The Sun.
London, England, 1829-12-24 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TIIE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

It will he seen by our law report of yesterday,
that two other verdicts—or we should rather say,
me and a half—of " Guilty," have been found
Ind recorded against the persons connected with
•he Morning Journal. Respecting the libel on
the Lord Chancellor, there could not be two
opinions ; and the prompt decision cfthe Jury,
tccording perfectly with the convictions with
which every one has since risen from reading the
report, showed that not a doubt existed. The
writings brought to judgment yeAerday arc of a
very different character, and we coulees we are
surprised that the Juries, particularly the last,
have decided as they have done. Unhappily.
the current had set strongly against the defendant
Alexander on the first day, and it required
greater powers than his to stop its sway, or ar-
rest its course ! To say that any individual of
his Majesty's Government has sold or bartered
for loans the patronage of his office, is libellous
clearly,—is personally libellous,—if the charge
cannot be proved ; but it is within the just tein!,e
of political reasoning to assert, that the whole
Government manages the affairs of the country
in such a manner as to render their Royal
Master, who ought to he the object of public
veneration, unpopular ; for the country is our
own, and we have a right to speak of the ad-
ministration of its affairs as we feel and believe.
If the writer's conviction be erroneous, the error
will fall back upon his own head. Ile will gain
no ground,—he will make no partisans : he
will, on the contrary, lose his supporters : that will
be his punishment. If, on the contrary; the fact.
be that the Icing is unpopular through the public
measures of his Ministers, how is he to know it
but by some expression of public opinion ? A
distinction has been drawn between the oppo,i-
tion to a law whilst in progrevs, and the rimr,-
bation of it when carried and completed. It may,
no doubt, be very prudent and considerate, arter
a measure by which great popular ferment has
been created is effected, to suffer the passions to
subside a while, before the attack be renewed :
nor do we ordinarily see any great use in pro.
tracting the contest at that time, because the
same force which has carried the measure re-
maining in statu quo, can of course uphold if.
But if nothing which has once become a law be
allowed to be attacked, how are any improve-
ments in our Constitution to take place ? I-low
are any barbarous statutes to be erased? Why
have we not the laws against witchcraft ? and
the trial by fire? How came the very law ii,
question, which repealed other laws, to be
passed ? We are somewhat surprised that the
Court received the first verdict of yesterday : it
was not, we humbly think, in accordance with
the information : this charged the defendants
with publishing a libel, tending to bring hie
Majesty's Government into contempt : that
found the defendants "guilty of a libel on his
Majesty, but not on his Majesty's Ministers."
We have no doubt but that such a verdict
might be set aside on argument, were it not.
that the humane recommendation of the Jury
will probably render such a course unnecessar,
The law of tendency to bring a Government.
into hatred or contempt, has been rejected from
the French code, why should it be in practice
here ? The second verdict of yesterday is one
of unqualified " guilty," and therefore, we think,
of unqualified error. But it was a grievous mis-
fortune for such a man as Mr. Alexander to at-
tempt the pleading of his own cause, and i.
hope the Court will consider this in the semen( c.
I to is below public resentment, or else the coun-
try would not so easily forgive him the blow
which his silly vanity has inflicted on the liberty
of the press.— Times.

The late Sovereign of France, who was gene-
rally allowed to possess a tolerable share of
shrewdness, and who had a great dislike of mea-
sures of a severe complexion, when pressed on
one occasion by some of his Ultra-Councillors
to consent to a proscription of the Liberals, by
way of ridding himself of them, is said in answer,
to have told the story of an Italian Abbe, who,
after partaking rather too freely of the juice of
the grape, on mounting his mule lost his balance,
which he could not of himself regain. Re-
questing the aid of a friend, the latter applying
more force than was necessary, threw him nearly
under the mule's belly on the opposite aide. On
which the good Abbe exclaimed, Caro amico
mio, troppo e troppo. The Attorney-General
has this day obtained two more verdicts against
the Morning Journal ; and we should suppose
there are few dispassionate persons who will not
feel disposed to admit that there has been too
much of this. It is for the Duke of Wellington
to consider whether the Attorney-General may
not serve him like the friend of the Italian Abbe.
In the second case, the .Jury, after an absence of
three hours, returned this verdict—" 'We find
the defendants guilty of a libel on his Majesty,
but we do not find them guilty of a libel on his
Majesty's Ministers. NN:e also beg to state it as
our opinion, that the article in question was
written under feelings of very great excitation,
occasioned by the unprecedented agitation of
the time; we, therefore, most earnestly beg to
recommend all the defendants to the merciful
consideration of the Court." The libel on his
Majesty is a statement which surely did not
require to be refuted by an Attorney-Gene-
ral and Jury, for it refutes itself. His
Majesty is represented in the paragraph as hav-
ing been till then a popular Monarch ; as over-
flowing with goodness, kind to excess, fondly
attached to his subjects, and paternally anxious
to see them all prosperous and happy ; and at
the same time he is represented as so weak and
worthless as to allow himself to be in a state
of subserviency of the most degrading kind. It
is not contended in the paragraph that his Ma-
jesty was placed under any degree of restraint,
and the R eak ess imputed to him is, therefore,
incompatible with the character just before given
to him, and with the hopes expressed with
respect to his future strength and intrepidity.
The libel is, therefore, neither more nor less than
a piece of nonsense. His Majesty could have
no reasons personal to himself for either ap-
proving or disapproving of the measures Of his
Ministers ; lie might, consistently enough, have
entertained the doubts as to the wisdom of the
measure, and yet have conceived himself bound
to defer to the opinions of men in whose judg-
ment, with regard to the management of the
affairs of the nation, he could confide. A King
must be governed by circumstances like other
men. He holds his power in trust for the benefit
of the nation ; and if it should appear to him on
any occasion that the Lords and Commons are
disposed to support the course which his Mini-
sters recommend, it can be no reproach that lie
sacrifices his own opinion to that of his Mini-
sters. There is no disgrace in ths, but ‘vis-
dom ; for a Sovereign is bound to sanction the
measures of his Ministers; and though he may
withdraw his confidence from them, and give it
to others, yet, taking the eircumstaneeS of the
ountry into consideration, he mac think that

another Ministry would not possess the: confi-
dence of Parliament, and that more him than
good would result from the change. Political
fear, however, is quite distinct from personal
thraldom, which carries absurdity on the face
of it. Lord Sidmouth, between whose 'cast- of
mind and that of Sir James Scarlett, there seems
a good deal of similarity, conceived that the
licence of preaching was carried too far in this
country ; and in order that the good preachers
of the Gospel might not be brought into dis-
credit by the bad, he proposed to subject the
pulpit to certain restraints. He reasoned like
Sir James, that the hearers of a minister gene-

rally took their creed from him ; and as when

Thinking men heard Ministers improperly qualified
deliver absurdities to their flocks, which the
latter implicitely swallowed, all Ministers what-
- ever were held in discredit by them, In spite,
however, of the ravings of Johanna Southcote, '
and many other teachers of the same kidney, the
-.nation did not appear to relish this Ministerial
-,,n-eide of purifying the Pulpit, and the attempt
was abandoned. It would, no doubt, be very
advantageous to have nothing but absolute wis-
dom from the Pulpit, and it would be equally
advanta /eons to have nothing but absolute
wisdom from the Press; but even in the glorious
days of Addison and Sir Richard Steele, to
which Sir James Scarlett referred us, there was
abundance both of factious and absurd writing,
and there were Attorney-Generals of that day to
bring an abler and more ingenious man than
either of them to the pillory. The age of Ad-
dison was also the age of John Dunton, and
many where, of the same kidney ; so the glori-
ous system of coercion on which the Attorney-
General relies for the improvement of the Press,
does not seem to have been then productive of
Fo much good as he would have us to believe it
is oow calculated to produce. There ought un-
querstiorrably to be limits set to the circulation
of slander egainst individuals ; but who is there
who can allow himself seriously to believe that
the so called libel on his Majesty amounted to
slander in any sense, either against his Majesty
or his Majesty's Ministers ? The paragraph
is the production of a writer who, at the time,
was eii4ently above descending to the humble
consideration of the consistency of what he
was writing. But, good God, what a remedy I
The next libel, as it is called, is charged with
bringing Ministers and the House. of Commons
into contempt. Alas ! that we should fall on
times :ellen the Ministry can see no other
way of securing themselves from the effect of
such writing, but bringing the writers before a
Jure. " I may he mention it as a fact (said
Sir James Scarlett), that during the period that
Ow question was before Parliament, full and un-
bosi-A:Jed license was given to the Press—no
notice eras taken of the most virulent and bit•
ter attacks which issued from it. The motives
of public men were calumniated, private charac-
ter was assailed, and the libellers were suffered to
go unpunished. When, however, the Bill had
passed into a law, forbearance 01114 no longer
be exercised, and I have now laid before you a
speeiiaeit of the mode in which some writers
could continue political discussion." And why
can forbearance no longer be exercised ? Be-
cause the period of .eacitement being over, the
public would be indifferent to the unseasonable
attempts ? Or because, thou& the attempts
would now produce little effect, they afforded 3
handle for paying off old scores? Indeed, ins
aced, Sir James, this is a wretched excuse for a
course of policy unworthy of any administration,
and a very-different course from that which, under
a former Administration, concerted both Oppo-
position and Opposition writers ilito approvers
of the Government. But, perhaps, it is wished to
have an Opposition. No doubt an Attorneys
General will make bitneelf more talked of by
treading in the steps of Gibbs; And Percival than
dial Copley. But it will be seen whether Mi-
nisters will gain by what makes their eervent.—
Morning Chronicle.
The Proprietors of this Journal, as will be
seen by the reports of the trials, have been found
guilty before three several Juries of publishing
libels having tendency to bring his Majesty
and his Majesty's Government into contempt.
We must, therefore, how to the decision of these
Juries, and abide the coaaseq.ucices of the judg-
ments of the Court. But what a lesetan do these
proceedings teach to the nation et large ! We
have before expressed our opinion es to tilae
increase of arbitrary power and oppressive mea-
sures, instituted by an imperious Minister, a
liberal Government, and conducted by a Whig
Attorney-General ; but these trials—theserusade
.against the public journals—prove to demon-
eassition that vindictive prosecutions arc . the
telexes resorted to to stifle public opinion, and
eceituse the press of this once free country to the
quiescent, convenient, and degradinz jevel of
the journals in the most arbitrary Statze of,
Europe. To the eternal disgrace of English
Lw and English liberty, truth—the sacred truth
—is declared to be a libel, But it is not the
truth only which in these liberal times is de-
clared to be libellous. Strictures on public
measures directed against men who are die,
servants of the State, and who for these
services are paid salaries out of the taxes
of a cruelly oppressed and embarrassed people
—these strictures and censures are 11614' to
be pinhibited. Fine and imprisonment—cold
water Intl a dungeon—are hereafter to be the
correctives of honest, manly, and indspendent
opinions, aria twthing is to be tolerated but the
slavering panegy‘ers of courtly scribes and the
paltry minions of the Treasury. The Duke of
Wellington and his needy adherents are to be
held sacred in public opinion at tlaa hazard of
mulct and incarceration. No opinion is La he
passed upon his consistency, his piety, his chas-
tity, his honesty, or his patriotism. Even his
virtues must not he praised lest the should
entertain an idea that these compliments are iro-
mita, We must all bend before the Image of
iron spoken of by Daniel, the Pessphet, and
Daniel, the llaember for Clare. It it nssly
declared to be law, even by Lord Tenterden,
that all animadversion ppon the good or
bad measures of the Miruster,all opposition
to his plans—all reprehension icof Pl 3 po-
licy—all honest doubts as to his wi..4i,oxr.f—,
are dangerous libels having a tendency to bring
his Majesty's Government into contempt.—
Good heaven! is it in England that these sen-
timents are recorded as being founded upon the
pure and equitable law of the land 4 beggar
is not to be called a beggar, a bankrupt is no,t
to be called a bankrupt, the necessities of a
needy Judge are not to be spoken of, execu-
tions and distraints in houses of official men are
not to be alluded to in the most distant manner,
the poor only are to be laughed at, the unpro-
tected only are to be condemned, apostacy is ;
word which it is deemed criminal to pronounce,
or, if you do, certain bankers will be called upon
to convict you as a libeller and a political felon.
The present proceedings may be taken.as a fair

specimen of the anxiety and exertions the
present Government to enforce these new and
most liberal opinions. Think only of the
array of legal talent congregated on one bench
to obtain tire conviction of one man ! How
degrading to see an Attorney-General sneer-
ing at the birth-place of an humble defendant,
merely because he had the misfortune to be a
native of Scotland ! And yet the man who in-
dulged in this mean and dishonourable sneer is
himself a West Indian Creole, whose notions
of liberty were inspired by the cracks of a whip
in Jamaica, whose Opinions are emanations of
the slave code, whose ideas of moderation are
limited to the stocks, and a constitutional
flogging for nine successive mornings—to hear
this man sneering, in the most vulgar tone, about
the nativity of any man is enough to make a
dark slave-woman pale, and a white man black
as the face of his African ancestors. But let us
look at the grand legal array. On these pro-
ceedings there were congregated on the side of
the Crown—

Sir JAMES SCARLETT, Attorney-General.
Sir EDWARD SUGDEN, Solicitor-General.
Mr. GURNEY, tie elder, King's Counsel.
Mr. 'Unity BitouGuam, King's Counsel.
Mr. Atnzusox.
Mr. WIGHTUAN.

Only look at this list, curious reader ! Mr.
Gurney assisting Mr. Scarlett—Mr. Brougham
retained for the Crown—Sir Edward Sugden
retained for himself, and required to give evi-
dence in behalf of the Solicitor-General. The
first-mentioned venerable and disc7eet personage
holding up the tail of the garment of the Attor-
ney-General, who can undoubtedly procure
briefs for his amiable and Learned Son ! What
was he doing there ? Had he no grand-children
to nurse—no coterie of old women to lecture
—no psalmody to grind to grey maidens at a
love-feast ? Of what utility were his nods and
smiles—his rudeness and his roughness—his
notes of advice, his looks of censure, and his
bows of satisfaction and self-sufficiency ? Pshaw !
—they were sickening ! Then, again, was the
late Queen's Attorney-General, with his silk
gown and his patent of precedency. Mr.
Brougham never appeared. in so humbling a
position. Did he appear as the King's advocate ?
No, no ; he felt all the embarrassment of his
situation. His pride recoiled from the task. The
patronage of Sir James Scarlett was wormwood to
his ambition. The visions of former scenes, of
nobler sentiments, of prouder days, of better
feelings, of more empassioned and independent
sentiments, fleeted past a. mind naturally honour-
able and sensitive. He was in a new and an
unhappy position, and was much more an ob-
ject of pity to his friends than of condemnation
by his enemies. His private sentiments were on
our side—his declared and oft-repeated senti-
tnents are with us—and it was therefore painful
to see him, who had himself professionally
libelled and vilified his Majesty, in the ranks of
those who, from the most pule and virtuous mo-
tives, were the guardians of the Court, and the
censors of pretended attacks upon the King and
his Ministers. When so many learned persons
ware filed together in such a cause, the object of
which was the ruin of one humble and ob-
scnre individual, what must we think of
the inherent strength, the invulnerable cha-
racter, and the just and beneficial mea-
sures of the Members of the Government? Alas!
alas ! there never was stiCh an exhibition in a
court of justice. The times have undergone a
changes, indeed, when so much learning and
talent are required to accomplish the ruin of the
conductor of a newspaper, This we fear will
prove a fatal blow to the liberty of the press. It
would he much better to establish a censorship
at once. It would be much better to confine
public opinion to the club-houses and coffee-
rooms, ai-4; het public indignation have vent in
oral essays in pr4r,ence to written or printed
disquisitions. the liberty of the press is at an
end ; and so are all the rights and privileges of
the people unless a speedy and an entire change
take p!Acs. in his Majesty's advisers.—Morning
Journal.

Want of space prevents us to: clay from com-
menting at length upon the cases of political
libel which, at a time that all the interests of the
country arcpinking under the pressure of un-
exampled distress, agf...ifi chiefly to occupy the at-
tention of Government, Such number of ex-
officio informations against the Press ark: likely
to fix upon a professedly " Liberal" Govern-
.llo stigma of more illiberal hostility to free
opinion tirap has distinguished any of their pre-
decessors since the IJ..evolution. Such proceed-
ings may end in the ruin pf , few individuals,
but can be of no public bet:at wh4tcv&r, T4Y
will not tend to retrieve for the country a parr
tide of ai!rtt prosperity which it has lost ; they
will not alieviac the sense of suffering among
dl the industrious class:.;, pf the community ;
they will not impress the public higher
rrotion of the political virtues, capacity, or .14,5.- •
(loin ,!As Majesty's Ministers than they before
entertained, We re sorry that the Statesmen
of the " age of interte4" do tot show more
magnanimity of character gpse of less
enlightened times. When Frederick Litz g,;i-.373t
of Prussia had his attention directed to a
gross libel upon himself, which was fixed
rather high upon 'his Pql:rce-gate, he ordered it
to he placed lower that it migN; PArg easily be read
by his subjects. What was the c9ris.eitieuce ?
libel soon passed into oblivion, but the
moral dignity of the action will never be for-
gotten. Thus (1,9-, a great mind turn calumny
itself to the advantage
.91 its glory. Coarse and
violent attar s upon public
,characlter er..g injure
no reputation that is worth preserving. Bitterly
and severely was Marll orouo maligned by
hostile Press in the evening of his gtoilton#
fig was charged not with ambition—the crirfte
or the aitAip of noble minds—he was accused
of venality and peculation. He disdained to
place the reputation- of 4:14 conqueror of the
“Ouse of Bourbon under the prOfect'ikir of the
shield of -onal law. A time of reflection; an4l,
an hour :of iust,i9, came ; his innocence was
rudie apparent ; not
,Opon `records of a Cri-
minal Cowl, but the.tabletopf histool,;:r9 whose
tribunal he dici'na vai7.ly anpeal. Hp did not,
give his eager and malicious pgemies the ad-
vantage of exciting public sympathy by uspptlpl;
pp.:Y;ation.. It was enough for him that he was
cons4o,w
.thr?purity of his fame would survive
the malice a oi§; t,-..?„l4gmistors. It did so, and
his triumph was compete, pecause it was not
vindictive. It was a moral Ncfory k.cliki.ned by
reason, and consecrated by the veidict of' put4jc
I :ci,-,,illion.—Morning Herald.
_

Yester,4,y !)3s Majesty's Attorney-General re-
s: nnecl his prgseeutic; 9f the Morning Journal,
the Editor, the Proprietor,
,4.-.7d the Publisher
of which were again found guilt,y s,,f two ad-
ditional libels ! We Mentioned yesterday Alat
the high character of the Lord Chancellor ought
io )have,si:ielded him from any evil consequences
which the libel upon him in the Morning
Journal was calculated to produce—for we do

not deny that it was a libel, according to the
most approved interpretation of the law—and we
shall observe of the second prosecution that but
for the concomitant circumstance of the first
verdict, it could not have been construed
into a libel. The Jury seems to have par-
ticipated in this sentiment ; for after. be-
tween two and three hours' deliberation, it
found " the defendants Guilty of a libel upon
his Majesty, but Not Guilty of a libel on his
Majesty's Ministers ; and the Jury take this
opportunity of strongly recommending the de-
fendants to the merciful consideration of the
Court, as they are unanimously of opinion, that
the libel was written at a period of strong public
excitement." From this verdict Sir James
Scarlett might have taken a hint that so many
prosecutions against the same Paper, and
against the same parties, -vere by no means
likely to be well received by the public ;
but no !—he immediately brought the defen-
dants to trial on a third indictment—and
again they were found guilty ! What is the
meaning, let us ask, of such determination
to interfere with the Liberty of the Press ?
Could his Majesty suffer in character from a
paragraph such as that which formed the ground
of the ex officio information ? Is the Duke of
Wellington so unpopular that every squib that is
fired off at him must be taken notice of lest
worse things should be said of him ? We be-
lieve neither the one nor the other, and we
think, in consequence, that little service has
been rendered either to his Majesty, or his Ma-
jesty's Government, by such proceedings—that
the effect of the trials will be to prejudice the
mind of the public against both—and that the
general opinion will be, that the greatest right
enjoyed by the country—the Liberty of the
Press--is one which the present Govern-
ment does not hold in the greatest possible
reverence. Far be such thoughts from us !
We speak of the matter simply as one of po-
licy ; but we cannot help remarking at the
same time, that the present period will
be long remembered as one distinguished for
ex-officio informations ; and that the Govern-
ment of the Duke of Wellington might well
have been distinguished by much nobler recol-
lections.
The ex-officio mode of proceeding.
against newspapers, for libels, has been often de-
precated by the wisest and the best lawyers whom
the country. has ever known ; and we consider it
peculiarly unfortunate that it should have been
reserved for the Government of the Duke of
Wellington to be distinguished by so many un-
popular acts of this kind. In the most perilous
times, during the last half century, the Law
Officers of the Crown had scarcely ever recourse
to such procedure, but merely left the law to
take its ordinary course, from a conviction of
its unpopularity. During the period that Mr.
Justice Garrow was Attorney-General he never
filed an ex-officio information, though often
recommended to do so by busy political
meddlers ; nor did he in a single instance
prosecute the Press for any libel whatever ;
and yet the Press, according to legal phraseology,
did not become " licentious"—the Constitution
remained unimpaired—the Government secure—
and the Sovereign revered and venerated ! It is
rather a singular coincidence also, that while
prosecutions against the Press, for libels, are
going on in this country, the Government of
the Netherlands are imposing additional restric-
tions on the Press of that kingdom ; and that
the Government of France are pursuing the
editors, proprietors, and printers and publishers,
of newspapers, not to the death—which they
cannot—but to the utmost extent of the law—
to fine and to deprivation of personal liberty !.
There are such crises--or rather coincidences—
in the affairs or history of nations. The Duke
of Wellington, we are certain, is no party to
such transactions—the Earl of Aberdeen is too
liberal and too high-minded, to regard such
matters ; and we know no one who has been so
much obliged to the Press for his reputation as
Sir James Scarlett. Who than, has 'prompted
'hew prosecutions ?—Morning Advertiser.

COMMISSION OF LUNACY.

(ContinueJ from pgr Paper of yesterday•

Now, Gentlemen, for the witnessas that the
Counsel for the Commission have called. First,
was Mr. Varnham, whose evidence amounted to
almost nothing. He talked of excitement, irritation,
anti tro forth; but I shall show you that all this is
idle. Ile if44PP4 that Mr. Davies bid ss.
at once at an auction, instead of binning with 25.,
and yet, on cross-exatnination he admitted that if.
would have been no we to have begun with 25.,
for that biddings must have risen above ss. Then
came Mr. Hulbert, who admitted that the Tea-
Eaehanga wits a complete bear-garden, in which
nothing yea n;ote samulon than practical jokes,
which tine man will bear and. an ,they ‘: itl 'pot,
Yet Mr. Hulbert talked of excitement, and told you
that he knew Mr. Davies so well that he remem-
bered to have dined with him once five years ago.—
(4-I,augh.)--Mr. Stirling told you that the conduct of
Davitta bits rw,ich the same as it had been at other
sales,but perhapa a little tnorp agitited, Mr. APCoy
tells you that he has seen Mr. Davies six or seven tia4S.
that he was not with him very long at a time, that on
one occasion he reccllects to have been with him the
wboLa of ten minutes, but that on the other occa-
sions he ne longer than five minutes.
Then came Mr. Piper, WhO toi y-? 4 Etory about
Mr. Davies being alamed at a cart and a %Into
horse. This unaccountable alarm or terror, as it
has been called, was made great use of. It appears
to ma, however, that there is nothing extraordinary
in it. kr, Dairies was a nervous man, he was no
horseman. Dr, 131undell hitiasetf reeended him
to buy a horse, and to ride; he was 6'44 41414
the road; a jingling,cart came at a sharp pace after.,
him, and he was afraid that his horse might be
Startie4. ,T!fow 1 know many excellent horsemen,
k.-rd.. and as fearlessly as any.
get 'he couhtry, but who are so timid
,oir;ilni; prn the
stone,, 1.-4 r vicinity of Lofidoh, thaiihri make.,
it a rule never to #404.t 4Pisp in qeh 13.1a41- Th'ey
arc not accustomed to tn6et, to pe.sß, of tope passed
by such or so many vehicles on a hard road, „t4olir
this is precisely the account which Mr. Darien him-
self gave of the transaction yesterday. But to re-
turn' to Piper : he, after much leading and
driving, for' my Leappi Friends tried both modes
with their witnesses, '161:1' you tk,;;:, was not safe
to trust Mr. Davies with fire-urina; Tiris ;3 C.:-1
61,4 ,c;,-;,tild get oat of Mr. Piper; and what dOesit
amount to? Why, that it is not safe to trust a nervous
man With such weapons, arul I am perfectly ready
tc at,l4*.t that ii is‘nOt.' 13tit 'docteis are 4:-..a.4ght
here to tell 1;Q.; ap also--to tell' yOu that velhich
every man of common sense •knew:e.. Qne wouldi
suppose that these gentlemen wished to monopoltxe
all the soundness of intellect as well as the cure of
all the unsound intellects. Then we come to David-
4on, the 11;1;c-dresser. His great reason for doubt-
th'e -liitsoya4nes c.f Mr, Davies's mind was,
that, Mr, Davies sat with tbe•witide.n, ;:p in the
sultry ni.!%.nth of June, owl' that the company at Ep-
som races pleased hint itittifi, than the races them-
selves. This worthy person, too, tad you about
story which he says Mr. Davies told him. What
' was it ? Mr. Davies saw a lady get out of her
carriage and );)oit towards him. What then 2—why
rite lady walked way. What next ?—she beckoned
her coachman, and then—what ?--she
got into her
coach again ?—(Laughter.)—Now is Lot this:

wonderful story, from one of the most :loquacious
and communicative class of his Majesty's subjects ?
Then he dealt a great deal in the common Slang or
all the witnesses—excitement, irritation, stud the
like--and at last he came to the conclusion that Mr.
Davies cannot be sane, because he did not happen
to have a sixpence in his pocket. Next were called
several witness from Furnival's-inn. What were
they asked ? Why, whether they would trust Mr.
Davies to transact any important business of theirs ?
They answered no. But is the sanity of a nervous
and irritated man to be proved only by bringing the
waiter, the porter, the boots of an inn, to swear that
they would be content to trust him with the conduct
of their very important concerns ? Is the Guilty of
such a man to he established by getting such
persons to swear that they would not so trust
him ? I hope not—for few angry men will
stand such a test. Then there was Mr. Han-
key. Now I beg you to recollect, that the case
I opened to you was, that Mr. Davies was a ner-
vous man, a man of peculiar habits and conversa-
tion. Mr. Mulkey knew nothing about the charac-
ter of Mr. Davies, and he therefore comes under
the class of ignorant and incapable witnesses. At
what time does he see Mr. Davies ? Why at a
time when he is hurried and irritated—at a time
when his mother has just raised a suspicion of his
sanity. Coming front the excitement of the tea-
exchange into Mr. Hankey's banking-house, his
cheque is refused. He sees the clerk and the
cashier whispering together. What could be ex-
pected from a man so situated ? Announced as a
madman, with the terrors of a lunatic asylum before
his eyes, with his credit as a tradesman blasted by
the refusal of his cheque—in this condition he goes
into Mr. Hankey's room. He takes hold of Mr.
Mulkey to prevent that gentleman going out : he
says " I beg that you will stay and hear me; I must
have some conversation with you;" and this it is
which Mr. Hankey exaggerates into a forcible hold-
ing. Much more might be excused in a man who
had so many causes for anger, for irritation, and for
excitement. Such, however, is the class of wit-
nesses produced. If the other side wanted to lay
before you all the facts of the case, why did they
call such persons, and neglect to call others ? Where
is Mr. Lowe? where is young George Bywater?
where is Richard Dobson, who was the bearer of
all the communications to Portland-place ? Why
are not these called ? Their evidence would show
that Mr. Davies was capable of managing his
own affairs; and there would . be An end of
all that reckless dilapidation of Mr. Davies's:
property, which, at the rate of scores, I will not say
hundreds, has been perpetrated for weeks past, to
the astonishment of an indignant public. I say that
the persons who have instituted these proceedings,
show, by their conduct, that they care nothing
about the justice or the fairness of the case. Such,
however, shall not be my conduct. I complain that
these persons have not been c.illed; but called they
shall be, for if you think it necessary to go on, I
will call them every one. You shall see the servants,
you shall see the clerks of Mr. Davies. They shall
tell you what Mr. Davies was; and they shall tell
you what difference was apparent in his conduct at
another period : they shall account for that differ-
ence : they shall explain to you that the cause of it
is to be found in the unhappy differences that existed
between Mr. Davies and Mrs. Bywater. Though
my learned friends have
,not enabled you to judge
fairly of this case, I will. You will find that Mrs.
Bywater has treated her son in a manner which
might have been very proper if he had always re-
mained a child, but which became perfectly intoler-
able to a man at the head of a large and flourishing
business. Power is sweet to man, and not, I be-
lieve, bitter to women. Whether she was taken
with sweets, or whether, for some other reason, she
did not choose to relinquish the power she had held,
and she continued to exercise it much longer than in
proper decency she ought to have attempted to con-
tinue her reign, I shall now show you that she
treated him like a child; that she interfered in every
department of the business, except, indeed, that she
did not mix in the riot and bustle of the tea-ex-
change; that she assumed control in all things; that
she dismissed his servants without his leave; that she
would not allow him even to manage his own pocket-
money ; that his time was not his own, for that he
was obliged to account for every day, nay, for every
evening that lie spent from home. In conclusion,
she wanted a share of the business, and demanded
that she might be taken into the firm; but this Mr.
Davies refused. This has been the conduct of Mrs.
Bywater; and flans sure you will agree with me,
that it is such as no one with the ordinary feelings of
a man could or would endure. And if so,—then, I
pray you, how near was irritation—at how great a
distance was excitement I do not want the opi-
nion of a mad-doctor on such a subject. I say, that
when affection is succeeded by coldness, and by a
quarrel, it must be that irritation and 'excitement
will ensue. Then followed the proceedings at
Crouch-hill and at Portland-place, all of which were
the natural. consequences of that exacerbation 'of
feeling which I have described. And now I come
to Mrs. Brookabank's testimony. I wish to say
nothing harsh of her. it may be that the leans
towards her sister. [Here the Learned Counsel
proseetlad at great length to point out discrepancies
in several parts of ?Irsi. -Afoulssisank's evidence,
showing, at the same time, that she could know
little about Mr. Davie, or his mother's treatment of
-him, since she admitted that he had dined at their
house only twice in seven years. The Learned
Counsel also, after pronotincing a high eulogiorn on
the sotid4et of M. Holder, and on the manner in
which he had given his evidence, proceeded to speak
of . another witness, Mrs. Wardell.] As to Mrs.
Wardell, as she is corroborated by no one, let us see
how much of her evidence you can believe.—
Mrs.Wardell swears to the story you recollect about
Mr. Davies suing that he was the
"Now,
of God,
and that lie 1144 tinti up to tfeavra! Now, among I
mad people, this is a common delnsion; bat mark,
in Mr. Davies's case it occurs but once ; never more
—only one person speaks of it. There is a species's'
of madness called monomania—which means mad.•'
ti;;; t!ipon one particular subject only. Many per-
sons are so a4lcfed ; but if they are, however sane
they may be On other matters, however ratjonally
they may be conversing,yertosichbut for an instant ,
on this subject, and away go sanity, reason, in-
tellests, every thing, and the bedlamite stands con-
slessesi. Thia ieinvariably the case ; it is the chas
sacteeistio.tif the unseaSit, :And !et milly hate gone,
over this ground with Mr. Davies, and have dis-
covered no delusion of the kind. He touched upon
it to no one but Mrs. Wardell, and that only once.
Now which- will you believe ?—that a case which
no Roe 94'7,2r:fore heard of ha: come within the
cingwar experre`fice " of ties. iissess;;; oF will you
".believeOtien ha'pp'en has happened
here, 4rnely; that a• witness basr stirlorn' that which
la fiat ,tpe Learped Counsel here Went
througji various sitner p4r141 o' to gttvws testi-
mony, and said that he should call witnesses tocliS;!
prove them.)—l am now come to speak of the
testimony of the medical men. I should approach
this part of the subject with some hesitatiortssif I
thought 6141,
.;;; ipestion of this kind were to be de.
eis4ed by leerniag 'anti expaiiii.*;fi in medical affairs.
The law has said that it shall be decided orirervii4,
or you, Gentlemen, would not' be heie. The prii-
Ceetringt tl.!if case, however, have' shown- on how
• trO,Ltnds man may he arraigned for insanity,
ssheiv;ng 'it is. The ..IkSW
mis•
eiptie it, to doubt; The pioql ;11-0
but that the law should long cOntititte io, after the
disclosures thiS case has made, I hold to be a
thing wholly improbable. Only see what a dreadful
machine is put in motion by a few lines, signed by
two-tn,;:tiicei yi4en. Any t.,vo medical men, with the
conctiiio"ce of a'rehetioit or frieier, Or, indeed, of any
perso9 choose to roatce himself respbw-
eibie—ka ;I is Int peCessa4 Cll4 the'perion'ihoulq
have a relative—may a 414 to
the " Retreat", at Claphain.. Then follows
quisition at Crity's Inn Coffee-house, where all the
man's most secret affairs, most private conversa-
tioPsi err laid open ; he is culled upon to account

for every idle word, uttered in the -most unguarded
hour, and, if he should be found to be of sound
mind at last, he returns home ashamed, abashed,
the town talk, and a beggar. His estate has been
squandered away in proving that he is not mad.—
Is not this a most frightful • picture ? It becomes
more so by examination. You have seen on what
light grounds this proceeding may be taken.—
ow see to whom the power is intrusted, at least
judge who they are, when you find that one
of them will riot swear that he never certified
respecting a man whom he had never seen.—
Surely the alarm we feel at such a system
cannot be allayed w hen we hear the refusal to
answer such a question. Well, but the medical
men came here to tell you that Mr. Davies is of un-
sound mind. They have told you so, and this
would have been sufficient if we had not asked
them why. Reasons from a man in authority are
always dangerous. When he decides, by virtue of
his authority, we bow to that authority ; but when
he decides upon reasons, the case is different, for we
then give no more credit to his opinion than corn.
mon sense and common experience declare it to-be
worth. Now, the bulk of the medical witnesses are
persons connected with the treatment of insane
persons. If I call them " mad doctors," it is only
to avoid a tedious phrase, and not out of any disre-
spect to them. They are all of them liable to one
observation, as all other men are who confine them-
selves to a particular corner of their respective pro-
fessions. In our profession, for instance, those
men who confine themselves exclusively to one
small part of it are never men of such great under-
standing, or of such strong reasoning powers, as
others are who have devoted themselves to the
liberal cultivation of all the branches of the pro-
fession. The same thing is true of the medical
profession, whether we speak of auriets, or occu-
lists, or dentists. So it is with mad doctors. They
are madmen-hunters, twist-finders, delusion-fanciers.
Besides, there is a sort of fellow feeling among
them : when one gets himself into a scrape, the
others, if they are on friendly terms with him, have
a tendency to help him out of it. Perhaps it is
the same in other professions. It is the feeling of
the craft, and I do riot, therefore, in dealing with
their evidence, accuse them of perjury—no such
thing : but I say, that they are biassed by their
feelings and their interests, and that the consequence
is the perversion of their judgments. We are not
trying them on facts. If I am asked whether I will
believe any of them upon a fact, I answer," Yes
but I will riot give the same answer with respect to
their opinion, to their judgment, or to the infe-
rences they draw from facts. Now let me observe gene-
rally, that many of these Learned Gentlemen con-
sider Mr. Davies mad, because he has what they
call delusions. What are these delusions ? That
he fancied he had a sore throat ? That he fancied
he was controulled and ill-treated by his mother ?
Yes; these are the two principal delusions. Sup-
pose I show that they are facts : that he had a sore
threat, and that such was the conduct of his mother
towards him,—what will you think of the doctors'
testimony then ? What will you think of doctors
who, finding that these things are not delusions, but
facts, still obstinately persist in their former opi-
nion ? Now, with these observations, let us exa-
mine the evidence of the doctors. Dr. Latham saw
Mr. Davies only on the 28th and 29th of July. He
has never seen him since. He tells you that Mr.
Davies seized him, and said, " Dread the vengeance
of a madman, fur I carry pistols." Let us see if
the doctor's recollection can be trusted. He swore
to you that he thought Mr. Davies insane on the
29th of July. This is all. The Doctor made an
affidavit three months ago, in which he deposed
that Mr. Davies manifested such excitement, " as
led him to the apprehension of his possible insanity,
and that on the next day he was confirmed in his
aforesaid apprehension." What apprehension ?
Why, apprehension ef Mr. Davies's possible in-
sanity. And yet he now comes and swears that Ire
thought him actually insane at that very time. That
is to say, in his evidence he thought Mr. Davies ac-
tually insane ; in his affidavit he only had an appre-
hension of l‘lr. Davies's possible insanity. After
this, can you trust this gentleman's recollection at
all ? Then comes Dr. Davis, arid he has invented a
new delusion. He talks of a delusion of manner.—
This delusion is certainly not to be found in the law
books, arid I will venture to say that you will search
medical books for it iu vain. He says that Mr.
Davies went from one subject to another, and that
there was not any connection in his conversation. Lord
bless us,Gentlem en, if this be madness, how many ram-
bling talkers will be sent to tire" Retreat" to-morrow
He tells you that Mr. Davies used unnecessary em-
phasis and gesticulation. Lord bless us, again, Gen-
tlemen, if this be madness, I tremble for myself ;
I tremble for many of my Learned Friends; I tremble
for Dr. Hashim—no, I don't tremble for him, he
is past praying for; and I have only to hope that
mad doctors are like certain fishes, who make it a
ride never to prey upon each other. Then comes
Dr. Cobb. He says that Mr. Davies can manage
his business, but not his general affairs. Now, this
seems strange to an untutored mind—to the mind
unused to the philosophy of madness. He tells you,
too, that Mr. Davies may be allowed to wash, but
not to shave himself, and Yet Dr. Burrows arid his
keepers allowed him to shave himself. Then the
Doctor tells you that Mr. Davies may be allowed a
knife at dinner, arid then after drawing a delicate
distinction between the operations of shaving and
dining, between a knife and a rasor, lie adds, but
" there should he a keeper by to see that he does no
mischief with the knife." A keeper by—now, on
this I asked him—" Did you advise that ?" He
answered "No; I did not," Dr. Frampton thought
Mr. Privies mlid because he would not go home to
his mother : this is the first test. The next is what
we, in law, call stultification, that is to say, Mr.
Davies is marl now because lie will trot admit that
he was mad at some preceding time. The Doctor
told you that Mr. Davies was recovering; that in a
short time this proceeding would he unnecessary,
and that he tried to get him to admit that lie had
been insane, in order to save expense. Now, Gen-
tlemen, there is too ways of saving expense here.
The one is to take the money from the law, that
there !wee be more for Dr. Burrows and his keepers;
the other is—pr whim was-740 spare these pro-
ceedings ; but they would not do. that, because then
their prey would have escaped them, arid there
would have been an end of their job. However,
such was the test,—and yet Dr. Frampton admitted
that, it Kr. reavies wei.e ne, hie t•efu.sal tp ac-
knowledge himself mad would be " Very proper.
Then the Doctor told you that the purchase of
Crouch-hill estate was a delusion ; but I will venture
to say, that no madman that ever the "Retreat" or
Bedlam saw, can have laboured under a greater dela-
tioa Peal Doetor manifested in what he said on
this; subjeCt. I e foldyoU, gravely and seriously, that if
a Man businese.Weei,'undeiany-cireuiristinices; to
eeawr ni et
with
lock up '6,0001. or 70001.'0f his capital, it would be
s
in aorof sadness. yqu recollect, tcio, what an-
swers 4ave to the questions '''lch n'L
Friend Mr, Broderick put to him,
about
n
certain incomes laying out certain sums of Money.
You recollect he said that if men did so, they would
commit acts of madness. But, besides the evidence
cf these gentlemen, there have been put in and
read home jet;er; or Mr. Davies's. They are ram•
tiling letters,' if 'will; they r.re full of bad
jokes—for I confess that Mr. Mivieer scent to have
been a bad joker;—one of 'those; indeed;' in' whose
trrGiith iskt.., is no lab .ping Matter, and- they con-
-044) gi •itrcorreFt cfu t 1.4 tiolia. W6w,-let me remind
you, that incorrect quotat ccia are no proof of in-
sanity. You recollect that Mr. Wright, in examin-
ing Davies's
iciitTotorinteiotolfs, taisrekedwtithialettsZtnreessspsevcitiieller one of those
quotations was not from lerainlees soliloquy to the
playere.lLaughtero—yoh, gentleinene' recollect
the fact.- Now-'1 believe that if Mr. Davies had
said` this, Sir C. Wetherell would have opened it—
_
I thee after doctor would have followed upon
the same scent—and that ,I
should haveheen'ilew
labouring to conviece you that the mistake did nut
ainount to insanity. However, j am content that

I AN . .
you should take the letters as you find Zhete- \VEST
will prove to you that, in letters, not nigin, "the •
ters of business Mr: Davies always wilts 'Paw , &obi
same style; and having proved this, IWEaf 1- g°l4iiei
•wetly
pay particular attention to one of those I_A-sid. '
which, for manner, style, and feeling, is as eumais 1 R
as rational a letter on the subject, which' Is rcpt
0 I.
light one, demanded. (The Learned Couesel Or ItatAl
adverted to the evidence of Dr. Blundell arid ofilli 1,2150 E
G. Tuthill.) I now pass on to Dr. Burrows. ' 'ith Q--1,:"
have accused the other doctors of coming here wof "rie:
a bias, I am inclined to accuse Dr. Burro
s' tad ~,T-1,
coming here with a tenfold greater bias. ,Th,,,eh; 0 ewe
became, in his hands, almost his own case. ;01,e,tttetere,
was no getting him to answer questions. His- -,Le le.*. 1.,
stunt expressions were—" Allow me to' t'ac'ler '446;
own course—l will tell you all without belAI Lulire
asked—l will describe every thing to you." -,, --,41'°11
Dr. Burrows states you will, I trust, gentleta:''' NfLyin• irl
receive with great caution. He speaks of Ili' bee ti '`liit
pressions; they are not to be trusted. Not onlYza :-
he demonstrated the bias of his profession) v",- . Vi.'
he has demonstrated also the li'•- of .intart°,l° 'kitties-1
If Mr. Davies be found to belaosf sound 01,1 o:4{—„t,
he, in the first place, loses the profit,.„ ',..de A
Mr. Davies's residence in the " Retreat; t,,, tfttee
and, in the next place, he will labour 1
.olee
der the imputation of having confined Pl. ?...at
Davies, when that gentleman ought to hsveDri„ '•u,er
at large. lie told you that lie did not advise P' ,
;: ti. •-%.
Davies being sent there. I believe it : for thl" "Pers,
things are not done by words. He knew
(115 PA ;EYet
the!
Davies would be sent no where else; it was 0 ..:
stood that lie should be sent there: whither 011!,1 ~ 4:
he be sent but to the custody who had Waists •-•
the keepers ? Well, but if Mr. Davies gets out 0:,
in Illist condition will Dr.• Burrow- stied' hill;ei; ..„,..
placed? He told you that, .not haying seen 7' . Peer,
Davies for ten days; he nevertheless dared to sig. , te,h
the certificate. 1 hope this is a solitimey case of OP Est 0
conduct in the part of Dr. Burrows' foe is it hood, ,s.letey,
is it humane—nay, is it not unjust sad cruel to "'nine,
treat a fellow man thus ? I have said, I hope th't its:, Tie
this is a solitary instance; and I do devoutly boll tietlae N
it is; but you must not, and I cannot, forgets till
Aced,)- in
when I asked him if he had ever certified, with') ILLit,het
having seen the supposed madman, he • refused (I/ testi°. ~
answer tile question. Now I come to Dr. Ha d• t, t,Tia
who, yielding in seal to no witness, disP111":14,1811ii
judgment infinitely more perverted than all. the krel 4.; Av
of the medical men put together. He w's wi-ereth et et/
" Suppose a man bad been ill treated by his luot"-,e6N-11,1:'
suppose his mother had. denounced him as a 'es; 'll -eni,',l
man; and suppose that, for these reasons, the 131-I.l' ;• --,;
when asked to return to his mother, were to, flaweee4LOß6`
" No, I can't trust myself with her," would that_eie tOeteie
the answer of a madman? He answered deeidall, tile , i
that it would. Dr. Haslam's test a mr. noies'ir. 'EST;
insanity was, like that of the other dc et irs, that oe9' A
Davies would not acknowledge that he had oatti tOTDs
been mad. Can any thing be more absurd they 4()Clki
such a test? (Here the Learned Gentleman ': ',their
sblupudeteadkiit:oistohlfleotetvohifidsence on the subject. of Mr. alvierii tr'°' A
supposing that lie had been accnsed of tomato 11.SlIE
practices. The explanation the Learned Gietig 114'
man gave, appeared to us completely seder:lett/I:At ~ A
said,—But Mr. Davies has been accused of spea' 12, t,
Now I dart AL L
ing of such matters before his sister.
say, if the truth were known, that he spoke with si AR c
asunhajteuerte,
theto bLeeaarrpauedbliacietejento)l4ltke:itli
much delicacy as a chaste man--and such be ill ad' tee
tmhitstttesdomteo
men will
be—could shpeefaelere. a
mLeatrrmieed
they would not say before another woman; s, li,,sa
let sue also remind you, that in men, as well ariegLit":lS
in women, there are different degrees of ds. „ , Xll4 1." "
cacy. Mrs. Bywater is a woman of low ()rig!.." ,ec,p,
and she may not have communicated the most Pc re, Ix
fined notions to her daughter. I say, there are,differ,lo ..,114., Pl.,
degrees of delicacy in women, and you need 010 h '5. S
far for an instance. How many hints have ',,, teltiN
ce
Daviese d ing a ,croeucledi received
e?
ladies, who have been present during•thela ri-;. tre*P'
111 sat
otiti PUi
sisterr e m i n d‘vii3ll
1103.;_
havecmoinnsdi
consider
leoirenarttdihi
aatthatechreeeor
account. No,
mated to them that they had better retire ? 9,,deell'f 4,11t4y":
have retired at last,--sotnwe have
s trhernainid• "el; 1--'
themselves.nes Hess lim, we had iii hand,
Gentlemen, and
have
one the
cliadio: wNh
any
so7fsotwiersentteleciri
01
olati;sl;iuto
el:tie:gni: n
1u0......d0t h
6:th.:
T.
14
ed the bar C.,ibs f
add respecting the conduct of this case on the other
s:de. I have remarked how extraordinary the es'
ej)°,-;
lection of witnesses has been; 1 have noticed et Ileac, 1
instances of the suppression of evidence which odio 4. 14:1
to have been brought forward, but I have let,oiek le. A
notice others. The Lord • Chancellor sends s rte. ' 1110
haws to 216-0 i:r.t
clan, in whom he reposed the greatest confidenete. , s
visit Mr. ' Davies. This physician was Dr• ""A Oa i Lit
judgment without any communieatioinn
chael ; he saw time patient, examined him, fornit'oe kg• 'll
:21tkihrilie
inst, tB. Sussex. its
Fitz,
parties, delivered his judgment, and yet 1411,4'1011,i2ti5. 4
called to give evidence. Why is this {o• . aji) ItIO, V.* P -
want facts ? do they want the truth T.: 1?', c(tO ''ll. lit
thatin skill
gentleman,
etnot l
eta.
n,MtgliMatielhilleel'hhaals tolplipsobarudttuyw,:int!itesditi'ldlelAcktilleut°i 1114;111:
orilvuo:rod:hoger
,11•41.:4,:t
can want neither, or they would not have neti'edio2l. --Al
to cull this unprejudiced witness. Again tPe'dor:,_the--
Dr. M'Kinnon, a relation of the family, w'h°, e,;fer e_I'IAII
:Fuewariinitihtacenaelslaembwoeti
htrheDaMsre.rn.:M:
myveiirceiisily.a
it Weihsaesil; y i hek eP t ebli, 010
upon these instances of supp►• 'iiodersi.,eD.brutilvr,ii:iinfir`ae;ikgrei..i..".
h,theyhoapte
,fsrhfooamrl shall
the
eehenes
tmai
Irkeyieenvoai finfd resNntsicpre.wo
kroyi witnesses,
fsi
oeswser
Davies,
:ill
tyabhereal dt.ita
b:uieellsoti
roof :0f,.eh„,::::::‘,.:,,,:,%4,..::
gnminzueyauaarrnryltncaeeoesr.
Learned
Mr.t 1
ITIII, 1 di
Lpeoeaayrniliel
above,oes ds most
to
ahrebvre fervently rfii
01 te,lio.
mv,,:stashaiosinsuodni
Ids:
pyerneveioi
ucnuhcbdt
.1,::
i:i't
1. err;
0:6 :::..4:::fla
d'
and our limits have enabled us to give.] ill trrill'iti-
The Court adjourned at half-past fi!e, t'.- l'i4dara
morrow (this day) at eleven o'clo el t
On the ipth iilst. itllidde'sion, Herts, the i." 4 -
Capi. Hughes, of ii 10 .lhi
On the 22e1 inst. innSoltu:ll:Au:l---ev--stie; t1:16111:c iluttitall'llnalirii
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On the 20th inst. in North rederick lace, Du oft`litt, liir-1
Leland, Esq. barrister. Mr. Leland, who-P
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At Calcutta, June 3, A. Gibb, Esq. Seawr, ...ilk MI
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At Ghaziuoor, Allay 25, by z :.41 frow hie v iii- ,gi• ire PI
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At Bombay, May 9, J. Whyte, Esq. 103 ' ' O —Mit
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