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TILE SPIRIT of. DESPOTISM. Edited,
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the POLITICAL HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT. •
" slaves in golden fetters lie,
Thtres none can save the men that choose to die.
Yet some there are who would not tamely bow;
That fain would break their chains if they knew how :
•And they from these inspired leaves may see,
- How they chose bondage when they might go free."
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To T. TAYLOR, Esq.
No. 9, New. Bridge•street, London.

HoxOnnto Stn, • • • I
I. BEG leave to inform you, that ever since the
IL year 1790, I had been afflicted with the Lues Venereal,
which, from its obstinately resisting every course of medicine
prescribed by the most eminent of the faculty here, and on
dergoing severalsevere courses of -salivallon, and-twice
charged from the Hospital with little relief, would appear to
be of the most inveterate nature. In tic spring of last yeas • •
my diSorder had got, to such a head, as dearly' to put a period
to my existence—l had a large ulcer on the crown of my head,
one oil each arm, and my legs were broke out in a frightful
manner ; my right Was dreadfully painful, and had been in a •
state of ulceration for the last seven years ; my left had also
two large nodes on it, was very much discoloured, and gave
me such excruciating pain, particularly when warns in lied,
as nearly to deprive me of rest; ia this lamentable state,
was recommended by Mr. J. Thompsen, (who received- so
great a cure by them here), to take your Leake's Patent Pills,
which I began to do on the.2i.lth o.- May; in. the conise of a
fortnight I. began to receive benefit—in little More • than a
month the ulcers on my head and arms were soundly heale*l.
scion after, the sores on my legs healed- also ; leaving, how-
ever, considerable discolouration in the skin, and pain ittthe
bone of the left, which, by the blessing of God-, mod a little -
longer perseverance in .your invaluable Medicine, subsided ;
the nodes dispersing, the skims seg. '• natiral hue, and
the nocturnal pains gradually-going thus heoame, by
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former complaintshave recovered my former spirits a lid
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this may case as public as pmsible, as I shall on every occa-
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Sir, your grateful, obedient, Very humble servant.
ALEX. MURKER
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COURT OF KING'S BENCH, FEn. 3.
Further PurticUlars- of Saturdays. Pi-oceedings.]

TilE KING V. SIR. F. BURDETT.
At the sitting of the Court this morning the
CHIEF JUSTICE proceeded to pronounce the opi-
nion of the Court on the application made by Mr.
SCARLETT on a former day, on,behalf of the de-,
fendant, for 624 arrest of judgment, on the ground
that the inuentkes in the 'information did not
sullkciently apply to the charge, so its to . make
clear that the libel was_a libel of and concerning
the Government and troops of our Sovereign
Lord the King. The Court, his Lordship- ob-
served, must look at the record, and read it
with *he same understanding as the rest of man-
kind ; and if it should appear to them that the
libel wasitot distinctly set forth:4l,"::3l lad no
authority to exert any extra jutitcial ,power to
mend the defect. Looking, however, at the ex-
cellent judgment given by Lord Chief Justice
De Grey in the case of the Ring and Home, and
to the judgment of the King v. Shipley, and ap-
plying those judgments, and the opinions laid
down in them to the present case, and reading
over ' the libel, the Court could entertain no
doubt. The libel commenced by alluding to
some detail of facts which the writer had read in
a certain newspaper, which, -he said, had filled
him with indignation and horror. Ile proCeeded
to comment upon the. conduct of the troops
and the authorities upon this occasion, and
although he does not say in words that the
acts there done were done by orders of
the King's Government, or even that the King's
Government had approved them, could his
'allusion be misunderstood Ile afterwards ad-
verts to'the keeping up a large standing army in
time of peace, and from that subject reverts to
and approves of the dismissal of .the Dutch
guards of William III.; he then calls on.the Gen-
tlemen of England to come forward' and support
the falling liberties of England, and invites the
people to hold public meetings for the same pur-
pose, observing, although military execution
might follow such meetings, yet a man could die
but once ; he then refers to the conduct and sub-
sequent abdication of James 11. and concludes
by saying, " England expects every man to do
his duty"—,-at a period when the rights and liber-
ties of the people were thus put in jeopardy.
Reading this document, who could doubt that
the allusions contained in it were of and , con-
cerning the King's Government ? The Court,
after the most careful and' attentive considera-

tion of the subject, could come to no other co
elusion, and were clearly of upinion :there were
no grounds for this objection, and, therefore,
that the motion in arrest of judgment could not
be sustained. The defendant.mnst therefore be
brought up to receive the judgment of the Court.
CRIMINAL INFORMATION FOR A LIBEL.
Mr. SCATtLETT moved for a rule to shew cause
why a criminal information should not be filed
against Robert Thomas Weaver, the printer, and
John Arrowsmith and Thomas Shackell, the pro-
prietors of a new Sunday Newspaper, called
" John Bull," for publishing 'hi No. 5 of that
paper a wicked, scandalous, and defamatory
libel on the memory of Lady Caroline•Wrottes-
ley, deceased, imputing to her that, during her
life-time, she had been detected in a criminal in-
trigue with one of her menial servants. The
Learned Counsel founded'his Motion on the al&
davits of the Earl and CounteSs of Tankerville,
father and mother of Lady Caroline ; of Sir John
Wrottesley, her husband; of. Lord Ossulston
and the Hon. henry Grey Bennett, two of her
brothers. The substance of these affidavits was,
that Lady Caroline Wrottesley was born in 1770,
and in 1795 was married to Sir John Wrottesley,
by whom she had fourteeh children,, five daugh-
ters and five sons of whom now survived ; that hi
1818 she died in child-birth in the arms of her
afflicted husband ; .that she was folloWed to the
grave in agonies of grief by her husband, and
some of her children and relatives.; that she was
a-lady, from her infancy to the hour of her death,
of unsullied virtue, purity, and honour; and that
there never was the slightest imputation. upon her
character, until one of the grossest and most un-
founded calumnies that ever issued from a per-
verted and slanderous preSs appeared in a news-
paper called " John Bull," of which the persons
against whom he moved were the ,printer, and
proprietors. The atrocious' libel complained of,
was under the head of " Queen's Visitors," and
was in the followinz wores Countess of
Tankerville, Lady :dray Bennett, Mrs. IL G.
Bennett, and Lady Ossulston (a foreigner),
could not refuse the solicitations of the men of
the family : Lady Caroline Wrottesley (Lady
Tankerville's daughter, and Lady Mary's sister)
having been detected in a criminal intrigue with
her menial. servant."
They Learned Counsel said, he had affidavits
to she that upwards of 4000 copies of this in-
famous libel had been circulated—that it had
been industriously distributed at Walton-upon-
Thames,: where the Countess of Tankerville
lived ; on the North road, where the Noble
Earl's seat was, and -near the, seat of Sir John
Wrottesley, in. Staffordshire ; and that applica-
tion had been made to the publisher of the paper
to give up the author, but he refused. • lie said,
he need not cite authorities to satisfy the Court
that a libel on the deceased was criminally punish-
able in like manner as on the living,. for both in
early' and modern times there were cases upon
the subject. •
The CIFITF JUSTICE---" There is no doubt
that the publication *of slanderous matter of a
person dead may be the subject of a criminal

prosecution, where the slander is injurious to the
survivors.. Take a rule to shew.cause."
Lord Ossulston and the ITOn. IL G. Bennett
were in Court during the motion.
RULE FOR A LIBEL UPON. HER. MA4F.F.TY.
Mr.-BiOncinisi applied to the Court fcir a rule
to spew cause why a criminal information should
not be filed against the Rev.R.Blacow,M.A.
Ie
made this motion upon'the affidavit of A. Miller,
of Liverpool; who swears, that on the 27th of
January last, he bought , at the shop of a book:
seller in that town, a pamphlet', the title of which
Was as follows :—" The Substance of a Discourse
preached at the Church of St. Mark, Liverpool,
by the Rev. R. Blacow, M. A., on Sunday even-
ing, the 26th of November last„upon the Present•
Aspectof the Times, with Additional Notes, and
an Appendix, bearing -upon the Radical Ques-
tion." The affidairit further states, that the de-
ponent on tile same day prOduced the said•pam-
phlet, to, the
.said R. Blacow, M. A., who ad-
mitted that he was the author of it, and that he
preached it. . •
'Mr. Justice BATLEY__" That he preached it,
but did he admit that he published it ?"
-Mr. BROUGITAM—"' My Lord, he admitted
this—that he was the author of .the sermon as
stated and contained in the- said pamphlet.7'.
Chief Justice. ABBOTT—" Well, go on." '
Mr: BROUGHAM said the Court would collect
the import of the publication from the elaract
which he should read .
" The Radicals have one feature about. them,
even more hideous and 'disgusting than the Jaco-
bins themselves. They fell down and worship-
ped the Goddess of Reason—a most respectable
and decent sort of being, compared with that
which the Radicals have set up, as the idol of
their worship. They have elevated the God-
dess of Lust on the pedestal of shame---an ob-
ject of all others the most congenial to their
taste—the most deserving of their homage—
the most worthy of their adoration. After
exhibiting her claims to their favour in two
distant quarters- of ,the globe—after compass.,
ing sea and land kith her guilty paramour,
to gratify to the fill her impure desires, and even
polluting the Holy Sepulchre itself with her pre-
fence, to which she was carried in mock-majesty
astride upon an ass*, she returned to this hal-
lowed soil, so hardened in sin,' so bronzed with
infamy, so callous to every feeling of decency, or
of shame, as to go on Sunday last,- clothed in the
mantle of adultery, to kneel down'at the altar of
that God, Who is of purer eyes than to behold
iniquity,' when she ought'rather to have stood
batefoot in the aisle, covered with a sheet as
white as c unsunned snow,' doing penance for
her sins. Till this had been done, I would never
have defiled my hands by placing the sacred sym-
bols in her's ; and this she ,would have been
compelled to do in those good old days, when
church discipline was in it; pristine vigour and
activity. But instead of this, we behold her
glorying in her shame'-----triumphing in her
guilt—placing herself in the attitude of defiance
and, at the head of her Radical troops, demand-
hip- those rights she has so deservedly fm feited
and which in the name of every thing good and
virtuous, and sacred among us, she never can, she
never must have."
Chief Justice A Buorr—l think, Mr. Brougham,
you have shewn cause-enough for your rule.
Mr. IlitouGH.l* The deponent,..of course, my.
Lords, swears that her Majesty the Qneen is the
person alluded to in the sermon. .And thiS part
of her conduct alluded to, namely, tier going to
church on th# Sunday at Haminersmith, is now
for the first time called in question. It was never
in issue before.—(A laugh in Court.) • •
Mr. Justice BAYLE-i—You have your rule ;
here is no necessity to read over any farther
passages.—The rule was accordingly granted.
TIIE KING V. slit r. BUIlllErr• '

The ATTORNEY GENERAL then moved the
-
judgment of the Court on F. Bqrdett, ihe
defendant entered the Court, accompanied, by
Mr. Hobhouse, Tice.
Mr. Justice BEST read hiS mites taken at the
trial.
The affidavit of Henry Bickerstaff, E,cl. was
read, which.stated.that he %Vas not in Leicester-
shire :any time in the month of August, 1819 i.
that he received. Sir F. Burdett's letter at his
residence.in. Lincoln's Inn, enclosed in an etive,
lope, sealed and folded in such. a manner that no.
person could discoVer, until the, seal Was hrOken,
what the envelope, contained. The affidaVit of
Sir F. Burdett was. next put, in and read, giving
a detailed account of the. Manchester meeting, as
it appeared in the papers of :the day. The affi-
davit of Arthur Seale,- printer, of Tottenham,
court-road, stated, that in March la* Fletcher,
alias Franklin, called on him, and deSired he
would. print as certain letter to be sent to the Jury
at. Leicester..
The ATrouNT.-y-GENERAI, objected to reading.
this .letter or affidavit, whiCh related to some.;
thing done in March last.
Mr. ScAttr.y.TT said they wished to sheer en-
deavours to excite a prejudice against trdefendant.
Mr. J ustice. LEY--" That would have been
a reason for a new trial."
--Mr. DENMAN hoped if their LOrdships were of
'that opinion, no time would be too late to do the
defendant justice.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL, obserVed, if the de-
fendant considered the letter as likely 'to preju-
dice him, he was perfectly well acquainted with
the circumstance at the time of the trial, and it

(Note.) " Enter Jerusalem on nn Ass.
• • Then on the.stage act (olu►ubine,
Attend with Bergarni at Mass,
Then to St. Paurs—Oh ! Caroline !

might have formed ,a reason for putting oft the
trial.
Mr. SCARLETT said, at:the tine +if the trial it
was insinuated that Sir Francis might have some
connection with, writing the letter.
My. Justicp BEST fully acquitted, the dNend.:.
ant Of any Sech'knowledge, and so he, believed.
did every one in Court. , •
The ATTORNEY*ENT.ItAi, said, as soon as
lie
learnt the circumstances of Franklin's eenduct
in respect to this, letter,: he filed a criminal i[ifol--
tnation . _-
The affidavit was,after sortie fnrther obseil'a- •
tions, withdrawn. The affidavit of h 'person
named Buller was then ;• its purpoit_Was
to describe the transactions, which took place at
Manchester, ,where he. resided, en., the l't;tii
Auguist. •
The AT-ronNEY-GEETIAL objected to. this
affidavit, as haying nothing to do with •the
pI
sent case: -Sir F. Burdett had are t.; at he
had' acteil•O' a statement in a newspaper ; at lip:
titer that statement Was true or false was not a
subject of-inquiry at pre-sent; the account en
which. Sir Francis acted must be his justiflcation,
if justified .he could be. .
The SoLicii.oa-G-ENtnAr, said, in Finnerty's
case, whO was charged with a libel on Lotd
Castlereagh, Mr. Finnerty tendered
alliva. its to
shew that persons had been flogged =knd,inassa-
cred in Ireland, but the Court rejected these
affidaVits,
Mr. SCARLETT contended for the right of. Sir
F. Burdett to read these affidavits, net in instill-
cation, but in mitigation. These affidavits were
not put in to make any charge oii 'the Govern-
ment or on,,any individual, but to-.sheli.•-the foun-
dation for the 'feeling on which the defendant lad
acted.--eln the case of the Kinz v. Horne, the
defendant was allowed to put • in affidas'itS as to
the facts to;which the libel related,.
Mr, DENMAN followed on the same side, and
expressed his hopes that the Court would. pause
long,before they would lay it down ,as a rule, •
that affidavits put in to prove the truth of the
facts on which a libel was :founded Might not be
read in mitigation of punishment, when . brought
up for judgment. In the case of Lord Leicester
against Tiw Morning Herald, for a libel, the
fending was allowed to put in affidavits, to shew
that there were parts in the plaintiii7s conduct
which afforded grounds Of suspicion as to his
being guilty of. the improper Conduct imputed to
him. •
Mr. BLACKBURN and Mr. EN-4-ss argued on the,
Same side. • •
The ATTORNEY-QENER AL • replied. to their
argninents„ and cono.mded, that •if such affidavits
.were admitted, parties not. at all bef9reethe.Court
might be charged with the most heinous Offences,
and hive no• Opportunity of.defendiug theniSelves
The C0U.113 Was decidedly of opinion that these
affidavits conhl not be teceived. The proper
course for the Court to pursue would be to look
to the situation Of the Defendant at the time he
Wrote this libel, and the inducements on whin
he acted. liehad himself adMitted that he acted
On the information he received on reading certain
newspapers, It would be must unjust to the
defendant now to receive evidence of the false-
hood of such statements in aggravation ; on
the same' principle, it was' equally obj,,,ction-
able to receive affidavits of the. truth of ,such
statements, more especially as reading such affi-
davits might' seriously- prejudice persons not at
all before the Court. For these reasons the
Court thought the affidaviti in queliiitn-could not

be read., • •
Mr: ScAtirtrr sa7d, he‘had a-prodigious nun-
ber of ailidavits Wit he could not, say who her
any of :them. could, -under this'Alecision, ho
ceived. He...hoped their LordshiPS ould affo:A
him an. opportunity of,lookini them over,. and if
ttdmissiWe, to stiLmlt them to the Cdurt cn.a fu-
ture day.
The:CnitF JcsTiCE obs:u-vedi'it was but ri;:,cht
:the. Learned COutisel.sshoold have this opportu-.
nits, and therefore-the case might, for the Ile-
sent, stand 'over, and :the Defendant' come up
.again on WedeteSday.,
• THE KING V. JANE CARLILT.
The SOLICITOR GENERAL MaVed the judownt
of the Court On the,defetidant in. this case, .wlio
was found grillty at the sittings at last Telm
tomion, far publishing a sed tion;
libel in the periodical rie:RAlpus-
-17 he :libel in ques.lion is-4.s 'the .fortn of
a letter to a,Clergyntan at:Bristol, "and justith.A.
the assassination of -tyrants.
Mrs. Carlile; who appeared. in Court with an
infant child inlierarms, put ivanaffidhvit stating •
the distress to Which site had.be'eneXpesect.by the
imprisonment of her husband, qnd' allcOng that
AO published- the libel in question ignorant of its
pernicious or illegal tendency,- and for the main-
tenance of her fatuity. She was under her hus-
band's control, but did not concur either in his
political or theological opinions.
The Sot.ituron,G EN ins AL addressed the Court
in aggravation of Prtnishment, and pointed out
the various prosecution, to Which the Defendant
had wantonly exposed herself.-
Mr. Justice BAyrily, after some severe com-
ments en the character of the libel imputed to
the Defendant, sentenced her," to be impri d
for two years in Dorchester gaol, and, at the ei-
piration of that time, to hind two sureties in 1001.
each for her future good cOlidith."
The husband of the. Defendant is already con-
L fined in the same

Valiance, one of Elie men who pleaded guilty
at York, to the charge of High Treason, has
obtained a free pardon, :Ind returned home ,f‘o h:s
family. • . ,