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London, England, 1821-11-19 00:00:00

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defence, I must abide by; the conseriebee.'—Tfret de
fondant was Not allowed to proceed, and thereforeliad
not the right of making her defence:
Mr. Justice Laylry.—lf mischief is insinuated
young 11l i l punishment will not remedy the evil.
not better to stop the reading of improper matter ?
Mr. throuer.—l contend, my Lord, all a judge cat's
is to say, retention von against repealing offensive state*
;hems, and if he persi els, the judge limy inflict punish.
went. Here the defence is slopped altogether, and
contend the defendant is entitled to a new trial.
The Cord Chief Justice.—The struggle in the present
case is, whether a person charged with the publication of
a blasphemous libel, shall be allowed to state openly in
the heating of the jury, as much matter of the same kind
as any friend to the accused may think proper to prepare,
and a Court of Justice be made a theatre fur blasphemy.
—" It appears that a passage of this kind having been
found ice the written paper, w Lich the defendant', trout
her sex, should have abstained II um.reading. It was dia.
graceful to a Con rt Jiimairie to hear it.
Mr. Justice Bayley and Mr. Justice Hulroyd were of
the same opinion. •rl
Mr. Juslice Best said, after stating the facts of thit
case, he should take no further pail in the question.—
Rule re fused.

WEnNrsnAY, NOY. 11.
The Grand July 1111 S ilrq came into Court, an I Mr. Jul-
lice Bayley charged them in the usual trims; they then
retired to con'•td}r the Itiedoes beh,re [hem.
TUC II 11%(:. v. bOSAN wtvIGIPT.
On the motion of Mr. Adolphus the defendant was brimeglit
np to plead to an indictment 'Preferred by the Stich ty for the
soppy( sl•ion of vice, elitirgiog her with publishing a Masplie-
1110th and seditious libel. The defelid.mi pleaded not guilty.

JANEU, WILD ANSI
1116 was an action tried before Mr. J tuu ice Park, at Lan.
cust?r. The senight to recover damages. for false
imprisonment. The ilefen, ants Were hat
It appeared the) committed the plaintiff fur me examina-
tion, on the 12th or Sept on a charge of cutting don mi
trees standing ou the road side. l'hey continued to re-co emit
him Amu time to time, until the end of December, !closing
to cominit him full.), and lie was prevented from applying
to I.e admitted to bail. The plaintill at hest made appliea.
lion to the Lord Cinet Justice, fur 11.1 order to be fully com-
mitted, that lie uniJit be bailed. Ile was consequeutly
brought ill. before Mt. Justice Bayley, and admitted to bail.
At the assizes, the hill of indictment was thrown out by the
Grand Jury, and the &alma brought his action.
Both magistrates were included iu the defence, but at the
trial the evidence applied only to one. It only affected Mr.
%dd. anti Mr. Judge Palk held that the plaintiff must be
nousuited.—Both &feud:this beim. blood ou the record, it
was necessary the evidence should nlf•ct both.
Mr. Denman moved this day fora new trial Ile contended
that the evidence %say sufficient to coots ict Mr. Wild, and
therebtre he ought to have been found guilty. Toe di
icetion of the learned Jii4e to tionsoit the plaintiff was
w Immg and cm- sequen ity t on„ ht to be a new trial. The
COW t plaited a rule to skew cause.
Cot lIIINAL INFORVATION.—TILE *LNG V. WILLIAMS)
Mr. Scarlett moved to lite a rruuiml information against
Mr. Ambrose Williams, primer mid proprietor of a news-
paper, published in the City of 1/..rliman, for a cress- libel on
the e.tablivlted cicry.—The teal 'Ted counsel bald
read lime libel, ;Intl time COW t no doulit would feel disposed
tip grant the mnti•m. It was dated 8 aura:my, Ameg. the bill,
15.21, and the subj. ct was the death of the Qtweii.-1 he
a thole 5i411.1.1 bout genera: Irseect had he. n paid throughout
the kiii.mdion on the death of her late Nl.jesty, with the ex-
ception of the Efesciipal City of Durham, a hieli, &iota ith-
standinA it hail six chuiclies, did not sound one hell to an-
imation the itepartnre of the spirit of nu injured Queen.—
Dail the gelitlemeu stopped theie, lin a pill irtll illll perhaps
would have been mad.• 1.1 time court, but he weal un to libel
the clergy. The n liter knew not where the order fat
keeping the bell. silitit came from, hut it airs a demonstra-
, tion of the undo istiati spirit pervading the clergy. which
made the establi.lwd !torch au object of derision, mid the
public consider the beneficed clergy as usurpers of those piss.
sessions with which they are endussed. There w•as a Sensi-
ble decline of sin, dual feelits, which led the clergy to lend
themselves to tempura! authority. It aims impossible the
pretela State at t lust; Kamer or later Ilia Whale
fabric would fall. Upon an occasion Ink.• the death of the
41,ieen, the defendant had thought it r.glit I.) Make an attack
on the established c let ey rat EllglBllll, and 'n11'111'111:11 ly Inut
01 Dorham. 11. is it to lie imitated that the great body of
the established choir h were to be treated with so little rev-
peet.—lf attacks like this could he permitted, it wooed he
impossible taat the ri varr•ud body could ever expert to find
the respect due to their sacred lintel ions.
Toe Lind Chief Justici..--Take a mule to show cause.
TIM KING U. is. ut.IIN LSI".

Mr. C. l'hilltps limited to fil.• a ei bonnet information
against a ottitlettnin of tine name of Thornhill, one of his
Adtjest)'s Justices (tithe .05 the Ct.inity of Dotty, for
ini tending to admit William lit mit:bank, jun., to bail, on a
charge ut tam art-, itial set-eclat% that 111•1,4111 front illStice.—
rhe (acts titwa he in lite lei.. .lemon of met reader!. A
di.el is as fituriit h.iween Nlr. iti b•iink. and a p11111:111:111
!Gliall'll Cuddle, Ipso the delta thht:ti 11,11 of the latter to pay
his address, s to the sist.4 or itilehatik. 111 r. (Audi.>
was woutided in I lie contest, and WWI after vied. 'l'lw con-
stable then went in search of Mr. Brittlebank, the coroner
basing funint a tenth I of murder, as he was told the object
of his searsli was in his lathe.% house, and the officer tinder-
s; ..... I that the Illiwou,s4 ;us ittrawled by the magistrate, Mr.
Titoraitill. taking hail to WOOL far his Tipp( /trance. When
Ile' trial cone nit at the asst gds, t he accused did not appear.
Ile hid left the country. The affidavits further stated, that
to recognizance was actually entered intro fur the appear-
ance of the accused, and it t.as suggested that lung intimacy
and friendship existed not een Mr. 't hornbill and the Itrit
tlebatik family, whirls had Induced the forittec to screen Mr.,
11m. lit ittlebank (rum tile consequence of a:charge of wilful
murder. _ .

Judie K iyley ailed whether any of die affidavits stated
that Mr. Britdeirank wn,weu It do Mr. Thoi a hill.
Mr. Phillips answered in the negative. l'aey wete tuld
he wav in the "home with ti e au, q jsu tile.
The Lord ChielJuidiee said. every wind io die affidavit
miglei lie true, and yet Ili.• geothisoni 4.Am:I whom Mr.
l'uiilipsuiirvavl be utterly iAnGraiit of the tistmaction.
Judge Bagley.—'this Court ran never grant a rule for
criminal iuroiniatiuu, uulrs they have well legal evidence
Kb bb UKIO satisfy a grand
The Com t muter all she eiirumonncev, were of opinion
Mr. Phillips should produce the nffidavd of the ina.tistratg'u
a hose lest itBlllly olighi throw a 1:,111 upon the rubjcel.
Mr. of 11101

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JO Mil 111 SPITS
The Sulit hot General moved the judgment of the Court on
Henry Collins, tried before Mr. Justice Burrougb, sit the
last Susses Assizes, found guilty of uu assault ou Daniel
Sparshott.
Mr. Justice Best read the notes of the learned Judge taken
at the trial, from which it appeared the assault ass violent
and iniphwalted.
The defendant (who Was formerly Lieutenant ha hi, Ma-
jesty's ship Severn, of whirh the vl.iintiff is Purser), in his
defence. alleged that the first assault ass committed by the
plaint,tl, who rude Lis horse him, as he was rating
the beach at Sussex. He produced certificates of good con-
duct as an officer fur le years.
The Solicitor General. in aggravation, descanted on the
unprovoked brulality of an assault committed on a person
in the situation of the prosecutor, advanced its years, and
firmly bliu.l.. . . _

Mr. Justice Bayley, pronounced the sentence of the Court,
which Wile. that the defend.tnt be impris tttttttt for three
calendar Alas in the Kiug's Bench go i,on, anti :dim words
enter into recoginsances to be of good behaviour fur tise
years, himself io Wt. and too sureties in LIU each.

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was not allowed to proceed, and therefore had hom again uo the suldeet. *.i , .
right of making her defence.' ~. .41
Justice Layley.—lf raisc;iief is insinuated into Mr. Andrews °Mei to sbn nest wlei- a man-
Muds, punishment will not remedy the evil. Is it damus should mut issue*. *Ups magistrates of Marv.
ter to stop ilie reading of improper matter ? le hone p.ilicerolticelic ' to 141,•eourt the proceedings
3oolLer.—l contend, my Lord, all a judge can do ;mains; several persons. prosecuted under the coal art.—
ii, rcasition you againo repealing offensive stale- The object is to prove Ilse points of law urgued before the
and if he persimi, tile judge May inflict punish- Judges.
Here the defence is stopped altogether, and I - THURSDAY, ROT. 16.