The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-12-08 00:00:00

COURT off' COMMON totiNciL

GUILDHALL:
Yesterday a Court was held to receive the Re-
port of the Committee upon the Address and Peti-
tion to thc King for the dismissal of Ministers.
Shortly after the arrival of the Lord Mayor. his
Lordship caused to be read the following Message
from liar Majesty, communicated by the lion.
Keppel Craven. one of her Majesty's Vice-Cham-
berlains:—

" Brandenburg!' House, Monday,
Derenther 4, MS.
" MY Lonto-1 sin commanded hr the Queen to ea',
that her [Majesty weight feel livreelf d.firient in grat it tittle if
she ossified to testify her obligaiioni to yonrself and he
Corporation of She City of London, fur the extraordinary
attentimis which you paid her Msjesty, on her iste anent.
once on divine service at St. Paul's Cathedral.

" The Queen was in the highest sievee giatified by the
pod order which she oltserred amongst a greater collection
of persons than bee Majesty had ever before beheld, vr than
any other city in Europe can exhibit.
" Her Majesty is more psrtirularly obliged to your Lord.
ship for your refusal to comply with the smogs-minus of the
timid, or to yield to the alarms of the weak, AS she is con-
vinced that time people are too sober in their condom, and
too enlightened in their sentiments, to need the addition of
military inlet ference to earner that obedience which is due
to constitutional authority nod lawful power.
" 1 hare the honour to be,
" My Lord,
" Your Lordship's most obedienthumble Servant,
. .

R. K. CRAVEN. Viee-Chomheileio.
" To the Right Hoo, the Lord Mayer of bandou."

Mr. FAVELL moved—Thrt her Msj.sly'i most
gracious Message be entered on the Journals.—
Ordered.

ADDRESS TO THE KING.

Mr. Fairtp.t. moved the order of the day for
taking into consideration the Report of the Com.
nutter oil the Address In the King.
Strangers were ordered to withdrew.
A long discus.ioit to9k place on the motion—
That the Address of the Committee be adopted.
Mr. T. N. WILLIAMS viay strongly opposed to
any Address whatever being carried up to the
Throne on such en occasion, saki divided the Court
upon the motions which was curried by a majoitty
of 46.

Some alterations were agreed upon, end the Ad-
dress war adopted.

The Court wies occupied for a short time with
petitions.

THANKS TO THE ADVOCATES OF THE QUEEN.

Mr. OLDHAM wowed that the Reqnibition-in take
into consideration the following mot. should be
read

" Tbet es the impartial administration of jriatire and the
security of the rights ■nd liberties of the subject, depend
greatly on the qualification of Advocates a the bari this
Court loth direct that the Thanks of this Court (or the Free-
dom of this City, In a box of heart of italt he presented to
Henry Hriougham, F,sq. M.P. the Queen's Attorney General,
in manifestation of the sense it entertains of the inviolable
integrity, unshaken firmness, and distinguished talents,
which hr has displayed in defending her Majesty against the
Hill of Pains and Penalties introduced into Parliament for
the purpose of divorcing her Majesty from the King, and
depriving her of her rights and dignities as Queen of these
realms,"

The like motion with respect to Thomas Denman, Esq.
her Majesty's Solicitor-Geoeral.
The like mottos with respect to Dr. Lushington.
Mr. 01.fillAM had left the utotion its an optional
shape, because he was aware of the dilapidated
state of the civic funds. Doting the late war many
swords of great value bad been uselessly given
away, some of them having been subsequently
sold off by the ungrateful receivers. lie regretted
that dans% the same period only two civilians,
Colonel Wardle arid Dr. Jetting, had been ho-
noured by any such notice by the Corporation of
the City. He thought it disgraceful that the City
should not have attempted to identify with their
body an ErSkims, a Fox,, Itomilly, and a Whit-
bread. lie was the more convinced because he
found that the practice of the Court before the
commencement of the war had been entirely dif-
ferent. The freedom of the City had been
conferred on Dr. Pnce, Mr. Dunning, on Chief
Justice Pratt. for his opposition to general
warrants; and on Lo►d Chatham, for his zeal-
ous services in the defence of the people's rights.
His motion went to pay that becoming compliment
to her Majesty's Advocates. Next to trial by Jury
and the liberty of the real, in importance, for the
defence of popular rights, was the ability, firmne►s,
and integrity of advocates; to the scarcity of which
qualities its the professors might be attributed the
rule, now almost undeviating, of political defend-
ants undertaking to plead their own causes. He
commented on the great difficulties with which her
Majesty's Advocates had to contend in the conduct
of their case, if the great ltoutau orator had com-
plained of the errant lug ciscumstanceo under
which lie was called on to defend Iris cheat—if the
world had acknowledged the justice of his plea—
if Cice►o, when detracting Milo, admitted—

" lime noel judicii 110.11 forma terrel *maim"

how much more reasonably might her Majesty's
Counsel complain of the mode of trial, the nature
of the tribunal, and the multiform character of the
Judger? He eulogised the character and talents
of those gentlemen. especially Mr. Brougham,
whose iirsizoorial exertions ma behalf of the com-
merce of the country, and in aid of the education
of the poor, could not be sufficiently prized. He
was aware that some exception might be taken to
his motion, because it (lid not include all the Counsel
who had acted on behalf of the Queen. He was as
sensible of the merits of the other gentlemen engaged
in that cause as any member of that Court, but he
considered that it would not be doing perfect justice
to the high and more responsible situations of the
gentlemen named in the motion to :nuke any ad-
ditiun to it. lie concluded by submitting it to the
Court.

Mr. Dimwits had great pleasure in seconding the
motion, and thought that oil the occasion of Po
great a service having been rendered to her Majesty
and the public, the deficiency of the City funds
ought not to prevent the grant. He deprecated the
continuance of her Majesty's persecutions as a
measure strongly tending to revolution. He re-
commended the presentation of the freedom of the
City to her Majesty's Advocates.
Mr. GRIFFITHS supported the motion.
Mr. SOUTHGATE spoke in support of the motion,
and went over the leading particulars in her Ma-
jetty's chequered life. The 10th of November bed
been rendered a proud day by the result of the
Queen's trial, and the minority of ninety-nine
I'eers had done. more fur the country than the

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13aram Itoinviede compelled King iohu
to sign Mflall.4 air.*
Mr. TAYLOR supported the motion. and elo-
q• Gently eulogised the character and talents of her
Majesty's Advocates.
Mr. JUPP proposed sit amendment. which was
to present six boxes of fifty guineas tin+, in order
to embrace the whole of her Majettli,Cotlitsel. in-
stead of three boxes of owe hundred ginner's to the
three Geutletwen included -its the wooden. Vini:ing.
that the proposal was not acceptable, 14r would not
press the consideration of the merits of the Other Ad-
voeates of the Quern, by way of Ninfrithtient.
rl-
though he was of °lnfiniti that the speech of Mr.
.Williams was as imporisuit to her Majesty's cause
as any that had been made iu her behalf.
After a few more remarks from Mr. Oldham
and Mr..l4pp, the first motion was agreed to with-
use a divisiitu.
The like motion V/311 carried unsoimoualy in fdi,
vour of Mr. Denman and Dr. Lushineton.
Mr. OLDHAM moved that the Resolutions he
signed by the Town Clerk, and published in the
usual payers...-Ordered.
The Lord Mayor was ordered to employ proper
persons to supply the boxy..

M►. fIURCOMBE, as Chairman of the Committee
for Cential Purposes, moved. that the Report of
the said Committee on the inquiry into the nature,
duties, cud emoluments of the office of *mood
clerk of the Court of Requests he read.
The Report was read accordingly.
Mr. Huacomix then said, that he had not him-
self signed the Report, because lie did not agree in
that part of it which related to the qualifications of
the candidates for the office. lie should, however;
pro forma, move that it he received.
111 r. Barnet; seconded the motion.
Mr. FAVELL moved, as an smendefent. that so
much of the Report as relates to the qualitii•etions
for the office he htt out.

Somt discussion took place, after which, tf Nota-
tion being put,
The Lotto MAYOR said, that in his opinion the
amendment was earned.

Mr. SAMUEL DIXON called fur n division, when
there appeAred
Fur the Amendment, 1 Alderman, 64 Commoners, ft
Tellers—Tutil, 67.

For ozreeing wiih the Report, 49 Cummosers, R Tellers—
Total, 51.

Majortly for the Antendornt, 16.

Committee of City Lands p led a Report, recom-
mending Ilse Court to till up the vitesnries of sin Alt ys
of the Sheriffs' Court, which wse agreed to, on their entering
into hood with two sureties, end the appointment to be
in the Court.

The Coors considered the Report of the Committee for
General Purposes fur appointing f..wr Assistants to the
Beadles of she Coors of Requests, and retolved to appoint
four persons accordingly to slsose *OOIIOOIM
Several other Reports, from different Committees, were
presented cud agreed to.

7H E TURF.

BETTING-ROOM, TATTERSALL'S, Deermnex 7.

DEBBY.
14 to 1 axst Gustavo. 18 to 1 opt Jock
18 to 1 apt Morel 18 to 1 seat Parisi)!
18 to 1 opt Clam 18 to 1 apt Cowsky.
OAKS.
5 to 1 apt My lady.
ST. LEGER.
10 to 1 apt Jack Epiggot Ile to 1 awn My Lady
16 to 1 apt Colwell 20 to 1 agst any other.

MR. GUILLR'S ASCENSION.

[From the Philadelphia Aurora]

" I started at Arm o'clock and 3S statutes, on Saturday
afternoon, the 14th October. By Witt mistake, and many
people interferink to assist me in ascending, the helium lost
a considerable qimatity of gas. In less than Ave minutes I
amended to the distance of 1,000 feet, when the earth die.
appeared to my view, there was not a sufficiency of
distance between my situatiou and the earth, that to dis.
engage myself from the balloon would hare beer at-
tended with great danger. In this 'lavabos, when
could not see any part of the eart►, I remained about thirty
minute', when I was transferred into a clear region, and
had the advantage of the sun, which made the earth appear
to at to be covered with stow; from thence I eutered into
another ►egion of clouds, much darker than the farmer
ones, and having no valve to my balloon, I was obliged to
ancead much higher has I world otherwise love done. la
this situation, when I ascended abort 35,000 feet, according
to the calculation I made with the help of a baroineter.which
1 had with me, the air was so obscure that I could neither see
the bellow' or paraibute, and owing to the great vital I ex-
perienced, and also the fatigues, I fell asleep, and slept foe
some time. I would still have enntiaued to ascend, had it
nut been for the wet state of the balloon, which wade it
very heavy, and this I attribute to the cease w►y my
descent was sooner than I expected. A siege* Cif
cumulate, and which I never have experienced, hop.
pened to me iu my dement—during the time I remained
surrounded by clouds, I could distinctly ►ear the Impart
of guns—l attributed this to the atmosphere heiag
generally covered with clouds, and I believe that a
eurnmolion in the air will sooner municate it to a dark
then a clear atmosphere. Whets I first discovered the earth,
I dercended so rapidly, owing to the /militia' being so heavy,
that my parachute opened itself. Wheu I got to the ground,
in an open field, and having no grappling irons, I was
dragged about the distance of Market-street, until the bal-
loon was arrested iii its coarse by a forest, where, by the as-
sistance of mane persons, I was able to get out of my
basket and secure my balloon. Mr. Ralph H. Smith, to
whom I herewith offer my sincerest Omits was kind
enough to aecompaay me to Trenton, where we arrived at
eight o'clock, p. m. " CHARLES GUILLE.
" October lath, 11520."

In the Chancery case reported in THE BRITISH
PRESS of yesterday and this day, Nlr. Powat.t, of
the Alan Commission, is the Solicitor for the De-
fendant, and the person who prepared the legal
instrninents in question.

The Cambria* passed through the Straits of
Gibraltar, 15th ult. in six days from England.
BERWICIL•UPON.TMIRED ELECTION.—At the
close of .the Poll the fist day. December 4, lite
numbers were—

Mr. Balfour B7
Sir F. Blake 77

Mrjorily for Mr. Balfour
A smart contest is expected
sfor the county of
Roscommon, in consequence of the Ilroth of Mr.
French; his son starts. but *ill be opposed by the
KING and LORTON interest, and probably by Mr.
lAMB WHITI who lately purchased the estates of
the LAKISBOROUGU family isi that mut?:

tAir lllTELLltnitiat
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COURT q~,~~IICERT.
titivinars 1111%
tairairav, Dreams= t.
llVOtorr v. VARTHINO, oterawisz ALAUCtliPtie
Mr. ['ART. et the silting of the Court, bt si
that he feared it ;would by otTnpyiii the lime of
the Conn to no good purview it. he proceeded
with tin.; motion until he had the probate of the bill
Lf thr tesistroir. WhiCh "was now suspended ou the
Erelemantical Conrt. He lima every confidence
that in ti law ilsys he would he iihle to odi,ein
ihr .piobstv.' for which region. P.AliPst his 1,441-
skip would think it most emoventeotc to let ihr Moe
boo storm, rim.
The Loeb Ciiiicti.l.oll—" You mat' art sea
eluding to your own cluocretion, Mr. Hart, but if to
iity opinion the ours ion depend. chirpy upon the
inspection Or the instiviknts."
Mr. Hiatt soul, Wel Wejtips in this vie* if ;he
cove 'which his Lordship Mad t alien it wollel be es•
trrmily importart to Sit lite probate.
The LORD CiAlletLLoll—"lttney tire 011,30
he oo."

Mr. Haar —.l Then the motion stsedi oiret tot
frw days."
The LORD CD A icti,Loa-;-" i.et it ♦iie se, and the
injenctionc 1111 l limed until the motion is disposed of."
The Court tint occtipicd the remainder ur the
day. until Goer o'clock. in hearing minions of flu
interest ricept to the patties cOncetticti, at *lnch
hour his Lordship rose.

COURT OP KING'R RCNCO, Witststifirresi,
It/RIDAT, DECIDISin 7.

Before the LORD CHIEF JiATICE.

NONALDSON V. PATTERSON AND ANOTL:F.R.

This was au action for a libel publishedby—the
Defendants in Thelibrnirig Advertiser.
Mr. Pvt.t.na read the pleadings.
Mr. StaiLLETT .fated the facts of the esiie 16 the
Jury. The Plaintiff had been collecting clerk
to Mr. Woodhead, a distiller, of Drotry.laup,
sud having some thfleretsce with him, a hear.
Mg took place at Bow.street before lie Magis.
trate, who dismissed the complaint. the Defeo.
(oot., Proprietors of The :Naming Adeertire,,
had, on these simple facts, thought proper to pub..
li-h, at the suggestion of None malicious person,
the following libel, under the head of " Interesting
intelligence," in their paper of the 10th of April,
1S119:

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'• On Thnr•Jay Binaltiaim, late coliettiag clerk I. Arc.
Jolt, Woodheall, atoillar, of Drisry.lane-, Wilk committed
from Raw-street, for entheztling various 1111114* of Muse,
■ considerable animiat, the propel ty of his late maitre'
This libel, t►e a impel' which circulated
to extemistly among publicang as did The Morn-
ing Advertiser, was calculated to be of peculiar
injury to the Plaintiff, and as the Drfrudants had
not thought proper to lAA any ju•ttftcntion on the
record, the only question for the Jury was the
quuntuin of damages to which the Plaintiff was
entitled, which the Learned Coun►el, tinder all the
cireitinstances, contended ought to be ample.
Mr. John Mallisun and Mr. Pretawich, front the
Stomp-Office, pru►ed the 1/publication and proprie-
torship.
The paper was put in and the libel read..

John' Walker ermined—l know the Plaintiff.
Ile was clerk to Mr. John Woodhead, of Drury.
lane.
Cross-examined lty Mr. Cosner —I have hewed
the Plaintiff say, that Mr. Woodhead did accuse hinds
of embezzling motley, and the amounts were after-
wards settled ; for the balance of which he Oise
Mr. Woodhead security.
Re-erg:aimed by Mr. Sc "teem—The Plaintiff
was not committed from Bow street. There was
to pretence for the charge.
Mr. GURNEy addressed the Jury for the De.
fent:tants who had, he miid, copied the article in
question from another paper; and they had, when
niforaned Ly the Plisintiti of the error into which
they had been led, immediately seceded to his re-
quest of giving him the reparation which he tie.
mantled, by inserting a contradiction in their paper
of the following day. Under these cittatiiistanceo,
though he allowed a verdict must be gireu against
his clients, yet, he contended, atiy damages which
would carry costa would be suMcteut to satisfy the
justice of the case.
Matthew Mills exams/pied—l ant a publiciort4
know the Plaintiff; I met him at The Nun**,
Advertiser office, when he came to complain of tie
misrepresentation. The Publisher expressed his
readiness to comply with the Ph.intiil'e repitsr,
and insert a contradiction of the article in the paper
of the following day ; he ulso @hewed the Plaintiff
the paper from which the paragraph was titan.
I afterwards walked with the Plaintiff down Fleet-
street. and he assured me that if the retraction Was
published, nothing more should core of it.
Cross-examined by Mr. SCA Strille—The paper
is generally supported by a subscription of publi-
cans. I inn oat interested in the paper, but ‘1 base
friends who are interested in it. I had au torrent
in It some time past ; I assigned it five or six &lye
ago. I ;,rot nu money for it ; I had a giant of liquor,
of sherry, fur it. It was worth something ttiore
than a glass of wine; 1 am not to haye it bark
again. My opinion of the person I sold it to is,
that he is a iery hottest man. There was no ,writ-
ing about the glass of sherry ; I took it inwardly.,
Ite.exarinipted by Mr. GUIDRY—The paper is
carried on for the benefit of the widows and children
of publicans.
Mr. Scam-err replied, and contended, that his
client's claim to damages was not at all lessened by
the evidence which the ingenious conveyante that
had qualified Mr. Mills fora witness had enabled
blur to give. Ile thought there was little doubt
that the hottest man who Ltd that witness's interest
in the paper assigned to him for a glint of wine.
was, fur another glass, to pus that interest back so
him.
The Loan Cunt Juvrice charged. the Jury,
who. after a short consultation, timid.. verdict for
the Plaintiff—Damages, SOL
ref.SToll AND WIFE V. COOS.
The Defendant kept w house at Haanteseertitti;
the Plaintiffs were his lodger.. In pie mobil of
the day mentioned in the declaratioti, a dialtift4eif
on irrititting.natiire tea place no the iiiatri heturgep
the Plaintiff's wife sad the Defendant.
,Thlneter
not only insinuated a charge %Ain't the fait fame of

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tfit. Plaintiff's *if', bat proesetled tot argutnents of
a more convincing natnre,tind acCortlitig to the evi.
,fence given, sopped the mouth of the female
Plaintiff by a Won, of hik' fiat.- 'Ch. swank was
proved by the evidence of the Ptaint4's sister.
The rase was left to the Jury, who found forge
Pla‘tutiffs—Damages, Is.

• OLD 8.41 LEY. N(;v Emma 7.

STREET ROBBERY.

neurge Robinson, al grit iti, ruJ Juhn Sack,
aged 15, Mere c.spitasily iisdictel tor ausuhilig
J. %V. Mountain, Esti. on the King's highorry, and
*Stikine: from hi.' persona watch.
'll% lißODEßteii condweted the prot.reutiun, sod
17.. n01.1.414E4 the defence.

!slie Pro•eentor stated he was wallsiog. near
11 „, 0...t00rt. IslintAlon, nil tirttirrlay. the 11th of
',l:ivernher, the night of the ilisarnit:iiiion, when lie
%C. 44 o'4:inert behind by twe oval, ;mt.! tile Prisoner,
`'5.4644 esnie before hint, and snatched his watch ;
iNe o:her Prisoner, Robinson. was one of the men
svki ht!d him behind. NVitites: was liositive the
Pri-oners were the men. Subsequently the °Prese-
t utur ecc-topattied a constable to a public-house,
twit nn etiterin4 the tap-room immediairly pointed
out !Le two Pri,oorts us the men who hail robbed
h;Tri ; 111-y were accordingly taken tato custody.
The Priiinier, on brio;; called on (or their de-
f; ace, as-cried their innocence, and cAlis.l several
pr.rs:nis, who swore that the Prisoners were not
:tir.r:it from the imblie-huu-e on the CVelblllic in
Sev,ial respectable persons gave Robinson a good
cSa:Lca.rs.

J ice BAY LEY blnifirned eviciehre• at
cimsoletable It 'lob, and c..minrott.d. ()a the eohtra.
rioy of ihr rvi.irnee that the Prosecutor thught pop—
sildy he mistake:).

•i• fie July, altrr a ft minute, consAtration,
rrolluuliced veuclict of—Sot

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