The Sun.
London, England, 1802-03-20 00:00:00

' friv. Lee, the banker, states, that the labels had
not the least reseinblance to the Defendant's hard-
teriting. On his .crosg.examination he said, the
Witness, Mr. Greenwood, had been his Paying
Clerk,2 5 years.
Mr. ilobart, stated, that the Defendant'was in.
capable of writing letters of so libellous a tendency.
The Counsel for the Prosecution entered upon his
reply. He maintained that the evidence for the De-
fendant, so far from controverting the fart of his
guilt, establiethed and confirmed it. He said, he
little thOught when he seleaed.his witnesses from
the tradesmen whose means of existence, in a great
measure, depended upon the Defendant and his bro-
ther, that he should haVe been able to have extrad-
ed from them evidence of so strong and unanswer-
able a nature as they had g. yen. They had, however,
afforded a proof that English tradesmen were as inde-
pendent in spirit as the higlrest Peer or Prelate in
the land. He enimad vetted upon the arguments used
by the ATTORNEY GENERAL, and observed, they
only excited his pity that so great a. man. should
have been driven, by the weakness of his case, to
the necessity of using them. He referred to the
testimony given by the different witnesses, which
he contended,. amounted ro' next to nothing, corn.
pared with the decisive evidence on the part of the
Prosecution. With regard to the argument founded
upon the improbability of a man of the Defendant's
charader• writing such libels, it was ridiculous. It
was-the constant course of persons "of education, who
condescended to the infamy of writing libels, to un-
derwrite themselves, and adopt .a
-style suited to the
meridian of Gru'l-streer. The. Learned Advocate
having commented upon the evidence on both sides,
finished his observations by expressing his firm con-
viethei that the Jury would . not .besitate in pro-
nouncing the Defendant guilty, painful as it was to
consign a man who moved in an honourable and re_
speelable sphere of life, to infamy, contempt, and
disgrace.
Sir BEAUMONT I-foil-IAM said, that after the labo.
ribus attention of the Jury
.for so many hours, he
should deem it extremely indiscreet to occupy their ,
time many minutes by_his observations. The case
was reduced to a :tingle question, namely, wheiref
the Defendant Mr. Joseph "Cator, had been guilty
or not of the scandalous aetion imputed to him
there was- no legal pOint to be considered, it was a
plain matter of fad. The Learned Judge -recapi-
tulated. the evidence, and observed upon it ;
.he
stated that those letters could not have been written
by any person w.ho was indifferent to and unac4
quainted with the politics of the Parish of Becken..
ham. If the Defendant had written them, as had
been, justly rein:irked, it certainly was a very un-
fortunate coincidenee of circumstances, that the
libels should have been written upon the_ palter
which had'been sold only% to himand the Bishop of
Rochester. The Witnesses for the Defendant had
allowed there was a strong resemblance of charaaer
between the libels and the Defendant's ordinary
tnanner.of writing, but they had at the same time
stated their conviction, that a Man of his charaaer
was inettpable of so ban. an aCtion. It was a ques-
tion which entirely belonged to the Jury. Nu-
merous and'respe&able as the Defendant's friends,
were, yet, if they were ten times more numerous
and respeftable, their evidence ought not .to weigh
a moment if- the Jury were satisfied, and felt no
difficulty in determining as 'to the fa6t of his being
the author of the letters. If they were not posi-
tive as to his guilt, then certainly it was a,case in
which they were bound to take into their serious
consideration the very high charaCter the Defendant
had received: That their verdict would be con-
formable to the justice of the case, 'and satisfa&orY
to the Public, who were materially :concerned in
the question, was what he entertained -no manner of
doubt of—they would weigh the evidence on both
sides, compare the letters, and give that opinion.
which, .as honest men, would justify them to the
world.

The Jury retired for about a quarter of an hour,
and returned a verdia, pronouncing the Defend ant
Guit,TY.

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