The Sun.
London, England, 1816-05-09 00:00:00

NUPTIAL BALL AT SALISBURY.

A halt, siwpassting in sitlendour any ever wit-
laessed in Salisbury, keas en at the Council C., am -
!ter, on Tinirsday evening List, by the Worthy
the Rev. CifiIIiTOPHER
in honour of the 'Nuptials o. her Royal Highness
tie Princess Charlotte of Wales. Numerous
✓irat'ions had hero given to families of tashion and
respectability in, the city and neighbourhood, and
• brilliant assemblage of upwards (4,2,30, persons
traced the room: The dresses of the'Ladies, be-
ing almost invariably white, added not a little to
the gaiety of this festive scene. Mr. Reymilds,
/rota. Biar, the celebrated performer on the harp,
'was, engaged on the occasion. The dancing rum-
Inenced ibout ten o'clock, a.ud continued till four
*;I the morning. A profusion of delicacies and
refreslinients was served to the company, who de-
parted, all highly pleased with the very polite.and
unceasing attention Which had been ,paid to them
by the Mayor'and Lady. The, front of the
Colincil Chamber was brilliantly and most taste-
fully illuminated With variegated lathps. 'I he
floor of the ball-room was beautifully ornamented
(by. Mr. Farr,, of -Salishory,) with the King's
Arms in the centre how ; tinder 'which, in the
centre of the room, appeared a Rising Sun with
" Sake Coburg" in the middle. , In two :coin.
partments, on each side, appeared the Prince of
Wales's Plumes and Coronet ; at the upper ettd of
the room the Arms ol the City Find supporters; at
the lower end the Mayor's Antis, between two
laurel branches. The whole surrounded with a
boarder.

Extract of n letter . from Hobart-town, Van
bieman's Land, Sept. 23, 1815 :-L." This colony
has been in ani alarming stole tor Ft considerable
that back. A great number of the convicts ran
I%%vay into the woods, apd commenced a system of
living by plunder. This settlement having no
criminal court, the chances of escaping ',twist).
ment induced them to verscvere : atter committing
numberless robberies, they began to burn houses,
awl committed severed murders. • At length, the
Governor caused 'inertial law to be prodthaied-;
niter which four of these desperadoes were taken
tried by a general' court-mai tied, condemned, and
Lung in chains; tipow which the rest
,gnt farther
otf into the woods ; -hut, as several armed parties
are out in search of them, it is hoped they will he
'tsoon caught, and P stop pia to these. atrocities.'
Air. SHERIDAN -lieS sublet ed a severe illness, lily
Nve are happy to hear that lie is recovering, and
has nearly regained his strength.
The ItoYAL
,OUTFIT is 60,0001. ; yet, mlignifi-
tent as the stun appears, only Two Tickets
bought at CARTHR'S, 8 Charing cross, may pro-
Attlee 60,000 L and rival Royalty itself. These are
istlient hopes ; but deSpair itself must admit. the
Possibility, apd without hope, what is lire
It appears by returns moved for in the House
of Conimons, that on an average the Revenue de-
rive). ball a million per annum from Lotteries: the
"13:nitude of this sum, and the lecollectikan that
it is a voluntary tax, to which the public cheer-
fully co,„rib„fe,' might have been expected to re.,
foncile every one to their continuance; neverthe-,
ims, the subject bas been seriously taken up by
1”."4.1 menillets, who are anxious for the aboli-
,ton :anti it is shortly to be discussed in the house.
i
however, this is to be the last Lottery, as ex-
the Contractor seems, tietertnined to have
; for, by the Bonus given to pur,.
iilseis berwe next Tuesday, every one is HOW
ttrt;in• het sontOhilig, over and above the
their Own number, whia Mien gain
4,)
'..,;tp,1014 or even 60,041,

IM. EWAL lIAIIMANi:ENt- ,

HOUSE OF LORDS, IVRoNESDA:I"; Itbor flt

The nottie met nt ten o'clock in tite-inQtnln:,:,
proceeded in Appeals.
Leach add !turner, Cirri; aacid, fieard in the Itout-
ltdgv Cause; and hearing 6niahed. lhuinsun heard hi t!
Cartuiehael Cause.,

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Evidence was given on the AI d 7 Mei); ce Bill, to iliew that
Lady .tidy was at Paris, and servict of the Bill ofi tier Agent
ivas ordered. 4.

A Pviition was presented from Cenerii.Dyott, stating that
the trustee had re4nlarly paid her`pni-mooey to hi; wife, and
Fraying that his hill might pfuceed. The trUsti.e,.&e. older-
ed to atteod.,tt

The Earl of 1...11:0E.ft DALE, as we underitrhul him, irhiv-
ed the„ printing of the Bank report, and to Other papers on
the same subject.; which were ordered..
The Cotton Bill, Gerwan Prunes Bill, and St Cenrge the
Martyr Ono eh Bill, were brought tip front the Goan:twos, and
read a 111..1 time.

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The tUrk Duty and Tonnage Duty Bills were Committed
and reported,—Adjoupied.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Petitions were received from the Tanners of Truro and
Warrington. 4
:General THORN TON gave notice, that to morrow he
should move for Accounts of the ExpenceS incurred in Pro-
secutions for E'urrery by the Wink since IRl‘2'.

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Mr. 'I'HORNJ'ON mentioned his intention to object to it.
The Wroughtlioods Bill was reid• a third time.—The Irish
Treasury Bills Rill went thronigh the Committee —Post-office
hiperi, and Accounts of Broad and Narrow Cloths, and of
Exchequer Bills, were presented.
FRENCIi PROTESTANTS.

Sir SAMUEL RomiLLY, gave notice, that gn
Tnesday tie shout() submit a Nlot loft on' the con-
dition of the Protrstants in the South of Fritnee.

Alr, H. ADDiNGToN obtained le•tve to bring in
a lid! 10 amend the Act respeiting C+intitt ti
Lunatics. Leave was grantbd, and the Lim was
brought itt,

to
answer to ti gnestiOn frorn Sir J Ne.wport,
M. H. Addington said, tile report of the,Seo;cli
Commissioners v. 0o1(1' be produced iy soon as
possible. •

BANK AFTAnts.
Mr. GRENPELL gave 'voice, that he intended to
call the attention of the nonce to the 4181li ot the
kingl, awl to move to reduce the charge or the
Bank for managing the public debt : he had al o)
a view to the application or part of the uaciainted
dividends in the Rank to t tie service. tie
would give no :wilt:L. of a 11)(111(in Oil the sonject, ag
he nuderstood t: e Rigitt Hon. Gentleman had
promised to hying it forward. If he (tilt not, he
should certainty call the considerati9n of the
House to the sithiect.
The CHANCELLoR of the EXCHFAUER intimated,
that the might on Friday natne_soine day for this
stihieet. . • •

The Bank Restriction Bill itepgrt tvas brought

T!TLIE LAWS.

Mr. tuttUrsti moved fur certain papers respect-
ing Tithes, to which he saw rto real groutot of
objection. 'But, however, .be consideied it his
duty to make a it!ti, obserVaticHlS justify his filo-
' tfon. It had been proved to ;he [louse, oy the.
number of petitions pres.Ated, that Tithes were
a great soorce of complaint for the Agricultural
Interesti' nor were the imposition of them, -any
great athantage to the gent:tat interest of the
country, for they placed Cie, gymett iu a very in 7
%idiot's point of view... He lid toi,rr).
pose any thing in respect ,o a commutation. I'lic
Hon, Gentleman contended, that in respect to
seizures for Tithes, the case should be tried
by a Jury,' before a
.decision was made, as at
present, toy the Exciesiastical Court ;. which,
without reflectiug on the Judge of that Court
was a :.neat oppression On the subject. lie stated
the opinion, of Sir G. Wood as' being, contrafy
to the decision of the .Coltrt,ot Exchequer, which
that Lamed Judge thought was an inimical One
in respect to composition ISO plea of tuodus. He
conceived that sending these cases. to a Jury
would ,give material relief. There were above
100 Tyyle Cases now pending in the. Court of
Extbequer, the disputes from which caused divi-
sions in parishes, and much ill-Will qiid calumny
against the Church.of England.. There were in-
stances in whodi the Tythe Proctor, tinder the
Lecclesiastieal Law, has entered the garden of a
cottager, and, in the process-.tit=' collecting h.s
Tythes, committed great inittry.. The H
Gentleman concluded with moving for the first de-.
cision in the Court of litteheytur (in 1687) On the.,
subject of moth/Bes or composition, in respect 10
Tithes ; aiso the,mimber of Tithe Causes tried
within the last seven years, &c. Sie. and those
pending.
Lord CASTLIMEAGn agreed to the production of
the Papers, though ill' the way the subject hail
been entlainett.bY. the Hon, Gentleman, it would;
he imagined, lead to much' difliculty.—The mu-
(ions wtre then agreed to. •
ROMP...NI IN •PARLIANIENT.
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Sir F. Bo artF.TT presentetr;Petition from
bureham, 'in Scotland, praying for Reform in
Parliament.
Lord MwroN took occasion to advert to to Pe-
tition preaenreo on a formal night by the lion.
Baronet, purporting to be signed by 10,000 in-
habitants of Huddersfield and its neighbourhood.
tie was authorized to declare, by a great ntimber
of his constituents of that town, that they bad
not authorized this Petition. At the same time,
he did not mean to %ay that the Pedant' had not
been properly signed, though .privately. At the
cOmmenceMent of 1813, a venerable Patriarch
(Major Cartwright) had visited the town of Hud-
dersfield, and left a petition to he signed. How
this petition (nhich he supposed was the same)
came to lie dormant for three years, and then to
be presented in the Spring-of 1816, be could not
tell. It was 'for the Hon. Baronet to
At the time Ire spoke of the town and neighbour-
hood of Haddersfi'eld, it was tnenaced witli:those
riots which afterwards became the subject of
in-
quiry at the Assizes at York, anti during those
Assizes it was that the Major paid his visit. •
Lord LASCP.I.LIIS re-stated his former account
of the proceedings of the Major 'in this respect.
No man of Character.had sanctioned:his appear-
ance. He had chdsen the time of his visit when
the dead bodies of the rioters were brought from
the place of execution ; but so little countenance
did he get, that lie was obliged to decamp, after
appearing before a Magistrate, with a 'bundle.of
Papers with which he was travelling the coantry
'to obtain signatures.
Sir F. BURDETT could not ice to lvkat the ob. j

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servatiO'iis of the tv-fo MobleLords 6hdza : he
alintlea to a-Vetition' Troth ,Wiktitira which had.
been presented, tlntkii not signed at a public
ineeting, its itibfflication of ltis conduct iri
:Fencing the 1-Iml4o-Iffield Petition. No'inanzota
for R maink,itt ittspeet• thexbarnoter of 114,tior Cart-
wright. And with, i'r.lpeet to the Petition it was
respyet;ihly signed—tht: signaturei 'consisting of
'7,806 perotts. .4 s'•to the time Of presenting it,
lie had eieFeised his own jmigment, Aiishing to,
present it at the time is !rich appeared Most proper
to hini ; anti ‘'vbeli the greatest impression would
be made on the flouse.—The Petition was then
laid of the table.

LORD PRESIDENT OF; SCOTLAND.

Sir F. 111,11DET1 ittid he had atiother Petitinn

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to present-of a total!), different nature. It was-
against' the -condue of the Lord President Of the
Court of Session, in the case tif a Lady of high
retliectahility, wholwayed the intelferenCe of the
Honse, she having been deprived b,y the deeiSion
of tlOt Court of the gitartliiinship of Wer childi•en.
It was a case of great impciiiianee, as involving
the administration'of justice, mid therefore, if re-
ceived, it was riot likely that it would long beH
suliered to lie on the table without farther no-
tiet

The SPEAKER. having: asked the Hon. Batonet
what wits the Ingyer of ;the' Pitition
Sir Illi;aby:TT said he could not state the pare
iieniars from n ti.wv, but the prayer appeared to
be, th.i.t the House would interfere to bring back
the v,wirdietnship of her Children; so that they
might be plitCed under the iirotecilon of the Court
of Chi-otcerriu Fqihind. It ith,o accused the Lord
President of injustice and opnreiSion. •
Lord OssoLsToN secondrd the motidn,,that he
might hove opporttmity, when the Petition had
been read, of reltuing tie calumnies it contained.
Lord CACTLEREAGLE said the Howie ought to be
cautious how they lent themselves to a course
which would mislead the subject. If it u'as sup.
posed that the House could interfere ip the adttii-
nistration of the course of justice, that course
would become.diSturbed and confused. If time

tis no charge in the Pvtition of the great Law
°neer in tinchtion having conunitted inalver-
tion or. oppression in the exercise of his high
office, and if sucl74 ChargeA were not borne out by
a statement of facts in the Petition, the House
ought tmt to interfere. if, however, it were al-
lowed to be read, hebegged he iniglit not be un-
derstood as giving his support Tait.
•fir JOHN NBWPORT c4ntended that its com-
plaining of great itjustice and oppression on the
partiif a high Law Officer, was kt sufficient reason
for it, being attended to.

Some farther conver=ation ensued, in which
Mr. Bibogh,tin, Mr. IV. Dnhdas, and Sir A. Hope
participuti.'d ; it was, agreed that the. Petition
shotErti he brought up and read. It was of consi.
&rabic length. It began by stating, that
ositlow of tlfe late Colonel George Cole-
btoolo, teas left by her husband in 18W), sole
guardinit to their two daughters, With a jointure of
12001. a-year, besides-property to the amount ot•
8,ut)(11„ in •the New River Company, and 5001.
sa-year for the education and lupport ot etch of the
children': that she afterward!, tnarriet! again, and,
0
444,41teiggiest ion of Tier puele9t hustywd, prayed
the Court of Session to remove her cli:ldren
front her guardianship, h then accused the Lord
President of using
.Coarse n,id c,thunniuns lan-
guage to her, acid charging her with being such
a corrupter of the trtor.ds of her children that it
was proper to send them tinder better confront ;
tlfat he eat tied his persecution so far 'as to pre-
rent professional gentlemen from affording her
a*istatre ; that be threatened her with fire years'
iMprisonment, and afterwards committed her front
March till. November ; theft he called iari thl chit-
drentogiveup theirmother,as she wagon ahandoned
,
woman,. and that she was finally compeller, not to
correspond with them. The Petition, after many
other &taus, %Tent On to arp,tte on the 46115 r-ice
'and oppression ot this conduct, denying tire tfuth
of the allegatiOns against her, and praying the
interposition of ' the r House to procure for her
retires*:

Lord Osstns.rotg strongly reprobated the con-
duct of the Petitiontr, The n'iterlocutor stated
'that site wits not a proper person to be intrusted-
, With the guardianship of her children, and the
children ii,ul no desire to return to the 'custody of
their mother. Slie was justly attached and punish-
ed for contempt of Court, having Made,. in de-
riance order of the Con! t, an attilek by force
of arms, and at night, upon the house in which
the children were, for the purpose of carrying-
them Out of the kingdom.'
Mr. -3. P;(;11ANT was sure the House wonlrl not
enfler.the Petition to lie
,on the table. tie argued
that die Colin was,fully authorised in cominhal*
file Petitioner for contempt ; justified the eon-
duet of the Lord President, who could' not act
On his own authoilty ; and insisted tliat there was
not one word in the Petition which authorized
the inference of corrupt motives. There was no.
thing. of more it4rirtauee than for the House to
ripen its doors to the,Petitiona of all persons who
felt themselVes aggrieved, unless they arraigned
the official aihninistratioo of justice, without
bearing out 'their charge's by facts, lint it might
to shut its doors against all lOosa allegations of
thiS

Lord Br 1.1;/ IN° rejoiced that the No.ble Lord and
the tine. 6eattetnan hail been beforehand with
hia. in the jt!stilicatiou of the condtict of the Lord
President,-.who, he %vat. proud to say, from the
knowledge. he hail of 'hint throngh his near con-
nexion with hi, family, Was totally in-Capable of
any of the allegations made against him; but,
above oil, be knew him to be as utterly iniOpable
LIS any man who ever lived of exercising oppres-
sion over an unfortunate anti defenceless woman.
The House cif Lords was open ,to the appeal of
Latly,,iand he was almost sorry the Petition
had been bruit& up and read. fle should now
more 't that the Petition be rejected."
ILord Ctimi,rots said, the Petitioner, by her
cowl marriage, had, according to the law of
Scotland, given up the guardianship of ber.Chil
drvn,

Mr. noßtatt stated, the the impression on his
mind was, that the Learned Jude.,, who had had
a dithettit task to perform, nor ouly done his
duty, but had appcdred animated by an nflee-
tion.tre concern for the welfare of the'petitioner
And daughtea, tic thought it riht tg

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on, the present Occasion, teed tilt More so aate
shOld on a futon? (1.4 Ii u e to-auidatiliert
the tone elf a report madi) by that person tu
tliurse, Wiachto him (\ir noi.ner) appeared by
Ina Means ivitat:it ought to have,hien.
The ATTORtkV-titt.tiEltAL took Ctis .fippohnnity
of saying, that printed papers on the subject of
the-proceeding in Scotland on thi question had
been forced iipOn hint. tbe4)raCti4 which he
had mentioned were continued, he wiihed the
parties to understand' it would not be suffered to
pass'unnnticed. , •
Sir F. ButiDETT, in reply, asserted nothing had
bean 'advanced that proved the 'Petition ought to
be_r`cjected. lie contended the facts brought be-
fore them made in favour of the character of the
LulY, and `thonOtt the Only question
they had to decide was, Whether the Netiiiciu con..
rained any,•rdlegationi, true Or .falie, that came'
propoly under the Cognizance of the Muse.—
Such allegationi he 06414 it cnntuined,,
therefore he could not help hieing of opinion the
Petition ought to be received ; and if it were
permitted to lie on tote table, he should certainly
move that „wine other steps should be taken on that
matter of it.

Mr. Bitou6twst made a feict Obs'ervations on the
reply of the Hon. Barmier, iwbich were In
answered by Sir FRANCIS BUintirr; after wh;(:h
the Motion for th'e. Petition being laid 'on the
table, was negatived. The iluestioti on the rejec.
tion of It was then put and carried.
Lord COMPTO4 • presented iii, P,tition front
Northaininon against the Leathei rak.—Ordered
to lie on the table:

A. new Writ *WS orilered for Warwick, in the
room of Lord 13rook, called up to the House of
Peers.
LITIERTY OF THE PRESS.
Mr. Bannonam, in bringing forward the Mo.
tion of Which he had given notice, on the subject
of the Liberty of the Press, called the attention
of the House, partieularly to the law as it at pre.
sent stood, with respect to. prasecntions for libel.
Some bad thOtight the offence of HIM ought to
he clearly defined, as that of treasbn had been.
by the Statute of Edward the Third.. r He, hosV.
ever, apprehended it was more difficult to define `.
the offence of libel than that of treason, and, in-
deed,, he was led to belieVe it impossible to do
More in this respect than had already been done.
He thought the chief evil to be coMplained of
under the law as it at present stood, was this,
that if an individual were prosecuted fora libd,
it was of no importance to the accused, whether
the publication was -yerfeetly 'consistent With,,
truth, or from beginmng to end an arrant false.
hood. This appeared to him One of the greatest
defects of our law, and this he proposed to remedy.
Ile approached the subject with touch appre-
}tension, as" he was well aware of the difficoltiea
which lay in ihds way. The• objections which
might he urged against which he Should pro-.
pose, be would -state, end endeavour, to answer
theini kle•would first suppose a libel on the Go.
vermitent, or oh' a private indiVidual, to be per+.
ftctly.trite ; though true, the trublication of the
1, libel might be a clime. It might be proved to
have originated in guilty intentious, anti to have
been-maliciously published; and it would in comic=
quence be liable to punishment. 6clll,ll6wever,
though the truth of the allegations, 'it contained
Might not b 6 a justification or defence, the crime
certainly was not so bad as if the libel had been
talse, and this ought to go to the Jury, though not
I ,to influence their-tied/lion on the question of guilty •
or not guilty. Be would suppose a person to
have publishes! that A I 3 bad been guilty of n
felony. Though the truth of this
.assertion might
be undeniable, the- publication of it might still be
' a crime ; but he contended this fact ought to' go
hefiqe the Court where the libel was to be tried.;
The truth of the statement ought not to entitle
'the accused to an acquittal, but it ought to be
taken into consideration to enable the Judges and
July to decide on the mottves,by. t,e party
from whom it ploceeded had teen actuated. This
the low in prosecution for libel had not hitherto,
nerittnited, though in all other cases every thing
that could throw a light on the motives of the -
liceissed hall been allowed to be establisher). It
was no justification that a man had heel) prey!. • '
otisly libelled by the person against whom he
`might havelmblislied a libel, as it was his duty to
punish the fit st offence by law, and not to commit
a new one ; but though it could not be held that
this was a justification, still the feet, as tending to ;
throw alight on the history ofithe transaction in
question, ought to go to the Jury in cases of libel,
as in those of every other description. He next
came to speak of the publication of libels in the
form of Siu4clies delivered in. Parliantept., or itt
Courts Of Justice. in the case of Walter and
Cnnie it had been determined, by the Conit of
Common Pleas, that a correct report of the pro-
ceedings in a Court of Justice was no libel, 'Phis,
however, was not time view which the Court of
King's Bench had subsequently taken of the pub-
lication of a speech made by a Member of that
House (Mr.Creevey); and, froM the decision come
toin that case, he ties inclined to think, that if
Walter and Cerrie's case were to he tried Over
again, a different result might be looked for; It
had been decided, that it was no defence for an
individual to plead that he was but the reporter of
that which another had a right to say in the prime
where hi's speech was made hut, at time sane'
time, be (Mr. Brougham) thotight, while this
• principle was admitted, that the tact ought to be
proved—that the Jury might knoW that which
pufported to be the report of a speech semis not
the invention of the defendant, as this established,'
though no jostificati6n or defenee, would bear
materially on the matter at issue. In cases of
high treason, every thing that could throw light
on the question to be sent to the Jury was soffered
to be 'proved. This was seen in the-case of Lord'
Russell, which Ice referred to,as it was that in which
least indulgence had been shewn to the accused,
who had, in.fact, been murdered, io that case,
however, Dr. lillotton, aftermato
rds Ashop of
Canterbury, Was permitted to give evmdenee to the
moral and religions habijs of the pri,oner, that
the Jury might tOnSider,- after.hearing this, whe-
titer it ws as probable he could 'have contemplated
the crime imputed to him. In the sante way. in
1794., in tIIC trial of ,jr. I.l,lrne Tooke, a