The National Register.
London, England, 1816-08-19 00:00:00

muted to them in esicievice. He tame proceeded to read
thew paper to a hich !..• lead reformed.
ft 'set teeth, that Marshal had been repeatedly guilty of
S.IOIV glaring violation of the sentence of tile Court, than that
for which he now prosecuted him (I ord Cochrane). Those
who could pay cur the indalgemas, might quit the prison at
,pirasitre, sail t .e stem es often- kingdom had not always limited
shale excite stuns. The mitosis ty of such voormitees ought to
finder it imperatibe on the Marshal to prove the AAAAA el* 01•
escape now alltergi:el, we re it tel tie sleet% tam he himself %MI
mot 411 liCtst•sals.y. Awl ei PH could steely be said, that
the prevent prosecution arils not fur a voi.atom of the s,
of the Court, ben for tint the coi.fisierac y or the Mar-
anal. It is nest lase tile oollllllOtaltlil of a breo, h prison, bat
dolor ven effecting it uy liyabeey, tTti er such vii "I":`l"cust
bow e4111.1el it be expected drat he should consider it ally vet y
serious offence to t,t'igir from Ode King's bench .P 1130.1? Ile
had been coudemned with set en ottee rs, and lead applied for
a new trial; hut was told that h, moth 1101 be :ward, bee..ti r
all the convicted persons au,r4N.t tkcu presei,t. lit' hard Saul,
could 1101Cor,pcl titian lo come, and the law did not resleil e
we impossibility, Bat :01•Ner was, that the omen, eof the
Courtfrequired it, ant( that the practice sit the Court of King's
Bench sins time •eiltire Ceert of King's Item Is. Afterwards
Wlr4 114!Nt 10 the prison, where he foOrlid it was the practice
t.• depart and go at tierce. Why, ill, a, Might leg he coirclude
from what he boil bee et told, thot the practice of the King's
ilea. It Prison was the law of the King's Bench Prison? tl by
:It mid practice comtetiele law sine I.IOC, :MU Hot Other ?
Ili% esral e, after oil, was relfrlselittd to be the fruit of op-
pression. and his nasaitier of gt.ng Was of all others least ex-
eeptionahle : not us ,ittlessigt d in the indictment, " hi the evil
example of all otiters-," fur his plain scarcely any one knew, and
none would dare to follow. lie wither set an rumple that .
could be follows d, tie'sollowed theavilexantlde that was set.
Had ae made an escape by the old, cowardly, corrupt method,
this prosecution wunol newer have been heard of; and as to
the waives, they were more than barely defensible; they were
landabie. His weasel en escape to defraud a creditor, or do
e,sv man an injury, but he do and mobtainjustice. He might,
indeed, be unseal «as as to the mode by him adopted ; but if it
vis enamor, it was a Nenialeue. It was an irregular way to
be smite, but it 011. S theady.one which presented itself b lieu
imagination at the three, wholty impressed as he was with in-
'dignation 4st the insolveice and initmety -of those under whose
emeriti 111 l s in itistive he was stake ing, and eagerly grasping at
the Mine of earning-and reps Mug teat injestice by any prac-
tical meats. He eflocted his ilbetation %lib the stile view of
a omelet's' hes seat lea Parliament, and of teinindileg that Assem-
bly, that their sentenee ofespulsion had been tot reset', lay the
pstple t and of demanding from them that strict investigation
'l:,to the mese of his sneering, and into the conduct of his
riget,ste which be was entitled, and which had not then, and
which, he was softy to say, had lot •e•t been atterded to bine.
lie went to the House as to a place " obese all wrongs are
So be: nettled of a Inch men cannot obtain redress elsewhere."
land. it was described to be in other times Ly various old
.Author. whom be quoted, and whose at etings went to slew a
received opinion that injustice weight be done to a man in the
4oarts •of Parhament ; but in that highest of all Courts he
wets to look with assuranc e for redrete,, being the case.
as * at:ember of that Court, might well is p:gine that he had
only to ernes-the threshold to find not only refuge but redress.
That he was so actuated is suite' ions; fur it was iu that House,
Ist pos-sesaion,as he conceived, of that very relvige,and in search
if teat %cry nitre s, that he was fumed by his pi mat Prosecii-
ther—a ho, uI opera violation of his priviiege as a Member, and
Isis right eau suitor, forcibly di :egged him back to the scat of
oppression; and, in pen' aggravation tit that oppression, in-
stantly imemsted him in a pest itent thisigeon, am.) there held him
ininwred fir 26 days; and now, instead of being punished
far his violence and barbarity, calit.l on re Jury ales country,
to • heap fresh apt ression on the head of his persecuted vie.
• tiere. He stated what ecctlited on his leaving the prison in the
:following worth:— "When the Marsbel of the King's Bench
was first :apprised of my absence, he sent may servaut with
a message so Mr. Basil Cochrane, entreating, if he knew,
ur could ascertain where I was, to endeavour to prevail
on roe to retain; and that he would receive me privately '
stt any hoar of the n:t,ht, and no notice should be taken of it.
Mr. Coelrane replied, that be should rettaiuly advise um to
Muni if I was really .absent, lint could not be!ieve it, having
received • letter from me on the day before enclosing two ft auks,
which letier,assoon as the report of my al”.•ence was comer:lied,
Cechesembsenself took alai attested to the Marshal, in order
as evince that{ had not made him acquainted with the trans-
action. Iluttse Marshal immediately perceived that the letter
Sight possibly an-wer another purpose, namely, that of raising
a brai.f Beat* was.actnally in the prison on the slay it bore date,
tin lherelbre in ait prelim belay was still COLIC d within the walls
14,r be immediately tun-canal Mr. Cochrane to allow hint to
Phew that letter to the Chairman of the Co llinset ni fles I louse •
or Common then sit;ing. And having so done, he begged Air.
Cut brine to commuilicate to me, that if I weedd immediately
r( tnro, I should lie rcerive,i in the middle of the night by him-
sett aid one confidential turnkey, and that no other person
sticeld be in attendant'e, or know any thing of the mutter ; so
'tint I might be finned in lay 'lOOlll the neat morning, and it
woitid appear thi.t I had inereireuureiik4 myself in the prison.
Then upon Mr. Coclaraier's assurance that -lie a weld op. every
has stion to eifectihe object imposed, aud wont(' if pwisible,
sire oniplish it immediatert,observeug, that the Marshal would •
thereby save his three hundred guineas, the .reettrd be lad
held out for my apprehension; he seized Mr. Corliraue's hated,
and thank( cl hinter leis kind consideration foe his interest, HIM
The tronble be took in the matter. .And on the nest day he
wrote to Air.' Coehrese a knee; which is as folio :

tire's Beach, Tuesday evening. March 14.1111.5.

14t5t.../n mescssenceottha conversation that passed busmen us yes-
terdap allaueon, I Ica led to hope that I should have the pleasure of
seciegyon ladle course of the night, according to an arrangement that
111116 (in • tassamM made between us; but having beat disappointed in
that phapare, and having been already walliciently hhttamed, I should
not likvto sit ap the whole et this night as I did the /met, nnutcceiatily.
I ham therekwe sent the bearer with this, in asonfulemial say, to rep
quest that you will let roe know whether you daft ang aspeetation of
secomplidting so duiroble an eventfor alt.thepardm, As we had oon-
semplated.—l an, Sir„ your very obedient bumble
Basil Cochrastsynag. 44. WM. 30Nh'S, Marshal.
" Ilenre it appears that the Marshal vino must elision, to core-
prniiiiio an act' which he ha.: stut • visited sel.h th. re....rest
pnnolowelit, and still represents WI a great mail Mmetafted crime,
and culling fur fortbeg castgoitien. Alr. Coc ir:ne took
the earliest oppoi lenity of reeve, Inc to lee tby Jett, r the Mar-
tha% prOpoz•itiou, statuutclist he would receive me privately at
any hone of any night I would appoint, toil that the Minimal
err rejoiced at the idea of ouch an arrangrommt ; upon which
invordiately wrote to Itlr.esitilirture infermin „ him that I bud
gated the custody of the himitsStoriatesurpowt ofvudemour-