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London, England, 1820-01-15 00:00:00

OLD BIILEt JANWIT 14.

tORGEJligis
This noireillet.the following Presoote..tionse emit $. the
-bar, •nd asreijoist spa. indictments for wilfofly Weir,* ea
their pima's..sun forged Batik of fingl•nd nose•, cbirHy of
Si. and 10/.

Ilse following &ruled guilty to the minor oftener, wh,rb
asbjl•Ci% them so fourteen yens% transport.' :—Willtaart
Wood, Henry Hneknel (a hnO, Janie. 111rIciii,
Drawee, JllllO,ll Carr,, Jalae• C01,1,V, Henry Johlt•on,Jalaa •
Wright, Edward Walsh, %Wham Garrrli (Viol Rorhard
Hadley, James Rrysei, Anu Hall, Mary Kelly, SJrah
arid Catherine Martin.

Mr. RSYNOLDIk a Ceilniwi for the Bank, observed, that
in each of the foregoing emirs these ...re two indictments
against the primmer', one for the Capital, and the other for
libel was called the minor offence. The indictments were
in both rims found by the Grand Jury. The Primmer', as
the Jury tonal have beard within the last bone in Conti, ed.
Inntarily, and riiiirelv of their own sill, pleaded orally to
the offence of having forged notes kauwiligly in their pos.
session ; and the Hank in Ode, As in all miter Cafes, after
paving the ul•trt minute attention to Ilse nature of the
offcnce, as it affected them, the public interests, and the Pri-
soners, considered that they might on merciful costsiderat tuns
for the last, refrain (ruin proceedingem Ilse capital charge,
now that the Primmer" hid ',knifed guilty In indictments
which subjected them to the p-iiiilly of 14 yeses traiiiiiortie-
lion. They hid then nu evidence, thrrerfesse,lo offer its sup.
port of the capital charge..
The above Prisosers were then severally arraigned awl
Arqftilled on the capital charge.
l'he following were also put to else bar in the 11011114 of the
morninx tin Minstar charges:.

Jolt+ l'areans pleaded ed Gain.. after sialtivit set in-
effectioll aitcostit through Mr. Whirmto. hu Cuomiwl.
put ..ff Ida trial sit. aceottist oldie abeetseea a treineta ethos
be alleged to be, niaterial for his defence.
Similar Pleats were recorded tor John Storey, Gets. Perms,
William Saul, .I.onca Gartiey, Sarah' Paky, Auu Pritzker,
and Aim Elizabeth Harwood. _ _

On JVns. Peery (cabinet maim) being arraigned Coe I.
tering, knot.inetitrm to be forged, several la mud Si. noire,
he pleaded Not Guilty to the minor offence of having Owe
in hue posseaaton ; but VI/14 informed by Mr. Justice Hot..
PIOVD, that the ingliclenelit •gaiiii%t him WAS fur feloniously
disposing of and plliting aria) the notes, not fix merely bay-
ing them iu 6i. possession.
Prisoner —" My Lord, I ran only plead what is true—l
had the noire in my poioleitiosi."
The Cnt.nr—" Then do you plead i;:tiilp or Nol Chitty
to t indict men( ?" . . .

Prisoner—" ‘Vlty may I nut plead Godly in t►e •irur
offence as well as ;mollies.'"
The COURT—" You ire not charged with that. You may
plead guilty if you please to the indictment read to you, but
tills plea solrj•cts yon to the penalty of des.ll."
I'riooner—" I emu plead nu other way ran pi having them
in my possession."
'The Counr —" I again tell youth-it is not the charge, and
if you obstinately won't plead, the eow.etpietice to you will
he tern rilolr."

The Pi isimer then pleaded GtriPy.
The mats of these prisoners were fisted fur tomiorrow
(this) minlllll/.
In Ihr course of these arraiznments a difference of opinion
pretniled A 111011! the London Jury re4pec!ine the choice of
a Foreman. It is usual that the first ii.ro. railed .h,,uld lie
the Foreman, and this practice was adhered to, after a .curt
con ~,,, ton among the Jury.
CHARGE or. MURDER.

Joseph Skelton, dustman, was indicted foe the wilful mite.
der of William Turney, by knocking loan its Clisinius-
street, tut the 23,1 December last, alien the abed uf a dray
passed over him, whirls caused his death.
Mr. At.t.s v stated the case for the prosectition exactly its
the manner we have already detailid it to Hie ',oldie in our
report of the Coroner's Inquest upon the derea.o.
Hughes deposed, that Oil the evening mentioned in
the indictment he accompanied the deceased, who was driv-
ing a coal.waggim, with four black horse's, t.
It was dark at the lime, for the lamps had beer. just lighted.
The waggon wag its the narrow part of the street, and g g
out towards Covent-garden, about two ur three fret fr the
footway. A potato.cart was on the oilier side of the way,
and there was not room fur the waggon to pas.. The de-
ceased thereupon went to the Prisoner, and asked hint if he
would b.: au Ruud as to remove his earl a yard furstaril—the
latter using very coarse bowline, refused, and said there
was room enough for any man to pass who knew how to use
his whip. The deceased then said to witness, `• Go on ; I
dare say we can go by if ally hotly ran." They did so, and
in the attempt the waggon touched the Prisoner's dust-cart,
but not so as lo do any injury. They gut by boils the Pri.
loner's cart and the potato one. I 1111 l lellialtly un Ibis the
Prisoner ran up to the elevated, hit him right mid left, and
knocked hunt mailer the wheel. Witness caught the fore
horse to pri vent his going on, and to save deceased from the
wheel, when Prisoner rail at him, and with a blow knocked
him against the potatmcert, the hones went tin, soil the a heel
passed over deceased ; !atter might have had one kg broke
before the horses could have been stopped, but he certainly
would nut have been sn crushed as he was If witness had not
been knocked clown by Prisoner, while in the act of aw.istiiig
his companion. Deceased was then taken li, the Infirniary
{Viten Prisoner struck witness it was light enough for 111111
(Prisoner) to see the situation of the deceased, who lived
front Thursday night to Saturday morning. He did nut
know Prisoner knew the deceased.

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Cromerarnineil by .1/C. AN Paa w is —lie believed they were
perfect strangers to each other. The team coosiated of
young sprightly horses. He recollected that as they were
passing the cart, the force of coming in contact with It
made the horse wheel round. He knew that by pas.ing
there was nut ruum, and yet Huy resolved to make the
attempt.
In answer to questions from the Jury, lie said that the Pri-
soner might have made more room with his cart, and he
might also have helped sip the &crest d.
In answer to a question (rum the Court, he said that the
horses were studio,: when Prisoner gave him the blow ; but
they wrist on before lie could recover laintself,uwing, be he.
keyed, to the noise on the spot.
James Gorman deposed, that he was passing slung the
street, while this occurrence lock place. He corroborated
the precirditig witness, and thought that sufficient room
might have hero made by removing the slut-cart closer to
the paveineot. There was a Hammersmith coach came up
at the time, and the driver of it was knocked down by the
Prisoner, while he attempted to pot his cart nearer the fool
way. %Then the driver got sip, lie naked who if was that had
airsick him, and Prisoner replied that he was the man, and
if he would rouse out psi the street, he would serve him an
again. Prisoner then went up, held his horse's collar, and
defied ally twelve men in the street to move bins. It was
then that he said there was room enough fur the deceased to
play by. The latter then drove his 'noses on glossily, when
they came in contact with the other cart. The coal WIECUII
with the deceased puled on; Prisoner, after mime violeot
language, ran after deceased, and knocked him under the
bini,,,,,, feel, whirl, were their going on. Deceased cried out
for somebody to stop the !tows, for God's sake. At that time
Prisoner was so close ill burn as to have it in his power to
a..ve his life, lint be made no attempt to do so; on the cows.
trary, be knocked down the other man who was coining up
to give assistance.
Cron.traatined.—Was a stranger to either of the par-
ties; he then described that the affair took place in tare oar-
row part of the street, at the moment when the aletemied
came in contact with the cart, there was a general ery,Aiii
if be went on, he would endanger the people,* 19114 What
the deceased was knocked down, Isis borneiaereriarupsdipu,
but he believed they were Mopped by Hughes,ito Oulu' lyre-,
blow, and it might be that the noise of the people maiie
them go on. He believed that the waggon of the Oeceased
ought to have gone at the aide where the potato.cart was,
and not on that where Prisoner's dust-cart stood.
Rs.ezalsised..—fle positives; believed. that the Priam*.
might have sued the deceased a life, after be knocke!lZ.
Aiwa, by drawing him from under lb* bums, if ha.
wished to do so.
011410-Yefferson, a eaaltallif fleP4*ft that .IS I
C tiiiiiikt4-iirei4, when The Weir tuuk.ilace ; Ai iiseip
mailt
0
net tarp short MUM! II if by violence, and be i

. •
obeeeveil lie 'Ptlooser striking. the tieirsiseal. end he was
certain the winos Wes 'tribal moment advancing, and the
nom callingeast fee help. W's Men saw him lying tinder She
horses' lege, said Ilweher, she foal aritnewytotking Priihiser
why he bit his COIIIII2I a i )))) when Primmer knoelted kiss timra
al•o. He (Hughes) appeared at the motor it to be goner to 4
atop the hone, which he might hive done. hid he not been
knarked down; at that mains the wheel* metre.] over tile
deceased, whose leg was broke in pieces U'ltttess took the
Prisoner into custody, "Iwo a 111116/ named 41.,51e (she Pri.
snores partner), came tivi r, '• Hilt, ii i• aN
*rout !" and fur saying so, he took him into custody atm. ,
Croy: examined—He might, certainly, hive dragged the ,
decat...it from under the horses* legs Ita welt as she Primmer,
if he had not gout so the baker's shop for a light • he had al
the moment ens id•a :he man was is such onsiusal;ate danger
Gout the wheels, and thought he might hale 'crumbled out
of the way If Hoglirs had mutinied lay tst the horses heed%
where he was, the mischief occasioned by dirk going use
would not have happened. There wan snow noise at the
time, which, probably made the horse. go on, fur they stop-
ped merely for the moment. The whole thing occurred is
an instant.

Luke Franklin spoke nearly to the same effect as the pre.
name witurates.

Mr. Henry Rend, [inure Surgeon of Weelminsier Hospi-
tal, recollected the deci-streilhring brought there he had e
severe eompound fracture on the left ler, and his left arm
freet•ted. The leg ons ampotaled, and the mast died on the
foilimiur mow. The crush of the wheel caused his
di.ith.

'lse cage fur She prounecitlion hrioug closed, the Prisoner,
on Swing calltd ■t fur hi. ule:ennte, gaol that she wit nen,
Jed'►sun, had perjured ht ..elf.
The following writoe•tre4 erre ormloced in his favour.
Mary S]•lk,r 4161 tail. mo.irr 113.1 a homer in ( h4nulos.
alms. Ssr reculleciell the squabble 81111ollir the eartamen,
and a great d,...iur nhounive brigntage pager .1 h. twerp thew.
She lion draft 111. al that there wag out a warn for slue ultcraerd
to pass and tureen tin lewu ilc tog.Ateol at emi•l7. oat A ibm-
artrnsuitli coachnt4ut 311C114101r ! to poll the Prisoner's
honors and alit hoof-heal down. Tine d►ceased forced Ina
horses thewaugh, and wheeled the doin.:art rotund i• a curious
That was all she saw.

George White kept • c„isiltaibop in Chanihmilrect. The
drist.eart of the erieuner was lilting from his house, and
whew the edal.nien tease np, he &stied ',simmer's pettier
to draw aside tits rat t, which the latter refused, saying, he
was allowed 411 asnirsies. A piece of work commenced be-
tween them, and witness said, Ilw bad totter COW for the
dust soother day than make this noise in the street. The
coal-man drove by, stud wheeled mond the dust-cut. Wit-
ae,g eau tent to So e who was the 0 Ml' pf ii,. cotti.o.ggoo. to
ascertain the otstin's *AMP, and on his way he f d that
the man bad 'Deese ruin curer. PriAtmer was a dustman who
aliens,* came fur Ina dust fur the 1.1.1 Iwo years. He was an
honest atiol ff. ailing man.
_ . _

Re-examinad.—He did mot see the man NI under the
horses.

John 1"1" •••• the e,,al-.llreon come up while the dart.
cart was at the door. There was not room fur the coal-wag-
gon to pas brivreen the potato cart and the dust one. A
co:miima was behind the MAtt(9ll of the deceased, and called
to him to go ..u. The coachman c sme down (ruin bir box,
and using horrid I.olgo■ge, put his hand to the horse of the
shirt tart, when our • of the du.tivien, he could not say whe-
ther the Prisoner or his partner, ran owl and knocked hint
down. The coal shiver whipped on, and She wheels of Isis
caul gratin cootai t wails Ihe .1 list-C:111, I.lliCh It !MIMI round
wills peat yorleore, and war near tweaking all 11►. Miler
windows. Jefferson, the courtable, raid, he hail enough to
du to prevent a 11/01T11.1 from heiug jammed by it.
A 'swatter of witnesses gave the Prieouer an excellent
character for propriety of conduct.
Mr. Justice HOLKOVI) summed up the evidence to the
Jury. who return...l isuatettate verdict of—Guilty of
Manslaughter.
This trial I sated the wls3le slay.

At five o'clurk in !Igo evening, l'ainnsas Braopka, was pat
to the Bar, iadietel fur killing and slaying Catherine ku
wife.

It appeared in evidence, that in the middle of the night of
the Ist Decembr IA the Prisoner came home drunk. Shortly
after he came in the other lodgers in the house over-heard
some altercatiou between him and his wife, soil they shortly
afte► heard a uoise as if sourrhody had fallen, and a cry of
murder several times. 0, going up to the room door, two
female lodgers found the Prisoner standing outside and very
muck intoxicated. On eutering the room, they saw the de-
ceased sitting clime to the bed side, and a gloomily of blood
on the Hour. The deceased scerned very weak, and com-
plained that her husband had pulled her one of bed, and
that she hail fallen and was much hurt. The poor woman,
it seemed, from time evidence of a female fellow-lodger in the
house, who caw to her ■ssistamre, was far advaurtil in preg.
isancy. The landlady was called up to her assistance, bat
the aufortunate woman died in about three quarters of an
hour. The Prisoner rime in and out of the room once or
twice white the woolen were assisting his wife, and the last
time cried out to hi• wife, " come, old woman, have some.
thing to drink," and waisted to put a bottle wills some liquor
to her month. The woman world not let him, saying it was
a pour recompense to give her chink after he bad killed her.
He seemed, though drunk, quite uneasy at his wife's situa-
tion, he cried over her, tore his hair. mid said he would not
part her. The B. mile and Watchman were brought in and
they took hint low custody with some difficulty, as he said
he would never quit hisnlil woman. He was evidently much
in liquor. The deceased was a very passionate woman.
Mr. Burgess, a surgeon, was called is, when fie found the
women dying ; she was far advanced in pregnancy, and is
a state of litter exhaustion from loss of blood. There was
no external bruise on the body, hut on internal examination
a large blood vessel was found ruptu►ed. This might have
been rinsed by a fall or a blow, as in her slate of health the
vessels were distended. He did nut think it could have
happened without vmlence.
The Prisoner, in bit defence, said that his wife wanted to
keep him from going smut again after he came home, and
that she jumped out of bed for that purpose, hot fell back
against the smile of the bed. He aolemiely declared that he
had isflieted upon her sin violence whatever.
A person who knew the Prieuner a lung time gave him an
earviivest character.
Mr. Justice BURROUGH left it to the Jury to say whether
the deceased bad fallen by accident on the floor, sold thereby
ranged her death, or by any violence offered to her by the
Pr 'sorer.

The Jury, lifter five minutes consideration, found a ver.
dict of—Not Gritty.

__ ~.

We have had winter during the lest week in all
its risoor of trot end enuw. The frost on Friday
re' Wit. we believe, was one of the severest.
which Liverpool has experienced for a noinberof
years; and we hare ',tell informed by a gentleunet
who lilies at TAW-hill. that his thermoinctoe,,M.
sever' Saturday morning, in an eserrC4
',knit*, Wei es low as seven degrees !—lLeiree•
Letters front. ,Cadiz, dated December 24.
once mere /ewe specalallwir when every hope
appeared to be extitoisherl. on the subiretsif,, tile.
expedition to South America. The earlieet petiod
now named for the departure of the first division.
which. on accpu'tt of die disasters hloett.i.o.liart
lately experteneedoa fully spnoterstood to be inesot
for the caracole, is the lettecenduf February; when
the latter portion of !twill:sail. for. the subjtigoe
tinn of Basisso—Aysaa and -Chili. the friends. of
Spanish sac list south A merit* du • oot assign a
period. Cleo, haUs of :health are still withheld
from the troslera.to the port of Cadiz.; and no-
politic declaration hod, been issued, anuoyncinie
the commusisa4Dis Vilb the neighbouring provusce
of AndalUina. and with, Gibraltar. to tie on the
same !opting as before the appearance of the fewer,
though the health. of the city iteell is considered
as perfectly restored.

i . i

ro rat RDITOR OP THE DRITIIff PRESS.

Sim—Yum were kited erreerykie losers in your ?leper rotas
lithe agn a letter I sent sespriating itpe de;smenuss mate of the
font-pavements, and, in my humble orlon',,. • it wetly.
This hawing no Weer, Nampa r■ will allow me to recom-
mend another mode—sialf hut ts, if ferry inhabitant would
Rive particular oraers to their servants to throw not tome
asks every 0001111111 f before their doors; by ro ening the y
MOM have Ike pleasing satisfaction of pretesting many
*viten limbs, and what is worse, depriving many a. poor
aim Gum supporting his family when eurifisst d. for niusalts
in es bnrpiul. Your mondani grathr;
Wendororfk-road, Jemmy" 14, 1520, W.

~:.

TO TIIE EDITOR OF TUE BRIM)/ PRAM.

Stet—Time attracts contained in your Paper of this morn.
log, respecting the population of rectal.. destructs to Ireland,
are calculated to saute considerable surprive in the rnund•
or those who have ant reflected on the opireteou of that
barbirross melee( lows which still disgrace the of
Oa wtpire. The true rause of the greet disproportion in the
illeff•ft of the Pruteednut and Catholic popolstion is, in my
°pinkie, to be found in the restrictive syvtem which). still
sufficed to claret. I weed not iliform your traders, Mr. Ceti-
tor, of the harsh and exclusive regulate ~,, which have s'fcod-
ed the Catholic resideste in the cities and boroughs esireteg
the greater part of a (*Merry_ The shalom cniuterpieucel,
which has been, to drive the Catholics out of the tocrus,
until they have become emphatically the agrieMturol *Tu.
lation of Ireland. The mode of their levreel is will 'cumin;
they ran subsist on their favourite vegetable, and a sma I
goyimy of milk. They have, theretree, im motive to re-
strain them from marriage, art g from the fear of an .fr.
sprung, to support which their means might prose mecum,
tent. Ou the other band, the favoured sirs, to which the
corporation-law• have 1.0 reference, hare at mistimed them-
selves to a mare tenurial' style of living. A numerous
family operated as • drawback DO their accustomed esejoy.-
melds, mid inaensilde lessened the dispmeitton to engage is
matrimonial engagements. It is thns, Mr. Editor, Ihst
lava so oppressive nltirnarely defeat the intentions of their
promoters. Permit me to subscribe turns( your constant
reader, and, as indicative of my Country (I may add, of my
religion also),
Narple-Bone, Januurp 14, 1820.

BRITANNICUS.

MYSTERIOUS CASE.

During the last eight days the house of Mr. Irright, linen-
draper, of Fuley.place, Mary-to bore, has no less than user
tinges been on fine, seder the most singular commotion-I, ;
and yesterday morello( was the last time they woe wooled,
when their house was cunsidevah!y injured. Mr. end Mr• .
Wright, with their servant, are the ugly perons ill the
and frequeatly when they have bad occasion to go to the
drawers se the apartments where linen is hey t, on nprnii
them flames have lamed out (and th• rehy ■ fire CUMRICIII, at
apparently as if some combustible was placid ilitreiu. 7LI 4
happening so repeatedly, Mr. Wright applied to a Maizia.
trate, and the °theirs made area y inipory, vown finds,,,
grounds fur people ))))) , we understand that the ease will au..
dello a thorough investigatioe.

111

[From Trewmatt's Rxrter Flying Post.]

TRIAL OP .TAME. TUCKRR
I'OR SELLING PROFANE AND SEDITIOUS
LIBEL.s.

At our City Sessions, held on Nlouday lavt,
before the Ni.gyor, Wm. CouRTEMsy, Esq.
11,7 order, and the Justices fur the City, James
Tucker was tin.' for publishing a blasphemous libel
rn the form of a prirody on the Catechism ; and it
i.h feeling, of deep grAtituile fur the pure and
e:l.ret:ve od .oratioo of our laws, we have to state,
eva• Ile vela, immediately iiiterwards

tried and convicted for publishirig a seditious libel,
. awl two further indictments of a sionlar nature are
still pending against him. rrirtrect pier reli.
giron cease., respect fur cisH institutions will not
hut long.-sand when once 11w seniiinents of reve.
• attscherl to the worship of God and the service
of the church, are turned to ridicule, there is little
or
no gradation to the (Irwin of impiety and blip.
pheiny ; 11,1(1 if this he generally true, it peculiarly
applies to Ili. !timing lido ridicule a part of the Per-
vice which comprises the Of.:10 betiOlant snuirwroy
of the which early impressions
have retwieiell most drat, and which, as we teach to
oor eltoldren. we hope we impart to them the rules
..r their future life, nod know that we are teaching
to them the only sure grounds of hapi.incss and
eternal salvation. How Noe usual ho the mired
lb .1 could wantonly or wickedly interfere with such
a blessing! We shall fortward. 141114. g to oar redden
the liongnisge of this libel. It is sufficient to say,
th:t It follovett in the cnvo-st matineroll tier questions
of the Cateclinni; and :hat die OnolVerll/2 instead of
declaring the plus truths of Christianity. and the
dories of a Clio Winn. set firth. in language
rat', gross, and impious. tire conduct of • fawning
sycophant to a Mint.ter of the Crown. That it in.
chided the farm, rit le. and language of the Creed,

the Ten Commandu ents. and the Lord's Prayer,
stispierl to the same *mai-slows purpose—slid that
crither upon the mind% of the Jury, sr °luny indi-
vidual, could any doubt rennin, of the intention of
the urpiie:einii—not th.t. Its trsideury and effect
virmi to b.isig Iht Peruke of the Church suit religion
it..if into siglorule and contempt.
Mr. TAX4:IIED and Mr. Osumilics conducted
the rrosecoli, es. The Prmoner defended himself.

Mr. TAIVCRIFD stated the ellSe to the Jury in •
• ry clear awl iwlerr,.ive •isetehr—he pointed out the
elotraver and 'memory effect of the hbel, rod

*fated that it was from the character of the act
door, the publishing of that litre!. the Jury were
to judge of the html of the publisher, and that
with what he might choose to state carte Isis own
prirste motives the Jury hurl nothing in ctn. He
orlverted to Mr. Fox's Libel Bill, of 1791, which,
hr tlrphillird, had not, es was erroneously supposed,
x:vets to the Jury any other duty, than in all trim-
sal cases, that of judging of all the circumstances,
until ssyii.g whether the 111,r1 was of the character
imputed to it, and the Defendant was guilty of
puldishisig it.
The I:htl*AN then proved to have been purchased
at the Dactidatit's shop, of the Defendant him-
self ; and the prayer-hook, in the custody of the
Drill) and Chapter, tinder the Act of Uniformity,
with the Grolit Seal appendant, was produced,
This closed the Clair on the part of the prosecution.
Defendant espreseed his wish not to trouble
the Court with reading the libel, and it was handed
to the .Ivry, hot not read.
. . .

The D:fentlant then addressed the Court in a
lone and manner which deserved a better cause. He
profesoed his warm attachment to the Christian re-
ligion. and said, had he been permitted, he should
have published an excellent work, in a cheap foam,
dertice of it. He did not say • word in defence
of the libel Astir, but nicely contended, that (lone
having been acquitted, the original publisher, it
sus hard to select him, the mere vender. That
it was the author who ought to be made responti.
; and that this was the intent of Mr. Fox's Libel

11,:1, on which he chiefly relied ; that this Bill en.
prps-ly said, that, in future. the Jury should not be
trtluned to find the Defendant guilty merely on
of the fact of the publication and of the
sense ascribed to it in the indictment ; that the Jury
trete to take into their coosiderati:•n all the circuni-
stabets, and particularly the intent of the Defendant;
that they were expressly authorized by tins
Act to give a special verdict, which they ought to
en, finding the book itself to be a libel, but hint.
ire Po ironer, not guilty ; and in support of this. be
frrrrd to (and read) a long extract from a work of
Iticliaid Phillips's (a bookseller, formerly She.
raid London), and he referred to the opinion of
the lie. order himself, as expressed in the House of
cbminuns a few weeks since. in the case of Mr.
11.41iltuure, when Studart, the publisher, was let
go fire; he dwelt also on his biting suffered five
months' imprisonment and his being a cripple, un-
able to get leis livelihood in any other way.

The RECORDER clearly and isupartisny ex-
plaiiied to the Jury, that the whole quest
for them to try was, whether the publication was
in itself a libel, and the Defendant published it—
t the sale was proof of the publicatiori—and that
o; the character of the libel they were to juke—
that the effect of Mr. Fox's Bill was mtrely
to Jesse it to the Jury to give a general verdict as
in all other criminal cases—and they were not to
find a verdict of guilty merely on the fact of publi-
cation, and the proof of the mere attributed to the
book by the indictment, but were to judge of the
whale character and tendency of the book, and say
whether it was a libel or not. lie said, Ow with the
Defendant'd prolessions*f his intent. and of hissed
fur lit• Christianity, the Jury had nothing to do--
that they were to judge of Ins intent by his acts—
if the Jury thought he had circulated to the
rem lil that which was calculated to bung religion
mill the service of the church into contempt, he
w guilty of the offence charged in the indictment.
.1 he Recorder pointed out the fatal rtlaets of ridi-
silifying religion and its limns, arid ex-
pie's,' cis clear conviction that the honk in guess
slot' sq.. ail Impious and blasphemous libel.
The Jury retired fey au 111.0411. mid returned with
a veiti,ti of Gritty. The Prisoner was then tried
nit Mil indictment for a seditious libel. moil also
Gritity. 'there were tern other indicttnents
rending “v11.4t lino, upon which he was nut hied ;
and le.iennlay morning the Recorder, 111 an im-
pressive Willelierd the Defendant to an
itn-
piisOnwro:t of Mire months iu the City Geol, for
the bla,plieurous libel, and six mouths more for the

seditious libel; and at the expiration cf that time to
give sureties for his good behaviour, 1 self in 15,11..
and two other penult's in 9.51. cacti ; and to be fur-
ther isopromord omit such security ►hall be given.
Tints as this part of the country rtsetted from the
foul imputation, with which r former acquittal was
calculated to sally the character of the nation—
sod this city freed, by the exertions of our Magis-
trates and the impartial administration of the law,
front what was fa►t approaching to prove the most
dangernos prat that ever disgraced our walla.
The Devon County Sessions commenced at our
Castle yesterday mos. 1111 l g. E. P. Lyon, Eon. Chair-
Ingo, p►esides its the Nisi Prins Court, fur tsviog
appeals, traverses, Sce. ; and S. Erkewich, Esq.
Crown Bar, for tr)ing felonies and mistlemeaours.