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London, England, 1830-03-03 00:00:00

the babies should be rather too much affected by the weight of
lidalmethip, they introduced, a his SIACIAMMICi that rank old Tory
Lied Dekrey—(lsughta.) Now be did not know what the plod:
phi of free trade, or the removal of the restrictions from the coin.
meree of India could have had to do with the libels; but to add to
this most singular mixture came next the Chairman of the Last India
Company—(a laugh.) Then be did not understand Whit the cur.
May, or the question of an extension of piper, and a restriction
of each payments, might have to do with it, but there followed
hint **sham= of die beak of England; and, although he did
nit Maly see why, the precession was closed by the Cleriene Par.
Mentasterstes. (Hear, bear, and continued laughter)
.This was
the kind of theatrical pomp with which a prosecution was hue.
dosed; which in other and graver times would not have been eon.
Mind memary, or called hod' much less of an attempt at effect.
Vie mull oat make a mods* so this subject, not bring is a bill to
=this gallery duodenal winkles (loud laughter) from being
eed at such pima Id es such ocessions; but he walla
take leave to press an °Olden that their presence might well
have been spared. This was net a ease for a jury, but one
calculated to mince a Mtge erect. He tame now to the third
case; but beam he id the Nosed (a laugh), he would just
mature to ay that he was sae of these who were Woad, by. •
eilitattion OA the clumemslenese, to think that this most un.
and repethendhle Mack upon the editor of The Morning
was mime wed thelped—it watt merely a contrivance to
hem down and beak the vanquished Protestant party in that house.
"=11:12 ) Now pat le the third case, and upon the third
he would Bret ants to a Mint which he thouot of
horrtitze:
toWith tedifizes es whet
tte
the administration
he
f
& pay
which concealed Withholds. whether they wen out of
hweas, or anang hs nsenthers. He did not mean to say that
the Mph on the died was mass important than that on the first
Imha 1 but the thiet wadd be hand to involve matter more
and
the k
to mee% the p rivileges,
illeirillie tilir pentlen=pietheasst. The third case was a menu.
den fee a hied at Mood ellimm—a kind 41417 (a laugh).
He looked upon'this to be the most eldatienZle 'a
.itte third Ob.
Sat of promenades involved an attack at the Ring's ittiebtere; en
attack on palimony and it involved a principle of subverting the
privileges of pallentem. He would lint penalise' and einem.
pose that shangebetesermesne mass which omistituted the libel upon
the King. . Let them who. heard Ma abet upon one point—
that epos the seamd ehhough the publication was
found to be a libel, the hod add, that if they were bound by
law to find the dehallan pity, they meld asst h 4 raying that,
with reference to the angessethased of the times,
and the asenthelings thet thee Weal Trout the country,
they could not help reammending the pelmet to mercy. This
ought to have been a leans to the AttanserGeneraL Such a hint
from may quarter to an Attoeney.Gesmal exercising the functions
of his adios against an individual ought to have been listened to;
but coming from a jay, it ought to have been imperative upon
bleu But. notwithstanding this, the third prosecution was
persevered. in. Government must either avow or disavow the
proceeditore of their law oaken, and he should therefore tress
this as the prosecution of the Government carried on against
the Xhig's 'subject& The three indictments were at the suit of
an ogles, wham- the Government bad • right to command as
long uhe was kept by them in odic*. 'The attack upon the
King was a repetition of the offence upon the indictment
• fee which the. jury had thought themselves bound to recommend the
party to the mercy of the court. What he condemned was, that after
the Sete D 4 OCT bed declared that the publication was no libel upon
the government, sad that so far as it was a libel upon= it
was a di abject Jr mercy, that the Attorney-Osneral .
He told the Attorney-General, in language as strong es language
could be made, that the prosecutions. ought not to have been Mei.
tuted: A,preseeution in which the jury says, by law we must find
the defendant why. bet yet we think that no judgment ought to
be missed on the individuals, ought not to have been renewed. But
yet ,the Attorney-General
.ment on to try the third case, which was
substantially the same as thee:cond. Upon this second case the
Jury were absent from the box three hours. (hear.) So evident
, was the impression made upon all rums by the strong impropriety
;of the peasant" that the , Lord Chia...Justice, told Tenterden.
; said. "Mr. Attorney, what do you mean to do ?” Now, he (Sir
' C. Wetherell) did not mean to say that this was the case (a laugh);
-but it was. very much like it (a lough}, It was not identical ; but
west he alluded to was well homy pad it was * kind of lace pe.
*Newlin-.-a sort of opportunity in chick his Majesty's Attorney.
Geporal might turn round—a period in which a man might say,
" Why this, Won't do (loud Isughta), as it wW do. But
the next me was called on. What, . then, was the next
sass ? .As far as • knew, it was merely the repetition
of the same matter, upon Ida one experiment of a pro.
gesnihge .had; been tried. lie would rake the liberly of
that when the Chief Justice said." What, Mr. Ahem,-
.do you meaato do?'...—the Attorney-General, instead of
. . , ought sa,hosito haye put bb brief in hie beg, and to
tll " I p eeneAder of it pill the eisuet sits, the next morn.
",_l)ut inetaid oc Oh, the third information yap called on,
a
that
the jury proommeed verdict. This verdict was not scam-
pada by the rettommeodstion to mercy which had accompanied
tprettl hut h wee still unprecedented, that when an Atter-
, had get only such AIM*, accompanies by a re.
stegypollpti
tt on to mercy, he *mould mooed to try the same, or
ehalt naer, in a second infonnation.—This was taking the
crof verdicts; and, if one failed, &nether
,was to be tried
awnot
t( .. a_thula
thiswas was not
the !swan asthaen
power,instru thoent
end the puns of government to bear against an indivi.
.417-..-P this was not spier beyond the spirit of the titnea—if
.thle yea pot perient*the equity of once, end violating Its dean.
ties, he knew not what was. lie had done all this in breach of that
mercy and forbearaneypnti impartiality which on former occasions
.had elarsetalsed atteeneysienenth If he erroneously complained
Of the grats Nut*, e I' the .manifest indecency and want of all
proper faling in these paceedings, he was liable to be attacked by
shoes who differed from him ; but till he heard such reprobation,
till that was done, he should evildoer ; and when that was done, he
should still retain his own opioions. It Mr. Alexander was eon.
!rifted at the third libel, the Jury haring recommended like to mercy,
or virtually sequined ..him on the mood, Ira it 'possible that the
um could beam to Newgete It The man ought not to have been
vanished on the second information, and the attorney-general did not
dare to bring him tip foe judgment upon It, well knowing that the
resemtnentlation a the jury must have been operative on the court.
He had stated in the. course of the diet:union, that he should be
able to treat the subject without stating any thing in language disa-
greeable to the feelings, either political or in a gentlemanly point
of view, of any individual who heard him. This libel was an at.
tack upon the right honourable secretary, and the right honourable
gentleman was a considerable party in that line of polities which
the Journal advocated. He had said, however, that he would Lot
allude personally to anybody in the discussion, and therefore. in.
stead of the right hon. gent. he would merely say the right hon. Mr.
A. He would not say the right hon. lit. P. for then every
body might guess whom he UMllint. (Laughter.) All that the libel
had raid was that this right honourable Mr. A. had been seen to
smile at the detail of distresses in that house. If this smiling at
petitions or eratements of distress in that house were to be made the
subject of Übels, he fearqd that the Attorney-General would have
occasion to Sle,inferentions against the noble lord who moved the
address', and against the noble krd who secooded, and.against the
Wry aidetrart or city member, at least. 'hailed Aimed it, and
a lost the nett ben. minister Chit had spoken fourthly', jet' they
had all treated the sratemente of. duress not only with smiles,_ but
with cheers and sneers ; and was their ensiling and sneering to go to
a jury as criminally involving a contempt to the suthohigs of the
people—the fact having impunity, and the rePreeentation of the
fact pending • man to. \ togate ? Redid not meanie lay, thattf any
friend of the right hon. Mr. A. had thosight tit to come down to
parliament holding The Jowled in hie hand. and required lir.
Alexander to be eonvenid to the bay thathe nould not have a right
to du so, not that the house might not have taken up the ease, and
reprehended Mr. Aimander with that impartiality and spirit and
mercy to which they areacustontedi but this y totally a differeot
moral, of proceeding. He would not deliver in that house a syliebk
of that passage which constituted the matter of _ibis libel...hut this
lead taken place on the loth of June, and the pause did not the until
.the :14:11 of June. In this interval aa, week no business had
been done. Indeed the house had done very little business atter
the Catholic tut had passed, and yet in that interval no .tgol•
plaint had been mole of the libel to the house. The Attorney-
(lateral hal no right to take the came into. hie own hands, and out
of the , pewee of the house.. The right boo. gentleman (Mr. A.)had
been attacked (or sneering, and he should like to know whemsdhats-
*ions were carried op in that house so gravely as to be without
Miles at snaps. The right honourable gentleman. might have
convened Mr. Ali:ender to the bar. No such step hod been
taken. And then the question Fay had ,the Attar ey titan', or
had lie not' a right to file esiffieso informatinte.againet libels era
the mentbets of thai house. If he had that right, hoes art ditheult
.„. to teU which side o( the bourne he would defend.—,(theles.) One
.side would be always well protected, whist there mild be an he-
punk, in attacking the other. He would say thee the Atteamptie.
nail had nosier* right. fie would genie toe met *edam would
Wolin& that before the intanehmeot of Lord Melville there was a
Comminion of.navilintpwry, and mantramerted that, the report of
41e Weetedeettelas. fameel taqutry had tesposhted a libel ageism Lord
Ololyille. ;In this . the aline of agora, called, rao Oral *.
1114, led6ola..Li . urn, the . choose of that hate Lad
UM, brn.w.t.the 410. ‘vi, des considewise of psdiesseau ma
:2 bete dostimise. :Melt yams epee U. lit. lotss
melt that .she tediteeht to4tweallal. se. tbs. him VC
• ~, • rql•tfiali .thee drat rearnefip hs. PiaboNitt
r•II r, Tpx Aid spl4 the ileees of tblmeeses esshi at to
up its.priviltiges to 1 court if litrl-Osesr.They -*slit is
up its domestic privileges, he pain dim - Mr. Fox