The Sun.
London, England, 1828-07-16 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

UNION BALL.—Yesterday, a respeetabk-looking
young man, named George Dent, was charged with hav-
ing assaulted a lady, named Inman, under the following
circumstances :

The complainant stated, that on the preceding night,
about 10 o'clock, as she was proceeding along the Water-
loo-road towards her residence, the defendant, who was
accompanied by a young man, approached and attempted to
take indecent liberties with her, which she resisted. The
moment she told the defendant to go about his business, he
struck her with his fist on the breast, and afterwards gave
her a blow with an umbrella on the Fide of the head with
such violence as to prostrate her along the road. The
watchman, she added, could testify as to the filthy state in
which her dress appeared when he came up, owing to her
having fallen into the mud when she was struck.

In reply to the Magistrate (M. SwAaly, Esq.) the
complainant said she was a married woman, but that her
husband was prevented from attending in consequence of
illness.

The defendant in answer to the charge said, that the
complainant had assaulted him in the first instance, because
he refused to accompany her home.
This assertion, however, was positively contradicted by
the complainant, who declared that she did not speak to
the defendant until he struck her, and then it was re-
proaching him for his unmanly conduct.
The watchman, who took the defendant in custody, on
hearing cries for assistance, ran up and secured him. lie
added that the defendant tried to' make his escape; the
lady's clothes were very much disordered, and had mud
upon them as if she had fallen in the gutter.
The constable of the watch-house, where the defendant
was taken to, said that he behaved with great violence
while there, declaring that he should murder himself,
and drew a penknife from his pocket, with which he said
he should cut his throat. It was with difficulty the
weapon was wrested from his grasp.
The Magistrate expressed great indignation at the brutal
behaviour evinced by the defendant towards the com-
plainant, who, being a married woman, it was most im-
probable she should have invited a stranger to her house,
as bad been insinuated. The imputation thus cast upon
a respectable married woman materially aggravated the
case against the defendant, and instead of allowing any
compromise taking place, ke (the Magistrate) should hold
him to bail to answer the charge at the Sessions.

In the Kremlin at Moscow is-a cannon of an
enormous size. It was cast, by order of Prince THEODORE
IwANowtrscir, in the year 1586, in the third year of his
reign, by a Russian of the name of ANDREAS TSCHASIIOYF,
whose name can still be read upon it. This cannon
weighs 96,000 pounds; it will carry a ball weighing
4,800 pounds; to do which it requires a charge of 1,600
pounds of powder. The Lcmburgh Gazette, after men-
tioning the above, facetiously adds, " though it remains
unguarded, no one has hitherto attempted to steal it."--
iiamburgli Reporter.

LAW CHANGES.—A paragraph has appeared
iu several of onr cotemporaries, stating that Lord ELDIN's
resignation has been accepted of, that Sir JAMES MON-
C REIFF, Dean of Faculty, is to succeed to the vacant
gown, and Mr. JEFFREY to be elected Dean of Faculty.
Whether there is any foundation for the statement, as to
Lord ELhIN'S resignation, and Sir JAME‘.? MONCREIET
being called to the Bench, we do not know; but should
it prove to be correct, we have every reason to believe that
the SOLICITOR GENVIAL will be put in nomination for
the office of Dean of Faculty, and we doubt not he will be
elected.—Edinburgh Evening Post.

LAWSUITS TRANSFERRED TO THE COURTS
BELOW.—At the funeral of an advocate, which took place
lately at Munich, when the coffin was lowered into the
grave, e, man approached and threw into it, with many
oaths, the deeds of a lawsuit, that the defunct might finish
in hell the process which had caused ruin upon earth.
Furet de Londres.

THE HONEY or HYBL A.—WhilSt classical
recollections tempt the adventurous traveller to scale Olym-
pus and Parnassus, and to visit the sites of Latian cities of
which no vestige remains, the thyme-covered hills of Hybla
invite his steps by a thousand poetical associations—
Ille terrarum mibi prmter ()runes .
Angulus ridet, übi, non Hymetto
Melia decedunt.
This smiling corner of the earth, according to the best by.
potheses, lies between Syracuse and Agosta, in Sicily ; and
its mellifluous celebrity is still maintained by its modern
productions, as well as by the name of the adjacent district
of Melilli. The whole chain of hills is covered with thyme-
myrtles, lavender, marjorum, and other aromatic shrubs
and herbs, in the mint luxuriant profusion; their countless
flowers captivate the eye by the splendour and diversity of
their hues. Myriads of bees still extract from them those
sweets which afforded the poets of antiquity an inexhees.
tible supply of delicious similes, whilst the air is filled by
the odoriferous plants with the same fragrance which of old
delighted Virgil, Ovid, and Theocritus.— Weekly Review.

BERNE, JULY I.—As early as the middle
of the month of May last, a report became current here,
that the government of the Netherlands intended to dis-
miss the Swiss regiments now in its service, and Count
V. LIZDEKRIME, the Minister from that kingdom to
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be
realised, and OBERAMTMANN V. GOLIMOINS was sent by
our government, on a confidential mission to the Hague, to
ascertain what ground there might be for the reports in
circulation. Since his return no doubt is longer
tained of the truth of these reports. The capitulation en-
tered into in 1814 stipulated that these regiments were to
but
remain in the service of the Netherlands for 25 years ;
the said regiments
there seems to have been introduced into
itmhsendicuhmaednctulottenirlg:
the rest of it is vitiated:—" But
following strange and vague article by which the
.whole of
(then Sovereign
stances should induce his Royal Highness
if unforeseen circurn.
Prince of the Netherlands) to dismiss
Royal
before the expiration of the
Highness in that case, will secure to each and every regi-
ment,) proportioned to its rank
siutrman,
a pension (Reforrusgehalt
and length of service. present capitulation, his Is
eeasndin
tuhletecreharnthbeerer
and to this alone their dismissal is attributed. Fears are
been looked upon with ;-----jeaTlohuesSe7eissbyl.teghe national troops,
very
urgent than i nreßmeolng
entertained here that the example may perhaps not be lost
upon France, where our countrymen are known not to be
of Deputies, on the subject of economy in the department of
war.—Hamburgh Reporter.
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Mr. CaairnEnr, stated that the present action
brought to recover damages for an alleged libel that had'
appeared in ffell's Life in London, reflecting on the eon-
dhlet and character of the plaintiff. The libel was pub-
lished se far back as the :.tElrth of May, 1826, and shortly
afterwards the talaintiff commenced an action against the
defendant, Nvhicu was tried in November, 1827, and the
plaintiff then obtained a verdict, with damages 30/. How-
ever, in consequence of some irregularity in entering up the
judgment, on a writ of error being brought, the proceed-
ings were set aside, and a new trial granted. 'The Learned
Counsel then stated the nature of the libel. In 1826 Mr.
Stoekdale, the bookseller, published a work entitled Me-
moirs of Harriette Wilson, a work of which the Jury had
no doubt heard; in it there were several libellous passages,
reflecting on the plaintiff's character. Ho brought an ac-
tion against the publisher in consequence, and recovered
700/. damages. Shortly after that trial, the libel in ques-
tion appeared in Bell's Life in London. It was a poetical
description of a supposed conversation between Harriette
Wilson and Stockdale after the trial, in which, with ic-
ference to the statements contained in her Memoirs, tic;
following dialogue takes place
Harriette. I wrote not only who 1 knew,
But that which was in substance —.
The Jury would no doubt think with him, that true v,-as
the word meant to be inserted where the blank left.
It continued__
yFisher's
Stoekdalc. But we must ,ay so now no lucre
Harrittt,:!. 'Twas only truth I told
Stockdale. But what say ou to
Harriette. That could answer in Its place.
It was quite clear diet the above lines contained ltbeilons
imputations upon the plaintiff, who was an attorney in Dw -
setshire, for the publication of which he trusted the Jury
case
?-
would give ample damages. After some further observa-
tions, the Learned Gentleman called evidence in suppqrt of
his case.
sir J. Scmarpr (with Wham was Mr. DF.1414A10, fur
the defendant—His Learned Friend had thought proper to
east imputations on the newspapers generally. But there
were some very able, literary, and respectable publications
of that kind, although others certainly, which were con-
ducted on the principle of publishing scandal and falsehood
for the purposes of gain, were contemptible, and an abso-
lute iiizhance; but the jury wonld not make the individual
now before them suffer for the sins of the worst part of the
periodical press. As an instance of what the base part of
the press was, he might mention that he himself had
wrung, in that Court, from one of its conductors, the plan
of his cendneting his paper, which was to get half a dozen
people to write the most scandalous falsehoods against cc-
spectable people, so as to draw general attention to his
paper, and when lie had done so, he meant to make
it a respectable publication. Bat Mr. Clement's publica-
tions were for different from that vile description.

For himself he (the Learned Countsl) never wrote to
the editor of a newspaper but once, and that was to con
tradict a report that certainly gave pain in same quarter-
-a report that he himself was dead ; and if ever any
other letter addressed to an editor of a newspaper purport-
ing to be signed by him were to appear in a newspaper, it
was a most abominable falsehood. Certainly, from what
he knew of Mr. Clement, he would not have recourse to
fraud or falsehood. He might fall into errors or mistak,•;.i,
as every other man did ; but nobody that knew him would,
for a moment, believe that he would resort for any con •
sideration to fabrication and falsehood. This publication
of Bell's Life in London We, he believed, very exten-
sively circulated (twenty-four thow,,und copies sold every
Sunday morning). It was conducted by an able literary
and very well informed man ; but whether he wrote
little jeu d'esprit or nut, he (Sir J. S.) did not know. As
to the publication of Harriette Wilson, there was no one-who
detested it more than he did ; but she, a poor abandoned Brea-
tore, could not have brought it before the world. It wkvs
Stockdale who published the scandalous memoirs of that
abandoned strumpet, for the sake of the horrid profits.
In that vile publication, persons of the highest rank—even
ladies, were grossly libelledand their names introduced,
coupled with the most abominable falsehoods. The person
last libelled was Mr. Fisher; and when he got a verdict
for 7001. it was impossible not to suspect that the aunt was
given, not so much with reference to what Fisher desernd
to receive, as with a view in seine measure to punish
Stockdale ; which was very apt to happen at times, when
men's minds were agitated on particular subjects, and when
the Judge was a man of an ardent mind, and of great elo-
qUence. Blower was ten times more libelled than Fisher,
for the whole libel on Fisher, after amountei to no
more than this—that he was a tall man, and a favourite
of the ladies, and that he had a great deal of work of that
kind on his bands—and for this he bad 7001. damages;--
' This success gave Mr. Fisher an appetite for verdicts, anti
• therefore, he laid hold of these verses in Bell's Life in
London, which rightly considered, throw no imputation
whatever on Fisher, but were obviously intended to
hold up to public contempt, ridicule, and exe-
cration, this Harriette Wilson and Stockdale. But then it
was said that she was represented as maintaining that what
she had said of Fisher and Blower was in substance true.
Why what should she say? She had been decidedly
proved a liar, and when she was introduced, she svas, of
course, made to speak in character. This was exactly the
proper taste and art in Poetry, awl so it was stated in
llorace—

" Ant famam scquerc, ant sibi convenienlia finge,
Scriptor. Honoraturn Si forte reponis AulnLim ;
In piger, iracundus, inexorabilis, acer,
Jura neget sibi rata, nihil non arroget arnns,
Sit Medea ferox, invictaque; tlebilis Ino,
Pertidus Ixion, lo raga, tristis Orestes."
Mr. Campbell seemed to have forgotten his early education.
Ile, on this principle, must say, that David published an
impious libel when he said—" The foul hath said in his
heart there is no God ;" he must say that it was David
that said this, because he said " the fool hath said it." Mr

Campbell must also contend that Milton published an iu--
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famous libel, because in the debates in hell he had made
Moloch speak of the " tyranny of him by whom we are
fiend who was made to speak in character. So this publi-
cationsonpipserrea:bserledep.garret, up three pair of stairs, sipping their tea
from broken cups, and talking in character about the 3001.
and 7001. verdict ; and he says to her, " you lie, you most
infernal b—," and she retorts by throwing a cup of tea in his
face, and he makes his escape and is seized by a bailiff, and
taken, as the verses represent it, " to the (1-1 or elsewhere:*
But neither Mr. Clement nor his editor meant to ms-
sert the truth of the words which were put into the mouth
of this —. Mr. Campbell spoke of the d-1, but if
you call the d-1 from the lowest depth of hell to talk, you
must make him talk like a devil. You cannot consistently
snake him speak in praise of goodness and virtue. Satan,
in Milton, says, "Better reign iu hell than serve in heaven ;"
but it is not the poet who says this, but the el—l. Then
look at the whole of this publication, and see whether it
could be construed as a publication tending to- soften the
public feeling with respect to Harriette Wilson and Stock-
dale, or to encourage them in the publication of their infa-
mous falsehoods. The object of it was the very reverse.
It was not to libel Fisher, but to hold up Harriette Wilson
to contempt and ridicule.
Lord TENTERDEN then commented on the verses, and
ve
observed, that tile only question for the Jury 3s, Whether
the object of these verses was to holdup theplaintilt to ri-
dicule and contempt, or to ridicule Harriette Wilson and
Stockdale. If they believed the former to be the objez•t,
they would find for the plaintiff, with temperate and mode-
rate damages. If they believed the latter to be the sole
object, they would find fur the defendant.
The Jury retired for about half an hour, and th,ii
turned a verdict for the defendant.

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yesterday morning.
His Grace the Duke of WELLINGTON has
accepted the invitation of Lady 311Lonar to take up his
ab.de at Eastgate-house, Winchester, during the approatl-
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Hants Acivertisei.

A report has been very current, and to which,
however confidently it was repeated, we cannot give credit,
that an Illustrious Personage has been mortally offended by
the 'Marchioness of LONDONDERRY'S fete, or fancy dress
ball, in which the fair Marchioness represented Queen
Ettaaarrn, and her other guests personified, as far as
satin, buckram, and jewels could help them, the other elm. -
meters of her Court. The affair was not more absurd than
other spectacles of the same kind, and more than mdi •
warily splendid, and the etiquette of a Court was strictly
imitated. Some branches of the Royal Family were pre-
sent. The idea that this should be treated as an invasion
of the privileges of Royalty seems too silly for belief.—
Morning Chronicle.

EXT/tAoRDINARYFECUNDITY.—There wK;
cut on Wednesday last, in a park adjoining the Dam of
Gilcomston, a reed of oats of the following extraordinary
dimensions : it measured 60 inches in length; circum-
ference, 14- ditto; having 2,390 grains on it.—Aberdeen
Jeurnal.

FROM LAST NT-tHT'S GAZETTE.

Crown-Office, July 1.2, 1625.
Days and Places appointed for holding the Summer As-
.

sizes, 18E8, viz:
HOMt CIRCUIT.

(Bel Are Lord Chief ,ustice TENTERDEN and Mt. Baton
GARROW.)
Hertfordshire—Tuesday, 'July 15, at Hertford.
Essex—Monday, July 21, at Chelmsford.
Surrey—Monday, July 28, at Guildford.
Sussex—Saturday, August 2, at Lewes.
Kent—Thursday, August 7, at Maidsmne.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT.

( Refute Lord Chief Justice 13E91: and Mr. Justice 13t

ROUGH.)
Not thamptonshire—Monday, July2l, at Noi tharnpton.
Rutlandshire—Friday, July 23, at eakhain.
Lincolnshire and City—Saturday, July 26, at Lincoln.
Nottingham and Town—Thursday, July 21, at Nottingham.
Derbyshire—Saturday, August 2, at Derby.
Leicestershire and Borough—Wednesday, August 6, at
Leicester.
Warwickshire—Saturday, August 9, at Warwick.
Coventry, for the City—Same day, at Coventry.

NORFOLK CIRCUIT.
(Before the Loan CutEr BARON and)lr.Justice HOLROY u. )
Buckinghamshire—Monday, July 14, at Buckingham.
Bedfordshire—Monday, July 21, at Bedford.
linntingdonshire—Thursdar, July 24, at Huntingdon.
Cambridgeshire—Saturday, July 26, at Cambridge.
Suffolk—Saturday, August 2, at Bury St. Edmund's.
Norfolk—Friday, August 8, at the Castle, Norwich.
City of Norwich—Same day, at the Guildhall.
NORTHERN CIRCUIT.
(Before Mr. Justice BAYLEY and Mr. Baron 111.1.L0cK.)
County and City of York—Saturday, July 19, at York.
County and City, ofDurham—Saturday, Aug. 2, at Durham.
Newcastle and Town—Wolnesdny, Aug 6, at Newcastle.
Cumberland—Monday, Aug. 11, at Carlisle.
Westmoreland—Saturday, Aug. 16, at Appleby.
Lancashire—Wednesday, Aug. 20, at Lancaster.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.
(Before Mr. Justice PARK and Mr, Justice LITTLEDALE.)
Southampton—Monday, July 14, at Winchester.
Wiltshire—Saturday, July 19, at New Sarum.
Dorsetshire—Friday, July 25, at Dorchester.
Devonshire—Tuesday, July 29, at Exeter Castle.
City of Exeter—Same day, at the Guildhall, Exeter.
Cornwall—Monday, Aug. 4, at Fella.
County and City of Bristol—Saturday, Aug. 16, et Bristol.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.
(Before Mr. Justice GASIELEE and Mr. Baron VAUGHAN.)
Berkshire—Monday, July 14, at Abingdon.
Oxfordshire—Wednesday, July 16, at Oxford.
Worcestershire and City—Saturday, July 19, at Worcester.
Staffordshire—Thursday, July t 0.4, at Stafford.
Shropshire—Wednesday, July 30, at Shrewsbury.
Herefordshire—Tnesday, Aug. 5, at Hereford.
3loarnouthshire—Saturday, Aug. 9, at Monmouth.
Gloucestershire and City—Wednesday, August 13, at
Gloucester.