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taa honour to which he aspired. The letter being
thus read, it produced the effect which the Jury might
naturally suppose. The circumstance was afterwards
communicated to Mr. Cobbett, then in America; and
at a Meeting which took place at the Crown and An-
chor Tavern upon the subject, Mr. Hunt took occa-
sion publicly to declare, that the letter so produced
was a forgery. The result, with respect to Mr. Cob-
bett's proceedings, marked the temper of his mind,
and skewed a malignity of heart, scarcely credible
of a man possessing. the powers and acquirements
for which he had given him credit. He resorted,
in the extremity of the situation in which he was
placed, to a species of cruelty the most barbarous
and unnatural. His conduct was like that of a
man who, unable any longer to meet his antago-
nist in the fair field of argument, had recourse to the
concealed dagger or the poisoned arrow. It was the.
artifice of a base and sordid mind, which, when un-
able to answer its adversary by the powers of reason-
ing, stopped all further argument, and charged the
opponent with the commission of an atrocious crime.
Who but a man of the most barbarous, unrelenting,
and malignant passions, could, even in the feeling of
pers ilia' anger and animosity, heap upon his enemy
an i:nputation of a foul crime, which at the time -lie
mutt know to be false ? Under these circumstances he
wrote the second libel, which was the subject of the
a:ti -in. The learned Counsel then proceeded to state the
libel, which was in a letter, addressed to Major Cart-
wright, " On the Rump Farce, at the Crown and
Anchor, 17th November, 1818; and particularly on
the conduct of Sir Francis Burdett, and that of Cleary
and his associate Wright, with regard to the forgery,"
from which the following extracts were read :—" It
is the fate of feeble animals, when they get into mire,
to bury themselves, by their efforts to emerge ;—a
complete instance of which we have in the conduct of
these associates, on the 17th of November last. Mr.
Hunt, upon this occasion, produced my letter to the
Editor of The New York Evening Post, declaring the
letter read by Mr. Cleary, at the hustings to be a for-
gery done by himself, or got from a man, who had,
in many instances, been guilty of a similar offense.
" You, my dear Sir, know the history of this Wright. You
k-.ow all his tricks—all his attempts. The Public do net, and I
will not now trouble the Public with a detail, which, if put in a
suitable form, would snake a romance, in the words of truth, far,
surpassing any thing that ever was imagined of moral turpitude."'
The Learned Counsel then went on to read parts of
the libel, which charged Mi. Wright with borrowing
money in the name of the author, without the autho-
rity of the latter, &c. &c. &c.
Mr. HUNT, who came into Court when the trial
was called on, rose at 'this time with considerable
warmth, and hoped the Learned Judge would not
allow him to be libelled with falsehood. The Learned
Counsel had stated, that he (Mr. Bunt) had declared
at the Public. Meeting, that the letter attributed to
Mr. Cobbett was a forgery.
The CH I ETJUsI ICE said he had not heard the Learned
Counsel make any such ob,ervation ; he had merely
read the libellous publication, as he had a right to do.
and if it libelled any other person than the plaintiff,
his Lordship was very sorry for it.
Mr. SCARLET? then resumed, and commented
upon the atrocious character of the libel, and in al-
hiding to Mr. Cobbett's abuse of the powers which
Nature had givea him, said it was true, that he might
have the intellects of an Angel, but they were those
an fallen Angel. lie then dwelt upon the question
of 3amages, and contended that this was the only
tribunal in which the plaintiff could seek for redress,
which, if he could not find at their hands, it_were
better to blot the power of writing out of the cata-
logue of human talents. No doubt could exist of
the responsibility of Mr. Clement for the consequence
of this publication, because he was the agent of a
person vim, from a distant clime, sent forth to the
warld this malevolent libel.

• A witness named Stennor, proved that he pur-
chased the Register, containing the first libel, at Mr.
element's shop; George Granger proved that he
purchased the second at the same Place.
. Mr. Thomas Hansard, printer ; Mr. John Paul,
an accountant ; and Mr. William Jackson, proved the
letter to be Cobbett's hand-writing.
Mr. Cleary gave the like evidence, and proved that
it was the same letter which he read at the hustings,
having received it from Mr. Wright.
Mr. ADOLPHUS then addressed the Jury in a very
a'jle and powerful speech, on behalf of the defendant.
In reply to the topics urged by the plaintiff's Conn-
scl, he said, they were wholly inapplicable to the
present question, inasmuch as they were merely stric-
tures upon the political character and conduct of Mr.
cobbett, with which the defendant had nothing to
do; he being a mere vender of the first libel. With
respect to the second, he proposed to offer evidence
for the purpose of chewing, that long prior to that
publication, he had ceased to sell Mr. Cobbett's Regis-
ter; he had positively prohibited every assivant in his
shop from selling that publication, under any pretence
Whatsoever ; and that the copy in question had been
sold without his privity, knowledge, or consent. With
respect to the question of damages, the usual founda-
tion in such cases had not been laid, inasmuch as the
Jury were left wholly in ignorance as to who Mr.
Wright was, what good fame he bad lost, or how, in
any degree, lie was injured by the publication. The
Learned Counsel said, it was impossible for Mr.
Clement to justify the libel, nor did he affect to rest
his defence upon any such ground, because he rested
his innocence solely upon the fact of his not having
published the libel.
Mr. John Sudbury, Mr. Charles Clement, brother
of the defendant, and *Richard Mainwaring, proved
that the 'defendant had repeatedly forbidden the sale
of Mr. Cobbett's Register at his shop, several weeks
prior to*the publication of the 6th of March.