The Sun.
London, England, 1815-06-12 00:00:00

PARTNERsIIII'S DISSOLVED.

J. Croose and IL. Tibbatts, Gloucester, soap-boilers.-11..
'V, c..-,oupland and w. Holderness, Kingston-upon-Mill,
woollendrarers.-3. N. Neal and W
Homer and F. Strickland, Norwich, coachmakers.—G.. Worthy
and T. Graham, Stockport, Cheshire, dealers in Landon par-
ter.—R. J. A. Houloare and J. Barton, Liverpool, ship-
chandlers.--T. Motley and G. B. Flowers, Strand, patent
h;ttcr and printing type-manufacturers.--J. Mitchell and G.
K. Dore, East-street, New-market, Finsbury-square, bottle
permanent yeast blowers.—E. Golding and C.. Hodgkin,
London, manufacturers.--N, Laneurille, C. Lc Tavernier,
and S. B. Petit, Mount-street, Grosvenor-synare, wine-
merchants.—R. Horswell and Cridland, Modburv,y Devon-
shire, tanners.--B. J. Wake and A. Shore, Sheffield,
solicitors.—T. Winstanley and R. Taylor, Liverpool, atm-
tioners.—J. Weidner and, C. Sierra, Wentworth-street,
Whitechapel, st4itr-refiners—R. Boteber:l„, .T. Wilson, T.
Clank, J. Wetherell; and J. Crowe, BedburOrmills, Durham,
edge-tool manufacturers—G. Browne and J. Kai', Pendleton,
Lancashire, farmers—G. W. Ledgard, Poole, and J. Gos,e,
Carbonear, Newfoundland, merchants.•—T. Higgins, I. Meaby,
T. Cantkridgc, and. W. Meaby, Bristol, tilers—R. Fletcher
and J. Clegg', Manchester, nankeen manufacturers—J. Walk.
er, jun. k. Edwards, and' B. *Reynolds, Paternoster-row,
booksellers—W. and. J. Becket, Kingston 'upon-Hull, black
heir breWers—J. Stocks and- J. Jessup, Strand, grocers—W.
Hull and W. 'Worswick, Chorley, Lancashire, millers—R.
Permit, Odv, and T. Seale, Malmesbney, liankers—J.
;Menzies and S. White, London—A. A. and R. Blair, Tip-
ton', Staffordshire, soap and manufacturers—J.
cox and. W. Stone, Bristol; Spanish wool merchauts,--J.
Hill
.and J. Arundel', Upper 'East. Smithfield, butchers.

Some silver pennies of King EDWARD the Se-
cond's time were discovered lately in one of. the
Aialvern hills ; they were almost as large as a
sixpence.

oMr. O'Donnel, a publisher of Relini us Tracts,
Essays on Sobriety, Good Manners, and a variety
of moral subjects, was committed to the House of
Correction of Brighton on Monday, for being
found drunk and disorderly' in the streets.

CORONER'S INCWEST.—Saturday an Inquisition
was taken before • TnomAs Sneuili, Esq. at the
Rose Tavern, Cripplegate, upon. the 'body of
George Tilbury, an ostler at the Pell inn,
who lost his life in the fire which 'happened in
Wood-street, on Friday morning. It appeared
that the deceased had been from home until an un-
usually late hour on the preceding .night, but had.
retired to bed quite sober and without a
The fire broke out at a considerable distance from
where he slept, and it appeared was burning at
least an hour and a halt before it Communicated
to his apartment. This was an attic at the re-
mote end of the Bell Inn-yard, and notwithstand-
ing the noise and confusion. which prevailed on
every side„ the deceased was not awoke until the
fire had actually reached his bed. Shortly after
dreadful cries were heard, and he was seen burst-
ing open the window, and presenting himself with
a sheet burning about him. No assistance what-
ever could he afforded to him in this quarter, but
Int immediate attempt was made to break in the
roof of his apartment. UnfOrtunately, however,
this expedient was too late, the flames having al-
ready pierced through and caused an aperture,
sufficient to perceive that the deceased-had sunk
with the floor nu which he slept to the ruins be-
neath. From thence he was taken in a few hours,
but in consequence of a beam of burning timber
having fallen upon him, he was so mutilated as to
prevent his being recognized. The Jurylament-.-
cd, that while every other person upon the pre-
mises was thought of and saved, the deceased
should have been wholly forgotten for nearly two
hours.. Verdict—Jecidental Death,

LAW INTitriLlQtstr.i.

cou ;IT UF. kiNb's io;
THE KIN(; V. Silt, 3. VV.4C;tAI.I..

the A-r.-roittt Ey-Getigam. moved fo litre
r:4le, which %vat obtained on an applicat hot for t
criminal information against the defendant, for a
libel on Cout,lt Worontoff, bolute. The
libel (which was formerl stated),' ‘i•as contained
in a recent publication. •
SbABLETT slimed cause.fit.tainst the rule.
the Learned Counsel said, that no one could feel
Edith more concern than his client ,hishaVing brought
before the public so erroneous a statement as the
one complained of.- It had been his habit to take
down notes of such historical facts_as were curious.
and it»povtant, and came to him in an authentic
form. At the time published the article in
question he firmly believed it to be true. He did
not advert to the circumttance that any person
was hying in this country•whose feelings were
likely to'be wounded by such a publication. He
bad inserted an advertisement in the' new edition
of his -work, announcing the falsehood of the as-
sertion respecting the manner of the death of the
Princess of Wurtentberg, and he was ready to
make any other apology which Count Woronzoff,
as a Gentleman and a man of honour, might re-'
quirt:. The book which contained the• libel was
of considerable length, and in the preface tbe au-
thor bad observed,' that he merely related events
as he had received them, not pledging himself for
their truth ; and he remarked, that those persons
whoser•ank enabled -them to know most, were ge
nerally the least willing to divulge what they
knew. The Learned Counsel argued upon the
impossibility of a man's writing a history of his
Own Hine without offending the feelings of some
individuals; but the Court, he hoped, would
consider how important these cotemporary illus-
trations of facts were to the future historian. It
was not to be supposed that the defendant could
have been actuated by any malice.

Lord ELLENBOROUGH--1t must be inferred from
the tendency of the act. If the act has a mis-.
chievous tendency the law will infer malice. On
the subject of inadVer;ency, 1 will 'point your at-
tention to a few lines, and then ask you how a
man could pablish, them without a malicious in!
tent. In p. 214 he says, " There, remains still
another important fact which merits considera-
tion. 'We have seen it stated that Count Wo-
ronzoff originally ma:ntained his Sovereign's in,
nocence, but that from the time of the death of
the Empress Catherine he was induced to depart
from the assertion ," apprehensive that a favour-
able conclusion.' should be drawn, he proceeds,
" But when did 'he make such assertion depends
on the time, for Catherine died in 1795;and after
her death one crime was not much where so many
were attributed." Ile imputes the basest motive
for the retraction—that he made the assertion to.
curry favour and ingratiate himself with the Lin
press %%ltus he was alive; butt thet), when sbe
was dead, Le left her memory to be slandered.

Mr. SCARLETT said, Sir N. Wraxall had written
only as he had been informed. lie was sensible
of the maxim, Ne quid falsi direre audeat ne quid,
reri non aucteat ; but 'he trusted their Lordships
‘vorild not think it went to this exteut,.that a man
was not to Ivtite any thing
.but that to the truth
of whicb,he could swear. History, like a p;ature,
could only he accurately viewed at a distance, and
historical fact, but imperfectly known at present,
would ()illy be perfectly undtTstood by posterity.
It would be recollected that Count ‘Voronzoffwas
not an Ambassador now.• The defendant had
taken the most effectual means of healing the
wound* he had inflicted, anti. he hoped the Court
would not think it a ease
,%vhich retptired its ex-
traordinary interpOsi"thin.
The ATTORNEY-CENERAL rose to address the
Court, but
Lord ELLENBOROUGM interrupting him said, the
rule must be absolute. The ground upon which
the Court is called upon to interpose is, that there
was no motiv.e.of personal malice. • If that was an
excuse, it •wOuld excuse the greater part of the
cl.l'here is„generally speaking,
o malice in the libels brought
los.
rte so pestilentnn libels.
)tiye 1.
before ns ; the object in general, is to make that
which is slander, and catches the itching ears of
the public, most profitable. Whether the publi-
cation giVes pain or pleasure, the object looked
at is a lucrative sale of that which, from its ma-
lignity, is li'sely to he bought. Ido not know
whether that is the !frtive of Sir N. \Vraxall,
but it is with reference to one of the worst
publications of the kind that we are desired to
give way and not exert the arm of the
‘ law.
Could the pet•son libelled have forborne to make
the complaint he has nrged to our jus'tice. ? lie
is a person representing once a great poten-
tate, and he is libelled iii respect of a commu-
nication of facts most iojttriints to his honour and
character. Could he do otherwise than come be-
fore the Court, and coining tOr the reparation of
his fame, will the Court deny him those means
which are necessary to him for the purposes of
bringing the person who has assailed his cha-
racter before the tribunal of justice? It was
the duty of Count \Voronzoff towards himself
to apply to the Court for redress, and it- is
the duty of the Court to grant him the, effect
of his application.
.There are a great -number of
auccdotes in this work, which may be entitled
to a greater or less -degree of respect : but the re-
presentation I have pointed at is notof doubtful ef-
fect. It is a hardy and calumnious inference
which the party chooses to draw, It states that
Count. \V: had the baseness, while
his s ~t)Vereign
lived (and it was material to him to have her fa-
vour) to assert her innocence, but that he de.-
parted front the assertion as' soon as she was dead,
and he could, expeet no 'further advantage from
her that he admitted 11E1' to be criminal, con-
sidering-that One crime more would not be much,
where there Were so many. It is an imputation
of that sort of baseness which, independent of
the truth or improbability of the.other passages,
warrants Count,Woronzoirin his application to
the Court, and warrants the Court iu saying, that
his application Ought not to be made •in
The Court cannot discharge its duty to the public
without Making this rule absolute.--The, role was
made absolute accuidingly.