Star.
London, England, 1819-08-12 00:00:00

CONTEMPT OF COURT.

A respectable and wealthy farmer, named Eggles,
pcssessed of about £1,400 per annum, having dis•
regardzd the authority of a javelin man, who kept
the doors of the Court, by endeavouring to press his
way to a seat, the latter came forward and complained
of the offender, represtn:ing that he had pushed by
his javelin, anti attempted to force his way into Court.
'l' he offender, being called upon to answer the COM.
Vila` rt modestly and respectfully said, he had always
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understood that the doors of a Court of Justice were
open to every body. He was aware that a Court of
Justice ought not to be inconveniently crowded ; but
seeing that there was room, he endeavoured to gain
admittance in the ordinary sv iy, and was not aivrt..
of having giving any offence to the officer.
Mr. Justice PAnz.—Sir, I commit you to the jail
of this county. It is fit that alt persons should know,
that the order and decorum of a Court of Justice
must be preserved. The crowded state of the Court
rendered it necessary that I should direct the officers
to admit no more persons. The oscer was doing no
more than his duty. It is true that a Court of Jus-
tice is open to every body ; and I do not-wish to
abridge the right of admission, as I have no secrets
to keep ; but the due administration of Justice is not
to be impeded by the gratification of mere idle Cu.
riositr. I commit you to the jail of this county. .
The offender was immediately taken into custody,
land placed in the dock with the prisoners for trial.
In a fete minutes afterwards the jailor said that Mr.
Eggles was willing to submit himself to the Court
and apologize.
Mr. Justice PARK.—I cannot take his subraissias
ip that way. Let him put villa he has to say upon
paper, in the form of a petition.
A petition was afterwards presented by the Gen-.
ticinan,_and he was discharged, after being aslaw.
isishcd for his offeatc.

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LONDON.

THE EVENING STAR.

THURSDAY, 'AUGUST 12, 1819.
PantcE lICI LI Tai niant-DAY.—lloliday at the Public Ogees.

Every important question should Ive discussed im-
partially, and without passion; nor can any way be
devised so well qualified to elicit truth as by hearing
the parties whose views are opposed to each other
deliver their sentiments in their own terms. On this
principle, we give a place in our columns this day to
an article which appeared in The Morning Chronicle
of this morning, entitled—" On leaislotive Interfi,
renee in the Regulation ?f the Prices of Lahonr.'"—
To the arguments and reasoning employed in this
communication, we will, in pursuing the,great ques-
tion .of the Remuneration duefor .L.Pii;om,r, pay every
attention, as soon as we can spare time anclroum.
In the interim, we must observe, that in the state-
ment there is nothing new : the arguments are the
same that have been employed, fur years, by the
pseudo-economists. There is also, throughout, a mere
begging of the question, disguised. indeed, by a pre-
tended reference to principles, which, we venture to
assert, the wrir has not studied, or it he has studied
them, which he has not understood.
We will go farther with this writer in admitting
his premises, than he may believe possible ; and, in
due lime, we shall chew that his conclusions are di-
rectly opposed to them. We only remark on his
leading doctrine at present--that all Legislative inter-
ference between the employers and the employed is inju-
rious. We agree with him in this : nay, we go far-
ther than he and The Morning Chronie!e will be
wil-
to go with us, till they shall first have bestowed
mote attention on the question—we go so far as to
say that a large portion of the distress that now per-
vades the Manufacturing Districts, is owing to Le-
gislative interference We are not now alluding to
Sp.italfields—which might be very convenient for
them in the cenfined view they take of this question;
but to those /azr,i which punish workmen for meeting
to regulate the prices of their labour, while the em-
ployers may, and do meet, as often as they please,
to combine with each other, not merely to keep down
the price of labour to such a scale as shall prevent
the goods from being loaded with an excessive charge
for wages, beyond what is necessary for the suste-
nance of the workmen, but, in many instances, to
reduce the wages to less than half the sum required
for the support ?f the laboirer.
When the workmen dare to speak with each other
about the remuneration which they ought to receive
for their labour, the law calls it a conspiracy, and the
delinquents (as they are then called) arc •isited with
exemplary punishment. Bur when the masters meet
to combine in a league of oppression against the
workmen, and to compel them, by the paying only
half wages, to become paupers for the other half,
levied by assessment on the rest of the community,
then, forsooth, their conspiracy obtains a softer name
—it is only a meeting to regulate some matters rela-
tive to their own trade.
It follows then, that so far as concerns the Em-
ployers and the Employed, the effect of Lcgidative
interference has been to protect the masters, and
leave the men entirely at their mercy.

The Paris Papers of Monday arrived this forenoon.
At the KING'S Levee, on Sunday, the Minister of
Marine presented to his MAJESTY two young Princes
from Madagascar, who have been sent by their pa-
rents to be educated in Paris.
Another celebrated exile, the Duke of BASSANO,
‘MARET) is said to have obtained permission to re-
tarn to France. _ _

The Duke of WELLINGTON'S destination is reported
to be Carlsbad, where, as our Readers are aware, a
sort of Congress is about to beheld. As yet nothing•
is said of any Envoy on the part of France.
'The Ultra-royalist Paper, the Quotidienne, affirms
that the Presidency of the Ministry has been offered
to the Duke of RICHELIEU, but refused by his Grace.
The accounts from Prussia still teem with viola-
tions of personal liberty. At the same time that thee
three Professors at Bonn were arrested, a Dr. Tor,-
Litmus was taken into custody at Eloerfeld and corn •
mitted to the prison of Muhlenfels. Dr. Totscsius
had the imprudence to write the words sauvez-moi on
a slip of paper which lie got conveyed in some man-
ner out of the prison. The paper was intercepted by
his keepers, and the consequence has been that this
Gentleman and scholar, known and esteemed through
all Germany for his writings, has been put in irons.
Among the persons arrested in the Duchy of Nassau,
are three superior Officers and four Ecclesiastics. A
private letter from Frankfort states, that at the apart-
ments of a student arrested at Gussen, there was a
Plan of a Republican Government, of which Frank-
fort was to be the capital.
The warrant issued by the Government at Berlin
for the arrest of the three Professors at Bonn, but
which has been so happily baffled by the independent,
conduct of the Authorities of that place, was in the
following terms 7.-4' The Professors Aftsarr and
WELCKER ate seriously suspected of having taken
part in certain Very dangerous political intrigues,
and secret associations. Their papers shall he seized
by a special Commission and examined in presence
of the accused, and then sent to Berlin, in order that

it may be ascertained whether they contain any poli-
dial views upon a ftiture Constitution for Germany,
on the union of the German people .w secret associa-
tions, or on the league of Students known by the
name of Burschenschaft."
The Members of the Bavarian Chamber of De-
puties have, on their return to their respective homes,
been every• where honoured by the warmest tes
timonies of the popular approbation. Their consti-
tuents have testified, with enthusiasm, their satisfac-
sion at the manner in which the Chamber defended
their interests. The towns of Itatisbon and Nutern-
berg have particularly distinguished themselves on
the return of their Deputies ; the Magistrates them•
selves hastened to join their homages to those of the
inhabitants.

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