The Sun.
London, England, 1821-02-09 00:00:00

The Judges deliberated near half an hour.

',Mr. Justice 13AYLEY then
,pronounced judg-
ment. His Lordship, addressing Sir. F. Burdett,
said it was his painful and unpleasant duty in the
situation which he held, to pass, on him the
sentence,• which after a careful consideatiori
•of all the circumstances, the Court felt them-
selves called- upon to pass. It happened that
in the course of the proceedings some variance
of opinion had occurred. It 'was, however, a'
difference of a techniCal description, namely,
whether there was 'a proof of the, publication
in the county of Leicester. There could, how-
ever, have. been no doubt,if the. Court had-granted:
a new trial, other evidence Might have been found
to spew it was circulated in the county, and
that would in jaw have been a.:publicatiokt. • I n
the letter to Lord Sidmouth the Defendatv, ad-
mitted himself to be the author, and that being
the case, it was for the Court to say what was a
proper punishment for a libel of this nature and
character. It was impossible to say what was
the exact state of the public mind at the time
the letter.was written, both with relation to the
facts on which the libel-was founded. It was,
however, founded on facts of which the writer
.was ignorant, but writt6n tuyler.great—egc,ite,l
meet: , Comingtffoin. a• Member of ..Parliament,,
a man of rank. and chara4er the letter must
have increased, that excitement. , True it was,.
that the letter was written, (as indeed from. its
style is apparent) in great hasite,. and under-the
influence of highly excited feelings. The Hon.
Defendant had just himself.`bad stated),
read- in some NewSpapers a statement ,which re-
presented -that men,' women, and children, peace-
ably-assembled, had been cut down by an,armed
force, iu cold blood: God fOrbid, .that-.in this
country any man. Should read such a statement
as this without horror and indignation,,.. But
the Honourable Defendant should havo.recol-
lected,- that he had no right to assume the facts
to have been so from a statement in a News-
paper. He should also have
,known, •that the
crime which had excited his indignation was the
highest known to thelaws, and the proof of which
would reach to the life of the party or parties
committing it. The Hon,:Baronet should there-
-fore have borne in mind, on so *portant and so-
lepn an-occasion, that the law secured for every
man, whatever were his crime, a cool and
*partial. trial; and that to excite „the. pub-
lic-mind while yet the party , was ~v,ep to
the tribunals- -of the law, was to disserhinge a
prejudice from which it was the especial ob-
ject of the law to protect every
,individual.—
The Bon. Baronet had also asswileo,.wit,l,l9:ut the
smallest proof,; that the 'Government was a pre-
meditated party to the outrage
,on which he had
made so strong a comment. The Court taking
into, consideration all the circumstances of the
.cafe, did order. and adjudge' That. you; Sir
Francis BUrdett, for this offehce,•do paya fine of
2,0001., and that you be imprisoned in the cus-
tody of the Marshal of the Marshalsea, for the.
term of three calendar months, and remain
impri-
soned until the" fine is paid."
The sentence was received (no doubt from its
comparative mildness) with loud demonstrations
of applause, which called forth the reprehension
of Court.

The Honourable Baronet was congratulated by
his friends who were in Court, among whom, in
addition to the names we have before mentioned,
were Mr. Lambton, Sir Robert Wilson, Mr. Ben-
nett, and other Members of Parliament.
The sentence was received without the walls
of the!.Court by acclamations from an immense
concourse of the people, whom we left waiting
in expectation of the appearance of Sir FRANCIi.
Soon after the sentence the cloth Baronet drove
off.with the tipstaff and Mr. o o USh, in a hack-
ney coach, over Westminster-bridge, to the King's
Bench.

. _
GREEK TRANSLATION OF ZADtd AND ANTE.NOR.
tSkenteri, a Qreek merchant; settled in
Constantinople, has pubiiShed iii Grieek an ele-
gant translation of Zadig, the romante':'Of Voltaire.
He has also translated the Voyage of Atitenor,
and is now printing it. ,The' author is indefati-
gable in,his exertions, for the diffusion of knoW-
ledge,.and the civilization of Greece in general.
FIRST BOOK PRINTED IN VAN DIEMAk'S LAND.
—ln 1818 a printing-press was set up in Hobart's
Town, Van Dieman's Land, New Hollanct. The
first book from this press is the History 'of a Fu-
gitive Exile, named. Michael Howe, who at the
head of twenty-eight other runaways, disturbed
the tranquillity of the Colony for six yiars. The
work derives importance from the singularity Of
the circumstances, and from the story.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LiNNiEus.—There has
lately been discovered accidentally among the
papers. of a shopkeeper, a biographicil• account
of Linnwns, written by hiinself, and since con-
tinued to his death. The autograph M.S., which
is in the Swedish langUage; has been sent to Up-
sal, and will speedily be printed. It will form
a book of 500 pages in am, embellished with six
engravings, exhibiting two portraits of the great
naturalist, a fac simile of his hand-writing' his
monument in -the Cathedral Church, and the
arms of his family.

Coin of Titus.—A siver coin of Titus was found
in the rubbi.th of an old house, which was lately
pulled down in Ea§tgate-street, in the city of
Chester. In digging the foundation for' the new
building, a pavement was discovered at about
eight feet below the present level of the street.
This gives strength to the prevalent opinion, that
the level of the city was originally that of the
floor of the Cathedral, to which persOns have now
to descend by several steps.
GEOCENTRIC AND HELIOCENTRIC TABLES.—
The Chevalier Theodore Carezzini, a Piedmon-
tese, has invented two kinds of round tables,
which he calls geocentric and heliocentric tables,
and by their aid a person, without any knowledge
of mathematics, can, in a very short time, tho-
roughly observe the course of the stars, and ex-
plain the celestial phenomena. Ladies and youths?.
whom the inventor has instructed'in his method,.
haves without rrniclrprevioui Athowledgg Of
astronomy, satisfactorily solved. -vcitirlons problems
respecting the sun, the-moon, the 'OlanetS, fixed'
stars, eclipses,. &e. By means of"theso instru-.
ments, you may in. the
.open air olidin a. meridian
line in a few minutes, and in a journey by land.
never•miss the direction to- the,n(Ktir,- You may
alio learn the hour. during :the night without a.
watch. It is remarkable -that country,
the. geocentric table may, appear in the flrATte of
an astronoiniCal garden of ii%hatever size you please.
ELECTRICAL Ltowr.---Professor •Meynecke,
-cif Halle, has invented.a- method of producing a
beautiful' illumination, by' means of electrical
light, with the help of artificial air enclosed,with-
in pipes of glass. As electrical sparks may be
generated ad infinitum, a possibility exists, that
by means of an electrical machine, and such an
apparatus as M. Meynecke has invented, a whole
city may be thus illuminated, and with very little
cost..

Geography.---A Berlin Artist, Mr. Charles P.
Klmtnmer, has recently published a globe %Ith
the mountains boldly executed in relief. This
method impresses the subject more forcibly upon
the mind than the mode hitherto adopted, and is
consequently admirably cOlateil, fop rgeogrtu-
phical instruction.