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Yesterday, a•Special General Court of Proprietors of
East India Stock Was held, pursuant to adjoui riment,
at the Company's House, in Leadenhall-street, for the
purpose of resuming the consideration of the Hydera-
bad Papers, touching certain money transactions be-
tween the house of Palmer and Co. ,)f Hyderabad, and
his Highness the Nizam, and any connection the late
Governor-General, the Marquis of Hastings, might
have had therewith.

The Minutes of the last Court having been read,
. TheCniaailan (W. Await, Esq.) ,hen stated the businesi which
the Court had assembled to consider.
Sir J. DOYLE immediately rose, and" resumed his ad-
dress. 'He ritelarett that he did riot appear. there as
the.priiatesensrpfiseial friend of the Alarquii of Has-
tings, but as a Proprietor of East India Stock, only
anxious that justice should be done to all p-ait:e. Be.
fore he proceeded, he wished the lion. Chairin'in to
inform l.im whether the amendment.propo,ed by. him
was his own individual act, or whether he brought it
forward as the organ of the Coat t of Directors ?
The CHAIRMAN answered, that the amendment was
his own individual act, but'he felt himself justified in
saying, that if time had been given, it would have
been the act of the A counter proposition had
been made, 'and from the appearance of the .nuMbers
on that occasion, he had no doubt, if time bad, served,
that tie Court of Directors would have adopted the
amendment.
Sir J. DOYLE continued.—He argued at very consi-
derable length in support of the legality and propriety
of the Atoungabad arrangement, and of the 60 Lac
Loan, and by a reference to the documents, supported
the position, that the House of Palmer and Co. did not
shrink from examination ; that when called upon, they
readily furnished their accounts; and, finally, that the
Marquis of Hastings was not, as had been represented,
guilty of favouritism.
Mr. PonztrEa having been allotted to by Sir J. Doyle,

rose, and denied that he ever had amei ted that the
Marquis of Hastings had solicited the house of Palmer
and Co. for the admission of Sir William Rumbeld into
the firm. 'At the seine time, he contended, that the
letter of Sir William Rumbold to the Marquis of. Has-
tings on the subject of the house; and the answer of
the Noble Marquis to that letter, proved decidedly the
connection of the Noble Marquit with that house. .
Mr. StuAnT, formerly a MeMber of the Bengal. Go-
vernment, repelled the assertion that he had manifested •
a systematic, persevering, and factious opposition to the
'Government of the'Marquis of Hastings.
*Sir .I..Dortat denied that he had used any jsuch expression.
. Mr. STUART proceeded. He was not conscious of
any feeling of personal hostility towards the Noble
Marquis. Any differences that had ever occurred 'be-
tween him and the Noble Marquis were entirely
foOnded on public greuads. The Ron. Proprietonthen
tools a brief view of the. Aurung.abad arrangement and
the 60 Lac Loan, and pointed out the necessity which
exiited at the time for a full investigation of the cir-
vumstances attending those transactions. This be ad-
vised, and he did so the more particularly, in come-
quence of the situation in which an individual (Sir-W..
Rumbold), whose name had beers frequently mentioned
in the course of this debate, was placed. If individuals
departed from the ordinary routine of transaction, as
authorized by Government, they must mike np their
minds to undergo investigation and innyiry.
Mr. Waimea, in a speech of considerable length, supported the
amendment.
Sir C. Foams spoke strongly in favour of the original motion.
Mr. &MULL 111031 supported the original motion; after which
the Court adjourned to Monday Riot

LAW RIJ'ORT.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, FEB. 25.
TYRRELL V. WAKLEY. •
Mr. Serjeant VAUGHAN stated the case: it was an
action brought by the plaintiff, who is a surgeon in St.
Thomas's Hospital, against the defendant, who is Pro-
prietor and Editor of a ce: tain medical work, called The
Lancet, for a wilful and malicious libel in that pub-
lication,' reflecting on the character of the plaintiff.
Ther number In which the libel appeared was daied
20th of November, 1821.. The plaintiff was a Gen-
tleman who might be well known to milnY of the
Jury : ke was the son of the City Bensembrancer, and
a Lecturer in St. Thomas's Hospital. He fe:t it die
to his honour and character to bring this action, in
order to protect himself from the mischief wis-
ing, or likely to arise, from the very gross li-
bel which the defendant had ruOished against him.
The defendant, Mr. Wakley, was a pupil of Tho-
_ the habit ut attending Lec-
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I jeered to; and on the authority of the Learned Judge, .""""."." ..ta 4" UA ,"1"F6"."" lb. ,'a'", ,uT `"'".7--
that he had not put any stop to Such'investigation. The dress to Mr. Hamilton Itciwaallear,,hear., He would .
kight Hon. Secretary here read Baron M,Clelland's
letter to the effect we have stated ;and then added, that
he had the satisfaction of annnuncing to the House, that
he had tecently become acquainted with mother proof
of the soldier's innocence. The Learned Judge had
lUinmed up the evilence on this indictment with sb
much minuteness, that in the course of it the Counsel
for the prosecution had said to a Gentleman, who sat Pea!ed•
next him, " I wonder why the Judge should give him.-
sclt the trouble of chargitsr. on a case upon which there
b now say, that to the speech of the Honourable and
Learned Gentleman, in which that bbs'eivation w;
commented on; he had ligened with nu feeling 2fhoi-
tility, and no other emotion but that of aJniirati
the splendid talents which mere evinced by the lion.
and Learned Gekitletnati: The charke of ltAisCre.onn
against the Catholic Atiotiatielh. he (stii.te'4l).iipv iTc.
The address made by them through their
Secretary on the same day with their addresi. to the
4 ltbman Catholics of Ireland, was au act calculated to signed to an address of undersigned ersons, oeing --- -------.
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for Nlagistrates and Grand Jurors of the county of Louth. Dv '
(Elear, Rear i ' al Memkrs exclaimed "Queaion l'i
.s It was not his construction of the words of the address,
but he believed the p •
Mr. Rowan Is. antes to be correct when they said
ad been a Magistrate. It was possible he and P
might not have been in thebcommission of the peace for
._ twenty years, yet it was impovible for any man who
had been told it was so, as he had been, to withhold it,
frinri the House. Whether he was a Magistrate or not,
-. he had received a free -,1 had been admitted to
.par on,
serve on Grand Juries, and attend the ices of his AS s Hospital, and was in the habit ut attenoing Lee-
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tures there, which were delaveied by Sir
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in 6 The Lancet.' By this Mean:
dl use of the privilege granted .to him, as
the Lectures were the propel. ty., of 44:, Isstle y cooper,
who became at lenth disgurtted with the fa4elood.s
and -misrepresentations• contained in 4 TEC Lancet;
respecting the Lectures, and he accordingly lave.*
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plaintiff. Mr. Tyrrell. who was connected with his fa-
mily by marriage. Sir A.' Cooper gave the plaintiff
the right of publishing his Lectures. The publication
did not issue from the Press till the month of October.
On the 20th of September proof sheets were printed, in
which the ca.e of Timothy Desmond. an Irish labourer,
was tepotted. It happened that Desmond had been
taken to the Hospital with a compound fracture of his
skull, and the report stated that the patient was doing
well, and in a fair course of recovery. In a few days,
however, unfavourable symptoms presented themselves,
and the patient died. As the sheets were printed off,
the plaintiff did not think it necessary to reprint the
. case, but added an erratum, stating_ the change in
the patient's health, and his death in consequence.
The defendant, in a number of g The Lancet,' at-
tacked the plaintiff, under the name of Simon Pure,
and proceeded to comment on the "imbecility of
his head, heart," &c. and went on to dissect him.
The Learned Counsel then read several passages, which
were alleged to be libels on the character of the plain-
tiff. The defendant proceeded to criticise the report of
the case of Desmond, but emitted to notice the erra-
tum attached to the book, although he got both the'
erratum and book together. The defendant then went
on to say, that he would not contrast the report of that
case with the report in' The Lancet:- He made Mr. Tyr-
rell a plagiatist from 4 The Lancet,' when, in fact, Mr.
T. was in the habit of publishing the Lectures of Sir
A. Cooper, and adding notes and remarks of his own.
The Lancet' even charged Sir A. Cooper as being a
plagiarist from its pages, and said, that were it not far the " es-
istence of a public Censorship, such as that exercised by 4 The
Linea,' the public would be imposed on in the report of medical
cases." The reason why the plaintiff published the book so soon
was, his eagerness to have it out by the time the Pupils met in
October, so that they might have it as soon as they met. He
could assign no reason for the defendant's conduct, unless it was for
his expulsion from the Hospital for publishing a report of the Lec-
tures delivered there.—On the subject of damages be did not
&now what to say—he left it entirely to the Jury. He wished
them to give the defendant the benefit of a fair candid, and cha-
ritable construction of the_ libelous passages read. The libel im-
puted not only the want of talent, bat errors of the head and heart.
The defendant was proved to be proprietor of The Lancet.
Mr. George Underwood proved the publication of Sir Astley
Cooper's Lectures ; he published them under the authority of the
plaintiff, and subscribed them round the trade on the 28th of Sep-
tember. The plaintiff gave hint directions not to dispose of any
without the erratum being appended to each. The books were sent
to him by the printer on the Ist and 2d of October.
The nate et erratum was then read.
Mr. Green examined.—Was one of the Surgeons of St. 'Thomas's;
Mr. Tyrrel was also one of the Surgeons. The cue of 'timothy
Desmond came under his observation and care ; while he was out
of town the plaintiff had the care of it; he returned to town on.
the 6th of September, and took the patient under his care till he
died; the report in the note read was quite correct; the unfa.
vourable symptoms only came on a little time before the patient's
death took place. Mr. Watley was a pupil of the Hospital. and
was excluded from it in May, 1824. Witness did not see him after
that time, to the best of his recollection, nor make any communi-
cation to him.
Matthew Ledger, an nicer at St. Thomas's Hospital, waited on
the defendant, by desire of some of the surgeons, and read a paper
to him: the defendant said the surgeons had no authority to give
that paper ; he took it back to the Hospital ; can't say what passed
between himself and the defendant at the time.
-Mr. listoecuaw then addressed the Jury for the defendant in a
very powerful 4peett. Ili. Learned Friend bad said, that when a
person publishes a book he has only one of two courses to pursue,
either by acquiescence, or by prosecution. But be would tell him
of a third course—neither to acquiesce nor prosecute, but leave to
time to do him justice, when the meriteof his wcrk would find
their own way. When he published a book he courted criticism.
and his first offence was to get angry at the criticism, if severe. Mr.
Tyrrell expected nothing bat praise—praise unstinted, unquali-
fied—no other praise would satisfy an author; and when he received
censure, whether deserved or not, he required a Jury to give
him damages, as he must either have praise or money-7( Laughter).
The plaintiff had not followed the most judicious course in bringing
his case before a Jury. Would any man say that the plaintiff's
book was not to be attacked ? If be had published a stupid book, a
bad book, or one of evil tendency, was a person to be held amenable
for holding him up to the laughter and scorn of the world? Cer.
tsiely not—for criticism should be free, liberal, and unfettered.—
The criticism in the Lancet was not directed against the man, but
the author ; and if he went out of Court more ridiculous than be
came in. the fault was his own. The Jury were told that Mr.
Tyrrell was an eminent Surgeon. Of the Lancet he knew nothing,
but was told that bitter complaints were made against it by the
plaintiff. He bad seen the work, and thought it was constructed
on a useful plan, which was greatly &sedated to advance
medical knowledge, and to check the impostures of quack-
ery. He did not here enter into the right of reporting
mother man's lectures, but he contended that the publication
erf the report constituted it the publisher's property. The
Learned Gentleman went on at great length, contending that the
purchaser of a book was not bound to read the errata—it was
enough for him to read the trash which preceded it. The defen-
dant was not guilty of publishing anything against the plaintiff as a
man, but as an author, in which character he was responsible to
public criticism. He concluded by trusting the Jury would find a
verdict for the defendant.
The Oiler JUSTICE' in summing up, said, that he would never
plact a feather from the wing of the Liberty of the Press. He
it to the Jury to say, whether the plaintiff had suffered in
character by the publication in question ? and to find damages
accordingly if they thought se.
The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiffe—Damages seso.

3TOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Consols opened this mersdngai 94 to A, for April Account, aad
for Money 93/, with little doing. •

FOREIGN FUNDS.
In the Foreign Market little is doing, except in Spanish Bonds,
which are improving.
Current Prices: New Spanish 191, Old 2411, Russian 971,
Mexican 801 & Colombian New 901 11. Chiliah 891. French Scrip
ISa 18, Austrian 971 1, Brazilian Scrip 414, Mexican Scrip 31
Greek Scrip 1 prem. Gold Coast 2 a prem.

MID. TIJCZ 10-10 Ar
Alliance Assurance • 3610 ie
Anglo Meoican Mines - 10 1221 1271
United Mezican ditto - 10 145 150
Colombian ditto 5 391 401
Pasco Peruvian ditto - - 37 36
Brazilian ditto • 100 - S 15
16
Buenos Ayres ditto - - ..... 25 26
Alight Chaim .. . 1 6 12
PUCE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 238% 14
3 per Cent. Red. 94% 34
SI per Cent. Cons. 93% $4
31, per Cent. Red. 1011,4 5/8
4 per Cent. New 10614 6
Long Ann. 23 5-16 % Vs
India Stock 285% Vl—lndia Bonds 97
South Sea Stock 109
£l.OOO Exch.+ Bills (11,4 d.) 62 60 61
A3OO ditto (11,4 d.) 60 62
£lOO and £2OO ditto (114 d.) 62 63 60
Cons. for April 94',4 937/8

On engulfing at the Foreign Office, Downing-street,
this forenoon, we were happy to learn that Mr. Secre-
tary CA1111111143 is convalescent, though still confined to
kis room

r As if the subject of the Catholic Association bad no
already been sufficiently discussed, it gave rise to a some-
what long debate last night in the House of Commons.
My. Got/t utists':3 Bill for suppressing illegal societies in
Ireland was, however, carried by a large majority ; the

numbers being, for the third reading, 226, against it 96,
majority in fajour of the Bill, 130. The 13111 will bow
be carried to the Upper House, where it will, We doubt
not, be warmly opposed by some of the Members, but
ultimately,carried, by a majority as decisive as in the
House of. Commons.

In the early part of the evening, Lord PALMERSTON
put off the Army Estimates to Friday next, in order to
make room for the discussion of thelkAssociation
and contented himself with taking a vote of one mil-
lion on account.

Two Reports of Mr. CAPPER, the Superintendant of
Ships and Vessels employed for the confinement of
Offenders under Sentence of Transportation, have been
published, by order of the House of Commons. From
these Reports, it appears, that on the Ist of Jan. 1824,
there were 2,953 prisoners on board all the convict hulks
in England, since which period there have been re-
ceived (including 440 irons the Penitentiary) 2,801 ;
1885 have been transported, 542 discharged by par-
don or otherwise ; 15 have escaped ; 82 have died
and 3,230 remained in the hulks on the Ist of January
inst. The expense of the Hulk Establishment at the
several stations of Portsmouth, Woolwich, Sheerness,
and Chatham, for the year 1824; was £33,767 ls. 3d.
and the earnings in all the ships amounted to the sum
of 30,0961. 14s. 3d. _ _

The convicts are represented as generally healthy,
and, with a slight exception, obedient and industrious.
The reports fibm the Chaplains at the respective sta-
tions, describe them as regular in their attendance on
Divine Service, and orderly in their behaviour. The
youthful convicts appear to be the most difficult to
manage; and the Chaplain to the BELLEROPHON, at
Sheerness, in which upwards of 300 boys are kept,
gives but equivocal evidence of their character ind
conduct. It is true that. many of them have commit-
ted several passages of Scripture to memory, and that
they are tolerably industrious in the trades they are
taught; but he says their propensity to lying is
such. that scat cely any confidence can be placed in
anything they say ; he adds, that " during Divine Ser-
vice, owing to very strict vigilance kept up, they con-
duct themselves very. well."
The accounts from the convicts sent to Bermuda,
state, that they are engaged in the public works, at
Ireland Island, to the satisfaction of the Naval Depart...
ment, and that they have generally conducted them=
selves in an orderly_manner.

Plankton Papers to the '2oth inst. reached us thi,
forenoon. The Emperor of RUSSIA has revived an'
edict of the year 1757, ordering all private teAchers in
families to provide them -elves with previous testimo-
nials of good character and qoalifications, for the task
they undertake.

The French 'Papers of Wednesday are still *occupied
with the discussions of the Chamber of Dejuties on the
project of indemnity. These discussions, except iu so
far as they indicate the spirit of the parties, or tend to
modify the proposed law, can be of very Dull inarest
to the English reader. There seems to be no doubt
that the law will pass the Chamber of Deputies with a
triumphant majority.
It is stated in the Eloile, on the authority of letters
from Madrid of the 17th instant, that the King of
SPAIN'S health daily improves. A farrago of nonsen-
sical news respecting victories in South America, ap•
pears in the Madrid Gazelle. Our Readers will not be
very anxious to see this useless fable.
We have receivedthe Etoile of yesterday by Express,
but it contains no political news, and is entirely filled
with the debates in the Chamber of Deputies.

Fes. 24.—Rentes far money,lo4f. 95c.—For time, 105 f. Sc.

FOREIGN FUN I)S,•TWO O'CLOCK.

Austrianßonds 5 per Ct. 981 1 Mex. Bonds, 5 per Ct. 80j aj a
Brazilian Bonds 89 81 Ditto Scrip 5111 a pm.
Ditto Scrip, 5 per Ct. 16 pre. Neapolitan Bon :., 5 per Ct.
Ditto 1825 Perna. Bonds, 6 per Ct. 85
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 92 11 Ditto Acc.
Ditto Acc. Portuguese Bonds 91 01 1
Chili= Bonds, 6 p Ct. Ditto Ace.
Ditto Acc. Pruss. Bonds 1822, 5 p. Ct.
Columbian Bonds, 6 per Ct. 921 Russ. 80nd5,1822, sp. Ct.97j 81
Ditto for Acc., Spanish sp. Ct. Cons. 241 1 1 4
Dittoklonds 1824, 911 1 1 011 Ditto for Acc. 24j i A
Ditto Acc. Span. 5 p.Ct C. 1825,191 1
Danish Bonds, 5 per Ct. 102 Ditto Ace. 191
Greek Bonds French Rentes,s per Ct. Ib4ll.
Ditto Scrip 1 of 1 pm. Exchange 25f. 10c.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO O'CLOCK.