, with the
view of his letting out the stables as a livery stable.keeper ; and I
shall prove to you that the rent was reasonable, and such as the
defendant had before received. The sealing wax had also been
usni, and the price was paid for it. and livme was properly
charged with it. The Learned Counsel (discsled to contend that
all the various items were justly charged to the plaintiff, and con.
chitind an able address, by imploring the Jury to dismiss from their
nil:lds the statement of his lamed opponent.
Lewis Dc .Mayen was employed by Mr. Parkins for the purpose
of keeping an account of the subscription for Dyne. The account
was kept by me from September last. (A book was handed to him.l
Mr. I'd 61.1.irs—ls that the original book
Ito( as—So. .

iientlemen, in Parkins's own w
two sets of stabler, and coach-how
la-bonne, Irotn the I:ith of (ktobe
ti►e late terant, 911. lOs. I Itl.--tt
/6.. w, Gentlemen, I aik