The Sun.
London, England, 1802-07-28 00:00:00

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This was 'an Aftion for an Ass:ndr, ah nOwayi
worthy remal-k, but lOr the ludicrous turn
it took. The Plaintiff is a Farmer, and was re.:
turning from a profitable' ad vent ore, 74,a v en
to rnaiket, when he called at tie Red Lion, at
Huckerill, otherwise stile;{ fide. here
quarrelled with all the /29veit deideis in grain i:e
met, and was at last so impruient as to ihtimate
that the Defendant, who was one of them, ;V:IS a
d—d Irar ; die Dekndant very natCrally felt that
his .cbarader was at stake, and that if he passed it
over slightly, the Ptiblic would not telieve him at
the next market-day, when he should tell them that
he find brought all the grain he was in possesion cat
to market, and that he felt no desire Ic Jeep up the
price cirorn; he, therefore; repli-d, that if he rc.;-
pealed the some obnoxious expressions; he would
" knock his'd---n head about." The Plaintiff
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very imprudently did sti, and fife Defendant was as
good as his word.

Mr. GAR.Row defended the Aftion in a train of
,infinite humour, contending- that Mr. Smithson rod
done no more than any other man woul,i have done
in his situation. The laws cf courtesy, he
were infallibly the same on the su!)joEt
man calls me a liar, I most knock him down." To
prove which cited many cases that rod come*
within his recollection among others, that (4.a Very
great man; whose talents, he said, would do ho_
nour to any country, he meant Mr. \VI NDHANI;
who chanced to be in coMpany, after his unsuccessful
struggle for th'e City csf. Norwich, wig: re an eleaor
told him he had not voted for him, and as they
were met he would tell him why : in the first place,
he did not like him ; and; in the second, his aversion
arose from his being a 'titiw-teat, and many more
servations equally affronting. Mr, WINDRAM re.
plied very coolly, " You do this', Sir, to Or me oil
my guard, but I am colleted; and though the liWs
of courtesy bid me knock you down., yet, as yOu
have before voted for hie, and as I think it may
teach you how to behave in fUture,. I shall only pull
your nose," which he did, said Mr. GAR,ROW, by
cyriv;ttg. it ;well. He had no doubt that transaction
would be brought into a Court cf Justice, and if it
wasj he doubted not it would, be treated in the same
way lie hoped the present would ; n'amely, by a jury
giving a verdia of Two-pence damages, to enable
such a Plaintift to bny enough of soft soap to proton
his nose *at least for a week.

The Jury gave a verdiet of 6d. Damages, when
Mr. GARRow observed to the Plaintiff, wi•!,o
was in Court, " There, Sir,. the Jury have been
more bountiful to you than I should hive been, for
th'ey h2vezi'ven you soap 'enough for three rweek s.

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E.(EC.TIOS.

'HE FOLLOWING ISTI-TELTBsTANCE OF MR. wit_
D ERFORCE'i ADDRESS T.O THE F.REEHOLDEks

THE COUNTYOF YOYK, UN BEING PROP:ibED AS

ONE OF THE MEMDZES,

• . cENTtamv.v,
In appearingibefore you upon the, present Ocea-
siDn, I cannot but feel that lam placed in 'serious,
aval -F-might almost say, an. awful situation; for' I
am come before you to render up an account of . the
trust which six years ago you.r kindness committed
to me ; and when I consider-the Weight and Itnpor-
ranee of that Trust, under any circumstances, and
still more when I reileo. on the very critical and
portentous thnes during uhich I have possessed
it, which have. tended to multiply its difficulties and
encrease its responsibiliy, it is natural for One to feel
that I am in a grave'and solemn situation, now that
I stand before you to answer to you for the dis-
e:,arge of its various and weighty Duties. I will
fairly own to you. also, Gentlemen, that there is an-
other cousideration which powerfully affeets my
- mind ; I mean the prodigious size of our vast Coun_
ty : its Population, its Wealth, and all those other
circumstances by which it is distinguished. I.know
indeed •that it is constitutional language to affirM,
1' that a Member of Parliament for any Place, be it
what it -way, is, when chosen, the Representative,
not of his own particular Constituents, but of the
People of England in -general: That the Member
for Old Sartun is a Member of Parliament equally
with the Methberfot the very County in which we
stand. • •

This Is an opinion which, in the ma:n, I myself
hold ; it is sound Constitutional do trine, which I
maintain, and which on this day I publicly avow :
bar yet, Gentlemen, he must have a mind of greater
power of practical abstraaion than mine, or have
firmer nerves than I possess, who, when the Rights,
the Interests, the Credit, the Charatier, the Honour
of this great County, (itself a little Kingdom) are
committed to his care, does not feel himself loaded
with -A burthen far more weighty than that which
he would have to bear, if he were the Representa-
tive of some decayed Town or some inconsiderable
Borough.
Gentlemen, I trust I may appear before you with
boldness, because though conscious of many errors
and imperfediOns, I can truly declare, that I have
aaed with honest and pure intentions, with a mind
unbiassed by personal Considerations or Party Mo..
tives ; with a sincere desire of promoting the wel„'
fare of our Common Cumtry—l have not made the
sacred Trust which you confided to me,, subservient
to the purposes of my own interest or aggrandise_
ment.