The Sun.
London, England, 1824-12-06 00:00:00

THE LIBERTY OIL' THE PRESS.

The important cause of Anderson v. Itintoul
and others, was decided in the Jury Court; Edinburgh, yester.
day (Monday.) 'lt was an action of damages for alleged. libels
published in the Diendee Advertiser, and the damages ware
laid at 12,0001. Tlie.principel statements were contained in
reports of Matter that was spoken at guildry and council meet-
ings in the burgh of Dundee ; the material parts of which had
also been published in the Dundee Courier, of which the pur-
suer; suer the old Provost of Dundee, was part proprietor, but -in
the latter Journal, it was held by the Court, that the state-
mente were qualified by certain expressions, calculated to
mitigate the severity of the charges, and to 'ophrate as a re-
servatien in favour of himself, the pursuer. It was held
as smother ground of action, that tie
same defonder had
printed and delivered to the Ouildry to be laid on their
table (which wits judicially 'finned the act of publish.
inie), the Report of a Conimittee of Guildry, authoris-
ed by that Corporation to be printed in the usual manner,—
here was also a statement in one copy of the same defendant's
newspaper, in which the principal statement is repeated, with
some comment by the Editor. MI these statements the Court
held' to be libellous : and, if they were also malicious, for which
the Chief Co
nimissioner said it was not necessary to have the
evidence of expressed malice, the Jury were to consider what
d'imageii were sufficient to vindicate the chari4cter, of the pur-
suer in the eye of the public. There was an issue, ;r, compen-
-10,,k,nal watch the Chief Commissioner hardly considered
to he balanced against the issues of the pursuer, al.
Wougo it contained relative statements, which had been pub.
fished in the pursuer's journal, and which were proved by two
or three witnesses to apply to the defender. 'Pile case was
tried by a Special Jury, who, after retiring for half an hour,
brought in at verdict generally for the defendant.—We consi-
der this decision its tt Jost and patriotic assertion of the rights
of the MM. Never did the institution of trial by jury make
larger demands on the admiration of Scotland than upon
this occasion. Never did a jury better deserve the thanks
of the Public than this Jury. We freely accord them our own.
—The trial lasted from 10 a.m. till half.past 11 p.m. At this
late hour we will not venture to report it in our present pub-
lication ; but it well deserves the attention of the country, and
shall be fully zePoeted in our next.—( Edinburgh Star.)

THE ARMY.

[Prom SATURDAY'S GAZETTE.]
War-Office, Dec. 3, 1824.

2d Regiment of Life Guards—Lieut. G. A. Reid to be
Captain by purchase, vice Chichester, promoted ; Cornet and
Sub-Lieutenant Felix Vaughan Smith to be lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Reid; John Davidson, Gent. to be Cornet and
Sub-Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Smith.
9th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Hon..W. E. Fitzmaurice,
to he Cornet, by purchase, vice Lord Kirkwall, who retires.
Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—Lieut. Wm.
Greenwood to be Lieutenant and Captain by purchase, vice Sir
Lloyd Dukinfield, who retires ; Sir Frederick liervey.Bathurst,
Bart. to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Green-
wood.
sth Regiment of Foot—Ensign Wm. John Copson to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hatton, who retires; Henry
Bingham Baring, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Copson.
46th Ditto—Ensign Charles Johnstone, from the 69th Foot,
to be Ensign, vice Keily, who exchanges.
60th Ditto—Lieut. Ambrose Spopg to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice De Damas, who retires; Second Lieutenant Joseph
Robinson to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Spon.g ; to
be Second Lieutenants, by purchase, John Thomas Evans,
Gent. by purchase, vice Robinson; John Sutton Wilford,
Gent. vice L. B: Wilford, who retires.
62d Regiment of Foot—Lieut. and Adjutant Edward Par-
ker to be Captain, without purchase, vice Hartley, promoted in
the Royal African Colonial Corps.
69th ditto—Ensign Richard Keily, from the 46th Foot, to be
Ensign, vice Johnstone, who exchanges.
93d ditto—Lieut. William Guun, from half-pay Bourbon
Regiment, to be Quartermaster, vice Alexander Dallas, who
retires upon half-pay.
Royal Colonial Corps—Capt. William Hartley, from the
62d Foot, to be Major, without purchase, vice Chisholm,
promoted.
Ist Veteran Company—Lieutenant Jonathan Warner, from
half-pay York Light Infantry Volunteers, 'to be Lieutenant,
vice John Pike, who returns to his former situation on the Re-
tired List.

HOSPITAL STAFF—Assistant-Surgeon Edward Pilkingtoo,
from half-pay 73d Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces,
vice William Macleod superseded, having absented himself
Without leave; Hospital Assistant John Thornton has resigned
his CoMnitssion ; Hospital-Assistant William AN:bristle has
been suppersed ; Hospital-Assistant Charles Pargeter has re-
sippmmecl Commission i • Hospital-Assistant George Nicholas
Cheek, upon haMpay, has requested to resign.
Office qfprd nonce, Nov. 30, 1824. •
Corps of Royal Engineers—Captain Matthew Charles Dixon,
from the half-pay, to be Captain' vice Payne, who retires.
Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of
Radnor.
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John Abraham WhittakeT,T;l.-to be Deputy Lieutenant,
Commission in the West Somerset .Yeomunry Cavalry, sigma
by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Somerset.
Edward lloulditch, Gent. to be Cornet.

SINGULAR CASE OF LUNACY.