The National Register.
London, England, 1819-12-27 00:00:00

1-41 V INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Doc. 23.
THE KING V. LOAM RANILAIIII.
Mr. Jones opened the pleadings iii this case, and said
it was a prosecution instituted by John Adolphus. Esq.
charging the defendant with using certain defamatory
language, with intention to provoke the prosecutor to
sett/111in, a challenge.
Mr. Scarlett stated the case to the June.
Mr. Adolphus stated, that on the Ist of Det.ember
lass, he was employed as Counsel in a pros/Tullio' at
Clerkenwell, against the defendant. Oil the following
morning witness was Pitting alone iii his chambers,
wizen he heard a knock at the door, and desiring the
person to come in, Lord Ranela4h entered. The wit-
ness reached his lonlsliqs a chair. He sat down, arid
/inserted, " You were at.nre about two hours yesterday."
Witness said, not quite PO long, my 1.411t1. His Lordship
said, " Na matter, I came to tell you that on that trial
vou shewed yoursel fa coward. a liar, and a sco !rel."
Nothing had passed previous to his Lordship making
this observation. He continued. " Your client's case
was founded on falsehood, perjury, and trick—what my
servants swore was truth, and you knew it." Witness
replied he could not enter into the particulars of the
trial of the preced:ng day, but perhaps it was not
unknown to his Lordship that his Solicitors had sent
him (Mr. A.) a retainer the day before, which he was
obliged to return, having been retained on the other
side. Some further conversation passed, in which Mr.
A.said, Its nis opening the day berme he had endeavoured
to treat hint with as much respect as possible. His
Lordsbio said the contrary was the fact, and there was
no; a person near him at the time who did not say his
conduct was that of a blackguard and a ruffian. Mr. A.
replied, he could o ily suppose that his Lordship now
Caine and used the laiteutage in question to induce him
to challenge his Lordship to fight a duel ; to which he
replied " certainly." Mr. A. answered, whether lie
should be foul en/plait to risk his life on siiell an occasion,
or to file a criminal informatiou. would depend on
the ads ice of his friends. The latter was the most
likely course, and he hoped as they were now entirely
alone, his Lordship would not deny his words on any
future occasion; lie said certainly not, and that yost
may not forget them, I repeat you are a liar, a coward,
and a scouudrel. Mr. A. said this was a new course;
he always understood, that woe,, tneu of honout
required satisfaction. they either sent a letter or a faietid.
His Lordship said he had k..own otherwise, and went
away.
Cross—examined by Mr. Brougham.---In 'hie
reply he recollected saying, and " if his Lordship
chooses to prosecute for writing a threatening leste•,
he may do so, he is very welcome, and 1 shall laugh at
hint then. as Ido now.' He also said, he threw back
with indignation sod contempt, wherever it might
alight, all the expressions and all the threats which had
been used against his clients. He would not deny,
though he did not recollect, having said, that they might
go into any Criminal (burr, if the castigation of the
day was not sufficient for overwhemlisig pride. He
recollected having used strong language its reply. in con-
sequence of the aspersions which had been thrown out
by the defendant's Counsel on the charac.er of the prin-
cipal prosecutors, accusing throe of perjury, forgery,
and endeavouring to extort money, by threatening
letters; sod that he should be prosecuted tor all, or
some of those offences. He recollected saying, "I do
ray duty in Court, and if any expression has escaped ale
calculated to give offence, I am known where to he
found ;" but that did not apply to Lord Ranelagh,
but was a reply to an observation from the Counsel
on the other side.

The Jury round a verdict of guilty against the
defendant.

On Wednesday evening, Mr. Nadin, accompanied
by a strong detachment of the 9th Lancers, and
several police officers,set out with two stage coaches
for Bury. On their arrival there, they proceeded to
a place where a number of persons were assembled,
7of whom were taken into custody. Thrce more
were apprehended in the town, and with their
10 prisoners the party returned to Manchester,
about midnight. We do not k now whit charge is
all•ged against these persona ; but we understand
they were committed to Lancaster on Thursday, and
that Fletcher the spy, who gave evidence on the
committal of Knight, was the informant against
them;

'DEC c 7.

LANCASTER, Dcc. 22.

The business in the Crown Courts, at the Spring
Assizes tin. Lancashire, Cheshire, and other nor-
thern counties, will be of extrandinary interest and
great impoitance. The principal triais at Chester,
of a political cast, are those of W. Pearson, fire
shooting ut Birch, the police-officer of StoAport ;
and Geo. James Bruce and Jacob M'lnnis, for aid-
ing and abetting in the attempt; Sir Charles Wol-
sely, for sedition ; Joreph Harrison, called the
parson, for sedition ; (there is another indictment
against the same notorious personage for sedition) ;
the Ma.clestield mob orators, for sedition, &c. Har-
rison wits liberated on bail on Monday morning
last.

[Froth the Glrogow Cur:vier.]
()CTRAGE t I'AISI.IsY. Few of our readers will
doubt 1h.,l the Itmlical system has for its ritsjeci 111,,
bubrersion n. all law uad order, and the fulAnu ilia
commis ul +clll !it smile wed:sloe confirm the fact. (),,
Saiti,drty last, a party of officers in Paisley, were sent In
execute a wat rant for apprehending a wasn't accused of
vractices, and no searcilitia, his possess,out fur
papers. ‘l. licit they had Crostp'eled their seateli, and
proceed d to the st•ect with tow prisoner and pops rs,
tory wt aSs..OICsI I,v a molt, who knocked 'me of lhcln
dnuu n, stlld su stunt iy loot another %s oh sIOIIC7I,
tV4:le tritioeiclolly petal! iipint thew, that they s‘er
to alhatidots then pi boner, and in the best ssau
tits') cust]il I Irect their escape. Fridoc, nine of the lii uus
tents, with a party or officers, tl by Soils,
infanu) Just caualiy, piocectled nt api,retwod mow' s,
the rnters, wilco they us err inotilietl and assailed in tilt
saine 11131111er. Tile s.nn.day ;Mill lit r pony at ullietrs,
alowa wit., the Skit 'IT sUlulltlite, Were grittily .listalted
is senti,ig snow concealed anus mune the most poili:ic
Sects, til l'aislry, and tht 1.01111(1 It 1101 safe to eat I's
tilt 111 ill us 11110 lit the phial:1.10o of the tiolliare, Jost ss
parry us as accordingly !trust lin to e.tctirt tie orticers woo
the arotS so seized. On this deity the soLliers tt, it
hooks' aliti 10ut4111.11, .111.1 WIC Ist tiles, se%crels Arne'. 11%
a stone troth the mob, in presetwe of the Sher.a, :Slot
SVIIIIOIII any retaliation. These instances 01 touirsh.te
tiaainst the cult tuner cannot sorely he IN:1(.11 Ithowr
permitted ; awl should the guilty ese.,pe hunt the
phitishment of the w. as they tut) freq.l.ll,ly du roma
Wall! 01.es:deuce (atioilicr feature of the
(IVO% witties-cs)—sue s.!, if such o
ssiettt rumours. nifire so tie lasts than any now it)
proe;res, us ill I,t cititoc hecesslry , and Lust, us r auciul the
ssU law will be hailed by the uuell-d
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