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London, England, 1802-06-22 00:00:00

The Dgendant having ended,
Mr. Justice GRoSE spoke nearly as 'follows
It is never too late for a Criminal, standing be-
fore a Court, to offer objections in arrest of Judg_
ment, and we are always ready to hear any thing .
which can have a tendency to shv.v.that he is inno-
cent, or to hear any thing that tends to shew,
whether he 7 be guilty or . not, that judgment
cannot be pronounced upon, him, according to the
rules of law. We have attended to •the'objations .
which the. Defendant has. urged before us to-day,
but all of them have occurred to me before, and if
any of them had any weight, I should have been
ready to support them. at the trial between the De-
fendant and the Crown.. The objeCtion now .made
by the Defendant to these prosecutions, is radical,
namely, that neither of the Informations, upon
which he stands conviaed, contains a crime ; and if
that oblation be well founded, judgment must be
arrested, for no charge of this sort can be good un-
less a crime be stated upon the Record. Then let
us consider what it is which the first information
charges—lt charges that a great charafterj—a Peer,
Privy CouncillOr, and Chancellor of. Ireland, be-
came the objea of the. Defendant's calumny.—
That is, that the Defendant, for the purpose of tra-
ducing and vilifying, his charaaer, and to excite
the people of Ireland to murder him, or to do him
some bodily harm ; that in order to cause this mis-
chief the Defendant published this libel. Now if
there could for a moment exist a doubt that such
a publication as this is criminal, I think there
would be, at once, an end'of all civil society, for
recolleEting the intention imputed to him at the
trial as it now standp- upon the record, and re-
collecting that the Jury were the Judges of that in-
tention, and recolleaing that after a full hearing
of all- the .circuMstances of the, case, that they
.found the Defendant guilty, and upon the whole
of the record ; why .to be sure it would-be putting .
an end to all civil society, as it has hitherto been
carried on and kept together in this Country, if
it were to be now held by this Court that what is
here stated upon the record, of the whole of which
the Defendant is found guilty, is not a crime. It
therefore does appear to me, most manifest, that
the Information against the Defendant for a libel
against the Earl of Clare,- does state a crime, and
that therefore judgment ought not to be arrested
upon a verdift on that Information.
cc With regard to the other Information, which
ehafges a libel on the Legislature, and which was
published for the purpose of exciting the People of
Ireland to oppose the Law, and to resist the Go-
vernment of the Country, can it be doubted that'
a libel published with such an intent, and for such
purpose, is a crime, or that it must necessarily be
a crime, in every well constituted society ? It is
absolutely impossible to doubt it.. With respett to
the intention with which the Defendant published
this libel, thejttry have found the intention to be
that of exciting the
.people of Ireland to oppose the
Law of the Land, and to resist the Government of
the Country a&ing under the Law of the Land.
But it is said that tr.is is no crime, because
• • there is in it no mind turpitude. 'ln my
• opinion quite the reverse of that proposition is
the truth.—l am sure that no good can coine.of any
measure that has such- a tendency, and that any
publication that tends to dissolve the bands- of
• society, must have about it great moral turpitude ;
..--that such a .publication, therefore, must be a
i
crime, in every society that s to be kept together by
Law ;—and therefore, I am of opinion, that upon
neither of the grounds , offered. by the Defendant,

BRISTOL,' JUNE r 7.—Tuesday morning the
MAY OE of this City, the Rev. Sir A. ELTON, Bart.
T. TYNDALL, Esq. _Major HArNEs, and SAMUEL
LLOYD- HARsoRD, •Esq, being a Committee ap-
pointed by several respectable Inhabitants of Bristol
and: its neighbourhood,
,waited on General ROOKE,
late Commander of this Garrison and the Severn
'Distrio, with a present of Plate, which in the
names of the Subscriber's they presento to the 'Ge-
neral, •as a testimony of their high esteem, and as
well as of their grateful -acknowledgement, for his
unrcmitted attention to the duties of his station,
during the long and critical period of his Command.
On which occasion the General made the following
reply :
" Gentlemen,
!‘ The distinguished mark of your esteem conferred upon
me this day, by so magnificent a, present of Plate, deniands
my most grateful acknowledgements. .13tit the pleasure

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