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London, England, 1810-07-21 00:00:00

LLOYD'S LIST.

GRAVESEND, Ivor Kt.—Arrived the John and Robert, HTO•
GINS, from Gibralsu; and Stephen, BANNERMAN, from Prince
Island. Sailed the Legan, I.vvrost, for Rio Janeiro; and the
San Salvador, —, for &clic.

THE ARMY.

The 92d Regiment has arrived at Ramsgate from
Harwich, in four transports ; and yesterday the regi-
ment marched into barracks at Canterbury.
Wednesday the Dumfries-shire regiment of Militia
(ROO strong) arrived at Woodbridge Barracks. The
regiment came from Leith, and on Tuesday landed
from transports at Landguard Fort.
The General Court-Martial which assembled at the
Royal Cavalry Barracks, Canterbury, on Tuesd.iy
lasr, for th± trial of William Clifford, a private in the
will soon have a numerous flotilla to oppose 7th Royal Veteran Battalion, on the following serious
charges Preferred against him by Major DOUGLAS, of
enemy. We have been occupied here, and on all the same corps, closed its proceedings on the part of
coasts of the Adriatic Sea, fur same months, in the prosecution, on Tuesday last, and adjourned till
sting sailors for this flotilla. ten o'clock in the forenoon of yesterday, in order to
give time for the prisoner to prepare his defence.—
VIENNA, JUNE 14.
'r
Some executions, for a time, suspended the disor-
he charges exhibited against him are :
First—For improper and unsoldier-like conduct in disturbing
of the Janissaries at Constantinople, but they the peace, and being extremely riotous at the Marlborough Head
Tavern,seeoudSheeForon
ethaeths insetadnaty.,
quickly renewed, and that town is in the mostaredsiss,o in theieu afternoonee of
orders of
when or-
ing situation ; it is threatened with famine ; pro- dered by Lieutenant Martyn to desist from his riotous behaviour
at Marlboroughithheird— ead;olFtaivueornus,baenhclavtologuor away
to toehuits quarters.
martp
visions are very dear in it. In spite of all the cares
Forext llreu- e
:Government, the Janissaries areguilty of the greatest of the 7th Royal Veteran Battalion, on the same day, at the maYrt.'
disorder wherever they have an opportunity. borough Head Tavern, and in the Fortress of Sheerness, by not
only using very gross and most disrespectful language to him, but
.e
cannot foresee how this critical state of affairs having repeatedly struck and kicked the said Lieut. Martyn when
end. in the execution of his duty, by endeavouring to secure the said
William Clifford for his disgraceful conduct.
EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM VIENNA, JUNE 23. The General Court-Martial for the trial of a private
're learn from Turkey that the Russian army has in the Bearstead and Mailing regiment of Local Mi.
crossed the Danube in three places, and that a very litia, which was suspended on account of the Officers
Iportant affair resulted in consequence between the
of the Local Militia objecting to sit on the same, is
,
,appointed to assemble at Maidstone on Tuesday next.
vanced guard of General Sass, and a corps corn. i
Ihe Court is to be composed wholly of the Officers
led by Pach.. Pelewin Aga. We expect the de- ; from the Regular Militia : the amended Act relative
of it. to the Local Militia not being sufficiently explicit to
, compel the service of the Officers of those corps on
General Courts Mania'.

RETRACT OF A LETTER FROM VENICE, DATED JUNE 17.
The English fleet, which was in sight of Venice,
departed the day before yesterday. Its exploits were
(fined to the taking of some boats.
work with the greatest activity in the Arsenal,
'onstructing many ships of war and frigates, and
'ling the Russian corvettes which remain in this

FRAKFORT, JUNE 27.
luty public Papers report, that Couriers have set
from Constantinople with important dispatches
the French Court.

Yesterday being settling dty at Stock Exchange,
i some embarra mient was experienced in consequence
of a few additional failures having been announced.
Among the various causes assigned for the late Towards the close of the day, however, when the real
tmerous failures, the disappointment of our merean. numb r of the defaulters was made known, c ,nfi-
' speculations with South America has been regal.. deuce was in some measure restored, and the Funds
as not the least prominent. improved. Omnium, which in the early part of the
market was at 2-1 per cent discount, left off at 4.
Ye regret to state. that the impolitic regulations Consols for account were at 691, and Reduced, for
the South American Government almost go the 'money, at 6fli.
gth of excluding British commerce from their liar- The letters received from India by the last fleet
state, that Sir SAMUEL ACIIMUTY on his arrival in
•,--The following Letter from Buenos Ayres
Is a gloomy prospect of what may be expected India was expected to assume both a civil and military
character, and that Sir GEORGE BARLOW and Lord
that quarter, under the present arrangements : i MINTO would in that case return to this country.—
" BUENOS AYREq, APRIL 4.
' Colonel BELL, who had been found guilty of acting
lam sorry to inform you, that the little business a most conspicuous part in the late mutiny in India,
tich there is any opportunity of transacting here, had, according to report, received a most lenient sen.
•he done at very Considerable loss. Every thing tence, namely, a month's suspension from rank and
the most unpromising state ; and I assure you, pay.
if the cargo I brought out here had been burnt A letter of the 4th instant, received by the Oporto
London, or thrown into . the Thames, instead of fleet, which arrived yesterday, states, that there had
shipped for this place, we should have saved been a commotion at Ovar, during an attempt to raise
money upon die whole—so enormous is the loss on recruits for the militia.
goods, and the expences of the voyage, Etc. !---- A passenger who reached town yesterday from
Pieces of Manchester goods, which originally cost Oporto, asserted on 'Change, that in the chops of the
6s. after (Lci/ucting the duties, have not produ- channel, he was informed from a schooner, that the
. more at an average than 13s. This calculation British army was on its retreat towards the coast, and
exclusive of all expellees, and the total loss may be that the merchants and others, inhabitants of Lisbon,
imated at 120 per cent, were shipping themselves and their property on board
We hare beJn all greatly misled *nth respect to the vessels in the harbour with the utmost precipita•
amount of the Spanish duties; it appears to me tion ; likst the repeat was generally disctelted.

LAI? IN'TELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JULY SO.
THE KING PINNZETY.
This cause was not tried, the defendant having withdrawn hie e
plea of Not Guilty, and thereby id judgment go spied him by
default; for which he will be brought up to receive the Gement*
of the Court next Term.
THE KING 0. JOHN GALE JONES.
As the opening Counsel was about to state the
case, Mr. GARROIN said, that Mr. Jones, as he under-
stood, had no Counsel. Upon this a Gentleman lately '
called to the Bar, a Mr. JONES, rose, and signified
that he was the Counsel for the defendant.
Mr. Maori. having stated the pleadings,
The ATTORNEY GENERAL rose. This was as ac-
tion en an indictment for certain libellous publications,
tending to defame the Right Honourable Lord Vis-
count Castlereagh, lately one of his Majesty's Princi-
pal Secretaries of State. It would be the province of
the Jury to consider, first, whether the defendant was
the author; and secondly, whether the publications
were libellous ? Mr. Jones was the Manager of a De-
bating Club, called the British Forum ; of that Club
he (the Attorney-General) would at present say no- ,
thing farther than might be immediately connected
with the present subject. Previously to the several
nights of debate, papers containing the topics to be
discussed there, were posted up in the different public
places and it was against the statements and expres-
sions of those papers that a verdict was now sought
from the Jury. The first to which he would direct
their attention was one headed with the words
" Bitirtsu Foetus, 33, Bedford-street. Covent Garden,
" Monday, January en, MO.
‘ SIR. PINNIRTT ANO Lost, CAIiTLPREAIMIT.
" Question,--Whether is Lord Castlereagh's order, for the
srizure of lir. Finnerty, on the Expedition te Walheren, to be
considered as the result of a wise and salutarreantien, for thedis-1
ciplire and ;•rder of his Majesty's forces; or a flagrant violation of
the privileges of a British subject, and a cowardly attack on the
character of an innocent individual r'
This referred to a preceding libel in the Morning
Chronicle, of the 23d January, 1810, written by Mr.
Finnerty. That person was prosecuted for the libel,
and had withdrawn his plea and confessed judgment
in the cause. It had happened that when the expe-
dition was going to Walcheren, information was re-
ceived by Government that Mr. Finnerty was about
going with it. This was thought inexpedient, and
orders were sent down to stop him. The orders ar-
rived too late, for Mr. Finnerty had sailed and reach-
ed Walcheren. On Lord Castlereagh's going to
Deal, he heard of the order for the first time, and
then sent a repetition of the order to Lord Chatham,
to have Mr. Finnerty sent home. He was, however,
suffered to remain for a considerable time in the
Island. In the publication in the Morning Chronirk,
he imputed his arrest to Lord Castlereagh, as the sole
work of that noble person, on the two motives, of
hiding the details of the expedition from the public,'
and wishing to disgrace and stain an innocent indi-
vidual. He was, to use his own words, convinced
that Lord Castlereagh hated him, and he was thank.
ful for it, because nothing but a roost extraordinary
rank dif virtue could be a balance against the good
opinion of such a man as Lord Castlereagh. He
farther imputed this hatred to the injuries which his
Lordship was conscious of havitrg done to him, as
Printer of the paper called The Press in Ireland. And
to what was this hatred originally owing? To the ex-
posure Mr. Finnerty had made of conduct of the
Government in Ireland in the matter of Orr, who was
recommended to mercy by the Jury and theiLge Lord
Yelverton and yetput to death,or in other words, mur-
dered, by the councils of Lord Castlereagh and the
otler Members of the Government. The fact was,
that Orr was executed for attempting to seduce, or
actually seducing two soldiers from their allegiance,
and aiministering the United Irishman's oath to them.
For this vindication of innocence, Mr. Finnerty al-
ledged that he was thrown into prison, saddled with
bail to the amount of £2,000, before he could get out
again ; and all this done by his ancient enemy Lord
Castlereagh. Yet it would surprise the Jury to hear
that the condemnation of Orr took place when his
Lordship did not hold the office of Secretary of State
in Ireland ; Lord Pelham was Secretary at the time,
and the case of Orr was not determined on till after
the most serious and solemn deliberation in the Privy
Council. Let then the Jury see the power which Mr.
Gale Jones and his mock tribunal assume : they ac-
tually put Lord Castlereagh upon his trial, to an-
swer every vague and wanton charge that may be
brought up from any period, and peremptorily order
hint to appear before them. [Here the Attorney-
General read some extracts from the placard of the
29th January, calling on the gentle Lord Castlereagh
to attend, it he dare, to face independent Englishmen,
plead his cause, or submit to infamy.] Gentlemen,
said the Attorney-General, the indictment for this
trial is found in the pages of the Morning Chronicle.—
The trial is held at Nisi. Prius at the British Forum,
and with Mr. Gale Jones on the Bench, and a Jury
composed of every man who is satisfied to give a
shilling for his seat, Lord Castlereagh is summoned
' by the bill-sticker, to take his trial tor high crimes
and misdemeanors.
The next placard announced a continuation of the
debate, and, among other insolent statements, asserted
to the public that the conduct which Lord Castle-
reagh was proved to have used in the case of Orr,
was only deserving of universal abhorrence; thus
marking him as the destroyer of an innocent man—
a murderer !
A third placard was then published, proclaiming to
the public that, on the preceding Monday, Lord Cas-
tlereagh was found guilty of a gross and malicious
attack on the freedom or a British subject in the de-
tention of Mr. Finnerty, and animadverting on the
malignant efforts of those who. tore down the pla-
, cards, and disturbed their meetings at the Forum.—
Those papers were posted up wherever they might
meet the public eye; the name and character of Lord
Castlereagh were defamed, and it rested with the
Jury to pronounce whether the Defendant was not
guilty of the libel, as it rested with the Court to pro-
nounce the punishment to which that guilt might sub-
ject him. The Defendant had intimated to the So-
, licitor for the prosecution an intention of calling Lord
Castlereagh—he (the Attorney-General) could not
conceive for what purpose that was intended, but his
Lordship was in waiting and ready to attend the call.
Mr. Jorms, Counsel for the Defendant, objected to
the indictment, as not containing the entire of Mr.
Finnerty's letter.
Lord Eztaxaonovors over-ruled the objection, and
the trial proceeded.
Clerk proved that Lora Castlereagh was &Ire.

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tart' of State out the Seth of July, IsO%
so till about October.

John Dean was called. He printed
14 the British Forum. He had been

a year and a half. He printed tlut
*nary 2% and the succeeding ones.
of them were printed and given to
Jones. The manuscript from which they
was in Mr. Gale Jones's hand-writing.
Mr. Gale Jones here asked Dean how

been employed as printer to the British
Lord ELL/Mid/101KM informed him that

must be asked through his Counsel,

Bench.
The Counsel then asked Dean whether
once said that he was printer to the
Tears ? This Dean denied.
The officer of the Court then read
Morning Chronicle, and the several placard