The Sun.
London, England, 1802-08-18 00:00:00

r,sq. who was also an n.ffing Magistrate °Hie same
distria. It charged Mr. BeaUmont;:in the most
violent and rancorous terms, with having wilfully
and deliberately given a false accountpf his, proper-
ty- before the ComMissiOners of the -Income Tax.
Among the. many defamatory expressions res?eding
Mr. B. ate the following :
" I shall now give you a short account of trie
infamous condua of your brother Justice, and of the
wilful and deliberate falsehOods he has stated before
the Commissioners. This is the Loyal Patriot, who
would do every thing to support the Govetnment
and the:Revenue, except giving a fair account or his
own Income, which is:not less than 50001. per an_
nom. When asked by the;CoMmissioners how it
happened that his Income Was .so much, less than the
preceding year, he gravely replied, that he had by
mistake charged himself too highly the year before ;
hut when sitting over a cheerful glass, he jocosely
said, " If the Commissioners knew the quantity of
timber I have sold these three last years, what would
they think of the account I gave them ?" Such con_
dual and morality might" be-expeCled in a man who,
like him, lioasts of
.seldorn going to bed sober, and
of not being in the inside of a church once in seven
year. I now ,appeal to you, whether such a man is
not a disgrace to your Bench, and whether he ought
not to be struck off the Commission, and whether I
have not discharged my duty to the public, in expos-
ing the robber of clic Revenue to public justice 1"

Theietter was proved,to be the hand-writing of
the Defendant, by Mr. Radcliffe, who received,it.
Mr. PARK, on behalf of the Defendant, asked Mr.
Radcliffe, whether he had not often said previous to
the receipt-of the letter, that the Defendant had vo..
lunteered- his- services to the Commissioners of the
Income Tax ? Mr. Radcliffe admitted thatihe had.
The objea of this question was to chew, that the
letter was written in consequence of
,those asser-
tions of Mr. Radcliffe, and in answer to them.
• The Counsel for the Plaintiff then stated, and-it
was admitted by the Counsel for the, Defendant;
that as the publication of the libel was proved, the
jurrwere bound to find the Defendant guilty; and
could not go into, the particular circumstances of this
libel, which must be disclosed at a future time to the
Court by Affidavits.
Lord ELLrNBOROUGH said, the Counsel for the
Defendant had afted rightly,in not contending that
the truth of those eXpressions (even supposing they
were frue) would be a defenee, against this prose-
cation. The peace of society is not wantonly to
be disturbed by persons, Who, from malicious Mo- .
tives, publish what may be even true, for the purpose
Q 1 injuring the.charadter, and wounding the feelings
of individualS. If those persons have committed
offences; instead of being libelled, they ought to be
brought-before the proper tribunals. In the present
case, if the Defendant's assertions had been true,
and they had been conveyed in decent language to
the. Commissioners ,of the Income Tax, the De-
fenaartt would have been clear from any criminality,
as acting from public duty; but, on the contrary,
he had sent this lettei, (the-langnage of which was
very far —fiom decent) to. a Gentleman who
had nothing to do with the colleftion of 'Mr. B.'s
Inedme Tax. If the Defendant was found guilty,
-the Court would stillconsider with attention every
circumstance that he could urge in mitigation of
punishment.--Verdia, guilty. -

•
At the above Assizes, lames Soave+. , a Journey-
man Tailor, lately employed by Mr. Bryan Wor.
maid, of Leeds, was indieted for a Conspiracy.-7-It
appeared by the evidence given, that this man and
others in the trade, left their work for an advance of
wages. 'Mr. SV.'s Foreman and two Journeymen
only, remained in his employ ; and, on the return
of the Conspirators, they degraded one of them, of
the name of John Flockton, and even refused to work
on the same board with him. Thus the poor man
was thrown out of employ, and the burthen of a large
family obliged him to apply for relief to the Com_
mince, at the Work-house, who inquiring. into the
cause of his distress, prosecuted the Offender, .
Judge.CHAN4BRE, in his Charge to. the Jury,
,
dwelt much on the danger of suffering such men as
.the Prisoner before him,. to go ulpunished. His
Lordship said, it was for every Maieto value his own
labour, but. when that man conspired with others, to
obtain a price he individually could not procure,
,he merited that punishment which a wise and said.
'tary Law inflifted.—The Jury, after a minute in.
vestigation, found the Offender Guilty, and he was
sentenced to six months imprisonment.