Star.
London, England, 1802-07-15 00:00:00

LAW .INTAI.I.IGEA GE.

CLERKr:W}I.I. SFYcIONS.

CA:ir!e, Ref --, tro.:115; and
.7,1,n Mar.
‘‘,•lc for ri., iilly atrcmbling and
bra ,kiu~ 'Ate v-i!,,lows of Vi i,h.un Ci.blieti on the
jth (if the day 0: the illumination tot
the I)(....!:;tive Cobbet's aveitirn to
the pea:e kti,iwn; ariirchentire from shat
liarpcniJ to him at the for. the
Prclitotnaric,, Le had on tile zifilta:f April 4lj pried
I,r later, to the Secretat r of State, and Artg.lN
GRA HAM, FAO, with a pat ty 'of the flow-th ca
patrole, was in conlepience feat to inotet his
hoalc. _ _

Mr. Cr:4h :m proved, that on the day above-
mentioned, a noiniber peri,ns began to :amble
in • ftmit t f Mr. Cd /the, lionfc, which was not
Ii ;hied up, :is.,ut ten in the evening; thortly after
the fttttad ,if gLics breaking, and imme-
diately raerved 4.ne of the defendants in the a 9
throwing, whom he attempted to kin. A
per:On in the croud prevetned. him, he
(-mild not f_cnre any of them without affillance ;
thi•: perfon laid he would ohlerve them while Mr.
Gra!%tm was gt.ing for atli,lance. Mr. Graham
110 t any kol :he patrol.: near, haticned to the
llerft: Guards, and ordered a party of the horfe
to !.Tr. Cobbet's tunic,: in Pall-mall. On Mr. Gra-
ham's return he law one of the defendants itriking
Cobbet's door with a large Ilene ; come of the'
officers had come up, and the perfon whom Mr.
Graham had dcfired to watch the defendants alfo
aflifted in fecttrirg them. 'They were conveyed
into Mr. Cobbet's houfe,ard thence to Bow-Il4et,
where they were committed and detained in ptifon
fix days. _ _

Anglian% Wat%maar, the perfon who offered his
fervices to Mr. GI aham, is a book-hinder; he knew
nothing of Mr. Cobhet; he was merely on a walk
fee Otto', honk, when he was flopped by
the ri,a in front cf. Mr. Cobbet's honfe ; he never
VII light of the ptilimers during Mr. Graham',
abfente ; he ftw them frequently Nina brick-bats
frc.rn an adjoining honk which was under repair,
and iiing them at the windows. When Mr. Gra•
ham laid hold on one of them, Walf..naar heard
Harwood fay, "they should not fuffer themielves
to he taken." Some t.bjation was made to this
witnefs, on the ground that it was pi incipally on
lee tcllimonv that an attempt had been made to in.
(Urine a capital profecutirm againtt the tkfeadants;
but in compliance with the fentiment of tile Court,
in which the Counfel for the defence coincided, as
foon as it was explained, the oblation was with-
drawn. - .

Twu ()Ulcers of the Bow-flreet patrole confirmed
the evidence of Mr. Graham anti Walfcnaar.
The cafe fa- the prorecution was ably argued by I
Mr. GLADE, who maintained that it was the right
of every man within this kingdom to entertain his
own fentiments, and to declare them in every man-
per not interfering with the Lt s, nor contrary to
the peace of society.
'1 be defence was emulated by Mr. SYLVESTER;I
who, though he had not had time to read over his
brief, having only received it on his way to Court,
in confequence of the abfence of Mr. M.lsrosm,
who had been originally retained, made a very
(hung cafe for the defendants,on no other evidence
but di it for the prolecution. Mr. Cobbet had,
fail Mr. Sylvefler, placed himfeif knowingly in a
Situation liable to attack, as every man who ruas.
openly againit the current of popular fentiment,
and particularly againll Inch a jail and Ifrong pu-
pnlar fentiment as that of the joy felt at the ter-
mination of the late burthenforne war, mull be
aware that lie erpufed liinit;:lf at die rtme time to
popular refentrnent. bar. Cobbet in fact courted
the injury that be intro eel, and when the Jury was
told, as it had been by the Connie: for the profccu-
tion,that the !lone which was flung at Mr.Cobbct's
door might have been the inftrument of murder if
any perfon had hccn in its way, it became matter
of furprife that Mr. Cobbet, who had (hewn fo
much induilt y tort ovoke, and in a manner to create
this offence, had not laid his head under it, for then
there would indeed be fume foundation for the capi-
tal charge which had been attempted to be brought
9::iintt theft Gentlemen on their fill detention.—
..hit Court had beard a great deal of the public cha-
rafter, the public fervi.:es, and the great celebiiiy
of Mr. Cobbett ; he had to lament the oblcurity of
his own tituation, for the name of 'this celebrated
roan had never before reached him, and the firfi
pablie act by which Mr. Cobbet was made known
to him was certainly not one very much to his
credit—the profecution of two or three fl:liool-
-1)..ys, for forte of them were nothing more, for a
niifellict. which he himfelf forelaw, which he. him-
1-If provoked, and which he might have prevent-
ed by the expence of two or three pounds of can-
dles. Mr. ti!lvetter was proceeding to make Come
°Very:46ons ~a the attempt to charge this offence
capitally, but Mr. Plake GRAHAM !aid the corn-
in:tmerit was not under a capital charge, but for
fecond examination, in order to afcertain the ex-
tent to which the charge would go, but certainly
without remitting the defendants to be let out
on hail, which was extremely irregular. Mr.
Narcs was at Bow-ftreet at the time of the corn.
mitment. and laid the Gentlemen were commit- •
red by Mr. pace Bond, without any interference
on the part of Cobbet.
Mr. !arcs, Dr. Wingfield, Mr. Barlow of the
Poll Office, and many other perfons o 1 the higheil
relpeehOlility, gave a mott exemplary charatter of
Mr. Beioe, who is but :lull tisteen, and to Mr.
Wagltaff; Mr. Hat wood.s charaCter is equally
The Court (fated to the Jury the falls as they
were proved, and oblerved, that however wanton-
ly a nun may expofe hin-elf, lie was Hill entitled
to the ;notation of the law. Verdict—Guilty.
The Colrt, in conlideration of the premature
impritOnnient which theft Gentlemen had fuffer-
ed, tinckr the argravating apprehention of a capi-
tal profecutic•a, awarded no imprifonment now.—
Mr. ;,nd Mr. Wagilaff were fentencedropay
a tipe of gel. each, and Harwood, who had not
been In ael;ve, id. tie friends of all to give feet).
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