The Sun.
London, England, 1818-02-24 00:00:00

SHIP NEWS.'

The under-mentioned Company's ships arrived
at Calcutta as follows, viz.:—The Atlas and Ge-
neral Kid, the 10th July ; the Marquis of Wel-
lington, the 25th July; the Minerva and Streatham;
the 27th July ; the Rose and Princess Charlotte
of Wales, the 13th of August ; the. William Pitt
and Carnatic, the 2Stli AuguNt ; and the,Thomas
Grenville and Lord Castlereagh, the Ist Sept.
The Waterloo and Wiuchilsea left Penang for
Malacca and China the 25;h July.
The Danira, outward-bound, put into Plymouth
the 21st inst.

AMSGATE, FEB. 23.—The Johannes, LIND-
Boom, of Stockholm, from Hamburg') for Lisbon,
with wheat, was lost on the Kentish Knock on
the morning of the 21st inst. The Master and
crew were .taken- off the wreck by Captain A.,
SMITU, of the sloop Hoop, and landed here this
day.

PosTsstluTti, FEB. 23. Arrived the brig
Elizabeth, ziorsa, from Gibraltar tot Poole, with
a cargo of salt, and is tinder quarantine.
LIVEIIPOoL, Fes. 22.—Arrived the Neptune,
WADE, from Rio Janeiro, in 70 clays. On the
18th inst. in lat. 48. 43. long. 14. 30. spoke the
Beisey, SrrtTH, from.this port tor Rio J.meiro.—
The H►bernia, BROWN, front New Orleans, sailed
the 4th Janotity, and feom Balize the 1101 Jan.
On the 17tt► inst. off Mizen Head, spoke the
Susan, REELING, from Liverpool to. Charleston.

Yesterday, about three o'clock, her MAJESTY,
accompanied by the Princeses AUGUSTA and ELI-,
ZABETU, arrived at the Queen's Palace from

Windsor. They were received -by the Doke of
CLARENCE and the Duchess of GLOUCESTER. The
Dukes of Yoate and SUSSEX soon alter paid their
respects to their Royal Mother and Sisters.
We lament to hear that the Duke of CLARENCE
has received an account of the.death of the gal-
lant Captain FITZCLARENCB, his eldest son. -
The demur to the un►on of the Duke of CLA-
RENCE with the Princess Royal of Denmark, is
broken off, it seems, by the refusal of her Serene
Highness. In consequence of which, the prepa-
rations for conducting the Princess to England
are countermanded.—(Morning chronicle.)
PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.--This Society, which
is unrivalled in thw general assemblage of musical
talent's, had their first Concert for the present
season last -night at the Argyll Roma. We a►t-
mire the talents of the Members in the highest
degree, but we cannot equally compliment them on
thejudgMent of their selection. With their powers
they might render Music capable of exciting the
noblest feelings, but they are too fond of what
may be styled The Stormy or the Rattling School,
which gives employment to the instruments, indeed,
but which is a kind of organized turbulence, con-
sisting of science without taste and feeling. It
was said of HANDEL, that, iu the grandeur
of his conceptions, he wished to introduce the
thundering sublimity oh ORDNANCE into his or-
chestra, but if he had heard the music, if it be
not profaning the Jelin, to which we allude he
would perhaps have wished to direct his Ordnance
against those who tniseniploy great talents on such
compositions. On account of the indisposition
of Mrs. SALMoN, Miss STEPHENS took her place
in the first Act, and proved a charming substitute.—'
The vocal department•was otherwise gratifyingly
supported by Mr. anll Mrs. LACY, and MiSS
GOODALL, as well as by Miss STEPHENS also in
the second Act —Weictiser. led with 'his usual
ability, and the Band consisted of the first per-
formers.—The Room was crowded.

BUTtIAL OF HAITCH, THE MUJIDERER.--ThIS
morning, at half-past eight o'clock, the body of
Llaitch Was removed from Newgate in a cart to
the lamp post fronting Giltspnr-street, a distance
of about 100 yards, which space was lined on both
sides by the City anti other constables, so that no
obstruction might take • place during the melan-
choly sane. Haitch was placed on a board, on
which was a small gallows, and to it was suspended
the deadly weavon that•he committed the horrid
deed with. On arriving at the appointed spot the
Executioner, by order of the Under Sheriff, ex-
hibited the razor to the immense surrounding
crowd. After this, the body and itwete thrown
into a pit of the depth of about four feet, whi' h
was imthediately filled up, and the mob quietly
departed. •

GOOD THINGS.—It seems, that among other
good things which the Master. of Rolls derives
from his office, he is entitled to one tun, or two
Pipes of Gascony Wine, to be chosen for his use
annually at Easter by the King's Butler, from the
best that conies in the kingdom. Was it from a
knowledge of this circumstance t.ha( Btstt,'the
Lottery Contractor, took the idea of procuring
Twelve Pipes of Port "%Vine for. the Holders of
certain Blanks, iu 'addition to three frizes of
30,0001., and the ninety-seven other Capitals

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, SATURDAY, FEE. 23.

LIBEL.

THE KING V. FRANCIS GORE, ESQ.

This was an indictment against the defendant,
Lienteoant•General Gore, late Lieutenant-Gover-
nor of the province of Upper Canada, for pub-
•lishing a scandalous, wicked, arid defamatory libel
of and concerning the character and conduct of
Robert Tho-pe, Esq. LLD. formerly one of the
Judges of the Court of King's Bench iu that pro-
vince, and tending to bring the prosecutor into
hatred and contempt in his said office of Judge.
Mr. SCARLETT, *Mr. RICHA.EDSON, and. Mr. TUR-
TON, conducted the case for the prosecution.
It appeared that the prosecutor, in the year
1805, went out' to Upper Canada, to fill the office
of one of the Judges of the -King's Bench in that
Colony, and continued in office until the autumn
of 1807, when he was appointee to the office of
Chief Justice of Sierra Leone. In the, year 1806,
the•defendant.' was appointed Lieutenant-Governor
of the Province, and continued iu office until 1816,
when he returned to this country. In the course
of the prosecutor's stay in the province, a pam-
phlet had been published by a person lainied
Jackson, Containing strong animadversions upon
the government of the defendant ; and in answer
to that publication, another pamphlet issued from
the press, 'in the form of a Letter, addressed to
Lord Viscount Castlereagh, which arrived in this
country in 1810, and contained the libellous mat-
ter charged in the present indictment. It was
alleged that the defendant was either the author of
this pamphlet, or that it was •written under his
countenance and authority, and that copies of if
were sent by him to Lord Castlereagh, Marquis
Camden, Lord Sidmoath, and other distinguished
persons, connected with the Government at home.
TO prove the publication of the Libel,
M. Serjeant Frith, lately Attorney-General of
the province of Upper Canada, was examined.
lie filled the office of Attorney-General from
March, 1807,-to March, 1812. In a !ideate and
confidential comnomication with the defendant,
at the Government-house, shortly after the seces-
sion of the prosecutor from his judicial situation,
the defendant put into his hands a copy Of the
pamphlet in coestion, for the purpose of reading
it. - The copy was taken from a box in his pre-
sence by the defendant, in which there appeared to
he a great many other copies of the same publica-
tion. He did not consider that the Governor was
..acting on 'that occasion officially, or had com-
manicated with him with a.view to any
,official
priiceeding ; but be considered it as a confiden-
tial corn.annication between two private Gentle-
men, which it would have beeu improper for him
to divulge.
Mr. Serjeant COPLEY, for the defendant, ob-
jected to the competency of -this evidence, con-
tending that every communication between'a Go-
vernor and the Law Officer of the Government,
n4tist he considered as privileged, and consequent=
ly not liable to protection ; but
Mr. Justice ABBOTT-, •adverting to the manner
and the intention with which the communication
was made, according' to the witness's impressicin
at the time, thought it admissible evidence of pub-
lication.
The imputed libel was then rend. It was ad-
dressed " to Lord Viscount Castlereagh, one of
his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of. State, &c.
&c." an&commenced by calling his Lordship's at-
tention to the then state of the Province of Upper
Canada, which was said to be disturbed by the
turbulence and seditious faction of certain indivi-
duals, who took every means in their power of
annoying the Government, and' alienating the
affections of the people. It stated that the writer,
in order to satisfy himself upon these points, and
collact the most authentic information, had visited
every part of the province, and had found that
one of the principal agitators was a person named
Jackson, who had _published a pamphlet, com-
plaining of the tyranny of the Governor, and al-
ledging that his Excellency bad driven from the'
highest offices gentlemen of the most honourable
character, for having dared to oppose the arbi-
trary mandates of the Governor.' Upon enquiry,
the writer bad found, that the principal authors
of these seditious sentiments were a Dr. Thorpe,
one of the Judges of the King's Bench, an Irish-
man, and the known associate of the celebrated
rebel Emmet, a Mr. Wyatt, the Surveyor-Gene-
ral, and a Mr. Wilcox It charged Dr, Thorpe
with having set nut in his judicial career with de-
livering seditioni and inflankinatory harangues to
the Jury from the Bench, calctrlated to inflame
their minds, and incite them to seditiOn. That
in one of his charges he had commenced his ad-
dress to the ,Jury with these words, " Fifteen
years disgraceful adininistration of this Govern-
ment calls loudly for interference;" and had gone
on in a manner well worthy of such Ell opening.
That another person named Wicks, formerly a
clerk to Aaron Burr, Was another agent in these
proceedings. That this person - also. had been
called to tire bar, in the province, had procured
signatures toaddresses written by the_ Judge himself,
to himself, and. had fabricated signatures to
others, which were afterwards officially denied by
the persons whose names were forged thereto.'
That these addresses afforded the Judge an op-
portunity of ri;Ply'in terms calculated to incite se-
dition and rebellion, and alienate the affections of
the people from the Governthent. That the
printer of the Provincial Newspaper having re-
fused to lend himself to the dissemination of their
seditious doctrines, they had established what they
called the Independent Press, conducted by Wil-
cox, by which, they were 'enabled to pr,oceed more
effectually in the work 'of sedition. It further
charged Dr. Thorpe with having instigated Mr.
Wicks, the Barrister above-mentioned, to fight a
duel with another Barrister, named Dixon, who
had been grossly insulted in Court by the latter.
although be demanded the protection of the Judge,.
in which affair Wicks was killed ; anti lastly, it
charged him with having defrauded' several per-
sons just before he left the province. , This
was the general complexion of the,libel.
.• Dr. Thorpe was then examined, and he deposed
as follows :—I landed in Canada in August, ISOS,
and I left it time latter end of October, 'lBO7.
had filled the office.of Judge during that time.=
Mr. Gore Was Governor during greater part of

the time, fie came into the office in July, 1806,
and remained Governor' until I left the. Colony._
"I -first saw the pamphlet in May, 1810,, after the
aetion. by Mr. Wyatt against -the dolendant.—
After I left Canada I was appointed Chtef Justice
of :Sierra Leone, which , was an office of greater
emolument. lam the person, I believe, meant its
• the pamphlet. I was one of the Judges of the
Court of King's Bench.
It was objected to the witness's denial of the
truth of the publicatioN.
Cross-examined by Mr. Serjeant CoiILEY.—I
had heard of the pamphlet before froin Mr. Jack-
son. 1 never. saw the pamphlet before the trial
in the Court of Common Pleas, . between Mr.
Wyatt and Mr. Gore. I did not know the whole
of the, contents of the pamphlet bifure 'hat trial.
I might have heard of it, but I had no curify,ity
a'►out it. Mr: Wyatt told me that it grosdy at-
tacked me as well as himself, and t beret ore I cared
nothing about it. I had read none of it; of any
part of it, until the trial in the Common Pleas.
Re-estaminetiik—Uutil that trial I was not ap-
prized qt the particulars of the Isamphlet.
Lord Viscount Castlereagh examined by Air.
SCARLETT.-1 have only a general recollection of
the pau►phfet. I lisil reml it, but I !Five no recol-
lection of any particular passages. I have no re-
collection of having such a pampplet now in my
possession. l was not in office in 1810, .to my
recollection, at least without referring to the Red
Book.

Martinis Camden examined.—l do not recollect
receiving at any time a copy of a printed letter
from. General Gore, purportiqg to be addressed io
Lord Castlereagh. [Pamphlet shewn to witness,
but he said be had no recollection of having ever
seen such a pamphlet.]. .
Lord Sidmon7h was the next witness whom the
prosecutor: intended to call, but .he did not come
into Court until Mr. Searlett had closed his case.
Mr. Serjeant CpPLEY, in an ingenious address
to the Jury, contended that there was no proof
whatever of any tnalrcious intention imputable to
the defendant, for they must take it-that the com-.
munication made to Serjeant Frith was an honest
and bona. fide conference upon a subject relating
to the general welfare of the Colony. He ex-
pressly denied that the defendant was the author

of the pamphlet in question.
Mr. Justice ABBOTT summed up the case, and
the Jury immediately found the defeudant Guilty.