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Lady C. Grzyille and Lady M Bntitt::l;, from Ea:shod., n.
Pn.:n .illy •
Lord Glenneryie, to hi Office in George rtreet.
Lord Granville, to hu buase, the late. Lord Camel! Hari, in
I/afoul-street.
Lady R. Manners, from Bloxhara-hall, Linceltslaire, to Gt.da
venor ti.lll.lte
Lady )dory liowlby, from Harlin:ford. fferls, to Park-sts
Earl and Count:Aar Cadigan, front Dzati Park. Nirtha.notan,
to Upper Groiveaor•street.
The Dovragar Conine:. and Earl of Waldegraye, from
%tuck, E.-ax, to Berkeley. squats).
Baron de ft, from Br;ghton.
The Af.r iuu aid Mar,liialies. Ctredin, from 1411:111,U,lea, to
Upper Eirzroy :dam.
The Earl and tuunteta of Bei:borough, from Roehampton, to
Cavendish•sonare.
The I)ochess of Somerset, from Maiden Bradli, to Cuinli.e.
land-place.
Lady Anne Ashley, to Grasvenor.s lure
Lord Midgray.., from Mu:grave, Yorkshire, to Had" ate..
1) swain Lady Nfiddlmon, from Bnihton, to Dove: -•tre .t.
Earl °learnt:it, from tie Wilderness, to Minat, ttr...:t.
The Dowager Duchess of Leeds, to Olvasyeisor4t.ien, ham
Worthing
The Duch". of 11:aufort, and Lady F Somerset, from &A-
mmon, Gieueeater, to Oroweitor-square.
Toe Earl of Aylesbury, from Tournhans Park, lV.!ts, to Sey-
mour-place.
The Earl and Countess of Chatham, from Chatham, to St.
James'sYquare.

Yesterday morning. about nine o'clock, His Ms-
JE‘TY left Kew for Windsor.
Her MAJESTY and the PRINCESSES, attended by
Ladles CUMBERLAND and BucKaLcv, followed
from the %MLR'S House, at half.past le.
The ivory chairs, sent by the Marquis Wct.tas-
Lay to Her M tit.srv, are removed from the
QuEl N's House to Frogmore.
His Royal Highness the Prince of WaLts paid a
visit yesterday to the CHANCELLOR of the Ex.rit-
qutit, at his house in Downing-street.

Mr F. Foam returned to town yesterday, from
a visit to his uncle, the Earl of Bassrot,tw Albany-
place.
Bt 'trot+, entertained yesterday the Duke of
KLNT, and a large party of Nubility, at his house in
I r lok-street.
fhe Duchess of DEVONSHIRE' LOSJ Ost LIITGN,
Mademoiselle ST. JULIZ, Lady C. FORIIISTILII,
Lady CA ROLINIL Posisortav, Earl and Countess of
flessoacicau, Lord DUNCANNON, Lady H. Ca.
VINDISII, and Lord and Lady MORPE r :4, left town
yesterday evening for Chiswick, where they will re-
main until Monday.
The Earl of Cteemosir and the Earl of MOsafT
Eoccu star supped with Master BETTY on Wed-
nesday night, alter his performance of Endroicl.
Mr. ADDINGTON has taken Lady STANLLY'i
house in Clifford-street, Bond-street, for the winter.
Mr. Justice JOHNSTON. of the Court of Commtin
VCAi in Ireland, is dangerously ill. • His complaint
is s. id to be a par a'ysis.
(lambi is said to be the charaCter in which Master
BEr rv is most successful. Alter so much exertion
as he has recently undergone, however, it is pru-
dent nut t I impose upon him the task of performing
so di .:n1 trying a part as that of 11,pv/ei.

'I he rrlyirt of an intended union between Co ox c
and Miss BRUNTON has been contradiaed. The
Green-room is haunted by a waggish circle, and
Cies, are always spreading some rumour to excite
mirth, or At least goasitpi,g profit-.
The Workington Volunteers were reviewed on
Sunday last, by Brigadier-General Osuc. After
the review. Mr. CUR WES gave an elegant dinner Li,
General Omni, the Officers, and a great number of
other gentlemen.
'I he various entertainments during tic t
Week at Wwkington terminated with a splen.'
ball, on Friday evening, which was attended by ail
the fashion of the mighbourhood.
On Thursday evening, the New Amateur Con-
cert had their first meeting at Hyde's Rooms, Tot-
tenham-street. 'They have adopted the soma
judo-
cious plan as the Amateur Concert did last sea.on,
at Hatasver-square Rooms, of having a first-rate
Professional Gentleman, as the Princ:pal of
Instrument. Mr. MOt::•7 Atli very ably 1.1 •ti
Rand ; Nis. I lot. NILS peti,rnae.l ios -
Hanoi INC; lON. oboe; Mr. Pow rt. t,
Mr. At.ru-sio, double-bass; said Mr. I-1V n., tra,
pet. The performance commenced with a Sian
of Moz•a r's. A young lady sang. Sb.p.l.rds„ I
here lust 'us Lore, and an air of Saari's, with r.
deal of taste. Mager KOLLMAN performed a eva-
Into on tbe Grind Pine Forte, with great execution.
and was much applauded. Haves's Surprise had
great effea. The whole concluded with the Orr!,
tare I. DG•t J arm. '1 be . zoom was very genteelly
filled.

On Sunday lag, as a youth of the name of
Pt:acct.'. wa. leaping a ditch near the canal in the •
neighbourhood of Liverpool, he unfortunately fell,
and in the fall broke his arm. Ilis Royal Highness
Prince Wit is•ss of Gloucester, happening to pass
by at the moment, accompaLied by his Aides de
Camp, observed the pcor boy's misfortune,and aihat-
ed by those principle, of humanity and compas,:ro
which dignify human nature and give lustre to tt:•
islo..t elevated station, the I's ssci: mast politely die.
p.stched a mevvenger to town to prliCl.l* surgical
assetance, at the a.m.• time giving dire ion), that
esery succour should be afforded to the .ttlerer,
• which he would amply reward.

Si3i,

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LAW.

COURT OF KING', BENCII. Worseimsi Li, Dec. 7.

Si:tings al Nisi Preys, btlare Lard ELLENEOROCCH.
and a Sper:.ct.hirn.
FRAUD UPON STAMP DUTIES.
THE KING
.11 EDMI.AQD and HENI.v DAVIS.

This was an indiftment, charging the Defendants
„it)) a conspiracy to c!leat and defraud I his Majesty's
revenue, by divers impositions and frauds, com-
mitted against the stamp duty ad. There were se-
veral mints in the indidment, charging the Defend-
with vat icius conspiracies and frauds, in bring-
,s4 tai the stamp-office dive's pieces of paper, con-
d together, with the appearance of single sheets
01 raper, and procuring the same to be stamped,
Etc. &c.
'ft. this indidment the Defendants had pleaded—
At Guilty.
The Right Hon. the ATTORNEY GEN ER At stated
the case on the part of the prosecution : he intimat-
e d to the Court and Jury, that the evidence which
should be adduced, would lay before them a display
-.; ingenuity of A most singular nature, which he
;egretted had not been exerted to a better purpose,
and rendered advantageous to the public, as well as
beneficial to the individual ; but this was, he ob-
served, one of the fittest subjeds for a prosecution,
that ever came before the Court, inasmuch as it al
feted one of the principal reveaues of the Crown to
a very grht degree.
A :out the latter end of last July, the Commis-
sioaers of Stamp Duties received intelligence of
certain Stamps being in circulation, which did not
seem to have the general appearance of genuine
Stamps ; upon comparing them with the dye, they
bore the mid impression; but, upon closer examina-
tion, they were found to want the usual gloss which
is visible on the face of Stamps. The place whore
these Stamps were purchased, was at length found
out, and the Solicitor for the Stamp Office was di-
retied to buy some of them, which being according-
ly done, they were compared and examined, and
found to correspond with the die, except as to the
gloss ; while the Commissioners were in the vsa y a/t
of investigating the business, the Defendant, Henry
:Davis, came to the Office with a parcel of paper to he
stamped, which he delivered to the officer, called
the teller-in, with the usual warrant ; this parcel
was accordingly stamped, but the paper having en-
gaged the attentinn of the officer, very frequently,
from its unusual thickness ; this day he observed, by
accident, that one corner of a sheet was a little split :
he pursued his examination further, and found it
weuticl divide with great ease, leaving the stamp
pert -/I, but rather faint. some of this paper, upon
further investigation, was found to be triple and
quadruple, and so ingeniously cemented together,
as to have the appearance cf one consistency, tear inn
no trace whatever of the cement when divided
Upon this discovery the Commissioners gave
mediate dire/ions to have the person who had
brought this paper to attend them, when the De
fendant, Henry Davis, answering to his name when
called, was brought before them, and was de-
livered into the custody of a Bow-street Officer ; in
the mean time Mr. Esteourt, the Solicitor for the
Commissioners, proceed: d, with a Row-street
Officer, and some other persons, to the house of the
Defendants, in King-street, Westminster ; and,
while the Officer was in the act sir purchasing a
stamp from the Defendant, li sbert Davis, the oche: s
came in, and seized a number of stamps, which
they found in a drawer behind the counter ; there
were some few genuine stamps found among them,
and a great quantity of the fabricated ones ; npon
a subsequent search made at the house, a consider-
able quantity of paper w.ss diacovered, which ap-
peared to have been prepared with the same cement,
for a similar purpose ; some of which was marked
in the customary way, for
.the purpose of being
stamped. From all these circumstances, he observ-
ed, that it WAS evident a fraud had Len practised ;
and, whether they were the fabricators of the fraud,
or only instrurriehts in the handl of other persons,
it lay upon them to prove. He then stated, that an
allowance was made by the Stamp-Office of so
much per cent. discount to the distributors :if
stamps, who parchased a certain quantity togethei .
This the Defendant had never claimed, nor was it
because he was ignorant of sneh allowance; for,
though he bought but a few at a time, yet he ~.fl-cre-
d to make an allowance of discount to others who
might purchase from him. The Defendant, Ed
ward Davis, was a serjeart in the St. John's
and St. Margaret's Volunteers, and applied to
one of his Officers, of the name of Julien, whose
mother dealt in stationary and stamps, that he might
supply her with the latter article, as he had great
quantities of them, and could allow her a discount
upoa them ; Mrs. .Julien accordingly had some
quantity from him ; but finding the pap :r of a thin
and inferior description, she complained of it, and
refused to take AM' mere. He then stated that
therewas a further circumstance in the case : while
Henry DA% i. was under exam na ion at Bow-street,
he asked permission from the Officer to retire; but.
suspeing something not right, he was previously
searched, and three or four pieces of the fabricated
paper found upon him. It was also necessary to
observe, that these two Defendants lived together,
in a very confined and extremely contraded hahita
tioil, consis:iag of only a shop and small parlour
behind ; they kept no servant, and both were in the
habit of attending the shop alternately. He stated
this against any ffistindion which might be Auer% t-
td to be snack between the case of the one and toe
other.

Mr. Estcourt, Solicitor for the Commissioners of
Si p Ditties, was then examined ; he proved nearly
w.t.4 has been already stated I he said Henry Davis,
when called upon, answered, and told his puce of
fesidence"; the Stamps mentioned in the warrant
were tweuty-three of one shilling, and five of four
The contents of the drawer behind the
Definidant's counter were deposited in a box pro-
duced in Court, among which were several dort_n
of legal Stamps, and a book containing a great num-
ber us illegal of different denom.natsons, ready
ones
for sale; they is,:re all upon wove paper. He then
separated sumo of the bumped paper into three,
With great facility ; and, upon the closest examina-
lhoe, it did not appear that the cement had any
erstbk effect upon the paper.
Oa his cross.exan:inatiou by Mr. Simms, he ad-
„pilditted, that witheut something to create suspicion,

those stamps might Dave passed unnoticed ; and,
even the officers themselves might have been de-
ceived,
if the paper offered for stamping had not
accidentally split. When Henry DAVii was taken
into custody, he immediately odd wlire he lived,
and aeswered all questions pm to him ; when he
was afterwards asked by the Magistrate, whether
he would become a witness for the crown, or be
committed as a principal? he refused to become the
former, and submitted tosthe latter. The Defend-
ant, Edward Davis, had been in the habit of sending
to the Stamp Office, for three or four months be-
fore, and the paper in evidence passed current at
the office "until the time it was found separated at
the corner.
Miller, the police officer, who had the Defendant
flenry in custody, stated, that on the 2d of August
last he carried him to the Brown Bear, previous to
taking him to Tothillfields ; when he asked to retire,
as already mentioned.
On his cross-examination by Mr. ERSKINE, he
said, the Defendant, Henry, made nn objedion to be
searched ; he knew he had been taken on account of
these papers, and said he thought he had left all at
the Stamp Office.
Rivets, the police officer, proved the purchase of
a fabricated stamp at the Defendant's shop, and then
taking him into custody.
Henry Barker. a Clerk in the Receiver General's
Office, stated that he had frequently received war-
rants in the name of Edward Davis, that there was
an allowance of 12 discount to persona taking 391.
worth together, and a further allowance of nine per
cent. t s wholesale stationers, taking a quantity on
plain paper, to the amount of 301. including 101.
worth of receipt stamps ; there had b 'en no allow-
ance to Davis in this way, as he never took more
than two or three pounds wor h at a time.
Thomas Marshall, the Teller in at the Stamp-
Office' proved that he d seeded the fraud by discern-
ing the split corner.
On his cross-examination, he said he had been
' upwards of one and twenty years in the Stamp
Office, and believed a great number of these papers
passed through his hands he was married, bad a
wife and children, from fourteen to twenty years of
age; he d:d not think a young person of sixteen
' years of age would be likely to observe them.
The landlord was examined, to prove the extent
and size of the apartments which the Defendants
rented; and several witnesses were called, who pro-
iu and proved many of the fabricated stamps to
have been purchased at the Defendant's shop from
both Henry arta Edward.
Snnie k .al objectioas were then taken by Mr.
EitsiclNE to the alleg itions in several aunts in the
indictment, which were afterwards over-ruled by
the Court. •
Mr. EllqlCl4e, in addressing the Jury on behalf
of the Defendants, expressed great anxiety in the
tusk he had to perform, and the situation in which
he was placed of having the defence of these un-
fortunate persons ; he trusted the Jury would feel
for him in the painful observations he should be
obliged to make in the course of his address, and the
great difficulty under which he laboured, ellen he
was ob!-ged to separate the cases of the two De-
fendants, so as not to suffer the one to interfere with
the wiser ; and, after attentively observing the
Iltvidence, a great distinction was to be found
bet Ween them ; he was ready to admit that
the charge aaainst them was that of a, great and
enormous crime, and most dangerous in its
consequences to the public revenue, which, upon
conviction, must draw down a heavy weight of pu-
nishment upon the criminal. In this case. the in-
genuity ill' the party was wonderful, and the con-
trivance WAS such as to impose upon the vigilance
of the Officers of Stamps, for a length of tirpe. As
to the fraud, it was so truly described, it was wholly
unnecessary for him to say any thing on the subjed.
It appeated it had been successfully pradisect for three
nr four months ; several persons pun hased them,
without making any observations upon them ; some
bought and sold unsuspeetingly. lie then citiarthe
instances of a goldsmith discovering base metal ; an
officer of the Post-office, discovering a forged frank ;
A farrier discovering a blemish in a horse which
would deceive an ordinary prr,,,n ate. All which
he adduced to prove, that saes man could divest him-
self of knowledge he had obtained through experi-
ence; he therefore contended, that in the same
manner they were to distinguish between the cases
of the two Delendents, that of Henry 'hewing his
innocence and ignorance. As to Edward Davis,
lie expressed great apprehension that he should not
be able to deny the charges against Lien ; but as to
Henry, whose cause he felt he could not sacrifice, he
insisted these was no proof, no foundation whatever,
to say that he lt,ew of the separation of the
paper ; sod as their was no implement of ma-
nufacture tound upon the premises, it could not
be supposed that the other could carry it on
with ;stealer success, or with more certainty of
avoiding deted.on, than by keepirg his brother,
who was a boy not sixteen years of age, in the dark.
and, such was the de, eptiOn, that even an old officer,
who had been twenty years in the habit of exam:tilt-7
stamps, had been deceived. ft %VII the duty of
counsel at all tines to distinguish suspicion from
guilt. and were the jury to find both guilty, they
would aid the crime of the sededion of one brother
to the crane of the other. To look at the condo&
of the young man at the time of his apprehension.
his subsequent demeanour before the Magistrate,
his immediate and ready answers, his refusal to be-
come King's evidence, in none of which did he
betray the least symptom of guilt, nor could there
be any thing more convincing of innocence. As
to the elder brother, who might feel that he had
not made many observations on his part of the case,
be coasidered it the duty of a counsel always to put
himself in the situation of his client, and not to
push his observations too far, but ever to make the
distindion between innocence and guilt. The great
objed in this adion was to detest and punish frauds
committed against the re ue, which end was now
in a great measure attairltlff ; he, therefore, had no
doubt hut the Jury, upon a review of the case,
would find it the:: du:y, as he was well convinced
it was their inc:ination, to acquit the Defendant.
Henry Davis.
Several respedeb.e witnesses were then called, all
of whom gave the Defendants most excellent elle-
riders; the Detembrat, Henry, had oniy been in
sown aOoat a year and a half.

The Assosste Glossas spoke at great length

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n reply,' and observed slut the Defendant, Edward,
'was, quite desolate, and, as to Henry, no greater
proof of his guilt could appear, than his knowledge
of the thickness of the paper when brought to the
Stamp Office, and the miraculou, increase of nitni-
her, and alteration in texture, vriten returned to the
drawer, and vended by him.
Lord ELLENIONOUGH, in summing no the evi-
dence, observed, there were several counts in the
intlidment for a consipiraey, and, ill order to convict
upon those counts, it was necessary to find both
guilty. It, therefore, was the part of the Counsel
on behalf of the Defendants, to induce the Jury to
find only one guilty. The question for them to try
was whether Henry Davis privy or accessary to
the fraud committed by Ilk brother ; and, attending
to the whole of the tramaElion, it was clear that he
had constant access to the drawer where these fabri-
cated stamps were kept, he mu,t be sersible to the
common sensation of the touch, and his taking them
at one time to the Stamp Office in the thick state,
and afterwards vending them in their separated
state, left no room to doubt the privity and co:s-
spiracy.
The Jury found both the Defendants GatiCry of
certain misdemeanors and conspiracy, bu: recom-
mended the Defendant Henry to the consideration of
the Court, on account of his youth.

1.11111. Of TILE BOARD OF ADMIRALTY.
THE KING 9. JOHN IiERIOT, EN. and °roses.
This was an indictment against John Heriot,
an‘i John Taylor, Esqrs. Richard Harris, and
Richard Blackberry, the Proprietors. Printer and
}Vali-41er of a Newspaper, called The True Briton,
for a Libel upon the Earl of St. Vincent, and the
other Members of the Board of Admiralty, published
on the 17th of December, 1803.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL stated the case on the
part of the prosecution. He addressed the Jury in
a most animated and learned speech ; commenting,
in the first instance, upon the law of bile's, with
great ability. He (observed, that all libels, of what-
soever description they may be, either originated in
oribad a strong tendency to malice, whether against
individuals or particular persons ; in which cases it
was the duty of the legislature to interfere, and pre-
vent the mischef which ?night follow, and to punish
the libeller according to Isis deserts. The libel in
this case Was one of the most malicious, wicked,
and dangerous, that ever came before the Court,
tending to vilify and degrade the cloarader of
a Noble Earl, who held one of the first situations
under :he Crown, and whose gallant conduit, on
all occasions, had caused the finger of envy to be
pointed at him ; it went further, the libeller was
not satisfied with venting his spleen against that
Noble Personage, the whole of the late Nlembers of
the Admiralty Board wcre vilified and libelled, arid
the endeavours of the author were to throw His
Majesty's Government into disrespect and disre-
pute. He then stated, that in the beginning of the
year 1793, Admiral Rainier was Commander in
Chief of His Majesty's fleets in the Indian Seas, and
the Earl of St. Vincent was, at that time, the First
Lord of the Admiralty. On the 17th of December,
1803, a paragraph appeared in the Newspaper men-
tioned in the indidment, which, after introducing
some prefatory observations, .sated, 11;4 a re-
port had prevailed, that Admiral Rainier had de-
tained the fleet of the French Admiral, Lineis, in
the Bay of Pondicherry, which afterwards escaped,
in consequence of the gross negligence of a certain
Board, on not sending out dispatches to the Noble
Admiral, for two months :tit, r the war had com-
menced, and farther accusing them of negleft in
their official capacity," ate. lie knitted the here,-
aity of the Government being always open to the just
censure and animadversion of the public, bus [oat
was not a reason they should lie degraded, debased,
and vilified. He could scarcely conceive a come
of greater magnitude than that ascribed to the Noble
Earl and his. associates in office, in which our pos-
sessions in India were so deeply concerned, nor
wou:d it be in the power of the Legislature to affix
a punishment sufficient for the crime: For all this
charge there was not the slightest foundation in truth,
and the intention of the slandeier seas conspicuous
in every line; he, theref4re, under all the circum-
stances of the case, felt himself well warranted in
saying, that this was not only a libel most gross in
its nature, and dangerous in its tendency, but was,
also equally false, malicious, and scandalous, and
he sat down fully satisfied that the Jury would find
that verdid against these Defendants, which would
receive its full effed by thejudgment of the Court
on a future day, when those persons si.ould be
brought up to receive the just sentence for their
crime.

The clerk of Mr. Bicknell, the Solicitor to the
Admiralty, proved the purchase of The True &dull
newspaper, at the newspaper-office in the Strand.
The copy of the affidavit from the stamp-office
was then produced ; by which it appeared, that
John Heriot, and John Taylor' Eitits. were the
Proprietors, Richard Harris, the Printer, and Rich-
ard Blackberry, the Publisher of Toe Tree Bri'on.
William Marsden, Esq was then examined. lie
stated, that he had been, thr these eleven months
past, Chief Secretary to the Board of Admiralty ;
and, previous to that period, and in the year
had barn Second Secretary. Several dispatches were
sent out to the East-Indies, to Admiral Rainier. who
was then Commander-in-Chief in the Indian Seas,
at the commencement (.1 hostilities between this
country and France, in the year 160.3, to which he
had received answers by letters, which he then had
in Court ready to produce.
The Commission under the Great Seal was then
produced, appointing the Right Hon. Earl St. Vin-
cent, First Lord of the Admiralty; Sir Philip
Stephens, Bart. William laiiot, ii.sq ;it Choßsaa
Trowbridge, But. James E-q. John M
ham, Esq and William; GrAtth3Lat, Esq. Lures
Commissioners.

Mr. Serjeaat Bast, in a most ingenious and era-
mated speech, addressed the Court and Jury on
behalf of the Defendants : he observed that his
Learned Friend, the AI rni i. GLSCRAL, hid
tally and satistaZtority contained the law of libels ;
but he stated, that all libels originated in malice ; he
therefore begged leave to remind the Jury, that
before they should fitid those perwons guilty,
thy must find that they had published this pare.
tia'a with malicious lute/mts, to vi►ify that Clo-
veininent of which they themselves were members.
He had never bol.;r: sera evil:nee acre.: to p:ove

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the tenth of a transaaion, which had been the
jed of a libel, nor was it a question now. wheal
the thing published was tree or file-, but it was f
the Jury to inquire whether the publisher had pu
lished this with intent to vilify and degrade the c
rater of the government, and whether this procee
ed from malice or mistake ; it was not the repo
turning out to be untrue, that. made these Defeo
arcs guilty of a false, scandalous, and malicioes
bel ; the fad must appear a wilful and malicious in-
tention to injure his charader and wound his feel-. i
ings. -He was at that time filly persuaded that
there was no foundation in truth for the as.
sertion, nor was there a necessity for a Noble
Lord of the Earl's high chareder to vindicate his
condliet ; that already stood s•itheiently higa in the
estimation of the public ; he most !unequivocally
admitted there. was no foundation for it In the
indictment it was asserted, that a certeia report had
been circulated relative to the detention of the
French fleet, and charged the Defendants with the
original fabrication of such report ; that .Irnieal
Rainier had detained, not ceptured, the French fleet
them was A diiferenee between detention and cap-
ture ; :1.1.!er sonic circumstances the fleet of one
nation may be detained by another, and though the
Admiral had no diced authority to capture, yet be
might detain. He had no di ,ant, either at ts. it tane,
or before lie came into court, that ships had been
dispatched at the very commencement of the rup-
ture; but It might have occurred, that through va-
rious accidents from adverse winds, ace. other ships .
might have reached him before the Government
dispatches, and he might have received private hi-
formation previnus to that of Government, and that
therefore there was a foundation for the revert,—
Pondicherry was at that time in possession of the
French, and the French fleet was anchored in the"
bay. Admiral Rainier stationed his fleet on the out
aide, but the French Adm.r.d, suspecting something,
slipped his cables in the-night, and left false lights
to elude the gallant Admiral's vigilance.
fore, though no blame was eturibetable to the
of the Admiralty, yet there WAS sufficient. fon
tion for the report.
The Ar roam EY Create A t. replied at some le I.gtkt.'
Lord El tee aoantou,in summing up we evidence
to the Jury, observed, that ther • was ne quealan
whet ever as to the /as/vtoer in thie cane, or as to the.
persons alluded to in them, all r. pr Urn:nary.
proofs had been satisfied, and the publication
brought home to the Defendants. ale then went
through ail the evidence. making his observa-
tions upon it : he said he had heard much said
on the subjeft of malice ; but, in his opin.on,
every report of this sort which drawl halivislaals
into public disrepute and dinesped, is no snore me
less than malice: the law pl'esumes it such, art is
this case the malice resulted from the using itself.
There was no inference to be drawn from tie; tali-
ginal report for the foundation of this pubilc.i.ion,
and what was afterwards agitated in Parliameet
mach helve originated in this publication. He,
e:er.fore, uader all the circumstances of the case.
had no doubt in saying that, in point of Law, it
was a libel.
The Jury found all the Defendants Caide.
THE KING r. NISKIOT SSID °nit KU
This was a similar .I%.l;:tinent .to the farmer.
brought al.,,Aiut lAnt I iigiot, Esq. ar, the sole Pia-
pricier, W. Armiter,e Scripps, as lite Publisher,
B. Macmillan, as the Prime'. of the Newspaper,
TLe inn. in which the same publication appeared.
The AT TOSSICY GENLItAI. observed, that it
ing a similar publication with the last, it would
merely nece:aery to go through the form of pr
winch were used in the former case.
The indidtnent, &c. were then read. and
Pr‘lei* gone through, wilkn the Jury returned a re
did of Uwe, against all the Defendants.
•
OLD 11.11LEY. •
w inttlP
Efisileib Spencer, east Etzetti Benfritht,
titul your, -- about oi do

young woman, twenty years .
stood ind.,!tod for sealing tour tahle.rloths, the
perty of George Diggles—who dept.sect, that
Prisoner was servant to him; that she had I,eesi kip*
by a gen leman of high rank, whose AttortSir hal
was ; that he had often seen the prisoner with hint /
thst he, being obliged to go'to t:.e ;sland of
dad, the prisoner' became very much digressed e
that she applied to him to procure ter a place,
she had a wish to go to service ; that he took
to bis servize about the beginning
Lticy rsfell, who had been cone
sonar in taking the 'able-cloths,
prisoner had brought her two r`
l•idgings, aad asked her to -
that she had got the other t.
the Prosecutor's house ; ani
on the cloths was applied •.
ml things the prisoner had made
lodging she had been ia before •
to the Prosecutcr.
The p.rwn-broker, to whom
pledged, swore, that Mrs
with-him in a false name.

Emilia Thompson deposed,
had lodged in 1: rr house, an, ?.
to tare Prosecutor's ; that she
ed room ; that she did not
prisoner lett her house, nor
she was in it.

Sir ROBERT GRAHAM said,
secutor, who was an Arto:
known better, did not India
the prisoner ; foe that all
prove the guilt of the witness,
criminate the prisoner, except
Mel), who was herself deeply
vi hose evidence has been c
able witness for the prisoner,
give; her a goad charaiter.'
The. Jury immediately
Sir R.L.IIERT GIAMAX
she was now in, would be a
cure, to te more cautious how

The prisoner bowed and
whole mai, she seemed much
hAncliterchief to her eves.
frilirevi Eraniva very genteel
peargnce peculiar:y intereszin?,
on a capital inditiment, for te'
iag aalc,unzerfetzing,and f

/VP IA! 4.G'411.4, IP, trim-
te very much digressed
to procar, ler a colacv., at
ivice ; that fie took he; in-
rginning of September
~en concerned with the psi-.
t-cloths, deposed, that dleA
two of the cloths. to hue
to pawn them for hes, mud'
r two from the prisoner, at
end that the money-dye got
d to ti.e replacing if
d made away with in the
afore she went ;41 servant ,
rhom the table-cloths were
4
s Meld had pledged ewe
!posed, that the prisoner
and that she tt it to gn
site I: 4.1 one te.ady lusnish.
of mi.,s any thing when the
ur during the whole times(
said, he wondered the ?re.
srvoeney, and should hay.
lie Mrs. !!tell, instead of
all the evidence we: t to
itness, Nfell, and none to
except the testimony of,
deeply implicated, and
contradiacd by a respect-
iner, who, at the same Lane
er.'
• oisvitted-lic.
said, he httped the danger
t a lesson to her for the fu-
how she conducted herself.,
and retired. During the
nuch affected, and held a
:enteel youth, and of an apa)
:sting, was p :t to the bar
ar I eioniously making, ft ter.
ifelanio:atiuttarltag,know-t