The National Register.
London, England, 1822-02-24 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

with the high destinies of England to give information on
the high prices of beef and pork for the current year. He
objected to the 80,00 A. given to the coast blockade with
out further information.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER defended
the measure of transfeirin4 from the customs to the navy
the expenees of the coast bleckade.
Mr. LOCKHART entered into a good deal of discussion
on the existing distress, and the means of relieving it. The
distress was admitted to be great, yet there was no pro-
portional reduction of the public burdens. There should,
therefore, be no vote on the present subject till the exa-
ruination proposed by his hon. friend, the member fur
Aberdeen, was gout into.
Mr. BROUGHAM declared, that, in his opinion, suffi-
cient information was not laid before the committee for
this vote, nor did he see why ministers should resist the
production of more particular estimates. At any rate, he
could see no objections for refusing to give information of
how the last year's sum fur the same object was disposed
of. He could conceive a French or Spanish Lord of the
Admiralty looking with some interested view to an account
of the estimates of the present year, and therefore minis-
ters might refuse very minute information, but there was
not the sane reason for denying information on the items
of last year, and therefore no such ground for the reluc-
tance of ministers : lie was therefore surprised to hear
that this information was to be denied. By furnishing it
more particular estimate, the comitiy would be able to
decide whether 11. I¶ s. was too intieh or too little.
Mr. CROKER said, that before the report was brought
up, if the vote was allowed to pass, the requisite illa-
tion might be laid before the house.
Mr. HUME objected to a vote without more particular
information. In ISI7 the suns was '2l. Is. fur each man.
No information was given why the present differed.
The 'Al:aquas of LONDONDERRY did not see bow
the particular items of the estimate could now be made
out.
After some further conversation between Mr. Home,
Mr. Brougham, and Mr. Croker,
Mr. 11. SUMNER proceeded to address the Committee,
for the purpose, as it appeared, of showing that the obser-
vi:tions which had been made by the gentlemen on the
oppreition side of the house were formed on false &au ;
but the cries of " Nu, no," which followed each of the
bun. member's statements, and the general impatience
manifsated by the house, induced him, after a few mi-
nutes, to sit down.
The house than divided, when there appeared—Fur re-
porting progress, and to take time to consider the vote for
victuals, 47—Against it, 141 —Majority, 10 I.
On out re•ndm,sruu to the gallery, we foond
Sir K. W I LSON on his legs. lie expressed his intention,
as we understood, of again dividing tot committee, for the
purpiwe of del.; to this vote.
The Marquis of LON DON DERRY expressed his readi-
ness, if the vote were now sidkred to pass, to give every He-
ft:b.-all yes iil minion un future fits.
Mr. BROUGHAM willinhly acceded to this proposition.
If the vote wile taken merely as a vote of credit, to be mi-
nutely utcounted fur oil rummer day, lie would ai.ree to it,
but certaiuly not else.
resolution was then agreed took Chairman reported
pro re-s, and asked leave to sit tignai on Monday.
Mu. tiOULBUttS brought in R bill fur staid:ding the
importation of tire-firms lulu Inland and idso a bill for
iiideinnit nig those persons who had ieiz.ol arms in Ireland,
for the preservation of public peace, since toe Ist November
last; which were severally read a first time, and ordertd to
be rend a second time on Tuesday nest.
Adjourned ut bail-past 12 till Nlonday.

FROM TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

CROWN OFFICE, FEL 19.
MEMBERS returned to serve in this present I'AItI,I A M ENT.
Borough of St. Mauves.—J. Minimum, Esq. of Whitehall, in
the county of Middlesex, LL.D., Regius Professor of Civil Law
in the University of Oxford.
Borough of Droitwich—J. H. 11. Foley, of Prestwood House,
in the county of Statford, Esq. in the room of T. Foley, Lsq.

deceu,sl.
Borough of Camarvon.—The Hon. Sir C. Paget, Knight.
Borough of West Looe.—The Right lion. H. Gottllium.
University of Dublin.—Th
e Right lion. W. C. Plunkett.
BA
F. W. Collins, Dorset Place, Clapham Road, corn merchant.
Solicitor. Mr. Rem*, I:urnival's Inn.
G. WiLon. Bett Street, Ratcliffe Highway, brewer. Sol. Mr.
Cranch, Union Court, Broad Street.
1 J. Rigliton, Chapel ea le Frith, Derbyshire, dealer. Sol. Mr.
Rack, Temple.
T. Manning. Foulshann, Norfolk, grocer. Sols. Messrs.
Longdill and Co. Gray's Inn Squa:e.
.1. Gilbert and H. Taylor, Bristol, commisdon merchants.
Sol. Mr. Evans, Hatton Gordan.
11.1.ilwail, Pembroke, multster. Solo. Messrs. Bell and Co.
Bow Churchyard.
G. Maansclieg, Strand, furrier. Sob. Mesas. Pearce and
Co. SwithM's Lane.

DIVIDF.NDr.
March 15, J. Birch, jun. Manchester, cotton spinner-16. J.
Avery, Barnstaple, shopkeeper-12,1. Leech and J. Hinchcliffe,
Causton Street, wholesale hosiers-13, G.
—1
England. Exeter
butcher-12. G. Mider, Watling Street, carpet agent
2. A.
Mowbray and J. NI/et:wren. Durham, hankers-12, W. Gorst,
S. Cooke, W., J. F., and W. Harrison, Tower Street, merchants
—l2, W. Evershed. Tooley Street. pastrycook-25, It. Wall,
St. Thomas the Apostle, Devonshire, innkeeper-14. J. Holmes,
Newcastle upon 1 yne, linen draper-6, W. R. 'Aloft, Brighton.
wine inn ant-14, .1. Terris, Upholland. Lancashire, tanner-
-15, J. Rawlins. V,' hireharen, grocer—l 6, M. and J. M.Donnell
and J. Bushell, Broad Street, merchants- -lh, T. Chillingworth.
nedditrh, Worcestershire, needle inaker--18, E. Morris, Red•
ditch, Vi'orce.stershire, carpentet-12, J. Williams, BiLhopsgate
Street Within, linen draper-12, N. Josling, Bexley Heath,
Kent, innkeeper—t 2, C. C. Sumner. Hillingdon, Middlesex,
plate glass manufacturer-16, .1. Cloutman, Curtain hoed,
Shorts.itteli. carpenter-12, IL Langton!' and W. Win Word,
lhacklersbury, niereirants.
CERTIVICATES to be granted March 12
J. Hooper, Too Cy Street, Southwark, chyinist—.l. Moore,
gowerby, Yurkshile. woollen cloth numuf.uxurer—R. Newell,
II ereford, tailor—.l. G. Fiegehen, jun. Wood Street. Cocapside,
glass dealer—J. Lavender, Leominster, inewer—F. English,
draper—T. Abbey, Pocklintton. Yorkshire, iron.
monger—W. Hailstone. Mildenhall, Suffolk, grocer—T. Wood-
house, Nottingham. lace manufacturer—A. Barratt, Newport
Pelmet], .Backs, fanner--C. G. Ketwood, John Street 14 est,
Etlgovare Road, printer.

The Hon. Captain Roos is appointed to command
the Hind sloop of war at Portsmouth, in the room
of Sir Charles Ilutranl, promot,..d to the rank of
Post Captain.

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH.
stox»st, Feu. IS.
MAJOR CARTWRIGHT e. WRIGHT.
Mr. Hull opened the declination in this ease. It was
an action for a libel, published by the defendant, of and
concerning the plaintiff, and the vantages were laid at 0111:
thousand pounds. Ihe defendant had pleaded the gene-
ral issue.
Mr. Denman addressed the Jury on the present occa-
sion. He said lie had the honour of being the advocate
of one of the most respectable men in his Majesty's domi-
nions, who felt it his duty to lay before a Jury of the
country his jest complaint against the defendant, fur
having in the most hum ions manner brought him to the
notice of the public. In order to understand the nature
of the libel, it was proper to state that the present defend-
ant allocated to have been engaged in a quarrel with a
person who spas poen), well known—lie meant Mr. Won.
Cobbett; and with a view to conduct the controversy
with as tondo personality as possible, he had thought pro-
per to publish a work, entitled," The Book of Wonders..
This Moak contained a great variety of extracts and
passages, highly reflecting upon the character of Mr.
Colthe 0, and which nu re alleged to have been drawn
from the productions of his fruitful pen. lit course of
this book Mr. Cobbett was stated to have described
" 7tl:ijor Cartwright's eldest as the criterion of excellence."
It would seem that Mu. Cobbett had had a strong desire to
he introduced to the Pao lir meat of England, autl with
that view had proposed that 5,0001. should he raised, by
stabsci p: inns oft ou-pence each, among the artizaus of his
country. On another occasion lie pi oposed that 'ir F.
Burdett, m limit lie had pi eviously vilified, should advance
the !min iu pit stion to 'elicit:lse a seat for him in what, in
o intim old part of the work, lie was represented to have
called * a lien Of col ;lien ion:"Ille note in which the
libel against the was contained was placed after
the following extract, stated to be taken from Cobbett's
Register, of December, Ibl 9 :--" Dee. 4, 11+19. I am
ready to tender my hand to Sir F. Burdett, and to it oder
my whole I eat( and mind to be exerted, in co-operation
with Inui, for the purpose of cndeavouriug to rescue our
country from the fangs of its oppressors. I ant ready to
bury all private conaideratioas iu obits ion. I have seen,
all through the comitiy, proofs of a most indent desire
that an Intik/11611011111 take place; stud I ant resolved that
no pirate feelings of mine sit ill obatriwt ' that union.—
told the gentleman that I would have
nothing in the shape of cu-opeiatiou with the Baronet,
except as one of a public meeting, perhaps, unless Ito
will:la, out of his own pm at'. fill hish the means of facili-
tating the entrance of Mr. Ilona and ni)sell' into the House
of Commons! On the 9th, I received the following note
from tha gentleman Front a conversation I have just
had with Sir F. Burdett, I am persuaded the inclosed
cannot be rendered available. This causes me regret, but
I have thought it best to return it to you, with nay assur-
ance that it has not been used or seen.' This was the
whole that took place." *—Vol. 35, pagel96,(Dec.l st 9.)
" Many well-intentioned persons have expressed
their surprise that the Enlightener' should have been
wallet; to accept of a scat in Corruption's den, purchased
with the bank notes of it man whose • incapacity and base-
ness' he had 60 1100trfally exposed. To convince such
persons that this line of conduct was strictly patriotic, we
have only to assure them, that iii so doing, he was walking
in the footsteps of that • Venerable Veteran, whose
creed is the criterion of exeelietice, (see No. 19:.), and,
who, in an article of that creed, has laid it down as a
'naval'', taut ' we 'mist, in tightin., the enemy, not reject
the use of the Innis of even deepisalle and detestable men.'
—Cobbett, v. p. 52.1
Mr. I)entnan, iu coutiottation, proceeded to state that
his client had never laid down such doctrine, anti put it
to the Jury to say, whether they could do otherwise than
feel that they had every reason to cosuplam of being thus
held 1111 to the abhorrence of all mankind. His object,
on the present occasion, was not vindictive damages, butt
lie thought he had a I iglit to ulitnin such a verdict against
Mi. Wright as would trod to prevent the recurrence of
similar unfounded awl gross attacks in future.
Cwt. Robert Williamson was then called, and proved
his having waited on Mr. Wiight, and that gentleman
having acknowledged himself to be the sole author of
"The Book of "%Venders."
The libel was then put in, and with it the passage in
which, it was referred to.'—'These were both read.
Mr. Scarlet( then submitted, that he hail a tight to hate
the whole of the passages preceding the libel also read.
The Chief Justice agreed to this suggeation, and several
extrams were Bit ti read (lOW art at Bele headed " it.S F.
Mullett," in which the opiaious of Mr. Cobbett, repct-
ing that How Baronet, given at different pe:ioils were
set forth; the favourable opinions being placed wider the
title of " and those of a contrary Ilaln re tinder the
title of " cold." 'These opinions, it is hardly neeessai y
to observe. were as opposite as light from dm ktiess.
The Chief Jllstley 110 W 60ggestell his wish that there
should be an accommodal tun between the patties.
Mr. Scarlett said that alter what kad passed, awl Mr.
Wright having distinctly sew ti Major Cartwrigdsht that the
libel imputed to hint were the precise wor of Mi.
CAbett, he could not consent.
Mr. Searlett then aildreased the Jury for the defend-
ant, in an itigeniima speech, mid submitted 'hat Major
Cartwright had 4:Wisely misconceived the object of Mr.
SATUItIIAY, TEL Pi.
This WAII an action for words of slander, hooting in
the plaintiff that: he Was a common swindler, mid that
he was a common brothel keeper. The words were laid
in differetn ways iu several CiOllllS of the declaration.--
One set of counts alleged the words to hate be
anodicn used
in the presence of Geoe,ie Con and others;
set, to have been used in ilte presence of 163 AC Bird and
o hers.
'llse parties resided in the neighbourhood of Mile
mai-
road, end the words proved were used at different times
and
in a itiblic house called the Black Buy, in that %icily.
—There were none of the words alleged in the dee ai
ration as having been tiled in the presence of Cott
Wright ha this publication, which Was to ;Cll':.
un the character of the Itlajor, hut, the opinions of r. .
at different periods of his life, to skew bow little Viainiiint
could be placed on his consistelicy, his honour, or 11,
ratify. The learned Counsel was then proceeding
tn,
t
floc o
oar
contend
iotienitad, wie
that the words set out iu the declaration were
ILO
Tile Chief Justice, 011 reference to the 11.eelaritl
limed that Llll.li9llLl,tl/C Masada of the libel wet: set M

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