The Sun.
London, England, 1820-09-22 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

SEDITIOUS AND TREASONABLE LIBELS. • 0
Yesterday Waddington, of Radical notoriety, Was P 1
the bar to take his trial, upon the charge of having pubJe.di,
a wicked and seditious libel, for the purpose of exciting ;Ile
tion among the soldiers, and alienating them front their
glance to his Majesty.—Air. REYNOLDS stated the case. Ys,
The publication of the paper was proved by two om"tie
who apprehended IVaddington in Charing-cross, while W.
act of pastiug the placard. They were -examined 14
Bolland.

Waddington defended himself at considerable length- sit!
The CHAIRMAN asked whether he had any witnesses tdcwir
Waddington—" Sir, 'my cause has no ocettsion for
nesse."
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The CHAIRMAN (Mr. Coxst) said, the "question 2a, ,
ther this paper had been published bunu
_fide with tUe
merely to political observation, and fair party discussio%o4
as a vehicle for the inttoductiwt of comment of a seditioo'•of
oat;
dangerous nature. If the Jury were of the former Or agii
Mr. Waddington was entitled to an acquittal; if of We 'l4tas.
he must be responsible for one of the must heinous -o
against society.
The Jury retired, and in an hour returned with a Ye--
Not Guilty.

Tflis. Holmes was indicted fora lib-el, tending teditf
and maliciously to excite the soldiers against the Gover""-frs
and to alienate them from their fidelity and allegianoe ".id
King. This defendant was tried by the Jury that ace
Waddington.—Mr. REYNOLDS conducted the prosecolit
The officers who attended at Palace-yard deposed nor
conduct of Holmes in selling copies of the letter, )which
signed " A Royal Pioneer?' tool
The defendant said, he had six weeks ago come up t's -hret
from LintOln, to look for work, and that he had been l'io•
weeks here without getting any; at length he saa'
selling papers, and, without knowing that he was
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mischief, he joined them, and was apprehended. tie to
beets told there was a Printer's name at the end of the Pac:ow
and of course thought himself-not responsible for the c 0,1400
The CHAIRMAN asked, whether there was a printer's.°
to the bill ?
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Mr. REYNOLDS said, there was, and that a true bill 114'.* ,
found against hint. There had been no remissness
part of Government.
Thu CHAlRMAN—Defendant, have you any one to v sstie
Cher what you have said is true or out.
Defendant—Nobody here. -
tb4 est
The CHAIRMAN then proceeded to eoinment upon --
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dence. No man living could, he said, mistake the °I)J tiaiS
tendency of the paper. He thought it necessary to stale, its(
whoever published • was responsible., with respect " tast
libel's if there were no other sentence in theaper tiguisai•
which spore of double pay to the soldiers, it p
Nvas quite't iss
eient. It was a most flagrant libel. As to the defeotl3"i
,
had told what, unfortunately, often happened, that tl4'l4o„ee
tributed poison without -knowing what it was. It Nr,as,.
ever, through his means the paper got ligfore the puu'i",;
shouThe ld have known better, and seas responsible.
Jury immediately returned a verdict of GicaUts bates
commended the defendant to mercy. s a Jed
The CHAlRMAN.—Certainly the recommendation
shall be always attended to.'
The CHAIRMAN, in passing sentence, said, the r----cooe
dation of the July did not lessen the guilt of the dete
who had published one of the most atrocious libels thi..l,
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disgraced the public press. He then ienteneed the dt.'.c.tl,4.
to Imprisonment in the liaise of Correlation for six o "

IV'
Wednesday evening, before dusk, as xT-r:
land Bramston, of Bird-street, Oxford-street/dry
returning home from Kilburn, he was overt'
in the fields leading from thence to Lord's crLot
ground, by three footpath, one of idiom, wl
the slightest intimation, knocked him dew% tie
he was afterwards kicked on the bead, iviii'froos
prived him of his senses. The ruffians
poc°
him his watch and the 'contents of Ins
about 17 shillings in silver, and his 112.- ,000
Bramston did not recover until roused by ail
people returning from work, and he was Coucc'
home much hurt.

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On Wednesday last, at Counnereial-road, L2mb ,
Lett, of a son.

MARRIED. 4
Rect.° r.'.
Yesterday, at St. James's Church, by the Right j. fol
the Lord Bishop of Bangor, %William Henry Maicoul',4,l6'
his Lordship's eldest son, to Eliza. eldest daughter t"
ander Marsden,Esq. of Clifford-street.
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DIED. • shot-
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On the 13th inst. at Southampton, after 3SC ,to t
ness, Sir Francis Holbitrne, of
Kirsbiet _
late, and uncle to the present Earl of Harevvood• aged t,f
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On the 15th inst., in the Charter House Hul" od
trs
Mr. Peter Dixon, many years surgeon itt the Green
and Teacher of Navigation. Bart. brothci

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