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Imo had been injured by his fall, to render him, If
necessary, any assistance—at all events to apolo.
glee that he should have suffered in any degree from
my horse, although from no misconduct or careless-
ness on my part. But, Gentlemen, in an instant the
man was upon his legs; and before I could pull up
and turn my horse to see whether any mischief
had ensued ; before I had the opportunity or the
power of eves uttering my regret ; before I could
even ask pardon for the consequence, which 1 could
neither foresee nor contronl, I received a most furl-
ons blow across my loins, struck forcibly with a
thick stick, and I was knocked forward or m the
pummel of my saddle. I certainly was exasperated
at the blow. My whip fell out of my hand, and
seizing one of the pistols, which by a fatality I had
with me, snapped it by way of intimidation at my
assailant. -But seeing a person tall, powerful, and
athletic, again brandishing his stick ; enraged and
irritated with pain from the blow, with tf.e butt end
of the pistol I struck, and unfortunately brought him
to the ground.
" I solemnly declare before God, that the pistols
were not loaded—such weapons ale, I may say, part
of the furniture of the Officers of the Army and
Navy—unhappily 1 had mine wit.h me—l had pro-
cured them in the course of that day only, and was
carryjng them to my lodgings at dtoyapooratn.
Whether the blows which he received from me in
this melancholy encounter, or bruises from stones
and brickbats, which Wile hurled at us by the
people in the street, term;nat.d the life of the deceased,
I ;to not know ; but as I hope for mercy hereafter, 1
Should not have harmed hair of Dania Lamb's head,
I nu[ felt that I was repelling an unwarrantable
outragi:, and rescuing fay self from the fury of a
violent and strong tnan. Gentlemen, my lile is in
one hands ; let each of• you, in my situation, ask
yourselves it y: u would, nay, it you could with pa-
tience, have submitted to such an attack—Christian
torbearanze should have whispered yes ; but
frailty will answer no. In human frailty this homi-
cide will find its excuse, and this excuse has its SAllC-
ti‘m in the mercy of British law."
The Learned Judge then summed up the evidence
with the izre 'test perspicuity, and the Jury, after re.
about ten minutes, brought in a verdict of

. MADRAS QUARTeIt sESSIONS, MAY 17.
INTEREsTING TRIAL FOR MURPC.R.
On Tuesday morning Petuenbe Sitspeerei, a Lieu-
tenant in his Majesty's Navy, was put to the bar,
charged with, the murder of Daniel Lamb, on the
Dig!it of the Bait ult.
NYifliem Bathorn was the first witness called. He
deposed as follows; he was a gun-stocker, living in
the great Pecietrry, at the north of the Black Town;
had hem acqnrinted with the deceased since the
fancy of the witness. The deceased was a Purtu-
gie-£O. On the night of the t:Sth of March, between
eight nine o'clock, a fine moan light night, the
win.ess etas standing at the door of one Pitcher, at
Royapo.narn, witness saw the deceased walking in
his bed gown, with a stick in his hand; did not no-
tic- what sort of a stick: he s' es walking towards
his own house, about thirty yards front whence wit-
ness was; this *was seven en lit ht yards from the
house where witness was standieg ; he eaw a gentle-
:tem on horseback on the opposite side of the road;
did not then know the gentleman's name, but now
knew; it to be Sheppard, the pisoner ; knew, how-
ever, the person well, as he had often seen him tide
on that road before. At this time his horse was
walking on the oppoeite site; he crossed the road to-
wards the deceased ; he clapped his heels to the sides
of his horse, which made the hot se plunge forward
and the bw the deceased down; did not see whether
the plumes. had spurs or nu; deceased cried " 0
Gov. t .tio hurt." The prisoner turned his horse in
the direction of the witni is ; he waiked two paces.
and the:. sto;)ped ; the desceised gut up and walked
towards the nrisowr, say infi " how could you use
me su ?" and- struck the prisoner across the here: with
a s:ick ; the prisoner then rode past witness, he was
' then disengaging something front the pummel of the
saddle, which appeared to witness to be a box ; after
pasting about eight or ten yards he tinned back, and
witness then discovered it to be a pistol in his hand ;
the prisoeer went op to the deceased, and exclaianto
tcl him, 66 Yon rascal, shoot you;" he then
aliened the pistol ; witness saw sparks cl fire, but
no of poweer ; the prisoner then took the muzzle
in his
decear;Nl with the butt cud of the pistol, which
keockcd Lim dor. n ; prisoner also test off his horse;
atter Le luy Se walked away ; the pi isoncr go:
up, and g :re deceased two more blows on the heats
vith the. pinto;, ;le de:eased lyin -4, senseless from the
otf:•cts of C.e first blow ; the pi ienner then icok de-
ceased's cane, and lu'd It tevotely ac:o.s has body ;
the witness counted s'e blows; the prisoner then
thi en the cane down, and walkesl towards his Leese;
the family of the det:eased Caen came crying. to ta.,:c
him bona". The pi is,ner muunted aud c• -,e
the same road ; at this time dereas.:d's son said,
4' raid you lI r. my rathe ?" The prisoner saiq
46 1./1 Sh‘Alt r'o, you ras:al." The hey tan away,
seeirl- the pistol in t:.e prisoner's Ir.)nd ; the prisonci
then rode ;v.+ ay as h CI as he could into the boom!
hedge g tie of the Mack Towns. In half an hoot
after witness went t ) the house of the deceased, ht
was down, his Oite applyinz lomentations to
Lis face; the decrw,ecl complained, of his head ; wa-
nes; i.hd not dint tom in ; he went again
the kilowing day t.d.nut ten o'clock, the deceased was
lying ha the tut, alien eyes weir shut, but was not
ThL ere !trice being closed, teee prisoner made the
felloweeee defence :
66 May it rl;.tie year Lordap—Gentl 'mien of tin
inry— °triter of the British Navy :tending at the
bar of this Supietne C,urt as a violator of los coun-
try's i.t ts, is tut exhibition, I may say, hitherto al-
m ...t 11-;precelet,tc.J. F.'ot that I presume. to arrog. te.
to the p:otession of which I have the honour of
* oursuber, a char.:cter for more orderly and better
conduct than neloags in general to the other chisAs
of suciezy ; but from such singularity of my situa-
tion, you i..iy conctive with what painful
sander what bi:nt,Alions of aggravated distress I tly,
appear before you as a delinquent—a delinquent tee,
charged with the atreeioue and horlifole crime of
murder! You wiil not, lam sure, upon this
occa-
Sion, forget that the sad duties—n..y, the necc,s,ities
of toy FuieSSlOn of aims, may have Often
pily called upon me to deal destruction and death
• among my ;Ake...creatures. In lugitimate wariare
we ale toe engines and instruments by which the
pubis assailants s f onr country ':re resisted and laid
low. We vindicate its insulted honour, and must
ever be on the watch to rept ; with rromptitude all at-
tacks upon its secu.its,4 and arson its character. And
. trained and lo:mcd in such a school of retalia;ion, we
learn and practice perhaps a quicker and a more
lively resentment of every wrong and injury, than
those who have been bred and educated in the more
peaceful walks of line. These are allowances, these
ate indulgent considerations, to which, at this awful
Moment, I might fairly lay claim ; but I trust, from
the circumstances disclosed to you upon this trial,
that the urhappy condition to which 1 am now re-
duc: d, might have been the lot of the most hairee,s
and the must peacefully dispcsed unto igst you. Any
vile, under similar provocation, might have done the
melancholy act for which I am now here arraigned;
Fe would have retorted the violence and outrageous
blow which was first inflicted by Daniel Lamb, and
defended liireAt against the assault with whatever
weapon was within his reach.
66 On the day in questiun, I was tiding a spirited
and no: easily mana:;eable horse—not lonB. before this
c 41an:ituus event, he had Erten very restive ; had
ran .way with r 0.,, and had thiown me (iff With yin_
I,nce ~g;,in,t a th:IIOCL Bandy, on the high road—
between thc hours of eight and nine in the evening,
on my return to my lodgings at Roy apootam, 1
Feret"%-ca that the streets were more than mealy
;row:v.l welt paswnt;eis. It was a day of sonic
ru:.taAticse Vusural, and there was more: than ordi-
nary ousihess and bustle in the si:lage—my horse
had been kicking, and very troublesome ; and
whether from any sudden noise of tom trans, or
burst of rockets that struck his ear, or from the nu-
merous crowd moving rapidly about him, he prede
a sodden swerve from (me side of the street our to
the other; violently plunged far ward and threw down
• a wan, whose back was at the time towards my lace
me he was a perfect stranger ; I bad never
‘refare set my, eyes on him, and rt is not possible to
,entertain aesuspicion, that I could have harboured an
slit design or ell thought against him. My first idea,
Ely 404, was to i.iscett4tia if we poor

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net hesitate to permit that those, to whom it apper.l
tains, may exhibit a list of the candidates to the '
King's Ministers, in order that Government, if per-
chance any of them be disliked or suspected, may
immediately point out the same to have him ex-
punged; but so as that a sufficient number may re-
main for his Holiness, out of which to cl:ct those
whom lie may judge, in the LORD, most worthy to
govern the vacant churches.
" As soon, therefore, as the Legislature of Great
Britain shall promulgate, in due and authentic form,
its aforesaid act of emancipation, conformable to the
sentiments of his Holiness, as above expres• with
which 1 presume the British Government is already
acquainted, his Holiness will on his part, likewise
send a timely Brief to all the Catholic Bishops and'
faithful of Great Britain, in which he will publish to
the universe, his sense of .gratitude towards the clz-
mcncy and generosity of the most powerful British
Government, will exhort the Catholics, especially
after this new-received favour, to adhere, with still
more fervent loyalty, to their august King, and
finally, in a solemn form, terreit them to observe
what I have hitherto stated, with regard to the oath
and the election of Bishops."
The power of revising and sanctioning, pr reject-
ing reicripts from Rome, addressed to the Cath,,lic
Hierarchy within these realms, is described to be
" inadmissible, even as a matter of discussion," as
although that power is claimed and exercised even by
certain Catholic Sovereigns," it is an abuse which the
Holy See, to prevent greater evils, is forced to clidure
and tolerate, but can by no means sanction." On
ti.is head, however, as well as the preceding, expla-
planations and assurances arc given in another form,
which, it is conceived, will he deemed sufficient and
satistactory by the !kids!) Gos;ernments

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Tate WIT, and an energetic InsWer to' this Note wee
immediately resolved upon, and actually drawn ee,
But befime this Note coeld be sent away, it wes
found the whole French Ministry had that very dee
received their discharge.
$4 The Duke du Richelieu, who heneefnrward tWe
the business entirely upon himself, immedietely anar.
cloned the course taken by his predecessors, of a vain,
diseoision of eenerel prine;plims, prei s `erred to pre-
, ceecl upon the coneictirm, that in the actual sit melee
of affairs, every opposition on the part of the. Frencei
Cabinet could only tend to prolong the distresses et.
the country, without producing any considerefe.;
(-benne to the ail.ventage of France in the determiter•
dons of the Allies. lie has acted exclusivyly on el. ‘
principle. His personal character iestired !limo emcee
rel esteem, and contribt:tcd essentielly to 1:;:,. :,,,;,,,
diate relief of the country. As negimcio;ii eeeee,e,,
he was almost wholly peseve. I-le app- area lee
seldom in the Mini-omi iel coeferences, gesteraey tee
without a ferorel invitatiii-n.
$4 The Islinheers of the Allied Courts Led ;nee, •,1
the French te send a Cemomisiieser to tele! .i sham ii.
the drawing up of the general Treaty, ate! of tio
secondary Couventions, and the Couneellor if is o,
1 lorbesnerdiere was named for t'- is• perry.. le ; ee,„
operetion, however, was very heemed. reeleir d:.-
attention Ives paid to his Tema:ice the ?men lemea...
howevzr ;tlicay.s vt-uni:ted tr, Cie lion .1,; f,/ Vs.! L:•1'.• •
ring Ministers, and in tl.e cssoeiel e...;et, ee • o ~ .
velem-led with France tv;ls 1:.0 v.- 7; f t ti:.. ;'.i.
Courts. The Military Co:w,::,tiiii, ao..i t!,
.. , .„i .
titue, the payments by ri Avec, et -4, rete; r• :ee e. .
tremble ; but the most deNcuit ee : - tom i • .. ..i, .:.,•,
Conventions, wlech ate to seiorre the pe- e eo 1 .. , .
meat of Cie unexeeuted ertieles el tee '1 ;,:.....• ,:. .':
ris of Jell.
44 The delifieretiers on thcee Cnneeeteee eee e
are of such high import:ince to $1.:,.. i:1•;•.
many privete persoits, leeted afireseeee v••--
The following details and renoteks relative to the ` :it'lsle ~.,rd ocis,,he,scio iin ceenishltl:st.triill.:iLi!ut d:;:,i:1,.1%.
hoe Neeneiations at Paris are a err:meted Iron' the XI. ,osj`,c
Castlereagh !limos f. with e lotto et eee..
.e• i ee -„
amnion received yesterday :
" nolo November ::0. metric., which cannel lem stifii..:icr.7i• e. 1,,,,, ....:, i
"It will certainly be agreeable to yon (the Editor in 3 Niiii`frr ly'll) hits to !war s'.cli w• • ..:. - •
the most iinisvatant come-tier of eeitie. Te •o•
of the Au;:bur,,,, GaLettr) to receive some seuticulats
cond was still . mere cTie.:::.ive ant, cc r:-:1•-• mime,. ! .'
which, as you
of time last great negociatiens at Pais,
of this the oloileietreeir is Litre te le, et.•, ~ to . , •.,
know the source whence they are derive], you tan glia-
ectir Ice,* I lectiomet sere tle neet le e. ." . -...
ranted. to your readers as genuine mid exact. It these cube, . - ,• em -.,:, • • e • e ••, •i•• , ..
the kriemch tome eels (-1 Otate, eo• eil see: 1,.
neeocietiens were not sooner completed, it n as. cer• loath 4 •
don, brought Polo into this chai,,,.. ;a11..1 :i, o , .__ ! 1:
ton& twin:, to the extent and difficulty of the oh-
-of due AC. lastest claims to tlo; 7,rilitticle t•f :'.iluza.,:i u: ...::.1
ji..cts to be ;seated no end not to any want
lies• ( 'T•ll.4'l" anti , t';er c 'lorries
:n .e,. .f, • . • • • •
tivity, or siownt•ss in the man:lee:meta of the busi
66 As the biteiner:s vet; dr melee to a ciree, i •
b .etas. The mtnistesial conferences, of which the ne-
resolved to cemmtinie oe to the Frieze C etee: • -
1 gc,ciations for peace with nonce made wily a pelt,
reneeed 'l* re ety et 1....1e:nee -Lew. ee tee i.,•.: Ito!
land by which at the same time, a nunibcr el most
Allied Courts, ai a nee; or the es. l U:1: y end 5,!..
important leations between the Allied Courts them
of the present order or titines. Ttos ter; df;ne iv .
selves was to be regulated, were - coutititted four
Note, in which, at Ow same tone, the poise of vice
months without inter:tap:len.
WAS laid down in a elem.- cue ors:pollees foe roceler.
" The Nlisiisters assembled every day at twelve
in which the slim, ters of the Allted Cour:s col,--,i,:.rec
o'clock, at Lord Casliereagies Hotel, formerly Hotel
the inlet's:ll sitteithin of the. colliery, al:Li LI.C1113).1:1,.
porgliese, which, send: last year, has been the lintel
to be followed by tle• Ficecil C.:even:meat ti r it.
of the English Embassy, and where also were the
Ne,te, and a ties .;.d doest. ne it, th.
The c
bureaus and alcilives belonging to the comerencee. gooJ. 'l' his
same tone, whir-Ird iced to tee fell powers eieen n
onferences lasted regol lay till three o'clock,
The evenitv were be6,lei. the Duke of ‘% eliregton, as Com:ll2.l:hr is COtef •
and often much longer,
..phe the Army left in Frence, nrie'e, as ...7-ti to be 1u::
dedicated to mesiituld separate delioeratiens.
seen, aby favourable impression is Paris. Tire;
Deke of N•Cellinetoa and Lord Castlereagh, Psince
treinquillized the ealightened part of the punlic re
Metternich end Baron Weesenberg, Trieste Harden-
spectiog the arehension, which was groundless in••
berg and Baron Humboldt, Prince Resurnewsky and
deed : as if the Allied Powers could have the Once
Count Nesselrode, and, alter the departure of the
latter, Count Cae
o d'lsteia, were the pros er surd con-
lion of supporting, contrary to an seund pm inciples,
scant :timbres of these conferences.
a system of unconditional return to the ancient resire,
and of indiscriminate reaction against al! that toe
$$ 'Llsouge the business was carried on without any
exists, to the oppression of the nation, and the bounce
ceremonious and pedaetic forms, it was, however,
less ruin of the Court itself : at the same time, Cie,
adopted as o general rule, that the pent steels and
gave to the 'tarty which .is incest isely oriving t
other acts relating to the negriciations with France,
should be signed by the eight Ministers (as they were fUrce such a system on the King, wholly ageinst le
personal inclinations, a salutary hint at least the
All empowered to sleep:we): and, on the other
Could not hope for either aeprobetion or support Iron-
hand, all that was drawn np in the name of die thin
the ether European Powers.
Cabinets, eiseuld be signed only by the four Chiefs,
" On the whole. seven Treaties were concluded a:
or Representatives of tense Cabinets, viz. Castle-
leagio Mettesnicle Heidenbero, Neeselrode, and Paris: the eeneral Treaty, the four secoedery C.KI
ventions, the renewed Treaty of Alliance betweee tie
al terwards Capo d'lstria.
66 The Ministers had in common appointed Mr. tour Courts, and the Treaty respecting the futile'
Genz to be their principal Secsetary, who in this qua. fate rt the lenien Islands. Many of tile greater pro.
tools of the conferences, however, for trample, the
lity has attended all trie cotiferences, and drawn up
on the composition and chief direction of the occupy,
all the pre:moles notes, treaties, &c. under the di.
rectlon of the Ministers. From what I have here said, tog army ;•that on the division of the counties cm
you may judge how much credit is due to the asset- ded by France ; diet on the raising and dividitio M.
tion of a celebrated German paper (which, during contributiens, &c. are also to be considered as re).
the course of the negocietions at Pails, has produced Conventions, and are drawn up in that torm."-
a number of bold fables), that 6 several men of con- (eflleetraiine ZeOuter, Dec. 15.)
sequence, when they perceived the nature of those ROME, DECEMBER IS.
nogociations, had withdrawn from the ceniereitees.' M. Foliate, Duke of Otranto, has contlntuel 4.
In some of the earlier conferences, when only mini- draw so much attention ever since his n !itches leo •
tary matters were treated of, the Russian Ambassa. known, that it is well worth while cerefelly to cello'
dor, at Pas is, Count Pozzo di Bingo, and some Aus. every feature, in order to make ourselves far
man and and Prussian Generals were now and then ad. (painted with his manner and chasacter. For ti
mitted ; but as they never appeared at them excepe purpose, the substance of a speech whicn this sett,-
when they-were invited, it cannot be said that they man made to the Judges of the Court at Amen!, er" I
withdrew. of the Tribunal of the first Instance at Rome, in 1.),
66 And in the further progress of the business, cember, 1813, furnishes a material decument. It
during the whole course of the proper political ncgo• fully
ciations, no person, eicept the eight Ministers above warranted to be genuine. Thoiseh M. Fonee
named, was admitted to the ministerial conferencei. did not appear at that time to Ire in holy oil pub:.
business, M. Legonides, the Procure:or imperial, to
The only exception was, that in the beginning of merly of the Police, had persuaded the ass ive Cee
November, in the sielioeretions upon the convention tom
of Justice to wait upon them. Ile receive! theta .
be concluded with France, on account of the pecu. the Hotel of the City of London, in the Place J'l:niary payments, the Prussian Minister of the Finances
pegne, and having made them wait sonic time col.
M. Von Bulow, was present three or four times. out of his cabinet in his night-gown, and address:
" Even Field-Marshal Prince Sch War tzenberg them as follows :•••••14 Alt. bravo, Gentlemen, bravo '
though appointed by the Emperor one of the negii. lam glad to see you. You are the Judges and Pot
ciators, was present at only two or three conferences, curateurs of the first Court of Justice of the diorite'
because just at the time that the direct negocietion: Military Division. Yes, Gentlemen, one must a
for peace began, his stay in Paris was at an end.— ways be just, but know h • • i
one must holy to cams
The share which the French Cabinet had in these the spirit of the laws, and always intcr;sret them in t!:.
conlerences may be easily fixed, when the following sense 01 the Government ; fee by the chance re ceteire
circumstances are considered. stances a law may often become useless or iiiin••es it,
66 The King had named. as his rlenirotentiaties' the Government, and then one must, for I: tete. i• •
Prince Talleyrand, the Duke of Delberg, and Baron bike' not think of abiding by it? It is ala' i.eo, •
Lewis, late Minister of the Finances. These three sae to make the air at Rome more wholesome.-
Ministers appeared in the conference of the 20th of For that purpose trees must he planted, win.,
September, when the original project of the general develope the oxygen gas, and imbibe the hydrogo.
treaty with France was communiceted to them, in gas, which is so dangerous to the air ; besides pl ant
which project only a single In-aerial point has singe ing trees, it is proper to clean the city thoroughly
been changed (the cession of Conde to liar tl
the Netherlands.) King of and in doing this, show tutee and energy as I .sips ail
merly at Marseilles. Every house owner must eV.:
66 By a strange concatenation of circumstances, before his own door.-only at the beginning, comp"!
this conference of September 20 was the first and last sion and severity are required, and a great blow mu:
at which those Ministers were present. They indeed be struck at the obstinate. Let their houses be bet.
gave in on the following day a Note (nut m
et üb. tered down with cannon, if needful ; a single ereiniee
lished) of considerable length, in which they eripdea. of this kind is toifficient to obtain obedience; foe.
vowed to oppose theproposels of the
Allied Courts, Gentlemen, one obtains every thing by energy, ewer'
without absounely rejecting them, upon the principle thing I" I'hen he turned to Mr. Legoniees, 3111
that. the Nib; of ;votres t was not applicable to th it r.
President
eitvisllii Aga asked 0 whether trilj
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