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London, England, 1820-01-25 00:00:00

HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY.

EDINBURGH, JANUARY so.
After sentence cf outlawry was pronounced against
Marshall and his wife on Monday, the LORD Auvo•
carc represented that the Court had thus had alio-
cher instance of the conduct of those persons who
have lately, in the most daring manner, attempted,
by means of circulating blasphemous and seditious
publications, to corrupt the minds of the lower or-
ders in this country, and to alienate their affections
from all those civil institutions and religious princi-
ples, on which their comfort here and their happi
ness hereafter necessarily rested. That this was now
the third instance, in which persons charged with
sedition had shewn themselves afraid to submit their
case to the impartial decision of a Jury of their coun-
trymen, and had evinced, by flight, their own sense of
the delinquency committed by them. The Court had
pronounced the only judgment competent under such
circumstances, namely, that of fugitation, in which
the mildness of the law of this country was particu-
larly striking, when compared with that of our sister
kingdom, where persons failing to answer to a
charge are held guilty of the climes of which they
are accused, and proceeded against accordingly,—
His Lordship said, that it was his intention to have
moved the Court for a warrant for taking possession
of all copies of the blasphemous and seditious works
specified in the indictment, which Might be in the
possession of the parties complained upon, or of any
others for their behoof, in terms of the wise provi-
sions of an Act of Parliament very recently passed
against blasphemous and seditious publications ; but
as he found that all such copies u-'ele already in the
hands of the Clerk of the Court, he should confine his
application to a warrant to apprehend Marshall and
his wife; and he pledged himself, that in this and in.
every other case where parties shall fail to give obe-
dience to the summons of this Court, the utmost
exertion should be used for taking them into cus-
tody, and bringing them to the bar. His Lord-
ship said, he was persuaded that the frightfully
blasphemous and seditious nature of these libels, as
stated in the indictment, mu ,t he crnsidered as
sufficient, to warrant the motion he then made, in-
dependent c,f the extent of circu!ation which had
been afforded to these libels by the parties accused.
Had the trial gone on, there would have been pro-
duced, in evidence, an account current betwixt Andre
Marshall and Richard Carlile, printer, in Landon, that
noted character, who was now justly sufferirm the
punishment of his crimes. From this account, which
consisted of fourteen folio pages, it appeared, that, in
the course of a few months, last summer, the number
of blasphemous and seditiOus publications 'sent by
Carlile to Marshall, for circulation in Glasgow.
amounted to sixteen thousand nine hundred and thirty:
comprehending The Republican, Black Dwarf, Me-
dusa, Gorgon, and a multitude of others, the names
of which must be unknown to their Lordships, as he
trusted that they would still continue to be to the
great body of the People of this generally religious
and loyal country. From this document it also ap-
peared that the price of the whole of this mass of
publications only amounted to 1:147. The Lord Ad-
vocate said, that he would not dwell on these parti-
culars ; he trusted they were sufficient to justify the
motion he then made, and to satisfy tit* most preju-
diced mind, that the Public Prosecutor had not com-
menced any judicial proceedings, as connected with
the Press, until imperiously and irresistibly called on,
with a view to the security of the country.
The CouaT immediately granted the warrant thus
craved by the Loan ADVOCATE.

The PRINCE REGENT, in consequence of the ar-
rival of the intelligence of the derhise of his Royal
Brother, kept himself secluded in Catlton House
during the whole of yesterday, except rm.:icing visits
of condolence from the Dukes of YORK and CLA-
RENCE. The Cabinet Ministers, and a number cf
Noblemen and Gentlemen, left their names of condo-
lence at Carlton House upon the melancholy occasion.
The family of the late Captain GRIFFITH, of the
Marine, consisting,of three enterprizing ;nd intelli-
gent young men, with their sisters, three handsome
and amiable young Ladies, embarked a few da s ago
at Liverpool, as settlers to the Cape of Goad Hope.
They take out with them several artificers and agri-
culturists, under their protection.
To the notices formerly communicated relpectin
the symptom's of the revival of trade, it may be men-
tioned, that tallow and pot-ashes have already ri e .
in our market, and that the holders of c o•ton yarn
refuse to sell at the former prices. We formerly
mentioned the vivacity which had partially taken'
place in the weaving department. The bleachfields,
of course, are considerably thronger, and the cotton-
spinners are in better spirits. Those credulous pee-
, ple who doubted for a moment the stability of the
Government, and the resources of the ccuntry, are
now regaining their coaiider:ce. The hoarded silver
is pouring fast into circulation, and there are row
e imparatively few complaints of want of change.
Glasgow Paper.
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ether Prizes •of £20,000
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