The National Register.
London, England, 1821-07-30 00:00:00

CLARIEE V. STEVENSON.

The plaintiff. au attoruey, sottglit to recover (rota the
defendant, who carries on hosi orbs in flow-lane, Cheap-
the a tumult (du bill of costs incur sed in proceedings
under the bant.tuptcy of Messrs. Nicholson and Brown,
of Buw-lace. 1 Ir. Stevenson was the landlord of a house
let to Nicho!son and Brown, who because baakrupts.
The assignees, Cow per and Cuthbert, as it appeared front
the evidaiice, made application to the tfefeottant to per-
suit the good. to be sold tot the premises. The
who acted as attorney, at last obtained the defendant's
consent to sell upon the pr.luises, having first satisfied
the rent. A petsuis of the SUMAC 011.11r1well was put iu

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as icdant, and, as it was suspected Ttiirlwell was alwmt
to sell his furniture anti injure the premises, the plain tir
advised the defendant to make adi tress. The goods
were accordingly taken, and an action of replevin was
afterwards brought, which occasioned proceedings on
tile part of Mr. Clark, which constituted his bill,
amounting to r; I.
tiosinecs dove was proved by several witnesses.
Mr. ( tinnev, liar the deEmtlant„ conic•olcd, that his
chew was not Iteltle to the plaints 'a claim. Mr. Ste-
venson !tying appitcal to Ir. Mr. Clark, dented his consent
11 to the .11.: gunds the premises, and the subsecitich
I.l.(weetlitigs, ludom he was released by the assinees filial
alt costs and expences. The a.signees in con.ttittel,e,
z-ig.a..d a guar..nty, lty whici Slctell:On was to he at no
es,penee. The defendant had done no more that !cod
uis naitte to the proceedings of the assignees, and the
plaintiff; who acted as their at torna.y.
The guar:lnt! signed by the assignees was proved, and
as it did not appear that the plaintiff hail the least
ground to sustain the action, the learned Judge ditecteJ
a nonsuit.

TUESDAY, JULY 24.
TAR K,NO

This was an information flied by the Attorney-General
against the defendant., for a seditious libel published in
tile Republican paper, on the Cli.h of October, 1820,
printed by Jane Carlile.
The Solicitor General stand the nature of the libel :n
the jury. It ran thus—" 1101 one vice that the
King put his hand to his heart alll.l t;ay ' I am innocent
of it.' lie has inherited the gross obstitiaq of his fa-
ther, and the avarice and meatiness of Ms mother, with-
out any of their domestic qualities; to this ne has added
all that vice has taie6ht or coojectined." The defendant
stood in the situation of s,iratit to Mr. Guide, anti sold
the number of The Mputfican in which this gross libel
was pia:dished, and could not be ignorant of the nature
of the work. Es idence was then called.

S. lioitlitch, messenger of the Press to the Stamp
Office, proved ria‘ing purchased the number n. The
Republican of the e2Otii October, Istlo, containing the
libel, from the defendant, who served in the shop iu
which witness had seen him for some months.

Mr, Prendergast addressed M. jury Mr die defendant,
and urged that he was merely acting as the servant of
Caudle, and could not know the contents of the papers
which lie sold. He trusted also that the jury would
consider the extreme youth of his client, who was now
only 19 yews of age, and was inertly to tile exeleise of
his lawitd calling, entleavourin,; to procure ad honest

H. T. Willis was called and examined ; he gave the
defendant a good character for moral and religious prin-
ciples.
Mr. Jcatice Best charged the jury, that the publi-
cation was a most gross and scandalous libel. The jury
immediately found the defendant guilty,