Star.
London, England, 1804-05-28 00:00:00

THVSSDAT.

Fifty Poun.lr for all ages, four-rite hers, ens wee et Wei
13,..at. by Mr. Covcotry's L Lawa, Irf Pestles, besting law eL

DUB; liv, ALIT sa.

yeaerd,,y the yeons,,,,ry corps or the City of Dub•
lin, und:r the command of Major General Sir CHAS.
ASOII.L, were teviewcd in the Pisteniz Park by the
Commander of the Forces : they muttered upwards
of five thoufAnd. alit Went through a variety of dif-
ficult movements wi h he ereaten qucknefs and at-
curacy. The Yeomanry Corps of the county attend-
ed on the occJtion to keep the lines.

OUT 2.1..
His Excellency he'd a Privy Connell at the Cad
tle, i.n Tiiefday bail, aid tranfafted a variety also-
fitiefs chisfly relat n to e ercanjile (hipping from this
port and r the ufw.lne sta y regulations.
Five our of ten of the hate prifoners confi led in
Islewgate !ince July lafl, were liberated on Monday,
by order of Government. The remaining five were
ellerday fent to Ki;mainham gaol, under an ehott
or cavalry.
On Saturday laft our Univerfity prefented the foe-
cefsful candidates, W. Haze tiovcninson and Mr.
03.45T0N, with the prize medals, &c. adjudged to
the belt rompofitions in Latin Verfe, on fubjsas pro-
pcfed at the c es'e of the la year.
The CAA p. 1% boy was again robbed on Monday
night, of the bags from Clonmel, for that town and
Tipperary.
COCK FIGHTIIIO.—On Saturday laft ended the
Stag Main, between the King's County and County
Armagh, which was won by the former. Seven bat-
tles a.heal in the main, two in the byes. There was
a good meeting and excelent fighting, and odds run
in favour of Archy.

HYDE PARR, AND KENSINGTON CARISTIM—The
fallsionable throng yetlerday in Kenfington Gardens,
though by no means Co numerous as on the preced-
ing Sunday, was yet very great. The Ariaktal of
6rft rate ton was very (paring. though the &play
of beauty and tab was very brilliant. Very little of
unvelty appeared in tie ornaments of drefs ; bow
hats, and muffin dreffes, were the prevailing orna-
ments amongft the fair fez; and Sort coats with
Nankin trowiers, and gaiters of the fame, the lead-
ing cnDume of the teerezzarcorw. In general, ,
how-
ever, the plain modefly of Englith prevalled,
and very little of the tawdry ornaments of French
Whims marked the fcene. In the Gardens we ob-
ferved the LORD CHANCELLOR, Lord Di BLAgy ERZ
and his two darghterls, &c. The Duke of Gcou.
'curia took an airing in Hyde Park ; and the Earl
lof Sir TON made a daihing appearance with his Oat.
ltnn and four. The ride was ;mutually crowded with
equcffrians of rank.
Saturday the ad and 3d regiments of Guards were
reviewed by the Duce of You, in Hyde Park.

A Court of Inquiry is to take place to morrow, at
Sheernef.. on Captain CaleUsti. and the Officers cf
the AtALTNYeT, concerning the aiftion which that
frigate had with four Dutch privateers off the coult
of Norway. The gunner was on Friday dirmiffed
the Ibip by lenience of a Court Martial.
For lonic time pall a middle-aged man, refpeela-
bly dreffed, has been calling at the Qeen's Honk,
making inquiries if the Kiso had left any meffages
for him, and if the Puwesssss had left any letters
for him, in anfwer to fume he had fent them ? On
Friday moaning he Applied again at the door of the
Lodge, and became fo extremely troublefosne, that
Mr. Wazt, one of the Gentlemen Porters in waiting.
feized him, and conveyed him into the cullndy of
Townfend, the officer, who lodged him in Tothil.

fields Bridcwcll.
On Saturday he was examined before Sir. R. •
FORD. when he proved to be a man who is deranged.
and has been in cuficaly feveral times. He was or-
dered to be detained. His name is Thomas Lovrodes.
The Officers of a rarith near Ipfwieh having pn -
Cued a man to town, charged with canfmg a woman
to become illegally flnitCul,and who by the :Adana:
of two Bow-theet Officers they feenred, agreed to
accept aBl. as an indemnification, which the man
contented to, provided they (including the runners).
would fign the receipt. This being done, be paid
the money, and the next day laid as information
againft them for giving a rc&ipt on undamped pa-
per, the penalty for which is aol. on each perfnn.
In confequence of the crowds of perfons attending
at the Bank, for feveral days pad, for the porpole
of getting the old dollars eachaoged for new ow,
the Direttofs applied to Sir Ricreami FORD for fume
of the Boo-greet Officers to attend; to prevent the
depredations of the defrrate gang of pickpockets.
who are always upon the alerts and on Thnrfday.
Friday, and Saturday lad Mnemanns, Townfend,
and Sayers attended, by order of Sr Rica. FORD.
At Exeter fair on Monday tall, there was a larger
thew of cattle than hat been ethibited for many
years pall. Fat beats fold well at good prices;—
but the fate of the lean was heavy. We ondultand
there were not ifs than loco them:. of srhkls abtiot
1200 were purehafed.
Four men and two women in a Rare of ebriety, on
Wednefday. took a coach from Bethnal Gist's. while
the coachman was in a public hc.uk, and drove it
to Epping•Fored. where they tied the hnrfes to
tree and lett them; and two days elapkd b:fore they
were t, teed. On Saturday, however, the parties
were difcasered, and compelled to recompenfe the
owner for his lois.
On rriday night as J D vvvvv our, Erg. of So-
merfet Houfe. in company n ids a Captain in the
Navy, were returning to roan from Plymouth in an
open cl.dife, they were flopped by two footpads near
Bedont. The robbers. after having plundered them
of a confiderable number of notes. made off. and
were ineffeacially paned by the offended pan; oval
the

ROBIN.

.A4l Too wood-cover
Telivtelititifrilhkettme; and the 1)1 toms of ;
I tooled snennHiskrtifi foe to (.stet little SALLY,
'More prattle Woad fumetintes enliven my way.
At length MI a ftyle, by a walnut tree °laded,
I found her in tears, a dead bird In her lap;
The joy of ber once (mating face .vas nnw faded,
While the wept and related her ervi mithap.
• Alas: " fee my little tame Robin,
• 1 be naughty cat killlit;'—and then ibe carcfs'd
And Itifs'd the pow victim, and tend:N.ly fobbing,
Let fall her fond tears on its blood.fprinkkd bona.
I lighl as I Paid to myrelf, 'tis with reafon
That Sages declare all is borrow Mew;
Fee even In childhood's fair, Innocent realms,
How quickly is pleafure fueceeded by woe !

LAW iNTELLIGEpCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAY 26.
C. PLUNRITT W. W. CONDITT.
This was an atlion brought by the plaintiff, who
is Solicitor General in Ireland, againil Mr. Cobbett,
for an alledged libel publiffied in the Weekly Poli-
tical Register, of the soth of December la!
damages were laid to the amount of to,oool.
Mr. NOLAN opened the pleadings.
The libelous paffages fpread on the record were
two in number, of which the import of one was that
Mr. Plunkett, in the courfe of debate in the Irifh Par-
liament, on the important quellion of the Union, had
aliened and maintained the incompetency of the le-
gstiLutire (including the Royal Anent) to effett that
measure, and that the Sovereignty cf the people was
a fiIL principle with...him—that he had averted this
Sovereignty of the People, not in a drunken club,
not t‘4 a Brawling rabble, but in a grave 4:Tenthly;
and although an inebriated Nobleman had been (truck
off the fa of the Privy Council, for giving as a soak,
4 The Sovereignty of the People,' in a drunken club,
yet thii Barrifter, who alTetted it in Parliament, was,
by Lord Hardwicki, appointed Solicitor General.
The other libellous paffage fpread on the record,
and which was principally infifled on by Counted,
Rod cnnfidered by Lord Elienborough as the rave-
Mei in the tale, was literally ao follows, viz.
sae* of wan hi. DAM high Radon, which be In ably filled,
W it pink! his 14egelty to barb the Weems neighbours of
Callarirue (who catisAy owe the howl& end warm-bearted prin-
signier id win). widi Lord Neuron ter a Chouallor, I can
pry mell waive whet Lard
in feedwould
bean less, aid aliswist be masid set ham dome. Prom a rare
sprobar ef muss, or *me s ore peed lbas of felt-knowkdge,
Lard Cayes would have idled with neferve and dreorntpeakin.
an Ls areturi is a country, with the swami quality of the lithe-
Ida' et aloha, and with their peons manners, and itlivi-
eiddsmalbers sad eameoltirms. be melt have been trialy un-
sainalait is WI a Wintry. tom with donscitic (edition and
maim, dwasured wish foreign lonnon• and adios, Sax the
Ugh, mire so =tried tasthstiee. if Donor AddingtonAr t had
t tbet On* Aired aCaouhridgebire sin
ail Me mesas? Lunt woo* as fees, at the Mire of Lord
' nt• ininontte bilge to pilot a line samule illp through
glee Hsugles. ifartisslaity, the integrity at Lord Kenya weed,
ban dived frees ibeh on undertaking, if • eanditton had bees
my
ant no me 'oblong er gentleman, who pontffed
seek sante at condition is tie country, upon say account
wadi be cadvited. His pride would have [peened at the under-
Wang. Ulu ware told, that the Cantbridgelhire Earl and hiSaele.
fok the cares at usarraasear. a dear In the Secretary's olice, and
sareektif lawyers, without political babite, political Information,
or bossorsige cosseitions. were to be joiseel as Offers, and to
in the a* seam awl Lord Kennso's pride and integrity
would how both joined in preventing from being hlinfelf the
bilbrumem of introducing fuck men into a Cabinet of Government.
if soy ale seas amid be found. of wham a young but unhappy
vials of the jump oft** left of bit country had, In the ma-
mas of his meridiem sad fentenee, uttered the following
firoplat—a flat viper wbom my father nourinied He it waa
from what e 7 and dodrines. which now by their avail
dreg me to My gram, end be it is who is now brought forward as
my penitently, sod who by an =hard at mieretie of prerogative.
has wantonly ill*, with a (perch to evidence, the dying fon of
his easser Mend. when that dylug San bad produced no evidence,
bad mode so defame, but, as the ceetrary, had acknowledged
the charge, and had fubsanted to his fare; Lord Kenyon would
lave turned with horror from fuck a (cow, in which, although
gab wag one part to be punillsoil, yet in the whole drama,
Mike was eonfonuded, rummy outraged, and loyalty Infultet"
Mr. Easel's( fisted the cafe—He began his ad-
deers by expraffing his great veneration for the li-
berty of th- prcfs, etf which he ever had been, and
sever Should ceafe to be the eulogist and the advo-
cate; fince he WAS able to dillinguiffi right from
wrong, he had been accuitomed to confider the right
• of &cuffing freely the rondull and mesfures of Go•
vernment, and of public men as the birth-right of
Sagliffimen, on which the fafety and permanence of
our unrivalled Conflinition depends, and when it is
1011, the Conditution mull penes with it ; they necef-
farily eo-ezill—it is the vital effence of our freedom;
bat if it ever (hall decay and perish, its dame-
don Mali probably fiall be occafioned by its Been-
tioofnefs and abufe, it has no enemy Co dangerous.
—This invaluable right, this glorious liberty of free
sod fair difeutfion Should not be Suffered by the juries
at the country to be perverted into a Shield for lin-
principkd libellers to hulk behind, and under its
protection to fpread their malignant and pnifoned
thefts at worth and merit ; on the contrary, the law
fays, that if a man (hall write that which injures or
brings into contempt his neighbour, or bolds nut an
individual as unfit for the office he bolts, whereby
filch individual (hall or may be injured, fuck a man
!Call be deemed a liheller. Alr.Erikine Rated Mr.Plun •
kctt (with whom, though he was lint perfonally ac-
quainted, yet his chasactcr was well known) to be a
Gentleman of the moll eminent talents and of the
highell honour and integrity, held in the greateftefli.
:nation bythe public of his native countryond regard•
cd by all who sad the honour of his friendlip or ac-
quaintance. This, laid Mr. Erfkine, is the defcrip-
slots of chairaner which the Defendant has thought
proper to affail with a Irina atrocious and infamous
14sel. After a ntur.ber of obfervations, the hauled
C meet proceeded to call evidence.
Evidence was then produced, that Mr. Cobbet was
tie foie proprietor act the Political Reg:fir. Several
witnelfes were then called in order to explain the
inuendoes ; theft witneffe. were Mr. Wickham, Mr.
Barnett, and Mr. roller, Speaker of the late bin,
Node of Cnermoos. 'nick gentlemen, on being
Sewn the libels, agreed in thinking the inuendoes
applied to Mr. PhO.kell.
M. ADAM addreffed the Jury on behalf nr the ele•
hodaot, in a very judicious. imprcffive, and eloquent
fpeeth. He eapreffed great refpett and triendlhip
Inc Mr. Erfkine, but as an advocate he laid, there
were parts of his condua which he had on this rice*.
fi,iit a right to complain of. "I am not," laid Mr.
Adam, •Icifonally acquainted with the Jury, AL Air.

Erfkine is, but i tit fl to their good fettle and infor
!nation for this, that they will not fnffer their minds
to be inflamed by the fpeech of my learned friend,
and by his allufions to the trial on Thutfday
which the prefent aClion has nothing to do. I unit,
Gentlemen, that you will confider only what is within
the four corners of the record, an advice oftengivin in
fimilar cafes by Lord Kenyon." Mr. Adam pane-
gyrized the defendant's gencra lconduit and charac-
ter with great feeling and zeal. With much art and
ingenuity he alluded to one of Mr. Erikine's °bier•
rations, vi z. that Mr. Fox, although [truck off the lid
of the Privy Council, was not thereby injured. Is Mr.
Plunkett injured, hid Mr. Adam, by the imputation
call on him t He is his Majeliy's Solicitor General, in
the full career (not interrupted by this publication) to
honours and emolument. Mr. Adam, after replying
to every argument ufed by Mr. Erfkine in aggrava-
tion of Mr. Cobbett's aggreffion, and with a degree
of ability to which wekannot now do juflice, Paid, that
as to the charge of the Parliamentary languages
though he did not mean to joaify any part of the
publication complained of, for it was not Mr. Cob
bett's intention that he fltonld ; yet, as throng lan-
guage had been laid to fall from Mr. Plunkett on the
queftion of Union, as that which Mr. Cobbett's Re-
r,oiiier contained, he produced a volume containing a
compilation of the fpeeches made on the Union—
which was objeeted to. He then repeated his appeal
to the feelings of the Jury ; and Lord Elletiborough
delivered the following charge
Gentlemen—The plaintiff in this cafeh asbrought his
anion to obtain reparation for an attack nude upon
him by the plaintiff in a publication which you have
repeatedly heard read. You are to put out of your
confideration the other parts of the publicati in of
which the defendant has heretofore been convieted,
and only to confider the part now before you. The
punillastent which a man is liable to for a public of-
fence, is not to abridge the right of an injured indi-
vidual to obtain redrefs for the injury he fultains.—
Yoan hate heard the proofs of the publication of this
libel by the defendant—of its quality you are to
judge, and furely no rational man need be told that
it is of a moll malignant nature. At to what has
been laid of the defendant's poverty by his Counkli
who reprefents to yon the inflruetions of his Client,
Sven thipld you give the client credit for veracity
when he flaws his poverty, yet the law is, that a per.
fon's poverty does not mute offences of this kind.
The damages you are to appreciate Mould neither be
reduced by his poverty, nor enhanced by his wealth.
You are to confider the magnitude and fire of the
injury—the way to meafure the injury is to confider
each of you what would compenfate your feelings
for it. As to that part of the libel which attacks the
plaintifP's language in Parliament, his Counfel lays,
he could not put in a pica of jollification, for proof
could not be given of what is Paid in Parliament ;
the privileges of Parliament mutt not be,ttrenched up-
on or invaded. True it is, that this difficulty exias,
but it is a difficulty of the defendant's own creating.
Why did he arraign any language ufed in Parlia-
ment, or impute language not ufed to the plaintiff.
But, Gentlemen, the principal:raven:ex is the charge
of his being the preceptor in treafon of the unfortu-
nate Emmett—as if he were like the enemy of man-
kind, firth the reducer then the accufer—as if he wan-
tonly lathed the fon of his friend and the pupil of
his own (edition. Gentlemen, it is your
province o
t
meafure the damages ; you will confider that Mr.
Plunkett holds an office at all times and in all coun-
tries of an invidious nature. It is a Ltation that at-
trans odium—for it is his duty to profecute public
offenders. You will confider the danger to which he
may have been ezpofed by means of this libel. and
the pain and injury done to his feelings; and I have
no doubt but you will return a proper verdift.
The Jnry returned a verdih for the plaintiffs with
;ooh. damages.

BINGHAM V. MILS.
This was an anion brought againft the defendant,
as Receiver of Gofport, for the amount of a verdict
found by the Jury for the Plaintiff, as compenfation
for certain premifes which he bad given up to his
Majeily's Officers of Ordnance, pusfuant to the Alf
of Parliament. The Plaintiff, who was the incum-
bent•of Gofport, held certain premifes under the
Bilbop of Wincheller, upon which be had ereeted a
houfe, and expended a large fum of money; the
exigencies of the Rate required he Ibould give up the
potreffion to the Officers of Ordnance, which he ac-
cordingly did ; a Jury was impannelled to value the
premifes, and they found a verdift that the plaintiff
was intitled to 54,7581. for one part of the premifes,
and the further (urn of 4701. to be paid for the bene-
fit of the Incumbent, for the other : upon applica-
tion being made to the defendant, as Receiver for
Gofport, he at firft promifcd to pay the amount of
the verdift, but afterwards refuted: the aftion war

then brought.
In going throtTh the evidence, a point was made
by Mr. Glass, on the part of the Defendant, which
was, that tke Iteverfioner fliouid have been called
in upon the valuation, as well as the Leafeholder.—
The verdis was. therefore, found for the Plaintiff

fobjett to this point.
111AVLILLD011 W. THE SHIMVPIIOT T$ C TTTTT or

MI
This was an aaion brought againft the Sheriffs of
Middlefex, for having arrefled a perfon of the name
of Walden, at the fuit of the Plaintiff, and after-
wards (offering him to efcape from their cuftody.
The Plaintiff not being able to 1410 e the altual
arrell, and offering parole evidence, when wntten
evidence ought to be procured, he was nonfoited.

.11OLLIDAT. V.- GOLDSMITH.

This was an action of damages for cutting the
Plaintiff with a (harp edged tool, and thereby di6-
bling him.
The Plaintiff was working in the fhnp of the De.
fendant, shit is a chair maker, when the Defendant,
in a paifitin, took up a chifcl and threw it at his ap-
prentice, who had provoked him: it niiffed the ap-
prentice, and (truck the Plaintiff in the atm. The
Delvndant, alarmed at tie milrhicf lie had done,
prcmtled to lupport the Plainttd until he was reco-
vered ; Lut (horily after, finding the Plaintiff* nut of
danger, he repented id hi, rtiini,t,, and totally ne.
gleth:: hint. The PI tintid l id tAn a long time,
and dill remains Ul.:alt tr) e4lO si killd of liveli-
hood ; many applitiv.:cns wet: made In the Defen-
dant, for fume kind of mairti-nane,..htit to no iirpnfe.
—He was at ref of to this a Flinn, to
reciiver ctimpenfation tia the itijor) he had fidiained.
,The Lilts were proved, and the Jury found a rerdset
lot ria;u:iff, 151. deu...;;;,.1.

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