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FRACAS IN ILIGH LIFE.
" On Saturday last an Irish Member of Parlia-
invnt, Domed was brought up in custody
before of Magistrate, charged by • person mimed
English Grammar, with sundry slanders against his
reputation and character.
" The complainant commenced by stating, that
i a the time. 'of Mr. Pus, Mr. Pitt, and other*,
r had enjoyed great authority in the Senate,
cod had been illostrated and ennobled .by
the most distinguished employment; but that
raring the' prisoner'- Parliamentary career, he
had not only beet. entirely neglected, but often
grossly insulted by him ; and that he had suffered
• so aeverrly from the Prisoner's usage, that his beat
friend% were unable to recognise him. That he lied
been strlvised to appeal to 'be jurisdiction of the
two Universities, but they both (..iiher infatu.ited
lay their prejudice. or intioninlictil by Court in-
fl tenc kid-treated him with great contempt, anal
referred him to the Comet of Aldermen, where he
was assailed with such ill language as determined
him sieve, to enter tgr place again. Ile added, that
C. had often come to Iti..th words with Plaintiff 'a
relation, Dr. Prosody, :Isom lie tool inaariably
*bust d in a similar nwnner ; and that lie kid ac-
t Jolly br..ken the head of an rlde.ly Gentleman,
tamed Prise:an, en ancestor of Ilse eompiaiii).Me..
" The talibstance of the Pri ref dt fruit was,
that lie could lint open his bps on the most indif-
ferent suhject without interrup • foam the com-
plainant, and that in rondAteruce hr tool from his
',null) contracted an antipathy towards him, which
had brobahly Iteru exasperated non hostility by the
ifijUtliCq)ll% endeavour. of eolne over-016 inns
friends to promote, their acquaintance. That
Grammar, moreover, had presumed on their very
sight intimacy in impose restraints on him, which
1.0 mai, who prided hint_ If on his colloquial inde-
pendence could submit to, sod that 'wiring risen to
rink and pie•eosinenee without his (Grammar's)
as-istance, 1w was sletertniited 'lever to seknowledge
en authority which the lowest and meanest of the
people were sufft.red to violate with lint/mail.
" We are sorry to add, that eluting she proceed-
ings the Poisoner conducted himself to the most lase
teletticiote manner, and even to detailing Ow fir-
cuitilitaiice of Ins d. fence, was guilty of several vii.
lotions of inoprirty sod respect towanda the roine
pleiment ; inde. 41, had it nut been for the opportune
loterptoition ',Ellie Magistrate, it is mote Ilona pro-
habit hr would have proceeded to the c •ssion
-of some flagrant unirate."
Here the affair reins for the present.
I to lain', Sir, your obedient servant,
Dee. 18,20. 11. L. B.

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DEAril OR MOFFAT, alias At'COUL.

It has beirom, customary, opus the demi e of persons
have di...investor.' themselves through lit Lona the g-m.
edify of inankiwl, to give a short biographic sketch of tell
peeolisr Whit*, disposi ions, and attainments. 1. n belev.
id that Jarmo Wein'', alias Murat, shoe Martin, (dins
%Taros, alias Muff t, was a native ..f Flecoilk•Mire, and
was herd to the business of a tether, attach he for some
time re•resed in this coontry. He enema, weal to be.
don, aloe" be composed himself with the most 111/101.1•1111
o,arpirs, sad sulanque. fly lo came lion:411 ai. adapt sad •
I nate He vs is, like our f mious 11.0.1. e, eel. bratril as a
• COI k.fighlei ; and,iu piigila•mi, was chat would uow, in the
',kited boluses of tb.t he;ente. Le styled a dessi•profes.
awns, d. mimmaseur of the fame!, The cons. sinus of his
goig, of whom the ttttt mums //offal. White was a prime-
sent mentor, were, it is said, se termite., that Le might
some propriety he called the rubber of the world ; its
rausificationi tate &AM Over great loot of the Continent 4.1
Enrope, himself at limns resitting in 41:ffereut towns in
yl,ll mil. He was ii. Hambu.gh wltcs that city fell into
14.. /utdo of lb. French, where be was of considerable
service to the r anis tempi, which subsepteitly saved
him from an ignominious death. About bfiees years
•,y4i, as a math for *his red iotentiosii, he CUM.
ailllterd a morocco tensing mid dyeiug concern Its the
veighbourhood of Edinburgh, mute, as it is thought, with
intent of cloaking his character and steaming a "visible
vestal' of subsist. tire," than fur the purpose of fair gain.
About that lime be was taken Mtn custody, charged with
subbing a gentleman iu the theatre, but lie girt off from
west of evidouce. Hu hieory Ginn this 'teem' is less
perfect with us than in the records of Bow-street, dawn to
the robbery of the Paisley Bauk's biomes et Glasgow. SOWS
after the trausactiosi he was taken into custody, and after
eemsioing lung in Glasgow gaol, obtained his liberation, by
restoring, through the medium of a t lend in London, •itiout
10,000/. of the money of which the Bank was robbed—
Lavine, as it was well known, still a large sum of the money
10.1 he the Bank. Ile made riveted visits to Aberdeen
and Dundee, to "ides Si) CouVlrt the sautes iutu bills ou
1.,..t10401, ill %bath be surceided. At last, will, a large sum
of triury still on his person, be arrived at L. Jb, and suc-
ceeded in conversing it also—being, as was proved, the
identical mesa of which the bank was nibbel—into bills
of 1.01•410 U, 1110t11 be was again apprelwadel, and seat
op to the Police-Office h. ; when, after her impri.
sputum' and touch discussion, thew bill. mere, by
desire of a very active Magistrate of this city, lodged Ia the
Hank ot Forbos suet fn. Its eider to rreuer this money,
Moffat had that audacity to raise various act' hi the Court
of ho seam, sail ammo camfolly litigated for • period of right
years, ilium' which hr was for the most part to be found
about the mule. of lip, or at certain tap mums de.
coutorius city Magostrates,Judg..s, and Jories. At the final
lictresiostum of this cause assess. him Ws the Jury Vole', in
fll•y last, 'hr saucers, it will br recollected, so completely
e•tablished his being a principal in the rubbery, that he seas
then lithos iota custody, tiled before the Court ofJoeiciary
to the month of low., couvicsid. and matencid to be exc.
toted, Ohm+ itroltswe was satcrwaie commutel w Imo.
*on ;Aiwa ; but has health, Lists the time of his trial, bring
ma died lining state, and taring adeuseril HI yew, he was per.
d to risseu to our gaol, whirr this veteran in oillumy,
colliery to the expectatiou of all who ever heard of hint,
earl &Alb WI 1 hurialay itiornitig, instead of end.
tug his days in a forego land, ur earialiug big mom •• a
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311.;31011:S OF GRANVILLE SHARP. the traveller), with whom Lewis lived as • servant at
the time of his sebum; his cries on the way
[From 'r The New Monthly Magastoo.l to the boat reached the ears of some of her do.
meatier, who immediately ran out to attempt his
(Contiaretlfroat oar Poper of yulera•l4 rescue, hot they did not venture to apprehend
him, because the ruffians pretended to have a
A few days after this, Mr. Shorts was served warrant from the Lord Mayor for his apprelien.
with a writ at the snit of David Lisle, for deter- siour They hastened back, however, to acquaint
tem of his property. Lisle also called on him to their mistress; and Mr. Sharp, now distinguished
demand gentleraruily satiffaeliors; but Mr. Sharp as the protector of the African., was addressed for
told him "as he had studied the law,so many instructions how to emancipate one of their injured
years, he should want can satislactiois which the law race, He accompanied her to Justice Waleli, pro.
could give him." Mr. Sharp kept his word, but in cared a warrant backed by the Mayor of Graves-
a way little expected from a person who, as he end, but the ship bring cleared, the Captain re-
himself ewes. had 'fryer once opened a law-honk to fused to obey the warrant-they could not stop
consult it till on the present occasion. His Solici. her, and she sailed into the Downs; being fortu.
tor brought him an opining, given in 1729, by the rudely di tanned there by contrary winds. a Nehru
Attorney and Solicitor-Genera'', York nod Talbot, corpus was obtained and served, and the Captain
asserting, that a slave coming from the West Indies delivered up the sieve.
to Great Britoil' or Irelatod, den not become free; Mr. Sharp then procured a warrant to take up
mid assured him that he should not be able to de- Stapleton and the two accomplices; an indictuseist
feed him against the action. as Lord Mansfield also was found against them at the Middlesex &IMOD%
was ttectilo.fly of their juilgment• and removed unto the Kilig's each.
It mould be imarosible to detail, within the The cause was brought into Court before lord
limits of this memoir, all the obstacles with Mansfield, 2Oth February, 1771. Witco it came
which toil. amiable philanthropist had to contend, on, :he two wateriness employed to seise Lewis did
obstacles winch would hose produced despair iii not appear; but only Stapleton, the master, who
any mind less firm by organixttion, less unproved defended himself oil the plea of the negro belong.
by prim. pile, or less supported by the conscious. ing to him as a sieve. Mr. Dunning was one of
tiers of a tight ean'e. `• Thus forsaken (hi writes the Counsel employed on behalf of Lewis ; he
in u lo ter to Lord It inkeicke) by my profes. held up Mr. Sharp's Inlet in his hind, declaring
tr sioul defenders, I was compelled to snake a hope- that lie was prepared to meisisaits that no sack pro-
les+ attempt nit self-defence, though unacqoainted perty eon exist is this country.
with ill! Itw and the foundations of it." Lord Mansfield. iu summing up to the Jury, left
Accordingly he devoted his whole time for two it to them to decide whether he was the Defendant's
years In the ouily of those points which regard the property or not. •The Jury found that the negro
liberty if person ;is [lnfests subjects, as adjusted by was riot the l)efendaat's property; at the same tone
Bratim lass a I" Ibis ildlicolt task he had no Manly, a emend voice arose of "no property." Then.
tor, no, assistant-hr consulted several professional said Lord Mansfield, you find him guilty : a toss-
m9l ( I eminence, but they were all unfavourable to nimous voice from the Jury 'igen) protiosinced-
the c ansell justice suit liberty. " Even my own Guilty.
I trey, re (he :tyn:) were ligation stir ;su much power Lord Mansfield remarked. that lie perceived
hail tweet-dent, and the authority of names, to bias more in the qosestion than they did at present ; per-
tile onnest laminae Cositi•ellors of that time." Ilia pe. haps it was better it should never be finally
netnition was evinced by the result ; decided and gelded, and he hoped it would not, as he did not
ourentiltitig., he atatell in manuscript such argil. know what might be the consul:peace if the Miss
Mills as he defused most cogent in favour tete were to lose their property by acchletitally bring.
or. tiegrises' rights, rumba Mg every objection with ing their slaves into England. hie o 'shed all mos-
mooed vigour. as the cause advanced. tent to think them free, and all negroes to thank
1.i.1e. flushing the character of the champion he they were riot, because then both would behave
had to recut/mei, contrived colons 'pretexts for de. better-a remarkable instauce of prejudice arid
reitrltiig the suit, and a' length offered a cum. timidity ! Judgment was motel for 'realist Staple.
sainuise, which Mr. Sharp rej• t. led. Before the ton and Iris accomplices; but Lord Mansfield hitl-
ess*, term. when lie Was to answer the charge against mating great 'doubt. on the evidence, was unwed.
has brother and hinss-lf, he had compiled in ma- ling to proceed : lie even expressed surprise that
vuseript a Inset, "On the I sij stetter and dart. Stapleton shossld be brought tip for judgment, said
genius teedency of tolerating Slavery, or admitting advised Mr*. Batiks not to brisig I • up, us she
else least Claim to inmate Property in the Persons had got the black in her possession-the tempi.
et mess its Eneldityll" He suhasitted it to Ilse pr. toners were accordingly ordered to be reapited.
easel of De. Iltatlstnne. end then employed his Against this proceeding of the Judge, Granville
utmost effort* to circulate it ; the arguments it drew up a strong protest. as against an open con•
coot silted were irresistible, and by its success he bid tempt of the laws of England, disclaiming the refusal
the sans( octiois of limply fulfilling his psoiatise to of judgment. This protest, he said, he tnettut to re.
hie m 10104.01 The lawyers employed against the serve for himself till there vhatilil be an absul Ate ne-
neerot• were • eildetedossid the plaintiff was eons. ctossity for disclosing it ; adding, wills nor mild feint
tolled to pay treble cants for tint !pronging forward which ever actuated him, my indignation is against
the action. This trait, " Ole the lajastice of the practice and opinions, not the mess who have
tolerating Slavery he England' (which was prommed them ; for 1 wish the amendment. rather
then scut to the press, in 1769), was a plain, , thin the punishment or shame, of those who ilo wrong.
wanly, clear defence of the part lie bail C•pottl. Fruits the trials of the several negro cubes, and
rd; in it hue combated the conclusions strewn from the Otto given by the Judge, it was evident,
front the (opinions of York anal Talbot with that though a few separate verdicts had beers obtain..
complete Slit'irt,Ste Ile argued, that a negro is net. ed in favour of Arrival slaves. their right to free.
doer of a base natere, isor a thing. a. lie had dont in England wits ithl a question of fluctuating
been termed by the slave-hooldels, but .loc he opinion :no a curity was afforded from the perdue.
pos-eases trout stature the paivilrge of his hilant• clots* *varier and cruel tyranny of the slave-holders
nity, arid that he sloes not Call within Any of the and blave-ilesios. By the indefatigable exerlious
t'Asi!. In which the Eaglish law doves', a man of Mr. Sharp several sufferers were added to the list
oil dist tit ivalege. Dr then snort, that erery news iii of the rescued ; but the successful termination, the
England us a hisimden subject of the King, and essential point. still remained undecided. The
thereby entitled to his pretectiiin ; and tioatly tie- cause hart not been yet tried which was to end the
munstrated the wisdom of our laws in ilie use of long-agitated question ; whets at length die case
terms, its which ell subjects. of whatever rank of James Somerset presented itself; a case said to
or condition, actual or prospective, are alike be selected by the choice of Lord Mansfield anti
included. lie also resediterl is publication writ- Mr. Sharp, to being a tints! jlidgnient on the sub-
lets in America in 17(11, containing 1111 account of jest of contest. The complaint of Somerset was
the slave comet of Africa, mid of the slave similar to that of Lewis, before related.
trade, to which he added al a Conclus. ," calm.. This case was opened by Mr. Seljeant Dairy.
hated to increase the public interest sit the rause February 7, 1772, whets Somerset was brought up
he had lerooken ; and on printing his tract, on the Habeas Corpus. Mr. Serjeant Glyein fol."
On the Injustice of Slavery." he addressed lowed on the same side, stud enforced very power.
hiniself to the Archbishop of Canteohury, its a fully the arguments against the importation of laws
letter which. while it enticed his stroisg religions of other countries into our own. The hearing was
feeling, broke the first grouted in Eneluoid on the then adjourned.
subject of this iniquitous traffic. During the tiro- Mr. Sharp's exertions in the cause of humanity
errs. of these trausactioons, severil circumstances inspired a desire of participation in has labours in
hael conspired to stimulate his Christian efforts ; the breast of Dr. Fothercill, a Quaker, well know,,.
trout the zeal and ability which he hail menliebted They had entered into a religious controversy br-
io his controuer-y with Dr. K •ort, mud the rests- tore (which appears in the Memoir.), and haul slit-
Winn with which he had devoted the powers of his feted essentially on topics of relienon, anti each
tintlerstending to the interests of the oppressed. it had maintained their opinions with deliberate frlllllc-
Was 111111i111 to illlagine that as Mind so sinuously um; yet such was the equal candour of minds
dioccterl. as It .tumid dispose. would eminently alike devoted to the practice of real Christianity,
qualify sit possessor for holy orders. that their variance had no trifinerice in restraining
Towards the end of she year 1769 he was w"imlY the most cord's) co.isperation its acts of mercy.
1 •if by his taiscle, the It's. Granville Whirler, Dr. Fothergill's letter does him too much credit to
in entei the ttt itt 'airy, alto uttered to resign his liv- be omitted.
in;; in Northautiounshire in his favour ; (nut Mr. r. nopeeted Friend-1 have wend the sego/wets can
Sharp refused at With humility, respecting both Isis Somerset% affair with satisfaction, anal wish tire mid may
virtues Nod his qinifilicali tttt s. lit his mower be be favourable 14 pablie libe. Aa many and great ex-
pertise must hare attrioled thismetvcr, 1 shall he very
ritt.t.i. " Even if 1 could flatter myself that I es
reedy to roottibata my mite towards them; and when it is
capuhle of serving the cause of religiou, yet I
ended, au which way it may, I shall be pleased with an op.
should appre:toomd that I might more effectually do porninity of doing every thine in my power to lessee the
this as a layman, especially in religious cosntrover- jilkoi,.., of the bud,a by deriding at...
sive, wherein a solusiteer has many advantages with Out the 'wood hearing. the case was resomerl
the public, both with regard to the estisoat ttttt of his by Mr. Mansfield, whir. su at speeeh of eslergetic
motives and the expectations formed of lusts." sense and distinguished eloquence, cotitesidetl,
The powerful aright of his arguments. printed that if the negro Somerset was as man. lie could
in the tract ots Shively. was again felt in our Courts not be a slave in Enkland, unless by the intro-
-lof Law : lie had the gratiGi to witness their duct of some species or property tillkilo/111 In
Fauna.. Datimata to.- i.•fluence on a trial its defence of soother melon, our Coristitation. " Frain all that can be drawn
Venice ..... r; op I whom he had released by writ of Ilabinia Corpus from the state of Africa or America. the negro
Malts IS from flu b0,14i a ship their uuder sail in the Downs. (sand the or dor) may very well answer, •Ii is true
Naples
Palerino ....per us 11$ foneserly been a slave in the poissession of Mr. Sir. in chains in a British ship and carried to Americo ;
Lisbon
Orlon. win, 11.101 resided at Chelsea ; with the aid I there lived under a muter whose lyrists's), I
Oporto
.t Iwowattruotts. whom Stapleton hail hired fur could not escape; had 1 strempted it. I should
Rio Janeiro
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Dublinttt • • 1 k wns of Lea and. after a struggle, dragged In on never have I been ina co ry *lsere I had power
Curl .... tt
1 agiu of think on lying in the Thames, where, hewing tied his leg'. now in one where tine laws of liberty are known
Haltaird
the endeavoured to gag 1 by donating a stick and regarded. Cali you tell me the reasons why I
swipe. y
Portugal Gold its f a. I. I into his ttttt nth. and then, roivong down to a ship inn not to be protected by those laws, and to be
Cuiu, per 0t....0 0 0 hound for Jainisie I. whose commander was isle. carried away again to be sold r To hear a negro
Foreign Gold in vi tttt sly engaged in this vile conspiracy. they put slate this argumeirts and have it overthrown cots-
lim's •• • ttttt .3 17 1" him nun board,
New Dollars .....0 411 its the isthcal. to be sold as • slave au his arrival 'amenity with ear laws,seems to ID! impossible."
New Dioulrlimus -0 0 0
The cause was further adjourued to the 14th of
I Silver in Bars ....0 4 Ilk Thais
she tiooK trees:berate act
OwU... had mot *moped holm at May ; when Mr. Hargrave was bawd. who very
interim% of Sankt (mother to ably closed the argoonots for the negro% die.

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