The Sun.
London, England, 1817-08-20 00:00:00

THE CHANCERY MANIAC.

Yesterday this unhappy young man, whose
name is George Turner, again took his seat
amongst the Counsel, outside of the bar. Mr.
Peacock, the Solicitor, his late master, observ-
ing him, went and spoke to him relative.to
the i,”proptiety of his intension, which made him
boisterous, and he was carried out of Court, and
trout thence to Batton-garden Police•office,
by
the Officers orthe.Coutt, appointed for the pur-
pose ot'preventinq, the business. of the Court be- •
ing disturbed. The Magistrate refused -to take
cognizatire of the charge without a special order
front the ••Lord Chancellor, remarking at the same
time (most properly) that if any person commit-
ted a•cootempt of Court, it vas in Us L+rrdsl►ip's
power to commit bite. After he was released by
the ordetof the :Magistrate he returned to the
Court, and was about to he again turned out,
when he applied to. his LOrdship to know whe-
ther it was by his direction that he bad •been so
rudely treated.
The LORD' CTIANCELLOP.—" Not by my orders,
but the Officers thought they woe doing- their
ditty in preventing a lotise itt Court, which cer-
tainly cannot reflect on • its -dignity. Sit down
young mart, and be rittiet, and you maybe assured
cm will not be molested.",
Ile then sat at one of the tables in the nail,
and remained quiet during the remainder of the
day. •

SURREY- ASSIZES.—CauYoos, MONDAY, AUG. 18.

Lot& ELLENBonoutt left the town ot; SAtur-
day evening, but the-Cairtolar +►ut
Mr. .1 . DALLAS l'6ifittlitCd to iry the e illder of
the prisoners ; hut the erisei wcre unintr.restinv,.
The Assizes concluded yesteidoy morning, and
the Circuit 'finished.

Tviestimy last being; the Birthday of his Royal
'on iligess the Pitt NCt REGENT, the troops in gar-
t i-son in Datdin %vete reviewed in the Plitenix ['Ark,
by it ,S Eieelleney the LOED LIPUTENANT) Ord lilt.
Commander of the Forties.—The clay •tyas nolom
monly tine.

[PRIG SEVEICI'2,Nt,E.

MR. O'CONNOR.

Having been inilticed by a sense of justice !Ina

humanity to inset t. this Gentleman's narrative on
:Monclay last, the same sense at' justiZe induces tl3,

ow to offer a few considerations in deteoce of the

Pros'ecution, and therefore wes shall extract any
article on this sohject•
.front The Dublin Weekly
Gazette of the. 16th .instant. Our Readers will

observe Wilt we do not imitate some of our Com-
petitors, who, have often availed themselves of the
contents of Provincial Journals, without acknow;

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ledging the sources. On the contrary, WC-feel
much pleasure, and a ►legree of patriotic pride, in.
observing the talents and knowledge which many
of those Journals' dispky, and the more so, be-
cause the are the vehicles of so►►nd principles,.
and are the determined opponents of"faction. It.
has been the aim of. some -of the Public Punts in
this Country and in Ireland to attempt to throw
an odium on Government for its endeavours to
bring offe3ders to justice) and it has been too
hastily interred by the unreflecting multitude that-
the acqUittal of a Jury is an. attestation of illllo-
- liCe, as if the arts of Faction had no influence
upon the common mind, and as if Juries did not
partake of the universal fallibility of our nature.
We now proceed to our Extract from the above
mentioned Journal

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" It is an argument of no' great respect for the
laws existing among, the people of a Country,
When the condition of it proSecutor is nearly as
dangerous as that
.of a critninal ; and we there-
fore most earnestly deprecate-the practice which
has lately prevailed, of making the acquitted cul-
prit instantly change Places with Iris accuser—of -
giving to the former all the honours cola triumph,
and ofAmputing to the latter all manner of base-
and malignant MOtiVes.
lo conformity with the humane maxim, thrt it
is better one hundred should unjustly escape, tliiit
one unjustly suffer, the guilty are- not
quently at-critter!. inrors are constantly &-
ie,cted, if they, can- entertain a doubt of a .
soOtr'S gOilt, to let that doubt .outweigh all rir-
eilmstanees Of pro'nah lily in tine. oppo,in e ;
and, bet,vven possible errors, in pctfet an error
on the side of •tnetcy. Bo to Support' it ni tit's
innocence of a robbery IM,,Sibli', is lip
acknowledgment of exemplary desert ; and. an
rrtj ‘v-1.1i.e.11 is 7.o,.:deci,i-ve e.:cOlpat too, eve:' •
of, the et ime charged, ecrtdinly does not place ;t
MAO any, the lea•t dg eree in o sciety ave bo the
rank he would have heid had he lwen
civet!. This consideration will, we thinit, suf-
ficiently answer Mr. 'O'Connor's el:lhn to. a
Triumph, or even an Ovation; hot, if more is
wanted, we may add, without in the least lies-
peachier the .terdict which has restored MN
O'Coutaor to tin' place he hell among his Col;n-
-trytnen as a Met. et legalis homo, that two other
persons who were acquitted uf, the robbery, with
the contrivance of wuich that Gentleman was
ehdrged, Were most unquestionaily Gaiity—ot
course we allude to Owens and Waring. As to
the prosecution, we think it needs no justiica- •
Lion- before those who have read the Report of tl,.e
Trial, and compared the narratives' of the t
Approvers, between whose testimony there was
such a coincidence as must have been tine clfect
its truth—of some recent coolederacy and most
ingenious prepartuion—or of a miracle. IVe re-
peat it, we do nut impugn the verdict ot acquit-
tal--the -learned Commentator .on the LOWS of
Ellgbitld boasts it as one of the greatest advait,
tapes .of .our mode of trial, that the Jcry have ant
opportunity of observing the. manner as well as
the matter of the es deuce.
i• The manner ot the Approvers was therefore
probtlbly such as to destroy the value of their tes-
timony' ; for otherwise, the verdict, however jas',
would seem precipate. Burt of the manner ut
witnesses the pioseentors could not judge iontnl
they saw them on the table. One of the perso:-s
too, Reynolds,Mn.• O'Contior's female servant;
on WilOSe 1:11orioatIMIS the pr{,tectition was .inder•
taken, T and whoit is said recanted tnerfirst teams.
moo) (it is to he supposed for good•rettsou) mit;111
have set red to mislead the l'ost-02tice
as to Mr. O'Connor's innocence ‘;
and 'nor infor.
mation proving (howevei fals,iy) an intimacy l:e
tween the Approver Ovens nind • Mr. 0•Co,,
nor about the time of are robbery, woeld Lae,
made .fue case apparently wore mita...wail:de
Add to this, a • t (Tort 0 hie!' lots (Marine:
fur sOtne !time in the County of ;Meath, au
iihieli might have reached the l'o•t Master
Gvneral, that the executed robber and Mordert•
Waring) the ker of the A !Troyer, shoal
after his ;Tin ehension some )•ears communi
cated to a Aiag,stratc, who r{-tared to gibe it riS
sworn itifoimation, a stalefoClit SilbStamtlally tt,
sante as that sworn to by (hens and Isis broths
at the trial ; and that, a felt' 'days before his
uctition, he did swear, before the R.{ v. Mr. Vs'ait
wrighi of Trim, a written information to the sets

effect.
" circum:tances Bre.• of
wt.l'o;r (, fast6l the c.harautt!t- tip,,ti as
al;til, 111 defimice (ii-11,e'verdict 5.;1<11.a .I.4ry
; but they al':, t 5 we prt.srd
()lir I(carters ttili thitik, a full ittstificatioll L
ill VC til urs."

DAVID Esq. has been n,ullinated
tilt: Cm-For:v.:lml (..floucesteroll.l:ty,a at thnt
to! the CLlV!hig .