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London, England, 1812-12-10 00:00:00

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'410410a t n Town a verdict against hdl
lint ; except.some miracle slinuld be wrought in
a' ear t.f temper and temperance, it was ndt in the
• tote of man to avoid saving something violent in
the ccurse of such a conflict, when the chief object
was, the object of attack—the wretched compeel-
tine. He would thew to the Jury that some of thsi
_gravest passages from nor best authors, if taken att.
stracredly, might expose them to the charge of
• having Rune beyond all decent and prudent bounds.
lor this purpose, he would read to them a passage
frnm me whose name would never be forgotten so
Joug as genius and loyalty were remembered and
neratea—from the ta ritings of Bsuke. • If the few
lines which he should lead had been taken apt*
ft( m the peeeral object of the author, they must '
Lave drawn down upon him all the vengeance of
an Attorney-G,encrol. Alluding to some Act th.,:t
lied just passed:the Legislature, Burke thus spoke in
effect Such an Act of Parliament has passed
the Legislature, that had it issued fn m any other
Senate, it would have been denounced as founded
on the most criminal injustice and cruelty ; but any
ping like-it was never seen in any other country 1"
Thts character of the Act appeared in print within
Week after it had passed ; yet those who would
read tile context would see that nothing libellous
was intended. Again Burke said in another
place, et Kings and
,'Princes are naturally fend of
low company ; and the reason of this arises out of
'their station. "f}'ey cantilever he higher, and by an
jneersion of mind, they love cempany lovref than
themselves. They rather hate than love -their nobi-
lity,: because the latter rather oppose than support the
wishes and views of the formeraeAzny ei the nobi-
lity would have no objection. te be train-bearers,
pimps, or buffoons, and they wvnikl succeed as well
Fs entreis, only that their education dies not fit them
(or those Offices. They have the mind fir them, but
their education will not Wier them to be matches
for the eunuchs, fiddlers, and buffoons, that would be
their competitors 1" So Burke had written ; but did
be ray so from a hatred of or dislike to monarchy ?
No such thing—his whole career—the formation of
his maid demonstrated to the contrary. Burke sews
that man, it ever such a man was to be found, that
would have laid down his life for monarchy. Yet so
had he written ; be too had been the favourite of
:Kings, and the selected of Courts. But all this pro-
ved 'hat Mr. Puttee's writines had been properly
weighed, and. his conduct rightly understood. He
had been promoted to honours which be had refuted;
he said promoted to them, because they had been re-
fused, Which made the honour the greater.. He who
bad written thus of Kings and Princes, had not.only
been the favourite bf Kitigs and Princes, but he had
left a name behind him that called to mind more than
the mere snan ; •for it brought to their memory con-
ataiit, unshaken loyalty. Could they then say, that
a few bleated expressaions used by the defendants
ought to consign them to ruin and to a, dungeon,
• while such expressions could not shake the Monarch,'
nor hurl him 'from the high eminence which he had
attained ? Keeping then M mind those expressions,
which no detibt in cooler mements they a ould have
altered, he would implore them 'never to forget the
active and meaning of the whole production. The a uthor
lad been treading on delicate ground, kit the Jury
would nut rest a verdict ofguilty on one Ot two expres-
r *ions. When they termed the Prince a 4, violater of
his word," •it never could be supposed that they in-
. tended to degrade hit!, so low as they would. have
clone had he been spoken of as a private individual.
• G. 0.0 forbid that such would have been their meaning
..Any more than it was Mr. Buike's .intention to de-
grade the Menarchi,'when he said that Kings and
'Princes, loved low company. Had the abstracted
• meaning been taken, it would have been necessary,
for Mr. Burke's safety, to have qualified what be had
said, by telling his readers, that he, however, did not
mean to sly that Kings and Princes visited pot-houses
and kept company with tipplers. Ineach case the
expressions wet e figurative, and the meaning was ob.
vitls, particularly in the sentiment of Mr. Hunt,
when he said the Prince was a violater of' his word.—
.Its meaning lay on the surface. In so speaking of
tbePrince, he alluded to that groat cause—thatmigb ty
question which still divid,d men's minds—to the
cause of the Catholics of Ireland. Mr. Hunt alluded
Mate pledges, promises, and " hopes" of the Prince
10 Wales, and to the disapp(;intment which Ireland
must have felt by his conduct, as Regent. He meant
to remind the reader of the promises that had been
thus violateda-of the ht pes that had been thus disap-
pointed to his mind in common with the• minds of
I other men. The defendant then said that the Prince
was in debt, but in so doing he intended to say little
plore than if he had observed that one branch of the
eevenue was in arrear ; and that people who paid the
Prince took cognizance of the manner in which he
regulated his expenditure. 13it in stating that the
Prince was in debt, did the defendant state any thing
more:than the truth ? did not the fact stand on re-
cord? was it not indelible stamped on their Statute
Books, that the Prince's situation really was what the I
defendant had described it to be. Had not the Le-
pislature of the country told the Public, that the
Prince Regent could not, must not, contract a debt to
the amount of sixpence, and if they suffered him to
cipntract any such debt they should,pot be paid ? He
alluded to this melancholy factartnelaoclauly ha cali-
ed it, because the state of our inances at that time de.
mended it, to skew that she 'defendant had not gone
.befautd. the truth, and that the Legislature did not wish
to increase the burdens of the people. He next came
to F.pajcofthe libel which he would fain pass Overtbea
cattwtltntisd a still utor, delicate nature, but that his
,duty. competed him to notice it. He alluded to it with
,reluctance, because he was precluded from giving a di-
.socapplatiation tithe meaning of the anther When he
.callact die Priece "a despiser of domestic T. 4" All
knew to what it referred; it had ceased ter be a private
matter, it referred to a matter that had been the sub-
ikct of public discussion. He would go no further,
lie would content himself with saying, that the au-
thor alluded to, that event which had occasioned a
separate establishment to form a part of the budget
for the year. That separate establishment had arisen
out of circumstances most deplorable—deplorable, be-
cause the example of the Royal Parents had not been
.lollowed. He r.joiced that he had got thus far
he had passed over the. ground tremblingly. lie
now came to firmer footing, and he could not bui
exult that lie had arrived at it. lie now felt none Of
• that leas awl trellibliug which had 41mou winerved

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