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This mooting, at seven o'clock, Lieutenant STUART by the CaPeain- On this trial. Sir. Simon Le Blanc
thedid notctsepresidewith iisbusuut Lord. Cbsetilareitectadierwhtoo leftthe
arrived at the Adrniraky with dispatches from Admi-
precision and
tat Ptravis, and he was also the bearer of dispatches Jury. stating all the evidence on both sides. The
from General Seiticza to Lord CASTLIIHAOII. They : Jury acquitted the prisoner upon the evidence of ti"
were brought in the MINORCA, which atlitred at Ports- medical men. Another indictment was subsequendy
Ittoush yesterday evening, and Admiral MONTAGUrg P" against a man of the name of 916P01,*
who was a Captain of a slave ship, who had with
the Pert Admiral, immediately forwarded them to him a
young man ca. the name of Francis Dim, and
London by Lieut. Bremer, one of his Own Lieute- he was charged with murdering this young man on
'tents. These dispatches are dated the 29th May, and the evidence of some of the crew, and also' of the
et that fine the negotiations between Admiral Pea. surgeon. But to invalidate their testimony, it apo
Irs and the Marquis DE Socono had not produced peared the crew had mutinied on the coast of Africa,
and the surge9n, who was bound by his duty to have
Pity definitive arrangement, nor had any pate of the made an 'edidaivit of the cause of the death of all per-
4`roaps under Ger. SPENCER been landed at that time. sons who died during the voyage, at the first place
rTiie insurrection of the northern provinces, and the where the ship touched at, Mountserrat, did make
proceedings of Asturias, Gallicia, and Biscay, were such an affidavit, stating that he had died a natural
• Afterwards also be was known to have had
death'
not known at Cadiz when the dispaches were sent off. .
a quarrel with the Captain, and to have said that he
These dispatches are, as we before stated, dated the would do for him, and held some conversations with
29th ult. The intelligence which reached us yester- the seamen,- in which he said they must stick to that,
day from Corunna was as late as the 6th of this month, and then they would get their waga, which an ac-
and the Marquis DE MATEROSA and Don DIEGO DE count of the mutiny they would otherwise lose. The
Learned Judge accordingly, in summing up the
ea VEGA left Gijon on the 31st nit. so that, in fact, _
these Dispatches are antecedent, in point of date, to eveaerice, told them the suspicion which these facts •
cast upon their evidence, and that if they could not
al the important accomits which have within these safely believe their testimony, they must acquit the
few days reached this Country. Defendant; but it depended upon the credit due to
..
Three Spanish Officers came over in the MINORCA, their testimony. The
Jury,
thanking it not safe to
—we understand they are very. recently arrived from convict upon such testimony, acquitted the defendant
Chapman. Upon di subject of these trials the pre-
South America ; we have not learnt the object for sent Defendants published several letters in the Whit
which they came to this country. of the 19th and 24th of January, animadverting in
the most violent and intemperate language upon these
acquittals. One of these letters was addressed to Sir
Simon Le Blanc, ni: tried Chapman, and though it
professed in some parts to suppose that the Jury and
his Lordship acted from a conviction of the innocence
of Chapman, yet it contained the expressions Of a
-contrary tendency. It addressed the Judge, and de-
bited him not to lay that flattering Unction to his soul,
that the public would be inattentive to the horrible
effects of judicial corruption. He says, that he
knows not to what cause to attribute this excessive
• tenderness, this criminal forbearance, and calls on his
- - Of fp- Lordship to revise these frightful proceedings.
for The Arroestrir-Oatissiee then went into a discus.
4kg
tion of the tendency of the libels. They spoke of
Magna Charta and the Bill of Rights as a dead letter.
and deprecated the more than viaonary aspect of ap-
proaching tyranny. In one of the libels, the author
said, that he understood Mr. Deputy Loveland, of
Aldersgate-street, baker, had the merit of producing
the acquittal inahe case of the boy who had been mur-
dered ; and addressing the Jury, said, he thought he
saw the blush of shame and conscious unworthiness
suffuse their countenances.
The ATTORNEY•Gzsgam, in the course of his ad-
dress, paid some just complimets to the two Learned
Judges who tried these causes ' • and concluded by say-
ing, that it was only a waste of words to endeavour
to convince the Jury by argument that these papers
were libels.—The Publication being
Mr. AnoLrtus, Counsel for the Pendant, in 11.
'speech of great ability, exerted himself with muck
emanation, to convince the Jury that these papers,
although the age of them was intemperate,
were not libels.Vh respect to Sir Simon Le Blanc
he expressed- himself strongly, by saying that he
would rather bite his tongue off than utter a senti-
,arient-which could give him pain, and be contended
that the papers in themselves did not go to charge
him with judicial corruption. If any one were to com-
plain, it should be Deputy Loveland, who was named
as the person who had produced an improper verdict,
by favourite g the Defendant. He said it never could
he the law that a'verdict-of a Jury was not to be exa.
mined Ind fairly disci:J.l.gal, and he instanced the
,cases of Donellan, and also of Holloway and Hag-
gerty, in which pamphlets had been published upon
'the conduct of the Jury. To hold out that thee e
should ha no appeal to the superior tribunal of public
op;nion, would in fact be to extend the influence of
the inquisition, and the secret tribunals of Weophalia.
To place any institution above the reach of public in-
vestigation was to pronounce it unfit to stand the test
of public inquiry. If Government even was to be
auppcsed to be strengthened by attacking the liberty
oldie prss, it was a mistake, for it was only adding
gth to the latent causes of weakness and disesee
which would ultimately affect and destroy the system.
—He denied that there could be any tendency in
, this case to overturn the trial by Jury; for it was oli-
sriously.the wish of the writer to support it. and it eras
his anxiety to see it most pure and undefiled that he
had expressed his regret that in this case; from some
usletake or other, justice had not been done. He en-
toed very much at large, and with great force, into
the evidence which 'was prodUced on the trial, to shew
the guilt both of Bennet and Chapman, and to chew
that there was no-mutiny on board the ship of the
latter ; and that inference against the evidence of
the surgeon 'was repelled by the evidence of letters
frets Chapman himself, saying his life was in• the
bands of the crew, and offering money to them not to
appear. With respect to the boy, Rickman, he stated
the circumstances of the - with which he was

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The Severn, roam., from B.trbadoes ; King David,
Sumaroxr, from Nevis ; Pincent, NORTON ; 'Ulysses,
Burt.En,, and the St. Vincent's, Bea., from St. Vin-
cent's, art arrived at. Bristol: they parted from the
Leeward Island fleet 15 days since, in company with
his Majesty's ship DEFENCE, and about half the con-
voy, in thick weather; his Majesty's.ships CERBERIUS
and ilmvuts were with the remainder.
PLYMOUTH, JUNE 15.
CMe in the STATIRA, of 40 VMS, frolll off Cadiz, with a Spa.
rdslt Gentleman who set off trarnediately for London; 114sueava,,
440 guns, frog; le cruise. Sailed the UNICORN, of ss
Sams, of sit guns ; Paacoca and Oasszts, of 1 s guns each, on
a cruise.

PORTSMOUTH, TUNE 16.
Arrived his Majesty's skip COQUETTE from a cruize; Ms-
!slava from the Mediterranean ; and Flaw with several trans-
ports under convoy, from Guernsey. Sailed yesterday from Cowes
Roads ; his Mr.;esty's ships Stator with the Seetifor Quebec
and his and -DONIS for North America.
DEAL, (LINE 16.
Vice-Admiral Russets., in his Majesty's ship MAJESTIC' with
l'Atseasiz frigate, arrived this morning from Yarmouth, and
was saluted by Vice-Admiral CAMPS/ILL with 13 guns, which
salute was returned by the same number.—Arrived from Sheer-
ness the ACIIATas and CADMUS,CWO DEW brigs, and sailed through
for Portantooth.—Put back the Pvaultis gun-brig and convoy,
from the westward.—Arrived thepaavorr schooter, from the
Westward, and sailed through to the Northward.—Wind W.S.W.
la the Downs: the Majestic, Princess of Orange, Trusty, 'Fri -
simph, Tigre, Minotaur, Bellerophon, Warspite, Clyde, Alert,
Furious, and Phosphorus, with a Beet of transports and outward-
bound vesselsr—P. S. Sailed for Sbeerreur.laststhie frigate.
YARMOUTH, It/NE 16.
Passed this port a fleet of transports under convoy for Gotten-
burgh. Arrived the SWALE sloop of war, from Gottenburgh ;
and the VIZEN, R T ZE.4OIIIA, and Havoc, from a
cruize. A ship laden • coals struck on the sand this forr-
noon : the boats from the shore are gone to her assistance, and
hopes are entertained that by throwh , part of her cargo over-
board the ship may be saved.---Remain its the Roi.ds the Roebuck,
Stately, and Nassau.—Wind N. W.
Ga AVIttENDOIIINE 16.—Passed by the RebeEca, Walker, from
Gottenburgh.--Sailed the Martha, Elvish, for Barbadocs • E
et-
sey and Sophia, Co/e, for the Brazils ; Mary, Meal; London
Packet, ---, and P,mona, Davidson, for Cottenburgli.