The National Register.
London, England, 1819-05-03 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING', BENCH, APRIL et
This being the first day of Easter Term, thc Judges took their
seats with the usual forerialite.
The state of the convicts on board the hulks was reported.
iturt.s.—TTlE CIRO V. RICHARD cArmit.e.
The defendant on the motion of Mr. Littledale, appeared to
plead to six prosecutions preferred against him for distinct
alleged Mods. Four criminal informstioas were filed against him
last Term for blasphemous impious libels, of and concerning the
Holy Scriptures, published under the title of Pain's " Age of
Ilesson."—Tr then: the de:endatit took time to plead. and on this
occasion he pleaded Not Guilty. He was then snfornied his trial
would come on at the Sittings at Nisl Pries, after Trinity Term.
lie was leg° Called to pleas] to an indictment, charging him with
publishing. on the I9th of December, in the City of London, a
seditious libel, calculated to provoke sod incite insurrection or
rebellion against the King. Lords, and Commons. The title of
the public..lioo Killing no Murder," To this, and another
prosecution for publishing blasphemy, the defend:tn. requested
time to topsider list which was allowed. lie then left the
court.

FRIDAY, APRIL 30.

TAE XTWO r. rat:l'ra. RINWEAR. AND OTHYRA.

Mr: Soulett applied to the Court to grant a new trial in this
cast. it will be recollected that It was an indictment against the
defendant: for a conspiracy. in having set up certain of them. who
were literally beggars, for opulent merchants, in order that, by
their means, they might fraudulently obtain large quantities of
goods. The case was tried before the Lord Chief Justice, at
Guildhall, on the 41st silt and was very fully reported in our
Paper last week. A-yer iet of guilty was returned against )(in-
most, Woolf. and Levy. The Learned Counsel said, the first ground
on which he made the application was, that the Jury. after being
sworn to try the defendiu.ts, bad left the box at eleven o'clock at
slight, and came again to continue the proceeding the next morn-
ing. Whilst they were away they naturally felt the effect of pre.
judice which Prevailed against the prisoners, and they did not
come back to try them with toat unbiassed mind which justice
required. The Learned Counsel cited various cases in support
of his application, and contended that the Court ought to grant
the motion.

The Common Serlesnt and Mr. Denman followed on the same
side. contenting tutu it was not a legal verdict. after the Jury had
di!,,ersed.

The Chief Justice said. if there hal been the least doubt on
the legality of the verdict, as given by the Jury, the Court would
ret have hesitated to grant the motion ; but his opinion was, that
them was not the least pretence for disturbinr the verdict. With
respect to the Jury retiring from the boa before the conclusion of
ear trial, it was a practice long established, and in this instance
could not be impeached. The Court had sat from nine in the
morning to eleven at night on the first slay of the trial. and in
cot the Jurv, militated as they-were, had not retired, it would
have been disadvantageous to the prisoners. us they could not
have had the benefit of proper attention from the Jury. There
was no ground for a new trust.
Toe J s agreed with the Chief Justice, and the motion
VMS
Gurney then moved, that three of the defendants, who ap-
peared in Court. namely. Woolf. Kinnear, and I.ouis'i,evy stand
esounitted. He observed that Weiler, the principal witness, was
in the King's Bench, and perhaps it might be best not to send
the defendants within the same walls.
TheCvurt ord:red them to stand committed to the Gaol of
Newgate.