The National Register.
London, England, 1820-11-20 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

Pcti‘ion to the House of Commons to impeach Mi-
nisters, but it did not partake of the same unanimity
that distinguished the Meeting u the Freemason's
Tavern. The Resolution to congratulate the Queen
was opposed by a party which seemed to muster all
their strength in the Ward, but their oppositi.n
wra ineffectual, and the Address and Petition were
ultiffilaWlyk eattitd amidst the acclamations of the.
sn-claittiiilaity.. It will be recollected that this
i 4174 -00,, Ward differs from Cripplegate With.
o.4444mi3eday,f4l4ll§telrial and there the tri•
I • pli:greater,.lB ,the •Ministerialists werc
Li f; 14C.theirOwit ground, which is another
monsfrotive proof of the public feeling and public
opinion iir frvo....r of her Majesty.

The German papers still continue to. advert in
teams cd; great satisfiiction to the busitiess done at the
late £►ir at Leipsic. With respect to English goods,
we arc concerned to find that they are getting out
of favors. We foresaw that the. making of knives
with cast iron, to render them• more cheap, would
be ruinous to tho character of English cutlery. We
quote the following extractirom a letter from Leib
sic, which among, other matters, contains remarks on
British manufactures, by no means favourable. It
says, " The dealers in silk, chth, and leather goods,
appear more satisfied than itsual ; and if the. German
manufactures could not in many respects entirely
maintain a competitio►► with the foreign, there will
certainly be no stagnation in the activity of the ma-
nufactories. Many English goods remained unsold;
notwithstanding their extreme cheapness ; for the
northern purchasers have also become sensible, that
to be cheap they arc badly Manufactured. A great
impulse was given to the fair by the extensive pur-
chases made for Turkey by-the numerous merchants
from iklaeedonia,. and the provinces oa the I)anube.
The new regulation of the custom a►:d exeise, which
are greatly simplified, are highly commended,"
On Wednesday last,ia meeting was held at. the
Guildhall,. York, pursuant ,to requisition, for the
purpose of voting an address to his Alajasty, to de-
sire him to dismiss his Ministers.. The Lord Mayor
was in the chair. Several 'resolutions were agreed
to. The following addreseses and petitions were
severally moved. and carried—an afddress to the
Queen, congratulating herd on her victory
to be presented to her Majesty by the city repre-
sentatives.. The next was• an address to the King,
desiring him immediately to turn out his Ministers;
tO be presented to his Majesty by the Duke of
Norfolk, Earls Thanet,..andyitswilliam, and Lord

Dundas. A petition lo,the House of Commons was
also read and agreed to, praying that the agitators
of the Milan Commission may be brought to justice.
The two addresses were weed to be signed by
the Lord Elayur, as the act of tLe meeting, and
the petition.to liefor signatures.
COURT oil DENCiI, WErroixeraa,..Nov. 18.
THE KING V. 3DIRONUi.
Judgment deferred, Air. Justice Best nut having re- ,
ceived the report of the trial.
John Bacon, convicted of au assault upon a Custom
House Officer, was brought up for judginent.—Dis-
sharged upon entering into recognizances.
John Lock and Augustus laurel, fur smuggling, three
mouiths' imprisonment at Dorchester gaol, and w fluid
wcognizatices. . .
tattLittt.
Jane Carlile, who was yesterday apprehended upon
another er officio information, for publishing a seditious
and blasphemous libel. -was kept in custody till this
morning, when she was discharged upon the hail of
Plant, a broker, and William &ilk:ow, printer, to
appear to take her trial for the offence.
, KING V. CARTWRIGHT, WOOLEE, AND OTHERS.
The Chief Baron having refused to set his seal to the
hill of exceptions after three nimithb' consider.ilim ,
new trial will he moved for iii this case on Nionday
mornitvo. A11..1).4111'111 and Ur. Hill are retained for
Alajor Cartwright; the other defendants appear for
themselves.
THE KING. a THE TOWNSHIP DT HATFIELD.
This was a question wheth. r the towt.s:iip ul Hatfield,
in Yorkshire, was bound to keep in repaint pubic road,
or whethei the owners of Lund near the road were I able
to mike the said repairs. 'rite question was this dad
argued, and the Court were of °piano!' dolt the town-
ship had made out nn case of exemption, and that they
were liable to make the said repairs. •
The Commissioners for proroguing Parliament, it
is supposed, will be the Lord Chancellor, the Arch-

bishop of Canterbury, and the Duke of IVellitigton,
or the Duke of Montrose.
Her Majesty on Monday received nearly twenty
addresses from ditkrent parts of the country, which
were presented to her by deputation, and by dif-
ferent Members of Parliament. Among others, we
noticed Sir Robert Wilson, Mr. Hume, and ;it.
Gerrard Noel. Mr. Alderman Wood was in attend-
ance, and read the answers. Hcr Majesty was in
.the highest spirits, and received the cordial congra-
'tulation of hoc friends with great dignity, but at
,the same time with the must gratifying comic-
scension.

SW

CRIPPLFIGATE WARD.—..-There was a meeting. on
Friday of the inhabitants of the Ward of Cripple-
gate within, for the purpose ofaddressing the Queen.
upon the fate of the BM of Pains and Penalties, and
petitioning the House of Commons to impeach his.
Majesty's ministers. Several appropriate resolutions
were agreed to, and an Address was ordered to be
prepared. There were a few dissentient voices, but
nine-tenths of the meeting were decided supporters-
of the resolutions and address. Mr. Alderman
Wood, in returning thanks, observed', that since the •
13111 had met its Ca; the most important witnesses
had arrived in England. The gentlemen who had
joined in the opposition to the resolutions would
have an opportunity of seeing the evidence-of which
he spoke, if not in judicial proceedings, at any rate
iu the press. (Loud applause.)—He had it in his
power to prove that multitudes were now receiving.
pay from the public money, and had received titles,
for living ut Milan, Rome, Pesaro, and Paris,
and detaining her Majesty.. 1-le had sat down,
ut the same table with officers of rank in the army
and navy, who often expressed their surprise at the
sudden elevation to wealth and titles of the persona
thus unworthily employed, without knowing the
'nature of their mission. Being in possession of a
mass of information upon this subject„and knowing,
us he did, that the servants of her Alajesty had &sere
bribed, and .tat even .501-had been given to one of
thent fur the mere exhibition of the foolish diploma
of which so much had been said, would he have de.
it veil the name of Englishman if he had abandoned'
such a cause? (Loud cheers.) Ile defied any man
to say that he had, in pursuing the course he heat
adopted, any political view. He had taken up the •
Queen's cause front principles beyond the reach of •
contamination. He had been intrusted with all the •
facts, strengthened by the solemo declaration of her.
Majesty of l.er innocence. He found her surrounded;
by spies aid pretended friends, and it was his wabm.-
est wish that those wha now thought proper-- to,
reject that which had given conviction to the great
body of the pubiic, had seen her when reed
the paper of compromise presented to I.VuLord
Hutchinson. If they had beheld the wont and has
dignatiun with which she had refused the 50,000 k
they would nu lunger raise up the hand of' pri.judiue
against her fame. (Applause.)
Her Majesty is to be presented with a splendid
carpet, the gift of the inhabitants of Kidderminster
(where it is manufactured), the expence of which is
defrayed Ly a subscription of Is. each, in that
borough.
On Friday morning the Earl of Liverpool came •
to town from his seat at Combe-wood, and the
Chancellor of the Exchequer . came to town front
Blackheath, to attend a Cabinet Council summoned
to meet at two o'clock at the Foreign-office. The
Council sat in deliberation till abina_ half past.
three.

The gieg, of Spain has• sanctionadahe Decree of
the Cortes, abolishing all monasunies, appropriating
their immense property to pay off the .►ational debt.
This event will form a memorable epoch in the
Spanish annals, and must be considered a triumph
over bigotry in favour of the people, who must
otherwise. have been burthened to supply the exi-
gencies of the state."
An Herculean pedestrian task, fur 1W .guineas,
was attempted. on Thursday at Eaton, in /Lune..
shire, by Rawlinson, a Devonshire man, and a .re-
lation of the celebrated Old. Tow the runner.. Li
was to run twelve times round a circle of one mile
in Air. Paget's grounds (he having made the match),
in one hour and twelve minutes, which is equal to
any thing on record. He did the first three miles.
in sixteen minutes and a half, and half. the.
the distance in thirty-five minutes, well on his speed.
He did the next three miles in a few seconds over
eighteen minutes, and won by extraordinary game,.,
having a quarter de minute to spite.
Four protests have been entered on the journals .
of the House of Lords against the surrender of. the
Bill of Pains, Penalties, and Divorce, against the
Queen. It is also rumoured that the Lord Chan-
cellor means to record his sentiments upon the
3ubject in the same meatier.
The ministerials writers now insinuake that all
those who support the Queen are paid advocates,
and very naturally conclude that, because they air: •
base enough to be bought themselves, that all other
persons must be equally corrupt and interested. Her
Majesty must have as lik!: wealth. as. all the
crowned heads of Europe, LC be able to bribe her
frien►ds,. who consist of millions, as nine tenths tit
the people of the United lilingdotu.are.decidedly her
.rig has and advocates.
The loco who pleaded gt,..!ty to the charge
high treason, at the late York adjout•ned assizes, are
all of them ordered for transportation, and will be
sent off in a few days. Several of them will be
transported fur life, and others for a shorter term.
A sill.• manufactory is about to be established at
Malden, in Essex, which is expected to affotd em-
ploy►nent to a considerable number of the. peer el
b that 'MU*

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THK KING V. DAMSON.

THE KING V. O'UItYAN.

AM e_°_,

LAIC INTELLIGENCE.
COURT 'OF KING" BENCH, WIDTMINSTER, Nov. 15.

The defendant appeared in to receive judgment, t
found guilty of poinlishing a blasphemous
Mr. ('taper, before judgment WV* pronounced, moved
for a ink tti slim cause why the verdict should nut be
set aside at ttl a new trial j,rittitecl. The Learned Comisel ,
observed, i, iv:l..; a singttlar and novel ease, and the cir-
cumstances induced him io regret thud the task of sup-
porting this applieitlimi ha l mu fallen to a persoil of
more experience. tin the trial of this prosecution,
wind] come on at Guildhall on the v',3,1 of October, the
defendant stated, that beitie tieuthle to fee Colin-el, he
was obliged to plead his own cease. II:: proceeded to
read his written defence, ,iittl the observations he made
gas e offence to the Learned .J std•Je, who imposed lines
woo to to the amount of bad The defentlatil, being
intimidated by the Bread of irretrievable ruin, wai 1111-
able to proceed with Iris defence. Ile omitted many
facts and la:CW(1lb which might have been beneficial
to his cause. Tile Learned Ormel then oluserved, lie
should snake no comments of his own, but discharee
the envy reposed in hint, by reading the defendant's
affidavit ul. facts. lle accordingly read the affidavit.—
The delentiatit deposed, that having statetl, that it was a
notorions fact Ihat no gentleman at the 13,1 r would un-
dertake his defence,titeJudge lined him twenty pounds.
That the defendant was fined 401. lib' stating that
ilik;nClOrderS of society sceptics, alai the Bishops infidels
11 as ing enumerated the other lines imposed, it concluded
by saying, the Learned Judge, in his charge to the
Jury, remitted the fines, on the ground that the of
for which be imposed the fines was accomplished. The
Learned Connsel Contended, that the injitry done the
plaintiff was not lessened by the remission of tile fines.
ftuc injury was done—the Jury acting upon the impres-
sion, which the defendant bad 110 pOn'cr to remove,
found hint guilty. It was a question still to be deter-
mined, whether a Judge had power to fine for a con-
tempt. I a defendant was to he chef ktd ley fine, in the
making his defence, there untold be an ems of fair and
impartial trials---Suppose, for instance, there happened
to be a corrupt Judge, and there had been some of that
description, though fortunately none were to be found
at the present day—suppose such a Judge was illsl used
to do what a coil-opt utovernment requiled of him, how
easy would it be to baffle and confound a defendant by
misusing fines which would reduce his family to runt.
The 1311 i rtunate man in such a case, Imbrue down by due
cons' ti true to his family, would Le liturried, an
unre ictinu, to exile or die scallitld. The Learned
Coun eluded by stating, that the remission of the
' fine was proof that tit' Learned Judge (Untamed his au-
thority to impose them. Under all the features of the
case, the defend MI was entitled lo a new trial.

Judge Best —1 should be the last person to prevent
the deiemiam from ha% big a new trial. 1 will leave my
brothers, the Learned Judges, to decide the question,
without the engines,. interference, end but tor the last
hbservation of the Learned Counsel, I should not have
said one word respectine my opinion and conduct; but
the Learned Counsel has supposed that I remitted these
fines because I doubted my authority to impose them.—
I entertained no such doubt. I never could doubt, and
1 nPrer will dc; ht my authority until told by the House
- of Lords that I did wrung.
Tne Chief Justice, after some consultation with
Judges Bayly and Holroyd, said, I have not the slightest
&Mg of the power of a Judge, sitting at iVisi Prius,
to fine for contempt of Court in his presence, nor have
1 any doubt it was competent for a Judge in some cases
to remit the fine, and however painful it might be to
impose fines on d defendant, yet if he cannot restrain
him from conducting his defence without defaming
morals and religion, he has the power to impose lines ;
the propriety of the act I do not call in question. Fur
the purpose of having all the facts before to, and giving
full consideration to the question, we are disposed to
allow the party a rule to slew cause, in .order that the
discussion may come on during the present term
Judge Bayly stated, that a Judge at Aisi Priors had
clearly the power to fine for contempt. It was a Court
Record, and they had the power to fine. As the con-
tempt was against the Judge, lie was the proper person
to decide whether it was a contempt or not. 'Fite
Learned Judge concurred in granting the rule to spew
cause.

Justice Ilufroyd concurred in the opinion of his
. Learned Brethren.

THL KINO.V. JANE CARLILE.
The defendant, Mrs. Cathie, came into Court to re-
ceitC jtitlgtnenl.
Mr. Hill, her Counsel, then moved an arrest of judg-
mem, on the ground that the indorsement on tne indict-
ment was infoimal. lt stated a trite bill on two counts,
when, in fact, there were three counts. Tt!ts by
legal decisions was lithl to be a variance fatal to Lite
indictment.

The Court allowed the Learned Crmusel to take a
rule to spew cause wily the indictment should not be
quashed.

Air. Seat lett moved to file a ctiminal information
against the defentiant, for sending a challengx to a gen-
tleman of the 113111 C at Ekvaiii, Inantlishing a stuck
over him, and uosting hint as a coward on the Royal
Exchan*e.
Cuurt granted a rule to spew cause.
LEWIS V. CLLMENT..
Mr. Mt/11)140F 1/11.010 for a rule to ',hew cause why
.his turintry beiore tile Sheriff or Alithilescx would 111,1
be set aside, and the cause sent back apt': to assess (1:1-

Beiges dercro.
It appeared from the pleadinrs that a poor wan was
discharged in the Insolvent Debtor's Court. in Lite
report 01 the puxeettings which the defendant published
in the Observer, Milne reflection was mole on the cha•
ratter of the 00111(44 211 atros Hey.
An aellnat was brrtwd,t to recover damages for a libel,
aid the defendant st.ti,t,:sl j‘i went by default.