The Sun.
London, England, 1830-11-04 00:00:00

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and by ,no means safe to be allowedga at Her doing
!d wduld, have endangered the T'l pthers--;
Witness agctibed her insanity to the use of ardent spirits, Had
conitriutlidated with Mr. Jdnes on the state of Mrs. Woods tilt
the 9th of February, the day the certificate was signed. Neither
himself nor his partner had dui connection with any bow for
the reception of lunatics. He thought Chit of Mrs. Woods
wns.drie of urgent necessity.

This Was tlie &Intl' ease.
Mr. Bnoutnissi, t e defendant, was extremely anxious, to
satisfy the JOY that in case they Would tr justified in find.
ing a 'verdict at acquittal, thoti#h the point he had to submit was
rather a question for his Lordship than fo+ the Jury:. It IVA'S
necessary to find that Mr. Jones had not only sighed the certifi-
cate without seeing the patient, but that he had also id siP:ed
it knowingly, and with intention to deceive. The Act guarded
against two misdemeanours ; the one, signing the certificate
without ideittg the patient ; and the other, the signing it with
tire intention to deeeiVe. All the counts of the indictment re.
(erred to this latter point r add, as It was impossible .to believe
that Mr. Jones had the slightest intentioti td deteite, the Jury
must, unless these words were to be rejected as stlfrildsaget find
a verdict of acquittal. With respect to ,the other poiiit, the
signing of the certificate without having seen the patient, the
Act did not tix any limited time, within which it was necessary
to have seen the patient.
Lord.TEHTattovA suggested that the Jury should find a vet'.
diet that the defendant had signed the certificate without having
seen the patient, but hot with the intention to deceive; and the
question, upon the constructional the Act of Piirliatnent, might
then be talked before the Court above.
It was then arranged that a verdict of guilty shoniilie taken,
but without intention to deceive, subject to a 4seclsl ettse tipon
tlf construction of the Act of Parliament for the einishicration
o Abe Court above.

ANTI SLAVERY NIEETING FOR THE

COUNTY OF LEICESTER.

(Vaost min einifinsPdNDEM.L
A Meeting was held at the Castle of lielres rdo Wednesday,
3d of November instant.
'lbis Meeting was convened by the High Sherifr, Sir O. IT. W.
BEAUMONT, Bart, is compliance with a requisition, signed by
forty.lbiir individuals of high respectability, among whom were
sixteen Clergymen of the Established Church.
The Meeting was advertised to take place precisely at twelve
o'clock. soon after which' the Sherifitook the Chair.
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The business was opened in the usual mode, after which a string
of Resolutions were moved by C. Di. Philipps, Esq,, of Garendon
Park, and seconded by T. E. Dicey, Esq., of Cleybrooke,- These
admirable Resolutions were expressive of the abhorrence felt by
the Meeting at Slavery, and pointed out with great energy and
propriety the injustice, impolicy, and demoralizing elfbet of such
an abominable practice, and concluded with proposing Petitions
to the three branches f the Legislature, imploring its speedy and'
total Isbell t ion.

An amendi-nent was moved by Mr, It. Seal, a frame-work
knitter, and seconded by Mr. lhomas Bailey, a shoonaker, to
the following elfbct,
Resolved,---That anxious as this Meeting is to declare its
abhorrence of Slavery, whether abroad or at home, neVerthe.
less, it is of opinion that to petition the Commons House of
Parliament on asuisject which they have treated with such
ditThrence, would be useless as at present constituted, the majo.
rity of the Members being returned by the unconstitutional in..
Silence of an oligarchy, composed of Peers, Corporators, and
other Borough.mongers and among whom are many melodist
in the number of 113 Privy Counsellors who divide annually
amongst themselves 1550,0001., obtained from the industry of thin
mechanics, manufacturers, and labouring classes of this country,'
whose poverty and distress is now past endurance."
.'s long and tedious altercation took Islam as to the incongruity
of this Resolution, with the purposes for which the Meeting was
convened. While this took place within the Castle, in a space
much too limited for a County Meeting, the Immense body of
people who were assembled on the ()inside became Very cht.
morons for an adjournment into the open air, to which, after
considerable hesitation, the Sheriff at length acceded, the per-
sons addressing the Meeting from the centre window of the Castle.
Mr. Hamm, from below, made a fruitless attempt to conci.
hate the contending parties, by proposing that Mr. Phillipps's
Resolutions, with the exception of that proposing petitions, and
that Mr. Seals's amendment should be attached in lieu. This
proposition was not adopted.
. WEYANH, Esq., M.P., for the llorough, in a long speech, de.
;Acted the horrors of Negro Slaysy, subject to the almost inces.
sant interruptions of en impatient assembly. Finding it impos.
aiblo to carry the original Resolutions' without Mr. Seals's
amendment, they were finally withdrawn In tile, and the Sheriff
dissolved the Meeting, as the only means of getting rid. of an
overwhelming majority in favour of the amendment, which the
Sheriff refused to put train the Chair. The Meeting In retalia-
tion rAsing to pass the original resolutions.
During the disfiussion, very pointed and revere allusions were
made against those individuals, particularly the' Clergy, who
had signed the Requisition calling this Meeting, but who had at
the last County Election voted against the only candidate (T.
Paget, Esq.) who stood openly pledges! against Slavery. Very
bitter and personal animadversions were made against the Ba-
Wigton' and Miteauleys, of Sierra Leone notoriety, for their
seeming equivocal conduct.
The Gentry, the Clergy, and the Aristocracy of the County
and the Government and House of Commons, have thus had an.
other keen, and, it is hoped, salutary lesson from the sagacity of
the working classes. They must be wilfully blind, or stupidly
infatuated, who cannot see that popular feeling and opinion is
taking that decided tone in Reform, which cannot long be re-
sisted without the risk of horrors not to be contemplated with
calmness. Such is the wretched and deplorable condition of the
greater 'part of the working classes of this town and neighbour.
hood, and such their conviction of the cause of their evils; and,
moreover, sorb is their determined spirit, that any attempt now
either to hoodwink, cajole, or intimidate them, must prove
equally nugatory or Impracticable.
At the conclusion of the Meeting, the tricoloured riband was
displayed from the Castle window, and received with three tee-
mendous cheeks.