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London, England, 1803-02-22 00:00:00

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of them exclaimed, " Lord Jesus receive our soulsP.'
The litit and' most dreadful. pail of.the eereiniOy
was new to be perfoimed. 'The-ittost aswful silence,
prevailed, and the thohsiii&•piesent all With one
aceord stood uncovered: . • :
seven minutes-before nine o'clock. the signal
was' given, the platform dropped; and they were all
launched into eternity! ! • '
Col. Despard had not one strtiggle twice he
opened and clenched his hands together convulsive.o
ly he stirred no
Macnarnara, Graham, Wood, and Wratten-i were
motionlesi after a•few struggles.
Broughton and Francis struggled violently for
some moments after all the rest were without motion:
The Executioner pulled their legs to put an end to
their pain. more speedily; ,
After hanging about half an hotir till they were
quite dead,-they were cut down. Col. Despard was
first cur down, his body 'placed upon saw .dust, And
his head on a block. After his coat had been taken
off, his head •-•was severed from his body by persons
engaged on purpose oo perform that eeremooy..
Executioner then took the head by the hair, and car..
tying it to the edge of the .parapet on the right hand,
• held it up to the view of the populace, and exclaiMed,
This is the head of a Traitor—Ewd. 'Marcus Des_
Patch' The same ceremony was performed at the pa-
. rapt Ofi the left hand. The Colonel's body was now
Put itlto the shell that had been prepared for
The other Prisoners were then cut down, their
heads Wete severed from their bodies,, and exhibited
• 'TO' the' pOpulate with the same exclamation of—
this is the head of another traitor,' &c.
The bodies were then put into their difTerent
shells, to be delivered to their friends for interment.
The' exettition was,over by ten o'clock, and the
• i)opulace soon after dispetSed•quietly. Thei-e was
not the least tehdency to riot 'or disturbance. ,
Macnatnara was so yeari of age, about s.feet 6
inches high, bo'rn in Ireland; by trade a carpenter.
Wood, 26 years of• age, about 5 feet 7 inches
high, born in Derbyshire, a soldier.
Frarcis, /3 years of age, abOut-.5. feet to inches
high, born in Shropshire;. a soldier and shoemaker.
Broughton, 26 years of age, about 5 feet -61
inches high, born in London; a carpenter. •
Graham, 53 years of age, about 5 feet to inches
high, born in London, a slater.
Wratten,- 35 years of age, 5 feet 0 inches high,
place of birth•not known; a shoemaker.
They were all strong, well.proportioned men, and
• 311 married:. •
rts. Ardme,
THomPsor, for. Chatham ; Noofibis, Dov te, for
Sulalerland ; and Brno, Wit-04;45, for Carmar-
then.
DEAL, Vrti, yestefday afternoon for
Portsmouth, I•1is Majesty's Gan-brig Lei use ; and
to.day the Ships Osfeida; Chi?, and famf., for .Nt
York. •
. Arrived the Gun-brig, . trona airellding on
the wreck of the 11.4(d:stair, and she remains with '
• liis Majesty's ShiPs Ambuteade and Lorw;vg,
;Bloodhound Grln.brig; tfiallolc, and Ephiffstene,
last Indiamen.
Sailed the Ilatnbutgh ship Peur ao l Catherine
'to the Northward.
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T. 3 historiCal Opera of The'
"Oro.of the North drew a namerous audience lait
Slight to.Drury-Lanc Theatre. The piece is, short_
entdy but tr Still admits of considerable curtail-
Met% There is too much sentiment a ncl,
,deClatua-
tion where there ought robe iocident, bustle and
altion.- • The Proprietors have rendered ample jus-
tice to • this piece,. by variety and splendor of
eenerYt and the Perfoitnera..also contribute their
exertions 'very ably in giving support to the cha,
tatters, and interest .to the, fable. The
,piece
upon the whole went off .tolerably well.
CovetsT-GiskDttt.--- Captain CAtmitr4tt.
Prated again last night at this Theatrc.- in the part
• of Hamlet. We have no inclination to retract our
favourable report of his merits. The general effect
of hit tiding, however, would certainly lie much
improved.if he were not to pitch his voice so midi
in alti-as•the elevation of his tones gives an .air of
theatrical.pomp to what should be recommended by
truth and simplicity. The lower circle was graced
by an elegant and, numerous auditory.
The nnforttinate /1/iNerrimea who yesterday for-
feited his life fot his treasons, waa u'veteran in the
trade of Jacobinism. He some few years since:kept
an obscure public-house in Strand-street, :Dublin,
Where, some time during those machinations:WWll
:Sterwirdberst one into open rebellion, a Committee
at assassination held their sittings, and : Where,
among other hopeful projeEks; the assassination of
Lord Cita.o.A.myrati was finally. projected. Mac-
camara, and many others of the sanguinary conspi.
,trators,,were tried for tlw .fatt, on .the' evidence of
an approver, now in London. Three of them were
,convifted and hanged, but Maenamara escaped for
that time. - • • • -
On Tuesday laSt, John Todd, of Middleton in
Teasdale was discharged from-the gaol at Durbain,
in which place he had been confined for one month,
having been convicted before James O'Calbkhan and
11411111,Siv.kpr3sqrs. two of His Majesty's' Deputy
Lieutenants for the said County, and committed liy
'them, for being guilty of frara, 14);?ful
and gross neshei in his duty, in making it false re-
tUrn of men liable to serve in the Militia for the
—Township of .Middleton, in.Thasdale, Of which he
"as Constable.

On Thursiay se'nnighr, a servant of Mr. Henry
Murton, ,butcher, in Newcastle, was preparing to
kill an Ewe, when his master, perceiving she was
ulth young, ordered him to delist, •and• have her,
properly tsken care of.--Next morning he was
agreeably surprised, on finding his attention had
been rewarded with two fine Lambs, which are now
in a very thriving state.
On Thursday week, an experiment of ingenious
inany was tried at the Post-Office, in Sheffield.
of wood ,fa,ht,wed so nicely as to fit the
OLe in the window, interrupt the letters, was'
ietted therein, and -,tspettilied to Ole outside of
''he'ettotter with a wire at cach end, so that it could
hc let down and drawn up at pleasure. The villsin
't !In attempted thislobbery has riot been deleted.

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CURT 0111;KING's' BENCH, l‘feiNeA,
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THE tctNo..v..Jf.AN,PELTLe.it.
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-A-1- nine o': lock the •Co• tirtivas.thionged as' Well
as the avenues to it; 'excited by an eager curiosity
to hear this trial.i the names Of the Special Jui,ors,
upOn the tea:tined list being called, eight of them
aNeated out of,the • , : .
Thomas Bainbridge, • ohn Percrsi • •
Mark Sprott; . oseph •arihgton,
john Brooks, • etcr Dawson, .
• holm Newton, '. 'limin Geog, Esquires:
__Upon which Mr..ArrortNEi' GENERA t. prayed
a talesovhenthefollowing names 1;:.-ere called over
out of the Cimino ,Jory, John' kandus, William
Drew, Thomas Marro!, and Richard.litiglies.
Mr. Aerial' then opened the pleadings; by which
it appeared that was an information filed by
His Majesty's' Attorney '4 Oeneral. against James
Peltier ; and the information stated that, before,
' aosl..at the time of pUblishing the• Libel therein
stated; there subsisted 'a friendship and peace be:.
'psfeenour sovereign Lord the King' and 'the French
Republic, and that Citizen Nap. Bonaparte was
' Citizen First Consul, and as such, Chief Magistrate
of the French Reptiblic. That the Defendant well-
knowing:this, but in order to' traduce and vilify
the said. Chief Magistrate of the French Republic,
and to depr,ive.hitii of the state and dignity of the
'Consular (Alice, and to stir up the subjects of the said
Republic to kill destroy hiM,,and with' intent
tion, as much as,it the Deft. dint lay, to interrupt
and destroy”, the ,peace subsisting berweenour said
Lord the..Kingaild the said Consul, and the Subjeels
of the .said Republic, and to exdte animosities,
jealousies and haired against. our said Lord the
King, by. the said, Chief Consul, &c. printed and
pulAished in the Ft%tneh-language a Libel, of which
there was a. translation, which the Learned Gentle-
man said he ,would read to the Jury. Here he read
the whole of the Libel as set forth upon the record
in English, it being set 'forth lioth in. English and
French, the tendency of which was under three
heads—to traduce the Chief Consul as Chief Magi.
strafe ; to excite the French people. to revolt against
,Government ; and :finally .to assassinate hitn.--ro
Which the .Defendant had pleaded riot guilty,
upon issue was joined.
The ATToRNEY GENERAL then proceeded. td
open the case ,to the Jury nearly as follows.
" You are now, Gentlemen, by the very distino
opening of my learned friend, fully .in possession
of the Libel which this information charges against
the Defendant, and upon which the simple, and, as
it seems to me, no very difficult question Which you
have to try will be, whether or not the person
charged as being the Author of this,publication, is
rightly brought.before a July, by a prosecution that
charges such, publication with being a Libel ?
" It is impossible not to know there is a great
deal Of curiosity and interest already attached to
this trial-, and indeed one can scarcely cast one's eye
around.. the Court without perceiving there is
assembled an audience and appearance different from
that which ordinarily graces Courts of Justice: I
should be extremely sorry .if I thought, which I
seriously do not; that such a curiosity Was excit.
sedwith a view', to, hear any thing which.may fall
. froth Mei-because disappointment is, on all occasions,
an unpleasant sensation, and I should feel the more
to, be .the occasion of it to such an assembly as the'
preSent..That such, however, would•be the circa
of this day's proceeding; if, any such expeelation
existed with respek to what was , to, fall from me,
would be unquestionable. If any person was
weak .a 3 to suppose that any thing .which.may be
heard from' me will reward him,for, uncommon at-
tetition; ire will he much mistaken.; for on this:oc_
casion my duty, as ,well as my inclination, not only
leading but confuting. me, to what I shall adhere:
Unless c;tivettteiuFtantiy offmy guard by my
LearncdFriend.who,is of C,ounscl for the Defendant,
namely; tti the dry-and plain meaning and tendency of
'the libel now under prosecution, and the ouestion of
Law which is • connected with! that prosectitiOn,
namely, Whether.the Law of this
,Country,,aceord-
ing•to what we must. be all supposed to know of it,
from .the proceedings
.which, have taketi place upon
. subjeets analogous to this, can allow this pnblica_
tion to pass without deeming it a Libel ? The pin-
ciple to which I ,have to refer, is so plain and ob.
vions, and the application of it so recent, that in.
decd,, neither instruaion nor amusement can possi-
bly attend' any part of this proceeding :''and altbo'
there is no twin living Who.more strongly 'feels,' or
who is • more ready to acknowledge than I am, the
very distinguiShed talents of my Learned Friend
‘vho conduds
,this case for the Defendant, tholigh
no man is more aliondahtly satisfied of his most ex.
tensive knowledge, brilliant imagination, acute
understanding, stud judicious taste, thin myself; than
no one can avairhimsellnidiceftedually of all' the to.
pies Which eloquence can furnish, yet, even he will
not be able to do much to gratify curiosity upon this
occasion, provided he contioes himself to that which,
is the matter forour investigation to-day. I'Say ale;
points for .us to consider ,are, Whether the Defen.
dant is "the author of the' publication? If he be so,
then, What the tendency •is of that publitition ?,
Then, What is the charader of ft, according tn the
rules of the Law of England ? These are thCques_
lions, and the, only questions towards' which this
prosecutiOn fairly points.
.If, iodeed, I could'sUp.
pose that my Learned Friend could lend'' his great
abilities hi any degree to •the spirit with which
his client seems' to, have :”;composed the publication
which is now before us, and made the subjeo of
this prosecution; if I could, suppose that he 'should
think it Conducive to the interest of his glient, to
att6not his defence by a repetition:of the libellous
Matter here charged against him ; if I thought he.
were institided to come into COurt for such a pun.
pose, and in obedienee to sUch instrudion he,were
to go over the topics of declamation here treated
or,. there would,then be an extensive and abundant
field for his' splendid talents, because it would
embrace, one of the most ektraordinaiy and evnifill
circumstances in the Most extraordinary and event.
ful.evolution that ever the History, of Mankind
has hitherto recorded , but I cannot help thinking
, that to a discretion lunch inferior. to- that-of -my.
Learned Friend, this would appear an' ineligible

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i.o.urse; say Diseretidti tlotsti. *quid be 144ent
totieide aibotfisin gliWtst, isoqt
Witat:lnittgs me.here, ,aoksvll4„ 14,..1p9wc%oisife,,
briziethe',Defendant here, ii ,this
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PclilitSatinti as a Libels-because I
- sayichq
cy titi.endanger-to
,and .Peae...cpf tilts
That .is thecetsos w hich bringi;sus both. be:rei.
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If I .im right)! that tharge will be sypported by, this
iinformation; and you go, ilopg„ssviitkuie in
!thinking-that the.Defeoclant,. who is the:lCuthor.Of
it, ought:to be prooounced- guilty ;, ;hit when the
:Court Shall, be called upon to litonouneri,. %,yhat
onishment shall be iuflitted if the spirit
of this Libel shall- he 'repeated the
..defence,
I shall think it my duty to remind the. C)ott
of the course of the Defence., in order ; the
trial of an offence against the law,. ib,ap.Engliih
Court of justice, should not be made the vehicle by,
which the mischief is increased whiph its proceed.,
ing.wat instituted to prevent; for it is.fit,t should
be known, not only in France,-or over ..Europe,,,
but throughout 'the whole world, that a, British
Court of Justice .w ill not endure its own proceeding
to bet.otn'e the Means -oflpreading Defamation with
impunity' to-thele who 'seek ,that unworthy purposed
I ,a-ay, • this consideration operating Upon the discre.
tion of. my Learned Friend, as I have no doubt it
does, leads me to suppose that the curiosity which
this cause has excited; will be disappointed: but
neither, the gratification nor the disappointinent,of
curiosity is our business ; we are to satisfy the de-
mands of Justice, by administering the Law ; that
is our business. We arc not to be concerned
for any:. disappointments, except the disppoint.
ments of the Law—=we are to take care that
the Law shall not be disappointed, and with
that
.view, I. am: desirous of stating to you not
only what this Prosecution is, but• what ;this
Prosecution is not. This is not a Prosecution for
a publication which may be said to be an effort to
give to the world an Historical•Narrativ.e of Events
which might have taken place in • a.•neighbouring
country, and which might, or • might • not,: as, 4n
historical narration, contain
.philosophical.refleaions
on the conduit:or charaaer,of the fettsons, who may
have been the .aaots in the..sCenes.:- this is not a
narration of historical truth, whit:ll.o°ocl not be
complained of when written inr;the spirit of an His-
toriani although with a boldness and a freedom that
may give pain. to others t nor is it that narration
which, being'written with honest zeal, though' with
a-freedom. bordering tins licentiousness, , which may
becxensablt4' neither is it that piece of flippancy or.
impudence, or insolence towards the persons who are
theobjeds of it, atition Which account it might be
treated with contempt ; but this is the case of &pub-
lication which, as it seems to me, is originally a
Libel and Defamation; that has Defamation. for its
object, for its entire, or at least, for its bestobjed
arid. its general obje4t.--Its further objeo, is, to
diteet that Defamation against the First Contul;apd
Chief Magistrate. of ;France, whom our own. Coon,
try. recognizes as such, and is at 'peace -with ;, that
• the objeet of this Publication; further is to excite the
subjects of the French Republic to rebellion against
her Chief Magistrate; her Chief Magistrate - de
facto, and to excite such subjCets. 'to accomplish his "
assassination and his murder. That being the ge-
neral object and.charafter of the publieation which
it'now before you, I lave 'to' state to you more par-
ticularly the nature of. the charge contained in this
Prosecution. The Inforrnation.eharges, that these
publications (for 'there are:. three ,of -them) were
with intention to tradude..inikKatne Nap. Ilons.;
as beis known to b.c) First
ICP:oerpnteusublfl,:lcah,no,tbl
eiasts:',seuteeatiltie,;i3v6hlefom,llitidatgi4itt-ios tec oofunthtreylt:rtehneerlei
exists peace andatnity, and to briog;bim inlp hat re'd
and
with, ;the subieds that ..Republic.
alttfuCtotldieernt starer, that .thei,Libel was.published with
intention-to excite At people cat France to-assassi-
nate him. It states also, that7the.Lihel was poblished
with intention tainterrupt Altar peace which stibsist,

between that Country and.this—: With these inter,:
tentions it is charged to have been i3nblishe:l, and
'such is chars-ed. to be the tendency, of this public

Gentlemen, having stated to. you the 'outlines
and natured this PrOsecution, 1 do nOt.lcel that I
am called upon to lay down any general-principle .of
law law as 'to what extent the Government
ceof r anothe
Country with whom we are at pea, may or may
not be the subjeti of discussion ; because that, .as
I consider'it, is not necessary in the present Case ;
but there are some points which I consider as being
Clearly laid down ; no' man would .suppose. that! I
mean to contend, that • any pubileation which pro,
fessei to consider the state of another Country at.

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peace with os, and to reason cin it, or to give an
historical account of it, and which may contain the
refle&ions of the Politicians or' Philosophers on the
events historically detailed. If
,this ,be pubAshet.l
fairly and boruzAil, and not atldtr evert for sign.
'der and aefamation, such a publicatiOn I shalt never
deem ihi'subjeß of prosecution in a Court of Jul_
rice. But if the case be this---that defamation be the

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total objectof the publication, although it may
profess to he written in the spirit,: of an History,
with' political remarks and philosophical rifiedians,
and that the tendency 'of it be to excite the jeahlug,
and hatred of that Country to which the publlca.
et ' tion is direeled, against that Countri from w lich
the public;,tion issues, I think it is not lik
,y I
shall hear it said in an English Court of Justice,
'that such'a publication is not a Libel, or ,that the
Authot of it ought not to be punished for.. !Ala a
publication. The offence here charged to have been
committed by the Defendant' is, that this his publi.,
'cation; is a (Brea excitement and exhortation for the
whole people' of that Republic to lisp up in arms,
to resist the power by which they are at present
governed ; •power in the hands in which de filia it
iJ. placed; and take away the Iffe of the Chiet :vl,_
gistrate ; I Say that such a publication is an offence
against the law of this Country in which we live.
It is not merely on principle that I contend this ;
hut I submit- to you that I have cases decided and
adjudged, holding precisely the same doetrine. •The
first is, the case- of Lord Gorge Gordon, f .r a
libel against the Queen ,of France ; the atlit-r i,
the case of John 'Wilt, conVitted of a Libel tin the
Emperor at Russia. The charge for the la‘st Übe,
I will read to you, and then I shall beg of you to
compare that with the language of the,ptesent in.
formation : That informatiop stated, that the Libel

obooxipus, to all• his'su*tis ztt3
of tyrany-,, Juctiitfit.flotis h;, lie htult,.i':
i r,rolt( prObilti ti Attf€l.4otemlort of''
cal ftli:n ii,s alii(tilons, a::(1 diat
putt that f6O were likely to "sairWitiv.''
hit Irci;:st .1 Ibis Was tfi livlioicc of the anti:
et, it tv tvi!!'
illtentioli of Era over-jai and of
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in(erkipti:ig and destruyin-thefikols•hip*liieh
between, that Country ant! this, -a'n,f.iioifh-grear
Llit;lger of interrnoting.the Cranq qie uilli!ytW..-en
:So- =reign I;,ord 'the lung',,and !lig Majes,
%iNis the offince of which that Defendant
was ; he had the advantage of being de.,
fended by Mr, Eiskiri; but he was convietett:
However, , if you do not think that this was publish-,
ed with any such intention ais that was, if 'you
shotilj. not think it .has'a'ny tendency'li!:e that, if
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you think it has my tendency towards disturbing
the peace which subsists between the tWo Countries
then the Defendant will be, to his acquittal.
Butrif you, think that it 11735. written with the inten,
don; and it has the2tendi'nty he':e stated; which is,
the same as. the intention and tendeney-stated in the
case of.the Libel ,against the EtrinerOr of 'Russia,
then, upon the authority of` atn adjudgc.d case, as
well as upon the general jitinCip/ei I am justified
in saying, there is no question that this is an offence
punishablerby the Law of thin. COuntry.
dentlemen,' I hve now to 011 your attention
more particutarly. to the Libel' itself which is the
subjeAror this Prost:646p, and I do' not: think ic ,
necessity to oveiihe -whale of the circumstances
stated in the Libel, my Learned Friend who opened
the Pleadings to you, by his dis'tinttness in readink
the Libel, having tendered that unnecessary..;
objeas and general tendenCy of it are two, I
charged by this information.: First, ve charge th.it.
itcontaina a ditettexhmation to the Stlli:7Ci3
the FrenCh Republic to assaisinate the ,first Co.
sul, Nap. fionaparte; hithself. This kto 1,.
found ill` the Very first' Nitmber of the Pul)lic,itiol
called L' 4rnbigu, published, by the Defehdant. Th.;
frontispiete. 'hai the figure of a Sphirni :With rt
varier!" of Egkpfian emblernatical figurei. not ve&
' material, perhaps; for us to inquire after, bin the
Head of the Sphinx, has a resemhlancc that is
terial for us to consider. I cannot pretend to say,
whether it is a likeness .or not,: never having-Seeil
the Chief COnSul; Ifonaparte, rtiyiell; hut &dui the
pilurea we have all seen, it cannot be doubted that
this Sphinx Was intended as a representation of tilt,.
Chief Consul whether like him or not, .is• not ma..
'tetial; it is sufficient that it was intended, to he, so ;
and this we may diScover by observing, that it ,is
like the representations which are niade of him; anti
by this,- I say; you may find in. the Frontispiece it.s.
self, Ate objet of 'the publication ; but if that were
doubtful, you will be:abundantly satisfied ,by. look-
ing at the publication itself, and comparing itsvith
the frontispiece, that -the whole objet :and ten-
(linty of. this publication is .to.. vilify:the Chief
Constil' of 'France to •the` world. There are two
of the numbers of theLtdimbigurnade Subjeds,isof
this prosecution, the first and thethird,l..4,ll
read parts old them, and first cell your :atten.
Lion to- that"which stands „last in theinformation;
it contains a supposed harangue of Lepidusag' aitist
'Syllo,'; by. way of Address to'. the People of France*
w hich 'he t reattrale ChiefConiul ata,Tyrant3.
floi.e. the ATTOR NV r GEN R AL-repd over nye_
rat parts of the Libel, and made observations oa
their tendency as ht ..proceeded, and -maintainett it
maniin'ed the tendency, and was written, with the
intention he .hattalready stated," •aceusing,the First
C.:011:,u1 with having, obtained: his power by force. anti
by crimes, Sec.]

" Vbc- -ro nor to consider whether his-power vas
obt. to 1 I.tcc nr by crime, or by what means
it sv.c. ; nor aie'si:e to ei.msider what he is;
he is cli.,,thief Consul of Frani.e, and he is,
ackclowl&',ll.l 'by' this country, -and. we have made
peace with hint aS.such; at the rnornelit ct tt:e pub-
Fc,tion-6( this Libel were at pepr:e with ifirn,
and thus i 4 he'rreau4 in„this publication; ....fiaton;d,
theri a k
,you, cientlemen, whether yczirf.. think it
possible for s'tleh t pulotkation innocent i"'-^
Ife, then proceeded tei the Second head of charge
agaitisr the bJendant; which was th 6
cation. This, he said, conveyod a dicta 'exhorta-
tion 'to thd Subjeetss of the French Republic,' to as-,
sassina to' the Chief Consul, .Bonaparre lifiWelf:*. It
began, he'said; with an Ode, rand 'proceeded to in-
v,,14...e Heaven to avenge the'wrongs of the French
People----then proceeded tcs compare.. the silitation of
the French at present:to the Romans,. after C:csar
past the Rubicon, and then after the Bite of the bat-
Pharsalia, aad c,lneluded with observitnt, .that
though 'Bonaparte had neither a Pompey,' nor a Cato ,
. to oppose hint in the S:naate, yet they had the means
1::ft I,it putting. an ens{ to his existence,. as :in
end' was put to .C:esar's,; direetly reconamending
to' the French People' as,,lssinate•Ralittparte', as
the Roman: Senatot's Caar, and concluding- with
the emphatic:al word, Arnett. This was extritfleti
from of the r.i.th of July t z. Upon
thefie Papers of which we have thus -given the out-
line,.
,tlie ATTOtt‘N,Ey''Getkalt.,,l. m mdc 'many very
;thlii,iitnlnent3, and' ihen proceeded thus
Upon dick' two Papers, when you Shall' have.
heard th-m read, I think you will agree with mt.
in this; :;tit;, and I believe mankind it larre will
riliok that theie Papers are gross and scandalous
Libels., and that it is contraiy to the Law of this
Lana to 'hold 'out 'any exhortation to any body of
men to assassinate any one,. or to-eXeite Oehellion
any Country with' which England- is' af,' peace,—
Gentlemen, if toy Learned -Friend meets "me -on
these F..ints, and lie endeavours to 'induce you
1,) bi;r:.!ee that all this is 'ltir narration, Written.
with I.,;;.zse views ard intentions, we -shall.meet,
Cut'.; 1.1; m a plain which you shall decide
bet•A .us,, 'and I ;ball l colitented to leave
it ; lint iet the be told, that we are une,
(pal to the rak'of determining on 11: intr.ution in
4w:it a C:1;,..! as this; when we v:e ritat rt7.:Fl
gated to assassitiation. I will not trouble 3on touch
turt!-,,t on that sabie,4l-1 I%r'e, stated to you what
31 ,;,vinced rs) ')e rice objnq, of this pu'olication,
whether you do nnt think
• wit!' cri', Ott ,dt ;in .N.:ttortation to the peopit, of .a
, Count:l 'O4l. q411:41411 WC' C t ;lee ;05i•i..,-,il.,„te
their Chief 'lvlag,istrate, or any body, is a great
? will go further, and that not only i 9 it