The Sun.
London, England, 1828-02-21 00:00:00

tend to be his peculiar friends ought not to fix upon
this monient4ry aberration as the basis of his politi-
cal character, in opposition to the general tenor of
his political life.—Morning Post.

Two trials for libel took place yesterday, one in
the Court of Exchequer, the ether in the King's
Bench. The action before the Exchequer was,
' brought by a clergyman named Cummings against
the Proprietors of the Bath Herald, for a report of
certain proceedings before the Grand Jury in August
last. The paper, it seems, described the crime
charged against the Rev. Gentleman, on which a true
bill had been found, as "an indelicate assault,"
whereas the terms used by the Gra►►d Jury were
merely an " assault." •For this slight deviation from
the plain matter of fact statement, Mr. Cummings
brought his action, and the proprietors brought the
female, a married woman (the plaintiff is also mar-
ried), upon whom the assault was committed. IL
was not of a very aggravated character. The Jury,
however, thought there was a little indelicacy, in a
clergyman and a married man, and gave a verdict for
the defendant on all the counts. The trial in the
King's Bench, which occupied the whole day,
was on a criminal information, at the instance of
Lord • Wallace, against Mr. Barber Beaumont, and,
notwithstanding the host of evidence, especially do-
cumentary, produced, turned, entirely on the fact
whether the following words, in a letter of Mr.
Beaumont to Lord Wallace,were a challenge to tight :

" I know that, however atrocious your acts maybe, I
can have no legal redress, nor the alternative which a per-
son in the rank of society of a gentleman is entitled to claim
from another in the same rank who has basely calumniated
him. This alternative, to which I should long since have
resorted, had your acts not been surrounded by the halo
of privilege, I will not for obvious reasens name ; but I
think there is no breach of privilege in my at length de-
manding of you, either to justify your acts, or to give me
the best reparation in your power."
The Jury, after four hours' deliberation, found Mr.
Beaumont guilty.—New Times.
It was currently reported yesterday, in certain cir-
cles in the west end of the town, that the Master of
the Mint was in possession of secrets which would
• utterly refute the charges made against him in the
House of Lords, and . that he was only restrained
front giving publicity to those secrets front a wish
not to embarrass the Duke of 'Wellington, as the
necessary consequence would be the immediate re-
tirement of several Members of the present Govern-
ment. In giving this report, we do not mean to
impute its origin or its circulation to Mr. Herries ;
Isis friends may be over-hasty, they may be injudi-
cious, but we think it behoves that gentleman at
once to tell all he knows, at whatever hazard, or
frankly to confess that he has no more to tell. He
cannot pretend to be ignorant that he and Lord
Goderich are directly at issue with regard to the
causes that led to the recent dissolution of the
Cabinet, and he can as little disguise from himself
the fact that his remaining in the Cabinet along with
Mr. Huskisson, has been received by the public
almost universally as a proof that the statement of
Lord Goderich is the only statement to be relied on.
If, therefore, the Master of the Mint have any
respect for his own character, he will do well to act
as we have advised hint, front no vain and craving►
curiosity, but with the honest desire of Englishmen
to see justice done where it is due.—lbid.