The National Register.
London, England, 1820-06-05 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL MISTER.

and remained faithful In his Prince, the Second
Charles, and returned with him on his restoration.
Duridg his absence, Cromwell not only imprisoned
his sister for two years in this Name gaol, but he
confiscated the whole of his property and estates,
which the Monarch never restored when he became
King. On the 17th day of May, 1820. in the first
year of the reign of George the Fourth, I, Henry
Hunt, the lineal descendant of the said Colonel
Thomas Hunt, was incarcerated in the same gaol,
under a sentence of the Court of King's Bench of
two years and six months' imprisonment, and then
to find security for my good behaviour fur five
years, myself in one thousand pounds, and two
sureties in five hundred.each, for ••• • *. Thus
you see, my friends, that an individual of one gene-
ration was condemned to buffer an ignominious death
for being a royalist ; but having escaped from the
power of Cromwell, his property and estate were
confiscated ; and that an individual, a descendant of
the same family, of another generation, is now sen-
tenced to be immured in a dungeon, in the very
same gaol, and held to * • • for five years longer,
for having advocated the right of the people to meet
and petition for redress of grievances and restoration
to the fundamental practices of the British Consti-
tution." Proceeding► then to place on record the
names of all the parties that have been concerned in
the prosecution against himself, and the other defen-
dants in this affair, which he says, is the principal
object of his address, and adverting to the actual
penalties to which he has been doomed, and to the
ninon. of the sentence he might have received, sup-
posing the Jury had found hun guilty of the conspi.
racy, and the other serious charges in the indictment,
he adds; " But my friends you will think that this
is the very language of complaint which I have
deprecated. I mean, however, no such thing•; even
under such dreadful punishments, the noble mind,
conscious of its own rectitude, would have borne
torture: without being subdued into complaint."
After tome further observations ha proceeds to state,
that, iii imitation of Napoleon, he is about to write
the bibtory of his own life.

IrINDIC7I,II PROCICADIIMS
AGAINST SUNDAY /NEWSPAPER •ENDORL

-asess-
A short time ago, several informations were lodged
against Mr. Beresford, Mr. King, and others, /Nutley
Newspaper Vendors, residing iu Chancery Lane, in the
Liberty of the Hods, for selling Newspapers on a Sunday.
The ieformations were laid antler a certain Act of Parlia-
ment, passed is the reign of King Charles the IL, for
preveolissg persons from following their mutat avocation
and itribtary bowlers's on the Lord's Day. Mr Beresford,
strongly contended that the Sonde) Neespaper Vendoss,
did t tot come within she sue gof the Act; inasmuch,
as 0 ewe never lead been kuunis such a Pesulication, as a
Suit day Newspaper at the time the Act lead oven passed:
nor was any such paper ever published fur IJO years or
upwards after the pausing that Act of Parliament.—
Tit reef's, he contended, that 11w Act of Palliament
co odd not come-m..lam a thing that newer esisted, our was
at the hew the Art passed ever likely so exist. The nor-
th y Magistrans slated, tines they Kuehl lake time to coo-
coder; and us Use inemettrue, animist tier Seco-etas) of Slate
Kyoto the subject, eon metered the pee lies to attend in a
frtrinight's nine so hear slip decision. Oc Tuesday last,
according to was set sett ulnae them fur slim pat lover,
they attended the Magistrates' accotupautell by Mr.
Harmer, Sulicieue, who very hanelsoutely offered Sue ...r-
-e ices gratuitously upon the occasion. Mr. Seejeam Set-
km delivered the decision ul the Magisisatra in a lussg
a std very able address. and stated, that Weever rein...-
dully lie did it, lie telt compelled to tine the defendants
a eider she Art of 13111111.010.11.. The defendants cousides eel
it a very hard case, and each of them refused to pay nee
flue, inguire.g sl 'hey could not appeal against the elm
l'irtiou as the iiessiues. Mi. Harmer informed them, Ley
could nut, as Iticis. was 110 appeal fur (peas Udder 111 p
; but if they Ictlril fur the time, they had their right
cif action against the officer levying, for a trespass,—
which they pledged themselves to bring immediately, if
the tine was bated. Mr. Harmer yes), ably contended
against the conviction, as being coutrary to the Au of
Parliament itself ;—for the words of the Act were,—
" Following their ordinary occupations." He con-
tended, the selling of Sunday Newsmen, was not ful
toeing of their ordinary «Tupelos's*, as their ordinary
business might be dune within the six days; nut in this
case it was entirely clitiment, for these were Sunday
Newspapers, and could not be sold on any other day ;
also, that the proprietors of the (Wert in Smolal. Papers
were under the necessity of giving 10000. I.ol' Pipe
payment of the duties spun the mtildagNewspapees es-
chisively. After arguing she subject in the ste.,l"..ie
sod teat ned manlier, the worthy magi,trales etas,
how lacono in their feelings, they were awl Wel :41.
to slier their decision. Upon the close of the tom ### as, •
Mr.II•vms,INSPLCWROF PAYRIYINSITS & Law-WRITER,
BELL. YARD, CARRY STREET, and who w..s lier•o011
who prayed fur the decision oldie ma gist rates, begged
know, whether the selling of every ',apes did not consti-
tute a tilSilllCt OlitaClS Mr. Mahler irplied, that hr way
ashamed to hear such an observation hell Icons his
observing, the procedings, so his opinitnit were illegal
and vindictive. If tier Committee of the Liberty ut the
Roll., found themselves injured by the defendants syllitig
of Sunday Ne ,spapers, city not go mildly and tract..sly
forward, and petition the Hume of COllllllOll4, 0111cii was
up. is to them? He •Itseled, by advising the defendants
10 resi,-1 the proceedings, and handsomely ode: mg his
advice and essisiance gratuitously to conduct their
CA11,12.

We are harpy 1.0 state, that Mr. CrjlIJP'S health con-
tinues as well s eau be expected alter his jourilq. The
must distinimisherl characters in the empire have been
to inquire alter his health since his arrival in town.