The National Register.
London, England, 1819-11-14 00:00:00

INQUEST AT OLDHAM.

Mr. qearlett nicieed for it rule to skew cause. why a cri-
minal information should out be filed agaitist Joseph
Ens iishaw, a surgeon, and Joseph Taylor, fur privately
delivering on the Valli of September last, at Oldham, a
certain paper, nut ler the sanction of an oath, to a
Jury, thereby volt avoining to cuirsipt the sources, dud
pet vent the administration of justice. The defendant.
Eat miliaw, was the medical attendenit on the demised
Lees, one of the unfortunate victims of the 16111 Aiigo .1,
at !Manchester, and was present the first day of the
but declined to be sworn, as he was one of the Society of
Friends,yet he aherwards made a written statement of I.ia
opinion, which he got privately conveyed to the Juty.
Tor mite:- defendant was the person who distributed this
to the Jury, four of whom actually reeeived• copies of it.
He confessed that there was scone clinical!), in bringim
the matte► home to Earnshaw as the writer, but au affida-
vit which lie held in his hand, will. regard to Taylor, a a*
made by a person, to whom lie admitted lie •had serreil
these copies on the Jury. He then read these attidds
irks, namely, that of Ferrand, the .42oroner, and southre,
swearing to the fact of tampering with the Jury, but dies
closing no stew fact, nut already knows); the latter der
posed to the admission of Taylor. The affidavit regarding
Mr. Earnshaw was less decisive. The deponent swore
that he had a conversation' with the defelidant.; and, two*
questioning him esti) his arldiurship of this paper, Mr. E.
did not give a direct answer. He admitted lie had 'seen
papers which were copies Of it, belt denied that be was a
party to distribute *heal amongst the Jurors.
The ChiefJustire.--Ile peattively states himself that lie
neither directly nor audneetly circulated the Tam,
amongst thp Jury.
Mr. Scariest - He does so, set the question is, whether
the circumstances I have stated eve suitieitmeto induce •thb
Court to call open him to Aviv cause wby Or information
should not gu hgatnst'him. take the fare to be clear
against Taylor. The 'taper written by Earnsbaw professes
to give his opinions un the rause ufthe death of John Lees,
The limier is aildreaed thus—" all whom it may
coecern "

The Chief Justice—The fistudlntion-nr my .present opinion
that the rule iiught to go against Taylor, is, that onthing is to
be delivered to a Jury other than upon oath. ,touctinag ti,,
matter or their inquiry. •(t dons not appear that you have
sufficient proof in this case to eliminate the writer or tats
paper.
Rule

gra:Med 'gains( Taylor.

II Carious Dilemma.—The burial grounds of•Londott
and its neighbourhood are at this time so carefully
watched, that the•resurrection-tnen can scarcely procure
ally bodies for the-dissecting rooms, no less than wren
of these.fgeful members of society are now in prison,
having beets detected in attempts to raise the dead ; the
students at the htepit.rls are at a stand still—bodies
fetch triple the usual price, and one of the principal
lecturers on Anat y has actually applied to lord Sul.
mouth far lease to import them from France, whole
they are easily procured and very cheap; the result of
this application is net yet known.

Acerhi, in his wards through 'Finland, rehttes a very
curious law which .prevails at Abo, which, if adopted
in this country, would totally put an endlo that abomi-
nable traffic carried on by resurrostiommen. rit is, that
the bodies of all pensioners mid sinecure plartemen, after
ene.r decease, become the property of the 'Si/ le, and arc
di-livered to the SUIVOII4 sr dissection. Thus, if they
tieser did any gad in their life, they were not wholly
useless in their death. What exceHent anatomical sub.
jests would such a law as this produce in Csiglatitl4
There is a petition now anions the New York
bakers, who shall hake the Ingest shil; mg loaf. 1 his
is an excellent spirit of rivalry. One of these bakers
annomices, that his loaf shall weight twelve ounces more
than the corporation assixe„

A dispute of rather a serious nature has taken place in
the Nlediterranean, between the American Commodure
Stewart, uld !Mlle Officers composing a Court elan aI
on a marine. The ))))))) dore refused to confirm the
sentence of the ( ;mot, which led to disrespectful
emote, and in the end C.ipoins M•lltiimit:ll, 11 itid•
aml Nicholron, and Liewei!ants at.A
bllSpelldLd fruit their c Juimaiish.

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DEMAGGGL'ES AND rArielors.

There arc ccrtain tests by which the demagogue may be

distinguished fnmi the patriot :
I.Theft:masters ot patriotism is virtue ;-rt private life. The
leatiee is reared amidst the charities of home : he learns to love
ails coontry, *two his mother's bong, from his father's prayer,
front his wife** respect and tenth:mem; from hie children's love
cud duty. Such wele the patriots of old ; such was Win. Tell;
such was Washington; such are thousands in En• land.
l'he demagogue has neither .haut nor household god : he wan-
der, to and fro; he edema his aptness w manage the uffairs of the
ceninion-wealth by the neglect and ruin of his own family. Such
sae Catiline; such are the modern demagogues.
Y. The patriot prelims the good of his country to his private
peel. When leinmey was in the commission for purveyance for
a famine at Homo. he was vehemently dissuaded by his friend
from riekkg hie life, by venturing to sea in an extremity of wea-
ther "It is tieceeeury that I should sail, not that I should live,"
—X,: etc cut ht cam, non Id iiront,—was his answer.
The demagogue refers all things to himself as if he were the
'old's centre, and cares not in all tempests what become,: ot the
oliip of the state, so diae he may use innufell in the cock-boat of
his oon fortune.
• The patriot's conduct originates in love of his country ; the
demagogue's in love of himself, either to gratify his irritability
because a re:atonable or an unreweonehle request has been roused.
• oe to force his way by virulence and invective, or to he pleased
with the .nun of his own harangues; or as some reason for neg•
Meting his nearest coiemexione:-.." II plow kr To,tones puss
etre dispense d'oinzei ses noisins."
3. As tie! sailor obtains knowledge of the art of navigation,
• that his Ve4.41 may not strike on a r.xit, and Le wrecked, 60 the
patriot studies tile science of govenireent,that lie may not mislead
or be misled by an howl:cams zeal. Ile remembers the admit.
piton of John Nlilton, that •• he who is born to promote the
public good, shoold read the law of God above hi. years, and
make it his whole delight." lie remembers time admonition of
Sucre:es, " that theeneaneet trade is not attempted without an
• apprenticeship. but every man thinks himself qualified by in-
. tuition ler the hardest ut all tradee, that of government."
lime demagogue can manage a ship in the tempest, although
be never saw the ocean; he can cure disuses, although lie is
*unacquainted. with the structure of the hunian body: lie would
le a governor, without any knowledge of the being to be governed.
. 4. The patriot is seldom a member of any party. lie does not
surrender his juknient to eny man, or to any body of oven. He
dyes not adopt optimicit upon trust. Ile dees not unite himself to
the °meters of Government ; nor does he join those herds and
Haack. of people who follow any body that whistles to them or
drives them to pasture. The happiness of his court:lm.y is his rule
of conduct : his mode of ascertaining it is the exercise of his own
mirderetanding. Time demagogue is the worst of all partisans. lie
is the Bader ut die mob ; the triton amongst the minnows.
5. The petriet does not deny This governors their due praise.
lle says, with John elilton. " This is not the liberty winch we
can hope, that no grievance ever should rise m the common-
wealth ; that, let no man in this world expect. But when com-
plaints are freely heard, deeply. coneidered,apd speedily reformed,
then is the Ullllo4l, bound of civil liberty attained, that wise men
iota fur.
" This ie true liberty, when freeborn men,
" Having to advise the public, nosy speak free."
The demagogue is marked by acrimonious end unremitting
opposition to the court. His :we of the people consists in exco-
dig hate against the Government. If public distress melitie the
lower orders to turbulence, I.c infuses vindictive and discontented
fanciee into their minds. lie exaggerates the evils to produce
rim. Ile inflates passing events into permanent causes of misery.
lie displays defects *Wee:et their aceompaaying advantages. lie
wide:ills by chains of simple questions where the apparent
answers are obvious, but pi; teal &Ili% era require. the cuinpreueu-
men of a system.
fl. The patriot views the people as a father views his chi' Ircn,
erring and liable to err frolu want of knowledge; he therefore
avails imiinself of every opportunity to demise information amongst
lite countrymen. lle endeavours to inculcate right opiniuns.into
higher ranks, and by their influence to regulate the lower. He
lives with time wise. tho temperate, the regular, and the virtuous.
The deimingegue professes to wish that education should be
progressive, but he dreads and shuns intellect. The frogs arc
sihot when a light appears. Ile endeavours to infuse his opinions
into the indigent, who are always inflammable; into the Limit!,
es7:o are nataralle thepicious; into the ignorant, who are eaeily
thieled ; cud into the profligate, who here no hope but from
7. The patriot views the people as a tither views his children,
erring and liable to err from the impulses of generous or twin' •
lent revision: he therefore prevents their being hurried to excess
by popular harangues.
The demagogue promotes them ; he rnisleade the popnlace by
addressee to their best and to their worst passions; he deceives
the Humid with fietitiolis iniechief; appeals to the judgment, and
tlatters the vanity of ignorance ; he slanders honesty, and insults
qgnity. lie tad.s of natural equality; time abstinlite of meny
wade for one; time original 'co.upact ; the foundution of autho-
rity ; the rights of malt; the majesty of the people; the advances
of the prerogative; and the danger of arbitrary power. The
petrime eleeds fur the people; the demagogue pleads to them.—
• • At the conclueion ut the American war, while the citizens of
t :e United States were anticipating the bleeeings of ewace, their
army, to which America was so greatly indebted, was unrewanled
far its services.. The StAtese which list been rescued by its exer-
tions, were in no condition to pay them... An attempt was made
by. the ar.onytuotis and seditious publications to inflame the
mods of time oracers and soldiers, and induce them to unite
in redreseing their own grievances, while they had arms in
their halide. As mat :es General Washington was itiformed
of the nature of Mos.: papers. he requested time generitl and field
tethers. with one officer them each eetupany, and a proper repre-
seatation of the staff of time army, to user:dile on .in early day.
The General vent for each °Mix, separately, and enlarged in
rivate on the fatal consequences, end particularly on the loss of
diameter to the w lode army, which would result from intempe-
rate leselutions. When the officers were convened, the com-
mander addresoei them, lie pledged himself to exert all his
rdluence in their favour, and reeeestel them to rely on the faith
tit theft emit:try, and memjured them, "as they valued their ho-
• woe, as they respected time rights of hitmenity, and es they
me fed the military and national eleuacter of America, to
expiem their :teeing detestation to the .1114 n who was attempting
me open eme fleu.'getts iii civil dieeord. and deluge their rising
t...ioire aid; blood." Gin. Washington then retired. No reply
wast: ver was mu ale to the General's speech. After a short silence.
resolutitia was unanimously adopted, by which they declared•
tect no etrcunistar.ce of distress *hots]: • elute a conduct that
weet uod to sully the reputation and glory they bad acquired;
that the a: ny continued to have an uneliaken cop ;dunce in the
j mice of (entrees and their wormy; and th.et they viewed with
r Awn.' Mfr. aid rejected with disdain, the ;aft:moue proeositiomie
tne lett anonymous addian to the intlhor: of the army."
t'. 'l'ne patriot promotes a masculine and independentenirit in
the tool is: he is always peaty to countenance their just Claims,
vela an Mont their reasoaable hopes: lie remolds theinfrequentiy
ef their rights; lie encourages them to oppose encroachments,
and to multiply securities.
Time demagogue debeses the spirit of liberty by inflaming all
classes to acts of violence e he countenames the claims of the
people, whether just or unjust, and rehes false hopes to secure his
own purposes.
9. If necessary Pm the happiness of the people, the patriot in-
ems their culotte ; elthotigh; a: arm warutunmt of.ood, he is not