The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-02-17 00:00:00

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forcibly street the peblic attention, certainly' e. LAWILEXCZ V. Mit
trite ••
'this *as in Mum brooght.bt i persbri who peat-
most prominent eel important is— whether a *ace flees under a contreyantetetteertificate as a Member
abould- be made with BONAPARTE, or not? 'Who- of Gray's Inn, in the counties of Cambridge and
Otte Wont* would .be more happy under the Go. Norfolk, Otis brotherdn4law, an attorney at,
"mutat of a SoußsoN or a BoNApAnit, seems' Upwell, for a libel inserted by the Defendant in the
sot to be a consideration for us ;—but a qua. I Cambridge Journal, in the form of an advertisementf
IV ing notice to the paint-, that whereas ' the
eirin!let us should be—whether peace should be
-clients
had
ftlemanded of his (the Defeadatit's)
feerced to arty undetermined period, because the under pretence of his authe,l
Beemitoss should not be reinstated i That the' rity, bysutmhes of money,
which either they or the Deal
whole political frame of Europe is likely to undfendant would be defrauded, and hod, under 6110
*Tie a change of very serious importance, no i pretences, called on his clients, awl took their in.,
i,structions for husiness„ be thought it his duty to say
mend mind denies ; - and that a serpent vi-
rthat the Plaintiff had left the service of the Defend.,
Ores *mild be exerted' by our Rulers, seems: ant more than 12 months; and as it was not gene- ,
orally undeniable. Without hesitation, then, we rally known, the Di.fendant, cautioned the publiei
pr., peace should, not be delayed because the Botrn- r that the Plaintiff had been twice a bankrupt, and.
Rolls may not be re-instated, and the reason, that , had not obtained hit certificate. This last allegation.,
was the only one which the Defendant did not in his,
vrt cannot, even we, cannot mach longer continue to ;
pleas justify; and it appeared that although thd
support that load of taxation, the continuance of i Plaintifftim in the
twice a bankrupt as a tanner, the
the war must necessarily indict • upon us. For last
is
a moment fit as reflect,—and we must see the ' obtainede certificate in 18131• just before the pub-
irepolley, if net impdssihility, of protracting the pre- ; tication of the libel.
-seta 'contest:What, even now, in the hour of unequal- Lord ELLEMBOROUGN held these latter words ac-
tionable; i
lekunesilecteti succem, reconciles lb the war the po-
, sentatio,s was intended as to thisthet, theluiry'Would
pgatiun of these kingdoms i Nothing under Heaven not give very large dal on that score: ~ The
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bbt* the prospect, the near approaching prospect of a •
pelted, tiot that I would say, because of the vital
necessity of peace, that, therefore, we any terms
itehontd be purchased. No; certainly not. We l
-can • all remember' the hbllaw truce of Amiens, I
this should prevent any rashness, and win it ever I
to • the continuance of the Ayer; but then we
should be particularly cautious, that the danger—
the presumed danger of sliding into an hollow
peace,. not . be made the dangerous pre.
tence of submitting still to war. The English
public should insist upon their Rulers making every
effort to relieve them from the burdens ever spring-
ing out of war, espechlly ds the mercantile interest
of this country sip willing to encourage its coati-
. nuance for purposes that may be individually bene-
Oial—lint. certainly that would' be inevitable ruin to
the . nation
• . •
When ittemmieda.portion of the people seem to
insist open the prolongation of a precarious contest
..Mn* wi n a Gorteravretietbf ho' superior eminence

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question for their consideration would be, how nearly
the pleas in justification were made good; and
whether, from the etiitaney share dtd bet appear
circumstances of malice, which would warrant them
in treating this as the subject of legal damages. It
appeared, that the Defendant had sent the libel to the
Editor of the Cambridge Journal, accompanied by a
letter ; and that when he received the Newspaper,
which contained it, he read it to seven or eight peo-
ple, who were assembled in the market-room at Up.
well, and said it was all true. It also appeared, that
I he was so anxious to get rid of the Plaintiff, who
had set himself up as his rival in business, that be
offered to forgive him a debt of 2001., provided he
would quit the neighbourhood. The Plaintiff had
been four years in the Defeudant's office, acid the
I Defendant had trusted him with thousands. In his
justification of this libel, the Defendant pleaded that
the Plaintiff had, in several instances, demanded of
and had I±:::_ct paid by his clients several sums of mo-
t ney, which were specified ; but the evidence did not
I make good .this justification, it appearing that the
Plaintiff had made such demands in no instance, but
that, on the contrary, the demands being madeupon
him by the Defendant's clients, he set up counter.

h at the blitird of trirteitiq thCuation's
OM* by', demands against them by way of set off; in one in-
. qt! * mow mode o; ing practicau.._ _i literal and the jiguratire applieatie.. __
reason cif the .wage of *Weal IP . the Vatt#ledge:tal,j stance, claiming for business done as an auctioneer, whet-Sras now in 1785 the result? Why, of four is obvious that the epithets I.' temperate" and " moa•
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legislation— is it animperative duty upon the people 1 which the Plaintiff was, and the Defendant was not I hundred and twenty-two Members present, the mea- derate " wheri intended to cheracterSe a plats of Rea
(and it appfared in the books between the parties sure was opposed by Imo hundred and forty.eight ; ate,
fl
leek carefully around them and scrutinize,l
themselves, that the formor had charged the latter ithe majority alpinist even this halt'. measure Reform fortri;Us a ppliedfir,virativEly,'sinCe in truth end cemet
with assiduity, every measure connected withmoo Sense these epithets; isitlinly applicable, ittel
for business done by him in that capacity); and in i being es much greater than the majority of 1782, as i literal sense, to a refefttidet4 Icinguage, pery
the administration of their affairs. That however .
i another instance, claiming for attendances in the woody-four exceeds twenty. 1
the interest of the great body of the people tentres carriage; or conduct. lie Mightetten propon a °Ot
icounty Courts, the charges for which, it also ap- -As such ever has been, and by a law of nature ; utterrly itepracticablel from being visionary In an ox'
~ Min a tatting hate es indisputable as that the sun ! peered, the Defendant allowed the Plaintiff himself ever must be, the fate of Parliamentary Retinae from
,
and yers ' if this were done with modesty as
is the sodrileof the light. But that a variance does :to retain. With respect to another instance, ruder whilecontemplated asa met eartiumentary aseasairee!
•calm reasoning,' it -cannot be denied that he wool it.
exist between their Interests in the present ominous fenfl7nt had •ustified viz. that, ato begained by shallow lausibilities where net even •cc
which the De - j. , . .
the Plaintiff with having, whilst. he lived tat deatonetration can work an effect; instead of being
and uestitled state of things, and that of the mar- . `charging • n wk. , .propositiens were strictly aceadiecto-the•Ctinstitoi
, his service, teceived from one Robert . at in htwhichwholly d
'oleo/tiered as a nottosel rfg ort e-
tautite -par, of the community, Seems palpable tion, and nothing beyond what were absolutely earl
I another of, his clients, the sum of 151. which he ha , ;sends liberty and properly, and which right can only cessary topublic liberty, his od•
iikst
nt er must be
enotigh to every man, whose contempt for the be- !not paid over to the Defendant; it appeared that be recovered by a firm and persevering declaration as Conspicuous, as his good senseand " ojustice•
Time/and Courier, will.. that sum was not paid to the Plaintiff by. Robert. of rustic °mach ; marvellous indeed it is, that whereas, he who attempts to support a • rit4
Irayers of thepublic good, the
yet permit him to peruse their pages. But this 1 Watkinson in the character of a client of the De- you have now determined to revive, and to
"abide" deviation from the Constitution, Which fa l' rt Of
should be4he sign of alarm to the people, that their : fendant,' nor for law-business, but for tithe and laa• Ify,•yeer pony infantile e,ff,ort
_of 1780, a a great • public right, by angry insinuations against the other
terest ; and it was quite uncertain whether. that. might " practfccif improvement ,
Cabinet,wheress, whether
p .we 4
and theta mo 1 lof
interests ere threatened, trope/ their ,reformists, for no otter cause than their strict" adhe.
not have been accounted for, although it did not ap- look to the Court, to the to the arlia-
fights will atone satisfy those others of their fellow- peer in the account-book between the parties; fur the mint, or to the People, impracticability is stamped nonce to constitutional justice, is evidently intempe.
rate. And his attempting too little to do any good
citizens Who fatten upon the blood of Europe, and ;witness who proved the fact, lived seven miles from. on its every feature ; nor could it be proposed with- : will by *MS means' establish a claim to moderation;
live by the general wreck of the calamities of man. : the Defendant's office, and said that the Plaintiff had out becoming an object of supreme derision, ! for a man is not " moderate," who is either orbit,-
been in the habit of paying over to the Defendant By turning to page 414 of your own second To-
trary or unjust. ~
kind. There an considerations arising out of these.
without their appearing in any book. lumeyou will see how lightly you yourself, in tbel It
questions at the commencement of this Letter, to , sums of money
' iAs to the justification of the charge in the libel, debar* on Mr. I err 'Plan of 1785, were ls
'Which I will hog leave to invite the public attention, . which accused the Plaintiff of undermining the De- Urn! 'NORTH ; and with what ineffable contempt and : derere,”
y ,those who apply to themselves the epithet of " nso-
and who are for working their way " pro.
and shall na further intrude upon your leisure than fentlant in his profession, it did appear, 'that the ineolent ridicule he spoke of Parliamentary Reform, as ' gresiirely," ores they sometimes phrase it, "step-by-
vibße I subscribe myself, Yours, ! Plaintiff had applied to a witness, saying, that he " the mere vapour of a dream, the shadow of a shade,
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step " to mistake the political and moral operation
Feb. 1, 1814. - . SIDNEY. ! came by the desire of the Defendant for the witness's an empty whim, a fancifel no hi
t--"g ;"—and wily of a Reform for bringing back Representation and
.........s.....—.—...saay—a authority to him (the Plaintiff), to let certain chit- spoke he thus ?—Because he saw on the table " no Parliamentary duration to the standard of the Con.
OLU HAILE'', FED. 16. i ritplands by auction; and that, under this •repre- more than eight Petitions M all" (411). Is not stitution, for a physical and mechanical operation:
old • gentations
. Vesientsv **owe Session.; niatiaeueeci at the awake a . the witness, after nnotber trustee had . this, then, the lessen we are here ~ .
taught —that Pa• • •
, Hence, in arguing on a Reform of the House of
gine...heroic the Limo MAYaa. Boron soot, Nlr. Justice signed the authority, did the same. ; titions must be the ground-work of pradicabiltty,-* i Commons, misled by the radical error In all their
MATH, Mr. Justice DAMPIER, 1:1C REcottor R. AC. tte. j Lord ELLENBOactOttu imputed great negligence tot Petitions which, hy truth and simplicity, will call forth
• t*lrphea Corras stood Indicted for wilfully and !militia/tap . the reasoning, they here take the word House in a lite.
retsiag ataFttsa isnot thr person ut Jahn l'-auyeti, u ith attest PI i elf in net
to ! a n tdemurring to those pleas ; end I a public voice that cannot be vesisted ?We shall then
red; instead of its obviously figuriffive eels
sense,
du him sow Weida, harm. adopted many of the replies of the Attorney-Gene- i hear no more of this profligate ridicule of a nation's argue the case as if it were a physical or mechanical
nramatooti., the keeper of Shodwell Policeiofarsti. believed ral (for the • Plaintiff), to the observations of Mr. rights, for perpetuating the corruptions by which it case that is, a case of repairing an actual dwelling.
blin tuat'elot br
li.al; ilk: eiNtintitseel:(te 3Lutesyla a jet oV:11 I::emi:linubt Palk (for the Defendant), who censured the Plaintiff is plundered; no, not even from the flippant tongue cc he
'use" which had gone to decoy ; and in this ere
bpi; jthe M.; uat is a t•tate ni inatteitip rho he Corustitird for not bringing this action in the county where the .of an unprincipled orator, wile, intrenched behind '
roneous view of the subject, they will talk away
45* an' lie nas4eenelsln°4arlinilleti. u, rparties resided, saying, that there might be found.; rotten-borough ramparts op to the teeth, once called most fluently ; than Which nothing can be more easy.
S''"'" F"lee and Henry !la' °all - '''' " age,
weretkel . reasons for preferring the impartial tribunal of a Jiuy . the Reformists a contemptible crew, and whose I ueriele to the purpose.
(Mod polity of ft twee ary is the atellitiiso.he of
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Nanny. of the Court of King's Beach, at Westutinsno is frothy sophistry wes lately employed to
nationalundervalue .
;• Tint this error is. extremely common we cannot
Jmues loarans was capitally indicted fuelmryltriotwiy col. err . the►
repot
iderating influence or authority of esotn• Reform, and even freedom, as a cause of
mg antaisaia of hme Sitio, and stealing ate rem ro taus at. • P , .. . , , .
,but know. It was the error, as I well remember,
tides of 'Nearing rat, her property.. . . '
_. I try Attorney over his neignspournoca. . 1,
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iarms of despotism had been . .
a • " '_...1 I
strength, because the . Sir Gamine aavitz ; • and ha have shown in the
'
A How-etrort Ktrole Mapped the Prts-soct with the 'noodle 1
The Jury, after retiring for a short tinie...fseed , inanely crowned with success. "Comparison," it was into lithe error of Earl Gael";
*ben lie *sele"milifill tillltSlY relrell".69111" efetealing to
the their verdict for the Plaintiff—Damages, 31011.; .-:j r, Ballet ns return to your mode of argumentation. 1.
isa ouzel ctn.. . , and even of that acute reatoner, Mr. Fozeo. .Precisela
unleash, sealing four silver,
thinly, Smith was conticted of fel ...
w'itebe's "ine "4. "fib' "Aline"' "T Robert Winter. and it ei. t idyl we now come to enquire why a real and sepal
Henry Yreneh was capitally indicted for klunioably, arid I Mr. KEAN, the new actor, we is of the English Constitution, drawn b tiaelitletay
the representation in annual Parliaments,—a Reform,
..Aith"llikiti__ful "we' being a"neee "Inn 11111 "bWietybefosiee ! Ictly five feet five inches in height, which _ ,es , . 'hand of PAW, J.+ When we speik- 4.tilifteliitiga
'vbe es-minim, of the term for which he was !ra"net---"—der h•ht f GAltiticK and if he reaches his 'Milani, the 1 t tof all orders
embracing n eres s in the State * -
. ,s house, we speak literally ; when of inn of Cum'
Wail foetid Gotilty, bate eroommeotien to mercy in conNequeaea tag o . . and of all persons, those alone excepted who print
Tam. moil& Officer Iwniing inentiaterl in the course of his esti- 9 • •t sufficient fob heir
public will dunk it qui e it ft moos, figuratively ; for we then main; not the
I I the '.• :by the public corruptions and abosesty-should by buildin bet those persons who assemble in it.
ff. .
*inflation, ta he ist
at _ _ AS wooltiog a. a chandler. amusement. (c
I you be mteemed -- UKATTAJNABLE." For the avow.
" Faecal° et esiguis gratiardoselforst.* ln repelling and altering a 'man's own privet*.
MlLilitlit 1111100 AM in
A youth, named JAMES , a . al of such an oplaien, very powerful masons ought darellitsg.hease, he may justly indulge his own fancy, :
' . to be given . bat you offer none; and merelys con-
the last Whitehaveu paper, that is has discoveredit
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remeltwhims or caprice, without regard to the ortg. hal •
by adding, " as we judge, by any .
—what has puzzled the wisest 'philosophers a tent Ithtb of design of the tilabuilder, or the altemtioni:
peaceful means." Why in G ' WO ibis epithet •
, Goa 's II 11
/ made by any of his tie.W.c. assocs. out it is not SS
ages— •
the Perpetual Motion ! tied, hatends shortly Pe
-4' peaceful?" ••• .efe'-
to submit his machine to the ieepection of the , la reforming a legislatlite that has fallen into decay
. 1 Is there any thing lens " peaceful" ki petition 4
curious. • , .
s• -
of 12' ing for a complete care of a diseasel than for a mere or cotleption. titers all is politteal ; and, more:
THE TEMIPERATUIE OF THE HtfMAN wAA . over, all is moral els°. A loa4lature it to be rep
re the difference of treatment, affording in fact no;relief,
a well authenticated fact, finalise temperate formed according to the principles of the Constitute
donly tending Mader it • abaci tot • curable ?
ler& an
human body is the same in all area—irregution, and according to those principles only. If to
' I-there thing lose gayserrogfol" in petitioning for subvert . Constitution
bane - a its fi
e.—; b any
ties being found to be its greatest. or to violate a free be the
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lions are regular, good health is its natural state.-- a full.restoration of the Constitution, than in pe- heinous of treefons shall we ' under pi,
dtioning for a mere scrap or fragment of it? Tholere ' . '
Nothing tends more to render them irregular thanreforming, connivent such crimes; comprom
any thing less " peaceful" in petitioning for quit their, , foolishly ,
sudden transitions from heat to cold ; yet Mir neces-
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if perpetrators--or, as as wan,
obtained, would diffuse around true
sary avocations--end even our It .
mnsements, as well woad,
t a liberty, universal content and joy; than in petition-' teeny proposer solidi, Anti endeavour to i
as removing from one climate to another—up ura y, .
m etc ti
for a former, ' A age for a present,
Cfor that which would 66 strengthen the oristo►
render us liable to this evil ; to counteract tMs (tiedunder any ilia of eh imagined expedienc
which appears to be done effectuawlly) Mr. MILLARD, eracYt " 'what" as you told Mr. PITT,' in 17839 -misled by ail false reasoning shoot replif
h Ch
66 are already too powerful in thiscountry* ;" to. old house 1 I allude to your propositir
the Proprietor of the Post India
.are letis ,to
reap-
gether
with
triennial
Parliaments,
the
first
ietroduce
side, has invented his Patent Tame G your perseVeting efforts, in favour of a
reports of 1:;; : tion of which was 66 a' deliberate stab to public . •
Tate the perspiration; and, frets the
t ft., liberty-hi" Nor ought it here to be omitted, that. a
first experiences It is found to answer the mos sa
Yorkshire Gentleman, " your irked Mr. BATLEY,
n • ea will, no doubt; proib Atoll;
guine expectatie i
beneficial to mankind in every part of theo6 1 • • 1
itlfyYlll•a Pal t. Asp. I
where it is introduced. . . i t Appeal to rte MON.

POLICE.
Hoir-sisgsT.—Wednesday Cornelius Callaghan *as brought
In the Office by Mr. Chambers, the High Constable foritheliol-.
bath Manion, charged before hlr. NAnts on suspicion of being
gourmet Is the murder of 'Edmund White, so Bainbridge'.
street, St. dikes.
It appeared that the Coroner's Jury found a verdict of wilful ,
Solder against the Prisoner, who vas then not in custody H—
. morning tee called upon` Mr. Chambers, the
Constable, and surrendered himself, stating that he had been
Viirensely unratiy ewer since he had read ithuself described in a
imaapalter, if/ore the 'Coroner's Jury $ as being concerned in
Ilmmunler, but the evidence must have been mistakes. as he
bad bees St: George's Hospital till the Tuesday fallowing.—
Ur. Nmses told ken that be must surrender himself to the Co-
If net.
Hstwerepeaassr..About half-pest four o'clock on Tues-
day eveniag, Read, jun. and Matthews observed three men
going up Holbon, driv in: a horse aad cart; the olicees kaosiiag
them to he resurrection men, stopped the cart. Rod ober a very i
bard contest, succeeded is securing the parties. Oa examining
the ant, they found it loaded with no less thee vevea de.td ha- I;
dies, some *packed up in baskets, and others is bag" They
broaght the Epee to the (Ace, and deposited dm bodies in the
Wong room It is supposed that the_y bare been stolen out of
anithlll-row burying-00110d. The Office was crowded on Wed-
*ma, y a:Malmseys who buried some oftbeir relatives last Soo-
' dtty,ia order to waif th 2 could resagolse any of tbetn. 00e We.
man was sire the body ber Istalutml wasone $ a mother wished
strata if ditstautios of her daughter were there: nothing was to
he beard but execration agate* the Prisoners, who were com-
stilted ti Ii tbls day $ their swats web Thos Pik Williams
A, egia, and Spelliagt

• Wywitr. P..lit. Pap. V. 7. • + Is. IV,
lb. 1.969. -
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