The Sun.
London, England, 1821-07-21 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY.—(rms DAY.)

At 10 o'clock Mr. Justice lIOLROYD, attended
by the usual City Officers, took his seat on the
Bench.

CHARGE OF Mu RD ER.—JU/17: Summers, an
elderly man, was then placed at the Bar, and in.
dicted on the Coroner's Inquest, for the wilful
murder of Mary Summers, his wife, in May last ;
he pleaded not guilty, and the evidence of the
person who found the body was taken, as was
also that of Mr. White, the House Surgeon of
Marylebone infirmary, who was clearly of opinion
that the body when found was in that state..that
it would be impossible to ascertain the cause of
the death of the person. The Learned Judge,.,
then addressed the Jury, and explained the law
of the case. The Jury instantly acquitted the
prisoner.
FATAL AFFRAY IN WESTMINSTER. tralAt'S
Jones, Thomas Lee, Richard Roebothom,
Harry, and James M'Carthy, privates in the
Foot Guards, were then placed at the bar,
charged with the wilful murder of WM. COGLE,
on the 18th June last. This trial was postponed
until Tuesday next, by direction of the Learned
Judge.--The Court was crowded to excess.

[Proceedings of yesterday.]
Yesterday Thomas Wellman, aged• 18, and Martha Well-
man, aged 17, brother and sister, were put to the bar, on an
indictment charging them with stealing in or about the month
of June last, in the house of Mr. George Alexander, of the
parish of St. Mary, Islington, one Sil. one 401. one 201. and one
151. notes of the Bank of England, the property of Wm. Rue.
The prisoner Martha had been called in to assist the regular ser-
vant of Mr. Alexander, whose wife was con fined to a bed of
sickness, and as such had access to the room in which the pro-
perty was. After the death of Mrs. Alexander the notes wee
missed, and the respective persons in the house taken before a
Magistrate, bnt notning appeared to criminate any one in parti-
cular. Subsequently the male prisoner paid the 151. note to the
shopman of Mr. Harvey, of St. Giles's, which having passed
through several hands, was at length stopped at the Bank, and
the prisoners taken into custody. No other part of the pro-
perty was found, nor was there any evidence to prove that the.
male prisoner had ever entered the house, though he called on
his sister twice about the time the robbery was supposed to
have been committed.

The COMMON SERJEANT summed up the evidence, and the
Jury having retired for upwards of an hour, brought in a ver-
dict of Not Guilty against both prioners.
The COMMON SERJEANT said the prisoners had had a most
merciful and lenient Jury, and if the verdict. had t)-0n unf.-
vourable, the law would have been carried into full effect.

Mr. Sergeant VAUGHAN met with a sericas
accident yesterday morning as he was drivini7
his single-horse chaise through Leicester-sq•ter;.y
in consequence of the animal falling. The Learn-
ed Gentleman was thrown out with consider-
able violence, and much bruised on the bead uhd
knee.

TIIE LONDON JOURNALS.
DAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS.

July 21.

[MORNING POST.]
it is impossible to reflect on the manner in
which his Majesty's Coronation has been cele-
brated, without feelings of triumph and exulta-
tion. Those who objected to the measure at this
particular period, as involving an expellee which
they did not consider to be strictly uecessary—
those who affected to regard it as a splendid
pageant unsuited to the sober sense of the nine-
teenth century—and even those whom it filled
with alarm, on account of the expressed inten-
tion of the Radicals to turn it into an opportu-,
nity for breaking the public peace,—all now
unite in extolling the wisdom and firmness which
caused it to take place, and in congratulations at.
its result. Never indeed was expence better ap-
plied, or splendour more usefully displayed ;?
leaving out of our consideration the certainty of
reimbursement to the revenue from the immense
consumptio❑ of taxable articles on the occasion.
Deceived by the arts and activity of the mis-
eilifivous, the country entertained, a wrong opi-
nion of thetr numbers and their power. They
boasted with so much apparent confidence of
their strength, and had occasionally shown them-
selves on so many points, that whilst their
principles were detested, credit was given to
their assertions, and undue fear excited. A
degree of momentary influence was thus created,
hich, though resting on no other basis than de-
lusion, enabled the seditious and the base to
do some injury to the country, and to menace it
with additional evils. This influence could only
be destroyed by having its reality brought to the
test. Once measured in all its proportions, it
would be found too weak and contemptible to
survive the exposure. Yet the experiment might
not be without danger ; for it has occasionally
been in the power of a desperate few to produce
considerable mischief. The experiment has now
been made, and the delusion is dispelled. The
Coronation has exposed the nonentity of that in-
fluence, which 'had so long and so unaccountably
agitated, if not overawed, the country. It excited
the utmost fury on the part of those traitors who
would make even the unworthy partner of the
Throne a sharer in their treason. It roused all their
energies for evil, and brought them into action. It
became the mark at which their fiercest arrows
were shot,in the hope of wounding the Constitution
through the sides of the Monarch. But what has
been the result? Their quiver is exhausted; what
injury has been done? Have their secret arts, their
legal ingenuity,and their more open and desperate
attempts been able, even for a moment, to inter-
rupt the peace of the country, or to endanger the
security of the Throne ? Has not every bolt, on
the contrary, recoiled with tenfold vengeance on
the hand by which it had been launched ? Have
they not in their eagerness to injure their King,
even sacrificed their last hope, their last resource—
the assistance which they might derive from the
subserviency of a Queen, who in the desperation of
her situation, consented to become an instrument
of their designs. Did they not force their
wretched victim to seek, nay to court the bit-
tgrest pangs of degradation, and to sink so far
below all former disgrace, as to lose for ever the
little influence which she might still retain over a
small portion of the deluded ? But they are
politically extinct, and we will not exult over
the dead. As it is to the Coronation, however,
that we owe the exposure of their weakness, and
their consequent annihilation as a party in the
land—as it is to the Coronation which afforded
the sense and loyalty of the people an opportu-
nity of manifesting themselves in all their truth
and fervour—and as we are convinced, that from
this moment the peace of the country is secure,
;•e cannot refrain from adding our feeble voice to
the concert of national gratitude which is now
rising round his Majesty, as the author of so great
a blessing, and so cheering a prospect..