The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-11-22 00:00:00

CALIPON To MUMMA&

her Wednesday last 31r. Kennett, printer, of this
ity, eras summoned before the Mayor, for having
rated a placard announcing the expectation of •
eneral Illninination for that ereninu-
Mr. Bennett, upon appearing before his Worship,
,itstantly gave up the Author's name and the nrsnn-
wrip►. The Author was sent for, and he as readily
actn.itted the fact of having employed 3lr. Bennett to
stint the placard in question.
Mr. Bennet was then interrogated as to his having
0.7t1 a copy of such placard, trith the mmthor's setae
at, atem tr priatedwixm it. Ile stated that be had nut
written the name. bat that he had filed an office copy.
Ile was thin directed to fetch the tiled copy, and Mr.
':r•nry bay, one of the clerk's of the Council-house,
t!etitee:•ed to accompany him. Mr. Bennett, after
Acing the paper off the tile, was about to write the
ho!hor's name npun it, suspecting, front the questions
which had been put to him, that it might be necessary ;
when Mr. Hay ',retreat( d him from so by for-
t•ibly forestial; it oat ty.hiar pots, mxio.i.
pon returning to the Council-lonise, his Worship
via• pleased to fine Mr. Bennett in the

imittiog. to print the name of hi-. employer upon the
raid placard, and to tell him that if the penalty were
not paid by elet en o'clock the next rimming., a warrant

I execution would be levied upon Isis effects for its
recovery.

The Art upon which this conviction took place is
the i9th lieu. II I. r. 79, s. 29, which ennets

1 hat every person who, from ant after the evhilsi-
Jinn of forty days after the passing of this Art, shall
print any paper for Lire, reward, gain, or profit, shall
arefuly pre. P nol keep one copy (at least) of even*
raper printed by him or her, on which he or she shall
i rite, or cause to be written or printed in fair and legible
haracters, the name and place of alma.. of the person
or pero,ons by iihom he or she shall he employed to
print the seine; and every person printing any paper
tar hire, reward, gain, or profit, who shall °mot or ne-
glect to write, or cause to be written or printed a; afore-
said. the name and place of his or her employer on nine
of such printed papers, or to keep or preserve the saint
fur sir calendar months next after the printing thereof,
or to produce and show the same to any Jnstice of the
Peace who, within the said space of six calendar months,
'hall require to see the same, shall, for every such orris-
'ion, neglect, or refusal, forfeit and lose the sum of
'woolly pounds."
After this conviction, it seems Mr. Bennet was ad-
lsril by his friends to consult a respectalole Solicitor
you his case. lie did so ; that geutleman forthwith
mended the Mayor, and tendered to him a copy of,
foe offensive publication, with the author's name ial
lured upon it, and evidence that it had been removed;

iron' the defendant's file ; urging that the law knew
no fractions of a Jay, and therefure as the ilacard was
pc!,lisbed oil that day (the rerN th,p on %illicit lito
conviction took place) Bennet had incurtrril no pe-
laity, having indorsed the name within four hours:

that if any party had offended the laws, he considered
Mr. Day, the Council-House Attorney, to be the of-
Alder; as lie had for reasons best known to himself.
pre"eord Mr. Bennett from complying with the Act
•,f Parliament, by forcibly taking the paper from him
the moment be was about to (!o so. The Mayor re-
'nested the case to stand over till the next day, in or-
ler that he might consult his legal adviser, when lie
was pleased to say that the proceedings against Mr.
Bennett were quashed, and of course no further steps
artoild be taken against him.
A complaint was then preferred against Mr. Day,
,r an assault upon Mr. Bennett, in forcibly taking
placard f his person, with the slew of binding
int over to answer to an indictment to be preferred

fainst hint for that offence, at the next lieneral
iwirter Sessions ; but his %Vorship, NIO der the opitiium
M.. Brier, i.e the gist nrc of tie,• T,le,e•Citrk, did
rot think the case sufficiently strong to order Mr.
11,,ti• to find bail for his personal appearance ; though
we understand the prosecution will still be proceed-

line-half of the fine, hail it been levied, womb' have
gone to the informer, and the other half to the feeds
e Coe poration.—( Beis'ut .11, re, r. 9.)

THE CH.IIWE OF HIGH TRE.ICO.Y.
--a--

It was expected that Prlin, the man charged
Iming concerned in the l'atmstrect Conspiracy,
ould have tinder:rime an examination on Monday
tfore the Cabinet Council, and the lltleerx trim ap-

•',e'!ded him were in scritiwA• the whole of that day
~tr directions to convey him to the Secertary of State's
Office, but it teat at length ordered that he should re-
lair in the House of Correction until Saturday next,
•I.pr he will certainly be examined.
On the arrival of this wretched man at the Ilona
Correction on Friday night, he became dreadfully
gi'a'rd, and trembled so touch as to be scarcely able
s'and. He was placed in one of the State apart-
,en's.” and provided with eve►y arcomodation that
le nature of his situation would admit. lie was
;ripped and his clothes minutely searched, bet ow
rapt', or document of any consetiaenre srr
Island. lie is not watched constantly, as his supposed
solL•atues 'rhisttesrood and others were, but is visited
at irterrals. lie appeared in a very wretched state of
mind.

His mother, an agerifr distressed woman, was in
wai!irg on Monday. in the hope of seeing her ion.
vs.! si.e applied to tee Magistrate at Dow. street for
ar. urder Li visit him in prison. Inv we are nut ac-
spairted with the result of her application.
J'alin was formerly a man of very in4ustriotts habit%
ard at one time supported his ',wilier and a family
ertirei by his bwn labour. He is !..v trade a chair-
k, ,e.