Star.
London, England, 1803-02-22 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

courlT or KING', BENCH, FEB_ It.
johs PELIIER.
At nine o'clock the Com t Was thronged, as wel:
as the sieellll,:, to it, excited by an eager citriMity
to hear this trial : the names oC the Special jut m s
upon the returned bit bcing called, 12 01 diem
appeared out of the 2.1., vie.—
Bainbridge Samuel Farrington
Mark tarrott J. I'. Dawfon
Johu II of b,s (;...nr,:e Young
With W. Worm!
John Newton \V. Doc,
Peters John R...hilus.
Aissorz opened the cafe for the profecu-
tion. He flitted, that this was an informat on filed
by hi, Niajelle's Attorney General againll the
Defendant, John Peltier, letting forth the time ofi
publication by him of a (editions libel againil Ci •
tizen Napoleon Bonaparte, Fit It Conful and Chief
Magifirate of the French Republic, tending to
bring him into contempt with the inhabitants of,
this realm, and to excite and provoke the fubjeets
of the Republic to deprive him of the Confolar 1
Office, and kill him, and alfo to defiroy the relit.
Cons of amity and friendfhip fubflaing between I
the Republic and this country which libel was!
publithed on the t6th day of Atignll, in the 4zd
year of his Nlajefly's reign. Here the Learned
Countel read the tranflation of the palrages, ex-1
tra front the firfl number of the Ambigu, which I
were laid in the indielment as libellous. The in-
formation, likewife, he dated, contained another 1
count, for a libel tending to excite the citizens of;
France to affitffinate their Firil Magittrate. The
tranflation of the palTages laid to be libellous in ;
this count, were alfo read.
The libel was contained in an Ode, fuppofed to
be written by Chenier. The fubje& was the for-
tunes of Bonaparte : we here infert the moll ob•
noxious paffages, and on which the piofecution was
chiefly founded:—
. De la France, b honte eterndle,
" Ca.,r,au bord du Rubicon,
" A contre lui, dam Lt querelle.
I.e Senat, Rompie et Caton;
Et.dans les plalr.i.s de Pharfales
• " Si la fortune eft inegale
" S'il to Taut ceder aux dekin. •
" Rome, dans a revers funefte,

Pour to Tenger, au mains it rale
" Un poignard aim dalliers Romaine."
TaANTSLATiox.—.. Oh eternal difgmce of France,! Cs-
" far, on the bank of the Rubicon, has againit him, in his
" quarrel, the Senate. Pompey, and Cato; and in the plains
" of Pharfalia, if fortune is unequal—if you mull yield to the
deftinies, Rome in this fad reverfe, at leaft, Mare remains
" to avenge you a poignard among the Lilt Romani."
" Pour moi. loin qu'a fon fort je porte quelqu'envie,
",n
n
,ime, j'y content, fon dignclurecrair,
Sur le payola porti, qU'On rclifeeseprear/
" Enfin, ct Romulus nous rappelle la thole,
Jr fim vceu—des demain qu'il ait l'apothenfe."
TIANSLATION.-.." As for me, f r from envying his lot,let
• him name, I content to it, his worthy fueceffor. Carried on
" the fhield, let him be &died Emperor ! Finally (and Ro-
l' mulm recalls the thing to mind), I watt that on the morrow
it be may have ibis apotheoGs. Ames.'
There was alt.() a long fpeech in the fecond num-
ber, fuppofed to be a fpeech of Lepidus to the
Romans, applied to Bonaparte and modern events
in which the author advifes then: to chufe Camille
their Didator, and to atterept a recovery of their
liberties.
The ATTORNIY Gstileat. then addreired the
Jury in nearly the following words:
" Gentler - of the You are sow, by the

to influenc... his management c.f the defence, he will
abitain from that courie which may exafperate jul.
lice, without ler% iug the caufe of his client. Dif
cietion alone moil. guard again(' that. What is it
brings me here in tl.c dircharge of a public duty ?
—I profecule this 1;bel becaufe it endangers the
traagailizy of this coLo:try. When the quedion
(hall an for conr.derati-nr of the punithment, I
appeal to my Learned Friends, if I 'horrid not ill
dirdiarge my duty to the public, to the honour
and charafler of the law, if I (hould not earnellly
prek the confederation, that proceedings, which
had Leen made the vehicle of defamation and dan-
der, fhoald not efcape in a Br itith Court with im-
punity. The difappoimment of curiolity is no part
of the brit-ureic. The prefent profecution is to fa-
tisfy judiee, and to fee that the law be not dilap-
pointed. 'Without previoufly troubling you with
Rating what the prolecution is, I (hall 'tate to you
what it is not. It is not a work containing an im-
p•artial account of the tranfaftions of any given
period ; it is not of an hillorical narration of events
in a neighbouring country, accompanied with phi-
lofophical reflthions on their caufes and conic-
quences ; it is not of a publication whole author,
even approaching to licentioulnefs, had dealt in
fimple defamation in any particular inflance.—
But the cafe which the prelim prorecution brings
to notice, was conceived originally in libel and in
defamation. Defamation is. its bat objeft.—lts
further °Ned is to excite the firbjeas of the .firil
magiftrate of the French Republic, at peace with
this country, to deprive him of his authority, and
to affaffinate him. It was publithed with inten-
tion of traducing and defaming Napoleon Bona-
parte, Firit Conful of France, and of exciting the
hatred of the fubjerch of this country and of his own
ar,aina him. It tended to excite affaffins again!"
Li. life, and to diflurb the peace exiqing between
the Republic and this country. Such is the ten-
dency by which it is charaeler Red and was publi(h-
ed. Gentlemen, I (hail now fay a few words on
the fubjeft of law : I do not feel myfelf called upon
to define to what extent the fubjeas of one coun-
try may carry their obfervations or kik:tures on the
adminiftration cf affairs in another. But I have
no difficulty in afferting, that a publication like the
prelent, tending to embroil the tranquility of na-
tions, and encouraging the affrifination of one who
is de
.1;0*, Firk Magillrate of Fr- -- is not mor

facto, _ 'gilt. ie . ._
oppofite to the feeling, and fentiments of Eng
men, than it is libellous and illegal. The fair
detail of hillory, the impartial recital of events,
the unprejudiced account of tranfadions, not ren-
dered the vehicle of defamation, is not the fubjed
of information. Defamation coniii totes the %%hole
of this publication, and I am confident that no
lawyer will maiatain that it is not an offence of
the deepen die, and meriting the feverefl repre-
henfion. It is not poffible that there can be any
difficulty in fupporting the propofition, that fuch
an offence agtinfl the laws of the country
ought to be feverely punifhed. The profecution
is not unprecedented. Inflances of the fame
kind occur in the hillory of the country.—l (hall
cite you two: Lord George Gordon was pro.
fecuted for a libel againa the (Ilfeen of France.—
J. Viret was accufed and convided of a libel
4gainfl the Emperor of Ruffia, though defended
by my Hon. Friend not now prefent ; yet the libel
with which he was charged, was not marked by
any fuch foul and hideous features, as the fuhjed
of the prefent profecution. It [fated only. " that

:men, .4 jury—. _
indiament that has been read, put dillinaly, open- the Emperor was renderinKhimfelf obnoxious to
ly, and fully, in polleffion of every information on his fubjeds, and ridiculous in the eyes of Europe;
the fubjea on which you have been brought here that he had lately paired an edia, prohibiting the
to decide. The cafe is Pimple, and the queilion, exportation of timber, dec. in conrequence of which
in my mind, by no means difficult to be tried. It one hundred vette!: returned to this country with-
will be for you to examine, whether or not the de- out a freight." This had no tendency to excite
fendant be the author of thefe publications, and rebellion, to provoke affaffination, or to interrupt
whether or not the profecution be rightly brought the relations of amity fuhfißing between the two
forward before a Britifis Jury, and in a Britifh countries. Yet, being charged as traducing his
Court of Jullice? It is impoffible not to know, that Imperial Majefly, and creating danger, the publi.
confiderable intereft and curiofity are attached to cation was found libellous, and the author con-
this trial ; and when I call my eye about the villa. If you find then, that upon that principle
Court, and obferve an attendance fo different from and this authority, that crime was punillied by a
what ufually graces trials in Courts of Juflice, I Britifb Court of Jullice, it will only be neceffary
feel that fuch motives mull have operated in amore for me to call your attention to the libel that is
than ordinary degree. Many, no doubt, have been the fubjeft of the prefent profecution. It is not
curious to hear the obfervations that may fall from immaterial to oblerve, that two of thole charged
me, in condating the prefent profecution. Yet are in the fira number of the ifinbigu. And here
forry as I fhouldbe to difappoint fuch an affembly, it may not be amifs to recommend to your notice
the comic, which duty and inclination point out to the frontifpiece of this work. It bears a Sphynx,
me, will not be likely to gratify fuch expeaation. as you may perceive, with a variety of enigmati.
This duty and inclination confine me to the dry and cal Egyptian figures, of which it would neither be
dull trial of the intention, fur the law will el:ter. eafy nor of conrequence to dircover the meaning.
mine by what mites place in Court, by reafon, by There is one circumftance, however, which is de-
jullice, whether a publication of this kind can be cifive of the objeft of the publication. The face
defended as innocent, or tolerated as inoffenfive, of the animal refembles that of the mints which
In difculling thefe queftions, fo notorious and fo are publicly known in this country to be intended
recent, there can neither be much ;nitration nor as likeneffes of Bonaparte. Having never feen the
amurement ; and if any one could fuppofe that on Firlt Conful. I cannot pofitively affirm that it is a
this, or any other occalion, I fhould derogate from !ac /'mile of his countenance ; but, as it bears a
the dignity of my public duty, or ffirink from the ariking refernblance-to the prints that are (Aid to
faithful dirchar&c of it, he will he difappointed.— be like him ; this circundlance, coupled with the
Though no perion can entertain a higher opinion matter of the publication, can leave little room to
than Ido of the abilities and acquirements of the doubt, that its obit& was to defame, and render
learned gentleman who is to lead the derelict ; thu' I him vile in the eyes of the world in general. Two
no petron be more unafraledly convinced of his numbers, the firit and third of the Ambigu, are
fplendid talents, his btilliAnt imagination, his cul- I fubje,!ls of profecution. I than aired your atter,-
tivated mind, and his enlik:.:irened realon ; yet I tion firit to the matter of the third. The title of
doubt if even he can satisfy much curiotity on this it is an harangue of Lepidus againfl Sylla, origi-
occallon. The points to he ctsn'idered are, whe. nally Latin, but tranflatedand altered fo as to rem
ther the defendant be the author of the publication der it applicable in all the circumflanees to Bona-
or not? What was the intention of publilbilig F— I p.trte. It begins with !facing, that from the mild
\\liar is thr legal CiElninet of guilt or innocence Icharafter of ills countrymen, the writer would
belongito, to it? There quell ions are the on!) rind much difficulty ; that he was fearful they
points at ifitte between us, and tintfe will afford no would be more inclined to obey the fentiment
opportunity of difpl.tyiog the powers of imagina. that reconciled them to tranquillity, than that
tion and reafoning, to excite interea, or gr.,tit) which would lead them to .revenge. Here the
cutiolity ; fsr I cannot Ming mylell to Peppole Learned Attorney Rated, that as he had, to
trait tih: Learned Gentleman siould fo tar adopt I lave itimfell the pain of going through the whole
tiie frit it of the ti:)e), as to rrake hi. derelict a re libel, procured a Learncd I•riend to read it
P•• ' inn of d.: flanderons matter it contains ; i through, lie would not fallow him, but obferve
ribi!her can p• rfaaded, that he could havt been i upon the material puts as lie proceeded. This
irolrtnrt-td by hi. client, to Court kr the libel alferts, that they had in vain maintained a
piirp,• procecla•;:v here a Yelliclefor glorious corned agaiml Aultria, ItufEa, and the
. .•••
the wi,ler mina:ion of th: I. If Such were i Pow:ls of Europe, if Ebtrtits writ to be fa-
hi • iiLlniros, 'it wind !have a vv.le and abundant , crificed to the Cot liCall. It noes on—n and now
field to ti• ,11' ti e ertr.A.rdisiatv and the t ger dares to ca:l himfelf the rounder and re-
evelit'Ul t.;9 t. that :ire•fe not t iic y gera_rator of France, poffittlinfr, himfelf or the fruit
;111 C pr.f tf, v. vu .lair 1.1.0(111ri, as of a fp. 11 t ,Len in War. There
sr.:,ment is m, 'I
.Vc! it IV t c . been list: of profcript;on,baniffirnent without
Owl Abut t:l,..try %vs: e trial, by which, ram clatidrcn uul.ura are °ppd.-

fed. It excites them to rife, to march, to regainl
their liberty, and leek reveup,e. Bohaparte has;
no longer any object of ambition but fecurity. Hisl
Mamelukes having no contact with the army, tior
fpeaking the language of France, are ready to ad
as mutes, cutthroats, and hangmen. Every thing,
juflice, the law, the finances, I: in the poileflion of
the Defpot. It then calls upon them to avenge
their wrongs or perifh with glory. ',' Alter having
read thele pall-ages, the Learned Attorney called
the attention of the Jury to the two libels contain-
ed in the fit ft number of the Anshigu.—The libel,
lous matter was there contained in an Ode, or
Poetical Compolition. It lets out with reprefent-

titia was but a vague alb, fin to B .nr,T.arte. The
ATTORNEY GENERAL atlerted tha there were it L.
(tidos contained :n the libel, which were already
proved, and which could be proved by- use coo-
' text aad by the remainder of the pad...;,!, of xhic!,
this was one. Allution adraiitzelpreg
Letitia to be the an,tal mutlie.r '4 the
(By Mr. NElNrosti). I.' ilpr,therp in the
tratillation that has been lead i.; rendered his an,..
theofis ; is that the craft meaning of the c x0te,1,1,,a
as it Rands in the French original ?—A.
'means his apotheoti, or the apotheofis. la this
inflance, I fhould think it means hi, apotheofic.
Q.._ What yon may think on it is matter of opi-
nion which I do not want horn you ; till matters
of opinion in there cafes are for the Jury ; I wane
a direa.anfwer, whether the artic.e in the c;przf-
fion I have mentioned is to be underflood by
or thf, as for example ; a Papotheofe partni les Itta::,this
etait ant preuve d'une adulation Ire, safP P—A. In this
cafe it means fimply an apotheolis. The trandation
before the Court is dill faithful. _

ing all nature agitated by a dreadful tempefl, and
the elements themiel yes confounded. It then avows
an expeaatinn, that the Heavens were at length
determined to avenge the ambitions attempt of a
foldicr. Having made the exclamation, " 0 ton
vain hope of vengeance! "it reprefents the Heavens
as blind or cruel, declaring, that " whatever ra-
vages the thunder may commit, it always fpares
tyrants, which remark it illuitrates, by the deflruc-
tinny of merchants' vefiels, whin} the Corfican's
Bark, bearing the fortune and defigns of Cxfar,
efcapes." This appeared an evident allufion to the
Roman Republic, in which Cmfar had found
l'ompey, Cato, and the Senate, againft him. The
libel then proceeds, " But oh eternal difgrace, after
the virfory of Pharfalia there (till remained a
poniard among the laft of the Romans !" Its this
bortibaflic rhapfody the Learned Gentleman con-
tended, that no other view could be dilcovered
than that of holding out an example of affaffina-
tion. The fecond part contains the with or prayer
of a good patriot. This with defer ibes the fortune
of Bonaparte, from his leaving Corfica, follows
him flying from victory to viaory in Italy, in
Egypt, then back to France, where he overthrows
the five tyrants, is chofen Conful, makes and
unmakes Kings, dictates peace, has crowned heads
at his feet. Far from envying his lot, it withes
him a foccelTor, and that he may have his Apo-
theofts to-morrow. This is an allufion to the fate
of Romulus, who was affallinated, and afterwards
deified to extinguifh the infamy of his murderers.
Upon what principle, I will ark, faid the Attorney
General, are thefe examples of aflaffination re-
called, if not for the purpofe of exciting the fub-
jeas of that Chief Magifirate to rebellion and af-
failination ? Let me not be told that lam an
enemy to the Englith pref.'s, when I profeeme the
abaft of it ; a licentioufnefs, that would bring it
into difcredit, infamy, and difgrace. I will put
to your breath, whether inch a publication would
conflitute a crime in this country ; a publication
fit bale, fn difgraceful, that even in a time of war
I fhould not hefitate to pronounce it unjuflifiable?
We were then, and are happily now at peace, and
the conduit, that a ante of war cannot fanaion,
mull be criminal in a high degree, in peace. Let
me not be told of eh:wafter. The Firlt Magifirate
of a great nation, no matter whether defeended
from a long line of royal anceflors, or lately railed
from the aby is of obfcurity, is entitled to refped,
and fhould be treated with decorum. We may be
told, Gentlemen, of abu five articles in the Msmitear;
I am not here to vindicate the eondua or the pub.
licatior.s of the French Government, or its journa.
lifts. If there be any feelings in another country,
that can reconcilefuch vile calumnies,let them have
the benefit, but let us not have the difgraee."
The fira witnefs called in fupport of the prole.
cution was Joha Gage, who being fworn and e
mined by the ATTORMRY•GINERAL, Pays he is a
Meffenger, bought the two numbers of the /Mk s',
laid in the indiament as libellous, at Mr.Debuffec,
one, the fill on the 16111 of Anvil t 802,the other,
the third, on the 26th of fame month ; identified
the numbers by his own hand writing, with which
he had marked them at the time of t uying them.
The SOLICITOR GENtR•L defired, that his Ma•
jelly's Proclamations of the 22d of March and 26th
of April tBo2, on the fignin :he definitive treaty
and exchange of the Ratifications, Ihould be read,
to prove that Bonaparte was then, and continued '
to bc, Chief Conful and Firft Magifirate of the
French Republic, which was waved, in conk.
quence of the admitfion of the fait on the part of ,
the Counfel for the defence. ;1

Jofeph Deboffe Tworn, and examined by Mr.
GARRUW—is a bookfel!er, deals much in Frer•.ch
publications; imports French books into this coon-
try—priblilhes books here for exportation, when
he receives orders—is acquainted with John Pel-
tier—admitted that the woe k in his hand was the
Ambigu—Mr. Peltier ordered him to difpofe of that
work. Mr. M.ltirosir here objeaed to any quell
lion tending to criminate the witnefs. Mr. Gat.
aow obferved, that he could not be materially al-
reefed by the queflions he fhould put to him, as he
had differed judgment to go by default. The
examination then proceeded—J. Peltier did not
tell witnefs he was the author—no other tranfac-
lions paired between them, than as may pafs be-
tween him and any common publifher—did ac-
count with Mr. Peltier for fume cf thefe T
Mr.M'lrri (Ism again objet led to filch quedions ;
when Lnrd E LLLLL OROVGH obferved, that it
was the Jades duty to take care that no imprnrer
queflions were put ; the witnefs was now in his
hands, and Counfel ought not to interLre."—
Witnefs 'aid lie had received all the copies through
the medium of Mr. Peltier's binders—talked with
Mr. Peltier, who taw many copies of the wink
1, ing in his thop—all the copies he fold were for
the account of Mr. Peltier.

Charles Itivington Broughton fworn—ls inti-
mately a..quaisitcd with the French language; has
feen tranil read in Court; tlAinks it very
core tranfl.rinn.

Mr. lqAClsTnst4, willing to accommodate the
Cntnt, inopoted to admit the cor:eancli of the
text, arJ ftre the time that would be
ta':ea up in t eathm; it.
Lot d ELI f h ROUGH—" We will not takeyour
admiffion too broadly, Mr. M•larosu ; if you have
any ~l,f2re.c.ions to mike, now would be the belt
tine to rn 4'ke them."

_ .....
Mr. :4' I On consideration, my Lord,
ive di m t c ourrelvei at liberty to m ike
of fir much imp.irt.ince."
The !it: el was then read by Mr. Broughton. The
Cvur.i.:lfi.,r :at 4.l‘..cuce oblirvcd that Sou vi

MT. FERGUSON—SeveraI expreffions have been
ctplain:d by you now in a different manner from
that in which they are rendered in the tranflation
before the Court.
Lord r.LL NBOROUd —" If you have reafon to
fufpeel the fidelity of the tranflation, call witncffes
to prove it utfa:thful. Though ibis or that par.
Ocular word may not be rendered with critical jui.
tice, yet if the context is adhered to, the tratula.
eon before the Court cannot be impeached.
. _ .

Witnefs—.. The context is clofcly adhered to,
though pollibly there may be a flight variation
between the interpretation 1 give here, and that
in the tranilation before the Court."

Mr. MACKINTOSH—" My Load, the witnefs
(peaks to the context from conaruaion. This is
matter of opinico, not of evidence."
Witndfs—" The tranilation is faithful, aqd. in
anfwer to the quettion or ohjeaion Pow (failed,
have only to call to the recolleCtion of the Court,
that the exprefGon, i/ aca la tar Irani-het, means, he
had his head cut off."

Mr. FiRG usow curled the witnefs to read (eve-
ral other parts of the profpeelus, and the three
papers cf P../rnkre- before the Court, for the ;Ai.-
pole of (hewing that this publication was defigned
to be a review or Mallon of the molt interettirl
French pieces of the day, a kind of piastre of u hat
was palling, rather than a eenfure of the meafures
of the French Government, or a vehicle of severity
againft the ruling faflion in France, like the for-
mer writings of the author. The prolpeflus cen.
tains a proteilion of intenticn to (peak with mode-
ration, not in praile of Bonaparte, of his Co Con-
fuls, of the Concordat, and, above all, of the
projeas attiibuted to the Chief Conful againft the
tranquillity and independence of Europe but
dates, that the author, conceiviag it impollible,
that all the fanions of Rnyalifl., Jacobins, tkc.
that have hitherto agitated France, with a view to
the accomplifhment of their various objees, can
agree in the eredion and fupport of the new
throne ; having, in fan, authentic information
that they did not agree, and having in his podef:
lion a number of pieces of their writing, which go
to Phew that they do not, he takes occafron, for
the amufement of his readers, to copy thole pieces
into his publication. Fird, he gives an ode, at.
trabuted to Chenier, or Ginguenet ; next fours
verfes, entitled Vast d'aa Boa Patrick, as t 4 yrridd;
or, the With of a good Patriot on the reth July;
a fuppofed fpeech of Lepidus, againfl the Ditikator
Sylla, accommodated to the prefent dated' affairs
in France, dated to have been placed among the
papers of Camille Jourdan, by one of the agents
of Fouche, to afford a pretext for the arreft of that
'gentleman ; and another article. dated to be the
compofition of a Dutch Patriot of 1789. for whore
deteaion fufficient information is promifed, when
Fouchc flail have completed his police ellablifh.
merit in Leicelter.fquare.—A beautiful poetical
tranflation of part of the ode being proved by the
witnefs for the profecution to be faithful, was read
to the Court, and mad: a great impreffion. 6
After a few further verbal exceptions, the gene-
ral fidelity of the tranflation was allowed by the
Counfel for the defence, and the cafe of the pro-
lecution was relied here.

Mr. MACK I N T 0314.-.—" Gentlemen of the Jury,
the moment is now arrived in which I am called
upon to fubmit to you the defence againft the charge
which, you have heard opened by the Connfel fcr
the profecution, and fupported by the evidence juit
doled. My Hon. Ft iend, the Attorney General,
has been ?leafed to (peak of me in a !tile of pane-
gyric which, I am fere, mull be alcribed rather
to the civility and politenefs of his difpofition than
to any dcferts of mine. So fir, however, he has
done me jultice, and no more than juliice in he-
lieving that aAing here in Come fort as a mihifler
in the difpenfation of law, that dilcharging the
funetions of an advocate, I 271 incapable of lend-
ing myfelf to the pailions of any defendant, and of
rendering the proceedings of this Court the infirm-
ment of extending the circulation and aggravating
the malignity of the offence on which it is to de-
cide. My Learned Friend may be allured that
whatever tonics I (hall urge in defence of my
client, he will find them free from fuch a reproach.
I troll that, whatever the law refpcAs will be re-
fpoled by me. In ft:caking of events in which
the liberty, the happinefs, the fortunes, the HIM.
of great bodies of men have been involved, the
feelings are exciter], and we sac naturally moved
to pity or indignation ; but I hope that, however
' my own feelings may he rot:fed on this occafion,
I lhall be able to keep them within due contrail,
and to be filent, unlefs truth, and duty, and prin-
ciple, require me to (peak out. I am aware, indeed,
that I 111.111 It and iii need of all the inehOgence of
this Court. The d-fcncc of the gentleman whole
cafe I am now to Iry before you. is furl-minded
with many invidious foljeAs, the d:rcoMon of
which, confrious of the magnitude of the :a& and
'of my own feeblenefs, I lhould .ant have courted,
but from which,in the difeharge of dietrul repofel
in me, I hill net fl.ritik. Hes el hand to conduet
the defence of an innocent man, and here I mull
avail myfclf of every fair topic, in order to de-
nronfirate his innocence to his Judges. Aging 041
ht lc pi ilicirles. I know the eliar.ofter rif an Eng:
Lib COW t too w,li to flippol: that the io.eicas

my client will be ailoWeal to fuller 4011 :by acfcag.
The Defendant has impofed this talk ups me, and
if I was not at liberty to decline, far lefs am I at
liberty to betray his caufe. He will find me at
leaft a faithful. zealous, intrepid, an& rearlefs ad-
vocate. In this place, in this drefs, I might per-
haps have fpared Come of the epithets. Intrepi-
dity is fo ufual a quality in the praftitioners at this
bar, that it has ceafed to be matter of praife or
boa Indeed, if ever that intrepidity bad been
overborne by the weight of power, it could not
have been fubdued alone,' but the independence oft
our Courts, the purity of juilice--above all, the
trial by jury kid& the pride of Our jutirprtuience,
could not have rubfified. But in this Court fear
never enters a heart but that of the criminal.
" I have dwelt, perhaps, too long upon this
point, but I hope to be forgiven. When I hate
who are the real parties in this caufe, I know that
in what I am going to fay, my learned Friend, the
Attorney General, will underhand me candidly,
and will pot imagine that I mean any reileaion
upon the part he Las ailed in this affair. But I'
mull fpeak it freely; the real parties in this eaufe
are—the Firfi Conful of France, the molter of the
greateft Empire in the Civilifed World, and my
client. a poor, proferibed, helplefs, friendlefs, de-
fencelefs exile. M. Peltier, the Defendant, is a
French Royalift, who,in the eventful year of 1792,
was driven from his country along with the flower
of its Nobility, the ornament of the Magiftracy,
the moll venerable of its Clergy, by the daggers
of thole blood-thirity favage.s who then contended
for power in a cornea and rtvalfhip of hatred and
perfecotion of every thing great, good, virtuous,
and eftimAble. He was one of that helplefs exiles
who fought an afylum in this land, at a moment
when our litotes were covered by the old, the
young. by women and children flying from a
dearusSion that fpared neither re: nor fttuation—
neither the innocence of youth, nor the infirmity
of age. Of thole unhappy fugitives, the greaten
part, the fad furvivors of poverty, difeafe, and the
(word, of noxious climates. of mifery and broken
hearts, have returned home to partake the melan-
choly confolation of dying in their native land.—
They have been Allowed to return under condition
of fubmitting to fuch obligations of fealty as were
impofed upon them by the a&ual Government—
fnch conditions as would have been deemed fuffi-
eient to fatisfy the jealoufy of a Government mere
jufily And naturally jealous. It is not my bufinefs
to cenfure thole conditions,or thofe who fubmitted
to them. Bur, in making every allowance for
thole who chofe to return to their country, you
will not judge with feverity of the motives of thole
who, like my client, declined from any stffeseions,
however naturai, to facrifice other feelings winch
they had fo long chetilhed, and a caufe they con•
ficlered facred. Had the cafe been your own, I
hope you would not think it unreafonable to look
for pardon, or at leaft indulgence, for a ftubborn
loyalty and a devoted attachment.
This unfortunate gentleman, fince his exile
has been compelled to employ his talents in various
literary ~cettpations. After the peace be rsfolved,
f-om the molt laudable motives, to abftain from'
any lerious difeuffions, and publifbed the
journal, called the 'ltalia, which, if the jealoufy
of the moll jealous Government that ever exilled
could have Ilept a moment, mull have paffed un-
noticed or mu colored It was not likely to be read
in England, becaufe it was not in our language.
It was not likely to be read in France, where the
prohibition againft the introduftion of foreign jour.
mils is executed with an aCtivity that °pooled an
almoft infuperable barrier to its progress. The
objee of it merely was, to amine a handful of
friends, the finall remains of men who adhered to
their old habit= and partialities, a party too weak
to meditate a, attempt any thing againft a Govern-
ment they could not recognife. Its objee theu was
to reprefent in a Rile of pleafantry an account of
the ',idiot's, the intrigues, the cabals which pre-
vailed in a country, to whole fate it was impolEble
they fhould be indifferent. In this publication of
the Defendant there was nothing remarkable, ex-
cept one thing, which indeed exhibits a moil 144-
ing illunratton of the inftability of human affairs.
—My learned Ft iend, the Attorney General, has
alluded to a pmfscution in this Court for a libel on
that unhappy Princefs, who, after witneiEng fuch
cruel reveries of fortune, and being fubjelt to fuch
complication of woe, fell at laft one of the mat
;hilarious 'idiots of the fanguistary monikers of
the French revolution. Now, incised, it is remark-
able that the Defendant's journal erns t* only one
publifhed which ventured to write in favour of a
ramily, within 14 years courted by all, and within
14 years protedted 42 the Queen of a mighty king-
dom from the afperfion of libeller by the laws .
or this country. I do not mention this to quail=
the right of the prtknt French Government to
proteeson. 1 am fenlible that our laws will protest
a Government from libellous attacks, whether it
he of yefterday. or has fnbfined for one thoufand
years. I doubt not that if Cromwell's Ambaffa-
dors bad complained at Paris of Clareadou (had
he then publifised his history), of the verfes of the
hiarquis of Montrofe, of the lampoons of Cuwky,
or the retires of Ender, the Preadent Mole, or any
other Magifirate, the ornament of French jurrf
prudence, would-have adminiltered. to the ufurper
the protein= of the laws. I agree with my learned
Friend the Attorney Generaf, in his general prin-
ciples upon this fubjell ; but I could not help far
ing fo much, to cots eat a favourable bearing for
the defence of an exile, diftinguilked by his fidelity
to his honour and loyalty, and ni.w marked out
fir perfecution in tins 101 l afylum which the world
Las to offer him. Indeed. I (peak it with featiments
t gratitude to the Govetnenent of this country.
that it is to their firmoefs it is now owing that the
afylum of this country ) it remains to my untonu.
tate client. tfith feelings juhly alive to she ho.
n.,tir and dignity of their country. hfunners r .
filled to drive the unfortunate Defendant from his I
...nd wifely refilled a demand, the e.
:a cc with which world have been of the moll am-
I Fuous exampl:. Be tbii as it may, howeve.,my
ioent now appears in the only place in which the'
st ntel hetw.:,n him and the Firll Conful of France '
could be equal. An Engle& Jury is the moll I
profpee which the aim who is the TAM

oe power its perfecntlon esln beholkl; Ala we
mutl feel grateful to the Protedor of Empires that
you are now met in fuch a caufe, in fuch co-cum.
(lances, to adminiller juilice in her greatell fanc.
tuary. I have Rated that the real parties in thiscaufe
are the Fir( Confid of France, the matter of the
rteß empire in the world, and my client, a
elplefs, friendlefs exile. Notwithftanding loch
difparity, however, he fubmits with confidence
every thing he holds dear, his reputation, his for-
tune, his hopes to the honeß decifion of Twelve
Englithmen. But in another repel I beg leave
mod (aim* to call your attention to this caufe.
It is, I will venture to alert, the beginning of a
long feries of conteds between the Mailer of the
welded Empire, and the only Free Prefs now in
the world, This I fay, not with the leall infinu-
ation that my Learned Friend, the Attorney Ge-
neral, will ever abufe the trull and the dignity of
his office to be the inßrument of the caprice or the
revenge of a foreign power ; yet, if the lituation of
Europe be confidered, it will be Peen that it was
not without foundation I affertcd that this was but
the beginning of a fcries of contells between the
Mailer of the greateß Empire, and the only Free
Prefs now in the world.

This diflinetion, indeed, is a new and melan-
choly era in the hißory of human affairs. Till the
great earthquake of the French Revolution had
(wallowed up all the afylums of free difcuffion
there exalted in Europe by the divifion of the great
empires, the independence of the leffer Rates, by
privilege or by indulgence, Rill preferred a Free
Prefs, which poffeffed a powerful influence over
opinion, and a moll important controul over the
affairs of nations. In Holland, in Switzerland,
this freedom esilled, as well as in different free
Rates and towns of Germany. Holland and Swit-
zerland are no longer independant nations, and
alma& fine; thetommtneement of the prefent
fecution, many of the free Rates and towns of Ger-
many have been erafed by a dalh of the pen. Few
have confidered how intereffing and important
pate of the fyßem of Europe thefe divifions form-
ed. Great empires, in order to preferve their
power and their greatnefs, are obliged to cultivate
a military fpirit among their firbjefts, and to dc-
, fend their pretenfions by frequent wars. But the
(mall Rates were exempted from that neceflity,
and they had leifure to examine the tranfaftions I
which pallid around them. Thus they formed a
fort of audience and a public opinion, which pof-
felled an efficient influence and controul, becaufe
no integrity, however high, no crime, however
powerful, can render men wholly indifferent to
praife or blame. There intereßing parts of the
European (yawn enjoying the molt perfea fecuri-
ty, the moll indifpnted quiet, fublifted for ages as
the molt fkriking monuments of the 'plaice, the mo-
deration, and the forbearance which Chriffian Eu-
rope had attained, and proves the high degree of
its prngrefs in the virtues. as well as in the arts of
eivilifation. Now all this is gone, and what is to
fucceed it we hardly dare to conjecture. This we
know,however, that the rnodet ation which had been
introduced into the Councils of Erbpires, and that
freedom from raft and extravagant enterprifes of
ambition which we have fees for near a century,
was owing to that public opinion, to that indepen-
dent, impartial audience which the freedom of dif-
e uffi n n in the (mailer Rates had formed. By mean s of
this difcaffion, a meafure of great injußice, alarm-
ing to the general intereßs of the European fyf-
tem, was immediately denounced by preffes. Now
from Palermo to Hambnrgh not one free prefs re-
mains on the Continent. In England alone a free
prefs is to be found. Our free prefs, proteCted by
our ancient laws, and by the valour and gallantry
of the Englith nation, 11111 remains. It is an aw.
ful, but it is a proud confideration, that the fabric
of Liberty reared by our anceltors, Rill "Rands
ere& It (lands indeed amida the ruins of the ci-
wailed world. It fiends alone. Placed in this
critical &nation, furrounded by dangers, ailing
as the advanced guard of Liberty, fighting in the
front of the battle in a (cries of contells for a free
prefs,allow me to remind you what your ancellors
thought of the importance of a free difeuffion, par-
ticalarly as it iegirds foreign affairs.
Our anceflors, Gentlemen of the Jury, were
too wife, too prudent, to attempt to define by pre-
cite defcriptions the vague and fhifting boundaries
' between what fhould be reckoned innocent as hit..
tomtit difentrion, or criminal as defamation. They
never attempted a thing fo vain, fo fruitlefs, and
even fo dangerous, as to fix the limits, and to af-
fign permanent charaders to what was incapable
of being reduced to any general Ilandard. They
were contented with laying, that whatever was
malignant towards the individual,feditioin towards
the State, and mifchievous in the intention in the
difetifflon of the conduit of a foreign power, fhould
be tried and determined upon the merits and the
cireumlbinces of each particular cafe. They trolled
for the protealon of that free difcuffion Which they
Co highly prized,to the moderation of Magiflrates.
Nor has their confidence been mifplaced. Making
allowance for the imperfection, the tempers, the
vices, perhaps, of individuals, it may be fairly
maintained, that, fine the revolution, the confi-
dence of our anceflors in the judgment and good
feat of the MagiA rates, whore province it is to put
the law in force againft offenders, has never been
difgraced t and I am Pure that in the hands of my
Learned Friend, the prefent Attorney-General,
that utak will never be attended with dithouour to
the &ate, or with opprellion to the fubjea. But
they nulled, too, to the candour, the good fenfe,
the moderation of Juries—popular in their origin,
popular in their conflitution, popular in their feel-
ing, chats from the mats of the people. and, after
performing their duty, returning back again to
the body of the people. Our ancellors trulled that
while libels would be checked by fuch an admini-
Malkin of jullice, by fuch tribunals, while libels
fhoulii be checked, free difcuffion would be encou-
raged. Englifli juries, indeed, have decided that
libel refembles no other fpecies of offence. In
other offences they were fenfible that rigour of
punifhment (truck tenor only among the guilty ;
in matter of libels they were fenfible that rigour of I
punifinnent Bruck terror only among the innocent.
The reafon of this too is obvious. They knew
that it was impoftble to define, to &keratin with

Con the boundaries of difeufilim and of hit-
t^ to aetermine when we are within the territo-
ries of the one or of the other. In thefe eircum.
flames, rigour of punilhment of libels in difcullion,
particularly of foreign proceedings, tends to pro-
duce that difcouragement, alarm, and timidity,
which difqualify men from pointing out with force
the dangers with which their country may be
threatened. It is not from the trembling viaim
who dreads the vengeance of the Potentate whore
defigns he expofes, that a nation need expel to
be warned of its danger, to be admonithed of its
errors, or routed to the fpirit and the firmnefs by
which fafety muff be obtained.
" But it is not on thefe general
igrounds, Gen-
tlemen of the Jury, that I earnelily mprefs on your
attention the importance of maintaining a free dill
cuflion of foreign affairs. There arc circ tim[tonces,
in thc hiflory of this country in all times which
(hew how tender our anceitors were of the liberty
of dial:llion on this fubjed. Tliefe circumftances
arife from the peculiarity of our relations with the
continent. Ever firsce England happily renounced
all views of aggrandizement on the continent, we
have had no intereft in its firuation but that of na-
tional fafcty and commercial profperity. National
fafety in regard to continental powers depends
upon nothing but on the uniform obfervanct of the
rules of jullice—that is, in other words, on their
regard to the facrednefs of ancient boundaries,
and their refped for ancient poffeCGons. The in-
terell we have in continental affairs is an intereft
that the rules of jultice fhould be obferved, fo that
no flaw by encroachment and by aggrandizement
rife on the ruin of our neighbours, fo as to be
formidable to ourfelves.—As to our commercial
profperity, it depends effentially on peace and tran-
quillity : for whatever foolilh and abfurd men may
pretend, no war can be gainful to a commercial
nation. Our interea depends upon the tranquil-
lity of other nations ; for whatever vulgar politi-
cians may flupidly alien, nothing can be more
fatal to an induflrious people than poverty and
mifery among neighbours ; for it is clear that as
it is for the benefit of a tradefinan that his cuflom-
ers lbould be opulent, fo it is advantageous fur a
manufacturing nation to be furrounded by wealthy
neighbours. Indeed, among other caufes, the
great commercial profperity of this country may
be afcribed to the general improvement of fociety
in Europe, to the diffufion of wealttf, and to the
increafed ability of confumption. Our commer-
cial profperity accompanied the profperity of other
nations. It received nourifhment from the gene-
ral profperity, and repaid it from its own.—Every
inch of land that was cultivated on the banks of
the Mifliflippi, or in the wilds of Siberia, gave a
new impulle to our profperity, becaufe it prefented
new fources of wealth, new abilities for confump-
tion, new demands for objeds of enjoyment, that
is, for that luxury againit which civil declaimers
have inveighed fo much, and which, notwithßand-
ing their clamorous lamentations, has only kept
pace with the improvement of the human fpecies,
and is the meafure of their progrefs in knowledge
and in happinefs. Our national interet, there-
fore, in the affairs of the continent, embraces thefe
two points, to prevent the dangerous aggrandize.
ment of any power, and to promote the general
tranquillity of Europe. It mutt, therefi;re, be
highly advantageous for this country to promote
a bold examination of the conduct of Foreign
Powers, and to excite a jealoufy of their ambitious
projefts. The effect of this vigilant jealoufy, and
manly fpirit of inquiry,is to animate and prepare the
minds of men to refill an attack which they know is
nieditatedagainft them. As was faidbyagreatman
of antiquity (Cicero) concerning himfelf, that no
perfon was an enemy to the Republic, without at
the fame time being an enemy to 'him, fo no Rate
or fovereign can be the general enemy of Europe,
without being, in a particular manner, the enemy
of England. The hiftory of pall times affords fo
clear an illuftration of this truth, that when-
ever we find. the ambitious and the unjuff con-
fpiring to difturb the repofe, and to attack the
rights of their neighbours, they are compelled to
announce their intention by manifelling their ha-
tred to a country whore intereft is the confervation
and proteftion of all. This brave and generous
nation, therefore, has ever been the firfi mark
againft which the attacks of the ambitions have
been ditefted. We have been Rationed in the
front of the battle. Thus our ancellors always
encouraged, inftead of repreffing, that firit of
proud indignation againft injuitice, that fenfe of
wrong which, when Europe was menaced, was
likely to fupply the only refources by which danger
could be repelled. Our aneellors, though they
never felt, they infpired fear; but difdaining the
reltillinefs of looking only to their own local and
immediate interefts, fuperior to the pufillanimous
fentiment of crouching to the ambitious, or trem-
bling at the frowns of powerful neighbours, they
(hewed a perfpeltive fear, that wife difcernment of
danger which is not the parent of cowardice, but
which leads to precaution. Our anceftors knew
well, that if danger was abroad, it was only to
be repelled or prevented by energy at home.---
, They knew that no great enterprifes, no national
efforth can fucceed. unlets feconded by a hearty
zeal on the part of the people at large. There.
fore they wi(hed to fee the country prepared for
any extremity by putting on the armour of anger
and indignation againft thofe who were to become
their enemies. I need not tell you, Gentlemen of
the Jury, that, without public fpirit, fleets and ar-
mies are nothing. Pnblic feint is a thing very
&Rant from courage, and without it courage is
Weld's. No nation ever periftied for the want of
perfonal courage; but many have perifbed for want
of publiC fpirit; that fpirit which unites all private
perfonal courage, gives it a livelier fenfe and a
common diredion. In thii country. varied es it
is in every fcale of rank, of mind, of inforrltion
and character, public fpirit depends in a great
meafure on the energies of the popular parts of
the nation. It depends on that manly pride, that
fenfe of dignity which even the lowefl perfon in
this community has of himfelf, and the (hare he
has in the public caufe, and often in the exercife
of the moll important political rights. Thisfpirit
then mull wife and be directed in no (mall degree
by public dirculon, betide every man finds the

appeal made to oncterftzading, and feels himfelf
tailed upon to exerci le his judgment. If then there
Ibe a difpofition to examine %val. fiecdom, and to
expofe with holdnefs the do lips of p:•wcrtul and
ambitious neighboui ~ to check that difpofitioli by
undue feveiity of punithmtnt, would be to check
that public fpirit on which national vigour depends
—it would be to break down our bell bulwarks,
and to ditirrn that force by which public danger
mull be repelled. Theti:, Gentlemen, are no
new principles. They are found old-fafhioncd
Englith fentiments, founded upon an acquaintance
with Englifh intereas, and with Englifh hillory.
Let me now, Gentlemen, call your attention
to the libels charged in the information. My
I Learned Friend the Attorney General admitted
that he would not confider it fair to fcize upon a
. warm cam-elfin() of indignation which might be
made in the courfe of Indorical narrative of the
tranfadions of nations or governments with which
we are at peace. But lie contends that it is not
I truth, it is not free difctiffion, but a malignant dif.
pofition to difluib the harmony of two countries,
which diflinguifltes the publications in quellion.—
It is now my duty to avail myfelf in behalf of my
. client of the candid admialons of my Learned
Friend. If he would overlook a generous indig-
nation expreffed in a hiflorical narrative—if he
would not cenfure the re-publication for informa-
tion or curiofity of an important document, furely
he would not exclude hittory from that important
province of laying open caufes and explaining mo-
tives and intention's, as well as detailing effects ?
Bet the articles in the publication of the defendant
may be confidered in both there views. My
Learned Friend will not deny that it might be per.
fetftly innocent to re-publith for example, a decla-
ration of war by a foreign power, though contain.
ing the molt libellous matter and the moll 'Cana-
lons charges ? The intention of the declaration
might be libellous, but the intention of the repub-
lication might be perfectly laudable, and might
be to expofe the malignant nature, and dangerous
tendency of the original document. This may
be the cafe with the publications of the Men-
dam. Let me remind you of the plan of his work.
It was intended to amufe a handful of Royalifts,
cut off from their country, their attachments, their
hopes, by prefenting them with a view of the pal-
lions, the fadions, the parties, the cabals, which
now occupy the fcene, and the country front
which they themfelves teem banifhed for ever.—
I What then is the defcription of the Ode charged
as libelous ? It will be found to be a document,
ferving to illuarate the radians which have ruled,
• and which yet partly furtive in France. There is
reafon to believe, nay, I do believe, that the ode
was written by Cheek/. or Ging:tend, or fume one of
that party. Suppofe then the Jacobins had publi flied
a libel on Bonaparte,would it be a libel if republifh-
ed folely with a view of exhibiting the ftruggle for
power, and the malignity of opporitioa which pre.
vail between Bonaparte and his enemies. If fuch
a thing republilbed were a libyl, how can my
Learned Friend account for the impunity allowed
to the newfpapers in publifhing the numberlefs
atrocious manifefloes iffued during the war—ma-
nifeaoes in which the King's perfon, his Govern-
„ ment, the country in general, were molt grofsty
traduced? Whence this impunity, but from admit-
ting that the intention was to give information, to
expofe the temper and malignant difpofition of the
enemy. If a newfpaper at Paris publifhes a grofs,
falfe, and fcandalous libel, with a view to excite
mutiny in the navy, why does the newfpaper that
republifbes efcape profecution, but becaufe it was
republilbed to confute its Ganders, and difappoint
its end ? If this be not the motive, I would remind
my Learned Friend that he has no more facred
duty, than to protat the reputation of officers abfent
on the fervice of their country. But whatmore atro-
cious libel on a Britifh officer can be conceived.,
than thatwhich appeared lately in the Mositearr, and
was republiffied in all the newfpapers in England,
that General Stuart had written letters inciting to
affaffination. Unlers this be the motive, why does
my Learned Friend fuller the molt malignant
libels to be circulated again It the perfon and cha-
meet of a Prince whore private virtues and per
lona! merit (if, unactuftomed to praife the great
t may add my feeble teftimony to the virtues of a
Sovereign), have during a reign of •43 years
amicift ill the violence of oppoGte parties, never
been called in queftion ? How is it, then, that
libels too are circulated with impunity upon this
nation, which, in all the ainimofity of honourable
war, was never Rained by perfidy, or difgraced
by a bare ',Rion ,• a nation which has pafed through
the fevereft trials, and come out unfullied ; a na-
tion which has feen mutinies without murder, tri.
umphant mobs without mifacres, bloodier' revo.
lutions and civil concept without the horrors of
profcription ? How is it that my Learned Friend.
Infers it to be hated in evirg newfpaper that bit.:
Majelly intended to confer upon au alraffin a bads*
k
of honour,moor, referved for the hi heft mike'''. t.*
L Statefman and the Soldier, of Cabinet' Ad fir
Field; that badge of honour w .ch took its rffe
from the fields of Cray, which was worn by the
Henry IV. of France, the Guaavus Adolphus of
Sweden ; that badge f honour which ',night re•
ward the heroifm difplayed on the walls of Acre,
the ancient and renowned fcene of the 'brightelt
glories of Englifh chivalry t And Gull it be raid
with impunity that this unfullied garter was the
deltined reward of an *Giffin? Wthefe nevrfpap
per publifhers efcape the punilliment where they
have not the intention to libel, why mould not my •
client receive the benefit of a fimilar defence ? It
is certain that this ode was circulated at Pali.,
and is the produeion of tome of the parties there.
Oa the other band, my Learned Friend brings
forward nothing hut fufpicion that the defendant
was the author of this performance, or publifhed
it with the intention or libelling the Fit* Conful.
But furely it is incumbent on the profecutor to
prove the bad intention, before'it is incumbent on
me to prove an innocent one. But roppofe that
this ode had been intended as a fatire upon the
perfons to whom it is attributed, could it be takes
for a libel on the Full Conful ? It is extremely
probable that many perfon in Paris entertain the
fentimeats which this ode expreffes. It might be a
libel on Cigna a Garcia, to impute foil fend.

vrentc•o them ; tint we are not here trying atibel limns, which they have difgraegi, fowls vealyty
cm Clienier. If this produdion had been written not fo ; but they are found to be no lefs holtile to
b- the defendant or adopted by him, it might be • a moderate common wealth, as they are to every
[.netted to contain an expreilion of his fentiments fpecies of*good government.
▪.e opinions. But what is the fad ? Nothing can " Let sis now confider, whether the tenements
t. • more repugnant to the feelings of a finyalift, of this ode would be likable to the fentiments of
r..0.1.ing more ftzitable to thofe of a Ch.nier or Gin- a royalist As a fatire on the atenien, the Gin-
,-44. it is probable that these are many in France gtsenets, the Brutes, and the Brutufesowho fat with
ta noon the fentiments of their performances piftols in their girdles, to anticipate the Office of
oild be perfectly conftfient ? Let us polite this the Executioner on the Prifoners they tried. the
7..ideration .—You all know the event of the fentirnents are confiftent. From M. Peltier they
'l‘,r itch Revolution, that revolution began with an ate unreafonable and abfurd. If it was addreffed
error. which, if it had continued merely an error as an incentive to murder to the Royalifts, the
oi jodgment, might have been like other errors, topics were ftrangely chofen. Would a Royalift
innocent ; but introduced into prat:ice and made think himfelf called upon to revenge the Merlins,
r role of condud, became a crime of the deepeft the Rewbells, the 13arras ? Would a Royalift think
otalignitv, and led to evils of unparalleled horror. it worth his while to' revenge the Dire&ory, and
Is is the boaft of the Fish Conful to have delivered their tribe of revolutionary lophifts—machines for
.mce from the fatal effels of the error of its re- making decrees—the wretched initruments of the
• -Intion, and his merit is the apology for the re- boleti of tyrants ? Would a Royalift revenge a
•dv 1•.: has employed ; indeed where the princi- national reprefentation he defpifed, or punifh the
,tf,•bedience is wholly overthrown in a State, deftroyer of that s fine confederation of the na-
n property, that great fheet-anchrojof human t Moat guard, which he confidered one of the molt
I ..:*ct ris let mote—nay, when property rendered alive caufes of the revolution ? The fuppofition
CC2TIOUS in its tenure is disjoined from edneation, •is ridiculous. But it may be (aid that the defen-
from honour and morality, a new principle of re• dant affumed the language of a Republican to de-
union mull be found, and it may, perhaps, be hide the Republicans to execute his defigns. But
forird in that, nut of which ciril foe iety has gra- Direly in that cafe M. Peltier would not have pub-
,':tally been polifhed and refined, it may be found tithed fuch an inveaive, with his name in the title-
41ain in military affociation and military rontroul. page, to warn the Republicans not to be milled by
Bonaparte may be an ufurper, as far as by uftir- falfe pretences to ad as the tools of their enemies.
Lotion is underflood the exercife of power without I Indeed, from many paffages of thefe produtlions
a Intl title, but they mull be warmer admirers' it is evident that they muft have been the produe-
oi" the virtue of the Diredory than lam who cen. tions of a Republican. and cannot contain the
Int eas oftirpation his overthrow of their authority. fentiments of a Royalift like M. Peltier. It can-
it is not my intention to traduce the Firft Conful. not be fuppofed that M. Peltier, though he might
The bell apology for his affumption of unlimited • have panegyrifed this country in a (train which
atithority is the admifficm that unlimited authority has been Co happily tranllated into verfe by an in-
was neceffary. Thofe who deny this neceffity genious friend of mine, would have complained
pole him to the charge of defpotifin. But Bona- that there was no equality in London, and that
par to may have known that to Wife the chara&er there was ton much nobility. It could not be fup-
of the people, fubdued by the dreadful events of pnfed that M. Peltier could have adopted many
the loft ten years war, was impoffible. 'Their fpirits other fentiments refpeaing the war and other
were too much broken. Great oppreffions fome events of the Revolution, which in him would have
;Imes route the minds of men to refiltance, bat a been inconfiftent, but perfetly agreeable either to
greater Rill utterly fubdues them. This has hap- the real parties mentioned, or as a fatire upon the
r•ned in France. The political courage of the peo- faCtions that etill in France. I hope that my
,p!e has been utterly extinguithed. In the fad (relies Learned Friend will not be inclined to attack fome
• their difmal Revolution has exhibited, there of the bell pieces of our literature. Would he
have been examples of that tender hernilin, that I have profecuted Dr. Swift for that unrivalled
courage of the heart which have far exceeded what- fpecimen of irony, the argument againft abolifh-
eyer is recorded of courage exerted on the greatell ing Chriftianity, or Butler for ridiculing fanatical
theatres, amidft the greaten incentives of alive religion and hypocritical morality, in the Conver-
virtue. That pure and tranquil part of the com- Cations of Hudibras ? and Ralpho Equally unjuft
munityhas remained. The unhappy infirtiments of would it be to punifh M. Peltier for a fatire, in
to many fanguinary exceffelhave almoft forgotten which the odious doarines of pretended Republi-
the maffacres hi which they were engaged. If cans are ridiculed with to much fuccefs.
you a& them who performed this atrocity ? who a One word refpeaing the charge of eneourag-
defaced and deftroyed that monument of religion ing to araffination. Here, if poffible, lam defir-
r* of art ? Thef will tell you it was the yeroku! ous to refeue even humanity ofelf from fuch a
$n that one who did not know the hiftory of the charge. And. indeed, t. what does the incentive
FIR tenyearsmight imagine that thejacohinswere a amount? Will it feriondy be contended that the
tribenfdefperate foreign invaders,who,after ravag. mere fhool.boy declamation of Brutus and Csefar
iyg Ftrince for three years, were finally expelled by are meant to be held up to ferious imitation ?
the courage and perfevera nee of the natives. I know Do thole who in the warmth of poetry reprefent
that tonic of the hireling agents of mall-acres and the aft of Brutus in the moll glorious colours, ad-
Murder. are now the hireling defenders of a go- mit the general principle or recommend the ex-
vernment more firm and vigorous, and that they ample of affaffination ? If, indeed, it be an incen-
art willing to lend their aid to a fyflem which in- tire to affaffination, it is fomewhat learned for the
teal:rotes between them and the detellation of man- ruffians, to whom it is•Cuppofed to be addreffed.—
kind. But on the other band it is not improbable My Learned Friend commented upon the apotheolt
that metanhyfieal murderers, the fpeculative deal- which was to be the fate of the Fira Conful, and
ers in blond, awakening from their dreams of de- took it for granted that it mull mean that he was
itineracy to the remorfe of their own minds, and to be put to death. Without dwelling on the la-
the deteftation of all around them, are again en- bulous account of Romulus, we may inquire whe-
deavoneing to recover that power which they for- then there be not fome other mode of afatheOif—
rnerly fought and abufed under thename of liberty. The poet grants to Auguftus the honour of apo-
Labonring under a profcription of opinion, the theolis before his death, diviu, adjait imperio Bri• I
blidges by which they could retreat from infamy taassit. Now, perhaps, it may have been intended
and pita into the filcher of fociety, being cut down that Bonaparte fhould try the fame way of obtain-
laiod them—no room left for penitence. it is na• ing the honour. if he does by that courfe, I hope
tqral that fuch men fhould refume their old habits, that he will find it one of the molt arduous and
and try their farmer arts. Goaded by neceffity— difficult routs by which ever hero attempted to
forrounded by the widows and orphans they have mount to Divinity, and that he will be obliged to
made—meeting no face but that of horror, no purple his lips with blood in this world before he
voice but thatof reproach, they may with to regain can do it with nettar ip the next.
t:;at power which can alone fhield them from the " Upon the (mod produttion a very few obfervations will
be, ftaff
rio tein7,„ ti 9. It
Aisnftdattredul to
.be,
would
produaibeon. of a Dutcbitiddpaii
tr..ii ks of averfion they experience, and from that
calm.; fenfatiott of guilt that torments them. It is mote who rebelled aga&it' the mildeft GoveerTnimat; in the
that fuch men may again ufurp the facred world, to throw themfelves into the armies of the crudeft ty-
name of liberty. The fentiments of the ode may rants Our ever feourged unkind, lhould now feel little difgult-
br the fentiments of Inch men, and fuch taco we
pet at tilintanneirn;,wdbiehrhteheir nextthe. art: anad fpecunlatLonsfpeeeh
have
fee may exill. I would not believe, however,
of Lapidus againft ylla, about • opitetjer it be julUy
for I know them too well to believe, that thole attributed to Lepidu. or not, is of little cookquence to the
men who hodored, and bullied, and infulted their portent point. it is Paid to have been introduced by is fpy of
Sovereign ;—who talked and difgraced republican Fooebes,into the cabinet of Camille Jurdao, in order to lad
onion ;—who affated to be heroes %%hen they ;glair:est for rulni
nsir ,nogktbnaotwamiabloenaltaidetexcels perks, wa
too appears r
vilified and abufed meek men or helplefs women— to be • fastreen the stactunadona of Fooebe, endeavouring, b;
Should really have arrived to any Pmtiments of he'- forged conforactes to rain thole Ise Mikes- Now this may be
nnwr, dignity, or virtue. I have allided to the a Satire on Fooehe ; but that is not the more to be tried. It ,
woon to.bealwantt•c_atectic.roan us etretualtaoorto to fee Feriae
word Republic, which fuch wretches have profti•
toted and degraded; but GOD Forbid the., I fhould don for j,,,ed &malt: Ludic oxcartin
appears a I' rep an-
toted
all a Rigma upon that venerable name of Repub. flatted for fatire, and grata hint, therefore, the &aft, of M.
lie and Republicans. in their kill fenfe and app. Petrov. ridicule might path have been diredtod."—(Here the •
Learned Costae' read feveral mamas from Fwiehe's knees to
the cation. Some of thefe refpcdtable communities
gwWe he
which graced thelociety of Europe have been foal T enielver,aTelteta 579p3, on
which tiaant Lyons.
LY-
lowed up by the Revolution of France. But one oils, whinit the Moniteur not long fuwe •
aferibed to the Englifti,
community merely, deferving that appellation, did we go on fall enough. He lays it will be neeeffary to cm-
now remains in the world, and that is a Society of ploy
cti•stt wli".
osc at once eri!X kb due rapidity, }le (peaks
thendritves the
Englifismen. When thatEnglilhmen. Republic, in& ed, was Fin
of s
in enAlfepiratto:ta, to Ipare
C t d'Htrbob hie
feparated from the country, the change not eye' are 'oda tar, joy,
aced it twin out that the
confiderable ; for in their former fate they coniti. cattle is, his being about to ea tws &sired Nirk u • )
•'lit
cr commenting on thde with much bureonrand moth tonic
amutoted a cumber of republican communities, under
the proteetion of one monarch ; and me may re•
he t wholeof
quettiim the nt'henthe
Gentlemen
l-earnediC:funftlace cryclietnd.
member. with fatisfaainn, that even when they to be IN.: If you think thefe libels are really meant 4. affed
fcparatett from the Mother coo ntr y, the ydi fpla:% ed the Firft Corbel, yaw waft give up the defendant to the punil-
that bravery, good fenfe, and moderation, worthy meat of the law. If, OP the other hand, you confider them on-
ly a. al republication few the purpdes of lultory, or as fatless
of the node of Liberty, and which they had in-
Llonwitn ..or parties in France not now before the Court,
herired from our common aticellors. Far be it r duty to return a verdict of acquittal in favour
from me, therefrrr, to vilify that form of GI, •of my client.
vernrnent, the fall of which. in lone Ulna:lcm •• My Learned complained that in this publication of
myt Chlklt, the FUR Con was treated with unbecoming I sky,
I cannot think of i• ithout feelings of commtje•
ration, and of indignati.-1. Thole who enter..i' Frenchmen r quoted the tick iii
to Boit if tolychheenhatye ghad fe
sen
rain (peceilative opinions in favour of republican hi publication the title of Atrocious and ,i
aniu'ing varieties,
goverranent, are not to be treated with ;:tree. wto,. loch sr. appellation mutt base opened men's eyes to the
it...amity of the thing recommended. Atrocious, indeed. the
tree merely for that fpeenlative preference.— I
Thole, indict', who think it poffib:e :11 of the p..`"'„`.v
mat .se..`ll'7l:.7:lputhh:e Itecivtei2 *lrides Cheery' tdit as be
libel.o nde. thew!. a'd.
great fociviies if Eurcpc to fecnre the renewal of l colliainiiig .he fcntiments, or a. a (atilt on the principles of the
toe executive power; by any form of periodical odw s and isn,;idti.ary Itevolutionifts of Piano.
entertainate opinions with which I can never f •• !non noticed every thing of importance in tilde
3 I.; C• e • , trary to all found principle, iL .-'n
6avc my .urn itilni'`,,Thi:ar am' strismur:`,7l..7_lr.ranenev___ tnarly
v • and in praftice lead to I „„„1 Cto odFer • I gT-
hope I lirve reed that decorum of
f."`i iahe4it But they to 1, ro I irmetagc *Lich it was my dot. I.nd say inclination toprattife.
.S/ ' - , t.. 7 Tarp the maw of gek,oE. I Lase alretify told you, Gendunen of the Jury, thay this is
_l*

::).

•
Ilienlbe commereetnent of a king reeks of (trestle; tisairra
have in your hands the molt important intones of thee:smith-
nite. In illuttrating the magnitude and importance of theft
interofts, it may not be improper to remind you of the light
in which they were iiewed by our smellier There are fume
o:cationil, as on the prefoin,perhapy when it is neceffary, u a
great welter fays," t s ft rengthcn our minds by great examples
of contlancy." In the hiftory of the country we perceive all
every period the utmoft anxiety to prderve a vigorous tom of
animadverfion on the condud of Foreign Powers, as the belt
means of keeping alive the public fpint of our own. Prom
Counsel' Law it is no doubt true, that the mere politics of the
day thoold be excluded; but, on the other band, the leading
maxims of national policy, which have flourithed forages, ought
to be treated with reverence, and followed with care. Thebyli-
was Majors have, In many well-governed States, been the molt
(acrid guides of condo& Ours, in times of difficulty and dan-
ger, were not afraid of (peaking the truth of the ufurpers of
Europe, and the enemies of public liberty. They felt no deli
cacy in founding a jolt alarm, in warning the country againit
future attack, and railing men's minds to energy, courage, and
refinance. The firft inftances of this are to be found, in what
may be confidered the lief period of the modern binary of
England--the reign of Queen Elizabeth. That magnanimous
Princely, who ftruggkd with fo many difficulties, and overcame
them with fo much ability, in the courfe of a long and glorious
reign, aged upon the true fyftem of Engtith policy with regard
to the Continent. At different times the fopported the Dutch
againft Philip 111. Henry IV. againn; bisrebellious and toper.
ftitious baskets, and contended, with a fadtion in the heart of
her dominions, the enemies of her perfon and of her title. It is
a curious fad that Queen Elizabeth was the brit who publilbed
newfpapers in England, and before the influence of the art of
printing on the public mind was developed, difeovcred the im-
portance of that engine. Several of the papers, the objeft of
which was to keep alive the public (pint, and route the people to
the dangers with which they were threatened by the ambition
of Philip 111. arc (till preferved. The leading policy of this great
Primers is Rated by an author whom to name is fufhcieat pryik.
The paffages which I Mali quote allude, the one to the aid the
Queen gave the Dutch ; the other to the protection the afforded
to the other nations of Europe:—
" But let me reft, lays this great author, in the honourable
and continued aid and relief. She bath gotten to the diftreffed
and deflate people of the low countries, a people recommend-
ed to her by their caufe--fo innocent, and their fortune Co la-
mentable--Again--
" Then it is her government, and her government only, that
bath been the fource and fort of all &trope, which bath LIT (in
the old teak to in ooze.) this proud nation (meaning Spain)
from overrunning all. If any Rate be yet free from his &lions,
erected in the bowels thereof—if there be any Rate wherein
this ruction is ereeted,t hat is not yet fired with civil troubles.—
if there be any Rate under his protedion upon whom be WM-
petit not—if there be ay babied to him that enjoyeth moderato
liberty upon whom he tyrannifeth not, let them all know it is
by the mercy of this renowned Queen that ttandeth between
them and their misfortunes."
" At the beginning of the reign of Louis XIV. the fucceilom
of Qiieen Elizabeth were, to their eternal difgrace, the accom-
plices and the penfiixids of that Prince. During the reign of
one of the brothers, James 11. the revocation of the Edid of
Nantes took plate. Yet during • elde comedian with the
Court of France, while a Jefferks difgraced that bench which
his Lordthip now adonis, It was net forbidden to the French
refugees to flare their grievances, and to paint their wrongs....
Fifty thoufand of came to this country; fthfcriptions were
railed for them; and the voice of the country fmnpothiled with
them in execrating the authors of their calamities. During that
inaufpicious period, when the King upon the throne of the coun-
try was the ally of the enemy of Europe, the /Ira war took
place in which a newfpaper was the pretence fee drawing the
(word. But It was than and glorious. It produced that hero,
afterwards the deliverer of Holland, of England, and of Eu-
rope, and it terminated in the defeat of the haughty Monarch
of France, and the dikes:dal retreat of tie molt powerful ar-
mies, led by the Ant Generals in Europe.—Wthiain 111. at lilt
&receded to the nation for which he was defthied—a hero
who devoted more than thirty years of a life, which did not
exceed fifty-five, to the ferries of mankind—a hero, to lee the
words of a venerable Prelate, " without vanity or pallets." to
wherein fortunately was given always to attain the greaten glory
by the accomplitheisent of the greateft good. During the in-
terval between the Peace of Rifwick and the War of the Sue-
ft was the of that reign to infpire the minds of
men with a juft *pion the perfidy and ambition of
Louis XIV. in order to fortify their minds melon the ftruggie
which was ken to impend. Net may did the public participate
in that (enthuse:4 but a &dim Hank of Coesmoea, perpe-
tually ftruggling to thwart the deigns of the great deliverer of
this country, publithed refolutiens of the fame tendency, net
In the cowardly tone of alarm and &limy, but breathing that
manly fpirit worthy of the nation, and felted to the mills that
was approaching.
" Nevrfpepers, i am aware, are not very popalerie this pier.
nor is it very furprifing, beeaufe they appear in this place only to
be checked for their faults. With all their faults, however, their
=created circulation is a proof of the encreafing curiofity and
defire of knowledge in this country, of which they are at once
the caufe and effed. Perhaps it would be better to treat tbok
engaged in this dilieult employment with a tittle snore indul-
gence, in order to teach them that felt-refped which is the belt
way to lead men to cultivate that of others. Be this 's it may,
however, every thing that enermfes the number of thole who
take an inters t, and exerelfe • Judgment is public-affairs, is, in
&Mt, to escreafe the real democracy of a country, mach more
than thole foams to which fame people are fo much attached.
In fad, there is indite country more libftantW democracy than
ever canted in any empire of the fame extent ; if by democracy
is meant the number of individuals who knit an opinion and
exereife a judgment in public affairs.
" If then it be important that the public mind mould be for
tificd agahtft the deign of Foreign power, it is fit that the dr.
Mike mat calculated to differninate a public fpirit, amid be
encouraged Upon every occation in which the public opinion
of this country could be ilifplayed refpedtiag Foreign affairs, it
has been uniformly given, and on attempt has been made tore.
profs it. From the feizure of Ceche& down to the different par-
titions of Poland, the public fentiment of England has molt
?trough' been expected agalnft fuck unvrarranuble robberies.
Next followed an event, in comparlfon of which the atrocity of
preceding (pointless became trivial. Switzerland, a country
for three handled years the abode of peace; a country, as it
were, roiled above the items of political events; a country
Wafting of • palllt and difcipihsed army, without ever attack-
ing its neighbours, rich without impart( taxes, till its riches
tempt the Epode ,gad become a cattle
of its ruin. Switzerland
is doomed to fall nada the impofing ravages of the French revo-
lution, Had loth an event taken place I. times of peace, would
it have been nest:flare for the public of this country to Rine the
woke of fympathy and former, for fear of giving offence to the
noble& tyrants? Had Aloys Reding, a name worthy to com-
pare with the heft of names, for true fimplkity of virtue and tin•
affeded magnanimity of charaeler ; bad Aloys Reding. who,
with a handful of pedants, defeated the conquerors of Eompe
on the foil where too years before their anceftors fought the op-
preffors of their Ithaty,fought an afylum in England, strutted
by the renown of this mighty Empire, would my Learned
Friend have told him that he midi caked his tears and breathe
low his fighs for the rein of his country, left kis potent enemy
&mid drive him from kis stilton, or lead him into Court the
deltas of profecution lam fore that no Englifinnan could
dill* with path:not of loch an Ignominy, and fore I am that
my learned Friend has a Mort too thoroughly With to brook
fitch difgram. Had we been at mce betweat3792 and epee,
could an Erroll& Court ore F.na Jury have been called upon
to prated the reputation of a Robefpierre. Prefident of the
Connattee of Safety; of his friend Murat; of a Carrier, his
agent, who drowned zozzopiens in the Loire, and eaded floe
(hiking. wader fourteen, to be that by the foldiery I Could
the laws of England have been called upon to prized, becsufe
they were in place, thufe butchers, who perpetrated, within
that period of two years, atrocities which,metrary to themes.
tice of mankind, are generally undereated, oat ennerated ?
Atrocities fa prodigious as to compel the Wed to leek refuge in
feeptieffm-' and which.but half believed, are now but half
rst-
manbered. But I cannot, with regard to my own feelings, or
' the refped I bear my Learned Friend, purist this train of in-
' is:rogation. Had loch fuch things taken place, the courage of
our Courts, and the Whiney of our Juries, bad been our only
refoorce. All would have bees loft, but the mextinguillinik
fpirit of an Englith Jury. To conclodo—l muff that on this, as
on all former occafions, the unfuhdoed fplrit ache country will
appear. AR I aft is afavosrab!c ecollsattion foe what may ap-
pear atabignima"

The Atteintat Gentler. begot file reply by etifstrviees
that the per had loft witsweed one of the scat Splendid cif.
pia7s of beams daquesoe that was ever made lie eve d
barely hope to engage their attention, while their eyeg weet.
{till 4'34.4 and they were Rill fixed In admiration. but they
tout cooLder the duty which needfity hispeed upon them
After an attentive eonfideration of all that had (slim from sits
Learned Friend. be alba venture to fay he had net tooth to
1 anfwar. Many things that bad bias Mused to with delight, et,.
tain.y were not very relevant to the matter at true. There were
one or two points, however, widish be felt it his duty to remark
upon. He denied that the real seecfarator was she Chief Ma-
giftrate of France. The prolocutor was the Chief Magistrate
of the kingdom in which we live, who was unworthily reree.
fatted by him in that plate. The profeemor had given the de-
fendant his protedirm, and only required of him an obedience
to the laws, as from his natural born lubjeds. Whet reg,„
was there for Laying that M. Peltier was about to be crufhoi in'
the land where he had for fame time found an afylum ? "iPlat c
reafen was there for laying that by the mandate of a fort in
potentate he was to be barely end purls:downer hinted out of
, the country? The defendant bad alloyed an the comforts of
' F.ngblh law ' • the molt altonlihing emotions of genie had hem
made In his behalf, and he was now to be judged by the Jury,
far fetched &drilla. but on not on new principle, not on any
the plain, eftabliihed, recognifed principles and dodrines which
I be (Mr. Attorney) bad explained in his addrefs, and which had
, not been controverted. He ?suited that they would not be cle-
f terned from doing their duty by any apprehenfloos that this
was the hilt of a long brie.. of unjust attacks upon the Enzliflo
: prcb. The only queltion for than to confider was. wlicibi r
1 this was one oi that defcriptinn? Did the profecurion trench
upotithe truth of hiftory ? Did it go to fetter the freedom of dif-
!
1 cuiLon ? The Government was aduated by no cowardly felt--
Minas, but with a &fire to vindicate the charatftcr of the coca-
; try. Their motives did not (print from abroad. It was . f
importance that we Should be fortified by the armour of indig-
' nation againft thole with whom we were to be at war, but 5y..,.
i there not a danger left while we were preparing we Ibould par:
the (word of Any;t r into the hand of our enemies? He did nut
fay what would be produced by fuch writings, but a jeakuly,
an irritation, a mutual hatred teas mated, which prevented the
dirputcs which mull from time to time occur between neigh-
. Mowing nations from being amicably comprosnifed, and cordi-
ally fettled. The boundary between decagon and libel might
be obfeore and Oaring; but in this instance did they come with-
in light of It 1 He was abort, why he did not preemie other
founds that re-publiflted libellous articles, and particularly
• charge ambit our own Sovereign for employing affaifins ?
For the very make pointed out by his Learned Friend, that
they bad evidently no libellous intention, and that their dbl.
Riled laws retested them from the of ea Yawner mt.
five. Did the charades. of tbb 'indeed raprobside that
the condidor had it for his to trame and alk the Ark
Coedit and to bramble' into ameempt ammo his fatsjedist He
dared than to place thraldom In the anatlon of fame of
the Preach People, lad fee how they would winds any
enciaragernentx: to pbee wait the life of the Fig
Magarate 1 amid ha bias done bad we been at peace
with Prance be the dorsicitadarre and Merre, or drift
the Brit invades efierltemiudi awe the rase irm ends-
dui, as great atrocities bad prebably been asainektal be ark.
Berland as dirk which his Learned Ptlmd bed fa
defaibed. What would be have dime, Whet did he do N.
Thefe events were net paired merle seen Wes thereon In
force of the Journals a Male deptiame dos thadraran which
the cattle of truth does set amide to lee f Bat this
was !riflery with fuel rsaiminolla as attic in every
well-regulated mind. lie mender et hand sopyralidaeur
feiffivele then latimal binaWlerlegt one Of and jetweado be-
f ore a jury. Maas Ilea se their doemsda inadgema an ha
damn to the pads who netrieel diem Ha Ibengl=
to remind the jury tat he allowed air elf of die
as fully as his Immed Prised, that* ON Mew be wee Mt
able fo powerfully to enforce it. His Lamed Mend, a a
part of his {posh, had argued as if he war
that lad been before advanced. Mit dein& weer dada
opinions were preelfely the fame, sod that they ray dead
in nerrodnefe of ampere and carload& 40 eliftildlD. k
would be time graph to Rh up a Jay espial the trace of a
Foreign Power, when an attempt was mods to Inlblenot the
due adminiftration of Joliet, by aradautione not rake est
of themes to be tried. If furl an attempt woe to be rad, ft
was to be trawl, that It might have been ma by the dogmas
and indifilble dealt which had jot been dethmed.
Lord Rs. Len sogeoca....oendensen of the Pry, the ad
being new doted for the Profecation, and for as &rawest,
It Menem my duty to give yea my opinion upon the matters
at Ms. There are three points to be eadidered—r, the fad
tithe pabileoties. the Inseadoesvmnd 3. the quality and
tendency dub. words charged The fast of palladia fame
hilidendy elliablided by the evideneesd Mr. Dotage. fo that
whatever the main of tle bosh may be, the Defendant is es-
fradlide. The preliminary matter. that Napalms Brawls
was fad Crad of the Freseh Republic, that show was peace
between the two countrini, Inc. is admitted. The fads are a
notorious that perhaps they did not require proof. The next
and the mod material confideration la the nature and tendency
of the words fat forth. Two of the pears upon the read
have been reprdented so ironical compsetions upon the lodises
in Frame, sot as teem to Hid the Chief Meglitrare er that
emery. and It has barn endeavoured to dew that there ha
where so Mamma given to hie sialeatima and murder. But
it is for you to fay whether there papers do act contain matters
which tend highly to revile this eraidaak Magiente, and
to air m thole over whom be is in authority te make as et-
tempt epos Medd It Is my duty to tend you that • pubis.-
dm dadaist to do any public inifddef, whether by edam
a breach of the peace, promodag irrellgies.earroptiog wads,
by defaming any andidwale Magid:lves of other eme des, se
by the dired and tesaffelt fakery of interrupting the berassay
with a friendly date, is what the law oonlidas a Hid Itemody
Lord O. Gordon sad the rdkor of Tie Courier Inn bra tried
far the lad efface. The legal propriety of tide prefrations
was never judicially reasibm. lam daerefere authorised in
laying It down, that rammer tends to degradcau revile foreign
Magiitrates, Is a asolese_malicadoo. If there Lamy madded
obloquy a being Oath a Magiftrate late contempt, if there is a
minded Material& ao disk fulled to his power to rife up and
allay Wt, this Is no drat, swat aggravation of the alma .
sad indicating a clear intaideo sodas& the lacurany between
the two eountries.is a libel of the ward defalpden. There is
DO talon to believe dim this ado, attributed to {`,hasher, was
'finally written by that pea. The learn& every day contain
letters under feigned names. Candler thefe weeds. * 0 etan
nal difgrace to Frame, de. there remora a plignerd to avenge
you among the lad drama" De dim set aimed a wifit taw
the parsed Should be odd la Man *whack had Seed Reese
from Cade, the ufurper of his country f he to ether masa,
what conftruttion is to be put upon this rename t • dray.
(and Rotuultis recalls to tiling to mind) I whiting an to mor-
row he may have bit spertheofis." This is a deed vil a that If
he Is to be made Emperor be may eneoraterdeado matt day. TM
, drooled bitery of Romans, whet ba fabulous or rd. lama
'as doubt of the meaning of the writer. The words an leaps
btu of palatial. Had they bees doubtful it would beeches,'
your duty to have put &favourable malbraien urea than Bet
we are not to bob about far sadllituden adds ad. Ism ne
gutted by the law wine my eriaise.ead spathe best crafts-
non I have beta able to Whew span the folded,l think there is
In dick papers a deed and ranted tendency toned the Ha
Conful, and to aster:rage plans fur his affaidostim, notwith-
darkling the ingunkuss gift put upon them by a Lamed
Counter, who Ms this de defended the rah of his cheat sides
eloquence aimed ampsra When a mallestion of lick a
tendency has appeared here, I tie net fee beer you am acquit
the publifter. I have no doubt you will do your duty, without
allowing the wee Seddon of paft events, or the arstiamilea it
what may follow to warp your judgment You will damage
the thought a addlination and murder. You will recalled
bow dangerous maniples of this kind are, and that fuck an OW
rage might be retaliated upon the bead of all that is aLar to us.
You will not lawarthe opinion which is eternised la every pest"
ter of the world. of the unfilled purity of Braid Jeciiesturat
and of the laid Impartiality which guides all their proceed ge.
The eat Is now be your hands, G et,:lernen, ani you will eras
to that conclude wines your region fuggrfla, sad year oar
fcicnce fandions.
I la • Jul w thln one mieute of tbe time whoa his Lerehip
emerald, bused a mrdia afvvint av v. . .

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