The Statesman.
London, England, 1813-05-07 00:00:00

ewer is the London Gazette, by which foetus they
had been prevented from having their sentiments of
regard and veneratiort for her Royal Highest, pre-
served in official security by being placed on an au.
Mantic record • and that in this conduct he bad
ruined a marked: contempt.for the feelings and opi-
nions of the City as well as of the country at large ;
that by this suspicious exercise of his discretion, he
appeared to insinuate that he conceived such an ad-,
dress would he displeasing to his Royal Highness :
that this Court should therefore address his Royal
Highness, congratilating tim on the establishment of
her Royal Highness's innocence, and praying that she
might be allowed an establishment suitable to her
rank and dignity."
Mr. FAVELL seconded the Resolution, Ilethought
that the City of London should, upon this occasion,
speak the sentiments of the people at *ge, and that
nobody could say that they were hasty now in voting
an Address. There wis nothing befdre the-.public
which charged the Prince Regent with being any
party to these transactions, and therefore the impu-
tation thrown on him by the absurd and unwise ex-
ercise of Lord Sitheouth's discretion, could not be
too soon or too publicly repelled. He thought the
Hon. Baronet (Sir W. Curtis)'would feel his loyalty
called upon on the present occasion, to repel the in-
dignity levelled at the Throne.
Sir W. Cu ails said, that if any indignity was le-
velled at the Throne, he should resist it as manfully
as any other person. Ile did not believe' however,
that any such indignity had been intended. He knew
well the character of the Noble Lord (Sidmouth),
and he was far above such conduct. ,As Secretary of
State for the Home Department, his situation was de-
licate. It was very unfortunate both for the Pt ince,
the Princess, and the Public, that such disagreements
should have taken place; but was there a husband
in the country, who, it the ease was his own, could
be pleased with the interference of the public in
these family disagriemonts, and at its being told to
him, by a public Address, how lie ought to conduct
himself to his wife? He was sure that if he were in
Lord Sidmouth's situation, he should resign it rather
than ask the Prince to permit such an Address to be
inserted in the Gazelle. lie had no objection, to re-
peat,, that he conceived that the Princess had been
traduced most wickedly and most abominably, but
still he saw no use in addressing the Prince; and
thought, that addressing him after having first ad-
dressed the P. incest:, would be an offensive proceed-
ing. The Worthy Baronet also contended, that the
Copy of the Address and Answer were not docu-
ments sufficiently authentic to be inserted in the
Gazette, as it was the originals which were always
sent for publication. •
Mr. BROWN •centendea, that Lord Sidmouth's
conduct was perfectly correct. The Princess of
Wales was no' personage ie the State, but a private
individual. • When they addressed her on her mar-
riage, and on the birth of her child, these were mat-
ters of State, and the State took notice of the Ad-
dresses, The State, however, knew nothing of those
charge; and accusations against the Princess, and LAW ANTE L lAGE NCE.
therefore there %Z.'33 no occasioa to insert such Ad-
dresses in the Sette Cl'atefie. COURT OF KlNtrs BENCH, Mar it,
Mr. Moons moved, as ass Amendment, that all The Arrourrest-Gestertat. moved for la salee to
the words in tha Resolution following the opinion t show cause why a criminal information should not
proactenced on the conduct of Lord Sidmouth: Should i issue against a Gentleman of the name of Gorham, an
be left out. officer in his Majesty's service, for a most violent
Mr. We've was against the Address, as he did not outrage on a Gentleman of the name of l3azett, a
wish that any thing like disrespect•should be shown Justice of Peace for the county of Devon. The tiff'.
to the Prince. He thought the words of. the Gen- davit of Mr. Bazett, on which the Attorney-General
tiemen opposite, end their actions, were at lariance, mewed, stated, that on the 28th of April last, when
They said that they meant no disrespect to the Prince, Mr. Bazett was going to the city of Exeter to attend
but they must have said the same thing if they had the Sessions, he was met by the .Defendant, who
meant it, for they could not expect that if they said, my name is Gorham, your's is BpzAt, and
should profess their object to be a disrespect to the immediately beat him most severely with a horsewhip,
Prince that the Court would agree with them. which he had borrowed for the express purpose.--
111 r. DIXON preferred the Amendment to the original On Mr. Bazett remonstrating, and asking what was
motion, as he•thought that the Court should confine his motive, he said, " I will," and continued to
.itself to the consideration of Lord Sidmouth's con- i beat Mr. Bazett in the most outrageous manner, so
duct. The conduct of his Lordship had not been so as to cut through his great cont. The affidavit then
unprecedented as Gentlemen supposed. (At Mr. stated', that the only offence that Mr. Baz.-tt had
Dixon's desire, the City Remembrancer read the Ml- ever given to Mr. Gorham, was, that in 1811 he had
mutes of a former occasion, when Mr. Secretary Ry- granted a warrant of commitment against him for not
der hesitated much at inserting an Address presented giving security to answer a charge made against him
to the King upon his throne, but at length agreed to by a surgeon of the name of Burgess, for assaulting
insert that Address, not as a matter of right or of him. •
precedent in ally future occasion). What, then, had Lord ELLENBOROUGH said, that the long time
Lord Sidmouth done to deserve the severity of lan- which had eloped since the supposed provocation,
gunge conveyed in the Resolution ? The Gentle. I made it appear probable that there was a Ihter pro-
men who supported this Address, declared that no, vocation; if that were the case, and that there was
disrespect was intended to the irince. Such, how, ! any concealment from the Court, Mr. Bazett ran
ever, was the frailty of human judgment, that he, for the risk of having his rule discharged,. with costs.
one, could not bring himself to believe that it was i The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, Mr. Bazett swore,
intended out of respect fur him. He could not help' that there was net any other provocation; but ho
observing, that those who did not go the whole way was aware, that he must take the rule subject to the
with the leaders on the other side, were supposed to risk:.—Rule nisi granted.
do nothing. No man could be more popular than ! • WOOD V. GROOM. •
the Lord Mayor was for a whole week, but when 1\ This was a motion for a rule to show cause why
he west to Kensington in the way Be thought best, w. there shooklnot be a new trial. The circumstances
violent vote of censure had been passed upon him.— I of the ease were as follow :—Wood, a•
This was an example of the lengla of time that po- pester, gave public notice that he would preach ata
pularity might be expected to last. He conceived certaitstime and place ;and of this a clergyman oldie
that if they chose to address the Prince Regent, it ! name of Rakeshaw gave information. to Sir it. Cor-
wouid be most improper to lug in the question of in- bett, who thereupon i•Auerl his warrant to' the De-
creasing the establishment of her Royal high- fendant and others, appointing them special con-
oevs. stables to disperse the conventicle, to. certify the
Mr7Detteroen spoke against the original motion,l names of the persons present, and if there should be
and Mr. IIUmsTKAG for it.. any disposition to riot, to arrest Wood and those.
Mr. Alderman HUNTER could not conceive that who might riot. The Defendant went to the meet-
Lord Sidmouth intended to throw anetbloquy on i ing, and when he came in, some person said, let us
the proceedings of the City ; his conduct had beets !, mob him • on which he immediately went to Wood,
called unprecedented, yet Ito one had been able to : without showing his warrant, who was kneeling at
prove, that Addresses to Princes and Princesses of i his prayers, seized him, and dragged him some paces
'Wales had been always published in the London Ga.i. en his knees, but being then alarmed he left him.—
sate. • • For this assault the action was brought. It was tried
Mr. Quist Could not concur in the panegyrics iat Chester, and the Chief Justice told the Jury, that
passed ors Lord Sidmouth he could see nothing in the questions for them to consider were, whether the
his conduct which maid him to their veneration ; Plaintiff knew that the Defendant was a special con-
and therefore thought that his conduct on the pre- stable, and if they found that he did not know it,
sent occasion ought to be looked into. lie would then they were to cousider wharshould be theamount
pot call the insertion in the Gazette a right; but of the damages. The Jury, -without the least heal-
whets .he saw the opinion expressed by the minute in itatims, found a verdict for the Plaintiff—damages WM
Councd,--'-when he saw an Address presented in ; It was contended,-that there should be a new trial,
unison with those opinions, was it not natural to ex- on the-ground that the damages wore• excessive,
pact that inch an Address would have been inserted that the Learned Judge htid.inis-dli4cted
in •' t public documents of tke kingdom ? Some it was not necessary that the Plaintilf should
wishelksto draw t 1 distinction between the that the Defendant was a special constable .
of Wiles, as she was, and tis she is ; as if rant, which he had from a Magistrate, Win .
now merely& private person, though on her.; plete justification, and under the,statute of 24
she .bad been a piddle character;. os Ciewi H. chapter 44. a copy .of the warrant
, he thought the Princess now possessed a i been demanded) in order, in .nsake .the
claim to public notice as being the consort of party.

pity

better .
membrancer ?
the Resolutioi

Princess,
subject of
nary, and some
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to concur in
cess : why, t

vation of her
denied the inl in- to
nocence had not been ascertained.. As to the right w attended, and It any , rioted,
of insertion in the Gmettei it was a long established fested a disposition to riot, to arrest Wood, and the
.usage which, in such a case, was a right.. It was persons° rioting, or nfanifesting a disposition to
the King's Gazelle, but paid out of the public mo- riot: his Lordship remarked, that it merely autho-
ney, and held for the use of the people. The ques- rised Defendant to regain Plaintiff to desist, which
tion of the Address haTnot been a private one : it bad not been (lobe, and that it did not- appear that
involved even the succession to the Crown : it der the Plaintiff was rioting.
manded.the interference of the City : and the ex- r it wait then contended, that as it . was an illegal
pression of their opinion ought. to hare-been record- assembly, all those of whom it had consisted having
ed in k public document whose high nature would been since convicted, every perion in it was answer-
have given it a security. The right, it seemed, had able for the acts of the rest.
been questioned before: there was the more Deus- I Lord ELLenaonouen.—God forbid that a man
sity, therefore, that it should now be asserted.— ; who p.rforms his devotion erroneously, whether in
What! were they to go up to the Regent's Ministers, i the ignorance of the law, or even with knowledge,
and ask as a favour, that the innocence of a person, should be liable to such severe penalties. It was the
whose disgrace would have affected the whole House duty of the Defendant to have notified his warrant
of Brunswick, might bt officially announced?— jto the Plaintiff, and to have required him to desist.
Was this a favour to be denied at the discretion or It was true that the damage., wore high, but he re-
the indiscretion of a Minister ? Ile insisted that an i collected'a case in which a person had recovered the
opportunity should be given to the Prince Regent to same amount, because Defendant had struck him a
repel the surmise which had arisen from the conduct blow on the head in a playhouse with a cane, think-
of Lord Sidmouth, whose proceeding had implied ing him to be a servant, and out of his place, and
that the Regent would be displeased at the declare- the Court refused a Rule Nisi to Mr. Justice Wil-
lion of his wife's innocence. As to an establishment II son, then at the Bar, for a new trial : that on the
for the Princess, he thought it was due to her cha._ whole, the damages were not so evidently too large
racter and conduct ; and hard as the public burthens as to induce the Court to exercise their discretion in
pressed upon the people, none, he was sure, would granting tt new trial; and there was nothing else to
refuse their pittance towards the increase of her induce the Court to grant the rule.—Rule refused.
splendour.
HABEAS CORPUS—INSANE PERSON.
Mr. JACKS said, there was no right to have the Mr. SARK renewed the application he had made
Addresses published in the London Gazelle. They yesterday, shaping it in the way pointed out by the
might contain improper, and even immodest expres- Court, namely, moving only fora rule to shew cause.
sions, . which it might be discreet to keep from the This he now did on a fresh affidavit by Mr. Waibur-
the public eye. One, in particular, had talked not ton, setting, that the person mentioned in the appli-
very Modestly of the suppression of conjugal rights. cation had been for several years under his care, and
If an address to the Regent was intended, notice had left him only on the 7th of April last. That he
was necessary. Ile should vote for the Amendment. had tut opportunity of seeing him shine' • but from
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Mr. MOORE was against the part of the Resole- the length of time he had been insane, and from the
tion which related to an Address, as no notice had nature of his lunacy, he did not think it at all prObable,
been given, no requisition made. I nor did he believe, that he could have recovered his
Mr. AVEN, on the ground that it was irregular to reason within the short period which had elapsed since
move such an address without longer notice, moved he last saw him.
an adjournment. The Rule to show cause was accordingly granted ;
The Court divided— the service of the Rule to be on Mr. Charles Barri-
For the Adjournment 501 Against it 5O son, Attorney, with whom the lunatic was now stated
Th.s Loan MAYOR, who gave his casting vote for to be.
the adjournment, said, he.should allow au early day
for reconsidering the question. * . .
The Court then adjourned.

PO LICE.

rILDH 4LL.—Yesterday the Lord Mayor being
obliged to attend a Court of Common Council, no
business was doge at the Mansion-house; in conse-
quence of which it was heard before the Sitting Al-
derman at Cnnibal!.
Patrick Innis, who stands charged on suspicion
with having uttered several forged bills, was again
put to the bar. It appeared one Bill was for 3721.
purporting to be drawn by Mr. Praed ; the other
was for 1.001. purportieg to he drawn by Messrs.
Seholey and Co. Thames-street (the present Lord
Mayor). The Prisoner, from a pretended recom-
mendation, had got both Bills cashed, through Gill
and Thomas, Bill Brokers, before they discovered
the forgery, upon which they stopped the Notes
given for the Bills at the Bank, and by which the
Prisoner was discovered in offering a 401. Note to !
pay for a hat he purchased in the city: He and his !
wife declining to give any proper address to their •
lodgings, led to suspicion, and their apartments be-
ing
traced, in them were fourd thirty 101. and ten
11. Notes, with another Bill for 3001. which had not I
been cashed. The Notes found were proved to be
those given for the forged Bill for7`?l.
The Prisoner, on his former examination, solicited
time, that be might have his legal advisers to consult, •
not denying the knowledge of the forgeries.
Yesterday a Solicitor attended for hiM, and begged
the Magistrate would order part of the property to
be restored to him, by which he might be enabled to
employ Counsel. He was told the Notes were the I
produce of the forged Bills, and could not be re-
stored. Ile solicited farther indulgence, expecting
his friends to come forward, which the _Alderman
complied with, and the Prisoner was remanded for
further examination.
SHOCKING DEPRAVITY.
QuEENSQUARE.—Jumes Henry Payne, between
50 and GO years old, was brought to this Office, ,
from St, Martin's watch-house, .under a charge of
an assault committed . Wednesday-wight,.
James's Park, on a boy 15 years of age. It ap.
peered that the boy, who is of respectable appear-
ance, had been attacked very repeatedly, in a man-
ner too disgusting to name, and had been advised, if
ever he was again accosted in the like manner, to ,
give some distant compliance, in order to prepare
.legal authority to apprehend the offender. The tes-
timony of the bay was as follows :—lfewas walking
along Piccadilly, near the Albany, on Wednesday
night, and was accosted by the Prisoner, who wish-
ed him to accompany him to St. James's-square, down
Church-passage; in going thither, the boy told Mtn
he was upon an errand, whiCh requirA his speedy
return ; but that he would make an excuse to his
employers, and meet him in the Park in an hour.—
Under 'this impressive asseveration the culprit ap-
peared perfectly satisfied, and the boy quickly re-
paired to give information of the circumstance, when
he was accompanied by two young men to the place
-appointed in the Park, whore the Prisoner was in
waiting to receive Film. His dreadful propensity
was soon apparent, and they gave him id custody to
I the patrole. The evidence twine clearly
made oat

. they
of food,
to place themselves on the step of the door, which
immediately fleW open. They were reinande for
Thursday next.

consequence of a quantity
of paperiwing misssea from the premises of Messrs.
Blanchard and Co.'s Printinpotlice, No. 14, City
road, near Finsbury.-square, suspicion fell on two
of the pressmen, who worked in the office, *lnn
Mr. Blanchard, accompanied by Bishop, ono of the .
ollicers belonging to Worship-street Office, took
two pressmen into custody ; and on Bishop, the Offi-
cer; searching their apartments, he found near 400
quires of paper, of different sorts, and a. great
quantity of new types for printing. The paper and
types being positively sworn to, the Prisoners were
committed for trial at the next Sessions.
thrrox-ttat.L.—James Phillips %es charged with
breaking into the house of 'Mr. Parr, a baker, lit
-Lemobetb-walk, on Saturday night or early on Sun-
day morning. It appeared that Mr: Parr, on going
to bed on Saturday night, made all his door; and
windows secure, but about three o'clock on Sunday
morning, he was alarmed by the watchman, and on
coming down found one of the shop shutters cut and
, removed, and the sash forced up. On enquiry be
I found that a Gentleman named Lafuilade, who lives
in Vauxhall-walk, as he was passing by just before,
perceived a man with his body half in and half out
of Mr. Parr's shop window ; he called to him, when
he drew himself out and run away. Mr. Lafuilade
rtiosoihtiesra,sswis!tia,,nwcea,s atihale
theypurs udeidd hnioinlt ocas isight t hoef wt
ha?sPh
man, till they took him into custody, and conveyed
him to the watch-house.

Holmes, the Constable, on searching him, found
a gimblet and a centre bit in his pocket, which ex-
actly fitted the cut in Mr. Parr's shutter; and on
examining the adjoining house. next morning, he dis-
covered that an attempt had been made to cut through
the shutter of a house two doors from .Mr. Parr's.—
The Prisoner was fully committed..

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Resolution respecting
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persons seemed had taken plan.; -hitt it was material- to consider haring entered an uninhabited house, on the Is';, of
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s : why, then; was she to Moor under the pri- Lordship • wishing the warrant to be read, and It sp.. and stealing therefrom two stoves, three mahogany'
ion of her dignity and splendour, and still to be . peering that it•only authorised Defendant to require ' window blinds, and various other articles.
tied the intercourse of her daughter, as if her in. ! the Plaintiff to desilt, and notify the navies of those i • The Prisoners stated iu their defence, that they
...,ep had not been ascertained"? As to the right who attended, and if nay person rioted, or maul. -, were necessitated, from fatigue and, want of food,