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London, England, 1822-04-12 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

EXTRACTS FROM yin: IJA.I LY MORNING PAPERS,

April 12, 18/2.

Ertew Tints]
;Title trial of the Indictment preferred (at we
know not whose instance) against Sir John
!Sewell, the President of the Constitutional As-
sociation, and Messrs., Murray, Clarke, and
Sharp, members of that
.body, is appointed at
Callahan for to-morrow. It stands at the head
of the list ; and we understand will positively
come on at nine, o'clotk in the morning.—The
respect which we owe to the,Court, and the
anxietywhich we feel to avoid, every thing which
might be construed into an
,attempt to prejudice
-the,administration of public justice, forbid us to
ipaice the leant remark on this extraordinary"
proceeding. •We shall act, on this occasion as we
did i,n regard to the action against the Manches-
ter Yeomanry ; reserving all that we have to say
on the Origin of the prosecution, the mode of
drawing up the indictment, and the character of
the Witnesses, until. after the whole shall have
come under the consideration .of a Judge and
Jury. For the present it may be sufficient to
mention, that among the principal witnesses who
Lre expected to be produced on the part of the
presecutton, are Dolby, Benhow, and Thelwall.

[THE TIMES.]
The verdict in the late action for damages at
Lancaster, brought by
.one of the unfortunate
wounded men against the Manchester Yeomanry,
was published in our paper of yesterday. It will
be, viewed, no ;doubt, with very opposite senti-
ments, not only. by politicians of opposing par-
ties, but—tvhat is deeply to be lamented--by the
different classes of society. - Our respect for the
laws of England, and our solicitude for the pub-
lic peace, must ever restrain us from speaking too
freely of transactions, Wherein the forms of law
and justice have not been overthrown or disre-
garded. We forbear on that account to enter any
further upon the subject of the cause just termi-
nated at Lancaster than by observing, that al-
though the witnesses. may have sworn truth,
the
_Judge laid . down 'law correctly, and the
jurors brought in a conscientious verdict, the ge-
tweral result is not of a nature to assuage the ap-
prehensions of those who saw, in the deplorable
proceeding at Manchester, a precedent for mili-
tary -precipitation and violence hereafter; nor to
soften the exasperated feelings of those who felt
secure that in the laws of their country they would
find reparation for what they conceived to be
their unmerited sufferings, and protection from
future disturbance in the exercise of their ancient
pthilege of meeting for a redress of wrongs.-

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
We refer to the communication of our City Cor-.
respondent (see another column.ofthe SUN) for an
account of letters froin Odessa of the 15th., in
which it is stated that dreadful excesses had
taken place at Constantinople on and previous
to the 11th March, and that insults bad been
offered to the European Ambassadors. This
account coincides with that of a letter from Odessa
of the 19th March, with intelligence from Con-
stantinople to the 7th, in the Allgemeine Zeitung,
a Journal of which the intelligence respecting Tur-
key and. Greece has almost uniformly been excel-
lent; though it generally comes to us in a mutilated
cad disfigured shape through the channel of-the
French Journals. ; In the-letter in question, after
detailing the excesses which followed the rejec-
tion -of the Ultimatum, the writer observes,
" What might have been foreseen six months,
ago has now taken place. The European-Diplo-
matists have altogether mistaken this people.
All the arts of diplomatic refinement are throWn
away on the bloody and inflexible Mussulman,
aryl in, the very moment they. think,they have
made. an impression. on him, ,he relapses into his
original savageneas. We will not.pre.tend to de-
termine what these six months negociations have
availed, but streams,of blood have h the interim
been '.poured out." And this scourge of humanity,
this Pest:fence, must, it seems, be continued for the
sajle,of Qritish Interests, and the Holy Alliance.
(;-od forbid that British Interests should be con-
nected with .any thing sOltorrible and monstrous!,
No ; car Ministers are as ignorant of British in,
terests as we are persuaded they are false inter-
wter of; British feeling, when they contend for
the existence. of a system of massacre and extirpa- '
tiers, asnecessarYtn or wished for by the nation.
By". .tai;ing part with the Turks- against the
Greeks, as they have done in so shameless . a
manner,"and pretending.that .all this is necessary
to.lkitish; interests, they .hold us up to the world.
as monsters rather than human beings, as. a people
without morality, withoutfeeling, and capable of
sacrificing millions of our species for supposed,
interests of: the Most vulgar nature: We wish
that ,too.,,rnyCh countenance had not been given
to the suspicions which the conduct of Ministers
in this reHpect is, but too much calcUlated, to ex-
cite by ,the indecision of those who may almost
be. said. to have turned back after putting their
hands to the plough, and given rise t 9 expecta-
tions from them which have.not,been realized.

EMORNXNG ,POSTI

. . .
.Th* trial at Lancaster against, the Manchester
Yeottanry. is at le.ngth.terreinatedl. and, as every
impartial and dispassionate man in the kingdom
must have anticipated' the. jury had scarce any
hesitation in ,returning a-; verdict for the de-
fendants. We, shall not dwell,. at .present upon
the object of the persons, who. really instituted
° those proceedings ; but of this there can be no
question—that Redford,
,the , wretched plain-
tiff, was merely a stalking-horse fOr men. per,
haps actuated by veryj laudable motives,-,but
certainly. either, ashamed. or. afraid to avow them.
Durin the trial -we of course carefully abstained
from offering a single observation in anywise re-
lating to. it,; and nowt that the question is open
for discussion, we think it quite snperfluous_to
say one word on the merits of the case. it may
however: be permitted us to remark, that Mr.
Serjeant ilullock, in his statement for the defen-
dants, pertinently expressed his surprise.that a
Lancashire pauper should be able to employ a