The Sun.
London, England, 1820-05-05 00:00:00

TRANSLATION.

Extract ref a Dispatch from Connt NESSELRODE, to Mr. Po-
LETicA, Minister of H. I. M. the Emperor of Russia, iu
the United States, dated the 27th Nov. (9th Dec.) 1819.
" You have doubtless been able to obtain in-
formation how far the President's last instructions
to Mr. Forsyth were positive. The Emperor will
not now take it upon•hint to justify Spain, but he
charges you to plead, with the Government at
Washington, the cause of peace and concord.—
That Government is too enlightened to take hasty.
steps, and its rights appear to be too solid not to
be weakened by a violent course of proceeding ;
and on the other hand, suck is the character of
the considerations wrtich command the ratifica-
tion, by Spain, of the arrangement relatiie to the
Floridas, that it is to be hoped she will at length
yield to the force of evidence. The United States
will then have added to the reputation of an able,
that of a moderate policy, and will gather, with
secttritV, the fruits of their wisdom. His impe-
rial Alejesty, therefore, wishes that if there be yet
time,.you.would engage the Government at Wash-
ington to give to the Spanish Ministry a proof of
patience, which' i's circumstances might indeed
seem to suggest. Nevertheless, the Emperor doeS
not interpose in this discussion. He makes, above
all, no pretension to exercise an influence in the
councils of a foreign power. fie merely ex-
plesses a wish, dictated by his concern for the ge-
neral welfare, and woithy of the generous good
faith wideh characterizes the Government of the
United States." • •

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Mar 4.

No fewer than eighteen persons were sentenced
to various periods of imprisonment for offence'
against the revenue.

INDECENT PUBLICATIONS.

THE KING V. JOSEPH CLARK AND HENRY CLARK.

The Dcfeudants, father and son, were brought
up from Newgate, to receive the sentence of the
Court, after having pleaded guilty to indictmentt
found by the Grand Jury, charging Joseph Clarks
the fw her, with publishing obscene libels. (books),
and Henry Claik, a young man of twenty, with
publishing indecent prints. Since the commis.,
sion of the offence the defendants have conducted
themselves with contrition, in the hope of a re!..
mission of punishment.

The prosecution was instituted by the Society
for the Suppression of vice, and it appeared by 'he
affidavits, that the Defendants were detected and
brought to justice by one of the agents of the So-
ciety, named Branseetnbe• When the officers
took them in custody, a hag was found full ot ob-
scene works too nauseous to name. Unoh the
top of this mass of contamination they had laid
_ts
number of children's books, but it seemed that
the obscenity was generally disseminated in the
form of children's books and religions tracts.
The defendants, after they were in custody, wrote
to Lord Sidmouth, Mr. Wilberforce, &c offering
to communicate the names of persons who had
been low, in the habit of printing these works to
supply ,he %tenders, it did not appear that the
communication was attended with any advantage
to the defendants, as they were considered
obj cis for punishment.
Mr. Go HNEY, who moved for the judgment of
the Court, said !he Society had dorp, much god
by suppressing these publications. Tory brought
the defendants hetore the Court in order to ,:Leek
a destructive torrent of vice, which bad occasi.,ncd
most extensive mischief The rblendalits nere
persons without any settlA place ot busineqs,
going about_ with these publications. They. ..c•
knowledged that they had carried tptc ive
trade in this vile way 12 years. There was nu::, 1)
,werav,ition in the offence. From the etrewsw..:.•,77e
of the father carryi,,g on trade in conjunetinn ~s till
his sou; ii,e one selling hooks, the inner pi, ti!
These persons goi plates where yo,t+g
people are educated, and by the infusion nt pro ,ts
to the mind, too often occasioned total ruin. He
left them its the hands, of th, Coutt,

The detenthots allegeti, in thii,!ettion or I,ni.isb~
ment, their distress and in6bili'y to oil uin top..
port by ail other meArp. They eom!,laitteti of
the prtt,tvrs of these %Turks as being the nte,lo6
of a vt irk circulation.

'l' he CHIEF JUsTiCe observed, if there were t;ts
vends ih,re 119 printeis.
Mr. Justice BAYLEY, alter stating the magni.,
hide of the off, (let Rod the baDetul fifer. ,olch
vile produckus oust have. on the morass of
young pttsons, sentenced Joseph Clark (0 be
imprisoned !,.$ months in the .How,e ot Correc-
tion, Cold Bathfields. Henry Ow k, the son,
k, as ordered to be imprisoned nine months in the
same gaol.

.los;:ph Clark.—My Lord, you might as well
pass sentence of dealt) upon us.
11r. Justice fivi'LEY.—Sir, you do not know
upon how many persons you may have been tbs
means of passing sentence of death.