The Sun.
London, England, 1817-12-30 00:00:00

itstahtte: He ditcantcd on•die trlkicli Mr
Hone had to encount.er tor his trial, and oirser,vi'd
that there was something, so calculated to deter Or-
dinary men in the appetrante of thOie,4isgui3o by
large wigs and black •gowns, that.the latter.were
iistoniShed any one should 'presume to think there
was a mere man mlcr a griwn,,or•a !read Under a
wig. But the people now,huew how little defer-
ence was to be paid to:there outWaid semblance,
He then went on to criticise the character,of
English Judge, who might to hold the Scales equally
between power and passion. •While a Jutlge
maintained this • Character, Englishmen must be
safe ; but 'when a Judge shewed hithself.a mere
.thau, a'nd lent hithaelf as a mean instrument of
nisteOial vindictive: persecutions, he was not enti-
tled to that respeit he .would otherwise obtain.-
!He next commented on the- Act •for making the:
fudges independent of the Crown, and contended
that the giving -them pensions for life made
them dependent •on the • Crown, and inde-
pendent of. the -people: indeed,. he would say,.
that they almost invariably lent themselvei to the
Crown, in prosecutions for libel. But if English
Juries would discharge their duty, we might yet
set them at defiance; .He• proceeded to make a
variety of most indecent and outrageous observa-
tions on' the conduct -of the Judges at. the •late,
trials, which were received with loud and conti-
nned shouts of applause: In conclusion, he called
upon Englishmen to resist opPresSion ‘viterever it
appeared, by which all attempts to stab their h-
innies would he frustrated. Let every man per-
secuted only skew the spirit of Mr. Hone, and.the
Crown Lawers• might proceed to eternity.; they
could not destroy one iota of the libeitica of the
people.. •
The Resolution was then carried.

Mr.:IV-MTH:MAN, on returning thanks„repeated
all the observations he had previously made,. ad-
ding, as his. opinion, that •Mr. "loft
,had been
tried, cast, and. sentenced in the minds of his per-
secutors, before he went into Court,. where he
was only brought to go through the forms of the
law under fhe colour of justice. He thought his
trials the triot glorious struggle that had ever been
made in behalf of the liberties of the people.'—.--
H e concluded with informing the Meeting that
Sir Francis Burdett had subscribed 1001. •

A call being made for Mr. hone, Mr.WAITHMAN
said he had been prevailed on to,leave.the•house ;
for he was sure he would not be able to surmount
his feelings, if compelled to present himself before
such a congregation of friends !!!
Mr. JoxEs BURDRTT begged leave to express
his hearty concurrence iu all the sentiments that
had been 'inert(' on the present occasion,. and to
move the Thanks of the Meeting to Lord Coch-
rane.

Lord COCHBANP. briefly returned thanks, and
adverted in' his own prosecution. In the course
of his remarks, he declared-he was the victim of
perjured evidence, and prejudiced observa•
tions that Were made. to the Jury. - But thanks
to Mr. I-lone 4 persevetance, Juries would no
longer be iotimidated by the language, of a
Judge. With respect to himself, he gave a pledge
that' before a month had elapsed he would ex-
pose such a scene of 'iniquity, perjury, and wick-
edness, as Would far eneeed- :111 that even Oliver
and Castles had been guilty of.
The•Aleetiog theti'broke up.