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TUNE 26.

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I.lr,:LsrA..lm3 'novel fora Mandannts
co.reelc;l to the Bishop of O: ford, cii,e 'tint
111.-1 appoint H..:Wright to be Curate or
or the of Pi Idino:ten, in the County
.
(.Cf The ricot. of p.,,stitation hcloned to,
uhahitlnts of- ti w hp, upon eleaton,
iinmediateir to the Bavp ; and, Upon
tile. &eh of tlle late incumbent, they eleeted the
'‘V . Pearson to that. situation. The annual ,
sntarr of the.Curi:tt being 401. per annum, and the
PariliSionerscousidering it imufficient, cntere4l intci
an..agre,-..n.ent with him to allow him 291.- addi-
tional,. to be levied by certain rates, upon his enter-
itig into the duties of his office. Upon application
'to the Bishop, to confirm the nomination of the
• • Varis't,liontr, ht ()ince de.sired to sec this 'agesment,
4txtrs.;t3pori being..put into his,hands, h' zippeared
much displeased, and declared it vas simonieal.;
pon .Nachich the P,arishioners ;weeds to waive that
protentation,. and nominated tlu Rev. Air. 'Wright,
'whose appointnvnt the Bishop also refused to con,
firm. (hr application to his Grace's Secretary, he
threfttendyl a prosecution for simony; which wa,
tar:A into effeet ; .an affion was brought
Itgairrst the for simohy,.and the Plaintiff non-
suited. , In the we:irt fillip., the Bkhop himself ap-
pointed a young man to the Curacy.. The Parish
then mernorialed the Ilishop, but received no an-
swer; they then threatened tobring an ejeament,
for the purpose of trving,their righti; but thOught
it better, on the whole, to apply to their Lordships
tbr a filandemus.

The Court granted a corKlltional Rule.

CONS! IR ACV.

TIII:,EIN6 V. COL. PASS/NC:IIAM AND 3.EDWARDS.
'rile_ Defendants were this day again brought up

for judgnilnt, conviCted, of a Conspiracy against
Cieorge Townshencl Forrester, Esq, of which we,
have 41reatly given sonic Reports.
~,I.ll.::,;.kffido.,,'it of the Defendant, Edwards, was
put in, which stated, that he had a wife and
y0..1n,4 that, ha consequence of Mr. For-
res. WM a bantipt,• he was reduced to
the I.l,nuist inclizence, and h,if>. wife and children
to go to the parish.
Tix; "pint affida.,,..it of several persons was filen
read, from whiCh it'-appeared that the Deponents
had imown him for many year and stated him to
be a man of the t upright andhonest principles,
and 'of the- striaest integrity and veracity, and a
Arai aupporter of ltis IKi::,g.and Constitution ; that
be hadespoused the came of Mrs. ForreSter, froth
:affc:tlon to he!' as a,near relation`;, and what he
bad done was.rather an error-'of the h'ad than of the
heart ; he was a man of warm tenver, and zealous
in the VILLA; of his friend. . •
i\fr.,E.asm:/m, on the part of the Defendants, ad-.
dressed the,Court in a trry,,t .elorjuent And iMpressive
SptVali he expressed feelings upon the occasion
in the strongest terms ; hOtrt ILted the Court would
fwel the eensiclerablo rlee'yee of embarrassment un
der which the Counsel of these Gentlemen laboured,
and he wished he could altogether .withdraw the
affidavit of Col. Passi.nham from the Records
of the Court, He confessed it .was impossible he
could colour a tranm6tion which could bear no
change.. The only. Ilse of chara6ter,. after convic-
flon, WAS to shear, that the party was not originally
depraved. These Gentlemen . had heretofore borne.
1.-reproachable characters, which appeared upon the
•t:attmony ref trIC4 honourable men; it was a mat-
twr of. mere: opiioni 'whether a .party was capable
Of a crime of this nature, but it Waft for the, Court
to decide ulvon the evidence
.of Witnesses ; ands
when persons were reduced in when untoward
circhmstarpoes might have; occurred, the Court al-

ways had hiruianity-to hear, in courtesy to the
Ear, any, thing that might be otrered in' mitigation.
'He then Laid, that his aequaintance with Colonel
Passingliani was of a lung standing ; that Oentle-
man was bred in the school. of adversity ; and, from
the rnalmer he had. condu&ed ,hinuelf, early recom-
mended' him to his notice. Though bred up. as We-
gitirnatei he- was the legitimate grandam of a Gen-
tleman of great rank and respeCtability, namely,
Mr. Wynne, pf Merienearshire : he married early;
in life ; the Learned Counsel expressed great
sati,,ilhiun le having Hirai the iustrament of estp.
and his brother in their parental rights;
iitld v..ben had obtained them, they were sig-.
nail ex:metiles of benevolence and generosity. There
lA* many circumstances whieh could not properly
be urged Openly by Counsel; but their LoOships
were acci6torned to tike into their private 'cOnsi-
'ideation 'those ,eirctirri stances. The Defend rit; Cob
PaSsinghatn, stood charged with. one great' crime,
namely, that of,ariultery with the wile of Inc friend?
But, he would ask, were there not situations in
which the most virtuous man was not sometimes
entangled in his vices and pusions ? He then ad-
verted w the evidence, from which' he contended,
there did tic,t appear any subornation of Witnesses
on the part of the Defendants ; and he called the
attention of the Court to the evidence of CoLlnee,
whose testitnony,was not disturbed by the verdia of
the Jury. Nothing was more Shocking than the
evidence given, by this Cientleman ; tt,tide e
stthi-
cient to persuade Colonel Passingliarn that Mr.- For
rester wxi a man of unnatural 'propensities though
Ile adnaitkxl he stood in serious rebuke before their
Lordships,- with respea to Mrs. Foriester; yet it
migbt be fairly oral;, that he WIL3 persuaded he
was delivering a AVorrian hop person of such ii
description 'as that no female could associate with.
This, he submitteil, in some degree lessened the ig
noniny of the. charge ;„ and, unless their I..nrdsbips
were prevented by their judici4 characler; unkiss
they were no longer men, ,because they were fudgesi
arcs, unless they had nire y tbrgotten the frailties
of human nature, he truiited their I„ordOlips, before
they should pronounce their jUdgmeilt, would
ou4ly and stUdiously consicterthe sensations which
were passing, at that moment, in. the, minds of
tbnie Gentlemen. He returned their Lordships
thanks for the it'ldulgef:ee they had given him, in a
hertiing, which he vwcall to the principles ,of
ity in the hitax of trial and ;if-ration. He cone, luded
cleelarinr,', that, Alp to that &till hour _he had

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been ii r d tt, eensider himseiC thfrftieed of C.
nghara ,
Meists. TopPmd anti M.ve:ereefollowed on the-
f4lrri6 side ; tin former pre.esed the consideration of
the children of the I)efeadaties, upon whom the pu-
tiMunent would fall ;heavilq. . . • •
The Soretcyrott-drentetre on the part Of the
Prosecution, expressed the distress which he felt
`when it urgc(l that the purtisintent their Lord-
ships must neees:iatily inflict upon those Defendants
'would fall heavy upon innocent peteions, 'rite time
for them to have considered this was before they
conwittea the offence. ..Vrora the charaeter with
which his two Learaed Friends had adorned eolond
Passingham, much alight be said; but they had not
conceived that at the Very4inie he-bore this charae-
ter he was acting as appeared. With respect to Mr.
Edwards, his was a specks of straight forward
wickedness: imniediately, after his bankruptcy he
joinedt.",oloriel. PasSingham in this conspiracy , and,
as was state 4 truly, became 'zealous in the cause of
his. friend : he was. also said to be of a hasty temper,
but' he never lost sight of his,resentment to Mr.
;Forrester: It was further saitl, that this was all error
of the head and not-of the heart. But could it be
supposed he thought this an innocent transaction ?
No, -for his own declaration proved the contrary.
As to Col. PaSsingham, he considered his defence
an aggravation of 'his crhn' he had displayed in
every instance heat of blood, lust, and ayariett, oome
bitied. Was it nothi ig that the • endeavoured to
compel Mr. Forrester to make a larger settlement
on his wife, in orderjhat they might setiand.'i- it
together in adultery.? Fie had charged Mr. Fel.-
rester with these crimes thrOugh mere motives of
malice, and his objed in the present instance was
not caring how heinjured. himself, so thet he might
disseminate these charges against' that. Gentleman.
The Learned Counsel then adverted to the evidence,
from which it ,appeared that .he had corrupted and
seduced the wife of Iris Friend, th,it he had violated,
-a sacred trust, and had the boldness to say he Car-
ried on this criminal intercourse with the tacit con-
sent of the husband under his own roof; and becauSe
indeed the husband became troublesome, he entered
into this abominable conspiracy against him. With
resped to that part Of the Affidavit relating to his
pecuniary circumstances, he stated that Mrs. Fortes-
. ter had only 491., annually, and he , himself red aced
to 4001. while, instead of looking after the legitimate
objects of his affeCtion, he is occupied in vicious pur•
suits, in debauching the wife of his friend; these are

the natural consequences.
Mr. GAIllikOW followed on the same side in a most
able. address, in the course of which he.4dverted at
4r ;It length to the testimony of most of the witnesses;'
from which it was to be inferred, that rttempts had
bc.en made to ,suppress some, and suborn otliers.
Lord ELLENrouot.oft—:" The Court 41.11 A take
some time to, consider what will be an adequate
punkhment for soatrocious and detestible an offence.
The antecedent good chara6ter of the party may fre-
quently impose updn the generosity and kindness
which are natural for Couniel to urge in their behalf,
to induce the Court to form a private opinion upon
the subje&—it is a bad example, and should be
avoided as much as possible. As to Col. Passing-
ham, his crime is of a most enormous. nature; but
that of the other (Edwards) is unparalleled. Let
them stand committed, and be brought up again on
Tuesday next."