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London, England, 1822-07-10 00:00:00

ARMY CONTRACTS. MR.HOPL"SLfs RrholK&gatbillterntß
TREASURY CHAMBERS,
Commissariat Department, Jane 24, 1922. puoing frankly eximosed ser sod,. iffiewiplumedbis or-
NOTICE is hereby given to all Persons desirous
lathy se He Goverment Press at swum& we 'dint k Mc
of contracting to supply the following Articles for the
use of the Army, viz. OATS, justice to Mr. Hors that his 0 Letter to the Has. Janus
To his Majesty • Cavalry in Cantonments and Quarters, in the Ammonium, M.P." should appear in sue columns. At the
undermentioned County : same time, we disavow a intention of expressing any onbdee
()X FORD.
FORAGE, viz. as the correctness of Mr. Hora's statement, any more than
OATS, Bay ow &saw, to his Majesty's Cavalry is Bursas, .we would of Mr. Anaseatuar's. But " fair play is a jewel,"
and Oats, in Cantonments and Quarters in the undermentioned and -11Oth parties should be beard, on matters connected with
Counties : the Public Press, which have occasioned so much pain and
CORNWALL. MIDDLESEX. WARWICK. distress to many families.]
And OATS, air' and STIWIT, to his majesty's Cavalry and Ar-
tilkry Horses In Barracks, and Oats in Cantonments and TO THE HON. JAMES ABERCROMBY, M. P. _
Q.ustters in the undermentioned Counties, viz. Ste—ln the diffeient reports of the speech delivered
- ESSEX. KENT. LANCASTER.
NORTHUMBERLAND. SUSSEX. YORK. by you in the House of Commons, on the 25th of
That the deliveries are to commence on and for the 25th day of June, in moving for a Committee of Inquiry into
August next; that Proposals in writing, sealed up, and marked the conduct of the Lord Advocate, and the other
" Tender for Army Supplies," will be received at this Office,' Law Officers of the Crown, in fcotland, there ali-
en or before Tuesday, the 23d day of July instant, but none
will be received after twelve o'clock on that day. pear a variety of statements' and reflections pointed
Proposals must be mide separately for each County, and against me, of which I lose no time in taking notice,
each Proposal must have the Letter which is annexed to tbj in theist public manner in my power. lam suf-
Tender property filled up, by two persons of known property uu ficientty well assured Of the general accuracy of these
gaging to become bound with the party tendering in the amount
stated in the printed Particulars. for the due performance of the reports, in so far as the topics of the present letter are
Cann-am; and no Proposal will be noticed unless made on a involved, to feel myself justified in taking this step.
printed Tender, and the prices expressed in words at len; The improSability that any occasion will occur in
and should it se happen that during the continuance of the the House of Commons, during the present Session
tract no Troops should be supplied by virtue of the same, the of Parliament, of which my friends can avail them-
amount of the Stamps on He Contract and Bond, paid in the first
instance by the Contractor, shall be refunded to him. selves, in order to meet your reflections on my con-
Particulars elf the Contracts may be had upon application at duct, makes me desirous no longer to delay a public
these Chambers, between the hours of ten and four. answer to such part of the charges against me, to
which it is proper at present to advert.
The charges against me amount in substance to
this ;.---Tnat I had manifested, in the course of a pri-
vate action, a marked and rancorous spirit of hosti-
lity—a sg furious zeal" against Mr. Stuart, of Dun-
mirth originating in party motives; and.that, from
these feelings, and in order to create an undue pre-
judice against Mr. Stuart, in his approaching trial, I
LAST RE- had instituted a wanton and groundless prosecution
Annual
ss• against a person of the name of Borthwick, on ac-
e.P.count of transactions in which Mr. Stuart might be
-adnur
- A. s 2 o supposed to be implicated, without ever intending to
A. s s o bring that individual to trial, and that I purposely
CockssandCo• 2 2 0 kept this prosecution hanging over the heads of Mr.
- AA.
0 . 9 1 Stuart and Borthwick, though I did not sincerely be-
A. to to 0 Iteve that there were grounds for a criminal charge
2 o o against the latter.
•s 0 The may in which a colour was given to this accu-
sation will, on examination, appear to be somewhat
singular. And that, in some quarter or other, there
has been, in the preparation and statement of the
charges, most insidious misrepresentation, the de-
tail, which I am now to make must, I am persuaded,
satisfy every one, who will take the trouble to attend
to the facts of the case.
In the course ,of the premeditated and artful ar-
gument whiCh you directed against me, I observe,
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o o 0
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in the first place, that you have not only thought
fit' to iusroduee into a discussion the House of
- to 0 0 Commies, the merits of a civil action of damages,
• s 0 (.tt present in dependence) instituted by Mr. Stuart,
o against the printer of the Glasgow Sentinel, in con-
sequence of certain paragraphs in that paper alleged
by him to be slanderous, but that you have also
chosen to make the line a defence maintained by
the Counsel for the defendants, and their conduct in
the discharge of private professional duty, the subject
of animadversion and censure in theßritisliParliament.
The foundation of the charge against me of mali-
cious prosecution rests on the conduct and feelings
attributed to me as Counsel in that action.
Whether I am Counsel in that case or net, will pre-
sently appear. In the 6i st instance, having been at-
tacked in that chatacter, I wish to draw the attention
of the Public to the injustice, the illiberality, and, I
fear, 1 must add, the inale.volent• spirit which that
attack manifests in some quarter or other.
An affair sufficiently notorious occurred last year
between Mr. Stuart and Mr. Duncan Stevenson.—
Some time thereafter Mr. Stuar t commenced a cor-
respondence with the Lord Advocate upon the sub-
ject of some alleged libels, said to be published
against hint in the Beacon. The printers of the
Glasgow Sintinil took tip this subject, and expressed
(It is said in slanderous terms) their opinion of Mr.
Stuart's conduct. Mr. Stuart (in October, 1821)
raised a civil action of damages against the printers
of that newspaper, on the }pound that their remarks
werefalre, slanderous, and injurious. Gentiemen of
the bar were employed as Counsel Tor the defendants;
and it appears that they thought it to be their duty
to maintain in substance the following defence, viz.
That the statements complained of as libellous were all true,
and could be proved. In particular, that it could be proved,
that Mr. Stuart bed assaulted Mr. Stevenson with a horse-whip;
—that Mr. Stevenson had defended himself with his cane, ttU
his arms Were pinioned by servants, or persons emploied by Mrs
Stuart, or who had been brought by him from Fife; on purpose
to be present when he should carry into effect his premeditated
design of assaulting Mr. Stevenson ;—that Mr. Stevenson de-
manded satisfaction fur this outrage ;—that Mr. Stuart, while he
admitted having perpetrated the outrage, refused satisfaction;
—that Mr. Stuart was posted as a coward, a ruffian, and a scoun-
drel ;—that Mr. Stuart, at his own ejcpense,printed and published
his correspondence with Mr. Stevenson, and an account of the
whole affair, and also his correspondence with the Lord Advocate.
These were the principal statements contained in the publica-
tion complained ut as hbellous, and the truth of them was aver-
red by the defendants; but that 'ea/ice/ion also contained the
following observations: " When the heartless ruffian seeks fur
" revenge for ideal Injury, by employing his minions to hold the
" arms of the persons he Asses, we vroulu consider him undeserv-
" lag of the satisfaction of a gentleman; and we would desire to
" hold hint up to the unalloyed opprobrium of mankind." This
passage was also complained of by Mr. Stuart, as a false and
osalicieor libel. On the other hand, the pleading for the defend-
ants.concluded by an " offer to prove, by the evidence of per-
" suns well skilled in the laws and practke of honour, that the
conduct of the pursuer, in regard to the said affair with Mr.
66 Stevenson, was most ungentlemanly and deserving of every
" c ondem nat ion."

IX A MEETING OF THE COUNTRY BREWERS
WILL BE HELD ON SATURDAY NEXT, at One
o'Clock precisely, at the King's Arms Tavern, Palace-Yard,
Westminster, to take into consideration the effect of a Bill
brought into Parliament fur amending the Laws touching the
Retail Trade in Beer.—July 10, 1322.

SOCIETY %ethos DISCHAR GE and RELIEF of PERSONS
IMPRISONED for SMALL DEBTS.
Craven-street, Strand, July s, 11122.
BENEFACTIONS SINCE THE LAST RE-
PORT, viz. .e. s. a.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Radnor, V.P. Annual 5 5 0
The Right Hon. the Countess of Radnor • A. 5 5 0
The Hun. and Rev. C. Cuit . - A. 2 2 0
Rev. Dr. Hughes - - A. 2 2 0
Rev. George Waddington, per Cocks, Cocks, and Co. 2 Z 0
Rev. T. P. White. per Vera and Co. - A. 2 2 0
I'. Hearley, Eq. per ditto - A. it 2 9
Henry litvell Reynolds, Esq. per Secretary A. 10 10 0
R. W. Coward, Esq. - A. 2 0 0
John Watts. Esq. per Secretary - A. 2 2 0
George Jenner, Esq. . . A. 2 2 0
Edward Howell, Esq. - . A. 2 2 0
Miss Itomdly - - A. 1 1 0
John Cotter.% Esq. two year. - - 4 4 0
Gen. Wm. Cartwright, per Mears. Hoare. A. 5 5 0
A. Askew, Esq. per ditto - - A. 2 2 0
Wm. Fuller, Esq. per ditto - - 4 5• 0
A Lady, per ditto - . 2 2 0
IR. H. per ditto - - 2 0 0
Madlle. Nohlet, being part of the profit arising from
her Benefit at the King's Theatre, Haymarket, on
the 15th ult. - - 20 0 0
A Lady, per Cocks and Co. 5 • 0
A. M. a Donation per Secretary S • 0
J. F. for the purposes of the Charity - 10 0 0
C. D. per Dorrien and Co. 2 2 0
C. R. - 1 1 0
Found in the Letter-box 0 5 0

£lO5 i 0
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Discharged and relieved from various Prisons
t4' Debtors, for the stun a £315 9 7

Considered the Cases of - 40 Petitioners,
Approved - - - 50
Referred for Characters - 3 Petitions,

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Rejected -5, and
Considered Inadmissible - 4.
Benefactions are received by John Camden Neild, Esq. the
Treasurer, Cbeyne-walk, Chelsea; also by Messrs. Herries, Far-
quhar, and Co. St. James's-street; Messrs. Hoare', Fleet-street;
Messrs. Whitmore and Co. Lombard-street; Messrs. Cocks,
Cocks, Ridge, and Co. Charing-cross ; Messrs. Dorrien and Co.
Finch-lane, Cornbill ; Messrs. Hammersleys, Pall-mall ; Messrs
Veres and Co. No. 77, Lombard-street ; ar.d by Mr. Grasswell,
the Secretary, N 0.7, Craven-street, Strand, where theßooks may
be seen by those who are inclined to support this Charity, and
where the Society meet on the first Wednesday in every math.

GREAT GAIN !—LITTLE RISK !
rEN CAPITALS in TEN MINUTES, NEXT
TUESDAY, 15th of THIS MONTH (July). And the
whole Ten must be gained for the trifling Risk of lin. each,
being only Nineteen Pounds for Ten Capitals.
Tickets and Shares are now selling by 111511, Stock-Broker,
at his old State Lottery Offices, 4, Cornbill, and 9, Charing-
cross, London ; and by his Agents in the Country.
By the plan now adopted, a Whole Ticket ultimately costs
only £l. ills. and a Sixteenth only Four Shillings : other Shares
in proportion.
BISH shared and sold 7Wo Prizes 0f£20,000, and
Thiity;five other Capitals, in the last Two Month:.
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FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZE.Trii.

BANKRUPTCIES ENLARGED.
John Coppard, gen. Mitcham, drug-grinder, front July 16 to
27, at ten, at the Court of Commiasioners of Bankrupts, Ba-

singhall-street.
Joseph Hirst, Greave, Yorkshire, merchant, from July 16 to
• August 12, at eleven, at the Packhorse Inn, Huddersfield.
BANKRUPTS.

Samuel Twamley, Aston-road, near Birmingham, miller, to sur-
render August 3,5, and 20, at eleven, at the George Inn,
Walsall. Attornies, Mr. Wheeler, Castle-street, Holborn ;

or Mr. Smith, Walsall.
Daniel Friend, Ramsgate, shipwright, July 1!, and August
Ramsgate. 20, at eleven, at the Spread Eagle Inn, Attornies,
Mr. Bigg, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane; or Mr.
Wighturick, Ramsgate.
John Parker and James Ellison, Belmuunt, Lancashire, calico-
printers, July 31, at five, and August 1, at ten, at the Star
Inn, Manchester, and 20, at twelve, at the Old Bull Inn,
Blackburn. Attornies, Mr. Dodgson, Blackburn; or Meurs.
Milne and Parry, Temple.
James Watts, sen. Bradford, Wilts, dealer, July 24, 25, and
August 20, at one, at the Commercial Rooms, Bristol. At-
tornies, Messrs. Poole sad Greenfield, Gray's Inn; or Mr.
Saunders, Nichnlas-street, Bristol.
William Wilkins, Ashby-de-bi-Zouch, wine-merchant, July3l,
at four, August 1 and 20, at eleven' at the Queen's Head
Inn, Ashby-de-la-Zouch. Attornies, Messrs. Long and Aus-
ten, Gray's Inn; or Mr. Dewes, Ashby-dela-Zouch.
Joseph Lovegrove, Cranhain, Gloucestershire, timber-dealer,
July 111, at sir, 20, at eleven, at the King's Dead Inn, Ci-
rencester, and August 20, at eleven, at the King's Mad Inn,
13irdlip, Gloucestershire. Attornies, Mr. Whatley, Cirences-
ter; nr Messrs. Williams and White, Lincoln's Inn.
James Smith, Rugby, Warwickshire, cold-merchant, July 22,
at six, 23, and August 20. at ten, at the Spread Eagle Inn,
Rugby. Attornies, Messrs. Faller and Saltwell, Carlton-
chambers, Regent-street.
Thomas Ilarri.on, late of l'rinees-street, Rotiterhithe, merchant,
July 20, 27, and August *O, at ten, at the Court of Commis-
, sinners of Bankrupts, Basingh.til-ntreet, Attornies, Aleuts.
Robbie. sad Durrovs, Austiu-mass.
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In short, on the part of the printers, their Counsel
denied that the passages are false, malicious, or slan-
derous. They averred that Mi. ki.u.irt had made the!
subject the property of the public press:—that they
%vele entitled to comment on facts brought under
public notice by his own publications:—they offered
to provC tharthe facts stated in O.: alleged libel were
ti tae ;—they offered to the libel.
hether the defoodants wive evidence to preys