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in distUrbake Of the pries, bessmitie 8r enultbittea
within the jirettnce or within the view of a Justice of
Peace, be lath power to record it and to cer.tify the
same. But if there be any mean :pace or rime, then br
cannot commit them to ward; but he may record the
same, and be may (at any time after) makc his war•
rant to take them, and bind them with sureties to
their good behaviour; and for want of sureties may
send them to paol.—Cro. 4.1, Dalt. ch. 76.
a The Justices," says Mr. Dalton, ch. 82, 6' will
do well to be advised what they record. Fir tf th; .
tecord (meaning the record of a view) of the itt,ti -s
and Sheriff is a sOcient conviction in itself 'spies.: (lee
(offender. Thereotte it ought to be formal .tut certain
as Mill for the time and the Oa, as also fort• ir mow
bets, weapons, manner, and other cireumstao,c,s, be.
cause the parties be concluded thereby, and shall not
be received to traverse tor deny it in any point."--
Lamo. :111. Dalt. title Riot.
H the Justices of Peace and Sheriff, or Under-
She) ill; shall tecord the tint, and shall not presently
commit the rioter to prison ; or if they shall`commit
them to prison, and Shall not record the tint, they
shall forfeit every of them AVM, by the Statute 13
Hen. IV. fur that they have not done execution of
the same statute."—Cromp. 61. Dalt. ch. SI
Lastly—Upsat the face of these most extraordinary
proceedings there is neither a record of riot nor breach
of the peace alga view, nor any charge of riot or any
other offence against Wilton upon oath.
Toe record of this view, had it been returned, could
tun have charged XVilson with an act of riot, or any
breach of the peace. The Magistrates, who were the
pit ties to this suprosed view, saw Wilson walking
upon Blackheath, as he lawfully might do. 'They saw
an assemblage of pets ms, which in the peculiar lan-
yu oge of this warrant they call 44 very tumultuous."
It this astembl tge of persons -,..roce,ied by acts of
their own to break the King's peace," which I :4M
willing to suppose the learned Compositor of this
warrant virtually meant, when he talks of a 44 coml.
deralle iiderruption 1.) the peace of the inhabitants." These
Magistrates were armed with the full powers of the
Statute and the common law of England to disperse
siHt an unlawful assemblage, and a definite measure
of time even is described by the Statute I Geo. ch.
2t, beyond which (viz. one ham ) it twelve. persons
or more alter Prochtia.!;l6n made, do unlawfully, mat
ousty, and tomulinonslv cooLiture together, they shall
he aljudged guilty of felony, without Benefit of
Clergy. But what had the conduct of this aSSeT-
biage to do with Wilson ? he steadily and harmlessly
pursoed the weary path t'l his labours; he joined in no
act of a iot or violence. As a lawyer, I contend that
his undertaking was in its inception legal. The per-
formance of it violated no known law of this I end.
he conduct of others could not make his act " of
walking" unlawful. His continuing to walk, 44 even'
for remuneration," and by 46 Advertisement," was
:d co leg quails ab incepto, and the criminal acts- of the
nyr.standers, by no constroctive relation to him, and
by no legal connection with him individually, could
make him in the eye of the law a rioter or a breaker
of the peace. He could not therefore be hAI to lecp
tlu peace, which he bad aver broken ; and (non the
r.scoliar language of the warrant, the distinctions of
toe " surety tor the good behaviour" do not seem to
have been clearly understood by the learned Compo-
sitor, lur which I beg to refer him to duiTert of
Lambard, Dalton, and Burn, passim.
Having proved my pints,Gentlemen, from sources
width ate unimpeachable, I shall for the present take
my leave, with the charitable hope that not one of
the nine of you have signed against conscience ; and
that your defence, whenever it be made, shall not
stand in contrast with the internal conviction of your
own bosoms.
My Lord Cake, in his Commentaries upon Little-
ton, says, the discretion of a Magistrate is 64 Scire vel
discernere per legem quid sit justum." If the
44 Magnus Apollo" of your very Reverend Bench
(for in these days as mt., 46 nemo chnicus Wsi catisi-
dicus) hats misled you, it will not diminish time claim
which this much injured man has at your hands for
ample and most consistent amends.
Mr. Dalton, ch. fi, says, every Justice ought to
have duos sales, viz. 66 Salem sapient;te ne sit insipi-
dus et salem coriscientiz, ne sit diabolus." You,
Gentlemen, can supply the context.
I am, &c. (tinder the Crown)
At: ACTING SIAGISTRATE OF TILE
COUNTY OF ESSEX.

October 12th. VHS.

QUEEN-SQUA RT. —Yesterday Mr. Richard Brown,
printer, appeared before Mr. COLOMIOLIN and Ar.
•
I.IELDING, in consequence of an information laid
against him by an irtormer, named George Browne,
fur printing half an hundred of small hand-bilis, descri-
bing the loss of a watch, witboat the printer's name
heing attached to the same.—A man calling himself
Robert Kent, proved the allegation of the inforina.
non. He procured the hand-bins in two or three
hours after he had ordered them fiom Mrs. Browe,
after he had be•roken them, paying 23. 6.l.—Gaerge
Browne, the informer, on being questioned as to Coe
motives of his conduct, said Oaths: laid the informa-
tion to prevent such things horn going on, t!wy bin:
contrary to law, not from the desire of gaining by it.
Cotowitoux—" Pure public spirit !"—Mr.
Brown, the printer, admitted the fact; but said, the
hills were hastily worked off by his apprentice boy in
his absence ; that boy had recently t.: ken to very
bad habits ; and he really believed that the whole
business was the !vat of a conspiracy between his
apprentice and tlfe villain who stood beside him.—
Kent denied all knowledge of the buy.—Mr. COLQU•
!MN observed, that Mr. Brown's suspicions were
very strongly supported, anal, to ascertain the fact, he
showld have all possible assistance from the Office;
for such a conspiracy would most unquestionably
place the consp:raturs in the pilL•ry ; the charge,
however, being proved, the penalty must be pin.
trounced, but it should be at the lowest possible rate,
live pounds and co:.ts.—Mr. FIELDING desired Mr.
brown to pay such amount in a fortnight, or when
it best suited him.

It is not often that we ire induced to notice works
of fiction. one has, however, lately appeared, u,:der
the appropriate title of " Human Nature," which de.
strves to be recommended on several accounts. Tile
heroine, unlike our modern belles, prefers the works
of LncKE, WATTS, and Sir ISAAC NEWTON, to the
" Emihus" and " Sophia" of Rousseau, and in other
respects exhibits an originality of character truly