Star.
London, England, 1817-08-04 00:00:00

. MR. ANDREWS AND MR. ADOLPHUS.

The &missal f the above Learned Gentlemen
from the 1-1•••,,e Circuit Club was communicated to
them %rectally, um the evening of the 29th, by the
Inllowint! laconic Note from Mr. Berjrant ONSLOW,
the Ch.i.m ,n:

" Mr. 81 rj-ant Ousinw has the painful task of informing
Mr. A that it Is requested that he will not any longer con,Ller
himself & Member of the Club of the Home Circuit."

In a Sunday Paper, Mr. Arotesius has thought
proper to publish 4 statement of his conduct on this
occasion. It is the same, indeed which he delivered)
in to the Club, as required by Serjeant OssLow
gi On the 26th of May, Me. Audrews was of coun-
sel for the prosecutors, •and ferithe prisoner, at the
Sessions at Clerkenwell,. mum ;113 commitment of an
offender as a rogue and vagabond, under the Police'
Act. I took an objection to the cteiviction, e n the
ground that it sentenced the party to be imprisoned '
dotal discharged by due course of law, and not until
the next session, and there to be dealt with accoriing
to the due course 01 law. As Mr. Andrews was ar-
guing in support of the conviction, the Chairman asked
• If the commitment was rot to the Ses, ion, how comes
the rar.y to be here r —Mr. A mite ws erred, The
case comes here as an appeel against toe conviction.'
• No, Sir,' I said to the Chairman, that is a mis-
take; it it had been an appeal it would have been M
Vie paper last Thursday : it comes, as all other cases
of persons in custody do, as part of the regular busi-
ness of the Session.' I said this in a very mild tone,
without the least appearance. or the least leeling of
irrita:ion. Mr. Andreas immediately exclaimed to
the Chairman, ' Sir, I do hope, I shall be permitted
to l';o on with my business, without these impertinent
interruptions.' Roused by this unprovoked attack,
said, ' I am sorry, Mr. Chairman. that a mode of
speech should be adopted in this Court which is not
used in any other ; but. as the Court does not inter-
fere, I think it necessary to say, that whoever charges
Me with being impertinent, charges that which is
false.' Mr. Andrews immediately replied, he should
do what he considered his duty, although I might
abuse him in my vulgar manner. I retorted, that
the charge of vulgarity might well be brought against
me, it, like the person who made it, I had been
brought up in a cublerle stall.
4, All thi. ?eased in muds less t:me than it hat taken
rue to wiiie, end probably.less than will be required
to read it with moderate deliberation. When it came
to We to reply, I began by laying, that if in the course
of the lest few minutes, ao unexpected provocation
had led me to the any txpie.sions weich enuld be con-
sidered as diareepectlul to the Court, I took diet early
moment to apologise, and beg pardon fi r them. The
lotices,bowed to me, toed appeared perfectly satis•
lied ; lodged one of their body told me a day or two
afterwards, that they were so ; but Mr. Andrews im-
mediately said, • That is not the only apology you
have to make; for it you do not beg my pardon, 1
will her:ewhip you in the presence ot the while bar.'
I said.' I know well enough what to think of threats.
tittered in the presence of a Bench of Justices. I
again beg pard. n of the Court, and that is the only
apology -I have to make.' Mr. Andrews repeated his
threats, and I went on and concluded my argument.
" When I had finished this, my last business, I left
the Court, and went down one flight of stairs. aiid up
another, to the room wiseie we change our dress, and
had just performed that operation, when Mr. An.
drews came in. We were quite alone, and he accos-
ted me in these terms :—' you have done the
worst day's work her yourself that ever you did in
you' life. Your reign has been too long, but I will
put an end to it ; I will horsewhip you in the pre
settee of the whole bar.' I said—' 1 believe you in
that just as I Join every thing else.' He interrupted
me by acme very grois abuse, which I returned by
allusions to his conduct; and this altercation, the par.
titulars of which I shall not state, unless called upon
to do so, term.uated in that room, without any per-
son hearing a word of it.
•• When we got r the door to go down stairs, I,•;
tieing nearest, bowed to Mr. Andrews, and odeted •
1 ins the precedence to which.. his standing entitled
him. ii.-, ley a like gesture, refused it. and I went
first. After I had got to the .bottom of the stairs,
and as I was proceeding. towards the street doer,
along a passage in the hall;, %how all the Police Of-
ficers and Con,tables, and all the people attending
the Grand Jury, were assembled in a crowd, I left
myself suddenly struck twice from behind, and,
tttrning round, saw Mr. Andrew; in the act of bresi•
dishing his umbrella to repeat his blow, which he
did, and broke the stick off short. I attempted to
return the assault with my unibi elle, but immediately
threw that down, and began to strike with my hands,
Mr. Andrews defending him's& wth the hooked
stick of his broken umbrella, when the Pelice inter-
posed and parted us. 1 should suppose that this whole
transaction hardly took up lialr'a minute.
" I left the scene of this most odious action with-
out impediment, and went immediately to the Old
Bailey, where 1 had a ease coining on instantly, and
reached that place at about halt after See o'clock.—
As I had fully resolved what my nest step should
be, and did not expect to have any time for writing.
it was my anxious desire to communicate what had
passed to some Gentleman at the Air, that, in all'
events, . the true state of facts might be known. At
my first arrival no one was there but Mr. Alley ; and
awkward as it would have been, I was going to re-
quest a hearing from him, when Mr. Maesham com-
ing in. put an end to that difficulty. - I related to
him all that I have now stated, assigning as a reason
that, as the matter must be talked of where I could
not be heard. I wished that my explanation of my
own cundutt should be deposited with some '...'entle-
tnan of undoubted honour and veracity. As soon as
business would permit I left the Old Bailey, in com-
pany with Mr. Platt, to whom I communicated what
I had before told Mr. Manshern. He declared, with-
out hesitation, that I hod but one course by which to
do misell justice : I did not tell him that I had re-
solver:l on that course, thus obtained his promise to
come to tea at my chambers at eight o'clock. In
the mean time, I sent to a friend, on whom I thought
I could rely, to wait on Mr. Andrews, but was in-
formed that friend 'was not expected to be at home
that t?ight.
4 When Mr. Platt came to me, I was full of on.
easiness at my situation. While I was at the Old
Bailey, I had received a note from one of the Justices
at Clerkenwell, requesting me to attend him there at
or before wee o'clock. Aware of his intention, I