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venee that it was most desirable that it should be
brought forward for argument, and the Learned
Cqansel had better, therefore, take a rule.
Rule granted.
No other cases of any importance were heard by
the Court during the morning.
Mr

ORSHIP-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
Charles Coggan, a mechanic was charged with
orutally assaulting a married female named Sarah
Ray, in the public street.
Mrs. Ray stated that she was proceeding along
Shoreditch last evening at about five o'clock, when she
observed the defendant, struggling to release himself
from his friend and as he did so he ran and gave her
such a blow in the breast as to knock her violently
against the wall, and, he would have repeated the
blow, but for the interference of his friend. She had
bet given him the slightest provocation or said a word
to hi,.
The complainant here exhibited a black
mark upon her bosom of the size of a large penny
Piece, and which she said gave her great pain.
The defendant said he was very sorry for what he
had done. It was very seldom he drunk more than
'as necessary' and when he did so it greatly affected
his head.
Mr. HAMMILL, the sitting magistrate, said that that
flvas the very reason he should have for refraining
from excess. His conduct had been brutal in the
extreme, He (Mr. llammill) would suffer him to
retire in order that he may have an opportunity of
milling the poor woman proper compensation. One
Q'r" the officers (Alderman) quickly returned, and inti-
mated to the magistrate that the defendant had offered
the complainant ss. as a liberal compensation for the
injuries he had inflicted.
Mr. HAMMILL—Twenty shillings would have been
"We enough. A fine of 21. or three weeks' impri-
suutnent will be inflicted. This appeared to have the
desired effect, as in a very short time the magistrate
wee informed that the desired compensation was forth-
ecinaing,

THAMES.—(THIS DAY.)
Charles Nicholson, a very respectably dressed
Young man was charged on suspicion of having stolen
a cheque for 71. 55., the property of Mr. West, brass-
founder, Commercial-road.
It appeared, that on the 21st of August last, Mr.
,nrest received a cheque for 71. ss. drawn on Messrs.
4artin, Stone, and Co, 68, Lombard-street, from
.Mr. Hazeltine, engineer, Stratford, in payment for
some castings he had made for that gentleman. On
the same night Mr. West's house was broken open,
and a great deal of property abstracted, amongst
Which was the cheque in question. Mr. West
proceeded the next morning to Lombard-street,
and stopped payment of the cheque, which was
not presented till between three and four o'clock yes-
terday afternoon.

M. W. Stone, cashier to Messrs. Martin, Stone,
and Co., attended and identified the prisoner
as the party who had presented the cheque for
payment. When informed that the cheque was a
stolen one, and that payment thereof had been con-
sequently stopped, he appeared very confused and
said he had picked it up in the street. He was
immediately given into custody.
Police-constable K 228, said Mr. West was not
then in attendance, but if the prisoner was remanded
there was good reason to suppose that some light
Would be thrown on the burglary which had been
Committed on the 21st of August.
The prisoner was remanded accordingly.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert
took their usual morning walk.
he
Royal Family walked and took pony exercise
ills morning in the slopes and grounds around the
Castle.
Ilia Royal Highness Prince Albert rode on horse-
back this forenoon, attended by his Equerry in
Waiting.
jlThe royal dinner party at the Castle this evening
, include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
'Y Anna Maria Dawson, Baroness de Speth, and
."-r• G. E. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson.

Cabinet Council was held at one o'clock yester•
day afternoon,_ at the Foreign-office. The Ministers
present were Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor,
„Jr George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer the Esrl of Auck-
'4"d, Sir John Hobbouse, and Lord Campbell.
The Council sat two hours and a half.
II A deputation, consisting of Sir William Clay, Mr.
eines, and Mr. James Clay, had an interview with
deonrd John Russell yesterday, at his official resi-
ce in Downing-street.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,
WORCESTER STEEPLE-CHASE—YESTERDAY.
Worcester Handicap of 20 sovs. each, 10 ft, and 5 only
if declared, with 100 added. Four miles. Gentlemen
....riders. (37 Subs ,21 of whom declared.)
ulvirr..
Jones's
Chandle•
••
bg by Glaucus ..• ••• ... ••
3
(Owner).
21
ikt,-ir* liohnan nd Daddy Long Legs ... ••• ••
Hack Stakes of 2 sovs. each, and 10 added. Heats.
une mile and a quarter, (6 Subs.)
Mr j b
..liz ' • ay 's The Milliner ... (Wakefield) 0 1 1
2 2
,r• H. Johnstone's John Harris ••• 1
Air. w00d,3 Amazement
..
... ci 3 3
mazement ... •
2 0 0
Air. Minor's Augustus ... ••• •••
Air, Pearce's Arkwright • ...
e Dace Stakes
The Worcestershire Free Handicap Hurdle
a. of 10 sous. each, and 50 added. Heats, two miles. 1
air. Pe each, Jaek, 10st 71b
31
00 32 2
Mr.
,I• Anderson's Chance, lost 71b itto.n.).
M.
W. Hawkin's Teresa list ......2 0 1 0
M.511'. D ohaldson's Variety, lOst 71b ••• 000 dr
r. Smith's Pembroke, tost ••• 0 0 odr
.Herbert's Powick, lOst ...
Ir. Oliver's Auricula, 9st 71b ... 000 dr
•:...... 0 0 0 dr
‘,..1.'% billies' Jack, 9st 71b 0 dr
..• •••
..nr. Pulleston's Georgy, 9st
... 0 dr
The first heat was won by •
half a length, the second
'was a dead heat between Jack and Clarence, the third
Jack won in a canter, the fourth was run in the dark,
uaek .
Salttumrdning
'll easily; the stewards postponed the fifth
aY, but Jack's rider persisted in walking over
Tor it; hi
Np, ,„,,.. 8 claim is disputed.
"41ARKET COURSING MEETING.—FRIDAY.
CHIPPENHADI FIELD.
11.:Fille De
worthrby was won by Mr. Dobede's Dorou; Mr.
‘‘,.r,K's Bute ran up.
o,i,lieald pup Was won by Mr. Gillett's Girl of Rent; Mr.
ton's hi n
bytottingn ran up.
The ,
ran op.rl,,Etlis waW w s oMr. Dobede's Dot; his Daphne
WThe P°ll Stakes were won by Mr. Gillett's Great
ter; Mr. Buckworth's Batchelor ran up.
, The Rutland Stakes were won by Mr. Buckworth's
Gisaukastithveuessh; and the Downing Stakes by Mr. Fyson's
HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
Brighton harrs., Mon., Patch= ; Wed., the Race-
e°l,,, se; Fri., the Dyke-101.
sarooksicle harrs.,Men N k ...hill; Thurs., Tels-
combo Tre.-10i. ~ ewmar et
Wed.,C rawley and Li- , .....awiey lids! Mon., Crawley Village;
West Grinstead; 2Elolnibush Lodge —lOl.
RatonDorrington lids., Mon., Costock Village; Wed., Little
'Village; Sat., Coleorton 'Villa 10;3
Sherwood parrs. Tues , Mansfieldgßace-cOurse; Fri.,
natubleton•bill--.11. •
IlirsMr. Lumley's lids., Mon., Barnby Moor; Tues., Di-
Stl3.7a ; Thurs., Arnathorpe Village• Fri., Darlton Bar.
3)4? of Ilarewood's lids., Mon., Coliinghtim Bar ; Wed.,
elgbton Bar; Fri., Tadcast Bar-11.
.....,_..............21.

RAILWAY RETURNS
fowrteTaare.—The follo are the Total Receipts
nkcicf hßthie
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ofthe same
week in the previous Tear

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ILIBLE OF RAILWAY.

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Week.

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Oct, 31

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Chester and Btrjetnnea• • • • • • • • • • • •
DUblin and Drogheda..d •
Dublin and Kin •• • •
Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen • • • • • •
Edinburgh and Glas
sand North Eastern..
East Lancashire ••
Glas
Eastern Union.. . •••
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gow and Greenock.. ...... • •
Great Southern and Western :•• • • •
Great Western, Scc .............: :: • •
Lancashire and Y0rk5hire..........
Lancaster and Carlisle
London and North Western, &c. .... •
London and 81ackwa11.......• ...„
London and Brighton
London and South Western
Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc..
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire
Maryport and Carlisle „
Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham....
Midland Great Western (Irish)
Newcastle and Carlisle • • •
Newcastle, Berwick, and North Shields
Norfolk.. • ••• • • " ...... •••• • • " • North British ••••• • • • ' ••• ••• ••• • •
Paris and Rouen . • • • • " • •
Preston and Wyre • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ' •
Rouen and Havre .•••••• • • • • • • • •
Shrewsbury and Chester • •• • •
• •• • • • •
South Eastern and Branches. ... • ...
South Devon. ...... • • " • • " • • • • • • .•
TaZ Vale • • ..
Ulster . • •
Whitehaven Junction . • •
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York and Newcutle . •••• • • •• ••• • ••
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DT A
Ai,T of SIR NATHANIELL LEVETT PEACOCKE,
1.1II•*---We have to record the demise of this venerable
ill net' Who expired on the Ist inst, after a
the
short
6r4;,38. The deceased who, in early life, served in
o o
titswas born in 1760, being the son of the first holder
meek E Wrerc FISH AND POTATO MARKETS.-
Illipw• ill the Wick fish and potato markets, very
getire'les were bought. The potatoes, it is said,
obt4,Y4llY of inferior quality, though high prices were
iiill„ed• A small cargo from Morayshire was disposed
311.14°5• per boll in retail.—lnverness Courier.
3s now extensively exported from Zetland.
doze_er.t time ago they might be had in plenty at 2d. per
thatu Lervvick, though now they sell at 5d., and at
Pries are scarcely to be had.—lnverness Courier.

" She is lovely,' he murmured. She is well named
the Rose of the World, indeed!'
" And may I not paint one like it for you?'
" Cui bono? No.'
Jane, who is poor and dependent, wishes to obtain
some employment, and St. John offers her a very
humble one, the direction of an obscure village school.
But, insignificant as the situation seems, the sublime
and beautiful sentiments in which the proffer is made
at once elevate it to its true position. " Since lam
myself poor and obscure," he says, " I can offer you
but a service of poverty and obscurity. You may
even think it degrading, for your habits are what the
world calls refined, your tastes lean to the ideal ; but
I consider that no service degrades that can better
our race. I hold that the more arid and un-
reclaimed the soil where the Christian labourer's task
of tillage is appointed him, the scantier the meed his
toil brings, the higher the honour. This, under such
circumstances, is the destiny of the pioneer, and the
first pioneers of the Gospel were the Apostles
—their captain was Jesus the Redeemer him-
self."
Were it not, as we have said, for
his sternness and coldness, both external and
internal, St. John Rivers presents an almost perfect
character, bearing some resemblance, in his contempt
of worldly conventionalities, in his self-denial
and relinquishment of earthly affections, to
these Christian heroes of former times who
earned the appellation of saints ; yet, perhaps,
if we come to compare them closely, one great diffe-
rence is perceptible. St. John, good Christian
though he was, appears to have triumphed over his
affections rather by the force of an indomitable self-
command—by a vigorous effort uprooting earthly
passion from his heart, while, on the contrary, with
those to whom we have compared him, the light of
the human love was not annihilated by extinction,
but rendered powerless by the superior radiance of
the divine—as the stars shine always, yet are in-
visible in the daylight. We have lingered too long
over the character of St. John, but it forms in many
respects a most interesting study, and in some, per-
haps, an excellent example. Various adventures
befal Jane Eyre ; she of course again meets Mr.
Rochester, but under most melancholy circum-
stances—he is blind. This bereavement, while it
grieves her to the heart, naturally increases her
affection, and the account of her tender attention and
playful attempts to restore him to cheerfulness, are
necessarily interesting. But we need follow her
fortunes no further; and we may conclude as we
commenced, by observing that, notwithstanding its
imperfections—and it has many—the " Autobio
graphy of Jane Eyre" is full of interest.

LITERATURE.
JANE EYRE. An Autobiography. Edited by Currer
Bal. Three Vols.
Whatever the blemishes or imperfections of this wor k
—and what work in three volumes is quite free from
them ?—it is certainly full of interest and not deficient
in originality, qualities which—for a novel especially
—are no small recommendation. Its interesting
character is, to a certain extent, to be attributed to its
form; a biography—and especially an autobiography
—must necessarily, unless ill-arranged and ill-nar-
rated, possess some peculiar points of attraction.
Generalization destroys interest; the more our powers
of observation are concentrated the greater is the
pleasure and the benefit that we derive from them.
Whatever were the ill effects of what has been called
the "star-system" upon the stage, by which the
chief interest of a play was concentrated in the person
of its hero, it is certain that the pleasure of the
audience, for the time being, was in nowise di-
minished by the practice. On the contrary, be-
coming peculiarly interested in an individual, they
took an almost personal concern in everything con-
nected with him and his affairs. Some such
sentiments are experienced by the readers of
biographies; they become for the time personally
associated with those whose fortunes they are, in
imagination, following, and they are naturally dis-
posed to sympathise with emotions of which they are
constituted as it were the sole confidantes. • Being an
autobiography, then, the history of Jane Eyre pos-
sesses these attractive qualities, and they are consi-
derably enhanced by the very natural and simple
manner in which the various adventures are narrated,
and the very vigorous way in which feelings and
passions are portrayed. But perhaps the characte-
ristic which is most deserving of commendation is
the very admirable delineation and nice discrimina-
tion of character which it reveals. Jane Eyre, the
heroine, is of course drawn at full length, but most of
the minor personages (as is natural in a biography)
are merely sketched ; these sketches are, however, of
that kind in which every line tells, and in which a
few strokes convey as perfect a resemblance as the most
elaborate portrait. Some portions of the tale are not
of a very pleasing character, and many, very many, of
the incidents are most unnatural. The story, more-
over, as a whole has no definite object, it lays
down no main principle, carries out no one idea; as
we have said, it is not without imperfections. Never-
theless, if it aim after no particular object, it cer-
tainly attains a not unimportant one—namely, the en-
tertainment of the reader during its perusal ; and if it
have no one great principle it view, it contains many
sublime and beautiful thoughts, and inculcates some
most ennobling sentiments. If many of the incidents
of the tale are unnatural, that fault is in some degree TRIAL BY JURY.
atoned for by their novelty. In the present day espe-
cially, when we are so often wearied by " thrice-told Yesterday the fifty-third anniversary of the ac-
quittal of Thomas Hardy, John Horne Tooke, and
tales," it is almost a relief to have something new, even if
John Thelwall, from a charge of high treason, was
not quite within the bounds of probability. Jane
Eyre is a friendless orphan, committed by her vela- celebrated at Radley's Hotel, Bridge-street, Black-
friars, when upwards of one hundred gentlemen at-
on her education being completed, she emerges as a
tions to a sort of charitable institution, from which,
tended to do honour to that great palladium of public
liberty—trial by jury. Among the gentlemen pre-
governess. Owing to her friendless and solitary life, sent we noticed Alexander Galloway Esq. who had
she has early acquired a habit of thinking for herself, been a member of the London Correspondent' So-
und like all persons much accustomed to thinking, she ciety ; R. Taylor, Esq., F.R.S.; R. Burnett, Esq.
exhibits a strongly marked individuality of character. R. R. Moore, Esq. ; J. H. Parry, Esq ;J. Beckwith,
through all her wanderings, but merely We do not propose to follow the oun
to noticegoverness Esq. ; J. A. Galloway,
t,
E Esq. ; Williams, Esq. ;
scenes in which she takes part, and in which she be- Saul, Esq.; Ashurssq., &c.
comes associated with two rather striking characters. A letter was received from W. J. Fox, M.P. for
Although one of that unhappy sisterhood, the ordi
Oldham, expressive of his regret that illness pre-
, - vented him from attending the anniversary.
nary troubles of a governess's life are quite unknown
to Jane,— her first situation is her last. Engaged as Colonel T. P. Thompson, M.P., presided on the
the instructress of a little French girl at the house of occasion.
her guardian, Mr. Rochester, a gentleman consider- The cloth having been removed,
ably older than herself, and of very peculiar tempera- The CHAIRMAN said they had met that evening to
ment, Jane excites his attention, and ultimately
wins commemorate the sufferings of men who had preceded
his affection. She is about to become his wife, when them, and whose sufferings in the cause of popular
it is discovered that he has a wife still living who is a principles had given to them that peace which they
maniac, and consequently whose existence he endea- now enjoyed.—(Hear, hear.) They therefore did not
yours to keep a secret. Jane is tenderly attached expect that they would be found fault with if, that
to Mr. Rochester, and this intelligence, and evening, they observed upon what had taken place,
the separation which it occasions, are necessa- on what was then going forward, and, as far as they
lily most painful to her. She is next do-
could judge, on what was likely to arise, in respect to mesticated with some newly-discovered cousins, one the great question of the rights of the people.—(Hear.) of whom St. John Rivers is a most interesting cha-
Ile would be an unhandsome traitor to the great
racter admirably described. A most interesting question settled in the year 1688, if he should
decline to give, upon all occasions, "The sovereignty
character, and were it not for a certain coldness of
manner and deficiency of heart, a most beautiful and of the people."—(Cheers.) Foreign countries lookedto us for the assertion of this great principle, for it was
exemplary character is this St. John. A clergyman,
admitted to be the panacea for all the evils that
but naturally of a most ambitious and enterprising
afflicted a state.—(Hear.) There was no dispute in
temperament, his energy and ambition are all devoted
to advancing the sacred cause in which he has em- this country as to the origin of power, for the will of
barked. He becomes a missionary, and prepares to the community was the origin of all power, and when
leave home, and friends, and country, to carry the that will was properly exercised, it was sure to be
sacred message among the unbelievers. His sister for the benefit of the state generally. He begged in
describes bins as "inexorable As death," and great in- conclusion to give "The sovereignty of the people."
deed is his self-command and his perseverance in his —(Three times three.)The CHAIRMAN said that they had the happiness to
self-appointed course ; nevertheless it is not achieved
without a struggle. Love, which like death knows live under a monarch whose pride it was to be in
no distinctions, but tyrannises over all alike, the strong truth the Sovereign of the people.—(Applause.) It
seemed to bins as if there was at that moment a set
as well as the feeble, attempts to bend him from
his purpose. The beautiful Rosamond Oliver, ens made against queens.—(Hear, hear.) For himself
dewed, of course, with a thousand nameless perfections, he owned that he was favourable to the rule of
is beloved by him and not in vain. Yet even while woman. It seemed to him that when a woman ruled
he loves her with all the fervour of a generally unim-
the supremacy of the law was sure to be upheld. In
passioned nature, he perceives plainly that hers are but such a case physical force was sure to give way to
superficial attractions, that she could never be a mis-
moral force. He, therefore, confessed upon all those
sionary's wife, and, consequently, he must relinquish grounds he loved a queen.—(Applause and a laugh.)
his project or relinquish her, and he chooses the latter The Gallant Chairman, after adverting to the success-
alternative. His conduct in these trying circum-
ful rule of Queen Elizabeth, concluded by proposing,
"
stances is very naturally and effectively portrayed. Long life to the Queen; may she never be sur-
The following conversation between St. John and his rounded by those perils which beset the reign of her
Predecessor, Queen Elizabeth. " (Cheers.)
cousin Jane, gives a favourable description of his pThe CHAIRMAN said he now came to the censidera-
charaeter, and gives, moreover, a beautiful description
of the influence of religion on such a character as his. tion of that great question in reference to which their
Jane, who forefathers exercised the greatest jealousy, and in is a very skilful artist, has taken a portrait
of Rosamond, and offers to copy it for St. John ; he support of which he trusted those present were ready
, to exercise the same jealousy, and, if need be somewhat reluctantly, refuses the proffered gift and
then, breaking through his habitual reserve, speaks of adopt the most energetic course to defend—need to
he
the powerful but contradictory emotions which agitate that he alluded to the great principle of " trial by
his heart. jury" say
?—(Applause.) The principle had been tested
" ' While something in me,' he went on, 'is acutely in the worst of times, and trial by jury had been
found equal to all that could be required of it.—
sensible to her charms, something else is as deeply imld-
(Hear, hear.) Let them think what might have been
pressed with her defects: they are such that she could
in nothing I aspired to—co-operate in
sympathisethe consequence if, in the instance of the men whose
nothing I undertook. Rosamond a sufferer, a labourer,
a cquital they had that evening met to celebrate the
•
a female apostle? Rosamond a missionary's wife? No!' jury had bowed down dictum to the of a legal tyrant,
" ' But you need not be a missionary. You might re- and consigned the defendants to the tender mercies of
linquish that scheme.' the executioner.—(Hear, hear.) The jury, however,
" ' Relinquish ! What—my vocation ?My great were not overawed by power. They acted as became
work? My foundation laid on earth for a mansion in honest men, and in the exercise of the right which
heaven? My hopes of being numbered in the band who belonged to them they acquitted the men whom the
have merged all ambitions in the glorious one of better- law-officers of the Crown were anxious should he
ing their race—of carry ing knowledge into the realms of
ignorance—of substituting peace
convicted of high treason.—(Applause.) This was as
for war—freedom for
bondage—religion for superstition—the hope of heaven it should be, and let them be ready, if ever the time
for the fear of hell? Must I relinquish that? It is came again when they should be required to stand by
dearer than the blood in my veins. It is what I have to the liberties of
.people,
the to do so, and to do so with the
look forward to, and to live for.' same effect as their forefathers. A judge may be a
" After a considerable pause, I said —' And Miss most learned person—something superhuman if they
Oliver? Are her disappointment and sorrow of no pleased, but give him twelve honest men of ordinary
interest to you?'
" ' Miss Oliver is ever surrounded by suitors and understanding, and with well regulated minds, and
flatterers: in less than a month my image will be effaced
he would place greater dependence on their decision
from her heart. She will forget me ; and will marry, than he would upon any that might be arrived at by
probably, some one who will make her far happier than the most learned judge they could think of.—(Hear,
I should do.'
hear.) In conclusion, he begged to give " Trial by
" ' You speak coolly enough ; but
you suffer in the jury."—(Applause.)
conflict. You are wasting away.' Mr. R. TAYLOR said he felt greatly honoured by
" 4 No. If I get a little thin, it is with anxiety about being called upon to give the
were put
next toast—namely, the
my prospects, yet unsettled—my departure, continually memory of the i twelve men who, in 1794,
procrastinated. Only this morning I received intelli- upon their trial for sedition and treason, andwhose
genes that the successor, whose arrival I have been so
acquittal they were that night met to celebrate. The
long expecting, cannot be ready to replace me for three toast was " The memory of Thomas Hardy, John
months to come yet: and perhaps the three mouths may Horne Tooke, John Thelwall, John Augustus Bon-
extend to six.'
" ' You tremble and become flushed whenever Miss neev ' d, Richard Hodgson, Thomas Hol-
Oliver enters the school room.' Stewart R -
v
croft, Jeremiah Joyce, Thomas 'Wardle, Matthew
Moore, " Again the surprised expression crossed his face. Ile
John Baxter,
and John Ritchter." When he
had not imagined that a woman would dare to speak so considered that this list consisted of persons in various
to a man. For me, I felt at home in this sort of dis- situations in life, from the humble shoemaker, as Mr.
coarse. I could never rest in communication with strong, Hardy was, to the minister of religion, he was bound
discreet, and refined minds, whether male or female, till to believe that this was a determined effort on the part
I had passed the outworks of conventional reserve, and of the Government of the day to make all classes
crossed the threshold of confidence, and won a place by feel the weight of their hostility in opposing the rights
their heart's very hearthstone.
of the people.—(Hear, hear.) All that the pen
" `You are original,' said he, `and not timid. There
whose memory they were about to do honour to did,
is something brave in your spirit, as well as penetrating
in your eye : but allow me to assure you that you par- was to attempt to effect that which (had since been
tially misinterpret my emotions. You think them more successful. They sought to uphold the rights of theand oat Parliamentary reform.—(Hear,
larger and potent than they are. You give me a people carry
werebranded as traitors. to their
larger allowance of sympathy than I have a just claim to. hear.) For this they '
When I colour, and when I shake before Miss Oliver, I country.—(Hear.) But they were not traitors—they
do not pity myself. I scorn the weakness. I know it is were worthy men and good citizens, and he believed
ignoble; a mere fever of the flesh: not, I declare, a con- that much of the success that attended the prisoners
upon that occasion resulted from the excellent cha-
vulsion of the soul. That is just as fixed as a rock, firm
racter of that worthy man, Thomas Hardy.—(Ap-
set in the depths of a restless sea. Know me to be what
I am—a cold, hard man.' plause.) They could hardly believe now that such
" I smiled incredulously.
" ' You have taken my confidence by storm,' he con-
things had occurred, and which had been alluded
tinued; ' and now it is much at your service. I am to that evening, had in reality taken place. But
simply, in my original state—stripped of that blood-
there was no doubt of the fact, and yet, bad as the
bleached robe with which Christianity covers human times were in 1794, there had been worse times,
men were sent to the scaffold by that cruel and
deformity—a cold,
Jeffery, and when the intervention of
hard, ambitious man. Natural affec- when
tion only, of all the sentiments, has permanent power wicked judge,
man from destruc-
over may, of
and not Feeling, is my guide : my a jury could not save an innocent
more than others, insatiable. desirelhonour endurance, per-
ambition is unlimited ,my to rise higher, to do tion.— (Hear, hear.) Trial by jury had, however,
severance, industry, talent • because under cover of the law, and
power
by Which men achieve
these are the means shrine of despotic
saved twelve good men from being immolated at the
eminence. I watch great ends, and mount to lofty it was consider you a specin3Eoeur caaree.r. with interest, because
.I
up the recollection of that happy result.—(Hear,
woman : not b nof diligent, orderl, energetic the duty of the people of this country to keep
because I deeply
have gone through, or what compassionate what youbl b
as he was a e to e
t. and so long
you still suffer.' those mee ings,
You would describe hear.) He had always great pleasure in attending
losopher,' I said. yourself as a mere pagan phi-
to know intimately eight
hear.) He had the pleasure .
" ' No. There is this difference b philosophers: I believe; and I believe me and deistic of the twelve men whose
!lilt a Christian present he should appear amongst them.—e(eHbeeaurt,
memories they were
missed your epithet.
philosopher—a follower of am
o f not
the aszleatvgeeott;h, e Gospel. You to do honour to, and he could truly say of them, as
rad might be said of
deathand
she has cultivoates
disciple, I adopt his pure, his merciful, el:iee. As his men.—(Hear, hear.) They had defied t
doctrines. I advocate them : I am sworn tbenignant all, that they were virtuous and good
torture, and all the fearful consequences that arose o
them. Won in youth to religion,
3 persons found guilty of treason, in order that right
original qualities thus :—From the minute germ, natural principles might be upheld. He therefore thought
affection, she has developed the overshadowing tree, phi- they were worthy of all the sympathy that could be
lanthropy- From the wild, stringy root of human manifested towards them. With that view he pro-
uprightness, she has reared a due sense of the Divine posed their memories in solemn silence.
justice. Of the ambition to win power and renown for Mr. F. LAWRENCE then proposed " The memory
my wretched gulf, she has formed the ambition to spread of the three '
to achieve victories for the T 1 juries who, in 1794, .
acquitted,
Hardy,
my Master's kingdom ;
much _
has religion done for oo ie, and Thelwall, on a charge of high treason,
standard of the cross. So
• •nal materials to th® best account: ,
and of Erskine and Gibbs,the able and
gratuitous
me ; turning the original
But she could not eradicate counsel of the accused," and after alluding to the
pruning and training nature.
this mortal
' till shall honesty of the jury and to the ability of Mr. Gibbs,
nature: nor will it be eradicated ti
put on immortality.' he proceeded to pass a high eulogium on Mr. Erskine,
hat,
which lay on the to whose unequalled eloquence and honest enthusiasm
" Having said this, he took his
table beside my palette. Once more he looked. at the in favour of his clients he attributed the acquittal of
portrait. Messrs. Hardy, Tooke, and Thelwall. The judges,

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