The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-10-06 00:00:00

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•• At what PRRO
' Might corrupt minds procure kum es a' enrrnpt
To 'wear against )ou!" I!►mar rm.
" Hate )ou a rullian that wll.l sorra--
rob. murder, sad commit
The oldest sins the newest kind of no)6'l
• Be hamy he win trouble )ou no more ;
• England shall doable gild his treble guilt."

Stn---1 Bill Of Pains and Penalties is, as I have
open said, but it cannot be too frequently repeated,
t.tathing else than an act of gross and unqualified ty-
r army, first enacting the crime, and then applying the
lnishenent. It is, upon all occasi , and under
~.cry circumstance, unjustifiable. It is the assertion
at a right, on the part of the three branches of the
legislature, to punish, according to their a ill and
pleasure, the conduct of itailVisluals, merely because
it is displeasing to them. And.such a measure, upon
sorb an occasion as the present, in respect to the
Queen of England, is infinitely more odious and ty-
rannical, than it would be with respect to any other
iudividoal ; inasmuch as the person, who, is the corn-
pla:nent of her conduct, is also a party in enacting
the crime, and apportioning the punishment. Nothing
mote indecent, or unprincipled, was never before
heard of in any civilized soviet. Is it not intim-
ceitahle how persons in the shape of human brings
could he capable of giviug to their master, and
that master reputed the best bred gentleman in
Europe, the advice to constitute himself one of the
Judges who are to decide on the conduct of his
a.tvta wife? Ilad we not seen this proceeding in
Lain. we should not bare believed it possible that :any
man in the world could hare barn prt vaned upon to
consent to the exercise of functions so repugnant to
crcry feeling of justice and decorum as the offering of
his signature to a sentence of divorce or of degrada-
tion to .be pronounced against lair wife, for conduct
not cognisable to the laws of the land ; anal no other-
wise criminal, than as having incurred the hostility
of those ;persons who are unfortunately his advisers.
The criminal advisers of his Majesty are so well
aware of the situation in which dor have placed their
master, upon this occasion, that they find it necessary.
ia order to attempt to gloss the infamy of the pro-
ceeding into which they hale betrayed him, farther to
insult the understandings of t:se people by the new pre-
text, that the State is the prosecutor of the Queen,
whilst 999 iu a HO of the people who compose that
State, bold the whole of the proceedings, and of the
snore in this rile drama, in the utmost abhorrence.
.Perhaps, we shall be now told, in order to get out of
this dile (for the persecutors of the Queen, lilts
other eallip74: in proportion as they advance in crimi-
nality, abandon all sense of shame,) that they, the
iiiughmongers, and their tolls and agents, and not
the people, compose the State. I should he curious, for
rasereamusement, to hear their unvarnished doctrines,
upon this t-ead, by which they are accustomed to de-
lude their willing dupes. They would, if eross-ex-
amined like the Italian witnesses, refute themselvre.
'I heir days of delusion are, like those of the Pope, I
passed, never to return. Even the muzzling of the
Prssa, if they could accomplish it at the point of the
bayonet, Mr. Keith Douglas may rest assured, would
mat long avail them.
In the case of a Bill of Pains and Penalties, the 1
mockery of a formal trial is but an aggravation of Jet-
: ;.nd the Queen is, in this respect, placed in
a.. far worse situation than any other person' in the
Liagdout. No other person. !oho might be subjected !
the despotism of a Hill of Pains anti Penalties, could
I aye the farther shock to bis feelings, of witnessing .
Lis nearest relation, as the third estate of the realm,
signing his doom. Would any Lord, if his wife
the subject of it, continue to sit, and to vote th his
ikamber ? If so, I can only say, that !do not be.
the poorest peasant in the would be a„ eat..
I •114, 644.wh011y lost to all 5.7.,„„,--O f decorum, as to set
is a rintilar manner, it were in his option. All
▪ lat!ls. then, skeuld be opposed as indecent sad
tritnrical ;ank In respect to the Wren, as being snore
decent and tyrannical, than in respect to any other
r. /noon.
fht r.tn" ne unprincipled nature of such mea-
sures; generally, I hive already repeatedly miserted,
it detail, to the disgraceful, tyrannical, and sipe-
✓ Jeuted manner in which the measure has, in this
instance, been attempted to be carried into effect.
I• Was at the time that the approaching death of his
tseijesty appeared to be certain, that this second con-
ci.acy against the Queen began to develope itself.
She Milan. Commission was formed, not to detect
c inns of which iuformation had already been given,
but to invent and circulate such as bad as• vet been
102 rd of. If it was otherwise,. with about did the
rcinonrs originate? not with •the witnesses ; for,
cording to their own declarations, they never spoke
at 'the subject to any One, until they were applied to
11 the bitten Commission. Were not the Milan Com-
:. Ksion, thin, or their employers, the Ministers, the
original inventor', in their closets, of the rumours
enttriest the Princess of Welch's character: Anal coda
ey not hare prompted the.witnerves, as well as invented
ti;is rumours? It will rest with *eon to prove that they
; re not the original inrentOts of these honours, by
s:•ening who did invent them. If they do nut do this,
e -sty man of honour or discernment must affix to them
t*.v. Julahle guilt. How did it happen that these rumours
la me first set afloat at so remarkable a period, when
I-1 Kays! Highness the Princess Charlotte was no
0: ire, and the early dissolution of our venerable I
franarch seemed inevitable. Majorei made his &bit
in Linulors at the moment his Majesty was a corpse.
V.lasit not about the same period that the Countess of I
I',losvbiertvasniolicited to accept of a brilliant fortune ?
Listiallant Atitone, for what ? For merely telling the
illw coed the Milan Commissi have known
t St she ha 4 any thing to discover i She had or.ver
P •
r •vicansh:npoken of her discoveries, according to her
eon brevainft:lto any mortal living. In return fur this
hettliant fortiiise, then, they .mast have intended to
jos had some handsome distimanres, in the way of
v Ate &retried; it would be carious to hear the first
ciltajnis • that passed hetween the Soubrette
t' toptusa. and. the Iliten Commissioners, s stria
t•
.aatijoet. in
.the way of 1. etulate .coresidec." j
oleo's fres her can icsnat to by kites,

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' :he brilliant fortune is prospect. was the first Mato.
very made on either able. 'lbis naturally led to the
other discoveries, which necessarily followed. as • cow-
arguer' eof this prospect. The result of these dis-
closures was the inexplicable night scene. Majocci
produced the ingenious bath scene, which so perpluxest
tlseir•Lordships, and the dance by Mabomet, width
made the Attornertieneral blush. The gun scene of
the Mate and the Captain was cheaply purchased at
the expense of the four or five thousand pounds, which
they will have cost before they can be discharged, art-
less it should be thought expedient to let them ea*
an early escape, in order to avoid the probable pottati
of perjury. These are but a few of the inert Wilde%
and very faint ones, of the atrocious fundamental
features of the most atrocious conspiracy, that ever
disgraced any age or nation ; a conspiracy of which,
it r..nnot be doubted, as that able and upright repre-
sentative of the people, Mr. Peter Moore. has unequi-
vocally asserted, that Ministers are at the bottom;
and of which it would require much more than Lord
Castlereagh's usual strength of elocution to convince
the public, that he and his family are not the siiiet
agitators. This person frequently takes occasion
to assure us that he is not to be intimidated
from the paths of his ditty by public clamour.
As one of that public, I will, in my torn, be so
bold as to assure Lim, that we its not to be
turned aside by sophistry, cant, corrupt majorities,
or even threats of military execution, from the
stitch el paths of our dnty, in defending oat
innocent and persecuted Queen, against the machi-
nations of conspirators, reset sours and traitors,
great or small. Ministers may be assured the/
will find, if they should persevere in their itei-
(lllinois course against her 31ajesty, that every mania
the mat' , who is worth the counting upon in the day
of trial, has formed the laudable resolution so well ex-
pressed by Sir Holbert Wilson, upon 31r. Ilubliouse's
motion for a prorogation of Parliament, that " if be
had a thousand lives, he would u illingly sacrifice i
them all rather than see innocence suffer and injustice
triumph."
'floe last meeting. of the House of Commons, al- .
though short, has done much to unmask the real con-
spirators, persecutors, and traitors. We now perceive
the base purposes to which the secret service money Is
applied, with such profligate profusion. Yet the de-
linquents have the audacity to talk of the worthy, the
honest, the generons, and the enlightened people of •
England, as disaffected, seditious. and revolutionary.
Let the knaves look-at the opinion of foreigners, where ,
the Press is free ; anti blush, if the faculty of blushing
yet remains to them. Let them peruse the American
and Spanish Journals, and add to their meditations
the comfortable reflection, that. if they dare to stir a
finger against the freedom of the Press hs England,
it will certainly be one of the last acts of their mis-
rule.

iTESMA

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KM'S BENCH. Oer. 5.

Leaden A.ljourooll Sittings after Miehaetwas Term. before

Mr: J► STICK Bahia and a tiraciaLJety.

CROOK b. SIR WILLIAM MATE.—This 7•;„.; fft
action upon the case. The declarzi'ion stated, that
the plaintiff having wages and prize-money due to
him as a mariner en boars! his Majesty's ship La
Mutine, the defendant, as fLaptain of the said vessel,
had wrongfully punished him, and had placed the
letter R against his name in the navy pay book, sig-
nifying that he had tun away from the ship, in con-
sequence of which I.e war prevented from receiving
the wages and priae-enoney to which he was entitled.
The second ce,unt alleged that the defendant was the
cause of efontieuing the !vier It against the plaintiff's
name .e the navy pay book ; and the third count al-
leged, that he was the cause of its continuance for the
last six years. The defendant pleaded, first, not guilty,
sod second, the Statute of Limitations.

The plaintiff's case was conducted by Mr. Guises
and Mr. E. Lau is, and the defendant's by Mr. SCAR..
LITT.

it appeared in evidence, that in the year 1801, the
plaintiff, then a youth of 15, acted as purser's s-r-
-rant, on board the ship LA Mutiny, then stationed it:
the Mediterranean, under the command of the de-
fendant, and was entitled to wages at the rate of eight
shillings per month. On board the same vessel was
a seaman named Grimaldi, described by one of the
witnesses as a half-6rd Italian. In consequence of a
complaint presented to the defendant, that an abomin-
able intercourse had taken place between the plaintiffl
and Grimaldi, the parties were brought before him,
and the matter immediately investigated. The man,
Grimaldi, pleaded drunkenness, and the plaintiff did I
not attempt to deny the charge. No Court-Martial
was demanded, and the defendant immediately ordered
both the alleged offenders to be placed in irons, In
which state they remained until about a, month after-
wards, when the ship was carried to Malta for roe
pairs. On the morning of her arrival in the port, the
plaintiff was, ordered to be flogged, and after receiv-
ing the punisimutzt, he was sent out of the ship on
shore. There was no proof that he was sent on ;here,
by the orders of the defendant. On the same day
the officers and crew were sent on shore, in order
'that the ship might be repaired. At none of the,
musters of the ship's company, which took place
while on shore, did the plaintiff appear, and in
consequence he was reported to the Admiralty as a
runaway. After being employed as a servant to an
English gentlemen and a Polish Princess abroad, It
was stated, the plaintiff returned to Eagland, and ap-
plied
to the Navy Pay Office for wages and prize-
money, but found that the letter R was placed against
his name in the books, anti his claim was disallowed.
Evidence was brought to skew the means he had need
1 to get the It taken from his name, and under diem
1
circumstances the pres lit action was brought. Oa the
crossevamination of the plaintiff's witnesses, it ap-
peared that, by the regulstions of the Navy, a Cap-I
keit' could discharge a boy, bnt net a saw for is-
proper conduct on board a ship; that &Captain inigkt
order a man to be dogged at his diaeretion, for Aiwa
not specified in the Mutiny Act ; that in this pew*
mint i aster:re the defendant, in abstaining from brisk-
ling the plaintiff to trial by court-martial, hy whisk'
IWNI. naiad have been in jeopardy. bad aetesiftenal
toodyes of humanity i that had the plegneiff say came
1 of complaint against his (*lain. be .ediebe Alive ap-
Pmded to Admiral 1001 lititba sib. trot..st Jingle at

the tittle im Motifs! tint in foe malt% but tbot he WI
not done so; that there was nothing to prevent A e
Plaintiff from returning pt the 'earl if he thought pro-
Per ; and that if in fact he had not been sent out of
Or ship by the Captain's orders. such was the nature
If the imputation against him, that it would bare been
is►peasible for him to remain on board with any regard
to the peace of the ship's crew, and his Iwo personal
safety.
1 Mr. Justice BATLEY was of opinion, that in no view
is which his case could be considered was the action
inalutainahle. In the first place, there was no proof
that the plaintiff was ordered out of the ship by the de-
fendant. On the contrary, for asy thing that ap-,
peered he had voluntarily absented himself (which was
certainly the wisest course fur him to pursue under
the circumstances), and therefore the Captain was',
hound to report him as a runaway to the Admiralty.
• But, in the second p'ace, supposing he had originally
caused the letter R to be placed against his name with-
i out lawful reason, there was nothing to take the case
. out of the statute of limitations, and enable him to go
upon the third count, which alleged that the defend-
ant had canoed the letter R. to be continued against ,
his name within the last six years ; for it appeared
that the defendant had no contrail over the matter, in-
asmuch as the continuance of it depended upon the
Lords of the Admiralty. It appeared, therefore, to
his Lordship, that the action in all events could not
Ibe sustained in its present form, whatever imperfect-
, hien' attended the merits of t'te case itself.
Mr. 01:IVIRT elected to be ealled.—Non-suited.

The plaintiff in this case was the man in 11 ho-e
our readers will recollect. a petition was presented
to IL* of Comma by Sir Fratreis Burdett.

. Hints*

POLICE.
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THe Enow.tac Roan FOOTPAD'.—The many star
lag highway robberies committed on the Edgwar •
road, lately, have attracted the peculiar attrnti.m
the Police ; and, at length, a party of the llow-Ktreei
pat role, viz. litiihrick, Woodhury. Chapman, and Lack,
have succeeded in apprehending a gang of fellow.,
who appear to be the miscreants by whom they have
lows committed. They were apprehended on Satur-
day night, and underwent a Crst examination before
R. Rtaxtr, Esq at the public offire, How-street, on
Monday !alt. hut a pee; of other matter has prevent.
ed oar noticing it sooner.
Yesterday they were brought up for a seron I cgs'
urination before Mr. Biome, and placed at the her in
the following order :—.lslas Heglies. Thomas Itrat,
'Monica Retoa. and AAA Smith, the latter a man near-
ly sis feet high ; and certainly, taken altogether. the
bar has seldom been graced by a more ferocious look-
ing set. •

The former evidence baring been read over by the
clerk, it appeared that Limbrick and his party, on Sa-
turday night last, were on the look out upon the Edg-
ware-road, sitting upon a stile near the two-milestone,
when tilt toot prisoners passed by, and the officers
su'reeting them to he the persons they cradled, in-
stantly challenged them by askisE where they were
going r upon which the rogue., after staring at the
officers for a moment, instantly t.lok to their keels.
The officers, however, pursued, and in a few t.tinutes
each man had secured Iris prisoner ; but not without
great personal danger to themselves, as two of the
prisoners, !lent and Smith, wc:e armed with large
horse-pistols, deeply loaded, which pistils they at-
tempted to use in their own defence, hut after a short
scuffle, they were disarmed by the I r.rvery and supe•
nor adroitness of the officers, and safely lodged in the
watch-house.

It appeared also at their first examination Mr.
Jael Tilke, a baker at Harrow-on-thc•Hill, had deposed
to bis having been robbed of his -vetch and a sum of
money, on the Edgware-road, some nights ago, by
three persons, whom he firmly believed to be the pri-
soners Hunt, Eaton, and Hughes ; and in corrobora-
tion of his belief, a comb and a knife, taken from him
by the robbers, were found by the officers on the per-
sons of two of the prisoners.
A gardener, named James Perkins, of Sudbury-
Breen, near Harrow, also deposed to his having been
robbed of his money and watch by the prisoners; and
M. Etienne Beetle, surgeon to the Duke Decases, li
whose rolehery we detailed a few days ago, likewise
attended, and expressed leis opinion that the prisoners
were the persons by whom he was robbed; in proof of
which, a silk handerchief, taken from him, was fuuud
upon one of the prisoners.
This evidence having been gone through, and the,
officers leaving stated their expectation of haring a va-
riety of farther evidence against the prisoners, they
were ordered to be committed for further exaheination,
when they remonstrated upon this step, said they could
account very satisfactorily for their possession of the
knife, comb, Ike. and one of them ended Isis remarks,
by observing, thlt they themselves (the prisoners)
were as Likely to hare been rubbed on the road as "any
other gentleman."
The Jlagistrate, in reply, observed, that he should
feel himself perfectly justified in committing Hunt,
Eaton, and Hughes to Newgate at once, even upon the
present evidence; but in order to give other persona
who had been robbed an oppottnuity of coming for-
ward, he should remand them for further examination'
on Thursday next.
The worthy Magistrste-ezetpted the prisoner Smith
from the above rensozhi. because no identified stolen
article had been foua spots his person.

Wednesday morning, as the Earl of Balearnt% was
driving his gig to the House of Lords, he.waa thrown
from it-on the parenteet.. The carriage was broken,
and his Lordship tensiderably hurt.
ATTEMPTIM 81:tetat.--Yesterday morning, a gen-
Heinen dressed In Y green frock coat, pantaloons, sad
hessian boots, hired A boat es 11311ipank, and proceeded
hi it aloe* up the river. as fat. as Chelsea-reach ; he
laid the oars in the. heat, and deliberately stripped
off ,his coat, Ingetkr with. his hat. he also
put tin the scat, and Raped' nto the wake; .A water
man, named Cleggk einersdol his utusdlnets efulied.l4P'
wards his and willnennee city, took Wm up limy;
muck exhasete44 lie refissed.gieieg any steams of
hienelf, but a card was found in his pocket, hem
ebich—it appso ghss• he Is. a Ltaileasat :is
?ivy. •

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