Star.
London, England, 1820-02-24 00:00:00

GENERAL ELECTION.

Canvassing proceeds with unprecedented activity in
the City of London ; scarcely an hour passes that the
numerous Liverymen are not solicited for their votes
by the friends of some one of the Candidates.
Admiral Sir GEORGE COCKBURN is stated to be put
in nomination for Westminster.
CHARLES SHAWE LENEVRE, Esq. has signified his
intention of not offering himself again for Reading,
on account of ill health.

General MANNERS has declined offering himse
again as a Candidate to represent the Borough of
Cambridge, and M. CHEERS CHEERE, Esq. it is said,
will be proposed on the same interest.
Mr. NATHANIEL SNEYD, M.P. offers himself to be
re-elected for the County of Cavan.
Colonel BARRY, who has been indisposed, is get?
tin g better, and stands for the County of Cavan.
It is for the Contributory Boroughs of Denbigh,
Ruthin, and Holt, that Mr. WEST, the son of the
I,Hon. Mr. WEST, has declared himself a Candidate.
[The present Member is Jolts WYNNE GRIFSITH,
Esq. who again offers himself to the Electors.
Tht Borough of St. Ives, Cornwall, will be warmly
contested. The present Candidates are, Sir WALTER
STIRLING, Bart. Sir CHRISTOPHER HAWKINS, Bart,
SAMUEL STEPHENS, Esq. Mr, GRENFELL, and Colo-
nel R. MEADE.
GEORGE G. MORGAN, Esq. M. P, again offers him-
self, by address, to the Borough of Brecon.
Mr. CAMPBELL, it is stated, will again oppose Mr.
PRIMROSE, for the Dunfermline District of Burghs.
It is understood that Mr. FRASER is again to con-
test the County of Ross, with Mr. MACEENiIE, the
present Member:
JOHN WELLS, Esq. the late High Sheriff for the
County of Kent, has declined to start for Maidstone.
Lord GRAVEs has resi?ned his pretensions t 9
Windsor. Sir HERBERT 'Limon, late Secretary to
his Majesty, starts in his place"
It is said the Hon. Colonel AnspruNar, of Hatton,
is a candidate for the County of Kincardine.
It is expected that the Loan ADVOCATE Wilt be
returned for the Anstruther and Pittenweem Burghs;
without opposition.
Rosettx. BRUCE, Esq. of Kennet, has offered himself
as a candidate for the County of Clackruannan.

COURT OF KING'S
THIS /i/Olf.
THE SING N. WAILING.

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This was an information against the defendant, for
publishing a seditious libel in No. 2, of the Republican.
The ATToitusy GEMBRAI. opined this case, b 7
commenting, in severe terms, on the condect of the
defendant, in publishing such abominable trash.
The libel in question was a Letter to the Prince Re-
gent, for thanking, what the writer chose to call, the
assassins of Manchester. It was high time that such
pOlications should be checked, or the country
would soon experience the fatal effects,
The SOLICITOR GENERAL proved the vending of
the libel by the defendant, at his shop, in the Strand.
The case for the prosecution being closed, Mr.
Watling. rose to make his defence.—He objected tp
being tried by a Special Jury, as he thought it was
not agreeable to the laws of England. He observed
that he was a general. dealer in pamphlets and news_
papers ; and that it was not possible for him, an un.
lettered man, to make himself acquainted with the
contents of every book 'that he sold. As soon as he
knew that the sale of the present libel gave offence, •
he desisted. It was his trade to publish all sorts of
books and pamphlets. He had a wife and large far
milt', and he trusted that the Jury would not think
hardly of him, He had had an indictment preferred
against him at the Middlesex Sessions, by which he
hrid been greatly harassed.
Mr. Robert Wilson gave the prisonsr a very good
character.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL replied. He was glad
that the defendant had not justified or denied the
publication. Ignorance was no excuse for any error.
It was by stopping the sale that such publicationa
were to be put down, With respect to the Middlesex
Sessions, he had nothing at all to do with it. He
did not wish to harass the defendant.
The CRIEF JUSTICE summed up, and the Jury,
,without hesitation, brought in a verdict of Guilty.

The CHIEF JUSTICE of the Court of King's Bench,
will sit at Westminster till Saturday newt, and oa
Monday his Lordship goes-to Guildhall for four days,
and then•sets off for the York Assizes, which will
commence on the Monday following,
Damages to the amount of 4;250, h ave been awarded
against Mr. Chapman, for a libel inserted in Me
Manchester Observer. Judgment was suffered to go
default,
~.Saturday morning, iitlil.estry early hour, were in-
terred the remains of the late Mrs. Casey/men, of the
White Hart, Battle-bridge. five weeks had elapsed
since her death, and as the body remained, during
that tirnernnburied, it was reported that she was in
a-trante but it. now appears that Mr., Cuamor,EA
had resorted to that rood* of baffling the resorreaion.
men, who have, of late, been so parucolarly active.
Last week, as Mr. Dale, of Allerton, was return
ing from Mahon-markt%
hewas attacked near to
Knapton by two melt, who rubbed him of 1:159 in
cash and antes, which Mr. Rile bad collected tp pky
his rent. • The villains diagged Mr. Dale from his
horse, and :left hire in a Was of inuasiNuipf flow
their. yiorence,


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