The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-11-21 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN

self Roussel : turn towards me, you haul
thlndieved my inno-
cence, I am innocent Embrace my faer. my mother, my
brother!, my daughter and you young men who have wit-
nessed. my trial, you, my contemporaries, be also present at
raw execution; my firmness will not belie itself; a prompt
(tenth is the only favour that I ask for should blush
to implore clemency:'—.%t twAve o'clock at night the final
ilenteinee was pronounced, which Castaing, grown catruer,heard
without' aying a word.
T,:e Jury were trio hours and twenty minutes in delibera-
tion; and the verdict of guilty as to' the substtaelion of the
will, and to the poisoning of Auguste Ballet, was found by the
vimplemajority or sevon to live voices. The Court. after ten
minanda deliberation, joined the majority of the Jury. which
inOkvs the. verdict of the • nre majority valid.

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FRIDAY EVI6IIINIO. • NOVESIDER 21,•I8!3.

STOCK EXCHANOI, 12 *Tweet.— Consols opened this morn-
ing at tin:, for next Accoant u. with scarcely any thing doing.
We do not as yethear of any Express from Paris. The non•
arrival Is probably owing to there being no difference in the
piices of the French Funds since those last quoted, nor any
particular news worth sending. The want of news in the city,
causes on entire stoppage to all speculations.
Fonetos FUNDS.—There is little or nothing doing in the
above market. The only speeslation this morning is in Spa-
nish Bonds, which opened at 26a.

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New Spftnish. M—Old ditto, 4(i; —Colombia, s~,j—Chill
664/—Poyeiveld, b:—New. 4/.

Mr. Harvey and Chapman were yesterday brought up to
recei►e the sentence of the Court, for the libel upon the
sanity of his• Majesty ; and we are happy to say, that the
Judges have surprised us, (seeing what we have seen) by
attending further to the recommendation of the Jury to
•mercy,• than we had dared to anticipate. Still, however,
Harvey Las no reason to rejoice; and those of the
Jory who deliberated so lung before they would agree to a
verdict of guilty, will perhaps think a fine of 2001. andan itu
prisormient of three months, even in the King's lleneb,is more
than Mr Harvey deserves. If the expenses of the prose-
cution be added to the punishment, the fine will not be
less than 5001:—and the auxiety which is consequent
upon the hostility of the Attorney General, is another
circumstance which ought to be taken into account.
But when we remember that Joseph Swann is now
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enduring an imprisonment of fou► years and a half. for
merely vending a pamphlet, and attending a public
meeting assembled in a legal manner for a legal purpose,
we must allow that the sentences dassed open the present de-
fendants are more lenient than we expected. We are glad to
see that Mr. Justice Best is ashamed of the absurd and
despotic ideas, which the journals of the day attributed to
him, on the motion for a new trial in this cwt.. Mr. Harvey
was proceeding to chew, that it was impossible for any man
to conduct a newspaper under such restrictions as the
Learned Judge ha I been accused of laying down ; when
Mr. Justice Best interrupted, him, and explained them
away in so liberal a manner, as to allow that
in case of any improper concealment of the
state of the King's health by the ministry, it became
the duly of a journalist to call public attention to that
improper 'Mai. This is saying a great deal for Mr. Jus-
tice Berl.; though we are aware there might be a great
difference between his ideas of what would constitute an

improper delay, and the ideas of a public journalist upon
the subject. The address of Mr. lldaV Y will be read with
much interest. The reply of the Attorney lieneral was,
es usual,—a tissue of assertions destitute of any masoning
in their support.

The Nese Times daily repeats the falsehood of Ri ego's
baying thot eight,if nut tourteen,moniedSpaniaris &Malaga,
and to day it extracts from 60.A/untie: Chronielr,the para•
graph in which the statement originally appeared. 'f Isis
document is anonymous, and is dated Cadiz, August 2.g.
It states, among other matters, that liege " levied im-
mense contributions on the Merchants of Malaga; and, on
flews nt of some uturrouri ng,fourteenofthernoniedSpaniards
were shot. This is Cie Ch rouble account; not made upon
any authority, not even signed by the writer • n ► names, no-
dote of the transaction gives ; and, after a lapse of nearly
three months, no further details have been furnished from
Malaga, which is now in the hand. of his tuanierera,
who would not be likely to conceal any of his
offences which might palliate their own. Tire
execution of fourteen monied men would have made more
noise. The New Tithes attempted at the time, in the most
clumsy manner, to bolster up this account, with a pretended
letter fromilibraltar,dated Sept. 7, which totally changed the
scene of the shooting from Malaga, to Velez ; for after
giving an account of the severe manner in,which tbeEnglisli
were treated, by Meg'', to obtain contributions from them,
the writer says :—" The French divison of Count Loverdo
" made its appearance, and Itiego scampered off, (from
" Malaga) with all his troops towards Velez; having
previously levied and robbed upwards of one hundred and
" fifty thousand dollars, in money, and about another such
" sum in Church, and (it is said) other plate—he shot eight
"men THERE without trial." By any fair construction of
language, this there refers to Velez, and not to Malaga ;
and yet bow could the writer tell what hap.
paid at a place. where he does not know
. that Riego bad arrived ; for he only says that
he was scampering towards Velez! That the last
least was a form'. is past all doubt. The istelligeacts

from Malaga has been uninterreptedyforimany weeks.,There
are many English merchants there. wise are continually
writing to their friends here; yet no farther par-
ticulars transpire. There are also in London several
persons who were at Malaga, at that periptl,
and shortly after; and yet we hear no account of the
transaction. How base, then, to repeat as authentic a
charge so revolting, with such a total absence of proof.
After all this slander and abase of Kiego, the wretched
hypocrisy of the New Times is the, more disgusting, when
it affects to commiserate the " sufferings of bis young,
" and sick, and exiled widow, and respectable brother."—
T abusive untruths of the New Times towards the
gallant victims has barbed their sufferings ten-fold. The
base attacks upon the repotrAon of Kiev must afflict them
still more than a death, which was only disgraceful to his
murderers. Meg° is proclaimed by a world, wondering at
his moderation, to have committed ou crime in the depoSi-
lion of King sFeedinind. It was necessary that such a
King should be deposed; and it is only to bre regretted
that the clemency of Ribgo towards that heartless man led
to his own destruction, .

A French paper declares that England was never more
closely united with thataitinental Powers ip,,a, common
design, than at preheat; and that there will balm differeass
aliout the means to be adopted In furtherance of their
common objects. If this be the case, our Ministers will
be in an awkward predicament, when the declaration
against the recognition of South American States shall
appear; having induced the arca:dile Interest of England
to believe that they would recognise them, in effect, if not
by a formal act,on the part of our thweinment.

The Morning Paper to which We replied on the subject
of the right of Judges to prohibit the publication of pro-
ceedings in an open Court, lad to remove spectators from
the Court at their pleasure, contents itself by saying—" we
" proved the right as much as any common law right can
be proved." This is not quite correct. Common law
right depends upon invariable custom, before the authority
of the written law commences, In certain cares, the
Judges have chimed and exercised this power, when the
parties to whom they are opposed havebeeo weak enough
to submit to it. But these are rare exceptions to a
custom now become general. The common law of the
case is identified with the custom of publication, and
not the right of prohibition ; which has no other basis
than the discretion of the Judge, or the caprice of a Ma-
gistrate. The writer is angry that we should have no
greater reverence for the kkocb, than to say that there
have been " arrogant" men seated upon it. We might
have said that there have been much more than "arrogant"
men clothed with the judicial robes. There have been
ignorant, conceited, vain, impertinent, and wicked Judges ;
as well as of other cl.ases; ind when it is recollected that
mut of our greatest u law authorities" was a hanger of
witches, we think the wisdom of relyingupon them may be
occasionally questioned. Judges have generally enough
of legal knowledge; but when they get out of their
books, they are sometimes sadly at a loss, in very common
matters ; and we are not inclined to pay any deference to
their opinion% in favour of their own authority. We thank
this writer for his kind permission to osperiNlandges
but we shall not avail ourselves of it ; for wo .con differ
from the whole Bench, without feeling that either its oc-
cupants ought to be aspersed, or ourselves punished for the
difference.

We are happy to hear that a Meeting will be called to appes
publicly to the benevolence of England, in behalf of the unfor-
tunate refugees from Spain, Italy, &c. now in this country. A
Committee has been formed ; and there can be doubt of the
success of such an endeavour to assist these victims of political
considerations.

Yesterday afternoon, at two o'clock, a Cabinet Council
was held at the Foreign Office, Downing Street, which
was attended by the Earl of Liverpool, Earl Bathurst, Mr.
Secretary Canning, Lord Bexley, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, and•several others. The Cabinet sat in deli-
beration till about five o'clock.
The Committee of the Foreign Stock Exchange have
come to the resolution, not Wallow any quotation to be
made of tiuehliard's loan, in the.list published under their
authority. All future contracts for loans, of whatever
nature, are to be submitted. to their approbation before the
price is permitted to be marked. Milli .reapect to Oneli-
hard's bonds the order of the Committee IN ttnnecessary3;.'
all attempts to offer them for sale have ceased, and the
env is given up as hopeless, even by the-origlaal pro-
jectors.
Extract of a letter from the Agent to Lloyd's at Bermuda '
dated Oct. 6:—
t` After an Intermission of five years. we experienced. on
the fib ult.. a severe gale or wind, which it is to be appre-
hended has occasioned sows dot*Ser to vessels at sea, although.
Ism olopittion it did not equal in violence, nd certainly not
Ivi'doration, the hurriesnei usual in these lafftiafiAlcarteio
seasons of the year.--The gale commenced here fro;u g. E.,
and subsequently changed to shout the opposite Point. His
[Majesty's ship Athol, which arrived from Halifax the 30th
ult., encountered the storm al noon of the 28th, in lat. 38. wind
about North, it having previously blown heavy from ti. E., by
which means a great cross sea was produced.--She lost two
boats, maintop sail, hammock and head rails, dc. but none of
her spars.--But few vessels were in port, and only one, I
believe, has received damage, the Cleopatra, of Nova &olio."
Extract of a letter froutlise.Agentato 'Lloyd's at Genoa,
dated the 9th t s. •
" With reference to our letter of the 25th ult., we have
now to acquaint you that the platform, a hulk, which war
sank at the distance of 300 Preach feet from the extremity
of the Old Mole, or Eastern Vier, upon which men were
working day and night in order to till it op with bricks and,
stones, cemented by Poarilana, • strong gale from the'
South came on, with a rough sea on the 31st ult. which
destroyed all the hull; which was not filled up, so that
there remains at present but ten feet water on the meat
'shoal), part of the platform. Wolk counot be recommenced
till next Spring: in the meanwhile, Government has
[ ordered a pontoon to be got ready, which is to be moored
with chains close to the spot where the platform in sunk,
and to have a light hoisted as a warning to navigators.
We are apprehensive that in very rough weather the vessel
will not be able to keep her stotioo, and we therefore
advise Masters of vessels on entering this port to keep
towards the middle, or left side of it, to avoid getting foul
*f the hulk, which lies precisely in the direction as
deo.ribed is oat loot, via. its head to the S.S.W., and stein
to- N.N.E."