Star.
London, England, 1831-01-12 00:00:00

JUDGMENT ON RICHARD CARLILE.

At half-post seven o'clock the RICOILDICIt took his seat on the
Bench, which, as well as every part of the Court, was crowded to teens.
ny A few minutes after the was placed at the bar.
The Clerk of the A having demanded of the prisoner whether
be bad any thing to say w the Court should not pass judgment accord.
lug to law, a long and tory conversation took place on points of
legal technicality. At the conclusion—
Mr. Oreille evinced a strong desire to read the various publica-
tions of the month of November, to show that he was not more
culpable than others, but the Recorder decided against such a
course. He then declared that one thousand of the work had been
printed in the tint Instance only. four hundred of which hml been
sold prior to the regent proceedings. and which had been sent to Man-
chester, and several towns in Lancashire, York. Scotland, and Notting.
ham, the rest having been sold in the metropolis. He declared that to
his knowledge not one copy had been sent to any of the disturbed die.
wins, nor had he any agent in them, and having called the attention of
the Court to the lengthened discussion of the Jury in considering their
verdict, declared his firm °Odin to be, that " the Jury were starved into
a verdict," and concluded by submitting to the Court, as a fact worthy
of consideration, that he had not visited any of the disturbed districts.
The Rieconnza, In panting sentence on the prisoner, alluded to the
fact of his having avowed that one thousand oop. had been sold, and
' to the dreadful aosaeloenoes that might accrue to society by the pro.
mulgation of the poison, and to the lives that bad already become forfeit
to the laws of the country, concluded by expressing a hope that on re.
Election he would in some measure atone for the injury committed on
society, and that be would seriously reflect on the greatness of his of.
fence. He then pronounced the following sentence :
" That you, Richard Grine, pay a fine to the King of Two Hun-
dred Pounds t that you be imprisoned in the Compter of this City for
the space of Two Years ; that you find sureties for your good behne iour
for Ten Years, yourself in Five Hundred Pounds, and two other* in
Two Hundred and Fifty Pounds each ; and that you be further inirri.
toned until the said tine be paid, and sureties found."
NEW COURT.

ANOTHSK PUGILIST IX TROUSI.t.
Solemn Reuben', a pugilist, and William Rowley, were i.
for feloniously assaulting Samuel Cooper, upon the King'. hightity,
with intent to rob him.

The prosecutor said that on Saturday the let hut. he was retunitif
home frees his work about eleven o'clock at night. He was a little tn.
to:tested. .and when begot near Whitechapel Church. he was hustled
by revers] persons. and slang them the prisoners. The latter held his
arms and put their hands In his pockets. and tore them ineide out, hut
did not succeed in getting any mosey. He called a polite constable,
and when be came up the prisoners had bald of him.
A polka constable memborated the prosecutor's testimony.
No defence was Wind. nor any witnesses called to character.
The Corium Scimitars told the Jury that the offence with which
the prisoners were charged was a very serious one. It subjected them to
transportation for life. With this, however, the jury had nothing to itn.
They were only to give their opinion of the prisoners' guilt or inno-
cence. Verdict—Guilty.