The Sun.
London, England, 1805-06-10 00:00:00

TUE KINO: V.. GEORGE. 110 BY.

This wasa charsre of conspiracy against the De-
•
fendant, an eminent' Booteand Shoemaker in. St.
Jantes!s-street, for entering. into a cembination with
a numberief journeymen Boot and - Shoemakers.to
raise their wages in ditlerent parts of the kingdom..
It, perhaps, may be useful to premise, that 1364-
makers and' Boot-elesers are perfeelly distinet
branches. of the *Same trade, ,and it was in conse-
quence of the disputes.betweep these two classes-,•Of
persons that this prosecution was commenced.
Messrs. EILIKINE, GARROW, 311 d GURNEY said,
it was a conspiracy,which tendedetet only to destroy
the Conlinerece but to subvert, the Constitution of
this free Country, and which must theretbre he put-
down by the strong erns of the Law. Bye, regula-
tions had been made amongst the makers and closers
of boots, and these persons presumed "to ereCt,them-
selves infoa tribunal oflustioe, to ,pmeltiim laws,
sncl to-extort penalties, To forward such a design,
there* were t distina Courts established, the one
supreme, the other subordinate ; the latter was called
• the Shop Meeting, the 'owner the Assernbly of De-
le:.ettes. In irnitalon of the ,maxims, of jurisprudence
in the time of Elizabeth, these Legislators enaCted
that their companions in the trade should only
tlke one apprentice, or, if they had two; the. first
must be w)thie eix months of the expiration of his
time. The closers resited this arrangement ; the
'Makers refused th work with every.closer who should
not cemply ; the trade Was thus completely obstruet- •
ed, and the masters were threatened with ruin. Nu-
meronS fries were imposed, which, the parties had
• no authority to enforce, excepting by the mearte they
'employed, of Neholly abandoning the. business. In
,eethis situation of things, the Defendant, as the, most
„17_eminent in his trade, Was the most considerable loser;;
anil for his own Mercenary purposes, opposed to the
inltrest s eftrade, to the maxkus of hew,
.after'haVing
preferred no less than a hundred indictments against •
- the Offenders, he himself paid the fines which mere
due, entered itzto an agreement to corroborate and
• establish these bye laws, and thus encouraged such
illegal, nefarious, and:destruCtive combinations.
Two witnesses were then called, Lewis Richards
• and Thomas Hartaborough, who deposed to-the faCls
stated in the opening of the Learned Counsel'. •
Clerk of the Court read the 'ertgegement en-
tered into by the Defendant, by which it appeared,
• - that the agreed to advance no further. )n the Proseens
dons, and to exclude from : his employment persons
who were considered as refra&ory (scabs end 'tramps)
by the orders oft.he Society. , •
Lord ELLENBOIMUGH.-,--`° This is a compromise,
but no 'conspiracy. The engagernent entered into
by the Iteferidant he must y, Tao means aCt upon ;
it is a nullity, because' it is illegal.; The Defendaet
should understand, if he should again (=at before
the Court, his eoncluCV appear in a rnoit. c
eive point of view; for the law will frequentiy infer
the etirninal purpose fyoriltheerimhialeonseenences.7
Mr: Geteeow-e-" It should he • understood what
is the nature of a conspiracy. My. Lord 'will tell the
-Defend/Int, his own authority that if twenty
rrten go separately tO their rriaster, and each of them
Mysii. will not work, this will beevidence of a con-
. spit acy," , •
Lora ELLENBOROUGn.-e-" Persons may be con-
seir4-9 without havine- seen or lietml each Other."
" Gentlemm. of the juriee, Me Defendant has
tended to cool the passions of tie se parties, but in
the on4eavonr, ho has nearlV burnt his own fingcTs:
(lees not .4eern to be any Criinitlat design, and
think he is entitled to your acquittal."---Verdiet..--
.4Vet Alp

The pox having ira
lately made its appence,
at 11101,,`:,11: sOrtle fatality, the opulent. innabitants,
have (iPej.led a 'subscription for the purpose of intro-
cov. 'Vaccine Inoculation; and the Vicar huts
übili`r,Zi on admonitory address to the people, ex-
-1106',,: them to overcome their objeaions to this
ad:ifobie preventive.

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