The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-11-24 00:00:00

COURT OF KING'S BGhcll. Nve. 23.

Ed,. groom, who had been tried and cocci, red
har:n; published a libel upon Alderman Lemon,
u. Norwich, for the purrysr.e of p• eventing ha is from
being eieSed nalyor os Let city, was this day
brought up to receive the sentelce of the court.
Chet' adjudged lona OD DAly a h le to the Log of
201. and to be 4onorni!teci to the custody tr the
inaxshal, for one calendar month, and further, 01'
that lin- be paid. •
Jar Duty, an excise officer, who been eon-
'sidled of a number of gross frauds uaott the reve-
nue of the country. by making f„ ire sections of seve-
ral quantities of malt. submitted to his official in.
spettion, w..s adjudged to be imprisoned in the
comma. gaol et Appleby, in the county of West-
nsorlao.l, for none calendar months.

Laid who was maws sal ~f* obstruiSinz
certain revenue officers in the exercise of their ditty,
was ordered to be committed to toe maul of Lan.
caster for tbrre calendar months.

Adtvard I Usual, conorded of obstruaing a press
gang in the execution of their duty, and dtding in
the escape of a man whornrney imp:tract upon
the streets of Hull. was idjudg. d hr the Court to
be impi tanned in the Castle of York for six calendar
trionli•s.

Jaws Crimea, George Straw. jcia Brasier, and
Edwafri i,4er, convicted of conspiring to prevent
Witueni from appearing before the Magistrates, to
give his evidence upon a chaise RI a 411 agaruit a man
named Farley, for selling spirits without a license,
wete adjudged, the two tomer to be imprisoned in
Horsham U.iuf, in the County of Sussex, tux the
space of :At mouths ; 414 the t wu hater for une Ca-
it.ndar mouth.

John Gaddy, convicted of receiving naval itoret,
knowing them to have been stolen, was adjudged
to be imprisoned for six months, in the Gaol at
Exzter, in the County of Devon, and to sand upon
the pillory for one hour on a muket day, between
the hours of twelve and two in the afternoon.

TN► ILING P. COI . D4ll[R.

The ATI oarev-G moved for judgment
in this CdSr.

Col. Draper accordingly attended ix Court. and
several additional affidavits were produced by the
Attorney-General, and read aloud in Court, for the
purpose of disproving those which were read upon
a late occasion, when the sta-tjesl WAS before the
Court, and particularly that sit Dr. Lynch.
The first affidavit was that of the Earl of Butting-
hamshire, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of
State for the Colonial Department. which stated,
that he never gave any instrusSions to John Sullivan,
Esq. the Under Secretary, to institute any investi-
gation into the coadua of Governor Fitton ; that
such hauits of intimacy ez:sted between him and
his Secretary. that he was convinced Mr. &Alava.'
would have communicated his opinion and inten-
tions to the Deponent, had or ever taken • upon
him to forward such instrudions. Oo the contrary,
he was satisfied that Mr. Sullivan w..s most analogs
to create harmony amongst the Commisvoners.
1 he Atfid.rit of the Right John Sullivan
expressly stated, that Colonel Fullatton had no in•
sopani/is from him to investigate the c•tnilat of
General Piaon ; but that he had always miaowed
that the Commissioners were to at jointty in the
Government of the Island of Trinidad ; that various
letters had passed betwixt him anlColuoel Fuller-
ton to that effe.ft ; and from toem it worlld appear,
that the greatest friendship subsisted betwixt that
genileman and Governor Fitton ; th a the Depo-
nent never took stay step, e.ther daettly cr iodi-
redly. to inja e Governor Pi ton : nor did he. either
ditedly or inditertlY. isidt tn Lr Lynch. ihse_issaa.

• • ,

probability, the said 0-overttletn wadi be me
tined firm Trinidad to La grei/# es•
The affidavit of C.,/noel Fullerton set feed. tfisi
he. alcrno with Sir Semite! Hood, were apoointed
Jule -Commissioners over the island of Trinidad
that he to ver received any instruatone from eithert.
of the Secreterric to investigate tee cundua of GAlL-
vernor Men, or to do any thirg to remove histi 1y
from his situa:ion ot GOlreffen—that Mr. Saimaa,
in his setters, recommended to him to eremose the
greatest eorlialiey amongst raCi: other.
These affi•tavits being reed,
Mr. Dencov sddr seed thy Court le beim'''. of
Corodel Draper. It fell to hi:n, he said. to state
what observations occurred. tenirg to stiletto-or.: tbis
offence with which the Defendant was charged.
From all the evidence iliac had been reed. he weld r.
not CAL that the Collet were convinced that
Defendant had endeavoured, to the utmost of his '
power, to prevesi the sale of this publication, so
soon as he had heard the Court express their renot-
on upon the subjelt. Nix cuukt he think the Court
imagined that the attendant had been geslty at first
of ushering int tale world a parephlet.containing fads
which he hints if did no. Judy believe to be retie. , •
The Delendlost had ..ot given a hasty credit to the '• ,
affidavit ref Ur. Lynch.—(Here the Counsel mad a
passage from the beak, reistive to the inquiries
made by the Defendant, aeto the eharaacr of Dr.
Leach, previous to his reeeiviug th- itifurmation as g•
truth.)—ln truth, Governor Piann's coadeft had • ,
been Aatially investigated, and Is- lee the kited of
(zircutostances Witch tepded to psi! y A
the Defendant in having attached credit to the pre-
vious reports he had heard.) lie trusted these fats
would, at least, relieve the colonel of any impute-
bon beyond that which belonged to the
publication in question it was part of bts instrece •
UM. frum Colonel Draper, and 'he was brand to
say, that, upon the hoeour of a gentlemen, he Aid
believe the Affichvit which Dr. Lynch had mad-, •
as to Govefitor Paton ,tit being steifted with any
proceedings that had Liken place. The Deiendoit
wished it to be understood teat he was incapable
of publishing, or of believing, any such reports,
without. in the first place, making stria irritita •
to the utmost aids power. He trust• d, after •
the Court had heart, in regard to the cnaraeter of s
die Defendant, which had been most favourable and 4- s
respeelable, the Court would, in administering jus-
tice, allow something to his feelings as a Colehel
and a Geotleman, upon what, he thought, had been
a most undeserved attack upon Governor Piaon,
who had formerly been his Commander, and his
friend.
Mr. M•laY ATT. on the lima site. added a bar
observation'. Toe conv rsatisn wt, ch a) t.vsch
had with ace. Sudivoi han u•t. denied by the effie
davit of the latter Fool-man. He had not stated
tat he di' not advi it. Dr. Lynch proem, letters
to Colonel kuai. i.on, in to elerence
PiSon. as that gentiemat: was abyss. to he recalled ; •
nor did the aikido, tof the Earl of 13..clingh.snr.
shin state more. then that there was WA t aratr.M.
Os the part of his Lorlsrop, to give sustritaoins fur •
say isomosigerien. - He sleseld fiAt take upon him.
self to say, eh ither the effioAvit of Or. Sullivan or
of Dr. Lynch, were the most true; all th it Col.
ludarton wished to have believed. was, rhzt he
had n r reason to t.ubt Use won ot what be htd
stated at thy time he pulo.shed. •
Mr. Goer iv also, oa behalf of the DefeuJants
urged similar aronsents.
The Arroatosv-Gainet then addressed the
Court on the part of the Prosecution.—Col. Draper
(said be), must certarely feel mixt indebted to hie
Learned Flied, Mr. Danecy, for the cone:di-ration
watch he had desired the Court to entertain for nix
(the I)efindont's) charAder, candour and sincerity.
o wan seemed mote alive to these tenser feetiage
tfoin Col. Draper ; no man seemed more impatient
of the choge, that it should ever have occurred tie
any of their Lerdships, or to Mr. Sullren, that
Col. Diaper would ever have published what ha did
not believe so be sir nly tru-. 'the Colonel mono
ed to feel that life itself ass not worth supporiag
with such en imputo.ioa. He wished, however,
he had had the same consideratiod le- Mr. Sullivan,
he detized their Lordships to have fur him. He
was incified in saying, that if this Ganderuat, had'
ransaeked the English language, for the purpose of
seleaiag the most insulting and degrading, the most
raaeorous and malevolent words, he coma not have
found any more so than those he had used upon this
occasion agoost the Ptasecatur. And yeti it was
ssid, that die Colonel had not engaged in this busi-
ness light's'', bet that h- h -.ate eves y necessary
ire:ploy. and that be had puha,. ed it from a con- .
viftion.th it he, as a good s -jet, was hound to
make it public. Dm to what did this inquiry tool 1
He merely told their Lordships, that the man who
had given him this it,formation, had been proved by
him to ice a man of high chafe .t.r. %V.'s this role
treating the business lightly t Would it ntt7tVa
been proper, besides mAtong tines roe ...out 1)r.
Lync to have ir:qtereu aim into the charattei
Mr. Sut.ivan, tom. other quarters If be had
done this, he wadi hive found I Mr. dttlevoi
• was .1 man, against whom the 'wrests of slander had
never beet. ra ed. The CflAT;e agrean Mr. bulli•
van was in itself so improbAble, that one wouli
have supposed the Defendant had not been in a
sound state of mind, when Le listened tt) the sear-
sedum and believed it to be trot was a charge
of the deepest die against an incite, •al, holding ate
official situation, the manner in which .1 was come •
municated to use who was a petfol stranger to
him, the Plaititiff, and that stranger eve,. unknown
at the time to the Deteno-nt himself. retul.-ted ie
impcssible to imagine that Aoy man et common
sense could have given credit to it. kite Attorney.
General conclude! a long and aisle aodiess, by scat.
ing. that too-ler all Le circumstarfes. Cots was a
care which called not for a siighe out for a sevese
judgment.
Mr. Poet followed upon the same sire.
Col mei Draper men uleied to make some ob-
servatioos to the Court. which he re: oe ; forosolo
awn to do. provided I o did net give diem AS a re-
ply to the Counsel for the prosecution, but merely
es additional tAa. omitted by he owl Counsel. .:.nd
ricii might tend in mitig.eien of pun
He bad not proceeded far, bower Pg to his iddrese,
warn tat Court in erupted into, by ,nice ming him,
that he wat going beyole t;-'e limits generally
lowed by the court ; and upon this. he. te--*--

4

:~

• fit.
~

• • .
4

it'

I

t~

,1
r
r