The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-08-07 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

SPORTING IN?RLLIGE.VCE.

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Mr. Heatheote's Cardenio
Mr. Northey's f. by Hadley I 3dr
Mr. R. Walker's bl. f. Own II 6 $
Mr. M aplesden's eh. h. by Bobtail
Mr. Pearce's Young Caroline
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FATAL AFFRAY AT GREE.VOCK.

—aso.--
(PCRTII2II PARTICULARS.)
A melancholy and disagreeable task has again de-
volved upon us. On Saterdar night (the 29th ult.)
seven men belonging to the !Sib regiment, of which a
Detachment is at present stationed herr, being then off
duty, were drinking together at the quarters of two of
the party, in a house in Shannan's Close, in be vici-
nity of the harbour. When in a state of intoxication,
it appears that soma of them had sallied oat accedes
ally to the street, with every disposition to indulge in
the quarrelsome humour which intoxication had ex-
cited. la this state, the first person with whom they
appear to have come into particular contact, was a sea-
man, named M'lntosh, who had joist left his lodgings
adjacent, at the request of his landlady, felts, repose
of ringing her its two pails of water, when the soldiers
4aiterupting Illus, began to use insulting and bestial
language. To pacify them. Ili'l stash, coated thee
into their lodgings, and accompanied them with his
water pails, saying he would perhaps give them a tiram.l
but left the hose immediately, without drinking with
them. On coming to the street, he fell in with two or
three of the soldiers at the door, who, as he thinks,
mistaking him for one of two sailors with
had previously been quarrelliog, knocked
and boat him till he was insensible. 1114
about midnight. M'lntosh was carried free t6Ol
to his lodgings, by some females who had sees Idlii
thus maltreated. The soldiers continued in the die"
swaggering alert, and seeking opportunity to Odle
quarrel with any person who came in their way, ad
daring them to fight; and not long after, three eta.*
fell In with Robert Robertson, another seaman
was returning home from visiting a friend in Le
Close, and who was challenged in the same manner SS
ill'lntosh. Robertson told them he did not wish to
fight, and desired theme to return peaceably to their
quarters. They immediately laid bold of him, dragged
Ihis into the public boon kept by Alexander Cochrane,
in Shannao's Chase, and which is directly beneath thq
base is which they lodged. Here they hawked ewe,
and beat their victim about the head sod face, with a
asediestick, la a cruel manner, and but for the iates
hems piths landlord and landlady, would have seed
Me awash worse. The soldiers had meanwhile tie psw.
test Interference from without, bolted the den *
which the screams of the landlady bad brought lisle;
her of parsons. who assailed it for the purpose of roe-
cuing Robertson ; end amongst others John M.Corquir
dale, a pilot, who is also a special constable, and who
by that authority demanded admittance. Abet the
Anise time, Cochrane, the landlord, got out by
a window, and ran to apprise tits guard and to oh.
loast.
tabs its assistance. While this was going on, the
soldiers went up stairs to the lodgings of the two before
mentioned, and being provided with upwards of one
. hundred rounds of ball cartridge, they loaded tare
bets, and 'teethes successively frees the window. Me
ant Aar was Arad with *lnset no previous ease
and took effecton Archibald Morrison, a young inunia,
who was a mere lookor-os. and seeding at the bed of
the Close abet twenty paces disease. It p astral-41*s
lower part of the belly, and passed through his holy.
Oa seeing him fall the persons assembled ne t the
Immediately retreated. Unfortunately, k srev.ri
Simpson, one of the Harbour watchmen, whose OAS
was in the immediate ueighbourisood, little I ending the
consequences, went up the lane, till right opposite, and
In the most conciliatory language, entreated the soldiers
Ito cease firing, assuring thesis that they would receive
so molestation from without. One of them asked from
the window, Who he was? to which be made loimedier
sewer. adding that he had beau in the King's service
as well as themselves, being as old mati-of-war's man.
On this he was told, with a horrid oath, to begone, or
they would shoot him dead, and in a moment the fatal
weapon was levelled at him and discharged. He fell
dead instantly. All this was the work cat a few minutes—
and as weans' followed by a like catastrophe. Henn
Pearson. wittier of the Harbour Police, who bad left
his statue. is an alarm being given, swing from the
bottom of the lase his comrade fall, exclaimed, •• will
no one go forward to assist poor Simple:" and im-
pelled by his humane feelings, was just advasing for-
ward, whoa a loaded musket was again protruded from
the window. and with the most savage threats, from the
soldier who held it, if be advanced a step, was fired off
and brought him to the ground. After this greyest
shots morels a similar way discharged from the win-
dow, right and loft. which with those previously fired,
might meat to 10 or 12. The first three, it is soder.
stood, however, were those which took fatal effect.
Pearson lived about two hears; as well as his unions
ante comrade Simpson, was a quiet man, and a faithful
public servant; both were elderly men and have left
families. Morrison. who was *se shot, died about mid-
day on Sunday, Robsteness. who was so maltreated by
the soldiers in Coehrea's hese, is the confusion. when
those without were attempting to force the door, and the-
asking were bILIIIISK dIRMISISIVIIII to their firs arms,
where he was feted la &Shoed& doe, by the Master
of Police. after ingress bad hews ehtahsed br the arrival
of timed. Robertson so won as Macitintdes, are
still y, but, we believe, nut dangerously ill. The
latter. la particular. has satered much.--(Oreeneek Ad-
vertiser.)

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lb. lams.. easiest a brisk deartad for the Inset seeiples
from IL
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Ile. per qr. on the prices of last Monday. Barley is Is. per
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iv arrivals have been eoadderable. In Beans sad Peat
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Poload Ditto 57 511
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TRIAL of Major CARTWRIGHT, Mr, WOOLRR•
AND OTHERS.

WARWICKSHIRE ASSIZES, FIIDAT. Au& 11.

TN, KING V. MAJOR CALIMRIGUT, AIR. WOOLRR, &C.

Major Cartwright now applied to the Court for
permission to have the defence which he had drawn
up read to the Jury. It was true it would take up
souse time to go through it all, but yet, the necessity
of putting the Jury in possession of the reasoning,
the facts and reflections which it contained, appeared

to him so pressing, that be hoped, unless it-was in-
consistent with the rules of the Court to hare it read,
his Lordship would accede to his request.
The Cam Belton said, it was his most anxious

wish to give the defendants every opportunity that
could be afforded to them to vindicate themeless, and,

therefore. if Major Cartwright thought the reading of
the written defence at all necessary, the Court would
permit it to be read with pleasure. He had refused
last night to allow it to be read, &cause it was utterly
at variance with the practice of the Court io permit it.
Mr. Paeason then rose to read the defence. It
was very voluminous, covering no less than eighty
thin brief's.

It began by expressing the surprise which he, the
Major. felt at besting that a bill had been preferred
against him for conspiring to overturn the Constitu-
tion. As soon as he heard the information. be for-

wurded a memorial to the King, laying before his Ma-
jesty a statement of various acts in his life, as well
as the testimonies of several distinguished poli-
tical characters, tending to show how much be had
bees guided by contrary motives to those imputed to
NE. This memorial, which was of great length, was
then read. In this document was inserted a variety of
letters from most of the political characters of the day.
As soon as Mr. Pearson came to a part of this memo-
rial which alluded to a plan of political education pro-
posed by the Major, and contained in a letter to the
Prince Regent, and commenced reading it,
The Cater BARON interposed, and said, " Surely.
Mr. Pearson, you know your business too well, not to
be qqat-sensibli that all this is irrelevant.
Mr. Pearson—My Lotd, I understand it is produced
IO order to manifest more clearly the intentions by
I which Major Cartwright had been always actuated,
for the good of his country, and the safety of the Coa-
stitutioo.
The CM, BARON—No, no—lt has nothing to do
with the case—Oentlemen of the Jury, you have
nothing to do with what is now reading to you, but
you may go on, Mr. Pearson.
The Major's defence then proceeded to state, that
upon various occasions he (the Major) had addressed
his Majesty ; but in nu case to serve the interests of
faction or party, or his own private interests ; but
purely to restore the Constitution to its pristine state
of purity and perfection. His object in addressing
Ms Majesty bad been to expose, and to remove the
aback les, which had been imposed upon Royalty, by a
small faction, who had filed the House of Commons
with their agents, epos whose will the King of Bag-
land'was dependent for every shilling of revenue. As a
roof of his attachment to the real Constitution, con-
pisting of its civil and military branches, he had, in
soe form of two Acs of Parliatmeae, delimited the
means of restoring it to its original vigour and spkn-
door. He thee stated that be was the author of
another work. 'the Trident, the object of whisk was
to keep alive and cultivate a spirit of heroic virtue
and love of glory in the British Navy. His whole
anxiety was, not that a dory fairly appointed to try
1
him,
but that the country at large should believe him
`lncapable of conspiring against the Constitution,
which it had been the chief labour of his life to up-
hold. His family had anxiously hoped, and it was
the general opinion, that this prosecution would have
' been abandoned ; but he had invariably felt and et-
1p d a contrary with, in order that Parliamentary
Reform might be benefited by the investigation. The
Boroughmongers who had beta for many years de-
fendants against the accusations of the advocates of
reform, now, by a characteristic maserevre, had as-
stoned to be plaintiffs sod prosecutors. His prosecu-
tors charged his, with having violated the Constitu-
tion; he charged them with having stabbed it to the
heart, in the preliminary to this trial, and with having
poisoned justice at its source. He (the Major) at-
tended in person at the Crown Office, at the nomina-
tion of the Jury, and at the subsequent reduction to
24; on both occasions the packing was protested
against, and he told the Master of the Crown Aire,
that such parking was not merely a legal assassination
of the defendants, but also of the Constitution itself.
He, however, acquitted the Jury in participating in
this guilt of the packers ; for they, the Jury, were not
parties to their own nomination ; nor were they con-
scions of, or had any participation in the transaction.
They were puke!), because they held opinions upon
parliamentary reform contrary to his, and their packers
hoped that they, the Jury, would be governed in their
verdict by their opinions spun that important question.
He should consider it shameful, indeed, were he to
impute it as criminal in any other perm, that he
held different opinions to himself. The present pro.
aeration was bat a promention for opinions; he might
justly say so, when he, who was a mere spectator at
the Birmingham Meeting on the 12th July last, was
charged with a conspiracy, and when it was charged
as 'editions, malicious, and inilanonatory, to read a
resolution, reciting, " That his, the Slaor's Bill of
Rights and Liberties, for effecting a Reform in the
Commons House, on the simple principle of voting for
representatives, which is a common right, being exer-
cised by all men of naive age, and sound wind, who
have not forfeited that right by any crime, the votes
bring given by ballot, and the representative body
being renewed once a-year." And it was added,
"it is the opinion of this Meeting the said Bill ought
to be adopted and passed into a law." 1 his resolution
was passed in an assembly of near filly thousand per-
sons ; that was to say, by more than thrice the num-
ber of persons, who, in a petition, put on the Journals'
of Parliament on the 7th of May. 17113, were said to I
fleet a Majority of the House of Commons, when proof
of the feet was tendered, but not called for. They
(the jury) would keep is mild who the prosecutors
we; Hwy were the supporters of the present system
of Needy a Moose of Commons, The present prose-
'waive was evidence with what Mad of spirit it. was
'Net the prosecutors endemismd to perpetuate lalit

frightful decay mid mangled condition of representa-
tive its our Commons Hoeft, from which prolific evil
lest sprang the dimmest; American war, and the stil'
more disastrous conlict which had deluged the united
kingdom with unspeakabie distress and misery; while
all that could be imputed to the defendants was, that
they honestly and earnest:7 endeavoured to prevent
the utter subversion of the Constitution of their room
try by seekingy removal of the evil which had bees
the true parent, the real cause of such wide-spreading
calamities. In this view of the case must they (the
jury) not perceive the snare which was (Tinily laid
for themselves? In giving a verdict against the de-
fendants, who had committed no crime, would they
not in effect pass a sentence of death on the Cousins-
don of their country—on that Constitution which
must perish if the Commons House of Parliament was
not reformed ? They (the jury) were not so mach
trying five Englishmen, as the English Constitution.,
for its resistance to the usurped authority of the pew-
secators. Next to free Parliament, Juries were the
Cumstitutional Safeguards of Liherty, and consequestly
ft all that was'valuable to a nation ; and if is trials
between individuals and men its power, or, in other
IFOOds, between the Crown and she *abject, Jeri('
amid, by misrepresentation and artful sophistry, '
persuaded to give erroneous verdicts, adverse to
tural freedom and security, the consequences must
unfortunate, and perhaps fatal. The argaseuts .
hided to were intended to restore the military branch
to the Constitution ; that instead of dying of a stud-
lag army, (which Hume called a mortal Charmer;
it might once more flourish in fall health, by reviving
a free Militia. His (the Major's) Bill of " Free rad
Sure Defame," was the twin brother of a " Bill .
Rights ail Liberties," intended to restore to health
the civil branch of the Constitution ; that instead
perishing in the way, prophesied by the enlightened
Montesquieu, and by Elisabeth's sagacious Minister,
Burleigh (which last, as Blackstone stated, observed
that Ragland could never be ruined bat by a Podia-
meat) that Constitution might rise again as a Phenix
from its ashes, restored to new life in a. Free Parlia-
ment. It was the trial by Jury which the Leaned
Seldom (Seldon by Bacon, Ed. of 1447-1-94.)
said made this nation happy above all others. and
whereby the freemen, as they bad the ledrielative power,
so likewise the judicial, and thereby next under Cod,
as absolute dominion over themselves and their estates.
Trial by Jury was antecedent to all law, a vital part
of the Constitution, and this before the profession of
lawyers existed. Ihe time is which they lived made
it particularly expedient that they should become
thoroughly acquainted with the nature and high elk-
stitutiosal prerogative of Juries ; they should take into
consideration the form of a Jnror's oath, "A true ter-
diet to give according to the evidence." To fat this •
of doubt, they (the Jury) would imagine that IPailia-
mad were capable of so far overleaping the limits
its authority as to enact, that if any one should be s.
hardy as to declare he believed the House of Commons
did sot constitutionally tepreseot the Commons of the
realm, such person so offending should be adjudged
guilty of treason, and sager death as a traitor. Thes•
let it be further supposed that the offending person
should, in the usual jargon, be ladicted,; fur that he•
lag derived and sedated by the metaphorical gentle-
man the Devil, with form and arms he did snake
'Minim speeches and harangues to cause is ethers
end' a WV: let it next he agreed that the fact •
'the Asnlaraties et the said belief should be proved
a thawed trees dumped whereas all epeeist(
their widener. And now to the question,—Whether
Nut it would be the duty of a Jury to decide
eomplance with each a statute, oe what else would
be u according to Me evidence." The truth was, that
le give elect to a statute of such extreme absurdity
and monstrous wickedness, by consigning to an igno-
nimions sad barbarous death, an inuoceut man, we
bees tall, on the part of the Jury, into exa:tly
nurse absurdity and wickedness.. But, as in the
ping *appear case there could be au imagi..d&k
gull, there could be no evidence of grill, and
verdict mast be net gritty. It was well haunt .
the Jury what absurd fascias, what strained aualogi s,
what far-fetched constructions and kiwis of law,
be the eteepseition of a Lawyer's opinion ; as when
stupid rioter in a mob that cannot withstand a '
....tables, M a distance of two hundred mils, _
the palace of the King, shall seise a po.ket pistol,
it shall be interpreted " a treasonable conspiracy
attack, fright, kill, and destroy the soldlem troops,
and forces of oar Lord the King," who happened
have an army of more thee one hunting thousand
these soldiers, as well as kill the King himself,
rounded by several regiments of perils, and to
turn the state. Such being the monstrous license
of eunstrweiion, twin-sister to " the bead direretior. '
full as crafty, bloody, and ineterable in the work
despotism', it was incumbeat on Juries never in
case whatever to take on trust from the Bench,
deference to its learning, what it should be pleased i
.all common law. It was important fur his (dm
Major's) defence, that the deep artifice couched ender
the words " the coastitaticn as by law established,"
Amid besexposei, that neither the jury nor the
leedant should be entangled in the net of sophistical
chicanery ; and this he (the major) hoped wuni.' '
a sufficieut apology for resuming. their (the Jinx
attention to the axioms and arguments which
should speak and quote. He (the Major) coold
he adverse to the trouble; he was labouring in
vocation, and his feeling towards the Jury were J
these of Paul towards Agrippa ; Lr be woul4 to (lea..
that not only the Jury, but all who heard hinssehat
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y, titre, as he was, a sincere Parliamentary re-
former.
The reeding of the Major's defence occupied
four hours. /
Mr. Lewis then rose tad addressed the Jury.
began by souse observations ea the manner in which
the Jury had been impanuelled, and penned the sal
sect in nearly the same wale as the other ilef.ndanto
who preceded him. The chargesprefe
were such aa run
mot be proved.. He was satisfied theJarycould'aaf
lieve them. HI aad tie other defendants were
eased of being nialieimsa and seditious pumas, kill
man had ventured to sweat that they were se. " Look
at use, 'headmen of the Jury," said be is an satiated
Mauer, " Am I edit:ass, or withal,' irenmed
heirerds the Constitatlen.—r( a laugh.)—ftlenit at Nigel