The Sun.
London, England, 1811-09-17 00:00:00

CAfirth; .4ssigs s.

. 14:kritAortetirgArtY ctitcumsT4vsca.
A curious and a v'ry important fact occurred at.
ulion the Circuit there, last week.4—A'
Gentleman of uptalenee, a Magistrate, and of no
questiened repute, addressed a letter .to one of thria
.14dgeti, in which his obje('...t was, nneßPtily to•accus4
a culprit- (6n-omitted for manslanglir upon a CO-
toner's Inquest), of a delibrrate aud! Savage inur.:
der, but also, upon the t 6detsce Est asscritoh alone,
inflatne the judicial mind of hiS 'thr,te-tispniident
against that, prisoner, by persuading the'iludge be-
fore-hand, that unless the accused should.be. cut oil
by the lsw, not a life near hint, or within hi, teach,
could be safe. Ho- repreSented 'this manias a con-
spirator-in a desperate clan of Miscreants, who were
men of, sangtmvary habits and passions. ,
He told the Judge, that ail the witnesses who
were to be heard were all partial to the accused, and
would suppress the I:l6ts they unless his
Lord Ship would 'mate them speak, out; and he de,
sired him to keep the secret of these hints, eopvillich
lie gave this. reason—" that every thing valuable to
kim was at stake in withholding froth this Oun a
knowledge of the part he tyok vglinst them."
- When the Judge had read this ietter,, which he
received in Court, the and Grand Jury attend-
ing, he 'told them 'a letter hail beenlest put into his
baud, and lie named the. Writer. ot-it;: he ,ridded,
that circumstances of peculiar :delicacy rspecting
the snbject.of that letter imposed upon his' feelings
the painful 'necessity of deferring to publ;sb the
contents till, the
.0;1 had. been delivered, but that he
should then tilted. his. principal officer .to read it
aloud, and should pass a marked and public censure
neon it; after delivering which, he should com-
mand the deposit of ,the letter upon the files of the
Court, for safe custody,, accompanied by a note of
its &Ann, that if the writer chnSe tO appear he
would be in time, and would be heard. When
the man accused of the,. manslaughter had been
tried, and had received the sentence of imprison-
ment for three months,'. he was:reuninded. • The
writer of tlie letter did trot appear, and the Judgt
e
delivered himself as follows, to'a numerous aniti:
ence. We give 'the 'substance, I,itltuut Professieg
to give the "Wads
" You have heard't his. letter, and your loOks et were
eloquent; they reprobated this "iatirperinland cruel
artifice.

"A Magistrateof the County, in whOSe. Mercy,
in Roine.tiega, arc the lives and liberties of men,
wines to me for the single purpose of insinuating
and whi,pering away a man's life, by unnueitifin.
ence upon the judgment or the teelingi of his core
respondent. • •
object k, to invert the habit•and Principle
of a judicial trtisf, which is thatof being Conine'
f.)r, prisoners, into the new and sanguinary depart-
ment of ,a suborned. advocate'against them, His
letter prompts me to: goad the witnesses into evi-
deuce more hostile to the culprit than it was their
intention to give—adviCe to we, insinuated behind
the back of the accused, and just before his trial,
upon evidence of assertion alone, unduly and sue-
reptitiously communicated !
" But what ireightens the depravity of this in-
sult upon the Court, and this cruelty of it, as it has
taken aim at the pale: who are implicated, is the
colfidence:proposed anki claimed.
Qoci!" said the Judge, cf• is it in 1811 that
any man briiailung, a subject of Allis:realm, could
dunk a. Jodge base enough to be an accomplice .in
this fraud upon the, sacred hononr of his covenant
upon oartr.---ot Iris digtii:fied indifference to parties--
and, above ill, of his presumptions, vvbich. are
thosesof the law, that up to the moment' of convic-
tion; by autlientic .in sworn proof, the accti,ed.are
intrueent ?

" What can be said for the writer ?
" Even'. to' him '1 would be merciful. Is it an
error ,of judgment ? Is it ignoranCe ? 13crt can
we forget that he is a .11fagistrate, and that he is' a
man? 41)iiii nigisirate' lie. intlemnilitd, or dk-
Missed with a gentle rebuke, who is ignorant of the
judicial honour imposed upon; him by his peculiar
attite ? he a men, so intrenliglnetir:,.},, to be
utwpriSed of those feelings, which telt tlvery
nnotable mind; that .no man is to be condemned
unheard, .and whispered 'eta of tli . world,' by a seciei,
betkeeert his'accuier apt' his Judge ?
" As a meMorial,‘ to after ages, of the disgrace
tosiparatil:t from attempts like these, f: 'direct 'the
()dicer to tile this lettCr upon the Itecords• of the
Court, accompanied by a tiote-of the fad, that.it
wai read aloud in open Court, and severely eeri;.
sured'bythe Judge to whom it was athireffttl."
The other 'Judge assenting, it was an& a Rule
ofCourt. •

POLICE

ANDREWS AND HAL:I..

Bo w-srrt eT.—Among the persons who preferred
charges against the prktAters 'yesterday ‘vere,—Mr.
Jarman, a jeweller, of . the St rand ; Thomas .13.4-
teridge, the oatter, at ttte Feathers putitlicodittusew.49
Hand-court, Holborn'; , Mr. Stephens, a, coffee.-
house keeperi in St. James's-street.; Atr.Chtistopl,er
Brendell, of Ithe Artichoke puhlic-house, at Black-
wall:; Mr. "iitnson, Leadeoltall-street.

The Main,istrares advised. all the parries to go to
the -1-nescrir Se*rdons bolding at Clerkertw ell.green,
and India the priAmers for conspiracies.
,Indrews acknowledged the. d raks; to -be his hand.
writing.—He addrasied ..the .Nlagistrates ,at. tob,i-
(terrible length, and hoped the pH bile piejudiee would
not operate aprost. him on his trial.
Hall did not -sarany thing. He is of a very re«
spetlable family qnd connection, • .
The:prisoners were.cominitted.to take their trial
at-thtr present Session; apon. the,indictment found
against,theru;laq February, pTeleired by Mr. Ken.
dal, of rile St: Clement's Coffee-house..

Davis; a .letter-carrier belonging to, the
General Pota Offices in the neighbotirboodi of 'Soho,
underwent an examination, charged will) felonious-
ly stealing a tol. Bank of 'England. note; *tun a fet-
ter 'sent by 11,1 r. Julio Schoftekl, of sLiverPool;.tli-
tet'ied lo Mr. Thompson 'tante, perfumer, of Kiag-
street,-Coven-prtleti;,whieli did not eotne to hand,
and it was traced- to rthe prisoner. •
He was-fully committed ter 'liar, and the parties
bound over to prosecute._