The Sun.
London, England, 1810-07-20 00:00:00

COURT OF KING'S BUNCH, JULY 20.

abominable, particularly when be could take op'°
him to ,say; "that so far fro'ru there being, one wore
of truth in the fad} of Lord Castlereagh
_hav-%
ing any thing to do with the 'execution of
William Orr, he was not even in power ac'
the time ; and so far from the .1,,;(1g,' (Lord l'el-
verton) thinking him an object for rlieruy, he I.lainly:
declared, when•the matter was referred t 6 Liin, alai •
he was fully satisfied with the conviction Orr;aocl.
the execution of the law hock place. This be con;
sidered he was bound to declate, in justice to the
persons who at that" time had the Govi;rnineni of
Ireland.

LIBEL.

THE KING V. FINNERTY.

This cause was not cried, the defendant baring
withdrawn his plea of Not. Guilty, and thereby let
judgmentgo:against him by default ; for which he
will be brought up to receive the sentence\ of the
Court next Term.

,

THE KING V. JOHN GALE JONES.

This was an indi&ment preferred against the de-
fendant for a libel upon the Right Honourable Lord
,Yisconnt Castlereagh, in publishing a certain placard
or posting-hill, inviting to a Debating Society in Bed-
ford-street, an auditory, to hear. a question discussed
upon the conduct of Lord Castlereagh, with respeet
to his having issued an order to prevent Mr. Finnerty
proceedipg to the Island of Walcheren, when the
Expedition to the Scheldt was fitted.out. The hand-
bill was read; and contained a very gross and severe
attack upon the charatter and condua of that
NObleruan.

'TIieATTORNEY-Gi,NBRAL then proceeded to n()t;ce
more particularly the !ilk), in question, antd paSs"ll,6
severest animadversions on it, censoring the -con' .
dua manifested by those who in cotstqueoce of that
libellous advertisement, assemblrd and to. )t a part in:
.that debate.
,And concluded 4it lti!b,Jel :ng, that be
thought, not only the Jury, hut the Court and the
public could not hear it read without expressing heir
disgust kid indignatiOn at it. Fiii.Vitig iLus finishcil
his observations, le merely added, that :is the de.
,
fend-ant had expressed a wish to subpcena 11)i d OS'
dereagh, he couhd inform him that lii, Lordihip
was at hand, arid' reqUired, would appear as 3
witness.

Just before the ATTORNEY-GENERAL 'was about
to state the case, Mr. Gaaaow said, that Mr. Jones,
as he understood, had no Counsel. Upon -this a
Gentleman lately called to the Bar, a Mr. JONES,
rose, and signified that he was the Counsel for-the
defendant. . .
~ . ,
Mr.' ABBOTT having stated the pleadings, '
t "The ATTORNEY-QENER,AL 'entered into a 'minute
detail of the case. He said that the Libel of which
the defendant was acCusedearose put of 'anot her pub-
lishedon the 23d of January last, by Mr. Finnerty
,iii the Mol fling Chronicle of that day e and for which
Mr. Finnerty ,was this day to have taken hi* Wel,
but .he withdtew the plea which he fir,t put in, and
now has permitted judgment to go, against him
by default, so that ,in law and in fad that person
now sands convicted. of the libel which was the
foundation of the libel in question. Mr. Jones,
the defendant, is the conductor Of a' place called
" The British Kauai," -in Bedford-street, Covent-
garden. Throughout that neighbourhood, and in-
deed throughout the town, placards were posted
up on the 25th of January last, under the head "Mr.
Finnerty and , Lord Castlereagh," Announcing a
question to be debated there that meht, purporting to
be, whether the conduct of Lord Castlereagh, in exer-
-
crsing an aft of oppression, in issuing an order in his ! Mr. Tames, a clerk in Piccadilly, undertook Yoe
Capacity of Secretary of State, that Mr. Finnerty terdaY for a wager of 50 guineas, to go from Ilyad
should be prevented from :proceeding to the island of ' Park Corner t.o'Nlaiderrhead in three hours anda hal!,
i • '
of 26 Miles, Which he performed with great fatigue la
Walcheren, was not highly injuri9OS .to the cause ' twO minutes under the git en time.. .`
the subject's liberty, and an aCi of cowardice and I . If little JEROME, the royal puapet. of Westohali3,.
should. as repOrred, rake the comm.:rid of the Fr.ax
f'llll
cruelty to an innocent individual i'----Istils was
• fleet,, and, as would a Very probably be the case; '
sobs duce of the 'libel complained of
.; and for this
jute the hands of our navy; h is hardly to tae oa"
libel, so published by Mr. Gale Jones, he was called - peCted that his Itoperal. brother v. ould think 11 '"ii
upon to ans-,Ner. worth ransoming, or any sacrifice of ambit ion.or 1)0:
licy. Were such an event to take p' ace, it iliri;HL!
It was necessary that the Jury should know the ,
oe too great an insult to the uefortunat • FeitotaasP
, .
real fads of the case. When -tee Expedition to Wal- the Seventh to Propose the excleiaae of such a eau,!'
. •
cheren was prepared, some of his Majesty's Ministers monarchlor a legitimate Sovereign
receivedinformation that Mr. Finnerty did 'intend to
, 4,letterfrOm a travelling Corresponde.nt hit-or-01,s
us, tnat the growing crops of wheals funk retteirka"'l
accompany it. They no sooner heard Of it than an ' welt;'-and- stand thick on the -grotind in. the (-own , s
of Herts, Bucks, Bedford, Lincolo, Norfolk, ill°
order was issued that he should be, prevented,: but-the
folk • and Essex, which hi; has passer! Lb ; the
order catne too late, Mr., Finnerty had sailed, and be, ' .
storeahouses are 'remarkably full of (leashed giallo,
_retrained at Walaheren nearly the whole of the time ht Norwich, Yarmouth, Lynn, 'Bosom, and Ltn-
that thel3ritish troops continued there, Until at last lee coin-; also the numerous waieketise• on the Vari, 05
-canals, are aet without large stocks of gran), aod
was sent home. He 'chose,-however; to impute
this order to Lord 'Castlereagh,
many stacks and barns are full of shred- „core; ,calf"
but in fad Lord ing the labourer's flail. Wheal ,S dropping •f ~t if' •
Castlereagh happened at the time to have been at price, and in a anarket-day or two inure,' Must teil
\Deal, and he knew nothing of it till some time af- , considerably.
ter it was issued. He did however send an order
The two Soeth Ameriaati Commissioner: boo
Caraccas have had an and:: nee ;:f Lord W, lie-IcY;
:
to Lord Chatham for that purpose, but it was not and delivered their d sparely s from the Provisi o''
overnmeot of Caraccas, and 'w , ited aftere ard'e
till after that which was issued by others of the \ G
King's Ministers. Notwithstanding this, Mr. Fin
• • upon the other Cabinet Ministers.' ' Their ein sa,o
- m
Don Simon de Bolivar, a -Colonel ; and. Den L 1,°5
nerty still thought fit to impute the original or- Lopez Mendez, a Commissary General. Oile of
der to Lord Castlereagh, which, he said, could arise them is a reltu ion of Gate Miranda.
but from one of, two motives, viz. either to,pre-
Some thieves broke into the house of Capt. Ft'i-
gin, in the a ysw aster ' I wad, on Tuesday night Li'!"
B'a - ' •
'vent him from being an eye-witness of the ma: -
and stole plate and other articles to•a tery consider-
able amount ;Ite got clear off. flee, with which
managm'ent of the Expeditior, or of entangling him
house. as entered by a hole baling been cut ill tli
in some legal prosecution. The objet to he ac- W
street do-or.
,eomplished- by the first-being to stifle those public MELANCIMLY ACCIDENT.--AbOpt six oclock in
animadversions which might be made on the Expedi- the. evening of Thursday lase' the
awful to rehire, the li“:4
inflammable air
in il coal pit at Grange colliery, near Bu Hess; Scold
tion itself, and the object of the other being to
.land, exploded; and, out Of tWCilly-liiree persons,
gratify his LOrdship's hatred and malice against Mr.
owfhoonit;esreixi.i.wi,eitrea.tsatvileedt,ansee''vent:lei: le,iialevrinigit,iesxoltfwe:tcedc:
Finnerty. .
Here the Attorney-General read- that part of the namtly eight men and nine. Women. This most
melancholy event, winch wag , ,
and
lui:livdirie)giblee(el
i(iiil, clligdeueirlsk,mtoh,tevreitt,silo)aftil.tiflmarntioeftarbt::.
letter published 'by .'sir. Finnerty in. the Moining-
'women having ilqced a tight
Chronicle, which contained not only the foregoing air,
matter, but also other attacks'upon Lord Castlereagh , counirar, is uutlerstoeti to have been orca,i,med 0.7
._Hone of the stifle: ing
i closeness of-the atatioseher'e,lhast air had collected 'I) '
Whilst employed in the.Governmetit of Ireland, such
in a'-part of the pit, whef`e • front the late un,s'amwort
as accusing him of exercising his official autherity in
preventing mercy being eXten.lad to a man ofthe I strength, and.of which she had been wareee collected
.eie
survivors, and' there to
y iiteffectsLsisi;
11:e.ctiett.i. pnt
girioegde,uax:iel)icitio;
ii'let).fitollll3teochit
name of William Orr, who was executed there for I -of the
high treason, notwithstanding both the Judge and - .
case,
. ais :
rTile, common
bfttaetta
by
and used every means fig re-'
Stewart, from- Bo'nesS, with two assistants, ga ve.nn-
Jury', who tried him, had recommended him to Go-
vernment from a belief, subsequent to the trial, that j
mediate
attnda.n..ce,
, . ....
he was innocent of the eharge. asiirtbtlifi:ofai-irtiti;iiphi?mt;.. . :'
staring
e IsuT il':ruie ie• idv i tt g animation,enily fo u rhis
n
This, • said the ATTORNEY-GB NERAL, was also a !
i • teonfd•tauv,,neunts were
part of theaubjeci discus.seq•pt .this society', acid who were brought up in a state of insensibility till
.:
i ?alter two having got out without receivitiga y
pounced to be discussed there by the defendant Jones, -
a- dreedfulaccid it (Cochildren II under . , jury. ' Basides.the other calamities attending
and discussed it was, and after what they termed, lyn- otiiili,eiis
accident rep Cu a une nine years
i..
" An adjourned Debate," a sort of trial at this moela"
,I:Oanfdagee;glllltaveh'abveeenbleeeint obreprieiaftnso, ;and eui!e destitute,
lionthere4faosreb
been set.
isieeta folly).
faosout 1
ii
ipi rtohveirineedigfr their.
-fAai 1 Iseti' rhs'sc railipd..
tribunal, where, as' a mailer of course, Lord Castle..., j!
opeini-4"'lmounrhtuh'ee'd°l7.lll:: .
reagh was found guilty. ... - • 1
Here the ATTORNEY-GENERAL appealed -tp the works, for their relief.
The Newcastle.Theatre will
Court whether any libel could—be more foul or .•-
- -with. Mrs. HAarowE and Mr. BLANdIiABD. .

Mr. JONES, the d-fendant's Cou'rnel,.. was about
to submit some obje,-; ions in point Of. law, but '•

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Lord aLE,NBOKOUGH signified to him tht inst.
then he was premature; anodic/ opporttriity would
be afforded to him for that purpose. The reciffigVe-
Witnesses to prove the pr►nting and publicatital
of the libel were called; as was a Qentleman from
the Secretary of Siale's Office, to prwe tha► Lod
Caitlerragh was Secretary of State 1, hen the exp.'
*ion saPcd, and also to prole livhi.n he ceased to
411 that office. •

I'lr. Gale Jones, the defendant, then present
himself to the Court. Put he did not think fit 10
address the Court;' he left that task to his Counsel,
Mr. Jones, who undertook it—this Gentleman haV
ing :Spoke, some considerable time in behalf of l
client,

Lord ELLENBOROUGH, in a clear, succina, ana
impartial way, summed op the evidence, remarking
on the law and tendency of the libel; and the Jury
fouod a verdial against the defendant 'of—Gailig.