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IiEi'hShURCH, MAY t.

A Copy of the follov.g Rescript of His Itn-
periAl Majesty to Couni MARCoFF, Counsellor of
State, cbted Feb. Is, was read in the Directing Se.
rate by Prince PETER Wyssl LIE VUTSH LAt'UCHIN :
RESCRIPT.
"Count ARKA.Iit I v Ar.rov rsii—Sirice I recalled you
from your post at Paris, where you discharged your duty with
the greatest zeal, and to my e :tire satisfadion, it is very agree-
able to me to have found your conduA there consistent with
propriety, and tcr renew my Thanks to you for it, as well as
for the exertions you have made to promote my advantage.
Aks 1 wish to give you anew proof of my satisfaction, I have
ordered, till an opportunity occurs of rewarding you accord-
log to your merit, that you shall receive yearly froni the re-
venues of the Post-office iz,oao roubles, and that 12,000
roubles shall be paid to you from the Treasury, to indemnify
you for the expances of your return from Paris. This salary
you will receive from the day of Your arrival in Russia in the
quality of a Minister in the College of Foreign AiEtirs."

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BRICADE OF POLUNTEERS.

. _ ---............... His Royal Highness the COLINIANDER in Ca rEi
Yesterday, attenl. d by Lard HARRINGTON and
Other Military oscers, saw the following Regi-
pents as a Brigade in Hyde Park :
North Britons
Rifle Corps, with their
Lieut-Colonel Lord Rut-Y.
- - Latribeth - - -
Lieut.-Colonel E DwA a Ds.
it
ottShuetrrthe i. • . - iet:tt.-Colonet GAIT sKtid...
- . Major WELLS.
hrist-Ctitirch - - - - Major Toutmtx.
st. Saviour it - - - Major POTT.
$
I• Sohn ''' • • • Major Kr 1,46
mt: 9.tavt'S - = = - - - Captain SHAW.
Suirty Rifle Corntiav - . Captain Du II as.
The LOyal Company
- - Lteut.-Col. ALCOCK.
The extreme wetness of the day prevented their
praftising any stianceures of they proc Consequence, nor did.
Parry left the Park b ced td Buekden Hill. The DUKE and
y ohe o'clock.

Tie Emp ,R OR of Rtr ,si‘i, has shetvn a proper re.
hard to . the rights' of Independ:,nt Powers, in re-
monstr.ating against the atrocioUs Violence offtred.by
the French to the ELECTOR Of BADEN. What then
must be thought of the relative Continental States
which suffered this violation of justice and humanity
to pass over in silence ? But after quietly' permitting
the French to possess themselves of Hanover; one
cif the mtegral parts of the Germanic Empire, and
to CM-mit every
in that unfo of wickedness and horror
wonder rtunate Elefiorate,
species
the world cannot
at the tame and ignominious submission of
all the rest of the Germanic Stifles, in the forcible
tteizure and consequent murder of an helpless inji"
tiros,,l however repogn.ug„
to the Rights of Na_
The Loyal Westbury and Clifton Corps, who
have been on permanent duty for some time, on
rnountingt'the main guard at Bristol, and marching
to guard the French Prisoners at Stapleton, could
not, from their genuine
'File military app and Je.
Pcntunt be distinguished from Tr Dad of earance
the Line.
2- '
tt attained, is a subjett of exultation to that part of the
(nth' acquirements,
and the united Corps, so justly elated
,;.tith
(nth' acquirements, are ready to follow Colonel Cox E,
their Commandant; to meet thc common Elekoy,
Confident in the experienced ability of a Lead- r bred
in the " Tented Field," and to. whom cie r are
solely ind;bted for their military knowled with.
Out the assistance trom Government of evenge
a drill.
btrjeant.
tv The LORD CHANCrunit has presented the Rev.
vittIGHAN THOMAS, A. M. Fellow of Corpus
Christi College, Oxford, to the Vicarage of Stone-
-leY, Warwickshire, vacant by the death of the Rev.
Route? SurartErt,,B. D. late Fellow of Kin's
College, Cambridge. g
The Right Hun. Lord &flatus has appointed the
Rev, VAUGHAN THOMAS, one of his Lordship's
bomestic Chaplains.
The Justices of Peace, in a Court held at Hamil.
ton, on the 7th instant, fined two servant women
of Mr. Cock, of Ailanshaw, . in 31. iv. being
the whole of their wages for last half year, on'ac.
count of their having left their master's house with-
out leave on Sunday evening the 29th April, and
not returning till next m trning.—We mention this
instance of justice, and hope it will serve as a cau-
tion to servants in future.

As two boys were bathing on Monday se'nnight,
r Weaver, about a hundred ab
the oid Bridge in Northwich, they yards
obsersieove the
ove
t
cornets of a p ,eket handkerchief floating ab
surface, and near the side of the water.
One. of
them had the curiosity to take it up. and examine its
contents, when he found to his astonishment, a large
quantity of guineas, half-guineas, and seven shilling
Piecei. The Iwo boys, having agreed as to the di_
•visi(in of their • prize, ran home to inform their
P.4.reht4 of their good fortune, when the money was
divided equally between the parties. Their joy was
so great, that the news of this discovery soon reach_
ed all their poor neighbours, who with themselves
Were anticipating the pleasures they were to have at
a feast on the occasion. Unfortunately,
fur the poor boy however,
as well as for their parents, it
was soon s, observed that the whole were counterfeits ;
of course they were taken from them and cut to
Pieces.
In a field belonging to J. C, ffin, Esq. adjoining
to Tregony, which was to be kept up for hay, and
which had every appearance of a
several lar plentiful produce,
ge spots, in difrirent parts of the field,
were observed to fail. All the under grass entirely
disappeared and nothing remained but a long naked
spill. Several respedable farmers, who came on
purpose to be spttlators
nomenon of this extraordinary phe-
, expressed their surprise at the uncommon
appearance of the grass. It was at last discovered
by Mr. D. Whitley, distinguished by his agricul.
rural knowledge, to proceed from a kind of grub.
'worm, ‘vhich Jl)elt e re d themselves in immense num-
bers, in the day time. about two inches under the
surface. About dusk, they came forth to commit
their nightly depredations, and as regularly returned
about break of day the next morning. On taking
tip a turf six inches square, it On
turn out thirty
or forty of them. They are about an inch longs
very thick, and of a dark brown c..)!our,

LAI✓ REPORT,

COURT OF KING's BENCH, MAY 24.
THE KING v. WILLIAM CoBBETT.

THE Counsel for the Crown in this cause were,
His nijeSty'S ATTORNEY GENERAL, Messrs.
ERSKINE, GARROW, DALLAS, and ABBOT : for
the Defendant, Messrs. ADAM and RICHARDSON.
The Trial was held on an Information exhibited by
the Attorney General, for the publication of certain
Libels, with the intent to traduce the Government
of His Majesty in Ireland, arid the persons employ-
ed in the conduft of that Government, viz. Lord
Lieutenant the Earl of I-lARDW ICKE, Lord Chan-
cellor REDESDALE, the Hon. CHARLES OSBORN,
Justice of the Court of King's Bench, and Mr.
MARSDEN, Secretary in Ireland.
Mr. As sot stated at length the Charges alledged
in the Information ; and as we shall have suck fre-
quent occasion to advert to them in the sequel, we
will here state the contents of the Libels. The first
is entitled "AfFaiis of Ireland, Letter Ill." and is in.
troduced into COBBETT'S Weekly Political Register,
of the sth November, 1803, page 610. The letter
itself is dated Dublin, Odober 29, of the same year,
and it commences with the following passages :

" S t R,—' F,quo ne creditercucri,' was the advice which, in
a dangerous moment, Laocoon gave to the Trojans. It will
be remembered that the equus against which that sagacious
adviser cautioned his countrymen, was a wooden one. His
countrymen did not regard Laucoon ; they received the wooden
representative of wisdom ; they approached it as if it possessed
authority and power. Its woo len head towerod above their
houses. But though the machine itself was made of innoxious
wood,the credulous Trojans found its hollow head and exalted
sides, nothing less than receptacles for greedy peculators and
blood-thirsty 'astassins. The ingenious author of the story did
not mean to confine the lesson which it inculcates, to the
tale of Troy alone ; he meant to take advantage of the easy
metaphorical expression, which, by the common assent of
mankind, had moulded itself into most languages, and by
which a certain species of heads (which the modems have.
ascertained to be a non-condudor of ideas) has been deno-
minated a wo,len head. - He meant to caution future Na-
tions, not to put trust or confidence in the apparent inno-
cence of any auch wooden instrument ; and not to suffer
themselves to be led to exalt it into consequence, or to ray it
any reaped. He meant to tell them, that any people who
subtilitted to be governed .by a wooden head, would not find
tneir security in its supposed innoxiousneas, as its hollowness-
would soon be occupied by instruments of mischief. When I
found, Sir, thii portion of the Kingdom overwhelmed by such
consequences to our property, as the rapacity of Mr. MA R S-
DEN and nis friends, and such consequences to our lives, as the
pikes of Mr. E NT:a aT and his friends have lately produced-
when I could. trace all these evils as the inevitable issue
front the head anu oody of such a Government as that of Lord
HARDW !CK*, and I am told of his innoxiousness and his
firmness, I still reply the story of wooden horse, and I shall
still, notwithstanding the tate of Laocdon, raise my voice
to my Countrymen, and cry, E.gua ne credite Teucri. Not,
Sir, that I would be understood literally. I, do not mean
to assert the head of my Lord HA RDW ICKE is abso-
lutely built of timber. My application, like-that of the ori-
ginal autnor of the tale, is only metaphorical. Yet, at the
same time, I cannot avoid suspecting, that if the head of
Hip Excellency were submitted to the analysis of any such
investigator of Nature as LAvotS !ER, -it would be found to
contain a superabundant portion of particles of a very ligne-
ous tendency. This, Su, is the Lord Ha RDW icitt of Dodor
ADDI NGTON, against whose Government not a murmur
of complaint has been heard'—while our property has been
subjed to the plunder of his Clerks, and our persons have
been exposed to the pikes of the Rebels. Still, however, the
innocence-of Lord HARDwicKc, as to any intention of mis-
diner, is held forth.--But, I reply, in the words of Mr.
BURKE, They who truly mean well, must be tearful of
acting ill. Delusive good intention is no excuse for pre-
sumption " And, I may add, in my own words, that the
Government of a harmless marl, is not, theiefore, a harm-
lest. Government."—

_____---. —4l inquiry and research are the duty and
resource of the ignorant, and therefore I did inquire. The
re: •ilt of no small attention bestowed in this pursuit was, that
I di ;covered to our Viceroy, that he was in rank an Earl ,• in
manners a Gentleman; in morals, a good father and kind
h tsband ; and that he had a good library:in St James's-square.
Ilere I should have been for ever stopped, it I had not, by acci-
dent,lLet with one Mr. Li N DSA y ,ascotch parson,since become
(and I am sure it must be by Divine Providence, for it would
be impossible to account for it by secondary causes) Bishop
of KILLAL LO' in Ireland.—From this Mr. LINDSAY I fur-
ther learnt, that my Lard HARDWICKE was celebrated for
understanding the modern method of fattening a sheep as well
as any man in Cambridgeshire."

The Letter (continued Mr. ABBOT) is then cited
in the information in the following terms, with
which it concludes s
" While I have been wilting, Sir, a map of the Wes Indies
happened to hang before me. My eye wandered, I know not
why, upon it, and fixed upon one of those little islands which
have been lately, by the British Troops, redeemed from the
capitulation of Lord Coatv waLtis, at Amiens. Give me
leave to suppose ;kat, in the course of a few years, one of those
little Islands should become highly cultivated; and that a
considerable portion of British property became vested in its
land,and in its trade. Suppose that, by some unfortunate com-
bination of events, this little Island should be deeply shaken
by insurrection within, and should be loudly menaced by
invasion from without. Suppose a powerful fleet of the
enemies of the British name lay to windward, filled with
troops for landing, while a desperate band of ruffians were
secretly arming in its bosom, ready to aid that landing of a
foreign enemy. Supose in this distress, a Committee of West
India Proprietors, whose money had been vested in this little
island, should apply to the Doctor Ann I NcroN for assist-
ance; arid suppose he were to rise up, and to desire them to
quiet their apprehensions, for that Le bad entrusted the rare of
their island t; a very eminent ,cheep-feeler from Cambrid4esbre,
who was to 6:- assisted in all his counsels 6y a very able and
strong-built Chancery-Pleader from Lincoln's- Give me leave
to ask you, Sir, who know the City much better than I
can pretend to do, what would a Sugar Committee, Issu-
ing turn one of their coiree-houses, say to such an answer
from a British Minister ? Why, Sir, the walls of St. Stephen's,
and the Chambers in Downing-street, would be made to
ring with their vociferous reproaches. And yet, Sir, to this
situation is that portion of the United Kingdom reduced ;
on the strength and vigour of which, at this moment, not only
its own safety, but as I have, in my tOrmer letter, stated, the
safety of the British Empire, and consequently I may assume
the safety of Europe, does entirely depend. Against the
truth of the description I have given of its Rulers, I may chal-
lenge the most dating supporter of the present Government to
produce one single aCt in tile lives of either of those trigy great
charaders of the Doctor, which can entitle them to claim
one particle of trust or confidence from the Public, beyond
the bounds and limits within which 1 have encircretitheir ex-
ploits. On the Chancery Pleader, perhaps I may have laid too
great a stress; lie is not of.the first consequence, though in
a future letter I may, perhaps, point out to you the mis-
chief which the intermeddling of such a man, in matters
out of the course of his praffice, may occasion. But, with
respea to Lord HARDWICKE, it may he replied, that my
challenge is unfair, because it is impossible to justify his
having been appointed to the Government of Ireland, by any
instances of former political ability, as the acceptance of his
present office was his first essay. What ! Is he one of the
tribe of the HOBARTS, WESTMOR it 51135, and C4AIDENS ?
Is he one of that tribe, who have been Lehr over to us to be
trained up here into Politicians, as they train the Surgeons'
apprentices in the hospitals, by setting them first to bleed
the pauper patients ? is this a time for a continuation
of such experiments,? The gift of I.ord llARowlext
to us, at such a period, cannot be compared to any thing
else than the prank of Fax,sri+ry, at the battle of Shrews-
bury, when the Knight handed over his pistol to the Prince.
For, indeed, Sir, by the present to us of Lord IlAttowicKE,
that sentence has been proved to us in a bloody truth, which
Falstaff said in a good-humoured jest.—" Here's what will
sack a city."

The next libellous passages bear the same title of
the Affairs of Ireland.' They occur in the Re.
gister, Letter 4, page 804, and are expressed in the
following terms :
must be done with a
give any opinion. As soon as
delicate baud. a bare narrative of
zti have
. I to touch
myselfupon t
facts, and wilt not presuma to
the Government had fully recovered its recollection, a Com-
iSsued for the trial of
mission, direacd to five of the fudges,

those Rebels Who had been arrested for treason eon-Mated iii
the County and City of Dublin. This Commission having
issued while the judges were on the Circuit, was filled up (and
Very properly filled up) with the names of the five senior of
those Judges who were then on the circuits which were like-
ly to terminate at the earliest period of time. Such was the
reason given by Government tor the particular seleelion of the
j ridges named in that Cimmission, and it certainly was a good
reason. In some tittle after this CommissiOn had been sit-
ting, it became necessary to issue a new Con-milsSion for the
trial of the Rebels in the shires of Antrim and of Down. In the
appointment of the second Commiasion, the principle which
directed.the seledion in the first was not adhered to. On the
contrary, the junior judge of the twelVe was very anxiously
called out, and placed in this new Commission, over the heads
of a number of his seniors. This, however, could not, and
ought not, to have given offence to any of those senior Judges,
because, whatever opinion of them the GovernMent may
have manifested in such an appointnient, the opinioh of the
present Government upon such a subject (known to be in-
fluenced by motives very different from general justice); is too
contemptible to have any elfed upon any ofthe Learned I udges
in the public mind. The cireurnstance, therefore, was not at
first attended to. There is published in this City a Newspa.
per, called The Dublin Journal. It is, in general, concluded
with good sense, loyalty, and a regard to truth ; but, in parti-
cular deviations, it is known to be under the controul and im-
mediate diredion of Government. In that Paper, of the toth
Odober last, a publication appeared, which purported to be a
Charge given by the junior judge above alluded to, to the
Grand jury of the County of Antrim. In this place I beg
now to declare, that I am far from attempting to assert, that
the Learned judge did pronounce any such Charge : and
when I speak of his Charge, I request you will understand
I mean only the newspaper publication : the Learned
judge is made to tell the Grand jury, that, through the
well-timed efforts and strenuous exertions of a wise and ener-
getic Government, &c. the progress of such crimes as lately
disgraced this Country, had been effectually checked.' If
the Learned justice did make any such assertion (which I am
far from supposing) with what amazement the Grand jury
must nave received such a broadside, poured upon the truth
of the fact, I cannot, as I was not present, know ; but I can
very welt imagine what the feelhigs of 23 well-informed
Gentlemen must have been. Their respeff, and a thorough
knowledge of their duty, would necessarily keep them silent.
But though men remain silent under the proper awe and con-
troul of a Court of justice, their language only becomes more
strenuous when that restraint is taken off, and they meet to-
gether in private confidence."
The Libel then proceeds, in Edge 806, in the
subsequent form, which was read by the Learned
Counsel :
" But, Sir, suggestion does not stop here. Men ask, how
could (if the Learned justice did make any such assertion)
the Learned justice be led to give credit to a position which
contradicts the evidence of the senses of every man in the
kingdom, who was preseetot, or knew any thing of the trans-
action ? How could a Learned j wile be supposed to assert
that which no man in the kingdom would assert, unless he
had some reasons of the-aame nature as those which prevail-
ed on Mr. NIARSDFN'S Attorney General on the trials for
high treason, to assert something of the same kind ? Men, Sir,
couple the extraf,rdinag ,elec7i,i of the Learned justice from
amongst hiS fellows, with the extraordinaly assertion attributed
to hint in a Government oewspaper ; and they ask, if he made
that assertion, where did he get his information ? Was he
ever in Mr. MARSDEN'S audience-room since the night
of the 23,1 of July What passed there ? What were
the pre-disposing causes which induced Government to
particuiady, that Learned Justice ? Could Government
have foreseen land if so by what faculty), that the Learned
Justice would have given an instruction to the Grand Jury, so
very useful and so very grateful to the Government ? What night
telescope could have been applied to the eye of Mr. MA a S-
DE a, which, through the dark womb of things unborn, could
have enabled him to perceive through this little future star of
praise, springing train the creative Jana of the Learned I us-
tice ? Here, Sir, decorum towards you, aid towards the public,
induces me to be silent as to other, and per:l7ll)s stronger ob-
servation. But I may, I believe, add, what men also say ;
that if it were possible the ermined robe of the most awful
attribute of His Majesty, should have been wrapped round
the ads of Mr. MAR snEN, in order to sefeen the.n from pub-
lic disgrace, we might then look for another, but net less final
end to our liberties,- and to our constitution, than that which
rebellion or invasion could produce. And, in truth they say,
that, except as to momentary effeels, rebellion and invasion
might be viewed with indifference, if it can be supposed,
that the stained hands ola petty Clerk had been washed in
the very fountain of justice."

The information, said Mr. ABnoT, then proceeds
to page SoS of the-?ablication, which is ..tititheti-
cal, and is intended to place, in disadvantageous
comparison, the present LORD CHANCLLLOR of
Ireland, with the predecessor of the Noble and
Learned Judge who presides on this occasion :

" Instead of calling him to the high station, which he so
ably filled, had it pleased His Alaje,,ty to bless the Western
neighbours of Cambricus (who certainly owe the honest and
warm-hearted Principality no ill wili),witti Lord KEN YON for
a Chancellor, I can very well conceive what Lord KENYON,
in such a situation, would have done, and also what he would
not have dune. From a rare modesty of nature, or from a rare
precision of self-knowledge, Lord KEN YON would have acted
with reser ye and circunispcdion, on his arrival in a country,
with the moral quality of tne inhabitants of which, and
with their persons, manners, and individual characters
and connexions, he must have been utterly unacquaint-
ed. In such a country, torn with domestic sedition and
treason, threatened with a Foreign Invasion, and acting,
since the Union,. under an untried Constitution, if Doctor
Antal Nc ToN had required that Lord KEN YON Should &tea
a Cambridgeshire Earl in all his councils,' Lord KEN lON
would as soon, at the desire of Lord St. VINCF.Nr, have un-
dertaken to pilot a line of battle ship through the Needles.
Particularly, the integrity of Lord KENYON would have
shrunk from such an undertaking, if a condition had been
added to it, that no one Nooleman or Gentleman who possess-
', ed any rank, estate, or connexion in the Country, upon any ac-
count shout(' be consulted. His pride would have spurned at
the undertaking, if he were told, that the Cambridgeshire Earl
and himself, in the cares of Government, a Clerk in the Secre-
tary's-0 flice,and a couple- ofLawyers, without political habits,
political intormation,or honourableconnexions, were to be join-
ed as assessors, and to be the only assessors ; and Lord KEN.
YON'S pride and integrity would have both joined in prevent-
ing him from being himself the instrument or:introducing such
men into a Cabinet of Government. I f any one man could be
found, of whom a young but unhappy victim of the justly of-
fended laws of his country had, in the moment of his convic-
tion and sentence, uttered the following apostrophe : —` That
viper,whom my father nourished! He it was from whose prin-
ciples and doctrines, which now by their etfeds drag me to
my grave, and he it is who is now brought forward as my
prosecutor, and who, by an unheard-of exercise of prerogative,
has wantonly lashed, with a speech to evidence, the dying
son of his former friend, when that dying son had produced
no evidence, had made.no defence, but, on the cdntrary, had
acknowledged the charge, and had submitted to his fate :
Lord KENYoN would have turned with horror from such a
scene, in which, although guilt was in one part to be pu-
nished, yet in the whole drama, justice was confounded, Itu-
mimity outraged, and loyalty insulted."

The passages in the record conclude with the fol-
lowing brief but remarkable paragrAph, inserted in
page 131 c) :

" It was said of Lord Ksivv °iv, that he loved money, if so,
he loved his own money only, and not the money of any other
man. Lord KENYON, therefore, as Chancellor, never would
have made any ride, or order, by the effects of which, the
Secretary of a Master of the Rolls would be deprived of all
fees, for the purpose of throwing all those fees into the hands
of the Secretary to the Chancellor, the better to enable that
Secretary to discharge the pension of some unknown annul.:
tart oil his official profits."

Such was the language of the libels, and such the
terms in which they were quoted in the mnation,

which we have introduced at the commencement, in
preference to that step in the progress of the trial,
when .they were again read by the Clerk to the
Court, because the observations in the Address of
the ATTORNEY-GENERAL, Will, with this preli-
minary matter, be pertettly intelligible to our
Readers.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL now rose, and said,
that he should occupy a less proportion of time in
his address, 'on account of the length to which the
record had been extended. It was impossible, that
those who were to decide on the subject of this in-
formation, Could form any accurate judgment of the
charafter of the Libel, and the mischievotis•intention

. .
ietideriei withotii the
and relations of the seieraliarts by this gereral i?‘,;
of its Contents. It would sheW alio; that die Pio.:
seeution was not commenced against a person Who;
in the hUrry of the momciato had trespas,ed a lit
beyond the line of decenCy anti propriety, hit it C4',,11
direded to one, who, in a caoljdeliherate, systert4'.l-
- scheme, had endeatrottretto revile the whole uf
the Administration of Governaient in the
of Ireland. This assuredly was not merely to f)t.•
comtemplated as an attack upon the Lord. Lieut-
enant, upon the Lord Chancellor, upon the Secierae!.,;
and :Joon one of the Judges of Ireland, but it
upon the entire condUa of the Government, for the
purpose of exposing it to the indignation and con:
tempt of the People of that Country, and to exec;;_
tion in every institution of Civilized
Prosecution, therefore, did not encroach upon tE.e
right of free discussion, which is the privilege of
every Englishinani, which had been abundaro ly
enjoyed since he had the honoUr to occupy the sta.:
tion he held, and of which the present Delendm;
under all the indulgence he had experienced, had no
right to complain of the violatiOn. The Jury would
have to consider, not only the libellous language
Used, but the critical moment in which it was eth.
played. When the Minds of time Irish people were
in a feverish and distempered state, and liable t;o be
driven to a paroxism of madness by the slighte;t
impulse, the taking advantage of this perilous in; •
terval, powerfully tends to establish that the_ moit
base and destruttive motives aduated the Deice-
dant. Had the Libel not been of that sweeping cha;
ratter as to involve the whole political Governmert
of the neighbouring Island, and had it simply been
diretted to the Noble Earl appointed to preside, it
would have been 'his duty to have instituted thii
Prosecution, unless he had been repressed by the
contemptuous distance at which that dignified.
charader would have removed this attack on his
potation : but the happiness or misery of a laige
valuable portion of His Majesty's Subjeds was af-
feded; and the fitness and necessity of the Prosecu.:
tion was no longer disputable. But it was fit toad.
vert more particularly to the separate Paragraphs of •
this Publication. The Juty were well awarei tiait
the charader of every Government greatly depended
on the estimation in o'hich those were held by which
it was conducted; both of those who planned the
measures, and those in an inferior station, who cat_
ried•such measures into execution : but if there was
any thing which might he aeleded as superior in its
influence on the minds of the Petiole, it was the oui-
rity and impartiality with which justice was admi.
nistered f.r the proteaion of the life and property
of the subjrd yet in all those important respects:,
a nefarious attack had been imide on the Go-
vernment of Ireland. The LORD.Lt cuTFtrAN't
is treated as if wholly incapv)le of perfor,ning
Public Forikaions, and is represented as "a Greater
Caml;ridgeshire." Lord IteDF NOM. , Was placed
SO high in the Councils of the Sate, was denominated
" a very able and strong built Chancery Plead.:.r,
from Lincoln's Inn." Mr. Secretary MAteSDEN was
deccribed as " an unprincipled peculator and plun-
derer, preying on the property oldie. State." Mr.
Justice Osrioa iv was held forth as " the most corrupt
instrument of a debased and degraded Administiot-
tion, lending as a screen to conceal the pai:.•
lic injury."—The ATTORNEY GENERAL then pro.
ceeded to examine minutely the various passages i
the Libel, commenting upon each as he proceeded,
and exposing not only the falsehood, but the ma,
lignity of \ the representations. He justified, with
touch warmth, those high charaaers which had
l'e'n so insolently defamed in the low flippancy,
and vulgar abuse of this Libel ; excepting the
LORD CHANCELLOR of Ireland, in the eulogy he ap-
plied, on account of the fraternal relation he bore
to that •Nobleman. He examined the .political
situation of Ireland, as to the extensive means of
defence ; and enlarged, with peculiar severity, on
the flagitious designs of the Defendant, in mi -
representing the actual force for the security of
that Country ; and he conchided his remarks on the
distinct paragraphs, with the following observations :
—" I am nor at all aware, what is the species of de-
fence intended by my Learned Otiponents. Perhaps
it may be, that the Defendant was only concerned
in the publication, not in the composition of this
Libel. The inclination of my opinion is, that the
Defendant is not the author ; but this is no nil.
tigation of his guilt. I seleded two letters, pub-
lished at different periods, on purpose to spew,
that it was not a careless ad, but that the critrie
was repeated with the grossest indiscretion. I
may relate further, that since this prosecution has
commenced, even to Tuesday last, these libellous
produdions were sold by the Agent of the De.
Pendant. Whether he be the Author or not, he
appears, by his publications, to conceive himself to
be the ablest writer, and the most consummate polo,
tician, of his time. He seems to imagine himself a
species of Censor, who, elevated to the solenin seat
of judgment, is to deal about his decisions for the
instruction of mankind. He casts his eye downward,
as a chatader represented in the Poet of Nature,
from Dover Cliff; and looks upon the human race
as pigmies in the distance beneath him. Perhaps
in the proud contemplation of his own abilities, he
supposes he is not to submit to the Laws and Insti-
tutions adapted to the vulgar herd of Society ; but
whatever missy be the vain self-adoration to which
he may be subject, we are obliged to consider him
as a common bring, and to subjed him co the usual
restrictions which he will admit to acconono.
dated only to our inferior capacities. Probably,
the true ground of the impatience of this Defendant
is, that Government is not sufficiently Corrupt to
answer his sinister purposes. If I could discover
who was the prime mover of this destructive ma-
chine, the prosecution should not stop here ; but as
I cannot prove any impulse of this kind, it becomes
me to ditoft your attention to the objed who has
thus dared to infringe and to insult the Laws of the
Country."

tions to this part of the et idence ; the one was, that
the hand.writing of Mr. COBBETT was not proved,
at. the r, that the itiat,•:' of his residence was
not vroperly described, there being nri such sirna.
lion as aueared no the lace of the Alit avit. The
proof was itrrnediately given by. the Witness, who
saw the Affidavit signed, and the latter objqiion
was over-ru;:ql by his Lotc,hip, this Iteing the de-
cr,7 given of his residence by the Defendant
himself.

• PFNRY FALLOWFTFLD was then called to
produce the Letters Patent under which Lord HARD.
WIcKE, and the other great ()timers were appoint-
ed, when the Witness was stopped by the admission
of the Detendant of the ctlices so held, by the per.
sons so named in the information.

Mr. WALTFR PROBER, and Mr. JAMES FAKING.
TON were rx;:mined by Mr. DALLAS, and Mr. AB-
BOT. and gave testimony to the purchase of The
Weekly Political Register, containing these Lihe!s,
at Mr. BAGsmAw's, in How.street, and at Mr.
RUnt•'s, any Agent of the Defendant, at the
Crown and Mitre, Pall-mail.

Mr. ADAM expressed a desire that not only the
Letters on the Affairs of Ireland, Nos. 3 and 4,
quoted in the Totiamation, should he read by the
C' —I, of the Ccurt, but the whole Series of No. r,
to No. S.

Lord ELLENBOROUGH.—" YOU cannot read them
unle.,s they are virtually incorporated by some refer.

ence."

Mr. LOWTE N now read in Evidence the Passages
before ex,r;itt,d, f-,.r the information of the Jury,
by Mr. ABBOT, which, therefore, we need not re.
fepeat.

CttowE was next mmined as to the inuen-

does.

Mr. EIMINE.—Q. Who do you understand by
ti.e Cambridgeshire Earl ?

Ans:Lord HARDWTCKE.
Q.—And whom by. the Chancery Pleader?
Ans.—Lord REDESDILE.

HAIL w cal, instead of being libellous, were highly
complimentary ; and he had a right to assert, that
this Nobleman, from the private virtues of his cha.
raner, was more suited to sustain a domestic c)ndi-
tion with enjoyment, than to support a public sta-
tion with dignity. He adverted to those parts of
the Publication which were intended to burlesque
the Members and Measures of Government, and
said, that ridicule was a weapon which might be
fairly and honourably employed ; and that nick-
names, be they pleasant or he they vulgar, were a
sort of pra6lice to which Englishmen are peculiarly
addiaed. We had heard of CARLO KHAN, the
Great Dog of the India House; and of the CoLos-
sus of the NORTH, applied to a Peer of the Realm ;
but if every nick-name were to be considered a
Libel, our Courts of Justice would indeed have suf-
ficient employment. Mr. ADAM next adverted, at
considerable length, to the inuendoes, on which an
indecent and aggravated construnion had been im-
posed ; and he concluded with repeating the disad-
vantages of the early education of the Defendan►,
who, possessing a manly and energetic character,
might have been tempted, in some degree, to trans-
gress the bounds of delicacy and refinement, but, he
trusted, had not passed, on any side, the limits of
legal institution.

Me. LISTON was then called. He was. Minister
itlAmerica, from 1796. to 1800; was acquainted
with the Defendant during that time, and deposed
to his loyalty and attachment to the British Consti_
tution, in which his charaaer was eminently excel-
lent. Being asked by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL if
the Defendant was one of the last men to publish a
Libel against the Government under which he lived,
the Witness said, he was not an unlikely man to du
so out of his own Country.
Lord HENRY STEWART, Mr. WINDHAM, Lord
MINIo, Mr. YORKE, and Mr. REEVES, severally
deposed to their personal knowledge of the Defen.
dant, and to their opinion of him as 3 zealous sup-
porter of the Monarchy, and a firm friend to the
British Constitution.

Mr. A-r-roarrEy.GeNErtAL now rose in reply,
when he commented on the several parts of the
Speech of his Learned Friend Mr. ADAM, and as-
serted his zeal for the Liberty of ;he Press, and his
endeavoui to resrrain licentiousneas, in order to pro-
teCt inviolable that liberty. He applied the classi-
cal allusion of " Spargere 'votes t7l vills-urt ambi-
gu,:s." in order to repel the strictures of Mr. ADAM,
on the rrvJe obscure passages of the Libel.

Lord ELLE NB OR OUGH.—" The Evidence on
both sides being terminated, you and I, Gentlemen,
have
,yet our respedive duties to perform. I never
' doubted that an English Jury had the right of judg-
' ing in these cases, not only of the fad of publica-
tion, but of the nature and construdion of the
thing published ; and the Noble Lord whom I sue_
teed, with such inadequate poßers, entertained the
same sentiment. The late Ad which has been
• quoted, is merely declaratory, and had it not pass.
ed, I sh:uld have submitted the, whole case to
your decision. On three points you have to exer-
cise your judgment The preliminary allega-
tions and inuendoes. 2. The fad of publication.
3. The quality and sense of the thing publish-
ed. Before I enter on the question, I shall ob-
serve to you, that by the Law of the Land, there
is no imp.mnity to a person publishing what is
injurious to the feelings and happiness of an in-
dividual, or what is prejudicial to the general
interests of the State. The Law of England i; a
Law of Liberty, and, consistently with this Liberty,
we have no imprimatur and no licence. This pre-
caution is not necessary, hut if a man publish a
Paper, he is exposed to the penal consequences, as
he is in every other ad, if it he illegal or injurious
to the comfort of others, The question then, as
applied to this publication, is, if it be privately or
publicly injurious, or if it be pernicious in both
these respects? It is no new dolrine, that if a pub-
lication be destrudive of the well.being of Govern-
ment, by bringing it into disesteem,.. whether the
expedient fur this purpose he by ridicule or
obloquy, the person so conduding himself is
exposed to the irflidions of the law. The case
of the King v. So:abet', decided in the time
of Lcrd Chief Justice HOLT, hams removed all
ambiguity from this question; and although at
the period when that was decided, there existed
great political contention, the matter was not again
brought before the Judges of the Court by any ap.
plications for a new trial. Not only in publications,
but if the peace and welfare of individuals, or of so-
ciety, be interrupted, or even exposed by types and
figures, the ad, by the Law of England, is a Libel."
His Lordship then entered into the particulars
charged as libellous matter, into the testimony on
both sides, and into the principles on which the De.
fence had been conduded ; and he concluded with
observing, that if the Jury were of opinion the Pub-
lications were hurtful to the Individual, or to the
Government, they would fird the Defendant guilty ;
if, on the contrary, they considered them neither
destruEtive cf the peace of the one, or of the other,
they would acquit him of the charges under this In-
rotmation.

The Jury, after a pause of about ten minutes, de_
livered their Verdiet—Guilti.