The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-11-30 00:00:00

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lig PROSECUTIONS FOR LIBELS. e ,
. kiripß ON THE is it not one id =HA the persons In poser ea& to Ira
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Mete TSE STATIPOLDSUIRE ABTEETIBERT NOV. 28.) . -....00,..--
r.e_r.'-: the ....r vreimilt, pounds,told that ye are abandoned criminals—that ye are all
Mt. Lorst.t., the Prop I f:(1 M C Mr. lirakard having peid his fine of two hPncired anxious to pull down destruction on your coon-
anl given security for his good be:milder, try—that ye all wish to disorganise. that army on
wakbrought up to the Court of King's Bench, Wear- , eras on Monday liberated frotti confinement '; and on whose efficient exertionsyeu relv for the protection of
minster; on, Thurscley seentight; to receive judg. • TueSda • upwards"
of t hundred
meld, for having published a Libel against the Trans; ' y twopenults, prom all your lives ami you
Parts o,f the county of Lincoln and of the Neighbour. your eropert e— tent ye areali seditious
port Board, when he was sentenced to a farther cat-men ? Lit itt'tgla 11;1 answjr these questions—nig-
ing contieS assembled at Boston to etingratulate laud that knows amid &fly appreciates the high mete.
prisonment in his •Mejesty's Gaol of Newgate, of him. A ditiner', pursuant to adiertisement, took Wien of the Boston merchants, amid the honest;
Eighteen Months, vp pay a fine of Five Iluodred ' lace at the White. 'tartlet', Boston; where Challis blunt, faithful distracter of the %scorn:they of our els..
Pounds, and to give security for Three Years, him. : place
Esq. Banker, 14i4,ikled' and wag assisted by trict. Ye now asiernWe round Mr. Drakard, be-
self in One Thousand Pounds, and two sureties in i tamChapman,s issqrs. Miley
It Bar'nard and It 'll' .l' cause in veer hearts Ye belleie him- to, be innocent—
Five Hundred Pounds each.
: of the company attended fieim very considereble dis-
-1 •
This sentence upon Mr. Loyest, Considering the teems to show their attachment to the cause with !because se believe he harboured no such guilty in-
peculiar circumstances of his case, Which cannot but mentions as were ascribed to him by his prosecutor—
Which they conceive Mr. Dritteuel to' he identified; : bemuse ye believe that his publication was calculated
be fresh in the recollection of the public, is certainly
one of the severest which it has been our painful duty am the respectability of the astembiy .form._ an and ' ' eat Ito benefit, rother than to injure the army—and there.
ample pledge of its honourable motive's. The dinner ' fore that he mCrits praise, and not punishment.—
to record for these five last years, dudes Which a prOvided was excellent, and the • i iiirite and liar- I Such Are your motives for now asseniblitij hares—yeti
Kreider number of prosecutions against Printers and mony of the proceedings gave uniiegiersi al satisfaction. i meet in the fair exereißo of the right cfjedzine of the.
Propr of Newspapers have been instituted and After the cloth wet removed, the Ceetitsetsi game--- character of the meesnres emanating from authoi it),
carried on, and we may add with more acrimony, i ..The Kiag."
which belong to you as citizens under a free Consti-
than at ally other period of our bittory. Of the in- 1 This was followed by., .
44 The Prim/. ttexPro;ond relay be ealltomlisd !IN dertaratiMi;, token. You so meet; and yatt declare Mr. Di•akard
justice of the libel in question, Which certainly re- • •
that tleprowit is held it.i a sacred trust ,for the tichetit of the i
'to be innocent—l believe your decision may very
elected in grosi termi upon the conduct of the Chin-
missioners of the Transport Beard, we are highly 1 e.olf , - , safely challenge competition with that by which fi ~
%Amite te then gedlnegi've-- I was adjudged to he geilty. Gentlemen, perhaes; to
sensible. %Ve are also fully aware of the necessity i The • • • -beg
" The Health of the PtillteAl Chariellite of wales." enter minute!) into the merits of the article on mili-
of protecting persons in important public situations, I 1
Ie prefaced this toast by saying, that it gate him
I
, tars pitnisloneat is not necessary ; it, no doubt, per-
who discharge their dqties uprightly and conselen-
the greatest pleasure to leirrikikat althoifgh yoUng tiously, from liceneems invective • bet Coneidering
hevie indubitdble merles of her attachment :
' fectiv lives in !our reeeilection, preserved there by
bad ' ' the peCeliar circumstances to which it gave rise.—
how essential the Liberty of the Press is to thli site a.
- to the pthiciples of the Constioliiftit: . ~; I Thom ureslewever. some few points coniu.cted whit
country, surely the greatest possible degree of -MU
..
The •
tilde ought to be allowed, and especially to the Edi- • - 5
CuAirtator after an animeted Introduction, ! its prosecutiose to which, with your permission, I
tars of a daily press, who, in the course of their Aar- then gave— . . I will allude, because I think they strikingly exemplify
sal labours cannot always be so circumspect as could ' ... :lobe Drokard, who was found chitty by a !Am& Jai*, • its character. You, indeed, have shcwn that you
L hut by a London Jury w :.i declared &refine' crime." ! properly appreciate that character.—tsetas your pro-
be wished, in what they send teeth td the world. ' : Mrs Dem:Seto rose to secure thanks to the assem- . ceedings will go forth to the woelii,lee's prom% that
. The libel in qiiestion is proved to have been pulse '
sly. He stated that it was well knoWit he was wise; ; your justilleation should go forth Also. In the 'first'
Wilted without even the knowledge of Mr. Loma,. customed to
only
speakitie ; his land friend.. there place thee, Gentlemen. let mecefer to the peculiarity
Bat when he was aware of it, he instantly made every fore. would that. be 'should • return his . ,
, expect in Mr. Drakard's case; alluded to in a former toast :
atonement in his power towards repairing the injury thanks in plain and dimple language. He felt most namely, that, although punished, he IlAn A VIUiDICT
he had occasioned. He published paragraph after; grateful for the support and encouragement extended ' ofA JURY IA HIS FAVOUR I I • say that he was (=- paragraph, tending to expose the falsehood and folly :to him by the Meeting :he was stow returning home , ~titt,J by a Jury ! The verdict of Not Guilty,
of what bad beets inadvertently inserted in his Paper. !to his family and td his business ; and he knew that which set the Messrs. Hunt, of the Examiner free,
Re apolegited in vain to the injured parties, and in -be Was returning home undisgraced :he WES also : also vindica:cA my worthy friend—for it pronounced
order to make his coutritition complete, whet' he foupd returning home undismayed, to pursue the same line: his publication innocent! It is worthy also of no-
t prosecution Was commenced agaiitst him, he guall-Y 1 of conduct which was now honoured with their ap.! tice, by what sort of a Jury this verdict of not guilty
suffered j meat by default, thus throning himself ' probation. Reibre sitting down, he could not but .vies pronounced. Special Juries, you know, are usu.
'Mindy is n the mercy of his prosecutor,. We
itsplt
testify bis gratitude to a personage, not present hi• !ally selected to try cases of Libel—they aredemand-
cantiot kelp regretting, however; that Mr. Loveit. ' deed—and he did not know whether he could fairly ,ed by the prosecutor in behalf of the Crown, sad by
dfd not follow the example of Mr. Wurre, and sub- i call him a friend—hut of this he was sure, that in whom do you think are the members chosen? Why,
mit his cause to a Jury of his countrythen, from j some respects, a friendly part had been acted towards by the Crown—the Crown chooses its own Joey.
whose hands he would have been certain of receiving , him by that personage. He alluded to Sir Vicary . Such, Gentlemen, is the "trial by Jury le OW if
ample justice. !
, Gibbs !—[A loud lan.-11.]—It was to Sir Vieaq that , libel; such are its blessings which we public writers
s
That grandest work of human institution; the Trial ;he owed the satisfaction of meeting the present as- • enjoy. Well, a Special Jury was selected by the
by Jury, Wit continues, and God send it may ever I sembly—the satisfaction of meeting many warm Prosecutor, Sir Vicary, to try the Messrs. Hint,
remain, our rock of safety, our surest defence against ° friends, to whom he had before been unknown—and who had copied iuto their excellent paper the article
oppression, and tbealmost only remaining security for I the satisfaction of meeting many old friends with old from the Stamford News--bat, when the trial came
our lives, our liberties, and our properties. faces. ' on, the Special Jury that was selected from the lift
The present ArTORNAY-GENERAL is a man *ell. Mr. ROBERT BARNAZE, the Chairman of the se- .of tax-gatherers and tax-assessors-1 here speak
known aid highly respected in this county, and most 1 cond table, then, after a short introduction, proposed from actual knowledge, for I saw the list :—the
deeply shall we grieve if he does not prove a friend i the following toast— 'persons holding situations under Government, sub.
to the Freedom of the Press. That he is so in his " Mr. Scott. and Thanks to him for his able conduct of the • servient to its will, because living under its power,
heart we are Well assured; bat We fear lest he may Stamford Ness." 1
—the persons Who, from breathing the rank air of
hate imbibed some particle of the asperity of his late Mr. SCOTT rose to return thanks, and spoke as office, had become tainted with its pestilential inllo-
Colleague. We shall resume this subject at some follows: I ence—this Special Jury, thus if/To:liana chosen,
futitre opportirhity, and conclude for the present with 1 Gentlemen, known to yOu, as I am, as one con- did not happen to attend in the box in time—it was
hoping that a subscription will shortly be entered into; ; nected with the public press, who takes an active • therefore found necessary to make up a Jury out of
in behr:' of Mr. Loewe., whose sufferings in so good 1 part in the discussion of political topics, you will,
a cause, wetrust, will not be attended with the serious perhaps, feel surprise when I tell you, that I now, the common lise—out of the listof persons chosen to
decide common causes between man and IHRH, in
consequences he appears to dread. for the first tinte let my life, attempt to address a , which the Crown, having no interest, leaves the
public assembly. Ido it, however, with confidence, ' matter to be fairly decided.—Centlemen, by a Jury
because I know that lam addressing friends, and thus composed,—by a Jury Miss selected from the body
with *mare, because my heart, as you may well of the public, without 'picking and choosing, THE
suppose, is warmly engaged in the objects of this Its
aotiSRS. HUNT WERE ACQUITTED !—AN'o, WHEN
meeting. For the very flattering manifestation of THEY WERE ACQUITTER, Me. DRAEARO WAS AC.
your esteem, with which you have been pleased to QVITTED ALSO,--FOR IT WAT Ms PUSLIcATIIuN THAT
honour me, accept my sincere thanks ; I am, indeed, WAS zurN TRICD.—It was copied by the Ernminer
very grateful for it. Concerning the course pursued from his paper;—in the Examiner it was decided to
in the public journal which my worthy friend has be innocent ;—in the Stamford News there.fure it
entrusted to my management, you sue me the task could not be guilty. [Hear, hear!] But after
of descanting at any length, by the support which 111 r. Dreikard was thus virtually acquitted, he
you extend to it,—a support which has reared it was again tried:—the verdict of a Common Jury
through a propitious infancy to an early maturity. in Westminster was opposed by the verdict of
I may, butveser, he permitted to observe, that it is a Specie/ jury in Lincoln ;—a special Jury chosen,
certainly our wish to assume a.decided tone, and to picked out from your county—not impartially
promulgate decided opinions, when we allude to the taken, but arranged in the box by the Prose-
evils in our political condition, that are brought , cuter, to further the purposes of the prosecution
: :
about by those political abuses, which we all so semi- —this Jury found the defendant guilty ? Which of
sibly experience in our purees, and which my worthy these Juries, Gentlemen, is most worthy of &utle
friend, and many others, have experienced in their tion ;—which verdict is most likely to have sprung
persons. Gentlemen, on such subjects, we certain. ' from the Unbiassed dictates of honest hearts ? To
ly do assume a decided tone; but it is our earnest , hide the indecency of the proceeding of thus bringing
wish, at the same time, to evince a spirit of the forward a packed jury, to render null the verdict of
strictest impartiality, and of constitotiotiel modem. • an impartial one, an excuse was set up, which I will
tion. I use the word constitutional, to show that by: not cell the basest device that ever originated in the
Moderation Ido not mean time-tervingnas,—u qua- ; cunning of a had heart-1 will not so characterise
lity which some find so valuable, and which they tie- it, Gentlemen, but I will describe it to you, and
duly dignify with the name of moderation,—from you shall decide on its merits. It happened that;
which, however, it di tiers as far as east di tiers from west. , „hen the Messrs. Hunt made the quotation from the
Gentlemen, when I look around me, and see this Struyifurd News, they left out a few passages, which
room crowded with individuals of the highest reaper- . they deemed less striking than the others ;—not hat'.
tability, collected from all parts -of this, and the , rut; room for the whole, they inserted only what
neighbouring counties, lam tempted to ask, what - they deemed the strongest part. Advantage was
kind of spectacle does our meeting present to the i taken of these immaterial omissions to say that the
view of the public? It exhibits an honest worthy
; article in the Examiner was a very different article
man,—respected,and meriting respect,—one who has : from that which appeared in the Staa4ford News, and
well discharged all the duties, social and domestic, ! therefore that the trial at Westminster by no means
thet attach to us,—who has ever sustained the ho- i. settled the case. Now, Gentlemen, of the sincerity
pourable reputation of an upright tradesman (anti . of this excuse, do you decide from the following
none in this country is more honourable}—who is fact. In the information, charging Mr. Orekerd
beloved by his neighbours, and by all who know ;with criminal intentions, there were included, in
him, as a kind-hearted excellent individual ;—it ex- distinct allegations, the various passages in what was
hibits to view this person just disenthralled from con- ' called the libel, on which the prosecutor rested for a
fittement,—yet smarting under the effects of a heavy 1 verdict of guilty. All of the article which he deem.
fine,--pamithed by the constituted authorities of his ; ed, or affected to deem, ctimlnil, was iscluded in
country as an abandoned criminal ! This, Gentle- i these separate allegations—in fact, all the strongest:
men, you will say, is a calamitous, a heart-break. '
; part of the publication. was so included. Now,
ing spectacle;—amid so would it be, did it form the i Gentlemen, it happens, that these separate allege..
whole of the picture; but other and more• Pleasing . lions contained sot one passage that was not pato•
circumstances accompany it, that convert its effect i fished in the Examiner; it follows, therefore, that
into one of the most exhilimting description. I see 1 the Examiner copied all that Sir rimy himself 4.
you, forming a numerous assemblage of persons who fated to deem criminal; and, of course, when that '
know Mr. Drahard as a man, and are aware of his paper was acquitted for its extracts, the Stamford
conduct as a publisher, rallying, in the spirit of Nears was utterly absolved.
freedom, round this persecuted individual; encircling Here Mr. Score, after a most eloquent encomient
him in the arms of support, and intending to him t on the character of Mr. Brougham, begged leave to
the hands of friendship,—giring the lie, if I may so propose,
speak, to the act of power by which it has been is „ The moth
at Kr. „rR
coUgns SiO..the Valois derenderfi Mr.
vain ATTEMPITD TO I',EOSIADE not,—and holding DrakarJ, and the amount', opposer of military torture."
forth the convincing testimony, of your upright cha- This toast was drank, aecompauled by manifesta.
racters and respectable couditions in life, in favour Notts of enthusiastic approbation. •
of his innocence. This, Gentlemen, is the spectacle Mr. CAALLIS Satinet, the Chairman, then pro-
which our meeting presents to the view of the pub- -
lic, and to the contemplation of Government.
ls It onset which we should feel ashamed? Or rat*

Atiiiter AT &min.—Thursday morning, about
six o'clock, a middle-aged Mall threw himself off
Blackfriars'-bridge, into the Thames ; fortunately
two beats were going doWn to Rill;ngsgate just at the
time. He was immediately taken out by two water-
men, and conveyed to a public-house et the foot of
the bridge on thegurrey-iide, in a senselest state, hut
hopes are entertained of his recovery.
On Wednesday a whale, supposed to measure
abOie 80 feet, was seen off lye Bay, going up
Channel. About one O'clock in the afternoon of
the same day; two whales Of the above description
were discovered by the Dover fishermen, in Dover
Roads, which so alarmed them that they all made
for the shore; the fishermen say, that a large sloop
was alongside of the fiih, going up Channel, where
one of them spouted up such a quantity of water as
to preclude them from the least sight of the Vessel.
Strubre OF:ATM—Thursday noon an elderly min,
some years in the employ of Mr. Field, hat-presser,
in AddimStreet, Wood:street, walking along the
shop, apparently in perfedt health, was suddenly
seised with a fit, and almost iustintly expired.
A female, of the naive of Geet in Tebbot's-
row, Mary-le-bone, took a quantity, of arsenic on
Wednesday, but by timely medic/A.lnd she is doing
well.

Thursday evening, as severs) boys were amusing
theniteltes by knocking at the door of Mr. Clarkson,
in St. Sepulchre's gate, Doncaster, he became sO
irritated, that he fired a pistol and wounded two of
them. He is lodged in gaol for examination.
A letter from Yarmouth, mentioning the arrival of
the itooarnond, Howx,frons Scotland, says, that "on
board 44 her is one of the pasties, a prisoner, who
States, that he and four others were concerned in the
murder of Mr. Mares family, himself having cut Mrs.
Mary's threat:"
C.ORS MICR &NOR, Nor. SO.
Our Market was well supplied with Wheat this day from
Kent, Eve:, and Suffolk, whin that of fine quality met ready
sale at an advance of 2s. per quarter; but their was Ile aah-
vaent in the price of inferior sorts. Barley is 3s. per quarter
cheaper, having a ennsidrrable 'apply of that grain. Grey PM
4s. per quarter dearer, and White oat' fully maintain lust tweet's
prices. Tick Beans are Vs. per quarter cheaper. We bad &good
supply of Oats to this day's Market, bat the sale was brisk for
fine samples, and rather snare meaty was obtained than oh law
Monday. In Malt, Rye, and other articles, therh Is au al-
teration.

Wheat (l:ogiish) 103 140
Ditto (t omega) 1(X1 160
Itve
Barley 60 69
New aittn ' 00 00
Malt 96 105
White Peas
Ditto t Wilco) llo 110
New ditto
Grey-Peat 80 64

New ditto 00 00
Hem
Tick do OO 00
01d....
Oats
Fioe ditto
Poland do.
Feed ditto 4 40 Li
Mita Floor ..... 105 110
fiecoodi •• . . . 100 105

SMITHFIELD MARKET.-410T. ft
To sink the OW, per Nail .or m.
Beef ....ss. Yd. ow 6a. W. I Head of Oita ebb day t
Muttoo ..b.. &I. to 66. 94. I Routs ... 111:
Veld ....ti.. U.I. to 7a. 4.1. ISheep .....••• II.II
Pork ....64. 04. to 7s, ' 44. Cale.
.
Lamb ....0;. OIL to (h. Oil. Poo
II A Y-SI ARK F.T.
Hoy 4l. 0.. dd. to 51. Ilk. 04.
Clever II. OP. Mt 4n 71. 7''' 06.
Straw •4l. N. W. to S. it. a

" The health of Sir Gilbert Hecticote+tha mun'tleent ap•
pottier of Mr. Drakard."