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SINECURE OFFICES. SUPREME corm; cAtatrA, Ocr.ii, let°. disclosirt of the case; but he ialtei that comae inh` .bitlMil
:when/ isaiiiiil he was lei ilfe allow:
icii • a iii 4
' - -- might to have inspired Mr. 1.. i.%; with a sense of gra- ace IMP made for yono—liove humane he was in his
The Second Report of the Committee of the House THI ZING v. MATTHEW LAW. titude. Instead of publishing the facts, which had feelings for your family. I cannot blame him. By
of Commons on Sinecure Offices, gave the folloWing Mr. Simon the Advocate General; moved for a I been leroufht to his notice, he writes a letter, full of the officious confession which you made to him, yea
List of Offices in England, the Duties of which are rule oil show Cause why a criminal information should coal ranon and kindness, to Mr. Law's private re- unwarrantably placed him in a very painful situation,
entirely or principally discharged by Deputy , not be granted against the defendant, for an assault lation, Mr. Udny, tubmitting to him the cirenm- in which he must either vi late the feelings of liunroS
PER ANIUM• on Charles Milder Ricketts, with an intent to provoke stances of the case, and urging the necessity of Mr. nity, 'or relax a little from the strict discharge of his
Clerk of rite Crown - • se 1100 0 o the said C. M. Ricketts to fight a duel. `Law.'s•compliance with the promise which he had diny—if he erred in the latter instance, it does not
Prothonotary or the Court of Chanter, - 100 o o The affidavit of Kr. Ricketts and several letters voluntarily made. become you to reproach him with it, nor do I think
Regi•YeT ui Affidavits
.. . 640 0 0 being read, the Bench immediately granted the rule. It may be said, and he knew it had been said, that it would become any body, ant even Isis employers.
Clerk of the Custody of Idiots and Lunatics . 449 0 0
—The rule was afterwards made absolute, and on Mr. Ricketts in this transaction is not to be consider- so to do ; for before you can expect men to be so sc-
rawlier for making out Contrnisioni of Bankrupts site 16 1
Thursda
Clerk of the Yatents, from £4OO to - - 654 0 o y, January 17, 1811, the defendant filed aed a public officer, because he did not place the facts verely just, you must elasticate from their hearts,
Clerk of the Hat aper - - 1700 o o plea of Guilty. that were disclosed to him before the Board of Trade; feelings from which virtues spring, that abundantly
Clerk of the Dispensations - . 449 • 0 An affidavit by Mr. Law, in mitigation of judg- and that he could . not, consistently with his public counterbilance the want of such extreme correctness.
Tiht same person,Clerk of the Faculties - 5160 9 o ment, was then read, as follows : character, conceal the confession of guilt made to As to the letter which Mr. Ricketts wrote to Mr.
The Business of the Office of the Corporation of
" Matthew Law of Tank.sguare, in the town of 'him by Mr. Law : but in answer to that, he would Udney, and which you state has been the foundation
Cursitors is t ransacted by four ef its Members, 1
who receive together - - , 3334 1 3 Calcutta, the defendant, maketh oath, and saith, that I say, that it was idle to expect that the minds of all of your anger against him, it appears to me to have
The Fees of the Twc tity other Members who du . in the afternoon of the Bth of October last past. this 'men could be so framed, as to exclude the feelings been the must humane and the mildest manner its
not perform any part of the duties, amounted I deponent was informed that Charles Milner Ricketts, iof humanity. Such was not the rule by which pub- which he could have called upon you to do that which
7380 S 0 ,-.
last year to - - iLi g. had written a private letter to George Udny, Ilic servants were judged : it was not by such a rule you ought to have done—to nit an employment in
Of this sam the Four Cursitors for London and Middlesex re-
ceived X 6454 15 to Esq. tending deeply to injure this deponent in the that the Government have judged the conduct of Mr. I which you had confessed yourself not to be a faithful
Sealer of the Court of Chancery • sou 0 0 , good opinion of the said George Udny, a person not , Ricketts in this effoir, but with more indulgence to servant; and in which Mr. Ricketts, the Secretor/
Chaff-wax • - 600 0 0 only neurly connected with this deponent by marriage, !the honest feelings of human natute. Government to your department, could no longer repose con&
Messenger, or Poursuivant of the Court of Chan. 1 but to whom this deponent had, for a course of years, did not judge their servants by rules of such austerity. dente in you. I bave perused this letter to Mr. Ud-
cery, salary - -. . • .511 0 0
looked up with sentiments of the highest respect, and God f •obid that he should ever become the set vent of . ney with great attention, and think it does Mr.
(The total amount of Profits does not appear.)
Clef kof the Presentations . - - Ise 0o by whom lie had always been treated with peculiar a Government that, in the discharge of public duty, Ricketts much honour, as a man of education, good
Clerk of the Declarations in the King's Bench 213 0 0 kindness ; and this deponent saith, that having been should exact the exclusion of every sentiment of corn- I sense, and a gentleman. You appear to me, there-
Chirographer of the Common Pleas - - 400 00 at Chowringlice in the course of the afternoon of the passion and humanity ! What has Mr. Ricketts doge ?. fore, to have acted without any provocation ; but if
Clerk of the Foreign Estrates its the Court of
130 is to same day, whilst he was returning along the course He has done no more than Government themselves you had the greatest provocation, nothing can excuse
Exchequer - - -
e following List Is also given of the offices in Courts of in the dusk of the evening, with feelings greatly hot- might have done in their mercy, had they become ac- i the brutal violence of the assault. The first step
toted on the occasion of t'he said private letter of the quainted with the circumstances in the some manner. which you took (and in that,this case differs from every
LaTwhand Equity, the profits of which are accounted for to the
Persons presiding in those Courts: said C. M. Ricketts, lie saw a carriage preceding —The assault for which their Lordships were to pro- other that I have ever heard of betwese gentlemen)
Secretary of Bankrupts, paid over to the Lord
which when this deponent gut nounce judgment, was, as he loolbefore observed, of , the first step, I say, was to strike a gentlemon'severa
Chancellor in five years - . - 16,781 13 s him on the cnurse,
a very aggravated nature ; he had no -hesitatiOn in blows with a whip, on the public road, at the time
Purse-bearer to the Lord Chanceller, paid over alongside of it, lie perceived to be the carriage of the
to the Lord Chancellor, on an average of ' said Charles Milner Ricketts ; upon which this depo- . saying, that the outrage was committed in a base un- he was taking au airing with his wife, in an open car-
three years per annum - - - 1410 3 1 nent called out, ols your name Ricketts ?" that the manly manner. The defendant came up from behind riage, arid sitting so close to her, that she teeeived
The Marshal to the Lord Chief Justice of thethe barouche, in which Mr. and Mrs. Ricketts were some of the blows. I am aware that you hate sworn
King's Bench, pays over to him, per annum. moment he had so called out, the said C. M. Ricketts
returning from their evening drive—he came up in that tom did not see that Mrs. R. was there; but
800 0 o stood up in the said carriage, and that by reason of
The Clerk of the Errors in the Kin... Bench this circumstance, and of the hood of the said carriage such a way, as to deprive Mr. Ricketts of the power that I think is not sufficient—you ought to have seen
pays over to the Lord Chief Justice, upon an being high and the seat low, he did not see Mrs. Ric. of any resistance to his attack ; and struck him re- and known cleat she was not there, the probability
average of four years, per annum - - 2103 IS 6
peotedly with the lash of his whip in presence of Mrs. being that she should be. Your blows, moreovee,
ketts, the wife of the said C. M. Ricketts, nor did he
The Clerk of the Errors in the Common Pleas
pays over to the Chief Justice, per ann. about 1000 0 o know or believe that she was in the said carriage tin-
Ricketts. The defendant had sworn that he did not were accompanied with opprobrious words, which I
The Sealer of Writs pays over to each Chief Itil after the act of violence was committed by this de- know, or see, that Mrs. Ricketts was in the curia
s.,e• ,
will not de-brade the Court by repeating. This done,
Janice a 7th of his Receipts, amounting last 1 ponent ; and this deponent saith, that he did not go and, therefore, he would not cavil with him about you went round to the other side of the carriage
year co the Chief Justice of the King's Bench 281 0 0 ,
upon the course with the intention of finding the said these points : but this he might certainly say, that if where Mrs. R: was, when you most have boll: seen
And to the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas 129 19 6
C. M. Ricketts, but merely as it was the road from Mr. Law did not see Mrs. Ricketts in the carriage, • and heard her ; and then, speaking across her to her
The Deputy Remembrances- of the Court of Ex- to— nowringhee to his own house, and that he had no lie must have been blinded by passion; nay, he might husband, you uttered the following words, which you
chequer derives the greater part of his emoluments
premeditated int • 1 ention o offering an insult to the said I say, by his eager molevolence, for it happened in a must have meant as a challenge, o I shall hear Irons
from the interest made of the money of suitors, depo-
C. M. Ricketts, but that the same was caused by a I nmonii ,t evening,in month of October • • I shall hear from • eot early Cleo
sited with him under the orders of die Court. i i
`momentary impulse of passion ; and this deponent but, admitting that Mr. Law did not see Mrs. sistent with the laws of honour to challenge a man in
In time Colonies or Foreign possessions of his Ma.
iesty, -
farther saith, that the private letter so written as Ricketts at first, that deducts nothing from the the hearing of his wife ?—the person in the world the
' there are 17 Registrars and 14 Marshals, who aforesaid by the said Charles Milner Ricketts to the offence ; for before the outrage was at an end, he did most likely to take steps to prevent her husband's
execute their respective offices by deputy. Other
said
George Udny was the sole cause of the conduct see her. After he had driven her in m the carriage being engaged in a duel. This circumstance alone is
offices also, such as Harbour-master, Vendue-master,
,of this deponent towards the said Charles Milner Ric- he returned, and aft( r having heard her screams, he sufficient to deprive yeti of every excuse to he derived
&c. are executed by deputy. . ketts ;and this deponent lastly saith, that a represen- vociferated a challenge to her husband, across her from the laws of honour, and leads me to the more
In the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, the offices ..
tation in writing having been made by the said C. M. face. —The infliction of such an outrage as had been appropriate duty of addressing you as the violator of
f the principal Registrar and four act his Assistant
Ricketts to the Board of Trade, stating, among other thus committed must lea insult to any man;
-looks, are executed by deputy. The former receives . .the laws ofyou:
of .
said .
itgrievous . country. It is impossible to enu.
things, the circumstances the assault on the and, in this instance, was attended with circum• nterate all the circumstances of this case, without
..tlie net sum of £4843. 16s. 4d. and the emoluments
Charles Milner Ricketts, this deponent was on the stances of peculior aggravation ; but he did not press
of the latter produce, in the whole, £2lBB. Ts. 7d. eobserving many of great aggravation, and that your
nth of the said month of October suspended from them is behalf of r. Ricketts ; for the case had offence calls for a very 'exemplary punishment ;at
On the Committee proceeding to enquire into the
his office, and that lie is not now in the receipt of :any been peremptorily, by Government, taken out of the same time considering that you s:ill remain
offices of the Duchy Court of Lancaster, and calling
ply'salary, or allowances whatsoever, as a servant of Mr. Ricketts hands ; and, he must add, wisely and answerable for the fraud, which you :ire stated to
before them the Chancellor of the Duchy (Mr. Per-
United satCompany. low- LAW. justly. It now rested on public grounds ; and upon have confessed, and for which you are not to he pu-
eeval) that gentleman stated an objection, that he , „ sworn this 17th day of January, 11111." these he urged their Lordships fora judgment, which, nished now ; considering that you are not in affluent
could not give any information respecting the emolu- ! o.
• Ihe ADVOCATE GENERAL addressed the Court.— it' merciful to the defendant, might at the same time •
circumstances ; and considering, also, that which it
?Dents of those offices, without the previous consent -
. - - He lamented that the - It di should - _
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of his Majesty, as Duke of Lancaster 1 and the Com-
Mittee postponed the enquiry until they receive the
further directions of the House.
DIPLOMATIC • PENSIONB.-Extract from the Ac-
eompts and Papers presented to the House of Com-
mons, relating to the increase and diminution of sala- ,
ries, &c. in the public offices of Government. The fol-
lowing late Foreign Ministers, Secretaries, and Con-
suls, are upon the Contingent Pension List :
Per annum-William 'Wickham, 11110x.s-George Cooke,
1248.- John Coleman, Xl SM.-Nathaniel Davison, £360.-Rev.
Louis Uutens, £300.-John Lewis Doerfeld, £250.-Earl of
Elgin, £2000.-Sir Robert Gunning, £4060 -Morton, Lord
He' dt-y, £2000.-Danlel Haifa. £1127 .-Charles Keene, £250.
Robert Liston, £2OOO, (suspended on account of employment).-
John Milliquet, £250.-John Osborne,,Cooo.-Horace St. Paul,
£6OO -Alleyne, Lord St. Helen's, 12300.-Sir John Stepney,
£voo.-Richard Shepherd, £250.-Lord- Viscount Torrington,l
11684.-John 'Trevor, 11100.--James Talbot, 41,100.-J anice,l
Farl of Mahrtesbury (11200 reversionary to Lord Viscount Firs-
barns), 12=1-Thomas Walpole,lBoo -Charles, Lord Whit-
wont, 12900.-Robert Walpole, 2000-William Drummond,
£1700.-Sir James Cranford, £lOOO.-John Hookbam Frere,
11700. -David Gray, 1600.-Perkins Magra, 1500.-Robert
Walrond, 1250.-John Falcon,lsoo.-Villiatn,honl Auckland,'
12300 -Francis Drake, 11500.-George Hammond, £l2OO -
Chaim Henry Frazer, £900.-Joseph Fry, 1200.-Francls
James Jackson, 11760.-Anthony Merry, Li 700.-Brook
11200.-John Spencer Smith, 11200.-Henry Watkin Wil-
liams W £1200.-Charles Arbohnol, £2OOO. (suspended

he merciful to the public. • . belonged rather to you than to us to consider, that you
Mr. Fcactissoa, in reply, observed, that he had au- have a wife and tamely, who must be involved in teat
r,Learned ured from the opening of the speech of the bdistress. on account of your violent conduct, the Court
Advocate, that some leniency would have been shewn have mitigated your punishment as much as their duty
to the defendant, who had pleaded guilty ; but trona , would allow them todo, and do therefore adjudge, that
the sequel of his speech, it appeared that the acknov:- . fesr this offence you pay a fine- to the King of 1000
ledgement of his offence had no weight with his rupees ; that you be imprisoned in the common gaol
Learned Friend : he trusted, however, that it would of Cale atta for the space of sit calendar months : that
have some weight with their Lordships. It was an i you find sureties for your good behaviour for seven
offence which he could not justify ; he never did : .
. years, yourself in 10,0(X) rupees, and two sureties in
justify it, nor did the defendant attempt to justify
15000 rupees each ; and that you be farther imprison-
it : on the contrary, he believed that since it hap- , ed till your fine be paid, and your sureties given.
pence!, Mr. Law had felt more sorrow and contri-1
tion than fur any other act of his life. In this assault,
and in the violence he committed, he was, as the
Advocate. General had said, blinded by his passions;
that was the fact, and that was the key to all that
had happened.
CIIIEY JUSTICE.—Mr. Law must stand committed.
Let him be brought up on Monday, when the Court
will give judgment.
MONDAY, JAN. 21, 1811.
The defendant being brought up, the CHIEF Jus.
TICE pronounced the judgment of the Court, nearly in
the following terms :
Matthew Law—You have pleaded guilty to an in-
formation filed against you, for assaulti,- - Charles
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ie tiL__ very unpleasam luty
have fallen to his lot of calling the attention of their
Lordships to facts, which rendered the offence of the
defendant at the bar a misdemeanour of a very aggra-
vated nature. An unpleasant duty he should have
thought it under any circumstances ; but he certainly
now performed it with the less inclination, as the de.
fendant had evinced a sense of submission to justice, is
net attempting to obstruct its course by pleading guilty
to the charge on which he had been arraigned. HI
felt this to be a case of great importance to the pub. i
lie, inasmuch as the outrage was committed against
a public officer, for an act growing out of matter
connected vs ith his public duty : it was a case in
which example became especially necessary ; since, if
officers of Government, in the discharge of their pub.
lic trust. were nut protected from the violence of men
rendered desperate by the fear of detection of their
crimes, there was an end to the honourable discharge
of the public service ; and the question of right and
wrong would be left to be decided by strength of
nerve. 'What were the circumstances of the case ?
Mr. Ricketts, holding an appointment of high trust
and importance, is ordered by his superiors to make
inquiries respecting certain frauds alledged to have
been committed in the Salt Department. In the
course of this investigation, Mr. Law suddenly starts

Boxixo.—A most sanguinary contest took place
at Halliford, Bucks, on Monday, for st'2o, between
Burk, a bargeman, standing six feet, and weighing
16 stone, and Waldegrave, a farmer's son, and a re-
puted boxer, something less in length and weight.—
Both were knocked down by counter-hits in the first
round, and in the second, Waldegrave received a
light handed hit, which levelled him with the force
of a horse kick. Twenty sanguinary youitils were
fought, when Waldegrave was declared victor. Bu;k
was inoffensive with the left hand, and his antago-
nist won the battle by stopping with the right hand,
and lunging at the same time with the left. Several
hundred spectators were present.

'ynn,
as joint Secretary of the Treasury)—Alexander Straton, £l5OO.
—Edward *lhornton,l2oo.—Sir John Borlase Warren, £2OOO.
Sir Arthur Paget, 1700.—Henry Pierrepoint, £1200.-lohn
Watson, £.t00.-Thuntas Jackson, £BOO.

up, and proclaims himself the principal delinquent in
the depredation—a confession which was made to
Mr. Ricketts when all suspicion of his (Mr. Law's)
guilt was absent from his mind. He tells Mr. Ric-
ketts he is ruined, and expresses deep contrition, and
proposed, if his guilt is not disclosed, to make every
reparation in his power, to quit the salt line, and to
accept of an inferior situation in any other depart-
ment of thee service. Mr. Ricketts, with impressions
natural in such a case to every humane mind, and
with feelings of compassion for Mr. Law, tells him,
that he will not take advantage of the confession that
he had made ; that he should go on with the enquiry
as before ; but that Mr. Law had deceived himself it
he thought that Mr. Ricketts ever %%mild wink at
any circumstance which might publicly be brought
before him ; and that, if any thing came out in the
course of the investigation to criminate Mr. Law, lie
should immediately, in obedience to his duty, lay it
before the Board of Trade ; at the same time, that
shosild nothing appelt publicly against him, he could
not even in that case admit of his continuing in the
Salt Department ; and that he should require of him to
quit that branch of the service, as he had himself pro-
- - had

;Ling _
Milner Ricketts, with an intent to provoke him to
fight a duel. Some merit has been claimed for you
for pleading guilty. I am at a loss to discover that
merit ; for you knew that the charge could be easily
proved against you, and you knew, also, that you had
nothing to say in your defence. This, I presume,
was the reason for your pleading guilty. I fear it
did not arise from contrition and repentance of your
crime. The plea of guilty, therefore, under such cir-
cumstances, leaves you, I think, in the same predica-
ment as you would have been in, had the Jury totted
you guilty. By the law of England, a man who kills
another in a duel, is guilty of murder ; and therefore,
the provoking a man to an act which may involve
him in a capital crime, is properly held by the same
law to be a high misdemeanour. In answer to this,
I know it may be said, that, although this be the law
of England, there is another law—the law of honour,
which often compels a gentleman to give, and oftener
to accept, a challenge. As Judges, we cannot allow
of this excuse ; and yet, as risen, we are often obliged,
to lament the delicate and distressing situation in
which the best of men are sometimes placed by
this unbending law of honour : when that is the

A pitched battle was fought on Tuesday afternoon,
at Leighton Buzz*, Bedfordshire, between a sailor
and a gentleman's servant, for two guineas a-side. The
cause of quarrel was a lady, she being loved by each of •
these tender swains ; and the hizh value in which she
was held by these gallants may be interred from the
amount of the ttaier. They evinced much courage
and some science ; and after fighting for 51, minutes,•
the tailor was declared the victor, he having literally
sewed up the eyes of his rival.
PfiDESTRIAN FEAT.—Last week, Alexander Fraser,
of Elgin, formerly a hair dresser; now letter•carrier,
aged nearly fourscore years, undertook for a bet to
walk two and a half Scots miles, over ground inter-
sected with brush-wood, hedges, and ditches, in an
hour, which he performed in 32 minutes. A Ser-
jeant belonging to the Grenadier Company of the
Elgin Local Militia, willing to shew his superior
agility, took an equal bet that he would out-run the
nimble-footed letter carrier, which Was instantly ac-
cepted by him ; and to shew what he could do when
put to the test, he undertook to carry at the same
time a lad of 20 years of age, and that over the same
course which he had before trod. These preliminaries
• h

Tne Poee.—..—The Cadiz Papers contain the follow-
ing article, under the head of Intelligence from Italy:
The Holy Father continues in custody, without
any access to him being permitted, at Savona. After
he had promulgated the excommunication against
Cardinal Mauray, Archbishop of Paris, which was
affixed to hi.; own Cathedral, his Holiness was de-
prived of the use of pen and ink. The Cardinal of
Pietro and M. Gregory were on the same acccunt
thrown into the public prison of Paris, and, after
being threatened with death, were ultimately banish-
ed.—This circumstance has led to the belief of an
intended change in the Holy See ; but of this there is
at present no certainty. Napoleon has given a com-
mission to Cardinal Fescla, Borghese, and some others,
to confer with the Pope, but to no purpose. Some
have refused to accept the commission, because they
anticipated the reply. " Restore myself and the
Sacred College to liberty, restore the patrimony of
the Church, and then we will confer."—The Cardi.
teals Gonsalvis, Mattis, Oppiazoni, of Pietro, and
Zitta, have immortalized themselves in the annals
of the Church, especially the first, whom Bonaparte
Lates mortally. The Curates of Rsme, the Canons,
arld Beneficiaries, afford matter of edification. In
vain have attempts teen made to draw them from
their duty, by a new form of oath ; 300 of them have
been banished to Rotia, in Corsica. M. Falachapo
I). Arrero, Tibeei, Seclops, the Curate Carbons, the
celebrated Abbot Pereira, the Canon Belli, in short,
the flower of the Clergy of St. John, St. •Eeter, St.
Mary the Greater, and of all the churches, are suf-
fering a glorious banishment in that disagreeable
r ;land. Some are left in Rome, where they io much ,
pod, supplying. the place of those Curates who are
disabled by their infirmities from ➢erforming their
duty. Three or four Curates, and some of the most
ignor nt and incapable Canons, sue the only ones who
lve taken the oath.

posed. Upon that condition alone Mr. Ricketts
agreed to take no advantage ot Mr. Law's confession.
—This was the initiation ot the affair. In its progress
it appeared that Mr. Law's conduct was such as to
raise in Mr. Ricketts' mind the most unfavourable
sentiments; and to render it necessary for him to put
a stop to all farther personal intercourse with Mr.
Law. Still Mr. Ricketts made no use of Mr. Law's
confession, but continued the investigation as before :
and he swears, that he neglected no means to detect
the frauds that had been committed ; except, that he
did not avail himself of the private confession that
had been made to him by Mr. Law.
When the enquiry was brought to a conclusion,
Mr. Ricketts naturally expected that ?Ir. Law would
have fulfilled his engagement to retire from the Salt
Department ; but this Mr. Law refused, notwith-
standing the remonstrances, and all that could be
urged by Mr. Ricketts. Under these circumstances,
what does Mr. Ricketts do ?—he does not make a

case, stern justice is sometimes disarmed, and corn.
;beang settled,
and the old man with his road ; an.f,
both started, the Serjeant free and dis-
passionate verdicts as well as judgments have been
given, which have trespassed on the laws of the land. : encumbered,
' wonderful to tell, the man of years gained the bet,
—But in your case I fear it would not avail you in leaving the permanent serjeant half a mile behind him,
the smallest degree, could we try you by the laws of
to the surprise of a numerous assemblage of spectator,.
honour instead of tke laws of your country, for you
have equally violated both. By the laws of honour, Tuesday, Mr. Muswst.t., of Lower Sloane-street
went four miles on the Fulham Road in 24 minuses,
I presume, a gentleman is bound to make out a suffi-
at two starts, a rest of fise minutes having been al-
cient provocation before he call on another to fight a
lowed. He had 12 seconds to spare, and the match
duel; and having such provocation, he is also bound
was for 25 guineas.
by the same laws of honour, to call his adversary to The driver of the Rugby coach was on Tuesday i
the combat like a gentleman. In both these circum- afternoon killed by the accidental discharge of a
stances you have violated the laws of honour, for you
double-barrelled gun, which he carried with the in.
had no provocation ; and if you had, instead of call-
tent of firing from his seat at any bird that came
lug on Mr. Ricketts as a gentleman, you assailed him
within his reach. While stooping down, the piece
like a ruffian.—When I say you had no provocation, exploded, and lodged the contents an his breast. He
I tall very short of expressing my feelings on the sub. WAS killed on the spot.
ject ; for you not only were without provocation, but Wednesday night the premises of )6. lush, in
fou owed gratitude to Mr. Ricketts, for a degree of Heinitaffe.street, Wapping, were tombs op. n, and
orbearance which some people may think was blame. robbed ~,T apparel, plate, &c. to the mown of tau.

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