The Sun.
London, England, 1810-11-23 00:00:00

PACCIN.4I'IOA.

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rely 11.1'1,e taken a leading part respecting this
lataaY i.nlP°T.intlt subjea, which will be interesting to
tartil)'ind as long as' they are inhabitants of
,this
ar" and have admitted.freely the
-statements and
q,g",,nnents of Its opponents., as well as supporters,
tote Public rerreit Our duty to Present the following article
Orece
.01 Minister of the Interior.--,Central Committee of
the Vaccine Institution, at Paris.
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xiecid years of labour and success, have at. length
pos, 'LI tile important question, as to the Vaccine
it lessiag the power of preserving all those in whom
s4l',llre%elary gone through its progress, from the,
of P°x• This has been carried to .such a degree
mit-te?;lltY by the experiments of the Central Corn-
Pre.eci and its numerous correspondents, as 'well
ao nehmen as strangers, that tl•ere is not at present
thY .a`'.•l medirmie better proved or more certain,
ho'n-' that which establishes the truly anti-vuriolous
r Wfier 01 the Vaccine.
Majesty 'the Emperor and King, to whom the
present reports of the Central Committee
,have been
11,0-selnted, has been sensible of. the adYantages which
se-„,u'd result from the general propagation of the
kneculation. His Majesty has seen the preser-
Nr'en and lecrease of the population of his vast em-
nnreediately- connetted with the adoption of .
liiti-,ll',."hed. He has had ;an ,account, rendered to
ye-Aol the obstacles which, in some districts, might
vont ?Puse, its progress, and has found that these
is%„'`'tecl principally in the great difliculy of procur-
and Preserving the Vaccine fluid:
pe6n Ca%equence his Majesty wishing to give his
.signal nark rk of, his paternal. solicitude, has
r•r ea to his Excellency the Minister of the Inte-
"10- aa annualand Special credit, destined to provide
tier, th,e,expetices necessary for' extending the 'nue-
,•- rle has formed, in 24 of the principal cities of
0 (Ice, depots of the Vaccine fluid, :ti Mere every •
of 1e
who -wishes to pradict vaccination.may be sure
finding disposable matter. These are,
Bourdeatix, Brussels, Caen, Clermont
Dijon, Florence, Lisle, Lyons, Marseilles,
to'n z, 'Montpellier, Nancy, Nantes, ()deans, Par-
Bermes, lipuen, Saintes, Strasbourgb,
kit" ''e, lours, and Turin.
ty Majesty has further cleated a Vaccine Com-
til.t.ee at each of these depots, .and has.preserved to
let,,,t:'enttal Committee, established near. his Excel-
r? tile Minister of the Interior, its original or-
ands4ll°ll, charging it with the central depot of
• I
cf conclusion, his- Majesty has appointed, by his
ak-ee of the titli-Nov. last, annual,rewards for those .
h`
shall have pet formed the greatest .number of
co- aliens—colletted t lie mostimportant facts—over-
sir Fe most obstacles—and arrested the course of va-
rt:b°,,ns epidemics. These rewards have been so dis-
lab uted, that-every effort has been noticed, and every
°lir proportionally recnitipen••ed.
panes;
are t tins determined r— st, A prize ,of 3000
pi::"es; 2d, two priies of -2000 frauds ; 3d, three
xo,lzes of Iwo francs ; and 4th, a hundred silver
eats bear:tig the head of the Emperor.
-pre- hese powerful motives always to keep' up and
to serve the Vaccine fluid ; this energetic incentive
a" emulation which must dire& the efforts of
- e Praaitioners towards a rapid eropagation of' the
atiaece:!ne, leads to the hope that the public commud
of his Majesty's benevolent intentions, will
the,snntheient to give a general impulse in favour of
lib" ew method, and banish in a'few years, that
urge, the, Small Pox, from the French territory.
A •
1Ire„ dy the returns of the mortality in the city of
). n's, for the year 1800, exhibit only 213 deaths
414 Small Pox. This number, though yet too'con-
ii:ra tele, since the Vaccine offered to these 213
ir`tiths a Certain method of preservation, is yet ex-
al;illielY small in comparison of that of some years,
3an the epidemic Small Pox has carried off, in the
eit.(', more than 20.000 individuals. The
ti,-.."'"ltee does not hesitate to atirinute this dimi-
ferti" of mortality to the zeal with which the difs
se:nt Members, who compose it, have extended
tlis- Practice in the large establishments to which
theY are attached, as Physicians and Surgeons; to
:leri:"r4 of all the professional men, and of some
s .e esiastics in the capital ; and lastly, to the con-
ete4ntls exsa-tions of Messieurs the Counsellors of
Are, the Prefects of the Seine and of Police, the
roaYps and their assistants, who have always se-
iq the Committee with the greatest zeal, and
many itistances, anticipated' its intentions.
hEvery good man, and every -friend to mankind,,
serde then, that the new measures taken by
lab iiajesty,' will at length effett that which the
ex of the Committee have long led them to
will'`• There is reason to believe that they
and so stimulate tile emulation 'of all Physicians
a 1 eaUurS~Ons,' that very shortly the Small Pox,
the
emY unknown in many departments; ' where
zeal of the Prefects has been such, that there
ai
11), none to -vaccinate but the infants born in
everyear, will entirely disappear from Fiance, as
leegc P.rnsy has done, of which no traces are found,
ou,ePt in the history of the worst governed ages of
' Monarchy.
the Committee embraces this opportunity of re-
ef the
the public, that the Central Establiahment
ate;i:e Vaccine founded the 7th Feb. 180 t , and situ-
is .in No. 1, Rue du Battoir, St. Andre des-Arcs,
I,,stdl Carried on ; that Vaccination' is praaised gra
timoiL°uslY there every Tuesday and Saturday, at
gratuitously
that the children of the poor are admitted
during the course of the Vaccine; and
that application torVacente fluid, should -be address-
inader cover
phYsieiaq to his Excellency, to M. Ilusson,
of the Hotel Dieu, and of the Imperial
',ell. , Secretary/to the Committee..
day'olvfein ►
n at the sitting of the t tth May, 1810, the
• the the 10th Anniversary of the foundation of
huittee.
Signed by all the Members.
DUCHANOY, President.
Corvisart 1. I. Leroux
Delasteyrie •
Marin
GutllutiuUuhtiel Mottgenot
Haile Paitatt
Hazard Panel
laaelot Satmade •
Thuurct.

Hv sson, Sccretary.

5‘,1?

LArp REPORT.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. z 2.

THE KING V. HARVEY AND FISHER.

The ArTOR N NY-GENERAL moved fur the judg-
ment of.the Codrt 'on Thomas Harvey and John
FiTher; _

The information against the defendants was read
by the Clerk. It charged 'the two defendants, the
former of whom 'was the-printer, and the latter the
publisher of the newspaper called The' Day, with
printing and publishing in their paper, of the Bth of
April last, "a scandalous, malicions,, and .SrditiOus
libel against the Military 'force of this country.. The
pub;ication in question professed to give an account.
of the proceedings in the neighbourhood'ot Picca-
dilly, during Saturday and Sunday, the 6th and 7th
April last. The reading of the Riot A&, it stated.
" a6led as a signal for miluary execution, and in a
few minutes the Horse Gbards. with the most in-
human violence, charged an unarmed and unresist
ing people." Marty of the populace, according to
this statement, sought for safety in lanes and private
passages, but the soldiers seemed aauated by a wish
to shed human blood. The jaded appearance too, of
the soldiers, the next morning, and their swords
stained with' the blood of an injured people, plainly
shewed the obduracy of their hearts, &c. &c, On
this information the defendants allowed' judgment to
go against them by -default.
On the part of the prosecution there were no affi,
davits filed.

The defendant Harney filed an affidavit in extenu-
ation, in which he stated, that the.affAirs Of the pa-
per were managed by a Committee of 'fifteen pro-
prietors, by whom it was ordered that the publica-•
tion should. at all times-take place at six o'clock in
the morning. The person employed to give a fair
and accurate report of the proceedings in.the neigh-.
bourhood of Piccadilly, during the period in ques-
tion, did not arrive at the office till past one in the
morning ; he wrote his account on mall slips of
paper, which were distributed among the composi-
tors as they were written, without the defendant
having had any opportunity of perusing them, nor
did he actually peruse the article till next day, when
he tilt extreme sorrot, and surprize to find it so very
obje6tionable; the writer of it being a. person who
had been employed in-a newspaper for several years, ,
and one who, he understood, -might have been
trusted. The defendant then felt., and Still did feel
extreme sorrow and contrition for the offence of
which he had been guilty. He'had a wife and eight
children, the eldest of whom was under 13 years of
age,
.dependent on him for support, and he threw
himself on the compassion of the Court. •• • •
Mr. Fisher's affidavit also bore, •that he was com-
pletely ignorant of the contents or .nature of the pub-
lication till after. it had appeared ; so. much, how-
ever, did he disapprove of it, that he caused it to be
omitted in,anothpr paper published on the Mon,..
day evening,. called The Kational Register, of which
he is one of the proprietors, the article in ques-
tion having been intended for insertion-in that pa-
per also.

An affidavit was-also filed by Mr.:Collier, the at»
torney for the.defendants, stating that previous 'to,
the present prosecution the defendants had offered
to the conductors of the prosecution to give up the ,
name of the author, and also • the manuscript of the
at ticle in question. •
-The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, the present was
without any exeeption the most wicked and libellous
publication ,to. which he ,had eVerielt it to be his
duty to call the attention of that Conti ; and it wag
for the defendants, to shew why a punishment pro-
portioned to its enormity should -not be visited 'on
them. In this resped the affidavit last read, from
which it appeared that the defendants had affered to
give up the author, and the manuscript.copy of the.
libel, could little avail them. , He wished it to be
known, (known indeed, he believed it was, though.'
the reverse was- pretended) that the giving- up the
author was no excuse for the'printer and p,ublisher.
All the ill they could do they had already done;—
they hadtiven the libel to the public—end it was
only because they feared that a just punishment was
about to fall upon themselves, that they latterly en-
deavoured
to turn it over upon others. He was far,
front thinking such conduct 'a justification, or even
an extenuation. The other-two affidavits which had,
been lead, were by the defendants themselves, the
one the printer, and the other the publisher, and
one of the 1300 proprietors of this paper, it, being
divided into so many shares., He did exped, as
these affidavits were pointed in eipressing the im-
-mediate contrition of both defendants, for the of-
fence they had committed, that they would' have
closed with narrating the paragraph in which, in
their next, or some',following publication, they had
expressed that contrition t. the public. For such
paragraph, however, he looked in vain ; not that he
thought that would have justified the defendants,
though the having adopted such a course might have
shewn that they, had been speedily awakened to a
sense of their error, the total absence, however, of
every evidence of this kind, was sufficiently demon-
strative how insincere was the contrition they now
professed to have felt; and if these defendants would
ttirn their attention to what they had published two
days after the publication of the libel in question,
he was satisfied. they would repent having said in
their affidavits that they felt contrition at the time.
He should now proceed to consider, who these per-
sons were whom the defendants had libelled, and
how undeserving they were of such treatment. Every
person who heard him must be aware in what state
a considerable part of this great city was at the time
to which the libel in question referred. The mili-
tary had been necessarily called out on the occa-
sion, to the discharge of an irksome and disagree-
able duty. They could .not be conceived as at all ins.
terested in the service, nor could they exped any
reConipence or advantage to themselves to result
from it;—their sole reward must, arise from a con-
sciousness of discharging their duty to their own
credit, and to the satisfaction of their fellow citizens.
All who heard hint, he believed, knew the forbear-
ance which those men had observed. They -suffered
themselves to be insulted, nay, even to be fired on,
and wounded, before they resisted in their own de-
fence, and for the public safety. He naed hard:y
say, there was no foundation for the present charge.
The Attorney-General then proceeded to read the

paragraphs in the publication, ‘thich were partici,-
lady objedionable. Was it to be endured, he ask-.
e t, that the /triihtiry of this country, that portion of
them, even who were more peculiarly our feilow ci
tizens, should be charged with taking pleasure in'
shedding the blood of our own subjects ? It sinelian,
abominable charge were allowed to pass, and,' of
course, front remaining tincontritclided, io be sup-`
posed not capable of contradiction, all the bonds be;.
tween them and the public must be at once loosen-
ed; or, if' false;aild still uncoetradiated and un-
punished, what inducement could remain to the
military of this country to di-charge their duty ?
On the rest of the publication,, in which the apPear-
auce of the' soldiers, on the following morning, is.
repre-seeted, their swords .stained with the blood of
an injured, people, so as plainly to shew their -.ob-
durate hearts, the Attorney-General thought it tot-
necessary for hlm to say a word nothing in, hs
pOwer to say could add to its malignity ;• their Lord-
ships would look to it. They would look to the
soldiers, 'they would, look to the people of this crein-
try- Sod., they would award such a measure of
punishment in this cause as should seetii to them.
to do equal justice to ail.
Mr. MAtoritirr addressed the Court in extenua-
tion On the part of Mr. Harvey, the printer. He
admitted that the defendants . were legally respon7
sibie, but contended; that in, the -circumstance3 io
.which they, were placed, they' could not be. said to
be guilty of a maliciOus intention, and so could not
be malicioUs libellers. They had no reason to dis-
trust the person employed to give a true and a,..cu-
tate account of the proceedings alluded to in the
article. They lied neither of them an opportunity
to peruse, 1101, in 'point of fad, had they perused
,the' publication,: which he was ready to admit was
a gross libel ; net being cognisent of its contents,.
therefore he submitted, that they could not be held
'to be deliberate offenders. The Attorney-General
had sail it was no excuse in such a case to give Op
the author. It surely was not, but undoubtedly ot,
was an ettenuation of the offence, being alt the
reparation which it wasp in their power to offer..
The fad, too, that the same publication had been
excluded from another paper, published.at the same
office,, and in which these defendants were 'concern-
ed,'afforded the best evidence of the defendants' con-
trition, being given on, the spot,. and at .t he moment.
Their Lordships would weigh all thesecircumstOces,
and they would also take into
.their consideration
that the defendant, Harvey, had a wife and eight
children, the eldest of them not 13 years of age,
dependent on him for support.
Mr. READER, for the defendant Fisher,.admitted
that if the author had been standing here for judg-
ment, he sliOuld have found it difficult to say any
thing in his defence. The case 'of Fisher, however,
he 'subenitted, was very different. He was, no
dotibt, liable, but it was for the court no say, how
far his Mind was concerned. The Attorney-Gene-
ral, with that dexterity for which he was so much
disniugeished, and by which he contrived to turn
every thing against persons standing here for judg-
ment, contended, that the effer of giving up the'
author was not eve() an.exteneation ut the defen-
dant'sguilt. If they had done so, however, would
he not have adduced that as a strong circumstance
• against them, and have alleged that it was a proof
of their continuing to persevere in their offence ?
' Mr. J6StiCe BALLEY aSked, had • the defendants
apologized in their•'paper ? •
• Mr. RzADER was not prepared toassert that they
had. He wished they had done so—hut though a
man had not done all that he might and ought to
have done, still it 'would'be hard to deny him credit
for e hat he actually did.

Lord ELLENEIOItOUGH ordered, that both defen.
dams be committed to the Jail of Newgate, and be
brought up tor judgment on the last day of Term.

THE KING V. LOVELL.

• The ATTORNEY-GENERAL prayed the judgment
oldie Court on-Daniel Lovell, the Printer and Pro-
prietor of the Evening Paper called The Statesman,
for publishing in his Paper of the Btla of April the
same article which had appeared in The Day of the
Bth, and in which he-tao had allowed judgment to
go by default.

_
On the part of the defendant an affidavit was put
in, stating that the article had neither been written
nor invented by himself, but that it had been inadver-
tently copied into his paper from The Day. in the
ordinary course of business, with a few trifling alter-
ations, which did not at all change the sense of the
article. He neither knew the author, at the time
of copying the paper in question; nor was he now
aware who be was. The defendant himself was in.
a poor weakly state of 'health, being considerably;
troubled with an asthma ; he had lately had ten
ounces of blood taken from the margin of his ribs,
and his physician had recommended' to him to profit
as much as possible by the open air.-
The' ATTORNEY-GENERAA said, it Was for the
Cana to judge how far what had been alleged in
the affidavit was any extenuation of the defendant's
guilt. To his idea it was not any, the-slightest ex-
tenuation, for It appeared to him, that a person who,
seeing such a publication, extracted froth it, and
gave it -additional publicity, was as, guilty as the
anthor of it. Ot the weak state of thedefendant's
health, he carried the appearance in his cOuntenance,
but be should have thought of that before he com-
mitted the offence. Whatever weight, however,
the Court might be inclined to give to this circum-
stance, he was far from wishing to detract from it.
"The defendant having no Counsel, he was then
asked if be had any, thing to say for himself?
He alleged the great haste with which daily pa •
hers must be made up for publication.
'Lord ELLENBOROOGH said, they •should, not
,be
prepared with more than proper haste. A publisher
of an evening paper 'too had great pa- t of the day
to make it. up, and it could not be admitted, that,
under the idea of proceeding in the usual course of
business, an Editor of an evening paper should be
.entitled to -transfer into it all the venom which he
could extract frOm the morning papers. 'lf persons
in that situation, however, chose to proceed With
such a degree of haste as to preclude the possibility
of proper care being taken in the t. eiedion, henaust
take the consequences.
His Lordship ordered the defendant to be-com-
mitted to the custody of- the Marshal of the Mar-

shalcea of- the Coart;. and td' be brolig!,t up 1
jud;inent on the aterm.

TUE KING- V.-RYAN ANb RYLEY♦

The two defendants 131c1 been found guilty at th.
Lancashire Assires, of ende34ourit,g't,, persuade soli
fliers ty:desert from his Majesty's service. Thi-
convidtons took placq,lntZer the Att of Ist Geo. L
and the sentence of th'e'Coui-t, upOn each. of the demi
fendants Was; that they be imprisoned two calenrat
months in the'easile of Lancaster, and ,do vii in
0)4 p4iod stand in ihe,. pillory, ort a mail:et d,, ti, at
LtverpoOl, where the otfences were committed.