The Sun.
London, England, 1805-05-27 00:00:00

LAW REPORT.,

COUIIV OF KING's BENCH, MAY -24.
George 'Bailey, Esq.. exhibiied arti..it:s of the
. .
peace against .Lord'Re.ty ;'froth which it appeared,'
dim the latter was a near relative of the.C.onplain.
ant, a respeaable Merchant in ,the City. Lord
Reay had frequently .deelared that he would beat,
asoult, .and otherwiie abuse the Compl'iriani•; and
'one day, as he was Walking down! B
Lordship canto sip to him, and shook hi, cane over
this head, threatening, at the same time, to beat
him ; at another' time, he met him at the "Opera
,House,
~when' he repeated the like- threiiiii;'.ind,,
soma thott time ,after, when he was in. company
With a large party of Nobility. and Gentry,
Dupre's, in Devonshire-street, lianover-,quare,,
while he was playing cards, Lard Reay came in,
and looked at him with a very menacing aspen ; and,
when cards were over, !he folkwed him . from room
to room, and, in the srquei, violently assatt'“ed
hint by'a blow in the nose; which to much exa4pe.-
rated the. otnplaityant,' tleat he. struckl4ord Reay
with his stick, and he advanced
,to return the hlt,w,
when 'they were '
prevented by the, company pee.
sent. He was therefOre, afraid, the said Lord
Rut. I" intended him iothe grievnus b dily harm.

He then swore, in theuival firm, that it was not
through any malicious view that h`e had exhibjted
those articles, but to prevent 'Lotd Re,,y from in.
inriog his person.

'MAY 25.
PERJURY.-MIDDLESEX ELECTION.

Thotnas Price, otherwise John Wright,' Matthew
Creesc, uthcrWise George jarnes, Jenkins,
'otherwise Wllliarn Prince, convicted of having taken
the Fteeholdt-rs'Otth, and polling at the lasi Elec-
tion, fur Sir F.'Eurtlett, (Ley being no If*rcehOhler3,
v:'hereby t.hey were guilty of and corrupt
perjuty, rectti,, ed the juOgrnent of 'the Court, after
an appropriate athlress Iritt) Mr. Josticc GROSE,
who baid (iit iiEelavation of the offeOce Was great.

Ir W;l9,' that they
,cnnunitted ir, in eombinatiery
Wit,h others, for bribes,- whieli, Wad the bcen en.
titled to vote, would haVe been illegal and corrupt'.
By wholii this system of .bribery.-was pLituiLl, and
bribes advanc.ed, di'd neat appertr ; but the names of
,some were mentioned-..vho'sceined'td li'ave•taletrii an.
a(live pert in earryitig it into Z)teculion. ' It was
planned in frand.Opon the rights of Eltelioo, •in
contempt of th 4 3.r-;(1 in violation of the Cori.

otittition, whkiiirt'qiiireii that every person voting
should he ofpfe age of twenty one yems, acid in
posses4ion'oCifteekobi tor Wehre, C4lCild.it months,'
and who shall not have been carruptezl by a bribe ;

every one of which provisions had been defeated in
this cue, by which had been curarnitted a cotitpli-
eatibn of et-irks from which the Mind started back"
with kniror'; for by Snclt a, system nien's property,
'and even lives, and what wasin'society dearer per-
haps than either, their reputation, -Might be de_
,strayed. If was therefore the duty ,of the. Court to
go to the full extent of vunishrrient which the
lature had prescribed far such offenders---and there-
fore the Court did order anti adjudge, that for this
_their offence, the Defendants, Od each of them, he.
imprisoned in Ms Majesty's Gaul of Newgate for
one calendar rtionth, and that at the expir,vion of
that term, they, and each of them, be trall:itorteti
to such place Pr places beyond the Seas as His" Mci-
jety, by adVice of His Privy Conricil, should he
pleased to declare and appointdor the term of seven
years. -