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London, England, 1801-11-20 00:00:00

ZAW REPORT'.

COURT tYP 13ENCH; S7Bv,
THE KING 't,. MOUNTAIN.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL ptayed the judgment
of the Court on the Defendant Richard Mountain,.
who
Lord KeNvON said, was tried before him at
_the
last Assizes for the County of Kent He had not
got with him a -copy of the Indidthent) but the
.material parts of it
_would appear in the recital of
the evidence. It was a charge against the -De-
fendant, for uttering several treasonable and sedi-
tious words, as they Wete proved by Mr. Alderman
Curtis and others.
The Aldeiman swore, that On the 28th. of Oc-
tober, as he was going by the Mail to [or from,
which we could not hear] Dover, the coach stout
at Dartford to change horses ; a man Came up to
the Guard and spoke to him ; saying, " Why don't
you pull off that bloody coat," meaning the livery
of the GUard. " Do you know- what you are talk-
ing of," said the Guard: " Yes," said he, " I
know it belongs to that rascal your master, the
King, damn him ; itis by such fellows as him, and
his favorites) and all such fellows, that we English-
men are kept out of our bread." Mr. Alderman
Curtis asked him, " What he meant ?" He said,,
s" Damn your eyes, you are a Methodist Parson
hired by Government to praise it." The Alder-
man asked him -o let him see hiM, and whether he
was not afraid of being hanged.
_He said, " I shall
not be hanged until I have killed a thousand such
rascals as you," meaning the Alderman. He asked
him what _his name was ; he said his name was
General Mutiny.- He afterwards said, " that his
real name was Dick Mountain.; damn all Kings
and all Governments upon earth; for my part, I
ails a Jacobin," &c.
Another Witness said, that the Defendant said
the King was a bloody rascal, and he wished he
had the shaving of his head, and more of the. same
sort of shocking language ; but the Witness added
that the Defendant was in liquor.
On the part of the Defendant there appeared seve.
ral Witnesses who had known him for five or six
years, and some for more, who gave him a good
character for loyalty as well as honesty.--=The Jury
found him Guilty.
This day Affidavits were produced on behalf of
the Defendant, first his own, by which it is stated
that he is a Coach-master; that he is extremely
sorry to have nude use of the. expressions proved
against him at the late trial, and that the moment
he was made sensible of his having abused a Sove-
reign tOr whom he always had telt, and always.
should feel a sensible regard, he was extremely un-
happy ; that he never was a member of any Poli-
ticA Club whatever, nor had ever joined' any fac-
tion-against the Government of his Country, but
on the contrary, had always been a friend to it, and
had always atied the part of a peaceable member of
die Community, &c.
The Affidavit of several other persons stated,
That they were acquainted with the Defendant,
and believed him 'to be a loyal subject, and well
affected to Government. But that when he Was in
liquor he appeared to be in
_a state of distraaion
and that, although that was no excuse fora person
in his situation, they verily believed he was in
that state whet) he uttered such expressions ; and
that he could not commit this crime from any deli:
berate motive whatever, for that he was GO far from
being disaffeded to Government, ,that he had been
always ready to support it ; that he was a member
of a Volunteer Corps, and had assisted in quelling
the mutiny at the Nore ; that he never belonged to
any political club whatever. That the Depoaents,
as well as the Defendant, lived at' Dartford, and ,
that they had so lived for ten years ; that no poli-
tical, dub bud been held there, • nor in the neigh-
bourhood, for that time.
The Affidavit of several other persons stated,
that they were on the night this happened, with
the Defendant, in company with him, which was at
a Militia Substitute Club, where he got very much
in liquor.
Mr. Serjeant BEST addressed the Court in mitiga-
tion of Punishment on behalf of the Defendant in
this Case. He said there were, besides what the
Court had heard, a number of Affidavits testifying
the good charafter of the Defendant. He said, he
was not instruaed at the trial; either to deny that
he was the person who made use of the expressions,
or tO:contradia any thing_ that was said by ttie
Witnessei on behalf of the .Prosecution. His de-
fence then was, what it now was, and what he ad-
mitted to be no defence in law, it kvas, " that the
Defendant was drunk." Although this was no de-
fence at the trial, it afforded a strong ground now
to apply to their Lordships' mercy ; for, although
he knew that one crime could not be justified' by.
the commission of another, yet the lesser offence
having been committed first, lessened coniiderably
the other high offence of which the 'Defendant had
justly, been found guilty, /t was impossible to
put the Case Of the Defendant in a better light
than the AffidaVits already placed it; by which it
appeared that he was in a state of extreme intoyeica,
Lion; such as not to know What expressions he made
use of; for when he Was told the next day of what
he had. said, he was not aware of having made use
of these expressions at all, and he had ever since
felt deep regret for' having uttered them, and which
regret he now expressed, not froth any dread of
punishment, but from a real sorrow for having
conditaed himself in a Manner so totally different
from the whole tenor of his life: The Court; he
hoped, would be merciful when they saw before
them an unhappy man, convifted of saying,. he
knew not what, as appeared' indeed; the evi-
dence ; for what he said appeared mole like the
ravings of a madman; than the Words. of one who
knew what he was about, dnd it was apparent that
the Defendant did ',net deliberately utter these
word's: He wanted a place to be carried in the
Mail, he was told lie could not haVe it, and by that
he, was irritated:
The Defendant did not wish that any attempt
should be made to palliate the expressions -made use
of. They certainly were very improper, and even
most indecent ; but as .they did not proceed from

the, heart Of the. man; but were tna c 'cd of in
tokication; the Court would iiot pass on tfi6
rend:dot such sentence a§ otherwise their
ships' duty Would haVe inipmed upon thetti to do.
Under fil these i:ii-eutnitances',. the Learned Serjeani
said, he humbly hoped the Court i,vould not pass oti
the Defendant a rigorous sentence:.

. . .
The ATTO RN El" GE, ELAL said; that if the Wards
Which were uttered by the Defendant had been lesi
malignant, or fewer in nutnb2r than they had been
proved to be; it might, perhaps;. in charity; 'be
thought that they were the cad of ,occasional in_
temperance ;. but, here, they crust be taken; he
presumed, to be (though delivered When the pasty
was in t state of intoxication) the effea of a deli_
berate Meditation -of his sober mind:. The effdl of
_intoxication was not that of generating; in
mind, any new purpose; but that of renioving cer-
tain guards or cautions which prudence kept there,
and to give vent to the former concealed workinzi
of the mind. Where had the Defendant been just
before he was heard uttering these expressions ? Ho
was just come from a meeting of a Militia Society,
where the expences of otir Militia, and other
tarr establishments, had; probably, been in agita-
tion ; and the thoughts which the convetmation ge-
nerated,' burst forth- in These outrageous exclarna
tions against our Sovereign and all his- establish.
trients; words which, the Learned Serjeant very-
justly said, could not be palliated. There were
many Witnesses who attested the respettability of
the Defendant's character, from which he would
only infer, that he was, in general,. a man df more
than an ordinary degree of caution and prudence,
who kept his sentiments concealed while the guard
of his understanding was upon its duty, but w-hen
it _was Off its post; the real sentiments appeared.
-H6Wever, the whole triattti was before the Cotirt.
He had.only to submit, that these were not met
random expressions. As to the Defendant'S drunk-
enness, it could not be even tendered, much less ad-
mitted, as an excuse„and, he. submitted that the
better way would be, to7pass on him such a sen:.
(price as shall induce him to overeome his drunken
habit, lest in sortie future evil hour he may do some
other, and even stAl greater mischief: for these
reasons, he apprehended the Court would infiki On
this Defendant a considerable degree of punishment.
Lord KEN ox--« The -words - arc not light
words. The manner in Which • the ATTOECN Et
GE N-MA L has prosecuted for .the Cro..vn; and
.the
way in which the Proseation in thiS case has been
managed, is consistent with the high station he
holds at the Bar, and with a 7.10 e• regard to the-Pri
ioner. He must now stand coin:flitted, and be
brought up the last day but one of the. Tenn."--
Committed to the King's Bench Priscin;

FORGE very extracirdinary 'Vorgery }leis
recently, been discovered at Norwich, by a young
Lady of that City. Miss last week Went to
the Bank of OUR NEI" and CO. and Presented a Draft"
of 4.061. for payment, purporting to be drawn upon
'that house by Mr. Ev,ktis, of Kirby. On looking at
the Draft', Mr. GUR NRY rerriatked to the Lady, that
this was not according to the mariner in which Mr.
E; had hitherto drawn his bills. Miss asked,
" how so ?" He replied, because be never knew hire
to draw upon a stamp before ; and that he always Sign-
ed Thotircrs Bro,aig Ecu,vis, and not Thos. B. Ect.,ans its
appeared the signature of the present bill. Miss
persisting; however, that-it was drawn and signed by
Mr. EVANs, she was required to call the next morn-
ing, and went away. Mr. EVA/,:3 was immediately
sent for,, and being shewn it by the Banker, declared
the bill not tcl have been drawn by him; and agreed
to await the issue of Miss- application in the
morning; but soon after returning; he asked to
look at the bill again, when, upin receiving it, he is
said, under the pressing influence of his humanity; to
have put it into the fire.--;The affair might probably
have.rested here, had not Miss --L.— on going home,
voluntarily declared to her fin:lily the fraudulent.
attempt that she had made, with all the i:ireutri.
stances that had pissed upon the subjeet at the
Bank': the consequence was, that her 'famils., con-
sisting of a father, mother, two sisters, and herself,
left Norwich on Monday last for Yarmouth,- and
thence .embarked for Hamburgh in the course of that
evening. Until this extraordinary event,
,Miss.
who is beautiful and accomplished, was
highly esteemed for the amiableness of her manners i
her elder 'Sister, a short time since, was married to
a Field "Oflizer in the Army. The family thus in..
Volved in extreme distress, being in easy, if not af-
fluent citcumstances; and the. author of..their misery
.•
having discovered no propensity to extravagance,-
it is difficult to ascertain the Motive that occasion-
ed this extraordinary attempt, which Miss --
herself refused to declare. •

Wednesday; of Has MA J ESTY was coming to
Town, one of his Attendants was thrown from his
horse, and considerably bruised.
Tuesday night; at half past.seven crielOck; an in.:
quest was. held at the Niliddlesex Hospital; upon the
body of William Glover; who hung himself in Mr,
Trotter's-yard, Oxford street, on Satiarday night.
.The deceased, who was about .3z years of age, had
lived fourteenyears•in the family of Lord PE Itik H Y
in which he was reared from boyhood, and when
grown np,. was Made butler. - A few years ago he
left that service, and carried on a muslin manufac-
tory at -Bolton, in Lancashire. _He failed in this
business about a year ago, and came to town with a
view to engage in same other line of life- ; but not
succeeding, he became melancholy and desponding..
He was previous to his misfortunes, a sdber man,
and bore an excellent charmer, but la'terly became
addifted.tO liquor. On Friday night he appeared
somewhat deranged, and did not go to bed, and on
Saturday Morning -was observed to be a good deal
in liquor. About ten o'clOck in the morning he
iefr his lodgings in Dean street, Soho, pith a friend,
who. walked \vitlf him into the City, and brought,
him back about six o'clock•with great difficulty,, as
he was very quArrelsorse and, turbulent. . Atter
committing some violence in his lodgings he ran
away, and was not heard of until thbriiit two hours
after, when he was found hanging by a handker_
chief,- from a beam in Mr: Trotter's yard. He was'
immediately taken down, and means were used to
restore life, without effete. Upon this case being
proved in evidence, the Jury brought in a verdiet of
Lunacy, The deccased, was a tin; le man. •