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London, England, 1810-07-10 00:00:00

POETRY.

THE STATUE OF

,NG GLADIATOR.

TAIL OXFORD PRIZE POEM, WRITTEN AND HPOIELN lIT
MR. CHIN' • KY I' MR. ciiiriNtay,
OF THE TREASURY.

Will then no pitying sword it. boceour lend
The ra Alan r's root tal throe.. to en ,

To fe.Ne tl•e unconsuer'd mind, whore generous pow'r
' Triumiws o'er Nature in her saddest hour ?
Row'r4 low, and full of death, his head declines,
Yet o'er his brow indignant Valour shines,
Still glares his cluing eye with angry light,
Now glares, now darkens with approaching night.
Think nor with terror heaves that sinewy breast—.
'Tis vengeance visible, and pain supprest:
Calmoin d spair, in agony sedate,
fells proud soul wrggtles with o'ermastering fate;
That pater the conflict ends—he falls not yet—
Seems every nerve for one last effort set,
At once, by death, death's ling ring power to brave—
He will not sink, but plunge into the grave— •
. Exhaust his mighty heart in one last sigh, - •
Ard rally life's whole energy—to die!
Unfear'd is now-that cord, -which oft ensnar'sl
•
The baffled rival whom his falcition spat'd ;
Those clarions mute, which, on the nsurd"rous stage, .
•
Roxed him to deeds of more than martial rage;
Oncepois'd by peerless might, once dear to fame,
The shield which could not guard. supports his frame :
ells fix'd eye dwells upon the faithless blade, 7 ,
As if in silent agony he pray'd—
" Oh! might I yet, by one avenging blow,
" Not shuu my fate, but share it with my foe!"
. Vain hope!—:he streams of life-blood fest descend; . . •
That giant-artn's uphearmg strength must bend ;
Yet-shall t•e worn, procumbent, to betray
One (la-furl sign of anguish or disnilly. -
• With one weak plaint to sham- his partingbreeth, • • .
•
• h pangs sul)lime,.magoificent in death!
But were,deeds nn.tronicled ; hi: tomb . •
,u
No patriot wreaths adorn ; to cheer his doom,
' thoughts arise of duties done,
•
Of trnutlied conquer for his country won;
. AO he, whose sculptur'd form gave deathless fame •
•
. To Cie-sites—he dies without a name! •
. .
Nally to.grace some Czsar's pageant p-ide
1,, '.-:,•ro-slave or hireling-champion cried,
'When Rome, degenerate Rome, for barbarous shows,
•
• lßarter'd her virtue, glory, and repos-,
Bold all that Freemen prize as great and good,
for pom; s of death and theatres of Word !
GEORGE ROBERT amsrszier,
Chrip Chnr h. . . .

LAW lIVTELLxENC.E.

oxroßD CIRCUIT.

limited in the bands in ',ha the snow were; and, if
so, why they ought not to be restorecrto the body to
which they properly belonged. There was no occa-
sion for the interference of the Court, however, in or-
der to accomplish this object. The parties aggrieved,
in order to obtain justice, had only to renew the mo-
tion originally made by them, after giving proper
notice.

Days and places for holding the Summer Assizes
before Sir Soulden Lawrence, Knight, one of the Ju-
stices of our-Lord the King, of his Court of Common
Plc.'s at Westminster, and Sir Simon Le Blanc, Knt.
one f the Justices of our said Lord the Xing, assign-
ed to hold pleas before the King himself
Berkshi
_ _ _ _ _

Monday, July 30, at Al;ingden.
Wednesday, August 1, at Oxford.
re—Saturday, August 4, at Woroseter.
;ester—Same day, at Worcester.
ire—Wetinusday, August 8, at Glintteeter.
roue '.ter—Satre day, at Gloucester.
lie. n-msaturday. August 11, at Monmouth.
e-14fiesday, August 14, at Vlerefard.
aturday, August 18, at Shrewsbury.
-Wtdnesday,August 92, al Stafford.
Wl' OF KING'S BENCH, JULY T.
-eNunnnusif gave the judgment of the
,veral points of importance.
cl the reversal of an outlawry, the Court
e • recognizance was not forfeited, but
vas entitled to render the body of the
lad been outlawed.
VERNOR V. RM.
the plaintiff charged that he had been
it of £7OO by a false representation of
it, who• had been his partner, and who
Ited to him that certain other persons who
into his right, had refused to give more
sum for the purchase, whereas, in fact,
ill:ng to have given £7OO more, but in
of which representation the plaintiff had
the smaller sum. The Court held that
was not entitled to recover. A seller
31e in the case of any false representation
of the thing sold, but the Court were not
rule by which a buyer, in such circum.
id be made liable.
fir arresting the judgment in favour of
was accordingly made absolute.
POLICY OF INSURANCE.
on a policy of insurance on the ship Mi..
it every risk except that of condemnation
ican Government, where a partial or ave-
d
previously arisen by the perils of the
'ere total loss immediately afterwards
isequence of condemnation by the Ame-
;Fitment, a risk especially excluded by the
Court held that the assured could not re-
''r the average loss arising from the perils
They could not be entitled to indemnity
tad suffered no damage. How, when the
(tally taken away from them, could they
we been damaged by any previous deten.
.ight have undergone ? Of what conse-
them was the intermediate state of the'
were never at all to get the Mug itself
issession ? The American Government,
.imately condemned the cargo, were, in
party injured by its previous deteriora-
mient for the defendant.
QUARTER SESSIONS.
also found in a question from the Quar-
that oak, ash, and elm, are not ex pretria
'ted from being cut as under wood when
as of age. The distinctien must depend
of their growth, and on their being in-
rnber.

v. THE MAYOR OF GREAT GRIMSBY.

se a Mandamus bad teen applied Mr en-
Mayor of Great Grimsby to takethe sense
)rate Body on a motion proposed by one
:ssses at a regular meeting, and which had
iec,onded, but which the Mayor had re.
This motion went to protect the Cor-
.. from improper applications of them by
Body, who had assumed the right of dis.,
'lem, and to bring back this right into the
whole Body Corporate.
.LENSOROUQU thought there was a doubt
ie notice of the .mottigi had been given.—
certainly would be far from laying it
the Mayor had a veto in such business. It
:et, well deserving of inquiry, if the funds
gyration had, beenk or were likely to be,

their just punishment. The German Legion, who
were accidentally in the neighbourhood, were called
in to enforce that discipline which is as necessary for
the well being- of the army, as the security of the
people. Some were punished ; many were forgiven;
and even of those whose crime could not be altogether
passed over, a part of the punishment was remitted :
yet this you describe as an act of atrocious tyranny.
WILLIAMS' v. JdNES. You speak of the crime as if it were nothing more than
Mr. ATTORNEY GENERAL shelved cause against the a trifling dispute about a small sum of money, and
Rule applied for by the defendant in this case to the punishment as being violent and oppressive in the
amend his Replisation. The action was brought for extreme. You insulted the soldiers, and said they
an account of business as an attorney done for the de- took the flogging like so many trunks of trees. The
fendant by the plaintiff, while the parties were both whole intention of your libel was to throw disgrace
resident in the Presidency of Bengal in the East In. on the Government, and to disgust and alienate the
dies. The debt had been incurred upwards of ten army. If you had any thing to offer in extenuation,
years ago, and the plea set up by the defendant was you might have offered it ; the Court would have re-
first, that not he, but his creditors, had employed the ceived it, and in all events impartial justice would
plaintiff, the actions in whicrthe plaintiff had been have been dealt to you. I now pass the sentence of
employed, being for penalties under the statute of , the Court upon you, William Cobbett, as the princi-
asury, the sums to be recovered under which were to pal criminal among those who now stand before the
go in extinction of the debts due to the defendant's Court. The Court do accordingly adjudge, that you,
creditors, and not to the defendant himself. To this William Cobbett; pay, to our Lord the King, a fine
plea the plaintiff replied, that the defendant was be- of £lOOO, that you be imprisoned in his Majesty's
yond seas during greater part of the pet iod alluded , gaol of Newgat,e for the space of two years ; and that
to ; and, the-defendant had rejoined that the parties ; at the expiration of that time, you enter into a recog-
were both in the East Indies, where they were within ; nizance to keep the peace for seven years, yourself in
the jurisdiction of the Supreme Co.uriof Ben al, and the sums of at'3ooo, and two good and sufficient seen.
where the defendant under the operation of the Act rities in the sums of LIOCO each. And further, that.
of the thirteenth of _George the Third, might be as you be imprisoned till that recognizance be etvered•
effectually sued as if he had been resident in this coun- into, and that fine paid."
try. There had been an error. in the date of the Act j His. Lordship then addressed the other defendants,
'of which the plaintiff had availed himself, and the Messrs. Budd and Bagshaw, and after observing that
Attorney General trusted that the Court would not, ' from their having suffered judgment to go by default,
is such icase, lend Assikahee to the Ilea of the
.Sta• and not, having any share in the profit of the paper,
lute Of Limitation. . • • ts; their offence was lighter than that of the criminal
Mr, Pearcs.was alacltitao argue on the other side, , :pa whom sentence has just been passed, their punish-
When Lord .Eetltsootteron said that he kot\e' rfo :ifteht should be lighter bet that they might under-
reason why the plea under the Statute &Limitations stand infature that no carelessneis or inattention in
should not be entrtled.to thefair Consideration of that .theasoblisher is a sufficient excuse for sending out
Court. Here the defendant was ,a man who had been into the world mischievous works,' the Court had de-
Many years abroad,* who, on that account,
.mikjit,. teratined.that they should be imprisoned for two
from 'various causes, have destroyed the vouchers anoriths each in the King's Bench Prison.
which he held, and who, probably, in consequence, His Lordship than commented on the guilt of Mr.
now called for the indulgence' of the Court. The Hansard, the printer, who, from having read the
strict rule of proceeding in such cases, had been much • proof slips, and having it id his power to read over
relaxed of late years, and he saw no reason why they , the entire production before it left his hands, was
should not be so relaxed in the present. instance. 'guilty of a high offence in allowing the libel to come
The Rula was accordingly made absolute.. forth to the public. The extenuation of his offence,
JULY 9e.T.IVF. ZINO v. COBNETT AND OTHERS. as well as those of the twd preceding defendants,had
The defendants in this cause were brought up for been attended to by the Court ; and in consideration
judgment thittnorning, The public expectation which thereof, the Court would only sentence him• to-three
had been for these few last days anticipating the sen. months imprisonment in the. King's Bench Prison,
tence of the Court was so much excited, that West-' and to enter into a recognizance to keep the peace
minster Hall was crowded at an early hour, and it for three years, himself in and two suietists in
was with considerable difficulty that the avenues to W• 200 each.
the Court could be approached. The defendants then wifhdrew in the custody of the
Mr. Justice Geo= attended during the morning, to officer of the Court.
go through the routine business ' • and it was not -till j • Mr. Cobbett appeared not much affected by the
past eleven that the Loan Carer JUSTICE, Mr. Justice sentence ; his deportment during its delivery was un-
La &mac, and Mr. Justice BAILEY, took their seats embarrassed ; he left the Court with a smile am his
on the Bench. The passages were by this time so countenance.
full, that all the exertion of the tipstaffs was neces- .1 TILE KING FINERTY•
sary to make way for the Counsel. Lord ELLENDo. 1 Mr. Curtwoor, moved for a rule to shew cause why
Boucot directed the lower part of the Court to be the trial of the defendant, which had been fixed for
cleared of strangers, but the crowd was too dense to the siftings after this term, should not be put off till
be removed without great confusion, and, as the less I the sittings after Michaelmas Term. The Learned
of the two evils, strangers were suffered to remain. ICouusel said that he moved this on the affidavit of
After the tumult had subsided, t'i.e defendants, Mr. the.defendant, which stated, that in consequence of
Cobbett, Messrs. Budd and Bagshaw, the publishers, the late period at which his trial had been fixed, he
and Mr. Hansard, the printer of the Political Regis.; had found it impossible to give notice to several ma-
ter, were brought into the Court. After the ATTOR. tonal witnesses, to have them present in time for the
Nev. GENERAL had prayed judgment in the usual trial. Those witnesses were the Right Hon. George
form, Mr. Justice GROSE proceeded to pass the sen-; Ponsonby, the Right Hon. John,koster, the' Right
tence of the Court, but in so low a voice that it was Hon. Wellesley Pole, Sir Jonah Barrington, • Major
with extreme difficulty he could be heard. He prin- Edwards, Richard Martin, Esq. M.P. and Captain
cipally addressed himself to Mr. Cobbett, and ani- Parish. The last of these witnesses was at sea, and
madverted with peculiar severity upon the libel on the former ones in Ireland.
which the defendant was convicted. " It-was a ' The ATTORNEY GENERAL objected, that it would
work which no well disposed mind could doubt to be necessary to state in the affidavit the objects or
have been framed for the most pernicious objects.— • facts to which those witnesses were to be brought.—
Looking at.the time at which it was written, looking ; Nothing like a general affidavit could be admitted for
at the circumstances of the world, there. could be no this-purpose. •
doubt of the evil intention of the paper. The. ten. ; Mr. CURWOOD was unacquainted with the facts of
dency of this paper (said the Learned Judge), is in . the coif' ; he merely knew that it was a prosecutien
so many words to excite an unwillingness and dislike for a libel, at the instance of Lord Castlereagh,
to the service of the country, among those who are against Mr. Finerty, and it could not be expected
to be its defence : and to insult those foreigners who that he should detail all the particular objects to
are in our service, to deprive the country of their ho. .which witnesses might be necessary. •
nourable assistance, and paralyse the energies of the! Lord ELLENEOROUGH said, he would grant the rule
State. 1 as it stood at present, but then the party must take
" And at what time was this libel published ? At the rule at: his peril. Ir wouldbe more advantageous
a time when a lawless and violent enemy was threa- $ fir him to withdraw the motion, and come with his
tening our shores. And yet it was with this enemy amended affidavit to-morrow.
that the mild and parental Government of our coun-1 The motion was Accordingly withdrawn.
try was to be contrasted, and disgraced by, the con. •
trast. Our country, where every comfort, every • ARCHES COURT, JULY 5.
privilege, and every honour, that could be afforded to I ANDREWS V. BONE.
the army, was afforded by the liberality of the laws ; ! This was originally a cause of the office of the
was this to be compared with that country whose oh- .Tudge, voluntarily promoted by Loveday Bone, wife
ject was conquest, and whose soldiers were sacrificed , of William Bone, of Plymouth Dock, against Grace
to every pursuit of insolent and unfeeling ambition ? Andrews, by reason of adultery, alledged to have
The evil of the publication was therefore enhanced been committed with the said Wm. Bone, her hus-
by the time at which it was sent forth through the band. The ConsiAorial Curt of Exeter admitted
Nation. 1 the allegation, from which admission Grace Andrews
" The defendant could not complain of any store-' prosecuted an appeal.
rity in the justice which had been freely and fairly On the part of the appellant (who resided in the
dealt out to him. He had had a patient trial. Ile house of the respondent, as ,hop-maid) it was conten.
might have removed, if he could, the doubts which ded, that the party had no opportunity of defending
the Jury might have entertained of tha evil of the • herself, in the manner the articles had been plead
pernicious libel, for which he was now to receive sen- ed before the Court--no specific fact having been set
tence. But the-objects of the libel were too palpable; up. It was also contended, that, under an Act of
the Jury found you, William Cobbett, guilty, upon the Parliament of his present Majesty, it was enacted,
fullest and most satisfactory evidence. If it were to : that a suit of this description must b iebrought within
be allowed that your object was not to embarrass and eight months of the ()fence alledged to have been
enfeeble the operations of Government, there can be committed.
no ground for exculpating you from the guilt of libel. After the Learned Civilian had been heard on the
ling, for the base and degrading object of making a part of the respondent, the Court (Sir Juint Nichol])
stipend by your crime. If there had been no other observed, that suits of this kind were very rare ; that
imputation upon you, the Court, as protecting the it did not recollect any one being brought during its
peace and purity of the public mind, would have felt ' professional pursuits tat the same time the Court was
itself called-on to punish you severely. It is strange bound to attend to it, it being brought by a married
that a man, who mixes so much in general and corn- 1-woman against a single woman, for adultery com-
mon life, as you do, should not see that such acts as : mitted with her own husband. It farther observed,
those for which you have been tried are only produc- ' the Court was not aware that a married woman was
tive of mischief to every mind that is influenced by allowed to be the voluntary promoter of a criminal
them, and that they necessarily terminate in punish- • suit, without the consent of her husband ; and there-
meat on the guilty authors. It is strange that expe- fore it should be sorry to establish the principle. The
rience should not have taught you, and that you i Learned Judge, after several other observations, re
should be only advancing in a continual progress of jested the allegation, and dismissed the party.
malignity. What were the circumstances which youi
distorted in. your ? The Local Militia in the ' A duel took place on Friday morning early, on
Isle of Ely mutinied ; they overpowered their offs-I Wimbledon Common, between Captain W—r, of the
cars ;. and there was nothing to-restrain them from / 2d Life Guards, and Captain G—s, of the King's
committing acts of violence and injury' on those very Own Dragoons. After an exchange of shots, the se-
inhabitants of gly whom you insult for permitting coeds interfered, ' and the affair was amicably adjusted.

one -1 the Justices of
eel ti hold pleas befos
Berksiiiie,Monday, it
Oxfor.lsWre—•Wedne.d.
Warr, crt-r•thire—SatuK
City rat W9rciister—Sai
01ourrstershire—Wetir
Ci v of Giouerster—Sa
Monrnouthslti.r72patui
1-1-refore,,! -•c•—'ffiefida
"O.7•tr•pshirr— • attirday,,
• ittalir,lshire—Virednest
-couRT OF
Tel ELLYNEQno(
several pOin
sect: the n
-f- •11 e rccr
;I:at the was em
•person who had been
VEI;
In this case the ph
def,atided out of A"
the defendant, who•
had represented to hi
were to come into his
than a certain sum f(
they were willing t(
consequence of whit}
accepted of the sma'
the plaintiff was no
would be liable in th
of the value of the th
aware of any rule by
stances, could be ma
The Rnle for arre
the plaintiff, was acc
POL!C
In a case, on a po
randa, against every
by the American Go
rage loss had previ(
sea, but where tot:
arose, in consequenc
titan Government,
policy, the Court he
cover even for the a,
of the sea. They cc
where they had sufft
thing was totally tat
be said to have been
oration it might ha
quence to them w.
thing, if they were r
into their possession
who had ultimately
fact, the only party
tion. Judgment 101
QU
• The Court also In
ter Sessions, that oa:
natura exempted froi
under rears of al
on the state of thou'
txmled for timber.
THE KING V. TH
In this case a Mai
joining the Mayor o
or the Corporate Bc
of tie Burgessses at
been duly seconder
fused to put. This
porate finqs front i
the Select Body, No
posing cf•them, am]
bands of the whole
Lord ELLLNBORC
whether due notict.
The Court certain
down that the May
was a subject well
of the Corporation
•