The National Register.
London, England, 1814-02-13 00:00:00

LA IV. INTELLIGENCE.

TII E NATIONAL RECTSTEIi._

FEB. 13.

the deponent that he had destroyed the letters with which she had
entrusted him, by burning them. If those letters had still been
existenve, they would establish the as-ertions she had made alio:re
tf tranAactions during the last fourteen years. Vexed and di. ap.
philltPd in Iltr expectation, and deeply hurt at the ingratitmle of
the prosecutor, for the fitvours she had b‘ stowed upon his:, she
wri)e and- published ine libel in gnest!oil, which loot been but lit ;:t.
eire; Lied. 1t torther set forth, that the deponent had two dasig:,..
tut', one 1,1 them approaehing to the of wennanivAid, whom
had hith: rto brought op, and e;'neateil in honour and .it the ; that
the con-eqat sees might be very injorions to them, if they v% ere
now &prised of her care and protection ; that in puldishing the
libel be-611e tin. Court, sbe was ;equated only by a tipling of re-ent-
meat at the contittet of the prot.ectitur in his private capacity, nod
did not at all mean to impeach his conduct ins his laiblie situa-
tion k sLe theta tore left her ease to tiie mercy of the Com I."
Air.,lltorney Geou rah 11 I .Parke, and Mr. Seal lett, then addres.-ed
the Court in support of the prosi cation.
The Attorney-General elial.e.tetised the libel aq the most 11 i'rant
thlt (nail ever appeared in a Court of J u‘tice, us It accwed llw pi 0-
seentor e f nothing less than felony. `none WWI 110 doubt til;:1
was as directly meant for all C. 11.4 111 e for the purpose of extol lir
money, as if she haul commanded a •um to be pot under a stone,
limier ducat of the bhp ITVC.II4C. Revenr,e, indee wal St:tle:l to
he the motive Of the pamphlet; mid the public is always the bar to
which these drag their victims. The A :tot -Ciert rag
hoped the sentence of the Court wid.i, at least, tear); het to bold
her hand, and to refrain from the publication of flame libels.
Brot:Aan., tot the dehrulaut, ob-ereril that the present
was distin!mished from the ewe of a politiral libel, although it at-
tacked a man in a political spin re. It appeared, it %%a, sworn*, and
not coetradicted, and the:efore mu-t be taken for hull!, that there
%rag a de ieute connection between the proseeotor's fattier and the
defendant, that it dr-cen icel to his son, and berame a tort or ft-
milyvonnection. It was also st;:tril, that for a time them was a
great intimacy, ;old Not a reciori,,:it); eat bees tits, list the ser% ices
were all rendered by one prrtv. Twit the present prosectit ar '
introduced to the defendant as to one w;;0, in hies' then situation,
could advance his views in lite. Ali this w swan), and must he
(shun for troth, lor it was iincoltya:liele.l the prosecutor. Nei-
ther had he denied that he had szippreed impat taut letter com-
mitted to his care. And it was in anger for these injuries that the
defcmlant had been irdured •to ;be libel which she now
deplored. fie could not nri.,:e any argument arising from her sex,
because %shell she forgot the timidity of the female sex, she forfeited
nil title to its protection. But there was another topic in bet afll-.
davit to vvltich she might cppeal. She was a mother, and she
avowed her feelings as a moater, and (lodated she educated her
daughter:: in that path of virtue, which, perhor, she now, repented
herself had ever forsaken. Having urged these topics with muck
!'orcc, the Learned Counsel tleprvated any severe judgment on her
head.
The printer, of the name of Mitchel!, was alto brought up for
ptinting the `ante lib( I.
?Jr. dostiee LE 1;1„t ?IC then pronounced the judgment of the
Court. Having conmented on the liwe nature of the libel, and
the foul crimes with which it eliarg,ed Mr. Fitzgerald, he lam. Neil
that the judgment of the Court should fall in its elket on her chil-
dren ; bat the aim of justice , must not be restrained, bcr;,ns.e it
world efroct tl,c posterity of the offender. It often happened that
11. e sins of the parents Were visited on the children ; and that the
Court, considering, all the circumstances of the ease, awarded that
she should lie impri?7oned in the King's Bench 6)1• nine months, and
to find security for her ,good behaviour for three years.
Mitchell, the printer, was sentenced to four months imprion-

molt.
Mrs. Clarke eontineted herself with her usual Il'ippaney, curtsey-
ing ironically to the Attorney-General at the colielosion of his
speeeli. Ou entering the (7oilut she threw her veil back. and sop-
puled the. ardent g:e4e of the young liarfisters At WI the greatest
composure. She rem ived the jirignictit of the Court with vet teet on-
it, and. retiring„ bowed to their Lordships most graettully
and euadescentalley. Court, and all the alewes to it, as well R.
Wv'tn insier was crowdt d at an earl). hoor of the iveriiibg
with persons anxious to obtain a view of this celebrated ternalr.

Thursday, Wm: Earle, %Ilia had sutiered judgml nt to proceed fig.:l4.st
him by default, under an. iodictincht fur printing and publishing a
libel in The Scourge, upon .1. C. Puirclitiardt, jeweller, was brought
up to feceive the judviuctit of ti:e Court of the Bench. '1 he
libel ch4rged Mr. llockluirdt with being the progeny at a
Dwelt fisherman and an oyster wench. of being educated in vice and
beggary, of being scut vat ef in• own gaunt• y for frequenting s;:tlitioaa