The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-04-24 00:00:00

TI- k STAtE§MAN;

had ruch num! rrs, they would have contented to carrel
a centested elattity- by so marll a assjority ;' be -1100;1
mention that his Counsel, Mr. Alders oh and Mr.
Crackenthorpe, waited on Mr. Berkett, the frien,l,l
agent, and brother-in-law of 'tile eandi.lates, who in.sle
the acknowledgment the! their force was enhanced,
ilia' %Le state of the hooks spoke for itself. They had,
indeed, previously rolled their last reserves—:they hail
•,,,l!led paupers, tfiev had the lunatic, the pan-
lytic, they bad t oiled two men brought up on feather
beds.---{Laughter.) !laying dwelt at souse length on
facts connected with the particular contest in wuich
they were engs red, he Niel the less space to dilate on
farts more generally interesting, and though nut so
german to the matter," vet having, a referent..• to it.
!tinge the last contest, the long and eventral reign of
his late Majesty hid been brought to a close, and he
had been succeeded by a Prince of whom he could say,
in the language of their High Sheriff, that he had
ascended the Oriole, as he le•lieved, with the highest
and most impartial feelings as to the execution of the
duties of an office the fillet sacred that ant one ander
Illeareu could undertake—that of the great Soverti, n
of a free people. His (Mr. Bt's) must anxitws wish
was, that the reign should be lung, peaceful, and
glorious; and in the f:esent state of lite eoentr:, !t .
could only be completely glorious if peacetsul, tit .ugh
be woull not abate one lota of the jnst rights of the
wltion, nor listen to any inoi.osition to tartish, even
by a breath, the high, pure, and unsullied honour of
the country. Pu• thus.. Ministers would best ,
the honour of the country who held the scales lutist ,
b ow, en foreign nations, and who shened boon-
selves t'!e friends of liberty and the lovers of peat...--
(AppLuse.)—llle conclude by giving
•• The 1,5410 Independent Prevholders who yard at Air
Fiery."
Tire health of the web Sheriff" was drank.
Mr. BARHAM returned tharins in his bar .If, and
empress si his own gratification at being in.•.cd to •
juiu smh a meetigg.
'• Mr. Dyke; oftothe ln.lepotnlcnce 9f Cuosherlantl."
31r.'1Ititztt retu: pt.,' :hanks, and in refeanee to
the re ell iu that county, said, aura though
f resie,",:t to land MoTetli, be was T. ry sorry
that that 11,,l,,cr:tan ru lon _;cr time Repr...sentative of
the counts-, Le iotir.ived neither Lord M. nor his frieuds •
hail any jolt cam w acentiolsint. 1% itbout th ro iug down
the cauntl...t, he was romident that there existed a
spirit of rade, endence in the c tinty of Cumberlar.d,
which, if foolishly provoked, would produce it suits
which tiii 4.01.1.1,•1...tit.i little anticipated.--(Appilu..e )
‘• Mr. ‘nslotuo tad the Isidepondenco of Bethnal," with
greet applause:
Mr. Lon-ion said, that so c.mvineed was he of the
I degree In It hilt all Englisioun should be interested
in the strn!-gle in support of which they had aseem-
bled, that a lien the pensioner whom the thoverniment
had brought forward to opoose hint in ltu:harn ;tad
I. ft tire held on the Saturday, he set out fur West-
. :nowlauJ on the Sunday. He had d...ensed that when
suA of were made •to repress the people, that pri-
tate couvimienee slemltl -irk!, and that the men who
ho:!ed he could be u--fal all- old he always in the front
of tire Lat•le.—(Applause.)--If there had ever been a
triumph of independence more glorious than another, Pt
was that in the county of Durham. The whole infltnoree
of the Government had bore riert,il avat..t:. one
dual--there was also that body *Wei, 'he has Om!

dosed (the Clergy), who ern s.► pow Tin! in tit:.t

county, that when, some years ago, it a is stafrit that
petition. had lien presented against a certain measure,
it was said always except the poor Tory comity of S;af-
ford, and the priest-ridden county of IN, ham. Chia
coalition hating failed in expelling him (Mr. 1.0 ae-aistst
. whom their enmity was first directed, thought the
next thing which was desirable, was to introduce the
perrioner, instead of his H•inourable Collea,oe; and
they 'were su ignorant of his 01r. Latninoni f
as to suppose that haying coined his own election. be
should be indifferent about that of Mr. lion-lett. He,
however, heartily joined to snpport that gentleman
against the pensioner.—(Applause.)—A coaliti oi for
such a purposv, a coalition todefend theprople's rights,
he thought not only quite innocent, but laudable ; and
it seemed to him perfectly absurd to hear complaints
of the union of two gentlemen of the same principles,
Mr. Byng and Mr. Whitbread in lliddlesex.—(Ap-
plause.)--He agreed in what had been said of his pre-
sent Majesty, who was tbell-disposed and well-fits:'.! 'o
make a free people happtt lie felt all the attatimiint
to his Maj. sty that deep obligations received early in
life esu d create, but he was influenced by most per-
nicious Counsellors; and he (Mr.i..)fe re.l that tho,e
who had betr,yed their King and trampled on t!,e
country by restrictive measures, could never'ruise
Yag-
land to that eminence in which she was entitled to
stand.—(Appinuse.)
The CRAIRMAN said he had to propose one of his
oldest and lest friends, Mr. Beaumont, who, by the
she.% ing in votes in Pari:ament the honesty fur which
he La I always bera distinguished, hail raised against
himself the enmity of the Ministry, who.hail in vain
entleavotired to turn him out of the Representation of
his county.

•' 11 r. H;paiiniont and tlt. radvendenre or Northamber-
iand," with three times three.
BEAI'3II,NT returned thanks.

" Mr. Bennet and the HoeseofTankervllle."
Mr. BLNINLT returned than! s, and after some allu-
sions to the cheering nature, and :lie gratifying. pros-
pects of the con.est in Westmorland, said, in reference
to the prosi err., of the new rein, thst a changv of
measures could scarcely be effected without a change
of nsun.--(Applaus...)—For every proposition for lie-
form which lad been brought forward during the time,
of his sittlnr in the House, he had voted, except fur
that of Sir F. Eurdett, Universad Suffrage and
Annual Parliaments ; afrainst which lie should ever
contend.--(Applanse.)—Those propositions aimed at a
point of perfec,iun which, in his opinion, was never
attainable. The lion. Member then :rapt', that he
should a :vacate a great extension of suffrage and a
diminution of the duration of Parliaments.
" Mr. M. .4. Ta)lor's" health was drank.—He returned
thanks.

Mr. BIlOVG:tA11, in proposing tlie health of Messrs.
Bird, Waller, Dr. Lamb, and their other friends among
the (leery, said, that the condemnation shith had
berm passed or. the Clergy cuuld only with proFriety
be applied to a pu:t of them. Some of the most dis-
interested sind's-alons friends of independence were to
be found -among those he has mentioned of that body
The lieu. tientlemon warmly euiogis.d the conduct of
's .

the Clergy of tile 0,-I,ch of Englan.f, with nearly all
of whom he had ha,' toutinunication on the subject of
the Elueation eoto.:tittt.e: and on that sultkit, on
which he cloth' speak without prejudice, he could es-1
sert that their conduct, with Icarctly a single excep-,
Lion, was zealous, bent-1...1en:, and praiseworthy in the
extrema°.

"General Ferrrunaon and the Whigs of Scotland," " Mr.
•, Mr. till-it:Lined. of Sizerba," and several other
appropriate toasts erre given.
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The company continued together till a late hoar.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH. Arum RC

I THE. KING C. SIR CHAI:LES It OLHILLET AND ANOTHLR.
Mr. Paansiore rose 1., wove fur a rale to show cause
why the verdict found against the defintelati:s at the
1 last Assizes for the county of Chester, Mete. Chief
Justice Warren, should not be set aside. and a new
trial grante.l. 'i Ire defendant, Sir Charles Wieln•ley,
was now present in the Court, but the other defein
Mr. Hart isun, being a prisoner in custody, the notes of
the Court did nut require his personal attendance.'
The grounds on which lie made this motion originated.
ha are sunning up of the Learned Judge. He was
quite aware of the delicate topic on which he was
touching. Ihe indictment against the defendants
s contained two counts t the first was fur an notate ful
I amenably, at:d making seditiens speeches, which had
a.tentkney to stir up the pc.iple to contempt of and
I disatfecti ,r towards. the tierernutent ; and the second
teas fur a conspiracy to effect the sante purposes. In
the conrse of the trial a miscoeception (no doubt) of
parts of the evidence, took pla.:e in the mind of the
!warned Judge. 'I he eifecte of that suiscoereption
were, an erroneous statement of facts, and comments
equally erroneous upon them. It wits sworn by h very
young man, named Joirtnwn, who attended the meeting
in the crowd, that Sir Charles Wulseley used the fol-
lowing words in a speech which he made there :—" Be
•nrni, unite your Strength, fur in three weeks the great
atruggl- will lee made trri m 4.1? Ile never men-
tioned these expo . : ...ietts to any bo.ly Anal b. told
. them a fortnight helot • the .'s—o: es' to eat. Heiner, *he
was at that time coutusi:ted for felony. On Johnson's
cross-examination. be admitted that he could not recol-
lect either the order of the speakers, or any other
w rds used by Sir Charles Wolestee. He also said be
was at the meeting front t! .e Ceginn:,.g, and Sir
' Charles was the Ent speaker, though fill the other
! o Uncloses for the prosecution concurred in stating tl.at
Mr. Hat risen spoke fur a consiiierabie length of time
before Sir Charles Irt,l4eley came. ': he words attri-
bated to Sir Charles were direetly eontradtcted by two
reporters, one of whosv was connected with a Minis-
terial. paper, who swore they never Award him use
them, •and that if he hid used them th y must bare
hoard him. Ihe mistake mad, in the Learned Judge's
summing up (recurred in taus manner. About an hour
before Sir Charles Wokeley came to the meeting, a
constable was very hoproperlv assaulted, and whoa
Sir Charles subsequently adeliessed the meeting. be
cautioned the people to beware of spies and inferiors%
Now the Learned Judge, In summing up, confused the i
ordet of tile facts, and made the speech of Sir Charles
to yrreede' the assault on the constehl.., and observed,
in allusion to the caution respecting spies and in- i
formers, " You see. Gentlemen, hew will his (Sir
Charles's) directions were ob yeti, for a constable was
. nearly kilkd on the °erasion." The Learned Counsel
thee observed, that this trinsposit!on of the order of
or. urrences in the charve to the Jury, when their me-
mory of the evidence must he suprosed to be eery im-
perfect, after two days' trial, must have powerfully
preitalited them agai•iNt the defendants. he had tt n
afidasits to supp,rt his arlication, thottA he thought
it richt to state that It's Learned ColP•ague ( .r.
Park.), from whose not i of the case he founded the
motion, had nut taken a note ef•this last-mentioned
eirctenstaoce. Leaving; t!', ,axe, therefore, to their
Lordships' consideration, he should not trouble thew
with iny further cern:neut.
Tie Cuter .1, sviec—Though Mr. Parhe has not
gpt the particular expression on his notes respecting
spies and informers, as connected with the assault,
does he recollect that the Judge made any such obser-
vation ?

Mr. PARKIL—My Impression certainlyis, that the
L-arneil Judge mistook the order in which facts were
represented in evidence to hare occurred at the meet-
;nu, but it did not at the time appear to me that his
mistake was so clear and distinct as to warrant me in
interrupting his charge. Wen I say this, I beg to
add, that a number of persons present at the time did
think the Judev made tile mistake in the manner
stated by my Learned Friend.
The Unite Jrivrtee, aster consulting with the other
Judges for some time, said—This is a ca-e in which
the Judge's notes on the trial must come before us,
whether we grant th;si application or not. The pre-
sent application is a very novel one. I don't recollect
a single instance in which an applicati. n was male for
a new trial in consequence of the selection of a single '
hiss.tge from a Judge's charge. As we must have the
Jidge'S butes; you may take a rule to sfidw•cantre, hut
it must not go into the st-ir trial paper, and thereby
become a means of delay. Yiiu must be prepared to
sustain it as soon as the Learned Judge sends the
Report.
Mr. Nativist accordingly took his r.le nisi gon
these terms, and promised to file his aflitlavit for the
information of the Court, not with a view of being
answered, as the Chief Justice observed they could
not try a Judge's charge upon affidavits.

TDB KING t'. T AND u 7 HERS.
AVut four o'clock, the Court having gone through
tit,' bar, Mr. Hunt present d himself, and said he
wished to move for a new trial.
The Cum JUSTICE said, it was too late in the
day to take the motion, as it would prohaidy occupy
some considerable time ; but he should have an oppor-
tunity of moving it another day, and his Lordship
suggested that he had better bring it on next Wed-
nesday.

S.iturday morning the Cuter &seen proceeded to
Hicks's-Hall, for the pupae of again &meeting the
1 Grand Jury untkr the Special Counlissioa.—The Jury,
after hearing witncasts, found a tine bill against
James Wilson.