The Sun.
London, England, 1817-09-13 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUESTS.

FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday an Inquisition
was :taken before THOMAS STIRLING, EST Coro-
ner for Middlesex, at the Volunteer, Upper Baker-
street, Mary-le-bone, on the body of Thomas
David Burleigh, son of Mr. Burleigh, of Park-
street, New-road, Mary-le-bone, who was acci-
dentally killed on Thursday morning.
Elizabeth Serie was servant to Mr. Massey,
46, Palk-street. Between nine and ten o'clock
on Thursday morning she was looking through
the chamber window, and saw the deceased in
the middle of the carriage road, and a chariot
driving up the street ; she saw no person near
who had the care of the deceased ; the road was
sufficiently wide enough to admit four carriages
to pass each other; the chariot was going at a
gentle pace ; the deceased stood still in the mid-
die of the road, and the horses knocked him down
and trampled upon him, and the wheels passed
over him ; she saw the deceased was dreadfully
hurt, and looking towards his father's door, she
saw a hoy who had the care of the deceased, and
who ran and picked him up ; the coachman stop-
ped when he had drove several doors beyond the
child, front some persons calling to him, but de-
clared he had not seen the child ; there were
three Ladies in the chariot which passed over the
deceased.

Air. Wm. Turner, surgeon, New-street, New-.
road, Mary-le-bone, said, that on Thursday.
about ten o'clock in the morning, the deceased
was brought to his house; he examined him, and
found that his loins were crushed nearly flat ; he
died in about five minutes after he saw him.

Samuel Burleigh, aged 14 years, was uncle of
the child ; lie was on a visit to his brother, Mr:
Massey ; he was phiviitgy ~ with the deceatd a little
before ten o'clock on Thursday morifing ; bid
brother called him to bring some water, and dur-
ing that time the deceased went out of the front
door into the carriage road, and was ran over by
a coach the deceased was IS mouths old, and
just cPpable of running abort.
Some of the Jurymen throught there was great
negligence attributable to the conduct of the
coach man.

The coachman (the driver of the hackney cha-
riot No. 7) swore positively that lie did Hot see
the child until after he was called to, and the child
picked up. Verdict—Accidental Death.

STAHVATION.—Another Inquest was held before
the same Coroner at the Vestry-room of %Yapping.
Church, on the body of Jacob Longbottom, an
old seaman, who died from long fasting.—lt ap-
peared in evidence, that the deceased had a small
pension from Greenwich, which was his only sup..
port, except au occasional job amongst the ship-
ping. The preceding day, the Captain of the ship
Clio, of Sunderland, met the deceased on shore,
and knowing him, he bring from the same town,
ordered him to go on board his ship and get his
dinner. When he went on board, he said he had.
not tasted a bit of food fOr three days, and had no
means to procure any. He complained of a pain.
in his bowels ; and an Excise Officer on hd,-at
gave him a little coffee with some brandy in it,
part of which lie drank. He was afterwards of-
fered some tea ; but he was so weak he could not
drink any. He was given some hot meat, part. of
which he ate, He attempted to vomit, but could
not, and became so extremely weak, that he wag
undressed and put into a hammock, where he died.
shortly after. The Surgeon's opinion was, that
his death was caused from weakness, proceeding
from long fasting, so that he could not digest
what he had eaten. Verdict—Died from long
Fasting.

PENDLETON MURDERERS.-A paragraph In The
Liverpool Courier of Wednesday, giving au account
of the execution of the Pendleton murderers, at
Lancaster, states :—" Our inFotTnant, who was
close to the foot of the scaffold, reports, that he
thought be heard one of the Ashcrofts ejaculate
Lord ! forgive me tor these murders Of this,
however, he is not positive, as there was ceniide-
rabic uoise at the moment."

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.

(COOtinitdd frOm olir i'aper of yesterday.)

CURSORY REMARKS ITON THE TRANSACTIONS OF

THE LAST SESSION OF PARLIAMENT.
(14d7n. The (Theban) Correspondent qf August 16.)

The Se”ret Commit,ee of the House of Lords
rave the best ryjrly to Lord Grosvenor's iceusa-
tion agains't 'the .oinisters. They did not report,
thit the disaffection which -existed was the 'off-
spring of he Ministers' uuwillingicess tr. Reform
but they stated, very explicitlv, in their Report,
that the e‘idenee laid before them leaves no
dtpthr in their minds, Ciat a traitorous Conspiracy
bad hcen formed in the Metropolis, tor the pur-
pose of overthrouing, be cacaos of a general iti-
sorrect t Est3blishment .G"vvrument 1-4,"v6,
and Constantion c.is Kingdom, and Of effect-
ing a gene' al ph:infer and .divisihin of properly.
If ,he or, of the Establishment, Go.
vcr,ltliuur. Laws, and Constitution of the King-
dom, and the effecting of a general plunder, be
Betorm—certainly the Ministers deserve but little
thaoks for a mere unwillingnss to befriend it.
If they were not resolved, at the hazard of their
lives, to resist such a 'Reform as this, they were-
little better than the Reformers themselves, who
aimed at bringing about such a desperate inver-
sion of the entire cointnnuity. NVhatever imper-
fections may belong to the peculiar condition of
British society—Whether the Sovereign possess
tiehts of his own, and is not a pensioner dim() to
Democracy—whether the House of Commons be
such as it was in 1215, according to Mt. Cobbctt,
ex, ept that the Members are slot now paid, as
they then were, for their lParliamentary attend-
ance—whether the Sovereign Majesty eau be-
stow a mark of ;;t ace or favour upon a servant,
or, upon another, for a servant's sake—whether
we suffer tinder the misfortune of having beaten
France, broken down her despotism, and rescued
ourselves, our liberties, and 11:e annals of our re-
nown, from the house of bondage—whether we.
have the misfortune to be free, more majorum—
alCd great, and powerful, gad renowned, beyond
all former examples, that ever flourished in the-tide
of times, yet, great as those misfortunes may appear
to the philosophic eye,-they do, notwithstanding,
appear to a people of vulgar predilections, to be
endurable enough ;- anti, in themselves, consider-
ably to be preferred, to the overthrowing of our
Establishment, our Government, our Laws, and
our Constitution, and to the licensing of a sys-
temati. scheme of general plunder The latter is,
certainly, at all times, and in all countries, a po-
pular ohjuct. " General phonier " has something
very raptivating in it. It is a north-west passage
to property. It involves in it, the punishment of
all, those who are hated, only because tiny have
something to lose, or so:twilling to doln the pub-
lic N • rvier ;—and, to hate, implacably-,-,o detest,
vigorously—and to execrate, dreadfoll, without
a possihiiity of mercy or magnanimity—constitute
rite distinpuishing and characteristic badge by
which cue of the " general plunder" Patriots may
Le, known among a million ;—and it also promises
a new order of things, an amusing and an interest-
ing top-y-turvy-ism in our civil system, v. hich is,
in itself,- a delightful relief front the tedium of
obeAienee and duty, security and protection—au
emu:site release front that li,nlessuess, which is
engendered by order, authority, LaW and Govern-
ment—the grand unisance► of life, when Society
teaches its condition of philosophic maturity.

The Mini-ters were corrupt enough to resist
those inoocent gratifications of a rerunning age.
They were base enoto.;1) to rummage out Itoninons
villains and metaplossical robbers, sedate and con-
templatiie rebels; calculating and most eloquent
traiors—tlo-y were profligate enough to meet,
With vigilance and vigour in every point, those
gracious and" placable Reformers, who were pant-
Aic to confer upon them, and 'won all who acted
%%id) them, or who thought Ilk,' them, the itu,
mortality which is connected with -martyrdom.—
They %sore degenerate enough to disavow all re-
renounce every desire in favour of the
li-
bt•ral scheme of " gencral plunder"- which the
Secret Committee of the House of Lords reported
16 have been set WI foot in the Metropolis. They
Were such slaves in heart—such oppressors in in-
clination—such blood-suckers of the public
wealth—such desperate enthusiasts in the support
of arbitrary power, that they exerted themselves
strenuously in opposing, by all the means with-
in their reach, the conspiracy " formed in the
Metn polls," according to the Report of the
Scut, Co emit-tee of the Lords, " for the pur-
pose of overthrowing, by means of a gener,l
incur CCI,II, the Establishment, Government,
Laws. and ConstituiiorF of the kingdom.'7
it is not to be woudeted at, that Mr. Hunt,
at tl,e Jubilee lately given at a Tavern in
London, in honour of a very narrow escape,
&mold pledge himself to impeach one of those
Mmisters, woo it so conspicuously guilty of these,
anti other enormities, equally criminal. The only
astonishment is, how any man---,alive to the mi-
series of a country which is doomed to live under
its own Cuustitutton, to observe its own Laws,
to &ley its lawful Sovereign, to share the super-
fluities of prosperity, to riot in the very excesses
of civil Itherty, and io he,ailtuircd and ievereneed
by the its valour in war and its mode-
ration i,t vietory—could thitik with common pa-
tience of such Ministers, or of the hirelings, and
wrete'.es, Nutt toist restos, who stand up in defence
of such aggravated delinquents. No is order that
every Juan, !abuse puke heats high in the glorious
cause, which ti,L. Repot t of the beeret Committee
of the Louis affirms to have its resting place in
London, .should vow veogeance against such Ali-
Divers—the sm.-line. and- minions of kin ancient
Consti.o I ; the laborious advocetcs of its trans-
mission to posterity; the jealous combatants for
its preservation and prosperity. No wonder that
the Liberal lies; should itn%eirlt against them—
wen, Who are stainc.l with the spots and blotches
of doing 111 e public! bil;iines—the-bCii: Ad of Watch-
ing ()yet. the public weitare—the infamy of put-
comliiions upon France, and upon
Buonapartc—t tie I.:ily true and gettoine raw-licad-
apO-bloody-hones of every philosophic sconudiel,
eoio enjoys the pure and exquisite malignity of
c‘deolatingfopon the dtstruction of Estas
blishment, the Government, Laws, and CConst;ttt-
tiun ut thisliiTiOont wonder that tacit, so

ineofrigible in sti.ch steeped in pre-_
ju:liee favour "Of -the Establishment, the Go-
vernment, the Constitution-, and the- Law—so
lost, anal .t; irrecoverable, to all enlightened ends
of Reform', :or of " a general plunder and division
of property --should he squibbed, and peppered,
and vellicated, and lacerated, in the Liberal
Press, while a scribbler can he procured for Jove
or money, to be the executioner of their cha-
racters.

Who can be surprised, if corruptions of this
sort were to 'ming such disrepute upon the GO.
vernment, that even Fria': Hayes wookl not en-
trost it with goveroing in a poito—though its his
(crest and duty concurred to exact a pore and a
sttict discharge of its obligations? Really, the
Ministers have In-might the country into a very
sad quandary, by their onaccountable pertinacity
in supporting its Laws and Government against
" a traitorous conspiracy," as the Secret Com-
mittee has declared, " formed in the Metropolis,
for the.purpose of overthrowing, by means of a
general instnrection, the Establishment, the Go-
vernment, Laws, and Constitution of this King-
dom, and of effecting a general plunder and divi-
sion of property."
On this account they have lost all credit. Their
system-7-which is depraved enough to be the Ad-
ministration of the Constitution, according, to
law, and tile settled policy of the State, as it has
worked for ages—is now very properly the object
of, professed derision, and of real detestation, with
all liberal politicians. Not a Tavern can receive
its little groupe of tippling Patriots, but a toast
is given to the damnation of the Ministry. Not a
refractory spirit, or a wrong-headed blockhead,
can oppose himself to the Government, that he
is not canonized into a Patriot, by strong licptors
of some slot being drank to his health—not a
blatant bell-wether C4ll make a noise,.at thy' head
of any flock of simpletons, that he is not em-
balmed in toasts, and preserved in paragrap;is,
against rapid oblivion—not a brazen-tai ed pro-
fessor of public noise and public caloomy,' who is
not site to be hidden to the revels of Reform, and
the orgies of its abettors,--where he is certain to
be bespeeched and bepraised, until even veteran
impordence is almost staggered. 1 here is tiothing
too mischievoos, nothing too excentric, 01 nothing
too absurd, that is not dear and %selcome:to all
those who are tired out with seeing the same Go-
vernment eternally existing, the Same men in power,
the Sallie success attending; their measures—the
same abominable success in all things—whether
against the world's oppressors abroad—the pirate's
Wonder, or the traitor's scheme. Nobody knows
what savage agony all this causes, who is not
long matriculated in some 01 the new schools of
political philosophy, or who is not furiously in-
stigated by some of the old incitements—rancid
dislikes, adverse principles, inflexible prejudices—
all precipitating those whom they atMict into
such extremity of antipathy, as to cause a desire
for general destruction, rather than that particu-
lar objects of aversion should possess power or
prosperity any loOger.. In the generality of the
coteries of splenetic politicians, who • continue
disinal carousals as opportunities for speeches and
toasts, there are sometimes a few ehangeS fling
upon common-places something said upon
the dis,ress of the times, die interest of the
debt, and the effecs of taxation—as if the times,
the debts of the country, and its revenue, were
contrivances of the present G,overnment—and
then, some individual is sure to be mangled.—
Falsehood and fury seize upon some public man,
and glut themselves into a repletion of calumny—
and every stupid assertion is pointed with some
stroke of paltry scurrility, to make the guests
laugh, and to cause them to hate the Government
the more. One sontid proposition, relative to the
principal cause which really does embarrass the
country--the inequality between employment,
and the labour which is seeking for employment
—is never heard at one of those refractory and
turbulent festivals : on the contrary, .it is not
once, On fifty occasions of this sort, that any
thing is promulgated, in the erojects of returns—
which, escapieg restraints, will frequently en-
large themselves from the mouths of shallow 1111(1
overweening spirits—that bears upon it the
slightest author.ty from knowledge or reason, or
plain good sense and, it those measures Were to
he adopted, which are the most freqttently reCom•
mended, by our Lawgivers at Clubs,- and by the
Solons of the Tavern, and the Legislators of the
Public Mobs—there is nothing which could save
the country from confusion and Misery
wisest, and the ablest, and the bonestest men
that the United Kingdom comprehensively ever
produced, could not save it from the most de-
plorable disorder, if that course of remedies were
adopted, which, for the most part, is opposed by
the soi-disant friends of Reform, to the measures
pursuing by the Government.

[To be continued.]

LANCASHIRE ASSIZES, Sam Id.

FREEDOM OF SPEECH AT THE BAR.

HODGSON V. SC lELETT.

Mr.RtcuAaosos stated this action to he brought
by Peter Hodgson, gentleman, for damages on
account of words spoken by James Scarlet t, Esq.
at the last Spring Assize in this Court.
Mr. RAIN-E.—May it please your Lordship,
Gentlemen of •the Jury. It often happens to, all
of us, owing to professional accident, t►► lie en-
gaged in actions painful to our feelings. Painful,
I can with truth assure you, the pt esent action is
to my feelings. Having travelled in- our profes-
sional walk, with a gentleman of Mr. Scarlett's
character fur more than 26 years, I►ayiog known
him in private lite for a still longer period, I can-
not be supposed capable, by any who know me,
of hatbouring an unkind sentiment towards him,
and still less of giving utterance to such a senti-
ment, if I could entertain it : but. what I owe to
my client, what I owe to the profession .to which
1 belong, what.l owe, I may say. it without. ar-
rogance, to myself, oblige me to lay before you
the groom! of the present action. Peter Hodgson
is, and has long been, an eminent attorney in
Whitehaven, in the- county of Cumberland, and
applies now to you in consequence of the wound
given to his plOfessional teputation by Mr. Scar-
iest's language at this bar. The freedom of speech
'a[ the bar is of the utmost importance. Dut:ng

the pres'ent AFSire I hearth with match Pleasure,
Mr. Searlett descant 'upon this tonic. I could
not help believing that he spoke then in
anticipation of this action. This freedom of
speech is of the greatest importance, nor only
to the dignity of 'the bar, but to the interests
of the public, whoSe high anti delicate in-
tetests are entrusted to the bar. 'Of thlTa freedom
none can he a more strenuous and tenacious friend
than I. In' importance 'and utility I hold it to be
of the saute rank as freedom of iiiicussion in the
Commons' Houte 'of Parliament. - I. bare thus
made the highest admission favour-of Mr. Scdr-
! lett, hot bounds .nest he set to this freedom. of
speech—otherwise, from tyre greatest blessing, it
hecoines the bitterest curse that 'can infest and
annoy society. Thlessc bounds Were overleaped in
this ease. Mr. Saani.aTt, while- addressing the
Joty for the defendant in an action in this Court,
went out of his way to triiduee and vilify the
character of the Attorney for the plaintiff, and to
.round his reputation. - I shall not go into the
patticulars of that action : they are not upon
the record, and his Lordship will tell you
that it was not necessary they should. The
words charged, and which we.-- shall prove
to have been Spoken, are these—" Some ac-
tions are founded its folly, some, in knavery"
(Mr. B. Woon; That is surely true.-.--Mr. Rama,
Yes, my Lord, these are certainly truisms, but
they are thus connected), " st,me in both ; some
actions in the folly and knavery of attortries, and
some in the folly and knavery of the parties."—
My triem is not aps to drat iu metaphysical abstrac-
tion ; you know very, well that lie does not use
words a i bout application. We .shall not attempt
to prove his whole speech. • You know with how
little credit a long story is rTeived from witnesses;
but we shall prove the words here entered upon
rise ecord : l'e'er flAgsou was the attor-
ney for the pitititiff 5 lie duct the promissory note;
trandnieni!y got Beaumont to pay 150/. to the
plant lir, This w:is the most profligate thing I ever
kaew ‘lone by a professional man." '1" hen follows
the particular, expression which we have charged
in the second count on the record : it concludes
the rmarks already stated to you. The sting is
always in the tail. " Mr. Hodgson is a fraudu-
lent and wicked attorney." Now, Gentlemen, I
ask you, if you were wrong in any action brought
into this Court, how would you like such abuse
of the freedom of speech by a Gentleman holding
a high reputation at the bar ? A humbler indivi-
(Mal, if he had not the spirit and the honour to
vindicate his farne from such an attack, would be
ruined. My client has the spirit and honour to
repel it. t The defendant has joined the general
issue, that is, the words are denied; I have
a right to presume, indeed I have more than
a presumption, that his instructions did not war-
rant the words, and Mr. Hodgson has taken
care to ascertain the fact. In the hurry, agit-
ation, and irritation 'of the .bar, words may
certainly he uttered that are not warranted
but a serious impression to tile injury of
character and professional career could never be
allowed to he made with impunity. What was
Mr. Hodgson to do ? He called upon Mt. Scar-
let to justify or to deity these words ; he would
do neither. Mr. Hodgson, therefore, found he
must appeal to a jury. The words will be in-
disputably proved. Mr. Hodgson was distinctly
predicated to ae a fraudulent and wicked attorney.
The only question then was, Whether he was thus
to be traduced with impunity. I mentioned that .
the plaintiff lives in a different county. It is gene-
rally a suspicious circumstance for a plaintiff to
come to a Jury of a different county, as it he
could nut trust a Jury who knew his- character.—
Bot in this case the action was brought here be-
cause the wrircls charged had been uttered here:
and it is rattier advantageous to my learned friend,
for if
,there is one place on this circuit in which be
is better known than in aoother place, it is the
county palatine of Lancaster. As 1 believe this
will be the last time I can address you on the sub-
ject, 1 tou-t say a word of damages. distinctly
disclaim for my client that damages are his ob-
ject. lie only wants the vindication of his in-
jiired character. You will take care that he sus-
tain no loss by this vindication. I do-not ask for
angry and vindictive damages. I ask no more than
justice to my client. Less than justice you will
not give.
Mr. Baron WooD.—Can you mention any action
of- the same kind, or upon what principle it can
be maintained ?

Mr. MAINE.,—I do not know that any action of
the Idiot has ever been brought.
Mr. Miro') Woob.—lt appears to me that an
action cannot be maintained for words spoken in
judicial proceedings. If a Counsel misbehaves,
or goes too far, the Judge who presides corrects
his misconduct ; but if 'an action is once main-
tained, there is no end of it. Actions of this kind
would perpetually occupy the Court. If a Coun-
sel were to prise in his pleading. and to s ty such
a man is a great rogue, that would be actionable.

Mr. RA;.NE.—That is precisely our case. We
say the libellous expressions were voluntarily and
gratuitously used.
Mr. Baron \Voon.—No ; whether a note was
fraudulent or not, as I understand the record, for
I know nothing ofthe nature of the first action.
Mr. tcnA RDS ON .-The privileges of Parlia-
ment have been alluded to. I don't apprehend
that the question here has any resemblance to
thens.—(Mr. B. WooD —Why not ?)—Well, be it,
that the utmost freedom of speech is allowed ;
but to go out of the way to attack charactcr-7---
(Mr. B. Woon.—No, it was not.ont of the way;
the words might be too severe, but they were
connected with the note. It n ould be a dan-
gerous precedent to receive an action on such a
ground )-11 a man's character is injured, it, for
instance, a surgeon is injured and onstriteted in
his career, there must surely be some remcdy.--
I, like all my brothers, ant interested in the full
freedom of the bar, but there must be a
he privilege of Parliament is a peculiar species
of right that cannot in its very nature be made
actionable in Courts of Law. The plain;tpwstion
here is, if tilt: Counsel voald with impnuity "go
out of his way, and. say, Mr. Hodgson." is a
fraudulent and wicked attorney."

Mr. Tom NG.—Does your Lordship wish to 3”'
any thing on the question ?
Mr. 13. Woon.—Yes.
Mr. tXTKCt to hear some ob-

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his cSonitno unsel, at f,ll ;1;1
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vigorous
ly his taletlt"
,learning, and iodustry to the cause in which
is engilgede 'The words in the record ere (.1y _
oviffi.,.the the continent, which l''f
Honourable and Learned Friend felt at the
tithe
to be merited. The facts of .the case warrauted.
the 'commeut. Mr. Heine very judiciously il?
vely ably—l observe lie shales his head, bus
will say --(Ml
ir. IZattee.-1 read every troril.)—e,
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heard t
i nt, that he showed great peodence end discre7
don in not communieeting the facts and cirettal',
stances of the case. The words were severe, bti-
cause my Hon. and Learned Etieud felt seventh
to be warranted. They were the comments whicl:
the learning and ability of my friend' suggest'
on the facts proved. " Some actions are loutnle
cd in folly." That action was so, for it ender
in a non-suit. The whole pa:,sage eves .not
specting the character of Mr. Hodgson in getteraq
but in this case. If the Counsel are not allot't'edto Collitliellt 011 the facts nroved, there is alt
of the British Bat's ; 3 ettete.,,ies are -Pi"'
l'alYzed lor ever : without those iair hoover,"
able exertin s which are thus attempted to I'4,
suppressed, it will he neither creditable nor use"
lid: The expressions .used by my tricot' wcr'
coiled for And merited in wy opinion. But it w 36,
necessary not only to preve that they were false,
but malicious. Good God 1 vsTi it be said LllO
we tech any malice against a parts, agaicst who:l4'
e exert oursclves at this bar ? Will your I,ooi-
ship be the first ;ledge to•lettvr the Bar
•
if I may use a coinse and vulgar expre:-si,ill,
oblige every Counsel to ailniess a Jury will'
ri
halter about his neck Toe danger i•
and plaitt. Your Lotdshiii out aeo lei
a principle to be established hitherto unkuowu
Englidi law.
berjeunt HuLLoCK.—That this action i•
impressiogis is proof of the unattimous npinioe id" el
whole Prolession against it. 'the Words %v. re 115"
in the fair and legitimate exercise of his pr°''se,,
sion ; they were too strong pia halts, but
were not actionable. It he had met a man ill
street and repeated them, it would be a libel.
•giving .tt character to a servant ileac could be LI,
ground of action.• Sir Jervis Clifton raft "“11“
liable in an action, because he had w tit it raleiter-
respecting a servant, alto he had given the e"..
racter. There was no vindication 041 record,. be-
cause the manner and occasion was the
two. If this action were maintained, it wow'
be the ruin of the British public as well as of a“:
privileges of the Bar.
Mr. LITTLeDALE.—The words arose from
fair Discussion of the questiOn. if they had bec'je
used on a question Of trespass, the Case would b--
different. The action is as on a note; the at:
was Ira ; it was-lvicktii wist hatA.4leat
its
an Attorney to act so: Mr. iiodgsoil +.'ikis 11°15
trauduleot awl wicked Attunlq. '1 he %voles w(..1-
iiot distinct and independent. I udatit that iVl'
Scarlet t would be li bide it be bad spoke') the ‘vor•
in the street, or caused them to he islied
newspaper. That hat ve'haewo„-ield otherwise be i,ber"
lons might be said in giving the character of
servant was proved iu the case of Weatiesto''t;
ii. Hawkins.
Mr. BAINE (in reply).—The words arel-01'1,
The comment was unmerited. That they 3",1:,
malicious, I may say, appears on the face of
expressions. I have been twitted twice ; one sile
would be enough for not eitiug a case: 't
tinctly admitted that 1 knew no,cese. The
lion is, whether there are no bounds, and Colo"; ,
may go any length. If there are, to call my dirt
going
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bounds anti limits witicli mtist'be fixer(
tZijne sanction
this action, of
first time, because it
would 10(b)srtonuig:sh,t.bill.ir
.),,ot:r.
not merely to the bar, but to the pablic. 3.1. c
itords might overstep the bounds of proorieuri.'
and lie ,100 severe, but they were not to be eI.TI
reeled by such au action. It-they had bee° s'"iti
elsewhere, it they, had been published, they Corr';,be punished. In the privileges of P n
ailiioe.t -
was time same. The principle was this—whatece:
is said inJudicial or Legal Proceedings is not
tionable. If published, it is. Lord
was found liableitythe Kiors-Benetion thi• fitP„
ciple, ana was itnin isoned. lie refused on
same principle, to maintain au action at Nort'''
ampton, brought by a Clergyman against a yr
rishionere for letters written to the Bishop of "16,
Diocese (Peterborough), because he .oche
.make Courts of Law ancillary to Ecciesiestic°
Courts, the Parishioner hating A right to in'"l'°
such representations to the Bishop. It had bee;
said, some limits mnst he set. His ohjectioft,'
this action teas the difficulty of fixing litnit',
;
During one As',ize, they could do nothing but fr,•
actions brought for words used by Counsel g
former Assize. The words might he tote sevcre'
I cannot say any thing of that.—Plaintiff 11011'
suited.
Mr. SCARLETT sat with ratich COllll,O5OVe,
ordinary place, (luring t;, is warm and interesti°'
discussioo.

On.Munday last, at Lqngtpril-1-10ttse, Longford, Middlescs
Mrs. Edward Oiirbon, of n'son..
On Wt doesday • last, at -Bat tersen, the Lady 0f.3.
stable, Esq. of a daughter.

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Ott the I Ith tilt. at Ci..ildwall. Ralph Lowe, I:.;q• "f
raltar, to Miss haves, of Vti'avertree, near Liverfr,,,,i. ~jesl
Ye,terdav, at li...tint:ld, G. U. IV:tril, Esq. to Mary, lite e'
daughter of the Lite D. \Vilitnn Sawttlees,M.D.
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013 Mon day last, at Orlingbory, in Northam ronshire,
54.11) year Of her uge, Elizabeth Susaona Fredetioh
Countess' Wartensiehen, wife of the Ree. Jon) t11,7161'.11,i,.
it -tor of Griii.gliury, and widow of the late .fosepl)
Esq. formerly his nude!) die '..N.lajesty!s Minister Plec.iir
tiary et the Court f
On 111 c 10111 July, Anthony Tregent, Esq. late ei
mouth, at the advi.theed age of 95 years:and 10 months-

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