The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-08-21 00:00:00

TIIR.ThiAL.

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• LAW U. W. A. TI
seejehist Perrot-tory. • •
Ay your Lordship's pershission—rood Gentn(en, this actlea,..
I, caused by a Kw. ratios may of detraction;
A leiter by Nary Ana Tickled,* written.
And sent to the Newspaper (laird 'Pie West &Row,
Ja which '.he a-derts that my friend Mr. Gurney,
(Who is. let me tell you, a worthy attorney,
Vice Judge alas. Summary Cottri. and beiides,
The on:print Of one of our Spiritual guides.)
Nay been guilty of such an enormous .ransgression.
.As. if it were trite. would disgrace the profession.
Aly Client is charged by this wicked Defendant.
(Mu Lorif astir charge Aer too before there's amend ow' 1,) [Aside.)
With taking a bribe and delaying ofiust ices
I'll read you the Paper. aid. Denimen, our trust is.
That when you have beard it. your oaths on the Bible
Will make your pronounce it an infamous libel.
(Reads the libel, oiler tolticA
%. A. realest-lg. )•
With reverence I rise, hnt with any fear.
Myself and my " 1 be!" to vindicate here:
Ito Colonel I've hied—l've estmaillted no wrong,
And the cause of the innocent veirely is strong.
That letter I oar Ity these Augers was penn'tl.
.olutt 'ti4 !volt, every hit. from beginning in end ;
To establish the statement my proofs are at band—
.
Justice Irderroscocelt.
vat is not allow'd by the law of the load.

, M. A. Tiekkieig.
Hat sorely. as least. I may prove it no libel;
Morality tells me, mad so dmh the Bible.
Te..,.h valuta be ... twined; sophs •If the liar,
h this prineipi" wage an unprincipled war,
Beranse 't is adverse to tyrannical sway;
ltut the law. bs your lordskip's permission, TB fay,
caktr., ;he po-itioo. Whet soca are in trus',
Their actions sbonld meet be *pee and jots.
' Then t. otA sioul,l'ol injure flaw —if they are not,
let public opprobrium fall to their lot;
Their conditet is free to be s,e s and so
111) trod Chief told the Public some few years ago.
Justice B.
My learned young woman. I think o' my romeienee,
kiss Lordship seer uttered suck palpable nonsense ;
Y•..sr old-Piehionect notions of right wad morality
Are quite overstepping all legal formality ;
We've Gentlemen here ursestployeet 4. the bar.
fl ho would wattage your matters MOM Cleverly ter.
it/. A. Tlckkulig.
lacy Lord. by your leave. herein clause Shin Act;
• pit hick 1 think you'll allow to be matter Kant,
Directs that the Jury. In cases like these.
May on the whole matter deride, if they
The general issise—pkrin e.sitty tor net
li, an Act. 1 dare say. which your Lordship forgot
'll4ly-second of Utorges—
Justice B.
its all very good—
There is such an Act—hut its not understood.
Ily lawyers at least —(and sin Act, I maintain it,
Stioold ;always have some " learned friend" to explala h)—
lie not understood to—convey tbe idea—
That —the truth of a thing would be made to appear.
M. A. Tirkteirig.
Perhaps so, your Lordship; It suits not the ends
• Of your ssise-looking, wig covered. low-learned friends
To prove the truth always; bat this / maintain,
' If truth '.e a libel our ethics an nano:
Your lordship should get. new system in training.
)':lse whilst we've suck ohl.fashiosied volumes remaining,
• As Bible and Testament. law and religion
Will always he stru_gling like bustard and pigeon;
Jim the Jury are swore well and truly to try,
Oa them yid Not you, my good Lord, i rsly.
Justice H.
nompli—Genilemen, old-faskioned eosins decrees
• That. before are puss WV efiCe. is tares like these.
We must ask your advice (some sous brusher P—U,
111. th law and myself wish the eastern at Y-111.
Tai, %somas by Wooleror Hone has been bitters,
• A setiodalioss libel we fied'sbe has-writteut • '
Anditistend Of appeurins this monies bears sa
With proper solorthoio”, in Awe iirorties,
the lifts up Irs.lambia voileasd arm& -
lb.' is ready to prove —what that law dlisHouls—
Irbe wart, of the statement l —W.hat Grodknude pay.
Mould accept of as omen, it day after doe
. Vielc people u these might lay et so him eberp,—.
reclaim his mai-prattle" little sad large.
And-thee be allow'd its this Sanotar.a
?'e breakdown the barriers of Ise and decorous,
Ay proving that ell they led written was true? -
but bolt—A.ler Al. I arum leave it to you.
Jury—NOT GUILTY
Hisses from the suoi.l.ilack looks from the Jeige...tsitljt
sues from de,/rut Peke-tarev—and " gAeslly audios" freest&
" Gentlemen" of the Bar. erPr erhtele—esesst oases.

The Spanish Ambassador at Berlin, died on the.
31st nit. in consequence of en excessive dose of the
deadly nightshade having been administered to his
'by his
Were the allowance to subalterns of Militia paid
• quarterly, is the balf.psy is, it would be very &dean.
.tagenos to a deserving class of men. .
• • The accounts from Inverness say :-•••44 We have
. bad frequent occasion to advert to the genial mild.
,aess of the summer months ; and the present pro•
spects of a very early and abundant harvest, more
than realise the most sanguine expectations. We
should gratefully contrast the aspect which the fields
now present, with the-state of things in the beginning
. of May ; when a Member of Presbytery, with a rue.
tel countenance, informed his brethren, that on his
'way to the Meeting he had seen a farmer sowing and
harrowing his seed in the snow. Barley harvest
sheosla . have been general in this neighbourhood
.some days ago, if that grain were intended for
meal. A large field of excellent oats was cut down
•- ou Tuesday by Mr. Welsh, of Milburn. We learn
from Purees, that a fi-ld of oats fully ripe was reap.
ed nit the farm of Bogtnwn, in that neighbourhood,
.on Monday ; and that the b t is 'specterl to be-
.ceme 'general nest week; new barley wad 'milled
them on tke `24th alt, and produced well."
.In the trial of the close " Kirby v. Spooner:FN."
et
the last Casabridge.Assizes, a point of very con-
' alders hie importance to the Public was brought under
the notice of the Court. Mr. Sweeting, the. Under
Sheriff, having been 'ailed upon to state the practice
es
tothi charges levied under execution., said, " the
constant practice had been to levy under all execu-
tions the amount of the levy, pouedige, Officer's
fees, and all other expellees. incurred in making the
levy. Upon which Bruton Graham declared, that
Once the Statute passed in the 43d year of his pre.
fent Majesty's reign, Sheriffs were confined to levy-
ing the sum endorsed upon the writ and the poundage
only, and that their officers hod no right'to make
any charge whatever. The Legislitore had consi.
tiered Is. in the pound upon the first 1001. and 6d.
In the pound on any greater sum, a full compen‘a.
lion for the levy ; and that it rested with the Sheriff
to satisfy their officers for their trouble in business of
this nature, and not the parties whose goods and
chattels were taken in execution.
A human skeleton, of almobt herculean dimensions,
was lately found in a garden belonging to R...iforri.
mon, roo. of Ilill.hou.e, near Gainford. It is sop.
Posed the body has lain shore a great number of
years, end has, in all probability, been interred
naked, as no vestige of a coffin. Sec. was remaining.
According to a legendary tale. Hill-house was about
„O• century and a half ago a reodozw,ors of the cele-
brated Sir W. Brown and his feline ers, highwaymen
of that time.—(Durham ildverliser.)