The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-04-03 00:00:00

AillEßlG'it.

The following extract from a letter just received
by a Gevtletnau near this town from Mr.J. Maid-
low, a much-esteemed man, and a good practical
f.rimer, who left Ilortirlean to settle in the United
`t.►rr, will be read with much interest—(Hamp-
shire Teh-gresph ):

" Park-plnce, near E ille, larliane,
U. S. of America, Dee 23, 1810.
" By favour of Mr. Phillips, an English Gentleman, re.
aiding near Princeton, in this neighbourhood, who will take
his departure in a few days fur Europe, I avail myself of
the opportunity of addressing my first letter to you. I should
'have written mulch earlier, but knowing that your great
object was itiformation, I determiued to wait till 1 had sc-
. veiled sufficient experience to eatable me to descvile oar
real situation, as well as our future prospects, and that of
the country in genttal.
" My wife and family, after a tedious, but not amplest-
, sant passage aeries the Atlantic, and a 10ng.,. more le.
ilium; one down the Ohio river, occasioned by the grest
drought of the season, the water being lower than almost
was ever before remembered, arrived here in good health and
spirits, the latter end of October; soil I am happy to in-
form you, they are much pleased with the country, mid the
sitosition I had selected for Hires), having preferred Indiana
to the Illinois. Soon after my arrival, I entered Iwo half-
I sections of land, containing 320 acres each; on tins of
! 'how, I had a cabin 'built of log, whirl, cut me fifty five
dollars—it consisted of one room 18i feet square, with
a chimney of wood and plastered with mud,' according
to the custom of the country. About the middle of De-
cember, IBIS, after having traversed the country in
various directions, I removed what !biogs we had hi
! the boat to my new cabin, them in nn isofiuislied state,
and commenced housekeeping in Indiana. Mr.
Horn-
'bro.k, an English Gentleman, with • younger brother
and two sisters. wbu hart been to Mr. At orktieck's Settle..
ment in quest of laud, but toot approving of Mr. Bfirkbeck'm
terms, had, previous to my arrival, entered 'considerable
quantity of land, end built a cabin about a Mire distaut from
while I had erected mice: from thia‘we may date the cum-
mescement of the finalists Settlement near Eiansrilli is ia-
diana. Mr. H.'s cabin and mine, with a Mr. ArMsleunes, an
American, were the only ones hat were erected'un a space
of several miles in extent ; and the greater part of the ad-
j. ,i,, i l broil being oncaltivated, we found coneiderahle diffi-
culty in utitainiug a supply of provisious and forage, and
were often under the necessity of *coding many miles to
obtain it. In Jauuary, a Mr. Putts, from Stockport, uear
Manchester. entered, built a cabin, and settled sear Mr.
llornbmok and soon after Mr. Ingle, from Huntingdon-
shire, also settled wear us. h. April, we laid uff a new
town, which is called Sandersville; eleven cabins ere already
built and inhabited: it is situated tan the inaiu'road from
Evansville to Princeton, Vincennes, and P.iit Harrison.
Emigrants from different parts of England are continually
joining us, and our number tails very little abort of 200
1"7.".111' . . .

o During the winter, which was very mild, we were busily
employed in building two new rooms 13 feet iipmike, behind
Ike lest cabin, fur offices; splitting kale rue YeSeiug, and
ekariug the lend: In April, 1 pistoled fil/0 peachfrees, met
three cents. each, and peach stuties; from which'l hive trees
of the amazing height of S feet 7 inches; so astonishing is
the vegetatiou iu this country. In May, and early part of
.1 planted twenty Pere, of maim (Judiin'corn); it is
set in bilk, from three sod a kilt' to four feet asunder, suit
though tip. season has been rather unfavourable, and the
land new, I base grown upwards of 700 huithils. The leaf
or lag, gathered from the hock, in September; lad driest in
the silo, makes excellent fodder for cattle; sr Ibis! have
securril a coissiderable quantity, which, together with gems
mowed on the Prairies, and made into hal; with which
1 am well provided, will subsist My horses'iusl 'cattle' dur-
ing winter. I had almost forgot to tell you,iiit my garden
11:14 1111C1)1111110.11y productive, and gore us 'abundance of
vegrinlilt%; and my crop of Purain'es turnips is
tolerably good. 1 have since built soother 'room sante rose
as the tither, wills brick chimneys, sud sash wiuslows to
both, and have an sari house nearly finished; of two rooms
U.' a Soot, two stories high, besides several buildings
for the use of the faros. 1 have misses 13 Heft, of wheat :
there are 150 to this settlement, and I intend to plant fo
of Indian into, besides !Miley, &c. of which I will give
you the particulars in my next, and of which Mr. Iluru•
brook, junior, will be the bearer. Ile eiperts to leave
this country ist about ten days, by way of Oilcans: his
father sad part of the hastily arrived here the begieuiug of
thas month; he returns to Devonshire to disponi. of mime
pr,,perty. and bring his mother hese with kith. 19 my
next I 0111 gives you-an seramint of Pie soil, &dilation, growth
sif timbre, trimmers of the Penple," ace.

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Mr. You're io sasounced for King Lest, 4 On
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Thi.ur, tine eveuirm.

W,IRWICIt ASSIZES.

• RaIDAY, MARCH 11.
• This day the commission, of Oyer and Terininer,
and general giol delivery of the county of War=
wide, were opened by Mr. justice liEsy who had
already sat, two days tit itssi Pryer; and after at-
tending divine service, several prisoners were ar-
reignesl;and their trialis proceeded on, jr. Clarke
presiding i* the criminal C6urtt
• lit* lune 111. GAOL
This was so indictment peefetrert at the instance
of the Magistrates of Birminghain against' the De.
frodent, for publishing and Selling a libel ciat_llll
church establishment. and th4t part of its service
.calledche Catechism, under the name end title of
the twelfth swathe, of the " Black Book;
Corrupliois nomasked."
Mr. READER 'opened the pleadings, and Mr.
Serjeant VAUGHAN stated the care for the prostcu-
tion. Tire terms and character of the publication
which bad been just read would, he tro.ted, exempt
him from the imputation of compromising his duty
to the Crown, it he abstained frost all observations
as to its contents. The same subject had already
undergone undergone a full nod patient investigation by other
Juries. All, therefore, to which he was anxious to
*twit* their attention in the present case wow, the
circumstances under which the libel in question
had been published. 1-10 t was ready to admit, that
nothing Could be more painful or disgusting than
the introduction ofiubjetialike there into • Court
of Justice. The public discutisiou of them could
not fail to produce. mischieiviss effects; hut the
only alternative was to resort to this proceeding, or
suffer the evil to spread till it should'uodermitie all
the religious institutions of the country. It might
be proper for him also to remark, that howarier
desirable it might be,,to proci r; e 4 against the.oriV
nal author whet( he could bereuud. he still thought..
that a publisher had mach to ilpswer for. It was
not enough for one who followed the trade of di.-
seminating poison, to say that he was not aware
how 110KSOUI were the ingredients of which it was
composed. It appeared to hint manifest, on the
' face of this publication, that its object was to bring
the church service into contempt, and ttiore.ripe.
daily that part of it which related to the office of
ordination. Oil this. however, the Jury were to
decide, and, after a fair review of the whole ca.e,
to pronounce whether or not the rublication was
calculated to produce the effect imputed to it.
William Hart deposed, that he knew the De-
fendant, and bought a copy of the 14th number of
The Black Book in his shop at the bottom of Bull-
street, Birmingham, on the I 4th of December
Ile was employed to make the purchase, and ob-
served considerable numbers of similar pamphlets
in the shop. l'he shop was divided into two parts.
in one of which lace was sold. and in the other
books and prints. Ile had not seen, according to
his recollection, the Defendant for some time pre.
vious to his purchasing the work ; nor did he know
whether the name of Rang was over the door or not.
Payne. the chief constable of Birming-
ham, stated, that he had often seen the Defendant
in the house &berthed by the last witness ; end
it was also proved'by Mr. Arnold, a solicitor, that
the Defendant held that house of him in Decem-
ber last.
Mr. DENMAN, who was Counsel for the De-
fendant, objected that there was a deficiency of
legal limit'. inasmuch us no evidence was offered
that the subjects to which the alleged libel applied
were parts of the church service or church establish-
ment.

Mr. Justice BEST over-ruled the objection, re-
serving, however, to the Defendant the right of
submitting it to the Court of King's Beach in the
ensuing Term. .
Mr. DENMAN began Isis address to the Jury by
submitting to them, that whatever decision might
be ultimately pr •erl on the question of legal
proof, there was not evidence to make out the po-
sitive allegations of the indictment. What evi-
dence had they that the office of ordination form-
ed soy part of the church service? On other s.cca.
sions, as to the trial of Mr. Hone, it had been
deemed necessary to put in formal evidence that
tie subjects supposed to be impugned were cer-
tainly legal parts of the church establishineot.—
From early instruction, all might be aware that the
Catechism was a part ; hat very few persons, lie ap.
prehetided, were familiar to the terms in which or-
dination was conferred. It was one of the pecu-
liarities of our church, that ordination by a Ca•
tholic Malloy was a sufficient authority for a
preacher of our Protestant establishment. How
could the Jury, upon their oaths, declare that there
had been any intention to cast scandal and contempt
on the formularies of our Church without knowing
what these formularies were ? He entreated-them
not to suffer the current language of the day,
shout the necessity (which he did not mean to
deny) of suppressing dangerous publications, to
divert them from the consideration of their strict
aud simple duty. They did not flit there as cen-
sots of the press, but were sworn to give a faithful
I verdict upon one issue. an issue embracing these
two questions—had the Defendant been proved
to publish this worlf„'it Ull ? and. if he had.
with the criminal intention imputed to hint ?
Ilia own conviction was, that neither of these pro-
positions had been supported. If, however, even a
doubt could he entertained respecting them, the
Defendant was entitled to an acquittal. Let a
publication be ever so mischievous or dangerous,
unless a criminal intention could he sheen. the pe-
nalties of the law ought not to apply, lit his own
opinion, if the formulary of ordination did, in term.,
invest a clergyman with the power of absolving it'd
remitting silos, the sooner such a supposed power
I was abrogated the better.
Mr. Justice BEST, in strong terms, condemned
the publication. aud regretted that* the lesruid
Counsel had endeavoured to controvert principles
which he must knOW had been established above
half a century. Verdict.—Guilty,
SPURRIER V. EDMUNDS.
In this case, which was an aell9O or private slan-
I the Defendant, who is one of the parties itn-
',Heated with Alajor Cartwright and others in a
charge of conspiring to overturn the law!, applied
to put off the trial, on the ground of his intiiirlins
to obect, next Term, to tfie formation of the Sues
cial Jory lilt. Tile appkicatiou being refused. Ed. ;
Moods declitsgli all rfafeles I said • verdict pa"-
eil against limo pietvidhuslitell to
the astneut
l of 2001. Yews.. .nut, tui!,•