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obese trial they were Wl**lnd, wee teat away without desire to establish will;eipepiv:iiirsolidtotional ate'
being tried at all. He wield pat it to the house, Vitro- priniples, in which Heiman of good order am
reeding* like the present did not call for inquiry. ' ey. morality might be *imported In the lice of all opposi
nin't be dead to touch of humnity, and to all title. The write• stated that he was unequal to eons
sense of justice, who did not feel that there was no se- menu the undertaking upon his owitimeaes, and within'
curacy for any one if such persecutions as these could the certainty of support, and that If be could be sr,
be sanctioned under the forms of law by the Learned of the enenteence of the Officers of big Maj 's
Lord. He wished for inquiry that it might be known vernment in the 'sentry It would give sufficient Mieits
how Scotland was governed, anal for the sake of the to the paper to make it sueeessfel. His answer to the'
Leaned Lord himself, he wished it, whose character letter was, that however desirable each a poblieatisit.
would sever be wholly free from taint, without a fell might be, he knew that it went the practise of his ea-
sed fair inquiry. He then noticed the action brought jeety's Government to give their eopport to a paper by
by Mr. Gibson Neatest Mr. Cheap, a gentleman of the the Government advertisements solely on aeconnt of the
liar, who was said to he the real Editor of ',she Beacon, principles of it being In conformance with their own.—
aed that brought by Mr. Stevenson against Mr. Ninon*, This answer he sent on Nov. 5,1819, and from that time
who was a journeyman earning five-aseldwenty shillings he beard no more shoat that paper. He applied to
gm week, but who was bound to indemnify Stevenson other quarters and succeeded; bet he bad uniformly re-
hr damages given against the paper. On the very day fused to give any assistance to his. even by ordering
the latter action was brought, Nouse took his dew.- the paper. It was certainly true that is November, 1820,
'metros Seethed for Paris. He knew sot, however, that individual came to him with a paper. drawn up by
whether hi was still at Paris. bat this be knew that if the Hon. Member for Lanarkshire, and subscribed by a
the Leaned Lord thought the good opinion of his fel- great number of the inhabitants of that county. This
low-citizens of issportasee he would do well to bring paper stated that be lied actually been reined by his ex
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amp sod Ni... forward, for the people of Scotland effigies in the canoe of loyalty and good order, in his en-
would never be satisfied with respect to the part which the deavours to establish the paper he was concerned in, and
lemma Lord had aoted,rill those persons had bees exa- went on to a pledge of support. His impression woe
idled. Sons. time before the Hewes was established, a that he had not signed that paper; bet he was, willing
paper, called the Edinburg/6 Correspondent bad existed to admit, from the Hon. and "Learned Gentlemen:a asset-
lei sees time nadir the indorses of Government. But it Oath that it was so. He bad long been connected with
Timed that the Editor of this paper slid net carry his Lanarkshire, and was s freebelder Ni the wanly, sodas
virulent far Neagh for his trans;pa bet after the di. such he subscribed to the lades of support. •ft was to
etramiee of the Beacon then person returned to the be observed that the licentieseaeea of the press at that
Cerrespoadent. - In both of those peppers was observed time was venereal. sad bed emend six or anew trials
Oureame virulent libels against Mr. Stuart. After the in 1810 for blasphemy and nadirs, and was considered
neretiation for the undertaking with respect to the is the main-spring of all the insurrections about that
Beacon, discussions took place-as to the extent of abase time in the west of Scotland. Under these circumstances
to be blurted in the articles in it, and also as to the ap- he put it to the house. whether it was not natural to ac-
poistment of an Editor. The result of this part of the cede to the recommendation, brought to him from a re-
discussion that took place was • determination to have spectable quarter. and which was eel? intended to, ape.
as Editor not known in Edinburgh. and who should rate as an inducement to others to support the papee.l
mate to his other qualifications a dee mixture of the Bat it never could be construed into a pledge to support
belly and tile bravo and accordingly an Irish Student all the papers emanating from the same source. This
was provided.--{A laugh.) He *Louthd be able to con- paper, however, soon ceased to exist ; the types were
asst with all these transactions one or other of the sold to a person of the name of Alexander, who, in cow
Crewe Counsel as a principal actor and mover.—(Hear, junction with Borthwick, set up the Glasgow Seatistl.
Mar.) The first witnesses he would examine to this He asked if it was fair to make him answerable fur this
part of his ease were persons of the names of tVatson proceeding. which was set a going udder a diffuses*
aid Thiselion. Da had now stated this case to the name and place and after the lapse of a year? It weal
nese, in which he appealed to them as arbiters, it-cause be the last act of his life to do as had been attributed to
he weld make that appeal to no other quarter. He did him. and he declared he never bad the remotest
list ask the house to swot to the truth 'of his propnal- connexion, either by. purchasing, seeing, or pree
dem, bet he was meth mistaken if the horse di'l not moting in any way whatsoever, that paper.—(Hear.)--
think that he bad mode eat • prime /nit ease to justify He wished else to state, that the removal of the Sheriff
him is tallies for a fell, fair, and impartial inquiry:— Depute of Lanark. was in no way connected with this
He had second a systematic plan of libel, and the in- transaction. With respect to the other parts of the
tornados e possessed connected with these libels Ma- charges namely, any concern which be might have bad
etßad persons holding situations of authority in with another paper, it was certainly true that in the end
=try. spewing the effects of the evil example of of the year MO, a number of Gentlemen of high
the Lensed Lord. ' He *treated the house to recollect, respectability—and to say, that any of them could
that although ibis system appeared for the present pet be ender his influence—he was sure those who knew
to rest. it was ready to be reatwed. The death of Sir them would deem impossible—these Gentlemen informed
Alexander Boswell was sot the only lesson that they bins, that in consequence of the state of the press in
bed bees taught by it. Already the lanseated Mr. Scott Scotland, there being a great number of seditious ',eb-
bed fallen • vials' to Scotch libels, and the success of lications afloat, the had come to the resolution of es-
the libeller's pistol epos their first victim, seemed to tablishing a paper in order to meet and refute the pen*
km given fresh virile lo their proceeding". All that dons doctrines and principles which were thus spread
he asked of the house was, that he ahoald be permitted over the country. They came to him end said that 15000
to show his grounds for what be had stated—that be would be necessary to establish such a paper. and be
might be allowed to prove what be had advanced. If gave 1001. towards it. He did not stead there to deny I
they ware proved, they might to be redressed. If they any part of his conduct, sod be therefore admitted this
were sot proved, it would be to the honour of the Lord act. And for the purposes which be had stated hems.
Atineate.—(Hear. Lear!) He concluded by moving. prepared to say that it was an honest, fair, and legal
That a Committee be appointed to Winn isle the con- one. The piper called the Beacon was accordingly es-
dent *like Lord Advocate and the other Law Officers of tablisbed on the let of January 1821. From that period
tilieCrown is Scotland, with reason to the pablic press down to the June following, he was attending hie odfi-
of that country, and especially with regard to the pro- ciateloties in Parliament, and he paid se attendee to
oeselitre again* William fierthwiek. the paper, sad knew very little twhat it soot
• ffsbeeetiee -listing been seconded, and pet from the The non- and Lamed Goldoni's sad that it coy, el
Chair, libels r bat be had read Use of theta to the Muse. a
they were consequently not enabled to judge whether
The LORD ADVOCATE rose, bet from the low
contests were libellous or not. He was bound to ha
ton at Inn in *bids be spoke his first muteness were shewu to the boom that it did coma* libelloas matter,
inedible lb the gallery. We understood him to say, before be called upon them to come to a vote declaring
that he relied os the liberal *diatom* of the House, it to be so. One case only had been decided by the law,,
tater the difficulties of Isle'siteetke, in rising to enter and that bad wins on within the last few days, The ra
Spa the defame of his own character, which had been snit of that decision did not certainly go to bear oat the
weraimied before them, the Han, mid Learned Heti. Hon. and Learned Gentleman in his conclusions. The.
spina" were carried, it wash' be the appoint. case was one in which a Noble Lord opposite was a party,
meet of a Committee. for such purpose, would haply a sad the Jury had given him a verdict of one shilling
voteof ensure upon bim, aid thereby injure him in all damages.—(Hear, bear.)—lf the Noble Lord was satim
that was valuable to him to preserve untouched, viz. fled with this verdict, it was very strange that he had
his homer and character. He complained not so much laid his damages at 5000/.—(Hear.)—When he returned
of the manner and time that the Hoe. and Learned to Scotland in June. he received an iodisation from Mr.
Oeatlemaa had pat forward this motion, so mock as of Gibson that be intended to commence a pruned*.
his sat having gives him timely notice for preparation against him as proprietor of the Beacon. He then seat
fen such .a statement as be had made. He looked upon a copy of the bond to Mr. Gibson by Mr. J. Stewart, wbe
the maim ie the Order Book as touching only his was the agent employed in the affair. Soon after this
general endue as to the press, and did not anticipate the correspondence appeared to which the Hon. sad
such minute particulars being goes into as they had Learned Member alluded. The letter which gave dee
kind. When Mr. Whitbread brought a charge against to it, was a private and con4dendal one, and never is.
the last Lord Advocate he had the courtesy, before tended to be considered in any other light by the writer,
petting him on his trial, to fend* him with a coin- The words of the bond declared it to be expressly ono
pieta knowledge of all his accusatioos.aed thus enabled derstood that he should have no property in the *el
iii. to come fully prepared before the House. But he newspaper, and no responsibility for its contents. Ifs
bad heard theirs& of his charges that night, although never was, therefore, a proprietor, and bad so 111110
he might have broapiat forward a general motion on trout whatever over its management. The Hee. sad
the subject ten months ago. and had threatened to do Learned Gentleman bad said that in law be was a proprim
so. it was not till three days after the death of Sir tor. but that question was to be tried before the Courtof
Alexander Boswell, in whom he had lost a friend, and Scotland in about ten days, mad he would put it to dm
when the public feeling ran high that be had thought bones whether it could fairly anticipate or prejudice a
It time for such a modes. If lie thought as he stated quetiun which stood for the decides of a Court of
he did, it was his duty to bare taken measures not to He gave his 1001. for the reasons he had already stated,
allow him to disgrace the office which be held. For and when he saw the paper come oat be timed it a veer
the last eight days, the public press bad dose every doll and stupid document, and encleded that his mosey
Wag in its power to prejudice ibis question; and this, was gene and there was an end of it. But when he heard
tee, at a time when be defendant in an action for that the contents of the paper had given personal offence
damages to the amount of ten thoomind pouedaas a pros to individuals, he immediately withdrew hie security
pricier in one of the papers alluded to by the Hon. and upon the bond, and the other Gentlemen concerned did
Learned Gentleman.--(Hear.)—These were the peed- the same. Asa private individual, he apprehended that
Minify observations he bad to trouble the House with. nothin could be objected to the part he had taken in
With regard to the charges brought against him, that this affair; and it still remained to be sheers how his
home must be aware that be stood in a situation of citadel situation would be affected by it. If a private
dile-shy, inasmuch as he was connected with other in- libel appeared in the paper, by the law of Seotiand it
(Heide*, Mr. Hope, Mr. /O'Neal, and others. The could not be ed against by &criminal *forma-
boos, would be aware of the hardship of the case upon don ; the parties proceed by private action. There-
these individuals, be being called upon to make their fore be was sdll to learn how his official duties could
defence, baying no means of communication with them, have been compromised, even if he had supported the
sad not knowing of the charges stalest them till that paper, knowing It to be the channel of private libels.
die. The Hoo. and Learned Gentleman bad began by Libels upon the Crown were certainly sot very likely to
speaking of the nature of the powers belonging to the appear in •paper setting oat with the principles which
Laid Advocate. The chief power of that Officer was had induced Mm to give it his support; and he ahead
that of public prosecutes', and the diminution of prose- like to hear in what way it was possible that his coins&
cations 'hewed that it bad bees exercised honestly of Lion with it should interfere with the strict discharge of
late, and he was convinced, that the effect of the power his duty. When he entered into that connection, be
so exercised, was to bring fewer persons to trial. The saw before him the great number of prosecutions ion&
power had always been exercised with the greatest mo- tested for seditious crimes, and the many unhappy
derides. With reference to the matters immediately sons sentenced to death for engaging in rebellion, sad
teaching himself personally, is which the Honourable all this he considered to be the consequence of the Hew
aad Learned Gentlemen had dealt. it appeared that be doneness of the press in the western part of
otland.
"Urged him with a connexion wish three newspapers.— This was all that oeporred to his mind at theh time, add
One of these newspapers was entitled the Bdiabsirgk as won as he found the complaints made, withdrew
Correspondent ; and on that subject all be bad to say from it altogether. Thesewereall faets
htsimbeadasinttet
Was. that the statement be had made was entirely new and the other charges whichrelated to were,
to him; and although he had occasionally sees that bad dative. wholly urifoundembLouseNowfaas as well qualified
augury was
Piper in his hawse, he solemnly declared that be bad not therefore necessary, and the
hem connected with that paper.—(Hear, bear.)—He to corns
.to t_heesevotewaetreonacell
tuhpeuonhsesrveroanodnusetw,iasaiewvehrichit
wished to be understood as wishing for the appoinuneet could be. t These
isle he house as far the charges affected
Oa Committee, could it be done without implying cen- he ba
him iadiovid7aulls, t
ond be begged that the house would
sate upon him. Indeed, were it not for that, was . . with what followed
as species of inquiry be did not court.—(Hear.) The not eontoum his persona enamel
seat paper be was said to be connected with was the Sea- as to the Gentlemen
. boh bad beenb attacked
ht without the
nut He confessed he was surprised to bear his name means of. answerioghadt againstebeceassetheroohagjecuofa
chathermge.
is connection with that paper. He had sever read it, Two of his friends
which certainly gave hi. *outmost surprise. He bad
"wiMr_euit.Pl4—(rfrear.itheialir.)anyHaehereeeir' let or had aanyec;rile:sezMi°rgi. sever before heard that Gentle:leen who said a his De-
Borthwick in November, 1819, in which be stated his peeks were to be prevented from undertaking private

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eerep Tbrr had hewn till that the f 0.,„
Jones/ and the Sentinel were not the lame isaiterit.o-
the Right Hon. Gentletup 'had asked what evidence
there was of libela in these asperse Borthwick the
prie.or stated that it was libelless, which was the
of Sir A. Boswell's death by libels io the Glasgow
tine!. That lamentable event was surely proof
danger arising from the eadeavour of a Learned '
support such papers. These journals were systems%
ly conducted, and the Learned Lord contributed mi
weekly, for piloting and circulating thew libels.
tiot this furnish ground for enquiry whether the Lest rend
Lord had not as a public officer violated decorum '
good morals. The Lord Advocate gaited ell the -
offices of Scotlaid, and according to the statement
IN•ble Lard, he bad been the director et the
movements is that country. He was the public ,
tor of Scotland, and certainly bad neglected bs o
suffering a hatter? to play agaiaet private character.
was a case Parliament were bound to take op. Afte
Niels charging Mr. Stuart with cowardice tor nut
het Mr. Steveisson, a plea was put on the rerord,
proms acquainted with the law of b bad des'
that the charge was justified. Such a plea was r
grace to any Court. He thought the laws of Ii
were written on the hearts of Gentlemen, and he
expected to find they were in a corporation of it
Such a plea could only aggravate the offence,
cosh! arise from nothing but the furious seal wl
tingnisbed all the parties. He could not sap
the Lord Advocate would be boaourably acquitted
charge, or censured by the Committee ; bet inquiry
der all the circumstances of the charge, teel4
disposed with.
The Marquess of LONDONDERRY did not 11
revive the discussion. His argument would tura
what the hoop owed to its own character. It mir
asked why was this motion made at a period of t"
siott when it was impossible to eater upon I
The fact was, the Hon. Gentiennewhad not come
at the proper time, and his whole object must
fated. The Hoe. sad Learned Waders** had
that he did not want to condemn the lased Advocate,
to promote inquiry. It was no small punishment to t
au Individual under the examination of a Committee
that house, and more especially when the individual we
already before a tribunal of the country. After all, the
Lord Advocate was net implicated in the transaction
with respect to Mr. Boswell beyond suspicion.
sot suggested that the Lord Advocate ought
taken any legal steps in his official situation
these journals. There was no seditious libel, whih
the only one the Lord Advocate was legally capable
prosecuting. The law was open to iudividaals to o
redress, and there was no instance of the power o
Lord Advocate having been denied where it was ap
for. The Noble Marquess bad been told of libels ii
Beacon and Clydesdale Journal, but bed never see
alleged libels. He was, with respect to any know)
on that subject, a complete sheet of white paper.-
It was a little too much to ask the house to
the Loot Advocate, without haring seen one word _
libels. The Hos. Gentleman ought to have laid on the
table all the journals containing the calumny. He un-
derstood the Clydesdale, like the Morning Chronicle,
which the Hon. and Learned Member had often praised,.
was a paper of.fair character. What the character of
the Sentinel was be did not knows but it was too muck
to make the Lord Advocate responsible for what it con-
tained. The Beacon did not always bear the ebaracter
the lies. Member had given it. His Learned Friend
denied all calumny in those papers as far as lie could.
He was induced whoa the country was in a bad state in
teammate of the east of the Radical press, to sob-
seribe for a loyal paper, which was to oppose orpiment
to argument. ,lithe paper termed out bad, was the Lord
Adrecatit to he respotmlials? inquirywoald Power no
purpft* tut *low suspicion and calumny on the Lora
Advocate. The Noble Marquess bad no difficulty in de-
ciding with his Right Hon. Friend that the Lord Advo-
cate's sharacter stood without reproach.—(H-.r, hear.)
—lt would have bees more discreet if the Lord Advo-
cate had kept himself fret from the paper, but there was •
nothing which attached to his character.
Mr. LOCKHART was ready to acquit the Lord Ad-
vocate of any bad intention, but could not allow he was
free from the charge of indiscretion.
Mr. ABERCROMBY briefly replied. He said that
as to the time that would be occupied by the Commit.
tee, he was ready with his witnesses to proceed before
the Committee to-morrow.--I(Hear, hear.)—and in six
days the whole investigatio.. might be concluded. If
the House did not go into inquiry upon such a case as
this, it would not, in his opinion, do its duty.
The House then divided, when the numbers were—
For the motion, 95—Against it, 120—Majority against
the motion, 25.
The House went into a Committee on the Police Act,
when Mr. Secretary Paso proposed several Resolutions,
which were agreed to, and the Report ordered to be re-
ceived this day.
The other Orders of the Day were then dispm se I of,
and the House adjourned at two o'clock.

prectiee. Their salaries were miserable enatili,, owe-
ddering the importance of the duties they bad to pee.
.orla i UPPI when it was remembered that t was ewer
to have own of talent, and men who were rising
at the Her, it was utterly impossible that they should
IN debarred from private practice. It was said, then,
•liat these two Gentlemen had signed • paper in f
of a prisoner. Ilat the fart was they had only done their
luty to their clients as Barristers.—lfe did nut expect
from the notice, that these matters would have been
brought forward, and therefore lie bad no means of he
ing informed upon these charkes. But he knew Mr.
Hope to be a man of the highest honour and character,
and quite incapable of the contemptible motives with
which he bad been charged. This part of the question
ought, therefore, to be thrown entirely out of view in
the decision to which the house was about to come.—
The fase of Borthwick had been spoken of as if lie bad
beenthe author of all the acts of oppression complained
0( by him. But lie was quite sure that if Mr. Hope
mild he present, and the whole case seenthrough, every
nut of his condnct would be justified. He thought
theft had been committed, and a most atrocious theft,
by the person charged. He had obtained the papers by
force without a warrant, for it was no warrant until ex-
truded by a messenger.—(Hear.) If he was wrong in
his opinion, any hoe. and learned Gentleman opposite
might set him tight; but be asserted this to be the law.
The charge was that Itorthwick had broken open the
print* repository of his partner's papers, (even sup-
posing him to be such) with a felonious attempt. Mr.
Hope believed this charge to he true, and committed
hint accordingly. It was then said that lie was put in
Mike,, end eondecmd to •prison. He could have no
means of as wrtaining the troth of this from the name
of the notice which had preceded this motion. But he
wield venture to say, that no such order had ever been
gives by the Town Connell. The liberation of the
peplos in question, had taken place earlier than was ne-
mem by law, which proved that there was no unlust
detention experienced. The suit of Alexander being
the suit of a private party, the Lord Advocate could
not withhold his coacoterse. He should conclude the
observations with which he had to trouble the house,
by stating that no part of the Government had any con-
emotion with or knowledge of the part he took with re-
gard to the newspaper in question. If wrong had hoes
done if. belonged to Um alone, and it was most right
for the Commons of England to pronounce the sentence
which they always pronounced upon Injustice.' and
aitieb of coarse would be adequate to his removal from
Hie Ace be had the honour to bold. Should that be
the result of their decision, be should doubtless be suc-
ceeded by some one more able to perform its duties, but
by Done who would be more anxious than be bad always
been to exercise its powers with moderation and intim-
tiality.—(Hear, bear.)
The Hoe. and Learned Lord then retired from the
boss&

Mr. Secretary PEEL said, he could not suffer the
question to btu disposed of without troubling the House
with a very few observations. Upon the present occa-
sion the Hem. and Learned Gent. not with the intends.
of doing so is all probability, had appealed is some to
pies highly calculated to create an unjust and rase
projedice against hie Learned Friend. The Hoses
would permit bins to refer to the charges that bad bees
addeeml. in the order in which they ocesered is the
Hen. and Learned Gen.'s speech. The are was, that
of connection sad support glue to the Cerreepenient
and they bad his Learned Friend's deelaratios Open his
humor. that be bad 110 connection with that paper what-
ever. In the same manner was the chase as relating
to the Sentinel refuted. With regard to the It 00•1111011.
doge* of the ardeadak Journal, the fleet gnomish:sk-
i with Berthwi howedtesbwod
'ss sad proved *et Ise to
it to prteafterandhe, or a 'Weil y
emir •to the press. He next came to the
r. Aiken. as Under Sheriff. in which h s
lies/ was represented ea having used his in-
bum to pessure him that appointment, in consequence
Olds cowmen with the papers in question. The fact
was, that he (Mr. Peel), beteg the author of the measure
which emend **Tummy, suffered two months -to
elapse before be .rimiliusended any one to his Majesty
as a_propee penes twill it up. A Noble Friend of his,
the net Loyd of the Admiralty, being then about to go
into Seed*, he gave him the names, and requested
that he Wadi Impairs of the high law authorities there,
who was the fittest persons for the office. This was
as history of his appointment, and this was the answer
to *at part of the charge.-s-(Cheers.)—He then came to
the subject of the Beacon, and it was perfectly true that
his Learned Friend had entered into this sort of security
for its support. It was perfectly true that that paper
bad contained attacks upon private character; and he
did sot wish to be considered as standing there to
palliate or defied their attacks.—(Hear, _hear, bear.)—
The charge of the Hon. and Learned Member against
his Learned Friend was " that he bad lent his motley.
Sad the hideous of his office, to support private slaw
der and calumny." Now, he would meet this with a
complete denial.—(Cheering.)—The Right Hon. Sure-
tary thins read a document received by the Government
from the Earl of Glasgow, Lord Lieutenant of Renfrew-
shire, to show the state of the press in the west of Scot-
land, at the due preceding the establishment of The
Beacon. It described the organisation carried on
amongst the reformers, and their secret meetings to read
sedidou publications. It stated that every means were
taken in these works to destroy religion and to incul-
cate the worst principles in the minds Of youth. The
house must hear in mind, that it was under each cir-
cumstasces as these that the Lord Advocate had given
his support to • paper whose avowedobject was to oppose
the doctrines of sedition. Perliapshis Learned Friend was
only anxious to follow the recommendations an often laid
down on the other side of the house, to avoid strong
measures against these misled people, and to meet sr-
gamest hp argument, so as to convince them of their
urn.. lieppposing then he had wished to prepare an
antidote for the poison which was thu insidloally die-
tilled ; and supposieg the paper had contained no private
slander, would any man have said, that his conduct wen
each as to criminate him ?—(Hear.)--Was this the free
&sande, a which they sometimes heard so much ? It
was impossible to expect that he could be answerable
for every paragraph that appeared in the paper after ha
became security for iv; his intention was only to sup-
port it in maintaining constitutional doctrines and prin-
ciples. With regard to the treatment of Derthwick, be
did not see how that could come uader a motion upon
the conduct of the Lord Advocate and the Scotch press.
That was a matter for a separate and distinct motion ;
aid he implored the house, in justice to his Hon. Friend,
not to allow this to influence their judgment upon his
personal conduit.
Sir J. MACKINTOSH said the publication to which
the Lord Advocate had given his sanction had broken
in upon the happiness of individuals, drstroyiug their
peace and comforts, by barbarous levity, and producing
blood. Decorum bad often distinguished the proceed-
lags of men who conducted public affairs, but a system
of indecorum seemed to be reserved for the present an-
furthest* time*. The question was whether the Lord
Advocate of Scotland Lad encouraged that system a
long time is secrecy, without *envies the share he
bad in it?—whether there was sufficient (found for a
charge agaiast a Law Officer of the Crown in Scotland,
accused of promoting private slander is the most Is-
gitious manner. The paper defended. was devoted to
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