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LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF ICING'S BENCH, FEBRUARY 12.

Mr. CHARLES PHILLIPS (of Ireland) took the oaths
upon his being called to the English bar.

THE XING V. SHEEN.

Mr. GURNEY prayed the judgment of the Court
upon this defendant, convicted upon an information
filed by the Attorney-General, of assaulting an Excise
Officer in the execution of his duty.
It appeared that Sheen, who upon his trial suffered
judgment to pass by default, was employed at Maid-
stone in the clandestine composition of soap; and
that, being in peril of detection, he, first by menaces,
and then by hard blows, prevented the Officers from
entering the boiling-house. He was sentenced to pay
a fine of L5O, to be imprisoned nine months in the
House of Correction at Maidstone, and to find sure-
ties for his good behaviour during three years.

Fins.—Sunday morning, between four and five
o'clock, the neighbourhood of Whitecross-street, St.
Luke's, was thrown into great confusion and alarm,
by the springing of rattles and cries of « lire, fire !"
in consequence of volumes of smoke and flames being
seen descending at the back of the houses belonging
to Mr. Whantley, an oilman, and Mr. Wiginton, an
undertaker, in Whitecross-street. It was. soon dis-
covered that the extensive premises of Mr. Darby-
shire, cabinet-maker, at the extremity of a narrow
passage, were in flames; and it was not till the fire
had communicated to the rdom in which were Mr.
and Mrs. Darbyshire and five children buried in
sleep, that they could be made sensible of their im-
pending danger; when, with great difficulty they
escaped into the street. It was then found that one
of the children, a little girl about three years old, was
missing. Mrs. Darbyshire, with an infant in her
arms, rushed through the flames, and happily suc-
ceeded in preserving her child; who was fast asleep in
bed. The devouring element had by this time gained
such an ascendancy, that the-greatest fear was enter-
tained for the safety of the surrounding houses ; but,
luckily, at this critical moment the wind ,shifted, and
the engines were instantly put in motion, and pre-
vented the flames from extending their ravages. The
fire was got under about seven o'clock, but not till
the whole of Mr. Darbyshire's premises, which occu-
pied an immense plot of ground, together with pro-
perty to the amount of I.:3,000, were entirely con-
stitute!. Seviral of the adjoining houses were injured.

SIR FRANCIS BURDETT.

A Public Meeting was held yesterday, at the
Crown and Anchor Tavern, in the Strand, for the
-purpose of taking into consideration what conduct it
is fit and proper to pursue respecting the sentence
passed upon Sir FRANCIS BURIATT, for his manly
and patriotic Address to the Electors of Westminster
on the Manchester Massacre."

The Meeting was called for twelve o'clock for one
precisely; but long before the latter hour the room,
which is one of the largest public rooms in Lon-
don, was crowded iR every part. At one o'clock,
Mr-Hoist-muss, M.P. accompanied by the Gentlemen
of the Committee, entered the room, amidst loud
and enthusiastic greetings.
The Hon. Gentleman then took the Chair (as had
been previously arranged by the Committee), and
addressed the Meeting. ' He began by observing,
that the-eons ion which subsisted between him and
the People of Westminster, a connexion which he
should ever boast of, and his great attachment-to his
Honourable colleague, Sir Francis Burdett, an at-
tachment which was the pride of his life, and which
be should carry to his grave—(Cheers)—induced
him to come forward to state his sentiments on this
occasion ; hut they were not his sentiments alone,
for he was sure they were the sentiments of the
people of England—(Hear, heaY).—The Meeting was
assembled to consider what might be the conduct
fittest for them to pursue in consequence of the sen-
tence which had been passed on their most faithful
and zealous Representative. There were two parties
to that sentence, the prosecutor and the accused—
the individual who brought the accusation, and he
who was now undergoing the punishment. They
should, on this occasion, approve of the conduct of
the one or the other. He asked them, could they
approve of the conduct of the prosecutors ?—(Loud
cries of " No, no.")—Then, was there not something
which induced them to approve of the conduct of
the accused ?—(Cheers, and cries of " Yes.")—He
asked the Meeting—he asked the people of England
—had the Honourable Baronet committed a crime ?
I (Cries of " No.")—anything which he ought for a
moment to be ashamed of?—(" No.")—anything
which could cast a blot or stain on the fairest and
most eminent character?—(A tremendous shout of
"No," followed this sentence).—Then, instead of hav-
ing done anything which could have disgraced him
with the Public of this day, or with posterity, he had
done that (and was now suffering for having done it)
which• would not only endear-him to the beaks of
Englishmen, btit which proved him to be one of the
best, if not the very best Representative of the People
of this country. He did not now intend at any length
to recal their attention to the melancholy event out
of which the late prosecution had arisen. It was not
his wish to dwell upon that horrid scene of blood and
slaughter which had taken place at Manchester—
that melancholy event which had roused the indig-
nation of their excellent Representative--which had
roused their indignation, and that of the whole
People of this country from' one end to the other—
which had called forth such independent men as the
Hon. Baronet to ask for redress for an injured People.
It was not, he, said, now necessary • to, recal those
scenes to their recollection; but they should bear in
mind, and it was for this purpose that he mentioned
the case at all, that up to this day, the blood of the
innocent was unappeased and unatoned for ;• up to
this day no reparation had been made to the People,
and the blood which was then shed still rested on
the heads of those by whom it was shed, and would,
according to the Divine law, rest on the heads of
the Nation until it was atoned for—(Loud cheers).—
He had said 'that nothing had been done for the in-
nocent sufferers on that occasion.: he was wrong.
Something had been done, not for the relief of the
sufferers, but on those who had accused the authors
of the sufferings—on some of those who had them-
selves suffered, and whose groans were at this mo-
ment echoed from dungeons in various parts of the
kingdom—( Loud cheers).—And he would ask, what
crime had those persons committed? Had they com-
mitted any crime?—( Cries of No).—He maintained
they had not, for the Judges, and he would allude
to the case tried at York, could not point out any
statute or common law which had been infringed-by
the parties who were made the subject of accusation.
Thus, then, they found, that notwithstanding the
exertions which had been so zealously made by the
Honourable Baronet—notwithstanding the calls for
inquiry and redress from every part of the country—
the only result was, that additional insults and addi-
tional wrongs had been heaped upon the people of
England—(Cheers).—After some of the humbler vic-
tims had been seized, they wished for a higher one,
and their great friend and constant advocate, the Ho-
nourable Baronet, was marked out for the vengeance
of those to whom he was the more hateful, in.pro-
por,tion as he had become more and more endeared
to the People of England—(Cheers).--He now beg-
ged to say a word of the !prosecution itself; and,
without being lawyers, he thought they had good
grounds of complaint for the manner in which it was
got up and carried on, as in that several rights dear
to the People had been violated. They had a right to
complain, in the first place, that the prosecution was
made by the Attorney-General, as that deprived the
illustrious defendant of the Jury to which he would
otherwise be entitled. An e.c-qfficio information, he
need scarcely observe, formed no part of the ancient
law of England; and at the Revolution, when the
right of filing theni was taken from the Master of
the Clown-Office, it was also intended to take it
away from the Attorney-General, but, unfortunately,
that had been neglected. The next piece of injustice
of which he had to complain was, taking him away
to be tried in a County where he had committed no
crime. This point had been so well argued by the
able Counsel to whose care the cause of the Honour-
ble Bat onet had been committed, that he should tally
sieak;" the arguments by re-stating them. He