The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-07-12 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

the Treasury thought his cases bard one, and allowed
him a pension.
The indictment was here read, and the libels charged
compared with the pusages in the books proved by
the witness; one of the libels was a song. Thel
reading of the libels, which ocovied an burr, being
ended,
Mr, C. PHILLIPS addressed the jury for the defend-
ant. He began by observing, that the defendant bad
received • written notice from the secretary. that his
trial would not take place till Friday, and at eight
o'clock last night lie received notice that lie trial
must come on to-day, which left his advocate wholly
unprepared.
Mr. Artot.pors examined Mr. Pritchard, the secre-
tary of the society, who confirmed Mr. Phillips's state-
meet, and on his cross-examitiati.m said the society
bad not given the defendant any admonition or metier
of their intention before they profeented. He tiso
proved a printed report of the proceedings of the so-
ciety produced to him by Mr. Philips.
Mr. PIiiiLLIPS proceeded. He said liis a...t was
an bumble unprotected man, persecuted by a society
who had never yet been known since their first load-,
maim to prosecute a rich man. Their confect was
calculated to justify the remark of Lord &ion, who
said, that laws were cobwebs which catch Huh film
and which the great ones break through. , Coder Pre-,
tents of supporting morality and religion, the vice
suppressors have dared to pnblish a lie under their
hands—they have published to the world tiles Ober
only prosecute for libel, when admonition lies failed—
their secretary has proved that they prosecuted the de.
(rodent without any admonition. Mr. Adulptius had
admitted that the publicatien of the novel was of loot[
standing. It was translated into English lathe year
1789, and was to be bad at all the great ciectylatine
libraries. Mt. Adolphus had said be did not know
why the defendant had left his house in the Strand:—
he might have known it—it was because Mr. Benbow
was prosecuted by another gang, who procured him to
be imprisoned ten months, and then turned him out of
his dungeon without daring to bring him to trial, his
last shilling gone, and family bronght to ruin.—. These
were modern champions of Christianity. By :IA of
the money which they extracted from dupes by false
pretences, they dragged to the bar and to the
dungeon poor men, who mast 1 ruined by she
expense, though acquitted of the charge, while the
rich were suffered to saturate themselves in crime.
The song they had heard war truly ridiculous as a
subject of prosecution ; there were atithat moment a
hundred worse on the music tables of the daughters
of the Vice Suppressors. Without a vicious imagina-
tion the works were harmless, and with it scarcely
any.works would be so: Not a Novel, oat of which
something might not be picked by the Vice.Soppree-
sort to make a libel. As for the pictures, there waa
no one who had visited the picture galleries of the
great, who bad not seen many more exceptionable.
They were to be see. at Carlton-house, at Windsor,
at the Marques of Stafford's, and at the exhibitions
at Somerset-house, which the most modest ladies paid
for admission to see. If the Society bad performed
their promise to the public, and admonished the de-
fendant before they p:oceeded to prosecute him, they
might be entitled to some credit for their motive"'

but where the Christian volume says " forgive." they
say "persecute ;" where Christ says " let hint that is
without sin emnngst you east the first atone," instead
of being abashed, they unite their pow.prs so crush a,
pnor Ism
The Cnntastas shortly charged the Jury, that they
were the sole judges of the case.
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The Jury retireTl for about ten minute, and returned
a verdiet—Not Guilty.
ST. Ooze's iturs.--Michael Ryan, Michael
Hayes. William Headerman, Edward Murphy, Jobs
Fitzgerald, and John M'Cormick, were found guilty
of a riot i• St. Giles's early on Sunday morning. the
sth of May.
The Collin' sentenced Ryan and Illeadermaill b One
year's iMprizonment ; Hayes to nine months' imprison
meat; Murphy to siz months confinement; and Fitz-
gerald and M•Cormick each to three month.' impri-
sonment, and ordered the whole of them to be kept to
bard labour.

A SINGULAR CUIUOSITY.--1111. SyMrOG. at the
Bull public-boos; Ripping&le, has a sow which has
brought forth 7 pigs, one of them with 6 legs and 6
feet, with which Wrens after the pow as readily as
the others of this litter. Its fore parts ate like thou
of another pig, and behind it has one leg on one side
and three on the other, which three unite at the bock.
It is fine weeks old, and is as large and as healthy as
the others. It is said that a caravan is to h: built
for it, and that it is to be eabibited throughout the
country.
PIIIINONSNON.—There is now in the possession of
Mr. Green, bute'her, of Market Harboroosh, a cat that
hes kittened four kitten; all alive, and all grown to-
gether. They are of a tortoise-shell colour, perfect
in shape as four distinct kittens, can suck, mid are
likely to live.
A man unknown was found dead on Thersday see.
night in a field at Stanton Drew. he appeared to be
About 40 years of age. was five fert faue-bicheala
hri;•!it, and wore a snuff-coloured coat, and bladr

breeches and waistcoat: his shirt bore the ru,rk
of W. 11. and hi• neckcloth tbit of H. Urea:
srn'ation was excited in the neighbourhood, it
being reported that be bud bees murdered. An in
quest was held on the body, when it was minutely
examined by a surgeon, and after a full investigation.
' verdict was returned—Found Dead.
Vottuestr.—A forgery has just appeared on the one
pound notes of Sir. William Forbes and Co. of &Ho-
burgh ; but, throngb the vigilance of a twat active
other fr m Edinbnr.4ll, the principal iesuer of them
b apprehended and pria..n.
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OLD BAILEY, THURSDAY.— Before the Sessiors ender:
yesterday, James Stephemsoa and Thomas Harris were
courier:l of stealing aj lbs. of lead, value 7'. thr
of the King, from a dwelling-house, its the beighbour•
hood of Sabo.
Ann tisrten, alias Wheeler. who was convicted it the
April Sessions, and whusrs jintginent was then Grayed on
' ecount of pregnancy, was put to the Lar, hut had nos
farther cause to 'lists why her sentence should nut ise
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overused.
Atnoog the convicts sentenced to seven years trans-
portation was Tobias Burke, for bigamy. John William
Henry Kitchingham, for bigamy, was sentenced tb.esse
year's imprisonment in the House of Correction t and.
William Millers fur stealing a considerable quantity
of linewdrapery, to tiro years in the tame gaol. •