The Sun.
London, England, 1820-08-03 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGE.)ICE.

WARWICK, AuGug3 1.
POLITIcAI. LlBF.l,—Ttiv, KING v.BRAND!ti.
This wa'S ari indictment against- . thee prisoner,
it young man; .abottt"2 yeals. of age, charging
him with having. :written and. published
tions and inflammatory libel, tending tO bring
the person of the Ring into hatred and contempt,
eViting his Majesty's subjects to open rebellion,
with an intention to subvert the laws of the
country as by the Constitntion established.
The pleadings lt'-ere Opened 14 Mr. Itt.knEn,
and Mr. CLAR4.-S stated the ease to. the Jury.
(.-Diflinento with inuchstrength on the atro-
city Of the publication, tihich., iti its seditious and
libellous tendeneY; he had seldom or ever seen
equalled. • 1t was one Of the grossest fallacies
Imaginable that had been set up as an excuse for
the pablishin4g.-- of libels of this nattire, namely,
that they emanated froth the pens-Of obscUre per-
sons. The faCt was, thatthe effect.produced by
them on the minds of the'lower orders was More
considerable than if they proceeded froth More
erninent Writers, as they were generally written
by persons in the habit of associating "with that
class 'of individuals to .horn 'they were ad-
il'essed, and on that account read with more avi-
dity by thern. Yet, While lie admitted. this to
tie the conviction of -his mind, be could, not help
deprecatingin the StrOngeSt Manner' the fOIIY of
rpen in the situation oflifewhich the defendant
Meld, .attemPfing to dictate to the COuntry the
course it ong-ht to putsue in •matters, the nature
of which were wholly beyond their comprehen-
.
lie felt satisfied, that When he_.hadprOved
.the writing and publication of the libel, the Jury
:would grant him a verdict of guilty. He then
Rroceeded to read several extracts from the pabli-
tation.*.

The printer of the pamphlet was then called
to prove the printing by order of the defendant,
aS also witnesses to prove the defendant's hand-
-writing-, the prosecutors- having obtained posses-
sion of the manuscript, and the pnblicatiOn by
him, and the case for the prosecution dosed..
The prisoner then, in a very hurrible manner,
40dressed the Court. Ire began by observing,
that owing to the great length of time he had
been in custody, and his total deprivation of all
pecuniary aid, he had not -been able to make
those arrangements for his. detente which the
pecesEity of the case required. The first notice
lvhich he had of the proceedings having been
tornnienced was in riecem her last, when he was
brought up to the Quarter Sessions and found
bail, at which place he conceived the present
case was to be tried,; a short time afterwards,
however,_ the case was removed by certiinytr
to the court of King's Bench. .on. the 1 ith- of
rebrtiary he received a notice requiring him to
bput in-his
.plea, which partly from ignorance, but
ore particularly from want of pectidiary assist-
fnCe-, he neglected to do. Ile did not do this
rom any desire to evade the Courts of Justice,
-tuld he assured-the Jury, that it be had commit-
ted an error, he should bow with humble sub-
Mission to the verdict of a Jury, of his country.
—From this period for a considerable time he
nothing more of, the prostrontion, and. he
very' naturally concluded the proceedings had
ten dropped, when to his utter astonishment,
on'the 19th of June he was appreliettded, and in
defult of bail was committed to, prison. tt was
Pot
,until the 2d July Mat he received a copy of
he indictment and notice of trial ; still being in
the wile state of pecuniary destitution, he had
heen deprived of the means of making that de-
teriee)vhich. he other Wise ‘slioutd have done, and
tie. Sincerely hOped that:the Jury would consider
such a, deficiency on his part rather as a misfor-
tune than a fault. Yrorn this statement of facts
they would perceive that this prosecution ha,7.
leen hanging in. terra' em over his head.for Up-
-wards of eight months, the anxiety and. vexation
consequent upon it, as well as the confinement for
iiearlY2 months which lie had already under-
gone, had.been more'dreadful and distressing to
him than any punishment which 'they might by
their vordiCt award him. lie could. not conclude
his address to them without remarking in a
Manner an the charges in the inClictment.
One of the counts charged him With-haVing writ-
fe4n the alleged libel with a view of exciting the
liege subjects of his Majesty to *rebellion ; he so-
li riinly to. the
_Jury that such an hiten-
tiOn.bad never in the remotest degree entered his
hreast. A's. 4 proof of What he asserted, he as-
sured them that as soon as he ascertained,•by the
Jo
resent Prosecution, that the parnprilet contained
finale': Which *Was charged to be' Seditiods or li-
bellous, he had made every endeavour, and 'Sue-
.
tessfully, to check its circulation. The question
theyhad to consider was, whether, in'the
publicatiOu, he had "-been guilty of the Olrence:
iniPuted to' him in the indictment. Upon their.
dcision 'would. depend whether he was still
tongerto remain immured in a prison, or whether
'he. was to lie-restored to his wife, his friends, his.
family, Or, what -,Was still dearer to him, his
'-berty. lie hoped, in coming to their 'decision,.
they would dismiss all' party prejudices, and
judge on the merits Of his case as it fairly stood
-before them ; they ought -riot to be biassed •by
any unworthy feelings, but, by virtue ortheir
oaths; act fairly and impartially. Pe should
with these few remarks, leave his 'Case in their
bands; hp placed in th 4 the fiiileSt'confidence ;
-he looked up to a Jury of his COUntry as the
'great bulwark which te ConstitutiOn had Pro-
'Tided, and which enabled the weak to Stand
'Manfully against the attacks of the powerful
and with such a conviction-he willingly placed
his case in' their hands. .
The 'tong ClnxnF 13.11t0N7 iii summing ups
stated. t4i tire hiry that they' were the. Judges

A Nforn-in; Paper, notorious for its hostility tr./ Govern-
went, has this, day inserted the Ott of these Extracts, which
area theraost inffatninat_oey and se,ditiouS tendency, no doubt,
from tile same niotims whicb they were written, and it
is thtrefore much' to: rye! regretteii that tiltrwheY feel
a in;i-
lignarit delight in .circolating mischief, should not be ex
K'ed 1" .are eqtYo Pstrfribinervi the wicked' Contriver.
ay, it -is Stithaesre,a4roeiosis iri the quartir alfild'ed. to, be-
cause the miserable author niiglit be urged fry ,desperate
poverty, but thase'von, propagaAc the evil, are WiiiioWiTlS' itt
imniCrited stscress.

Upon the law 'of' the case, bat he coulttnot-refrain
from
,expressing to alai his opinion upon. the r,9.-
tnie and tendency of thelndictinent,. and they
would have an opportunity of forming an opi-
nion whether his conviction was right or wrong;
in order to bring this properly before them, he
must read the whole of the indictment, as by so
doing they would be enabled to see the bearings
and effect of the extracts already read to them,
and whether they were qualified by any remarks
that might -either precede or follow them. After
reading the indictment, the Learned Judge gave
it as his decided opinion, that the libel was of a
most violent and atrocious nature. •

The Jury, without retiring, found a verdict of
Guilts'', and the defendant was reconducted to

'Hon.

The ca -se of the KING 7". CARTWRIGHT and
.
othel;i is not likely, it now appears, to come on
before Thur,day.—All the defendants are here.

st4i.SF.X ASSIZE..—LEWES, Auo. I.
MANSLAI,3OIITER.
Picktiell was indiCted for feloniously
killing and slaYing John Archdeacon, a youth,
nine years old, by kicking him on the abdomen,
at Hastings, on the 2d June.
Mr. AN nnEws conducted the prosecution, and
Mr. AnoLrnus' the defenee. •
It appeared in evidenCe, that on the day men-
tioned in the indictment, the deceased, and two
other boys, were teasing some mules, the property
of the prisoner, who, in a great passion, came up
'to them with a stick in his hand, and beat them,
pretty severely all round, and in the gcuffle The
deceased received a kick on the right side of his
belly Next daY the deceased appeared as well
as usual, but Was taken ill with an inflammation
in his bowels, and lingered until the sth of June,
When be died. The body being opened, it was
found that the liver was in a morbid state, from
natural causes, but that mortification had been
caused by the external injury from the kick.
The Surgeon, however, was of opinion, that a
very slight injury would have hastened death, in
the state in which the liver was founcL After
the deceased was beaten, the prisoner had ex-
pressed. himself us an unfeeling. manner of the
transaction, saying that he had given the boys
" a h—ll-fired good beating, and bad. laid it
into 'ernd—d. well-, and.he had given one of 'em
a-sickening." There was no distinct proof that-
the Prisoner had kicked the deceased.
It was proved,on the part of the-Prisoner, that-
he was the father of.six children, and was a man
of very humane disposition ; that the stick with
which he had beaten the deceased was very slight,
and that the beating was in fact very trifling..
The CHIEF JUSTICE charged the Jury to in-
quire first, whether the Prisoner had kicked the
deceased ; if he did, then they were to consider
Whether the kick had caused death. If death
was not produced by the kick, the Prisoner was
entitled to an acquittal.
The Jury found the Prisoner—Not Guilig.
REMARKABLE .VISITATION.

The following. remarkable visitation happened
about fifty years ago, in the neighbourhood of
in the County of Antrim, and remains
yet fresh in the recollection of many living
witnesses, and from its singularity is worth
recording. In. the ploughing season, for Some,
years,. a number of sets' of plough-irons
had been• missing in the neighbourhood, and
not the smallest trace of them or -the thief
could be discovered.—This was considered
the more extraordinary, as it was then, and
still is, thought next to sacrilege to steal
any thing connected with ploughs or harrows.
At this time there lived a man in the neighbour-
hood, very. industrious, but rather of a parsimo-
nious and miser-like turn, to whom the slightest
suspicion of dishonesty was not then attached.
One • mornin g,however, at breakfast, this man was
missed/hy his family. The alarm was given in the
neighbourhood, and UPI} diligent search he was
found drowned in a hole he himself had from time
to time made in the bog by cutting turf. His feet
and legs, which first attracted notice, were
above the surface of the water, near the edge
:of the pool ; but how were the spectators
astonished and horror-struck, when they
.found
a plough-chain about his neck, and all. th.e
irons belonging to it, and a number of other
plough--irons under him-in the water ! 'whioh, from
the position he was found in, plainly shewed he
had, been carrying the burthen on his back, sus-.
pended to the chain about his neck ; and when in
the act of-stooping to throw it into the pool, the
weight 'from hiS back coming suddenly round:
with 'a jerk.put hint ofrhiS balance, and dragged
him into and kept him wider the water until he'
was suffocated '; but the astonishment of the
neighbour's' was still 'more increased, when they
:found is the pool not less than twenty-eight.
set of plough-irons, which had front time to
time been :deposited there, by this miseiabfe.
wretch, who could not think to make any use of
them &rina' diiS life for fear of detection:-The
writer of driS has read in an old English paper a,
coincidence of visitation,.equally remarkable, Of a
man whohad stolen pig, and was 'carrying Won:
his back, suspended-by-a. rope round his neck;
when, having occasion to rest upon, a wall, the
pia slipped over', and the rope caught the'thief's
th'roat in which position he, was found strangled
by the owner of the pig, who not only recovered
his property,. but found the:thief. pOiiAlc,l4 in a
summary way.---Stich are -the worlis of Provi-
deuce l

ALARMING TirtE.,----The house. of ..R. Pou.t.-
T ER, Esq. Cheyney Hall; 'Bucks, was consum-
ed by :fire early on Monday morning. It ori,
ginated in .the laundry, where a :fire was made
over-night, preparatory to washing. There were
two servants only •in the.house, the owner being
in. London, and one of them was much burnt.in
escaping. The flames were so rapidithat in less
.than an hour the whole was a_heap of ruins. A
range of coach-houses, stabling, ecc.,caug-ht lire
and,Were consurried with two small tenements,
hefOre.any ,assistahce could be had. TNV Ohorse.s
locked up iii the stables were btirrit. The da
rouge done altagether is to a very great anion:llG

VitENcii VoYAtal OP titsCOVEnY.

MINISTRY OF THE MARINE AND TIIE COLONIES,

Report addressed to his Excellency the Mini-
ster of the Marine and the Colonies, by M: Louis
Tit FREYCINET, Capitaine tle Pre4trie
.6 Falkland Islands, French Bay, April 22, 1820.
Sin=—Expeditions
.of maritime- discovery
-would excite little interest for those who perform
them, were voyages of that kind accompanied by
less. privations and dangers.. Hitherto; in ren-
dering an account to your Excellency of the pro-
gress of my voyage, I have had_ to speak _only of
the advancement of my labours, and of the hopes
we had cherished of accomplishing withoth acci-
dent the tedious enterprise we had Undertaken ;
but that Power which smiles at the prudence and
fhe vain projects of Men had ordained that we
should undergo at the end of our voyage a very
severe trial. .

" The corvette Urania will never again enter
the ports of. France. In announcing this misfor-
tune to ymtr Excellency, I at the same time feel
much satisfaction in informing you, that it did not
occasion the loss of a single individual, and that
all the stores, all the instruments of the expedi-
tion, were saved. The expedition itself was, I
may say, finished : I have now, in fact, nothing
more to do than to effect my return to France,
seeing that the ditty I ought to execute at the
Cape of Good Hope was in effect only the veri-
fication of the instruments, which can be done
equally well at Paris on my return.

" Ihese considerations support our courage ;
and as Nsf e believe that we are the only sufferers
by this event, we are pleased to think that the
object or the expedition will be fulfilled upon our
arrival in Enrope. As I intend to give your Ex-
cellency a brief account of my proceedings since
my departure from Sidney, I will not interrupt
the historical order of my account, but will im-
mediately refer to the period when I set sail from
Port Jackson. _ _

" I departed from this harbour on the 25th of
December, and directed my course between Van
Dieman's Land and New Zealand. On the 7th
of January, 1820, I doubled the southern ex-
tremity of, the latter island, passing in sight of
Campbell's Island, of which I determined the po-
sition, and made the geography. From this-mo-
ment till my making land-at Terra del Fuego I
experienced an uninterrupted course of favourable
winds ; I stood southward to the latitude of 59
degrees, and met with floating ice to an extent of
about five or six degrees of latitude, but which
quitted me as- I advanced further towards the
south.
" On the sth of February I made the land of
Terra del Fuego, on the passage from the Cape
of Desolation of Cook ; the weather was as fright-
ful as the coast. I made many attempts to enter
Christmas Harbour, but the unfavourable weather
prevented me. I- then determined to steer for the
Bay of Good Success, in Lemaire's Straits, which
Cook mentions as affording very good shelter.
" I doubled Cape Horn on the night of the sth :
the next morning the weather was very fine ; and
although the clearness of the sky was the indica-
tion of an approaching tempest, I was far from
anticipating the violence of that which we were
about to experience.
I, however, arrived in safety at Good Suc-
cess Bay ; but scarcely had we let fall the anchor
when sane violent squalls from the south-east,
blowing 'from the mountains, compelled us to
drive before the wind. The violence of the
storm was such as left no time for hesitation ; I

therefore immediately ordered the cable to be
cut, lay-to under try-sails, and it soon became
necessary to take in every bit of sail.. We passed
a dangerous night in Lemaire's -Straits, and as
soon as Ave got through them we were obliged to
leave the ship to the mercy of the wind. This
hurricane (the most violent that any of us ever
recollected) continued two days, and it was not
until the expiration of that time that I could re-
cognise my position With certainty. I found the
wind had driven us so far to the north, that it
would occasion the foss of much time to seek to
return to the south in the Bay of Good Success.
" I consequently preferred putting into French
Bay, Falkland Islands, which Bougainiille and
Pernetti praise so highly, because I judged that '
place perfectly proper for the business I had to I
perform.
44 We were off these islands on the 12th of
February ; but the maps I had were so inaccu-
rate, that it was 'very difficult for me to deter-
mine on what point we were. We arrived, how-
ever, at the mcfuth'of French Bay on the after-
noOn of. the; 14th, at which time the weather'
was frne, the sea magni4cent, and the winil fa-
vourable. _ •
, • cc We were_ trying to double a point which I;
took for-that called L'Aigle, by Bougainville,;
• when some little rocks that we observed in the
offing obliged us to bear up: • We sounded con-.
tinually fro* the :main chains. ; and the look-out
man, placed on the fore-top-gallant cross-trees,
Was every moment interrogated.
44 Finally, .abOut.'thrce &Clock, when we be-
lieved that we had only to sail into a spacious
harbour, the
.ship,,was all „at , Once stopped by a
• severe, shock, occasioned by striking against a
sub-marine rock our, soundings gave at this time
13 fathoMS at the :sta:rbOard'and 12 on the tar-
boarck'side: By backing all the sails, we gat the
corvette afloat again without difficulty.
" We did not at first perceiVe that the corvette.
had sprimg a leak, but it soon exhibited itself
with such v:olence, that, netwithstanding all our
pumps were at work, we could not master it. I saw
then that it was absolutely indispensable to seek
' a place to run ashore, in order to save at least my
crew, and the fruits of 'my voyage : but to add 'to
our distress, we had before .us only perpendi-
cular rocks,'in;attempting to land among which
we should, without doubt, have been last`without
the possibility of saving a single man.
" lii thiS dreadful situation L beat to windward
a.great part of the night, in order to work into
the :centre of the baY,. towards which I had al-
readY:diimtched -,a,boat under the command' of
;IVI-DnPerrei, to look
out-for a Part of the beach
free of rocks s but
in-tbis night of grief)

bVery thing 'Vas to Conctir to dislOpoint us, the
Wind, which was weak, left:us all at once. I n°%°
cast anchor and got ont my boats, which the.l:na
nvedvring of the ship and the working of the
pumps had hitherto prevented me from doing.
" The corvette was already half under water;
but a light breeze having sprdng Up, I wished to
try my fortune by advancing with the corvette
towards a part of the middle of the bay, near
whit!' Pernetti had marked a sandy coast.
veered out the Cable and sailed with a wind
scarcely strong enough to steady the ship. 1‘1.;
Duperrez, whom I met on the way, conducted
the ship to a mil table place. Arrived at the bog'
tiers of the beach, the corvette ran acrrotind,with'.
out ail- shock, at three o'clock in the morning of
the 15th.
'c I will not undertake now to give you an ae"
count of all the attempts I made to get the tress
sel off and repair her ; it must suffice to tell yott;4
that the damage was too great, and our resource°
to weak, to allow us to effect our object,
soon as 1 found it impossible to save the ship, 1-
occupied myself in landing, under tents, all that
could possibly be saved ; but the acquisitions of:
the Expedition were
.placed in safety imme'
.diatel
"My long=boat Was already decked,• and
about to depart to seek assistance at Rio de ia
Plata, when an Ameri,,an vessel which bad sus'
tained serious damage, and was obliged to put
in here to refit, Undertook to convey us to Rio.
Janeiro for the sum of 18,000 piastres. It is ne•
cessary to remark that we had with us every
thing requisite for the support of 'the officers and
crew during the voyage. Observations on mug'
netism were made daily durinc, our voyage from
Port Jackson to Falkland Islands ; they have.
bees continued here with the greatest exactness;
I have even been fortnnate enough,notwithstanP
ing the great impediments which have occurred,
to make some experiments with the pendulum'
Upon departing we will resume the course of ouc
.labours.
" It is for Me a pleasing duty to have to rev
der an account to your Excellency of the excel'
lent conduct which my. officers and crew never,
ceased to exhibit during our great and painful
labours. Their discipline was never relaxed fog
.
an instant in the midst of privations of all kind?:
and of the sickness which they occasioned ; bt"
which, however, has disappeared under the care
and skill of M. Quoz, senior surgeon.
" MM. Lamarche and Duperrez have 001
proofs of possessing I:.s much talent as activity'
M.M. Berard, Raillard, Guerin, Pellion and all
the other cadets, have shown a steadiness and $
character that belong only to experienced officel
Among the crew I could cite a great number °
seamen worthy of praise ; but I ought partic°:
larly to recommend to your Excellency's notic;
M. Baltaraza, the master, and M. Roland, tb
gunner, who merit for their zeal and talent 4
the particular consideration of your Excellency'
" This letter will be carried to Europe by s°.
English whaler, which has put in here for water'
As for me and my crew, we set sail to-rnorrO'
unless a contrary wind prevent us.
" I have the honour to be, &c.
(Signed) " LOUIS De FaEYCINET.'