Star.
London, England, 1803-02-21 00:00:00

COURSING

ASHDOWN PARK.—Ft arr Dar'/ Srettro.irs. 14.
Mr. Bullock's Young Plunder beat Mr. Thornhill's Tom
py. Vldett's Vapo beat Lord Craven's Bluebeard.
Mr. Goodlake's Gaylats beat Mr. Dundas's Bpbtaak
Mr.- Hallett's Rote:nary beat Mr. Stad'►Cracket.
WINN RR/ PeATCIIIIV.

qtr, Bullock's Younq invader beat Mr.Goodlakes Gaylafs.
Dr. VlBetel, Vapo beat Mr. Hallett's Rofetnarp.

WINNERS MATCHED AGAIN.
Dr. Yillett'Orapo heat Mr. Bullock's Young Plunder.
hr. Villet won the cup—Mr. Bullock won the Couples.
It Goodlake's Gawkcy beat Mr. Tburshillsa Tom.

, ROCKLEY—Pisatmee rB.
YON TIM COP.
Mr, Coreellis's Ctae% beat Mr. Wootrych's Willing.
Mr. Pitt's Pilgrim beat Mr. Mallet's Mag.
Mr. Mansfield's Mita beat Mr. Pickering's Pink.
Dr. Vapo b at Mr. Long's Laurel two Courier.

MATCHED.
Mr. Coma's*. Crack beat Dr. Villett's Var.
Mr. Pitt's Pilgrim beat Mr. Mansfield's Mits.

WINNIIII MATCUID AO4IN.

Mr. Cone Mei Crack beat Mr. Pitt's Pilgrim.

MATCH'S.
Mr. Pitts Pizarrobeat Lord Craven's Croce&
Mr. Davrnport's Tippoo beat Mr. Pitts Prince&
Mr. Woolrych's William beat Captpin Blagrave's Binebeard.
Captain BLigrave's Bobadil beat Mr. Woolryeh's Woodcock.
Mr. Pitt', Puella beat Lord Craven, Cracker
Mr. Davenport! Nettle beat Mr. Woolrych's Prefto.
Mr. Wook di • Wlthil beat Mr. Davenport's Trleftope.

The Prince of WALES rode in Hyde Park,
tetday, in company with Lord %Vast-moat:Aso.
Yefterday evening his Royal Highnefs the I)uke
of Yeta, attended by feveral other perfons of
dif-
tin.Rinn, paid a vifit to Chrift's Hofpital, where
they feemed highly gratified with the pleating
fpeftacle which the (upping of the children in
public exhibited.
• His Royal Highnefs then:he of Yost yefterday
evening dined with Mr. Ikons WA TSOII.
We are lorry to learn that Mr. Witsivarorter
has been very confiderably indifpofed for a week
pap.
The following are the faltionable arrangements
for the week :
TMs evening—Marchlosers of Salitbun's neat, Artiagton-
ftreet ; Marettioners of Abernrin's Rent, Or/tremor-Iquart.
Tuerday—The Open, Haymarket ; Mr. Born's Dinner,Ss.
vine-row Mrs. Weddle's Card Party. Upper Brook-ftreet.
Wednerdava-Marchinners of Abercorn's Rost, Arlingtan-
Stem ; Mrs. Mills's Diener, P.rtman-tquarc ; Marquis of
Sligo'. Dinner, Grafton-erect.
Ilorfday—Queett's Drawing-room, St. jaatees • Counters
of Carhainpron'ateur, Br tein-ftrert Marquis of I:as:Mown'.
Dinner. Berkeley-fquare ; Mn. Oofting's Private Mufie, Port-
land-place I Mrs. King's Lidice Concert, Mansfield-riven;
huraravine of Anfpaeb's Private Play, Bratutenburgh-honk.
Friday—Mrs. Montague 'd Mate ; Manillas& or Abrra
corn's Rout, Grarmor-tquare: Lord Carttou's Dinner, George-
Rent, Hanover-fqoare; Pic Nie Meeting, Tottenham-theet ;
Lord Pelham's Dinner, Stratton-ft.reet.

Saturday—Open. Haymarket ; Mr. C. Greenwood's D.
an., South Auilley-ftreet.
Sunday—Lord Caftlereagh's Cabinet Dinner, Cleveland-rove
On Saturday night an hiftorical play, with
rolls, or rather ant Opera, entitled 1 k Hero of dr
Nora, Paid to be the literary predation at' the
junior Disamie. of Bath, was performed, for the
firft time, at Drury-lane Theatre.—The following
are its Dramatis Perfonz and Fable : •

Cu'yro Vara
Cafimir Rubenici

- Mr. Po PE.
. Mr. Wamoirett.

- Mr. RAYMOND.

. Mr. Dt CAMP.

- Mr. C*DLtIELD.

--....
Sigifmund of Calmar . Mr. Kelly.
(Med - - - Mr. Dowrow.
Mareoff - . Mr. Bapurirrta,jako.

Ivran

. Mr. SEDGIVICIL

`Muhl . Mr. Florio.
Nydorfr • Mr. GIISSALDI.
Sofilftern • - • Mr. GIBSON!.

Princes Gunilda - - Mrs. Yonno.

i;;;lliiettet ni - • Mrs. HARIAWS•
Frederica Rubceeti Mrs. MOCINTAIII.

Paulin*
Alma
Ulric&

. Mifs
. Mr,. Biasso.
- - Mils Tram

The Rory of this piece, as appears from the there lilt f
slimes, is that of Gull:mut Vara, the kept Swede. The thin'
when the atlas enatmenees is the beginning of the fixteentb
century. and Ike Leese is laid In Weevils, a remote part of
Sweden.. The country, at the period above-mentWned, is under
the dominion debt Danes, who Lem a Governor (Carlowira)
raiding In the province. Gonave' Is in difguite le a mine.
where he Is found by Mareolone of his Ready allhmeate, and
by Cafimir Robeniki. and his Ibiogitter Frederica. who are
wandering about in (earth of him. Thertok an under plot be-
tween %emend. of Calmar, and the Princes Gonad". The
latter is in a convent. and about to take the veil. when Ole
bears that Sigiftnund is in the ernes. habited u a pi/vim.—
She meets him, they renew their vows, and afterwards, When
the ceremony of taking the veil is about to take the re-
i. the tweed emblem, of virginity and feetu ;nen the
world. She is then locked up in her cell, from which Ike is ea•
trksted by Gabriel, and eneweyed to her lover. They drape
together; meanwhile Goftwus having been recognikd In the
mine, ear.% his forces, and • general attack is made upon the
DsniAi Governor's cattle, in which Seismal and Gunilds are
detained, having been welted in their propels. Gultsvues
weeps prevail, the Governer acknowledges himm as his Sove-
reign, and the piece concludes with thelseppinefs of Guavas,
being put en pa-fon of the crown, and his 'dared Frederica,
And Sigifosuod is equally happy in the patellas of Gonna&

This piece has evident marks of being the pro-
duflion of a very young writer, and who appears
to pofrefs promifing talents. as the language is, in
Come infianees particularly beautiful ; as, how-
ever, it is in othersl as particularly infipid, want
peCt Come pneticalfriesid and patron of the author
has here and there fcattered his flowers. The ge-
nerous, but Coffering Gryfemas, is made but a fe.
eondary charatier, while the principal attention
IS drawn to a couple of fing-fang lovers, pining in
tedious abfence ; and the winding up of the bal-
lads of the drama is very unfkilfully managed,
though. perhaps, billory never furnilhed finer
materials than might have been drawn from the
real life of Thr Hero of at North.
The (cents, with all the aid of mirk and paint.
ing, are infiifferably tedious. The fangs are (aid
to be compnied by Mr. Kstr.r ; be this at it may,
thee are of much tea cathedral a charaeter to fuit
an heroic play, in which fo many opportunities
recent of introducing more animating movements.
Hardly a tingle encore was called for in the course
of the four hours occupied in the performance,
though all the allots eserted themfelves greatly to
emir credit. On die piece being given nut for a
future reprefentation, the clamour of difapproba- 1,
lion was loudly mired with that of applauie : the
'Atter, however, certainly prevailed. We never
sritneffesi the Theatre more crouded than it was
on this occafiou.

N 41111041. INTELLIGENCE.

This morning arrived a malt from Lillian, brought to Fal-
mouth by the Duke of York packet, in eight days.
PLYMOUTH, FEBRUARY t 9.

Came in the Brothers, Captain JEFFRIES, from
Newfoundland, fait from Dartmouth, laden with
fill[ and oil, for Lifbon, put in wind bound ; and
the &tfey, Captain Baca, from Waterford, for
this Port and Chicltelier, with provifions.—Sailed
the Intrepid, Captain Kircnsit, from Jamaica,
bound to London, with rum and fugal. ; the Mi-
nerva, Captain Bats., from Lilbon, for Eteter,
laden with fruit ; the Hope, Captain blarntas,
from Waterford, for Portfmouth, laden with but-
ter ; and the RANGIII cutter, of 14 guns, Captain
Fuzee, on a cruize. . _

Carne in the Teats Hill, of Plymouth, Capt.
Hat.% from Smile, with fruit, for this port and
London, (he put in here to get anchors and cables.

SHEERNESS, FEBRUARY 19:,

The Cattuaaus frigate is gone to-Chatham to
be paid off.
A few days ago the Medway barge, of Maid-
limn, laden with groceries, from London, bound
to Maidione, carried away her mall and rudder,
and was nearly 101 l in a violent gale of wind off the
Nore Sand : the drove on Grain Spit ; but by thel
timely and humane affillance the received from the
dock-yard people, the was laved, and her cargo
refined from loth and injury.
The Ltatz Roop is ordered up the River to he
paid off, and it eomrnillioned, us it is fuppofed the
feamen enter fatter up the Thames than at the out
Ports.

_
Arrived the ANITHIPT (ordered to be paid off)
and IMNOILTALITIR frigates, from the wefw•ard.
Wind S. W.

Report lays that the 'mem is existed here
on her way to Chatham to be paid of.

ST. MALOP.S, FFERUARY

A hoop from Southampton Roads, bound to the
Wand of Jerfey, about a fortnight fince was, in
violent gale of wind, driven on the red of rocks
which Ire at the mouth of this harbour, and, lrat
for the courageous and humane efforts of four
French fintermen, who, at the rids of their lives,
went off to the deliverance of the crew, from fo
truly terrible a fituation, the whole, compiling
five in number, and three Gentlemen palkngers,
would have been inevitably loft. The veal was
dallied in pieces, and the cargo loft.
We are happy in being able to Rate, that the
paffengershandfomely remunerated their deliverers
for their fpirited and manly ezertions.

FROM LLOYD's LIST.

DEAL, Fes. an —Arrived and faded for •4tangate Creek, the
Hope. —, front Gan altar ; Diana. Briton; and Weymouth,
Weldon, from Smyrna. Wind S,S. E.

ARRIVED.

At Portfmouth, Young Nickolas. —, from rim Cape of
flood Hope—At Poole, Squid, from Pipit—At HuU,
Dempfter, Coekran, front Faro; Ulna, --, from Roehfort ;
Halcyon, RoSter. from New York; and Adventure, —,
from Blboa—At Liverpool, Pnyedrefs, from Georgia ;
Clevenant, Denning, from Mulatto; Hawke, and
—, from Liverpool ; Friends, Cook, from Melba ;
and Halland, INekfeo, from Nrer Cork,liva!kaaa,

Hammond ; arid Mari, Wakefield, frMit Newfoinfthod--Ai
Gibraltar, Prince of Wain, from Looftam..At Cbarieftoo,
Mary, Hall, from Lemke—At New Prwrideme, IJbatr,
Sands. has Llwrposl. At flelfalt, Mom y, Higbee,
from Now York.

OREINOCK. FEBRUARY ii

The Maria, Costumers, from Ultima, arrived
here in 30 days, (poke the fchooner Sifters, of and
far London. from Newfoundland, lat. 48. fo.
long. tt. out at days; had loft her main-mall,
and wac fupplied with one from Capt. Cummings.
The jean, M'LACNLAM, which arrived here on
Wednelday, from Guernfey. paired a fhip in the
river inward bound, which not being able to wea-
ther the Horfe Ilk, wore, and Capt. M.Lacit LAM
thought the had every chance of reaching Loch
Ryan.—The flip in queftion has turned out to be
the Montezuma, MosOta, from Charleflon to this
port ; and we are Awry to Rate, that by accounts
received from Ayr, yefterday morning, the with
difficulty reached the inSde of the Lady tile, where
the came to anchor.—All her malls were obliged
to be cut away to enable her to ride out the gale.
—The Polly, Daisy; kofamond. CUTiI LS ; 111114.1
Ceres, BLACK; loading at Charlefton for Clyde.
AaawerThe Jenny, Reeves, at Dublin from hence; the
Lard Dynan, M.Natteln. at Sunderland from Dundee;
the Harwell, Bain, at Lintrrul, from hence; the Sider*.
Brews, at dromda.from ehle Clyde; the Crawford, Kinnear,
at ditto from ditto; the Beam, Poltlethwaite, at Trinidad,
from ditto; the Eleanor, Cram at ditto from ditto; the Here,
Fleck, at at. Kitts, from ditto; the Hope, LMWos, at Jamaica,
from ditto.

Near five hundred Bridal feamen, many of them
captured early in the late war, continued in the
prifons of Lima on the 4th July lat. The peace
had long been announced in that capital, notvnth-
Rending which no Reps bad been taken by the
Spanifh Government for their liberation: in feet,
the crew of the Redbridge, captured in breach of
the Treaty of Atrilens, have alfo been unwarrant-
ably detained in cußody.
The following is an extra& of ik letter written
by Mr. A. COOPER, lately belonging to the Red-
bridge, In a Gentleman in Cadiz, and received
there on the 25th
LIMA. 3171 T rAfter being captured by this Free& peli.
waters, t was landed at Rio Jancire,jue as the Redbridge was
about to fail frnm theme for the whale limy, oh the waft of
Peru, I restudied on board her, and proceeded to the South
Sea. We were fuecefsful in the fairy. bit the crew became
Gs !nerdy Abided with the /curvy, that the Captaie was eh&
ged to pat into an uninhabited Sited an the mug of Chili, and
to fend kit men on More. While thus eireeneftanood, two Spa-
eth privateers arrived. captured the alp. and having Itripped
es of every thing we pWcfed. tent us to the town of Caney-
' don, where we rerea In deft conibeeinent, tM abe
weeks back. We were then put op hoard a surd for ceevcratwe
to Lira, but in our way down the Captain put lam Valparlfo,
where we were again fort to nettle. and being wealises
of either money re any kind at fufteeanee, we Ante pa.
bat fee a few trittenes there, who hearing d our ear
adieu, benevolently (applied ten wants. Title treatmem eft the
part of the Spaniards proceeded from a tiffpute between the
Cumentor of Valparifo and Dna Frew-Au, the Commeakee of
the privateers. on the queftien of who Somali Copped us;
neither would. and thus virtually doomed us to death, item
which we were refused by welkin.
After sine days !Lay at ValpasiCe. We were feet bitheriu.
there are leveed men les the pease with me who were captured
at the commencement ef the het wee, and the whole number

of &Ida Whom io tbM dty mommei to wady toe tunkod.
There lii report that we thelletesdy
Yu bees done to indicate %di yoffale•

L 419 lA7ALLIGIsIvCA.

COURT OF ILING's BENCH, FBI 1,
Till £INO•v. 11APTitrA AAAAA ZZL.
MORAL DEPRAVITY.

When this was called on, the Ladies in Court I
were preparing to retire, but they were informed.
nothing would be Slated in the least /endive to
female delicacy.
Mr. GARP.IIW—.4 Gentlemen of the Jury, I am
called upon, after having had a pretty long expe-
rience of the profefiion to which I have the honour
to belong, to perform, or rather to affiil his Lord-
fliip and you, in performing the moll important
duty that can pnflibly he call npou thofe to whom
the adminifitation of the criminal jorifprodence of
the country is entrusted. I am called an to lay
before you a cafe, in which I demand from your
jullice, that you fhould deliver over to a revere
and exemplary punilhment, the Defendant who
Rands before you, and who is charged with pub-
lifhing one of the molt milchievous, infamous, and
diabolical publication', that ever 'fined from the
prefs ; a publication of fuch a nature, that it not
vifited by your vengeance, cannot fail of being at-
tended with consequences more dellruaive and
dreadful to Society than imagination can poffibly
conceive. This profecution is an effort made by a
Society of molt refpetable perfuns, who have
viewed, with concern and alarm, the encreafing
prevalence of the offence it is their objet to reprels.
They have formed themfelves into an affociation,
to Atilt in carrying the law into execution. against
perfons guilty of the crime charged against the
defendant. Though alfuciated but for a Short pe-
riod, they have already had the experience, that
it requires many and revere judgments, to operate
on the minds of thofe who have themfelves been
conviced, and to deter others from the commit.-
lion of their offence. I hope the importance of the
cafe will render any apology unneceffitry, for the
length of time I Shall coniume. I (hall not do Co
from any vain fuppofition, that any thing I can
fay will be of value; but from the confident ex-
peaation, that it will call forth from his Lordthip,
thole übfervations which will produce effential be-
nefit to the community. The fociety I reprefent
have hitherto thought they might obtain their nb.
jet by profecut ing in the Courts below. They hoped
that the judgments pronounced in dusk Courts,
would have had the effect of reforming the man ,
ners of offenders, and at the fame time of reform
ing the times; but they have to lament, that no
Sooner do thofe men, who are of the chars of the
defendant,efcape from their confinement, than they
immediately rerun to their wholesale warehoufes,
for their pernicious poifon, and with increafed ac-
tivity, dilfeminate it. They have found, that men,
jolt defcended from the pillory, repaired to their
magazines of mifehief, and travelled through the
environs of the metropolis, for the infamous per
pore I !hall Rate to you, with a view to the pre-
vention of their having fuch means in future. I
would nut fay this to prejudice a man against whom
I was asking a firSt conviaion ; but 1 will prove it
out of the defendant's own mouth,that he is an old
offender. and that all he was defirous of was, that
he Should be allowed to go on, unrestrained, till
he Should have amaffed an immenfe fortune. I am
extremely happy, that the rerpedtable profecutors
of this indiament, have thought it neceffary to
withdraw it from the Courts below. Its import.
ance demands the confideration of this high tri-
bunal. The confequences to the public demand
that the offence Should be tried here. The neceff-
ty of increafing the punilhment will be imprelted
on the mind of the noble, learned, and illuitrious
Judge ; for I am of an opinion, not lihtly taken
up, but &reed on my mind by a-painful review of
cafes of this fort. that nothing Short of a power he
the Collet to deliver the country of the pretence of
offenders fuch as the defendant, particularly for a
fecond offence, will eradicate the evil. We live,
Gentlemen, in times of extraordinary and alarm-
ing licentionfners : much of the time of Courts of
,
jullice is occupied in trying Libels, whole objets
are to deftroy private peace, and individual happy.
fiefs. and to break in upon the comforts of dome-
' tic life. Much of the time of our learnediudgee
and enlightened Juries is employed in the dircur-
fion of Libels, which have for their object the
crumbling into ruin that happy Conflitution and
well conStituted Government we have derived from
the labour and wifdom of our provident ancellors,
and of involving the country in one general State
of anarchy and confufion. There libels are nothing
(and I fay it deliberately) compared with the one
which is the °Neff of the prefent profecution.—
No cafe of a private libel—no attack on the
exit-
ing Government of the country—nothing in the
Shape of a libel the moll flagitious that can be con-
ceived, is fo capable of doing its office fo effeetual-
ly, as the crime which I impute to the defendant.
The charge on this libel. (with reference to which
I hope I may be forgiven if I fay a few words' is,
that it is a compofition of a nature the midi hei-
nous and diabolical. I obferved the learn%) Judge
jut now call his eye upon it, and I think I am I
able to conjeaure what palled in his mind. I think
that when upon barely looking. over the receird.he
difcovered enough to tell you it was an infamous
and abominable libel, he threw itiafide, as if fear-
ful of contaminating his fight by the contemplation
of fo horrid a rubjea. I have not had the good
fortune to be able to do fo ; 4 have been under the
painful necefllty of reading it, in order that I might
deferibe it to you. It would doubtlers be an im-
provement of the law, if in ot times perfons who
honked at our recordsl Nre
hould not find them difraced
by the recital of fuch a publication as this is. It
would be an wholefume provifion, if it was fuffi-
cient for the purports orjußice, to Rate merely the
lubaance of what none, except thofe for whom it is
exprefsly written and printed, can read without de-
teltation and horror. I have obferved, un former
proceedings againft fuch men as the defendant. that
thole who attend to what palTes inCeurts of Jolliet
fur the purpofe of informing the public of diem ;
a privilege than which nothing can be more bene-
ficial while it is properly exerciled, have innocent-
ly, I make no doubt. increafed the enikhiel intend-
ed to be prevented. Upon a former trial. I obferved
the title of the book mentioned in the diurnal tia- ,
port& Now this is procifsly'what loch osifersasts as

the dafendata w.fh to have done—it op: rat . as
an ad vettilemen t fur them. There are tholifand • of
our fellow fubjeas living in innocence Of loch pub.
licistions, becaufe they are ignorant of them. To
thole who with to delfrny the root and branches of
Society, it is an übjea of gratification, to have it
pointed out where loch publications may be pro-
cured. They are of a defcrilation which would bed
nn readers among men of nor age: no matron
who has the gond fortune to be at the head of at
fantily,tir a fe ))) i ) say of is& uaion—no daughters
of honourable families, who have received good
educations, would perufe them. They are written
by Come demon in human lhape, not Ids bent on
the deltruaion of mankind than the firft enemy of
our race: and but for fuch men as the defendant,
they would remain en unprofitable hurthen on the
(helves of their publifhers. You will have it from
the authority of the defendant himfelf, confirmed
by Nets which cannot lie—namely, by the means
of addreffes to telpeaable perfons of female lean-
naries, and found upon him at the time of his ap-
prehention. That his mode of maintaining his in-
famous traffic was this.—lt is happy that thofe
who have the care of the belt interefts of the Eri-
ca!' empire—thole who have the guardianship of
youth, particularly female youth, 'and who are
bound to intim& them in a religious and virtuous
centric of life, will now have an opportunity of
being cautioned againd the crime they ought to
have prevented, and of being informed, that daily
and hourly mifc•hievous Claims, like the defendant,
find their way into their ellablilhments, to under-
mine and deltroy the morale and liappinefs of thole
confided to their care. The courfe of dealing then
is this. After the compofitions, fuch as I have
defcribed, are put to prefs, thefe men, prepared
with portfolios, as itinerant dealers in heaps and
prints, travel the country in a way almost calcu-
lated to excite pity. One is led to exclaim at
feting them, " what a miferable life thele poor
wretches lead, travelling alone from city to city."
If, urged by compalion, any lady should flop
her carriage to purchafe of him time article in
which fhe might fuppote he dealt, he would offer
fomething that thould not offend her—perhaps a
map of England or Ireland, a landleape, a ;mint
of a partridge, or Come fuch innocent lubjea. In
this difguile they are permitted to find their way
into the Ichools appropriated to female ethicati. n
—they produce a few landfcapes : die ladies so
not want any : they pall them by, and alit whether
they have not other forts of prints ? upon which
there monflers take the opportunity of introducing
fuch prints as no adult pertisn can look at without
abhorrence. They are Cure of a file, and the un-
fortunate females who cart their eyes Main them,
are but too ready to give whatever price is afkcd
for them. Now tt may be laid, what is the coif
chief of an indecent print or book, and how does
the intereft of Society require they fhould be pro.
teemed e Let any one read this book, and then fay.
what mifchicf it is likely to produce I It is ca ets-
lated to defray all that nature intended for the
prefervation of the fez, and the enjoyment of to.
chit life ; it is written for the purpofe of exciting •
ideas nature never intended thould be excited. It
fuggetts the means of obtaining fenfoal gratif es.
tion, and paints, in glowing colours. (canes which
thefe young perfons ere invited immediately toes-
gage in. Thole who have paffed much of ylleie
time in the world, cannot but have had mi.-•
choly experience of the efea thefe things mama
Every care ought, therdore, to be taken to hiqp:
youth ignorant of that which nature will stint •
proper feafon teach them. By not doing (thickest
ate prematurely excited, before nature has had •
time to do her duty; and what are the Web.
quences? Every virtuous and moral fentiment is
deflroyed, and the parties engage in a gloomy in-
tercourfe of vice, which grows and increafes, and
cannot be left off till attended by that train of mi.
ferable corporeal diforders, to be found in the ca-
talogue of quack donors' medicines, which send
to increafe rather than abate the ntifcbief, and, at
lalt, the only daughter of an ancient and honours.
able family, is brought to an untimely grave, in
confequence of having had leer youth poiremed by
fuch produaions. Thofe who have the misfortune
to attend fuch early victims, in their latter liga-
ments, generally find that their corporeal (offer.
ings are but too much aggravated by the flings of
their confeience, and that mental anguifh, which
none but amfe who have witneffed can defcribe.—
IThe Learned Counfel then proceeded to Rate the
manner in which the defendant had been detetted,
and made tome oblervations, informing, that the
wituefs he Ibould produce was above A fulfpicios.
He added, that the defendant. who was (uttering
under a judgment in a Court below, had been
brought into this, in order that au high example
thould be laid down, as to the offence and the mea-
fure of punithment. He concluded by raying. it
is a cafe which appears to rue to be riche LIR im-
portance. I with I could believe, that it did not
originate in various and diffufed fources; but I
fear it is only part of atonfpiracy againft the peace
1 of Society. That licentioufnefa has been the rum
of States, experience has (hewn; but let us do out
endeavours to prevent its making further inroads.
If our endeavours should be untuccefsfuls at lime
to as have the comfort which *riles from a con-
fcioufnefs of having done our duty. Let as fay.
" It is not our fault ; we have done our belt to pre-
vent a mifchicf too great for us to fupprefs."
The firs witnefs called on the part of the profit-
cation. was Robert Gray, who (aid he knew the
Defendant, and hilt faw him about the 6th of Au.
gull left ; he few him coming out of Camden town ;
be bad then f 'me prints in a portfolio, which
he fail to the wi:nefs he would thew him, if he
would walk into the Adam and Eve Tea gardens,
which he did. He then thawed him fix mints
which he had Ant ' • he had Come more at home.—
He gave the witnefs his adJrefs, and told him to
call at his lodgings, which were at the corner of
Little Turn Aile. He lodged with a Mr. Serjeant,
who keeps a public houtir there. He called there.
when the Defendant produced fie indecent pints
out of a portfolio, and a great massy unt of a
drawer. He purchafed a few of him. He anted.
;him if he wanted any books . he linseed him the
book which was the fulled of that indiament ; he
1 produced a number of books. He basked at (eve.

• rf them ; lie purchafed the one that was the
o,jea of profecution, and gave him p. 6d. for
• G.itlemen ;dually gave him los. 6d. for it;
but if he would recommend him to any perf in, he
uld let him have it At p. Witndk
• i.l, when he law the title of the book which was
Cien under confederation. this is a I.atly'a book.

The Defendant replied, his chief cultomers were
I..v.lics. He sliced him what fort of Ladies they
A''ere ? He laid Tottenham, Enfiehl, and Hack-

my . (The witnefs was cautioned at the beginning
rot to mention die names of books or of perfons).
The Witnefs afked him if he had been at Highgate
a:,cl he laid be had. He afked him if he had any
( 11am-tiers in that quarter ? He laid there were a
f,f,r Ladies in that quarter; lie generally went
there once a month ; he fail, " I will call upon

,
yOl when I get any thing new." The Witnefs
:lited him how he got himfelf introduced there ?
Ile faid that had been dont fame time ago; he
Lid been in the habit of going there two or three
!cars ; he raid he bad not been detected, but he
Avas very near it once at Eaton. He frequently
went into female feminaries, and asked them if
they wanted any drawings, or landfcapes? They
asked him if he had got any Game ? he pretended
not to underhand what they meant, and then in-
troduced there indecent prints. He made an ap-
pointment with the Defendant to meet him at a
public bowie in Chifwell-greet, and two officers,
Vlcery and Armftrong, came there tb apprehend
him. The witnels pretended that an Eall India
Captain willed to export a number of there prints
to India, and defined him to bring_a,,number of
them with him. When the Defendiiit came there,
he laid open a variety of indecent Prints:lde men-
tioned that day a print, for which a Lady bad
given him a guinea, and faid, that a few fuck cur-
trimers as that would rave him the trouble of go.
log fo much into the country. He mentioned,
particularly, being at Eaton, and the cautions he
ufed at particular places. He had fold a number
of theft prints to the boys there, but had nearly
been deterred by the Mailers. They then went
away altogether, under pretence of going to the
EMI India Captain, and brought him before a
Magitirate. When he came to the door, Arm-
firoug ferved the Warrant on him, and made him
go in.
On trots examination, by Mr. ALLEY, he (Aid
lie was the Agent of the Society, who had infli-
tuted this profecution, for which he received toel.
per annum. It was his bufinefs to attend the le-
xeral Committees, according to the regulations of
the Society ; if he few any thing improper, he s re-
ported it to the Society ; he had no power of aft-
ing, But from the Committee ; he was not paid
ady thing on any conviaion ; he had been in that
employment eight or nine months; he had for-
'surly heed at Manehekr, and had been engaged
in the cotton manuhaery, in which he had em-
plOyed tso men.
The Dent swims(); was, John Vicery, the Officer,
who eloofolaaed the trill witnefs, and obferved that
he paled for the Witt Certain. He alked the
Ddendant if he bad get his order eompleat ? He
Weise had •da aat. He told him he went
about wide Ad e pehms, homited at the doors of
boarding frame* and.a&ad theta if they wanted
asp rills. He wooldyraidum se them a land-
fear, I that was banded iuto the room, and fent
one again; thee he would dusel them ins partridge
or phaafant that was aot wasted. Then they
wield a& bias, have yin gee an, fanny prints
Then he prudaced one of the e obfcene pnpu.—
The wieners eked him if all the Ladies few it, or
only the Lady to whom it was delivered ? He re-
plied it was handed round. and they all taw it.—
The witnef. took two of there prints, and Defen-
dant recommended one to him as an extraordinary
*good otte.that it was remarkably obfcene and filthy;
lie laid he llsould only charge him as. a piece fur
thenuthough lie ufually fold them at half* crown.
'llse Defendant (aid the prints in quellioss were re-
markably fine, and that if he were dour. at Cam.
bridgi, be could have eight or nine (killings a
piece for them from the Students. He raid lieliad
been obliged to leave the country five years for
felling tome at Eaton. He faid he could get a
fortune in a little time. if he could have a free
trade. _ _ _ _ .

It was agreed that the libel Mould not be read
in CoUrt. His Lordfhip and the Gentlemen of the
Joey were obliged to look at a part of it, in order
to be fatisfied of the Defendant's guilt.
Mr. Atter appeared as Counfel for the Defen-
dant, and Paid all that could be Laid under the cis-.
comftances of the cafe.
Lord EL LESISOROUGH, in his charge to the Ju-
ry, obfersed, this was an indiament againft the
Defendant fur publithing an obfcene libel, the con.
tents of which were flamed on the record, and they
had ken as much of them as -was neeefrary to fa. I
tisfy them of its tendency. The punithment relied
the Court, if the Jury fhould he Itisfied the
Defendant wasguilty. The material fad for their
canfideration %%AS the faa of the publication, which
relied on the credit they would give to Robot
Gray, confirmed as he was by the ofticer,.Vicery.
If they believed this man, there was no doubt of
the publication. There was no doubt thi►Dcfen-
dant had been carrying on this molt abominable
traffic. It had been hinted 011 the part of the De.
fendant, that the Procreators had been guilty of
maintenance It did not appear to his Lordthip
that they had dune any thing more than to enforce
t'.c law, taking a very forward interest in the hap.
wets and moral principles of the community, by
endeavouring to prevent the wicked and mifehiee.
ous drafts of fuck deteflable publications ; and, for
Tiber, they deferred the thanks of every virtuous
man in fuciety; and his Lordflip Caw no one com-
mon rule of law, that had been trenched upon by
this profccution. IC they should be of opinion the
publication was properly proved, and that the libel
s.•as,of the nature and tendency imputed to it, it
would be their duty to find him guilty. What is.
t.:lnvent he dioulg receive would be for the coofi:
,':ration of the Court, when he was brought up
f r
1 here was another imliament avian this De-
is ',dant. for felling indecent pi Lets.
I.lr. Gaaaow Paid, ibis was a moll momentous
ct.l..iry far the rublic, and be amid think it his

ditty to proceed to a feecmd &seri/lion and to
bring him up for a fecondiudgment on ;hat con-
viBinn. The fame A froaiation of egfpeEtable-Gen-
tlemen had inflitnted thisprofecation. They had
adopted for their motto, in one of their reports
lately publifited, the kntimeot of a very wife and
able man, who had lived in all their memories,
Mr. But ke, who Paid, " When bad men combine,
the good mull affociate."
The two officers, Vicery and Arm hong, proved
I the publication of three indecent prints.
Lord Eet.snaoanocx obferved, that it was,
enough jun to look at thee prints, to fee they
were of the nature de(cribtJ in the indiement.—
They mull appear to every decent perfon moll in-
decent and abominable prints t and if the Gentle-
men, of the Jury were fatisßed of the publication,
it would be their duty to find the Defendant guilty.
Mr. Alley had, with great propriety, not inußed
that the former libel (beold be read, and it was
only doing juftice to him to fay. he had thereby
promoted the moral objects the profeeutorshad in
view. Something had been Paid. on the part of
the Defendant, about laying a trap lot the dike,.
very of vice. He laid he took this diftialion. If
a perfon induced another, who was innocent, to
commit a crime, in order to be his accufer, that
was a crime of the higheß enormity a man could
be guilty of But if a man had been is the habi-
tual courfe of committing crimes, and there was a
difficulty of proving it, and bringing him to pu-
nifhment, from the mariner in which they were
committed, there. was no impropriety in laying be•
fore hint an inducement to an open difclofure, in
order to prevent the future commiffion of fuch
enormities: it was not only innocent, but doing a
beneficial fervice to fociety.—Guilty.
The Defendant is at prefent (offering an impri-
fonment for a fimilar offence. He was remanded.

TH2 RING V. •ITR[R.

This was a profecutirm againft Ann, the wife of
James Aitken, for poblifhing an obfcene and in-
decent drawing. Her husband is at prefent in
cußody, under a conviEtion for a Gmilar offence.
She continued to keep theibop, and carried on the
fame infamous traffic. One of the moll refpeaable
and altive Members of the Society, on being in-
formed what books and prints were to be fold at
this !hop, went there to fatisfy himfelf whether this
could poffibly be true. He was permitted to re-
tire into a private room, to look at Come that were
well fini(hed, and that were of the molt horrid and
abominable nature that could poffibly be imagined.
It was enough to harrow up the feelings of any
man. This drawing was fuppofed to be a family
party. This woman bad three children, who were
brought up in the misfit of aU this infamy. Thefe
prints, expofed to public view fcenes that never
took place fine the foundation of the world, and
pointed out with art, talents, and dexterity, (cents
that never were stied fence the fun was created.

It appeared in evidence there were about zoo
indecent pitts in a drawer, and the drawing in
queftion wit purchafed at the price of one guinea.
This woman Paid in her own defence; that a
Gentleman had 'Made bar a preknt of theft ar-
ticles, and defired her to Tell them, to enable her
to rapport her /many.
Lord Estawaleotram (aid, it was a bad and eri-
minal means of fupport. The crime was, no doubt,
proved. That the fold this for her own benefit
was completely proved ; and it was a moil &Ikon,
beailly drawing. It would be their duty to find
the Defendant guilty. It was to be lamented that
nn punintment leaned to have any died. He did
not know what was to be done.—Guilry.

There were two other indiaments againft har.
which, out of clemency, were permitted to Rand
over, and which are not intended to be tried, un•
left it is found neceffary for the purpofes of jueice.
Lord Et la BOROUGH told this woman, fhe mut!
turn to another cootie able. The law would not
allow the public morals to be corrupted. to main-
tain her and her family.

BREACH OF PROMISE Or 14ARRIAOL
0111.1 AVIS If. IWVOCILIIT.

Mr ERSE I it a, in a mott excellent fpeech,obferv.
ed, that this anion was brought for a breach of
promife of marriage ; and it was a confiderable
degree of fatisfaaion to him, that it came on to be
diccuied after the very ufeful manner in which the
time of the Court and Jury had been occupied dar-
ing the morning. He Paid that, becaufe he thought
it irnpoffible for any man to be an attentive fill-
ener to what had paired, without feeling his mind
morally difpofed. They had been, as his Lord-
thip well espreffed it, taking a moral intereft in
the principles and happinefs of Mankind ; and they
i were then about to confider a moll ferious injury
which a young woman had (offered by the defen-
dant's breach of a moll important promife made
to her. They would not think her beneath their
notice, hecaufe the was in a humble condition of
life. She was the daughter of an indußrious
tradefman, who had educated his family virtuour
ly, and this young woman had lived as a fervent I
for near nine years with a Lady of great refpiaa.
Laity, Mrs. Smith, of Strattind Grove, where the I
was very much efleemed. The defendant, Ro-
bert Innocent, is a jeweller and goldftnith, and a'
dealer in curiofities, &c. living in Little liewPott-
finer. It was °blessed, that hi blatrelf was the
gie.iteß curiofity, and the moll valuable part of
his flock, if h. had not fold hinsfeW to the devil.—
Mr. Innocent, who was a man of property, 'knew
the family of the plaintiff, who lived at Waltham.
flow, and knew the plaintiff from her infancy. He
vifited them frequently, and had an opportunity,
from time Cu time, of fceing this young woman
He wrote to her a letter, dated September is,
t floe, Rating, that he, with pleafure, took the ear-
ly opportunity to intimate to her his deliberate and
wel determined fentiments, in order, as he Paid,
1 that her agitated mind might be, is form meafure,
relieved ; and*then, in the moil fide= manner,
imakes her • promife of marriage. In two or three
days after, he called at her aunt's, and Informed
diem that lie had done 11. They were all extreme-
ly pleafed w id' his propofal ; and the young lady
herfelf told him, the was very grateful for the ho-
nour he intended tq confer upon her. He vifited
her both at the houfe of 'Mr. Smith, and at her
'ant's, which mahout a quarter a ralietidanc

and walled thk marriage to be aecekrated by all
means poffible.. At hes particular requeß, notice'
was given to Mri. Smith to provide herfelf with
another (errant, for Hannah was going to be mar.
tied. The wedding, clothes were all to be gm
ready immediately, and they were referred to the
taße of one of the plaintiff's aunts, who is a mil
lever. On the Gth of Oflober this Gentian:it,
had changed his fenthnents, and wrote a letter o
the plaintiff's aunt. Rathig, among other things,
that a man is not to be nailed down to his GA
promife ; and that Hannah had returned his affec-
tion only with lukewarninefs.
Mrs Clarke and Mrs. Greases, the two aunts of
rise plaintiff, Hated, that thex lived at Stratford,
in Mex. The one was a mantua-maker,-and the
other retitled with her upon a fmall competence.
The plaintiff was their niece. and lived at Mr.
Smith's in Stratford.grove. They had known Mr.
Innocent from Ins childhood. The witnefles Rated
fcveral vifits he had paid to them, and particularly
on the 16th of September, when he told them, he
had made their niece I lannah an offer of marriage,
and the had accepted it. He preffed to have the
wedding as Coors as pollible. They explained their
niece's tituation, that the had no fortune. 'He laid
that he knew that, but he could be as happy with
her, as with the firli Lady in the land. That his
fitnation might command a Lady with tocol.—
During feveral vifits he talked of the alterations
he intended making in his houfe, and of the cloaths
he wifhed to be pu rebated for his bride. for he Ea,
he syirlred to pay every refiwe and attention. They
had no rearm totalled his alteration of fentiment,
until they received his letter of the stli of Odober.
Mrs. Chu k laid her niece fainted away, when the
received intelligence of this change of fentiment in
her lover —She was well and happy before the
plaintiff broke in upon her peace of mind, but the
did not think (he had been happy lince. The de-1
fendant was a man about thirty, and the plaintiff
near the fame age.
The letters wero•then read in evidence. The
fira was dated the lath of September, and ad-
dreffed to the plaintiff, as follows :

." Dear Hannah--1 take with great pleahre the colic* op-
portunity of intimating to you my detenninatiou. in order that
your agitated mind may be relieved. I have (aloha my mind
in thinking, not as your relations do, that you are to Mr let
down In the lilt of old maids, but you are in every fate de-
(0..4 of the uninterroptid enjoyment of wanshial b
bat this principle I freely offer myth to you, fatisied=yet
will peeve yourfelf &Arcing of my hand and heart, and due
tour fociety I AM find that ft:unity of mind I have kw,
Built hoe: be Dot furprifed at this hidden deciaratkin there
is no mediae heihwther porky is this bufinds.
"P. L—l prepare fe leg you on Wedneiday ; therefore don't
beak your mind to yam mots till then."

The other letter, in which the defendant declin
cd his former offer, was dated Oftober 6, and ad-
dreffed to the aunts, it was as follows :
reirsd•-utinve, with such irritedost of nand, takes up
my pen to 6y etlet &els may be emeled. le the gra plate.
that I Wm net Mew, and wa eme peedially &tidied ea ta the
reception of my oddregfas to yew iskiend I ezpalted a pro-
per adjugusent of fandenews Mime wilt were brought to a
ails; lofted al wild pan thaughe pps, without my con-
currence or appraisals., this Ham& 4uY kayo her place,
no though Ivres to he naked to • fenbuent. I thought. No soy
ls* leeenearr. Oat my caws rowing but a Owns, romption.
They were rewlved wkh feballivonds,Nis true, het that they
were with winikilty and seglies, is what 1 cannot declare.
glow then, Were ha lean a Villa* and evident lukewarm
nth he Mr condo& Witt ban ausdles thought hid no this
Gaged t k has fad die 111•1=62.17 tar pies. and contreds
Nis insorod into it the tamales, and therefore One
=not to be it& rata Lad, • though we hove
yourfelf In a kW wed angle misuse, yam haw not awl
will a emilal mama a aOblliss. and yes have no mew to
fuppefe yew eta' has beat waived but fora hank and home.'
prat rlacipies of coriarnce. I have &tangoed as theft rom
&faunas trouble me before hand, what might they do on a
fistare day f The only way to adjuit thou flegsvegge. is to
Manske my sandman in es. As it is fogy to be mode alter-
able when ate may said it.
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" P. S.—Hreolt Ipso this mac to y cat don, as It molt it
io your qppoloo."
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Mi. Pastas, for the defendant, made a very
able fpeech, in which he contended, that if his
client bad thee fcruples, he did well nbt to marry,
as .a marriage, under filch circusallances, could
produce no happinefs.
Lord Ecuntsoaousit obferved, that this was
an anion by Hannah Greaves again* Robert In-
nocent, for having broken a prnmife of marriage
be had made to her ; they having made mutual
promifes of marriage to each other, he was guilty
of a breach of his duty,in not performing his pro.
mire to her, which mutt have occafioned confider-
able uneafinefs of mind, and fome inconvenience.
It was for the Jury to eflimate the compenfation
the was entitled to receive. This young woman
did not appear to have fuffered much inconveni
ence, the Bill lived in the fame refpeftable family;
but the had been fobjeaed to a degree of mortifi-
cation and uneafinefs of mind, and therefore the
was entitled to a compenfation in damages for the
injury the had received; not an exceSve or ex•
trava.gant one. for this cafe did not contain many
of the ingredients which frequently accompanied
fuch cafes. She had not been (educed; the bad
not been degraded ; the had not loft her fituatinn ;
the had fuffered a degree of mortification and une:s•
finefs of mind, and for that they vrould make her
a reafonable compenfation. His Lordasip here
foamed up the evidence, and obferved, that al-
tboagh ibis cafe was *ripped of much of the ag-
gravation:that attended many cafes of that fon,
at the fame time, Ose was entitled to a fair
crungenfatinn for the imy her feelings and her
future profpeas in life had received. The Jury
would eremite their judgment upon tike whole of
the cafe, and, he had no doubt, would give fuch
a verdia As ought to fatisfy all the parties.—Ver-
dia for Plaintiff. Damages tool.

On Friday, when Mr. MA11111(140 was moving
for a new tri.l in the Court of Chancery, in a cak
where an true had been direaed to a Court of
Common Law, the Loan Csaacaatoa °Moved,
that formerly, iu fuch a cafe, it was the pralice
to call to their eonfultation out of the Couplel of
that Court, who was acquainted with the tank,
tit that wholefnme praitice had now been laid
afide. and the cnnOrquence was, as appeared from
'the team Reports ; it was no very uncommon
'thins. when an Ale was direeed by that Court,
that ftme of tbsechrl
e:tsied.
ate were referred 40 a
jury were sot e i