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London, England, 1813-03-06 00:00:00

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scoußT OF KING'S BI NC: I GU I SLL, NIA Ay .5.

TUE KING 11. JIM •
This was an information filed by his Majesty's
Attorney-General against the defendant, .for
gross, setintialotts, and wicked libel, published 01
two distinct days, viz.. on the 30th of .1a4a,t.,1
-1812, and on the 27th of Svtetnher in the same
year, reflectirrg on -the Character of his;.. /Loyal
Highness the Duke of 'Cumberland ; to v,-Yrch in-
formation the defendant pleaded Not Guilty.
Sir WILLIrM Gm; Row (the Solicitor-General)
ohserved, that this was a prosecution for an offence
of that description, wherein one man has libelled
another, and that most atrocionily, and with the
intent too 'of depriving that other of his pod name..
'He liad long and often heard of cases of libel, but
any thing so base as thetpresent he never knew.
file Gentlemen of he .;jury would understand that'
the object of this lianderOus libel was no other
than one of the, sons of the Monarch, his Royal
Highness the Duke of Cumberland, awl the sub-
.
pet of it was the eir'etunstancc.. of the attempt
made by a desperate menial in his service, to as-
sassinate hint, and whose self-destruction was the
consequence of it. Here the Leirned Solicitor-
General ewunerated the facts respecting that hor-
Able attempt, in 'which his Royal Highness was
miraculously saved, front destruction. He theu
proceeded to state the libels which appeared in a
Sunday Newspaper, of which the delendint was
the proprietor, since the imPrisomactit of his fa-
flier, 'the late proprietor; the. purport of which
wCre), 'as charged by the ti,tormation, that
Sails, the assassin,. 461 not tall by his own
hand; but that lie was slain by another, meaning
the Doke himself.

For the Defendaiit, Mr. •StAHLETT addressed

toe %-onrt at considt:nble length. /-.l,!coumwaf.-
ed on the language and en.h
tit large, that no inuendo coutd be drawn
whereby any imputation could b cast upon
Date of Cumber, tad, to the eifect which the
forma...ion set f01..h. He argued vv-itli :7,insi :lc r.! !t;
ingenuity, that
,it did not (evi-ii if it
true that, Sellis lid I not cn.mnitted th.ij;
therefore the Duke at Combed:lntl I td eatiied t: iii
death. All he contended the nublicati.on
was invely that rumour had announced sonte.sns:-•
picions thatmSelii3 did lint destroviiiinself;
it never went the length Of asserting that the
Rohl Duke, was ppivy to his de,itruction
contrary, itmeiTly so stated Cle'runiour, and ...x.-
preSsed nothing, that could give it the colour of
imputing 'so foul au act to that, Illustilons Pet.-
sonage:_

Sir Wm. GARROw made au urimate'd reply.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH St1111:11ed LIP t!;!!
and commented upon the case, leiving it to the Jury'
to decide, who, without quitting ti.e box, hro:Thr.
in a verclidt of Gui/ty—The trial lasted five huuri.

, There were two or three inaccuracies in the
Report of the Privy Counsellors relating to,,the
Princess of WALES, Which We iuiertUd yesterd:v.
In line 70 from the head of the Report, for re§e-.
floes aud restrictions, read, " regulation and
straint." The latter part of 0,9 sentence:begin.-
ning line 3 from the top of the 2dcolumn, should
be its follows " respecting the conduct of- I,et
Royal Highness the Princess of WaLEs,
appears to have been pressed upon ;he, dttent.r:i
of your. Royal Highness, 41nd to have been tr.:1:;-
initted by your Royal Highness, in
attic advice of Lord Liu aLow, and upon grounds
of public duty, to his Majesty's confideutial.ser—
vants, by whom they were submitted to his Ma-
jesty's consideration." instead of " .114ble to
misconstruction ".iri tllc 9th line of the last p',4ra-,
graph, the word's should have been ''liable to be
understood." Lord CASTLERE AGH:B- mine wee
omitted in the list of the Privy Connsellors tvho'
signed the Report ; his Lordship signed it imatc-
diately after Lord Smuourn.
THE C.).II4TORICkS. The Oftwiait' with MOZART'S
accompanithents,. was lust night performed at
Drury-lane Theatre, under the direction of Sir G.
SMART. The Band W3S ample, and nothing could
be More correct than tite whole of t)e perfocir.-
ance.. Mrs. DICKONS, Mrs. BLAND, C. SMITH;
SPRAY, and BELLAMY, particularly diltipplidie.d
themselves. A Concerto on the violin, V:at= per-
formed by Mr. VAcCABI,' in a yery capital style.
The appearance of the Theatre as .we noticed be-
fore, was in a style of. Gothic Architecture, up-,
pcopriate and.impressive,•

EAST DAY.-ASSOCIATION FOR THVA ELIE', OP TITS
"MANUFACTURING AND LABOU POOR.

,
e *re authorise!" to say, that at a 'Meeting of t
:imilee of the Asociation of the People cal eel
~eetnodists, late in connection 'with the Rev. John
'%Vesley, at the City-road Chapel, London, it
agreed to make a public Collection op the cuing
'Fast bay,-- the 10th inst, hi behalf of the Ase,o.
elation for the Relief arid Benefit of the Mantitac-
tuTing and Labouring poor, 'and it is. hoped that
the principal .eo4n!;regations In that connemou,
lind of other religious deniurtinittions, twill .follow
their exturqde: •
An Inquisition was taken on Tuesday,- at the
Pigeons at,Eastote, no the Oxford;road, the
bo:ly of an unknowd persdn) who di,!,l
(pence of a wound he had received on the prece;l-
tug day.- The deceased ;had been hron:.,,ht to the
house by two friends in a po3t-chaise; an.' they lett
hitn, hut sent a medicul man to his assistance. 1r
nidtieared that i 4 dnek had taken place betwixt the
deceased aMI another person, but there: vvaiz
evidence to slim who the sin vivor wa4. The
ceased had been wounded in the left side,
ball 'which bad., lod4d, could not be eNtracted.
The Jury had ~no evidence to diseuver who
parties" were, and a verdict of murder,
some perBpll.9ryersons. unknown

• STAMVORD, Felt. 19.--4111r0i441 'the 111:1Cfl
ble exertions of, the Magistrates of the county of
kutland, assisted by thoselor ,this bornqg-h, and
the eXcillertt offiecrs'of the corporation, live per-
tsons have already been fully coin:bitted to the
'castle of Oakhtn., to take their tr)als at the-as-
sizes Qn the 4th of March, fai' a burglary at.ens7.
ten on, , near this,, town, in the dw.elling-house
of the Rev. Richard Lateas.----The 'prisoners
William Almond, alias Black Will, and Eilevarti
.Hare, both blacksmiths at Wakerley, in -Nor-
thamptonshire, (the former manager of rthe btesi-
ncss of Widow Hill at that, place), John Holmes
of Stamford, mason, .Henry Millington, a well
known seller, of Banbury cakeS at fairs and mar-
kets, (which calling he folinsved to disgnise,Svor&e
pursuits), and whosir wife' is: now confined in the
common gaol of this borough 101 shop-lifting; aal
Ann Hill; widow, of Wakerly ; the last--moued on
,111,ieion of receiving goods knowing them to, be
~vies apprehended at L-43Orti
on 11, oriday, by Mr. the, Ciaoler..fOr
Itornogn ; the. other Offenders have., been appre-
hended chiefly tin oukb the !Attivity
Serjeant, Mr. Reed. All the plate stolen from
the Rev. Mr. Lucas's house was dkcov,ered
Saturday night, through. the information •al
One of the ptisoners,in a corn-stack at' Wah.criLv
:rod at, large quantity of drapery and hosiery gor;ds
al SO have been `found in a stubble-hovel iat u -
dock of James Torkington, Esq. near this tikfT.
The latter goods 11101 been. stolen
.. front a sh:y
Beiltoti, iai Rudand, on the night. of
se'dnight. )an riesday Penelope Watson
hilly committed .to the ga,..d of this liornah,
strong suspiciOn 'of :being acct!sysiry to a burglJvy
on& robbery lately committed in the (twe:Co
house of Mr. john Cunnington, of lidl.oa,
and having received severat of the good;
froni the sa'...d itwelling-honse, knowing the s‘.110;;f
to have been .stolen ;.,and.with having: &yeti 4eve.,;:.
-nary to the barglarylit Mr: Lueto's,.of Casteroni
and also with being in this porougtt ai cuntm:ti
receiver of stolen goods, knowing the s..tite to be
stolen: •

On Thursday night a tall man, genteelly droi,-
ed,-.WaS found hanging on the iron rails of
SPBNCER'S garden, near the Green Park. LL.:
hunb,r himself with a new cord, In the agonie,.
death he had kicked the loose.stones which wer,
under him to a considerable

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TuEsnytto, FEB. 12.-:.7,-According to tin last
advice., frtifn Ti all the Ottoman' trtiops,
\rho Caere ender anus in -different parts (4 the-
`.'l:rkisii empire, bKve gone into Nvinter tpuu-ters'.
rft affairs of the Servians are terminaLeti.—The
new Pacha is expected at Ns:tgrade.
LI L t•T Frst.)2o.,l'he Consulate. Senate yes-
irtday•assemhled extraordinarily, ander the Pre-
ticncy of his' Excellent y ColptParadisi. .
5..---After - succession of fine
but extraordinary col.dfor our climate, the
temperature began yesterday to become mild.
Tile Journal de Paris contains a brief summary
of the hit: of Joel Barlow; at the conclusion of
, )lliieh the writer says—
' Motives of, high importance called kiln in
October lust tcyWittra, on his return from which
city'he was Suddenly-carried off by a deflexion on
the lungs at ,`//artiov ice, near Cracow."
Nuts, MARCH 1.---Yesterday (Sunday), Feb.
28, Were presented to -take the oath to his Ma-
jesty, the Collnt de Narbonne, Ambassador to
anti, the Count de Laborde, &c.

ABSTRACT OF 'nth' EXPOSE.
eoeuLarios.
The .Vopulation of rrance was, in .1798, 26
withi), individuals ; some persons computed-,it ttt
orily 25 millions', The present population'of .the
Liapire.is 42,70,000, of which. '28,700,000 arc
contained in the Departments of !Old France.—
This estimate is not' founiled on mere conjecture,
hit on An accurate census. It is an augmentation
of 2,5110,000,.0r nearly One-tenth within 24 years.
AGRICULTU RE.
The value of the agricultural produce of France
in corn, wine, oil, cattle,' mineral substances,
&c. is Staced'at 5;031,000,000 livres.
MANUFACTURES.
The valbe of minolactures of silk,' wool, me-
tal,'Oss,poreelain; &c. is,stated at 1,3001000,000.
Besides these, it is observed, under the head
NEW INDUSTRY,
That a moat important revolution is, oreparing,
which must change , all the cominerciat relations
existing since the discovery of the Indies ; these
are me.uuLotores to' supply the place .of sugar,
and cochineal, the -value of which pro-
duets 'is stated at 65,000,000 making in the tiibole,
6,396,000,000. But these substances are 110, all
yet manufactured so as to be fit for use ; the corn
is not made into bread ; stuffs are not manufac-
pired jut° clothing, by which the definitive value
of, all these values will be augmented at leaSt by
one-tenth, or 639,600,000, and their total value
become 7,0354;00,006. •
COMMERCE.
'The Exportations of Francein 1812. are stated
to have amounted to :383,000,090. 'The impor,-,
tittious, not including 93,000,000 of specie,., tea
257,000,000. The excess of the exportation was
126,09,000. , This balance in 17-28, most fa-
vinable ancient period, was only 75,000,000. if
we seek to discover ,the cantooftheincrease of
our Manufactures, and of ourlOoutinental coml
pierce, weishall find it in the regulations' of a
' watchful and enlightened AdniiMotration, incesr.
sandy occupied in encouraging tear; manufactares
and every ',;ind of industry, guardingJl
`thins our frontiers, and preventing every kind of
rivalry ; siMple and uniform lawsprevent discus-
sions, and render transactions. certain and easy ;
commerce every where finds the sonic liberty, the
sane protection. ~ Convenient roads, numerous
canals,Jacilitate and abridge conveyance: front
Spain to Holland, and to Hamburgli,' the largest
carritioes -can freely pass ; Ameterdam and Mar-
,
elnomunieute together by the canals of St.
Oaeutin and-of the. Centre ; the navigation of the
'rivers is brolight to Perfection, and is maintained
by daity,labours,
,Eligland has; by her Orders in, Connell, (Jena-
ponalized all flags. Prom thattimethere were no
longer neutrals ,)to longer regular maritime commit-
nications. This period might have been critical ;
'England ;relied upon hat the vigilance, the
ability, the energy of our Government; have made
'it an cloth of amelioration ;' and it is since 184
that (Mr inai3try has made the greatest progress.
But it will attain the hiirheStitegree.of.proiperity,
' when, wider a Government such as ours-, with all
the riches of our soil, all the activity of Our
factares, we shall-purselves.enjoy that peace which
is. called for by the wishes of,the world l. that ho-
nouruble and secure peace whiah shall restore to
human industry all itsdevelopenient.
It is to the territorial situation whibb has been
just described that we owe the state of Our finances,
- the enjoyMent of best money system : in En-
iope, the absence of all pdper-money ; a debt re-
duced to, whaeit ought to he, to supply the wants
atilt evitaliSts. It is\thissituatiOn, Gentlemen,
Which enables tiS to. Support, at oitee, R Maritinie
War and two Continent,tlWars ; to have 900,000
'men consiow- ly widdr arms ; to.inalittain 100,000
sr,ilOts, tO keep 100 ships of the line, and as mealy
.frigatesi,, complete or building.,; and to expend,
A:very year, from NO to 150 millions in public

.
West, by the affarts' :of Quiheron, very great:
; tine hot officers of her marine ; Lite elitis,
of the fulstasi mates, and crews perished, there.
Our spiaatons, since that epoch, have been maw-
tied by crews bat litth: I. insuffi-
ciency of the maritime conseyiption has.,heen ac-
knowledged, and every year the means which it
offered have been decreasing, the inevitable result
of the enemy's cimstant stipetiority, and of the
ulino,st entire destruction of our luaritiine com-
merce. It is no lOnger possible to dissemble, that
weluust either :dvspair of the restoration ,of our
marine in time time a war, or have recourse to new
measures. In adopting the first part, tae-should
act isthe administratioso under Louis XIV. and •
Louis XV. did,, discour3p,ed by the defeat of
Hogue, Anti the cotisequeces of the war of

I 7,5,S . . . .
At both epochs the marine was renounced ;
they discontinued constructing, .The resources
of the finances were directed to the laud army and
other departments; .but the results of this :than-
. aorment were very fatal to the glory mid pros:-
penty of France. 14;nghtd . gave the law to us -;
she ittOsea treaties upon: us 'whilp. we must be
able to tear from our .anuals. We were ours:de:es
Obliged to demolish our pOrts, and receive English.
Commissionert to superintend the demolition of
them. By a consequence too natural, of the si;
periority of her forces, fingland lutposed,oPoo us
commercial treaties destructive to our industry ;
and when she judged proper to make. Nvar to pil-
lage our comineree, or seize.. upon our establish-
uterus in the. uifferent parts, of_ the world, she
found us without' imval force, atrd,withOitt any
Means of delendiag our flag7---frem ,hence that con-
tempt, iriiich the people of Eiejiivl expressed On
every occasion for us. The Administration under
Louis the XIV. and Louis the XV. was obliged to,
1" to adopt the fatal pert of renouncing the marine,
this the derangement of our finances, Or through
the real impossibility. in. Which,. Fri;mee in her an-
cient liitats Was, Of, .constructing add orgauizing
great fleets in time of war. l' , • " '
Almost nothing is possible to he done at Brest,
or at least every Ojai; is very di tlieult.there, When.
that port is bloekadell by a superior sqii %Aron ;
`hut it is iityesible that financial reasons, the iviints
which continental sears occasioned, awl the' dif-,
acuity of recreating the maritie,.coneuered,,vith
the
.little energy of the administration, occasioned
the Aesperate resolution of allowing our inarinetO
perish. The losses which , our squadron; have
since experienced, the immediate fruits of civil.
dissensions, ,have placed us in a situition similar
to that in which was • found the administration of
Louis XIV. and LAWS- XV.; but if the situation
is similar, the other ciecumstances are differaut in
every respect. .
, 'Use possession of Holland, of the Syiehlt, the
' extension of oar pewer .upon the coasts .of the
Adriatic, the ports of Genoa ..ma Spezzia, all 'the
course of the 114 tine and the Meuse, affeHi us lilti,
ritime meartS:,ol veey,dliferent importatice to tboee
who possessed the ancient monarchy 3; we.can con-
struct fleets without the enemy's superiority beiug
.able to prevent, or remit:Ong them expeesiVe.—
The judicious administration of the finances of the'
empire, places us in a situation to•meet the ei-
penses which the establishment of a grand marine,
, and-Satisfying the expences of Continental ware,
1 occasions. In short, the energy of oar GOvern-
went, , its firm' and constant will, was alotie ea-
;., pable of overcoming the greatest obstacles. The
administration of the Marine. nevertheless tell the
necessity of adopting a fixed and calcitlated sys-
Witty which should keep pace'with the creation or
re-establisherieut of ports, the construction .101
vessels, and the instructions' of the Sailors. '
14 La Manche, Nature has done every thing
for England ;:: she. has dime nothing for us.—
Yroin the reign of.,Louis XIV: the importance of
having a port on that -Sea was, felt;, the ,project of
Cherbourg was adopted, and the founaatiim,s of
the. banks laid. •, Ilut ih. our civil troubles,, all
these:works intetrupted,.tvere deteeiorated ; every
:thing become atioubt, in respect to place, and it
was.,,askerl if it would' not be better to preien La
Hogue to Cherhonrg)
'rite, Administration fixed its intention 'upon
these.impOrtent questions, ..The decision in fa-
vour. .01 Cherbetwg 'Was . al, and imme-
diately the elevation of the banks, to,.shelter the
rand, Was. commenced. .
illqr, e,neers an actolitt of the I,arlinurs of Ciferbourgh,
'Fiusiii:i ,iiol AntWerp, in the-latter of tiltiidi, it is 'said,
twenty Ves*,:ii; tan be constructed it the mine time.] • , .
. .
Holland contained a population, wliich has al-
ways distinguished itself in the marine ; but ships
of Dutch construction cannot be ussefully employ-
ed
in the present contort. Qbiekttess of sailing is
one of the elements Of marine war, ulid the vessels
of. ifoiland appear rather constructed to curry mer-
chantriie than give battle. These ied,.istriotis peo-
ple bild performed mit'aeles to overcome the, ob-
stacles, in appearance insurmountable,- of its.lo-;
'eilities, but they had but imperfectly sttceeeded;
The Administratiou felt that there was in I:tul,
laud hut:' a single . port, to single flock yard ; .one
(ile remedy for,all the inconvdnienees of the 10,
cantles, and it carried the-maritime forces' of Hole
bled to Nieu-.Dypp ; although it isp,uly two years
siniee this project was conceived, we already enjoy
all is advantages) and by this means a new pint
is found to,be in our power at the extremity of the
North Sea. - . . ..

rt; follows a statement of •t he improvernenta, lo the
diti.hrent Ports; the Heidor, Antwerp,-and cher-
hourg, are sAti to he int:mt state of defence, thattheir armies
.could, have time ti; come to their relief from the interior of
Itultor
At the same time that ports fire constructied. or
fortifwd, 'the cst.thlishing dock-yard, for .the
construction of ships was 'thought of;
the ancient tlymtsty we were: reklueetl.to, less than•

twenty-(y, y-five.
B
. ~
rest could,. at .most, offer the means for re-
pairing. We were obliged to give up all idea of
eonstriietion,, or establish upon ;the Sch.Pldt .a
dock-pirti, ill which 20.three-dechers, 80 or 74
gun ships might at once bt''hnilt,-
We acknoyledge the possibility of construct
in the I)o,,ok..yarils at itott,erdani and /I.lntter-
dam, Iriklites will ships of 7.1 poss of oiii• mos 10;
‘vilit,t. the Dock -yttV(lB au.(l7 establi'slinittits 'i3bould
be forme(' at N icti -1)Y11)- - .
,
in tile. Dock -yards-- of Cherbourg are eon-
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