The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-05-08 00:00:00

No. 114, Londoo-rood, Sevtlionfk.
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to proceed to Paris, es soon as he could arrive there;
furnished with a •safe conduct which should be de.
livered to him on the wool of the Minister of General
Police, and on that of rbe.Duke of Wellington.
" It was then that Mfr. Chad comminicatid to me,
a letter from the Duke of Wellington, which esseite
ed, that the French Government was actually ready
to treat with the informant. I asked these Gentle-
men, if I could regard lids assurance as a sufficieut
guarantee for the interested person; and although
Mr. Chad (officially authorised to communicate to
me the Duke's letter) did not give me a Positive gee:
rantee on the part of the Embassy; yet, on the ob.-
'mention of the Duke of Richmond, that I might
consider the word of the Duke of Wellington as an
unquestionable protection, I decided to propose to
M. Marine (this is the informant's name) to set out
immediately for Paris, unless he preferred to name
himself at Braisels. The same evening I went to
meet the Siege Marinet at. Antwerp, where I pro-
posed to him to name himself, or to make the jour-
ney accortlitig to the gifarantee proposed and received.
I. accepted the last of these offers, with the aldi•
(ion, however, of two conditions—ene was, that I
should accompany him ; the other, that the
_item,/
should be kept secret, without which,- he said, every ,
effort on his part to discover the assassin would, be,
fruitless.' On my return to Bruss:ll tto nest morn-
ing, I consolted the Deice of Richmond, who ap-
proved entirely of my pi ticeedings and projects, end
on the evening of the llith I set off eith the Sleet,
Marinerfor Paris.
" I arrived there on the 21st, at balf-pist one
o'clock. I' found the Minister of General. Police
with the Duke of Wellington ; and as- aeon 'l.l bed
received from his Excellency the seamen°e that the
promises made to M. Matinee would be strictly
kept, the latter was immediately interrogated by the
Minister, from half-past three, until six o'clock in
the evening.
" The following day M. klarinet infOrmed me,
that he bad declared to the Minister, that the tpez-
pected difficult.es lu the discovery of the assessio,
occasioned by the publicity already givers .to ,ozy
letter, were so serinus,that it would be absplisteiy.
tie-
cessary for him to return to l3russels,teoilteht;by pe.
tutiiary sacrifices, the means of recnenieinit the as-
sassin, and also to learn his name. M. de Cages had
already, on the previous evening, informed me of
this circumstance. The next day I saw the Minister,
and I supported the propositinn made by the Sieur
Marino, as reasonable and nit oral, considering the
publicity given to his mission, which deprived him of
access to the person whom ha was itt search of; and
I did not think it was requiring to much, since the
uuion of the Belgium and French Authorities was
powerful enough to deprive the informant of any il-
licit advantage which he might promise himself by
such a journey. The Minister objected to me by re-
marking the delicacy of sorb a measure, and the re.
sponsibility which fell upon him, if, in the interval
the design should be renewed. But he did not op-
appear to me totally to reject this proposition. Dur-
ing these conferences, M. Mariner enjoyed an un-
restrained liberty. Nothing on the part of the
French Government announced an intention to in-
fringe upon the safe conduct which he possessed.---I
met him more than once in the public promenades,
which, he told me he frequented, in compliance with
the directions of the Minister of the General Police.
" On the 25th of Fehtuary, I oas requested to
verify, before the Juge d'lnstruction, the letter which
I bid addressed to Gen. Murray, on the 30th of Jan.
and the following day I was informed, that M. Me-
duet was arrested and confirmed in the Cunciergerie.
46 I only perceived in this arbitrary act of the
French Government an open violation of a safe con-
duct, which urged me immediately to make repro-
Imitations to the Juge d'lnstruction. I think it re-
quisite to state them in this Memoir.
64 When the Secretary to the British Embassy came
to Brussels on the 17th ult. he requested me to
make known the name of him who is the subject of
my letter of the 30th of J.atioary, and who had con-
fided to me the plot conspired against time Duke of
Wellington : he commrinic..ted to me a letter from
the Mike, which letter asserted, that the French
Government was ready to treat with the informant ;
and upon the word of the Secretary, upon that of
the Duke of Richmond who accompanied me, and
in the presence of the Attorney-General of the
Low Countries, who answered also for ids Govern-
ment, that this assurance offered a solemn guarantee,
I engaged M. Marinet to fulfil the condition he-had
entered into with me—to proceed to Paris as soon as
a safe conduct should be delivered to him. Ile did
not hesitate ; he arrived :—before I introduced him
to the Police Minister, his Excellency confirmed this
assurance, and he added a conditional promise of an
entire pardon relative to the crimes for which he had
been condemned. I am informed, that M. Manuel
is actually arrested, and treated as a criminal. I
appeal to the good faith of the French Government,
to the testimony of the respectable personages whom
I have mentioned, and, above all, to the honour of
the Doke of Wellington, on whose word the assur-
ance was given to the i !divides) in question, in order
that the conditions establishetrwith him should be ob-
served. lam bound in honour to reclaim justice, be-
cause it was through my interference, and upon the
faith which I put in the promises of the French Go.
vernment, that this individual voluntarily repaired to
Paris.
" Since the emission of ibis act, the doubts which
I had conceited respecting the intention of the Go-'
ten IMMO e to proceed upon the former judgment passed
upon hint, have entirely disappeared, by the promise
made to his Britannic Majesty's Ambassador in
France, and which has been repeated to me by the
Miuister of General Police—that they would not in-
fringe upon the engagements entered into by me, with
respect to the Sieur Matinee. My security, with re-
gard to this, hasimen strengthened by the assurance
:en me by the Attorney-General of the Royal
[Court (Si. Bellart), that he did not know the affair
joi which the Sieur Marinet had been previously con-
deemed., mut that his arrest was not founded upon
any anterior judgment, nor upon political inculpa.
truces imputable to him pretieUsly to his return to
"Yn triti, could I doubt the fidelity of the
Whose answers eiarunimiluivocal rear

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the intentions or. (tatting the en/gait:nits tittered
into with me? Yet the. sarri etiodect h violated!
After a few days of liberty, the Sleet kat-fuels

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soiled by vines a a ',sealant issued by •tbe 'loge
alloOreeilen. I overt to conciliar, the( be le treated
as a culprit. lam ignorant of the- french Legialt-
tureg but it is impossible to believe, that .it contains
enactments arbitrary enough to transform into a
criminal an informant, accepted by the Governments
under a safe conduct; land 'that,' in virtue of the
simple will of a Minister or Judge; and to, incar-
cerate an individual in a dungeon, because he has not
satisfied to the extent diet his promises of disclosure
would perhaps have justified, if by an imprudent
precipitatiOn he had not been deprived of his own
resources.
64 The legality of such a proceeding, thirvespect
doe to the guarantee, the uhprecedented measure of
converting an accepted informant into an accomplice,
and the possibility of employing. eves in the fur.
therance of justice, a witness civilly dead; all these
questions, of the highest social and judicial interest,
demand au examination so profound, that I dare net
undertake it ; they will doubtless be duly considered
by an upright and enlightened Magistracy by a
Government fa'::hful to its engagements; and by a
nation mine., iy jealous of the lust enotoachuttut
upon indiviPal liberty.".,
The remainder of the pamphlet, coneisttng of
aboet a citizen pages, contains merely the Oploioni
of the Noble Le,rd: upon the transaction above de-'
tailed.

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LAW lATELLIGENGE.
COURT OF CHANCERY, MAY 7.
LORD JOHN TOWNSIIEND V GIIONGER.
In this close, originally brought before the Court
on a Bill filed for the specific peifiitthanee of an
(agreement, Sir ARTUOR Pscaorrprwiid-Viat the
Pefendant might be ordered to pay.iptai Court the
sum of 42681..75. 6d. being the remainder uf,bis pur-
chase money in respect of certain propertiteirehasefl
ox. hint„of the Marquis
,Tewnshend.
The. LORD CHANCELLOR observing as tiv the stint
offered to'be paid-intO emit by NI; Heald ititittniel
prated for •by Sit- A. Piggin' .g4i4lbe',lsest:seay:
would he to split the.differearce, snit according! v , *-
ter some observations from Sir A. PIGGOTT and Mr. I
HEALD decreed that 15001. ahould be paid is.
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JANE MARIA ITAiILTDN V. BELL AND HARMER.

Mr. Clitrrar -stated, that this was an -action for
a libel *fished in the Weekly Dispal(k Sunday
Newspaper, of the 20th July, 1817. - It was in these
terms :-
6 CHILD STEALING.—At thelote Sepions at the
Old Bailey, it appears that the female convicted of
the above crime was formerly the wife of an eminent
printer, in Fleet-street ; that, for a short period of
her life, she 6 strutted and fretted her hoer upon the
stage,' and performed several times at the little
'theatre, in the Haymarket; since which time She
had formed a connexion with a Gentleman is Pavia,
and left that place some time ago preparatory to her
accouchement in this country : the child she was de-
livered of died, and upon acsgeount of receiving a
large. sea of money from the father, she stole the
child alluded to, in order to ^ revern-; with it. to
France, to impose it upon the- reinter! 'ether as her
offspring. She is a female. of considerable taleets."
Mr. Scanterr, on opening the intirs case, said'
that his client was, he believed, a- widow Lady, for-
merly the wife of a Mr. Archibildliamilton, a prin-
ter, in Falcon-court, Fleet-street, wfto had been pro-
pri.oor of several important and valuable works.
Mrs. Hamilton was equally well known and respect.
erl, and the mother of four children : about thirteen
years ago the affaits of her husband became embar-
rassed ; he left his family in consequence, and his
wife bad neither seen nor heard of him Since, but had.
reason to believe that I.e had died about four years
ago. The maintenance of four children devolved
upon Mrs. Hamilton (with some small assistance
from her relatives) ; and to do so, it was necessary
that she should curt ell her talents and indestry.
She had appeared in Revere' characters at the Hay.
mat ket Theatre ; but three of her children having
been provided for, she thought fit to visit France, for
the purpose of completing tile education of one of
her daughters. She remained there two years, and
toward the latter end of that period, a person of the
name of Harriet Mollinens Hamilton was tried and
convicted at the Old Bailey of child.itealing. On
the 20th of July, the libel in question was publish-
ed, charging Mrs. Jane Maria Hamilton, the Plain-
tiff, (for the descriptiott could not be.miataken), with
having been guilty of that offence. While still in
France, she found by all the English Papers (for the
libel was copied very generally), that 'she was held
out to the world as a convicted Moss, and she imme.
diately returned to this country, to take stepa to vin-
dicate her character., by an effectual contradiction to
the aspersion. Such had beet, ,the effect of this ca-
lumnious paragraph, and so eceurately and unequivo-
catty was the plaintiff pcintell out in it, that many
of her friends were impottetf arson, Red 'the Solicitor
she had been formerly accustomed to-employ, even
went to Newgate to visit her, expecting to see her
precious to the ii.ffiction of the sentence of transpor-
tation. Deep as was the Nall, She wus not desirous
of proceeding vindictively ; but instructed her ettbr.
'my to write to the proprietors of the Weekly Die,.
patch, desiring merely that the name of the author
should be given up ; for Mrs. Hamilton had reason
to suspect that the Defendants had merely been made
the instruments of a. ctnel and malignant persecutor.
No reply, however, was condescended upon ; and
Mrs. Hamilton was driven into Court to clear her
reputation, es the Defendants bad pertinaciosaly re.
fused eveu to insert a contiadiction.
The ordinary proof of the proprietorship'of the
Defendants was produced by a person from the Stamp
Office : the newspaper centainisig the libel, dated the
30th of July, 1817, was also given in evidence, and
the paragraph, the subject of this action, was read.
Mr. GURNEY took an objection, founded upon the
omission of the word it in the record ; but Mr. Jus-
tice ABBOT held it tint to be a material rarkt.ce.
Mr, Lawrence Williams, Attorney to the Plain-
tiff, deposed, .that he had beets concerned for her
some years ago, and when he first saw the libel in
question, from the descrip'ion, he had no doubt that
Mrs. Jane Made Hamilton was intended : he even
went to Newgate to skit her, ns hP imagined, under
sentence of ttanspertation. He oiled several times

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11111111==21=111;1m11111111111a; the officer:lf publication of the Weekly Dlspujc hi '
but not being able to meet with . either of the Dar;
4aMilinst.llHhsersatwerr°leousley requiring
tleter
tthoe amthnein'e of thdaftcl a ‘1
to 1l
author of the paragraph. He received no sntshaeneto
any of the applications, ands In consequence
sentsi ar.ctiinienrpri
CrocweLdol,&a
jeweller,
deposed,l the pre.
knew Mrs. Ilamilton. He had read. the libel, and k
betitseed• it referred to Mrs. Hamilton. Ile sew 14
pass his house when he thought site hadeh.ebeer
cutaing:enbt;
Penitentiary, suffering the sentence for chitd.aremigi
Mrs. Peeks bad been surprised iv the same
lowedrgedby
withser seeing
~lineal till
watealtatrog
in France.
Capt. G. W. Darensy had known Mrs. Hatelltee
in Paris. Her daughters, particularly theyeeepal
were with her.
Mr. GURNEY thee very shortly eddrterttbseedingrke
left
Jart
for the Defendants. Ile said that the Defendant Ms
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'llarmer,whn was an attorney, had anther)* to do win;
the conduct of the Weekly Dispatch, that
tirely to his co-proprietor. Th. Plaintiff hid is.
strected Mr. Scrqlett to state, that she was nor mar.
ried, or that her husband was not living; hat */
bad not ventured to swear it, and shelled not deehrod
"as a widpw : the fart was otheroise. sod thesimpki
question w es,w hat dam 'gee, under thracircerasts
ought to be given; if the clearing of lier.tbsttete:
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'tare her object, the publicity of this trial errata*
saver her purpose: but whatever sum the Jury theeglit
she,fairly merited, the Defendants Were ready to
pay, desiring merely that it should be understood thai
they admitted that the libel wag, wholly enfoonded;
In fixing the compensation, theliry would not take
into view all the various topics of•aggrevasits. ia.
trodaoed by-the Cooasel on the other side, very kw,
indeed, of which were supported by the facts. A
Mr. Justice ABBOT, in seaming- up, went over the
• statements in'the libel, which we're all allowed to tie
untrue, and. for which the Piainiiff had a claim to 4•
such damages as would set her right in the ()pities 1
-of Are Whoever was thi• author of this • ms:
lignant and unfounded paragraph, the publishers rri
were by law and reason liable: the Defendants had
refused all correspondence or explanation, choosing
that the matter should be submitted to„ Jury.
The Jury consulted a few milt MP., and gave the
Plaintiff a verdict, with 2.001. dmages.
PO LAX. . 4
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M A MSION.HOU't E.—A Gentleman yesterday "tetras
that ho had been paying some notes into the Bank,
amongst n !rich one for 11. was declared to be a for-
gery. He knew from whom he took it, and re.
quested it might be returned to him, that he might
recover the value. This, however, the Inspector
refused.
The Loap 11syon said, there was no mode of
obtaining redress but by a legal action against the
Bank, as such errs
:their uniform proctice, booster
unjustifiable; and as such he could not interfere. •
GUILDLIALL.—The Overseers' of St. &planes
parish appealed to answer the complaint of Mr.
(4arnpbell, for -not providing for two paupers who
had been found in a state of vagrancy in the streets
by an Agent of the Mendicity Society; sod when
legally passed to them, they gave them 24. Gd. each,
and sent them shout their business. In defence,
they said they meant to take them into the work-
house at their nest meeting, and had given them the
money to serve in the interim. The Complainant
said, this was one great cause of the mendicity that
now prevailed ; instead of providing an asylum for r. 4•
paupers, they were shifted off with a trifling sum and
a few promises, which rendered the efforts of the
Society nugatory, as the paupers return to their vs-
grancy in a few hours. They did not, in the present
instance, mean to enforce the penalty ; hot should a •
similar case occur, they were determined to pat the
law in force.
Sir J. SHAW approved the conduct of the Society,
and ordered the Overseers to give them instant ad-
mission. i.
OLD BAILEY.
THURSDAY, Marten 7. ,
Yesterday Christopivr Fernand', uli s Richard Clerk. 31,
capimity convicted of assaulting Thomas, Hancock Rood,
on Laster Sunday, near Maiden-lane, Battle-hridge, sod steal. •
lag from his pe.son a silver watch, and some monies in site?.
Thomas Spencer, 17, was capitally convicted of stealing a
quantity of Iris 4 linen, in the sbup of Andrew Connolly, vales
41. 7s. 6d.
The following were also capitally convicted :
:lames Clarke, for stealing a horse of George White.
E•izahe.h Bastin. for stealing 381. in Bank-notes, of Beals/MI
Longstuff, iu his dwelling-house.
DIED.
At Wigan. Lancashire, on Thursday. the 30th ult. aged et, •i
Mrs. Rachel Button, who bad been more than 90 years is caw
sittiatban.
At Wigan, Lancashire. on the lit inst. Mr. Ellis Dean.
On the 3d ult. in the 7Fd year of his age, Jacob Omen, 91
Myrtle-house. Peckham, one of the floc.ety of Friends.
On the 7th inct.. Archer Moore Harlow, E'.q. of South-street,
Finsbury-square, lAA of Aastin-friars, London.
On the 6th ilia:, the wife of Thomas i.e Mercier, Esq. Van'
hall.
On the 9d iast., in the 38th year of his age, .Wm. Hansikoll.
17.5 q. of W findeoel-hill. near Harrow.
On the sth inst., the Infant daughter •of• E. R. Genii,
Deptford.
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TO MR. RICHARD TURNER,
ON HIS INCOMPARAISLE
• • Toll NER , Aly name OA reword stands,
High rap the pinnacle of fames
Thy lively genius then deniands
• • Stine little tribute to tby setae.
Thy curintis,tiqvid,shiaing Black,
The rare Invention of tbv mind.
iv as not egillored in ages back.
• Nor ever equatl'd by mankind.
This Blarking.,w ben it isapplied
To Boots or Shoes, such lostreyields,
That toots- who use it think, with pride,
Ott TT:AMER, of St. George's-fields.
Gentlemetimay Atierve, that this Composftion, wises owl
For their G.g or Carriage Harness, after one or two applies-
nts:.,,ttrt
titre acts
bbrilliant,erritohr.
the
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Leather.
y Black and 4
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T., Le eau in Stooe'Bottles. at Gd. Is. and Is. 6d. each.
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