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out of 'print, without curtailment, in two pocket
volumes, at-the low pria of 6d. a nulnVierland gave
a specimen of the work. This work, as they would
Feel whin they heard the indictment read;.contaiked
Passages most ii Anita the'paisions of yputh.
jrunes.llignall purchased the **Taira' numbers of
the magazine and novel' Pr,odeeed.t, olini, ,Grom the
defendant. They were t01d,....14#
i,14'..V. ira some
ii-gli. each. . • - . •
Cross-examined.—lle was employed by the Society
for the. SuPpression. of .yice. He frestaently.
' .botight
boat to prove afterwards upon trials.
.He went to
Many sheet, whiitirer he was ordered: but never
went to a circulating library in Bond-street. Cato-
logues of some of the principal circulating libraries,
which we presume-contained the novel' in quistibii,
were handed to the witness, but he declared he kneW
nothing of them. 'He was never sent to Mr. Mur-
ray's to. buy any book. He had been three years in
the employment, and had been thirty years. in the
Customs. He did not know why he was discharged;
the Lords of the Treatury thought his case 'a hard
one, and allowed 'him a pension.
The indictment was here read, and the libels charged
compared with the passages in the books proved by
the witness ; one of the libels was a song. 'the read-
ing of the libels, which occupied an hour, being ended,
-Air. C. PHILLtps addressed the Jury for the de-
fendant. He began by observing that the defendant
hadreceived,a written notice from the 4ecretaij that
his trial would not'irike place till Friday, and at
eight o'clock last night he received notice that his
trial must come on to-day, which left his advocate
Wholly unprepared:
Mr. AnoLpHua examined Mr..Pritchardt the Se-
cretary of the Society, who confirmed Mr. Phillipit's
Statement, and on hit CrOss•examination said the So.
ciety'llAd not given the defendant any admonition or,
notice of their intention before they prosecuted. He ,
also proved a printed report of 'the procee.iings-Of,
the Society produced to blue* -Mr. Phillips.
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'Mi. PHILLIPS proceeded.—He said,' his client was'
an huMble, unprotected man, persecuted by a So-
ciety whO had never yet been known; since their first
institution, to prosecute a rich man. Their cOnduct
was caletdated to justify the remark of Lord flacon,
who said, that laws were cobwebs which Catch little,
His% and s hich the great ones break through. Under
pretence of 'supporting morality and 'religion, the,
viee-'seppreasors have dared to publish a lie Under
their hands-they have published to the world that
'they only prosecute for libel, when admonition has
fieled—their Secretary has proved that they prose-
cuted the defendaitt without any admonition. Mr.
Adelphis hid adMitted that the
,publication of
,the
Novel. was of hint standing. It wat'trinslitted into
English itt the year 1789, and wassto be had at all
the great circulating libraries. Mr. Adolphui had
said, he did not trios, :oblate defendant had left
his house in the Straticl: he might have known it—it
was because Mr. Benbosv was prosecuted by another
gang, who proCtiredhiat to be imprisoned ten ninths,
and then' turned him Out''Of his dungeon without
'daring to bring 11iin his trial, hit last 'shilling gone,
'and handy brought' to rain. These were modern
Champions of Christionity By aid of the money
'which they extracted from dupes by. Case pretences,
they dragged to the Bar and 'to the dUngeon poor
men, who *ustbe ruined by the expense, though ac-
quitted' of the' Charge; While the *rich 'Woe Suffered
to saturate themselves in crime. The song they had
heard Was truly ridiculous as a tubiect of prosecution:
there were 4. that moment a .htindred worse on the
music-tahlei of the daughtert of the vice-suppressors.'
Without a vicious imagination the works were harm-
less, and with it scarcely any works would be so.—
Not
a Novel, out of which Willie* . might not be
picked by the ilee-suppressors to mate a libel. 'As'
tor the pictures,' there was no one who had visited the,'
picture-galleries °rule great, who bad not *en 'man* 1
more exceptionable. They were to be seen at Carl-
ton House, at Windsor, at the Marquis Of Staffiira's,
and at thoethiSitions at Somerset House, which the
most modest Ladies aid lor adinission to see. If the
Society had performed their promise** the'Public,
end' admonished the defendant before they proceeded
to prOSecute hit* they might be entitled to some
credit for their motives; but *hire the Christian vo-
lume says " forgive,b.diey say iiperiecute;" Where
CHnisr says, «let him that is without sin amongst
you cast the first stone," instead of being abashed,
they unite their power to ertish.a peer man. •
The CH a taw AN ShOrtiy charged the jut y; that they
were the..Solejuilges. in the ease.—The Jury retired
for.abcint 'ten minutes, ma ietiiined a verdict of—
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Not Guilty; 1 . • •
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Itfic4aal 'Ran, Mialsaci Hayes, William Header-
man, Edivar4 Ila4ll, john 474E:C7444. and 'Jahn
SPCoratiel, weirs inditted for the got in Se..Giles's.
• The Jury returned a vitclict of Gritty against them
all ; and the Court sentenced Ryan and fleaderman
to oneleir's imprisonment; Hayes to nine months
confinement; Murphy, to sit' months confinement;
and .fitiger.ald end M.Cormiek each to tree Months
imprisbnment; and ordered the whole of thein to be
kept to baud labour. . • '

On the 27th alt. iwi'Tiolitia at Pilkington, near,
Manchester, had a dispute, and proceeded kern words
to blows. One. Of-them, Who had 'a wooden lag,
Was' knoeked • dowe by 'her assailant, her leg un-
sctewid; and the Cripple Unmercifully beaten with
it by'4ef iiitmontg libolii the hitact, so that shi.now
lies dingeOinsfy ill : the'aggressor 41 absconded.
At Hrtlle,'lately, a mother chid her'Mil for leaving
his furVap wrong place, end *threw it at 'his head,
OnhipOilithire was, unknown tc;her, a penknife in the
cap, which struck the boron. the head, and broke Off,
leaving the itoint'in the. wound. The poor child died
iii a fewlioni4;ftint, being *asked by his sOthokeatho...
they the penknife was 'brOkeni befotk, *assured her
OA it was; id oiderisiit to griev,:ht I: •
W04e54,10 night,EA. of Lambeth-
road, 'whilst walking by the'ObiliblE7l4 St. GeOrietp:
fsecld4; Was atineked by three 4.0444, who robbed
hldt of hit gold watch 'and tails; amid /et off towardi
the Newiflethletri, althetigh"dtattbl),„brtnopd:
"I'o4,flay the .aiiiiwy-hotitsp • of Mr,
of the Strand, it witi, iob4ed by
ttiolitiryoung thieves, otieOf 'Ulna itithaiaed
Oa fhb whilst' die' calif klimeel Ti at the'Pnr.:.
lour* teitoW, and ' stole' it' valunble lock '6.ff tbn mad-
tle-pie4!. Unfortunatelf, for 'the
.plunderen,' 'a con-stAble‘ivho kneW WO wn's paisitig 'at at bid;
merit, and se&uiM tf,tm both 'With 'the priwilifin
their pogiesitihi convoyed 'then*


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' A IMUiT OF MONOUB! ' '
battery,
dist t.—Tbis w,as a proemiding by .vraffolithisromook
bitiory, in bietich of ' pm* ~b.r.. icc. into.
r,.Ekaa Sintnions, the comitlaisant, is of la tribopPaltiOsi I
a. at, Foilndotanof"a pleasint countenance,and addicted Us haii-
ilating Idbrown stout and stlifpe; 'in the little isieti *how at
the Cannon Tavern, a 'comfortable haute, .at-lifaighttbridge.--i.
The defendant, Mr. Jaques Breton, is a
,native of Switzerland,
' tall, gaunt, and oldefly, . with i nice sense of btinottr, 4 sudden
and quick in' uarrel," and, withal; lithe practice of sometimes
' taking a half gill of old Shelly in a 'goblet of pure spring water,
at the tavern aforesaid: He appeared before the Magistrate
with a large black silk handkerchief bonnet round his head, so
as to cover one of his eyes: •
Olt the day named ha the warrant, .it, being between four sad
. five in the afternoon, Mr. Mies Simmons was ID the • little back
'parioar at the tavern aforesaid, Iv:Orleans as aforesaid, and.se-
verid other Gentlemen than and there assembled, were hand-
ating in like Manner, .when the "pi opened amain stalked Mr.
iJaques Breton, who, bovioeseated himself, rang the "bell, and
ordered his usual dose. Now it so happened that Mr. Jaques
Breton was indebted to Mr. Elias Simmons in the sum of two
shillings and sixpence ; and, moreover, the said debt bad been
'standing almost time immemorial, loth; Mr..Elias•Simmons was
weary of waiting fur it ; and, as it was a " 4set if honour," be
began to. entertain doubts that Mr. Jaques Bretoneneant to aria
himself of that circumstasce and forget to pay it. He did not
'presume to say that such was the case, but he entertained that
:opinion ; and the moment 'be saw Mr. Jaques Breton enter the
'room he determined in his own mind to put' it to the proof.—
. flirolieit, knowing Mr. Jaques Breton's constitutional irrascibi-
lity, and unwilling to wound his feelings before the English Gen-
tiemenpresent; he. addresied hip in .Freaeh, yin. " ,Menakeur—
!mica runs—donne nsui—anon ketet—iksui um, Menskur ?" To
which eikil interrogation—pet with all the good humour bathe
world, Mr. Jaques Briton instantly replied—" list, Ash! ascrs
:it you sant to:front nee .f"—and seizing a heavy out from a lola-
, telle-hoard on the table, he peeped it in both hands, and, before
'the company could interfere, he gave Mr. Elias Simmons a
" thundering, Wliar:L" on the bare bead, which shivered his
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bacco-pipe Into a thouiand pieces, and laid him prostrate among
the sphtoons ! For this outrageous, and totally unanticipated
`attack, Mr. Pas Simmons now. sought redress from the laws of
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that emantry in 'which lte has the honpur of sojourning.
' The' lilaghtrate laving sttictly• inquired whether DO other
prOlvcation bad been given ? and having been assured there had
not:lashed Mr. Jaques Breton what he had to say in excuae fur
such Violence.?
:Mr. Jaques Breton.prepared for.bis defence by throwing back
bri head and lifting up the • black silk handkerchief beforemen-
dotted ; and hiving placed hirnielf in thiiunpicturesque position,
.he began--." ..Ikati ! Monsieur—see:—he broke my eye ! Voila,
Monitor .1 see my eye ! Vade !"
' It was very evident that beneath kis black handkerchief he
had I dreadfully black eye, and the Magistrate asked how he
came by it? The witness replied that it was done in disarming'
him of the cue, whilst complainant was sprawling among the
spittoons.—Mr. Jaques Breton proceeded with his defence. He
`was " ter wash sex at Monsieur Satmetis," because he would pay
liehen "it anti fed himself ;#' and it was a reflection on his ho-
nour to be asked to pay. " I vas so month up," said he, " I
was so nanosh up—vat you tall d—n angry, dat de mat come
I rood punise him, ahah ! But, Monsieur, de strike was not
stefliunt to murder von littel—von vara littel fly !"—Monsieur
Jaques Breton had nothing better to offer in his defence, and
after having repeated the saute things half a dozen times over,
he was delivered into the iron custody of the. turnkey till 4
should find bin for his appearance at the Sessions.*

LOVE, ELOPEMENT, AND DISAPPOINTMENT !
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About a fortnight since an aspiring young man of the name
of Horatio Reeves, a journeyman chemist of Exeter, elOped
from that place with a young Lady, of the name of Drusilla
Hill, alias Street, who is a Ward in Chancery, and said to pos.
pea a fortune of £30,000. She is but fifteen years and 4x
months old, although she has the appearance of being consider-
ably older. 'Horatio Reevelis about 25 years of age. On their
elOpeMent front Litter being discovered; every possible czar-
port was made in pursuit of them. They weir traced to Bris-
tol, and to have left that place by the Regulator coach for LAO•
don, where they arrived on Monday the Ist instant, when all
trace of them ceased; but every Possible exertion was made by
the agents in Loudon to the parties interested, to prevent their
being married, deicribing their persons, and cautioning clergy-
loan against marrying them. No trace could be made tiU Wed
iseaday night, when Bishop the Bow-street oficer discovered
Item at a lodging at Ilexton.
It was just -about dusk in the evening whets Bishop alighted
at a short distance from the house in which he believed the
lovers were cOncealtd; he left his coach in waiting, and walked
in silence towards the house. Not the slightest sound was heard
from within; biit he had nu sooner lifted the knocker than the
door was opeued by a young Lady, fully equipped for travelling :
it was the fair fugitive, Prusilla herself ! She was surrounded
by trunke, and band.boxes, and Mandl's; and, as it afterwards
apit, id, sbe wai at that vet y moment waiting the return of her
biUseal-idratio, who was gone to call a coach to convey them
to some tither place of refuge;
" your name, I believe, Miss, is Drusilla Street—and you are
lately arrived from Exeter ?" said Bishop.
" 0 dear, no; Sir !" exclaimed the Lady, " I ant Miss
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the daughter of the Mistress of this houir.

Bishop remarked, that he bad no doubt she was telling
and desired her to introduce hint to her mother. No, she could
not do this, as she was just going out; but if he would walk into
the parlour, her mother would come to him presently. Bishop
Was-not-to be had in this ivay, and so, taking the Lady by the
hand, he led het into the parlour, mid haiing rang the bell, the
Idistreis of the house shortly appeared, who disclaimed all rela-
tionship to her, and declared she knew no mote of her than that
she was " the strange young Lady" who came to her house with
a young Gentleman, a day or two ago, and hired her apartments
fora week. Bishop now told Miss Drusilla his business, and
she wept for at leak a minute and a-its/J.—but she no longer de-
nied that she was the identical Drusilla whO ran away from
Rioter with IlOratio Reeves; and wiping away her tears, she
Puiler handkerchief into her reticule, and declared she was glad
rho was caught, and Should be very happy to return to her friends
if she was but sure the Lord Chancellor would do nothing to her!
Bishop told her he had no doubt she would be very kindly
received ; and 'bring her his hand, she tripped lightly to the
coach he had in'tralting for her. The luggage was then put into
the coach, and it was just about to drive off whenSmither coach
drove up, and out jumped Mr. Horatio Reevet—" Oh ! Sir,"
exclaimed the landlady, who was still 'standing at the door—
" Oh! Sir, theyliave taken away the Lady !" " Who has taken
her?" dedianded the astonished lover. " Why I have," ;Wiest
Bishop, and ordered the coachman to drive oncrack went the
whip,and away went the horses—
" But Who can pain*Heratio as be stood,
• Speechless, and tix'd in all the death of woe."
He did net stand sti many seconds, however, but ran after the
coach like a greyliound, jumped up behind, and peepitig in at the
wiudow'talled mournfully upon Drusilla—" Drusilhony angel,
where are you going ?" Ills angel sat snugly in the corner of the
carriage and made no reply ; but Bishop, looking out of the op 7
posh. window, said, " Come, come, young chap, don't be rude,
or I shall be under the necessity of taking you somewhere--get
down from the Coach instantly, or I'll take you intO'cuitody.'
Horatio took the hint, and jumped down ; but, like itrue Knight,
he continued to follow, even on foot, panting and puffing, till the
coach stopped in Bow-street; and then, his Drusida haVlng been
deposited in a place of safety, without seeing him—for he could
not, with all his fervour' keep up with the coach—be attempted
altparley with Bishop. But all he could make of it, and, indeed,
all he seemed to care about, was his Aare of the luggage Carried oil
with the" young Lady. Bishop told him if he 'Would call at the
Police Mee, in Bow-street, next morning, he should have what
belonged 'to him ; and with this promise he departed, apparently
pretty comfortable.
Bishop is a shrewd sort of a subject—his main object, no
doubt, its letting hint to *all at the office was to give the Chan-
cery
Solicitors an opportunity of serving him with a copy of the
injunction; And, if so, he completely, succeeded, for Horatio
was punctual in calling for " his share of the luggage." Ile was
'hewn into a private room, where, neither the copy of the in-
junction nor " his share of the luggage" being ready, he amused
himself with a' volume of " Coke" upon Lytdetoe"—lnstead of
pacing the room with " distraction. in aslieet,"• and his arms
folded adross his breast to keep his heart dohs. In short, it was
very evident that he was still more costresiiiiiii thir lid was at
Ws parting on the preceding night.
At length the Chancery Solicitor arrived and served him with •
a copy of the injunction; and, had it been a tavern hill of fire,
he could not hare taken ft more cernfiirtably. lie opened it.
Wined It oboist is d4aamt direcijosw, looked' at it (vacantly