The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-04-01 00:00:00

THE SI ATESM AN. 'r

TRIALS .IT

FRIDAY, FITZ O'CLOCK.

This day, Waft Good Friday, the Judge, accomd
tvue,l by the Sherd, Mayor, and Corporation. ;vent'
,tae, preceded by the
.1..1 elin men, at ten o'clock,
j the High Church, where prayers were read, and an
other suitahleto the 01 casiun n as sung by the charity.
oitor. The above place of worship is a tine, noble
and must be viewed as a rich piece ut an.

intrfday. late in the afternoon, Mr. Osborne, a book-1
,•,f of Birmingham, was tried for the publication
libel, which appeared in the 1`2112 number cf.
entitled, " The Black Book ; or, Corruption
..essked.-
gut:tattle appeared on the part of the Crown, and
that the &runt:int was answerable for the
...stigmas contained iu this work, uhich was a most
!.,foons and blasphemous libel on the Church Cate-
e,ists, Liturgy, and the Judges, Clergy, Mouse of
Lori... it:. Ste. •
lir. Ihtxst 4N, in a me,' eloquent speech, urged, that
tk! drhedant, in his character of publisher, ought nut
i. be called upon to answer fur the sentiments avowed
!,c the antlior of this work, and that he merely seW the
oar: in question in the ordinary routine of business.
'flo Learned ak DG E, however, in his address to the

.itry. said it was necessary they should keep from their
airs all the sophistry used upon this case respecting
:Lemgemeuts made use of, as to the publishing ul the,
lbei only. Who was to find out the author ? It was!
rowed. the publisher had a knowledge of the con-
tests; and although the press was open, and very pro-
poly, fur the comments upon all public occurrences, yet
there must be on end of every institution in the Ling-
oal, if such libels, which attacked every order of things
r. the State, were suffered to pass unnoticed. It %%AS
:or the Jury to determine, who would, no doubt, decide,
impartially upon the merits of the case, and return such
verdict as Clic ends of public justice might he an-
•aersJ. In reply to a part of the libel, which asserted
that the Church of England was y sediment of corrup-

tun a:441 the swims of oppression, the Learned Judge,
tr.th taac► pathos, obsessed, it was one of those noble,
sextunents of rktne and excellence, which had stood
to test of three hundred years : and the members of
slitilestitti!iou trete entitled to the respect and vene-
tian( the country. •

'he Jury consulted about two minutes, and returned
arida of Willy.
.ttiwelre o'clock this morning, won after the Judge
lit ate church, he entered the Court, when numerous
primers sere arraiguetl. The dock, which is nut very
=ail, was filial itith persons wholly connected stith

rosin of forded notes in the county of IVarwick. The
:”.Ixe very binuanely interimesval, and pointed out to se-
veral of the prisoners the danger of their situations, some
of whom, in rossequence, pleaded which subjects
them to the minor cheer, Of 14 years transportat;on.

illgrO"Ntittnt, I**o;jr4 Plos• oL t.
Guilty," of who" 'erred Here icemen.
SPVIIIER C. stestoxiss.
The rat of Spurrier against Edmonds less note
trued open, for a libel against the former gentleman,
rho is an attorney at Eirtniuglent, rising ont of Chris-
esu's ease against &elm, k, at the last Assizes, imputing
*roper tuotires, as an attorney, to Mr. Spurrier.
Vt. Enionds, yesterday, begged for delay for a day
et sus as his solicitor, Mr. Pearson, was engaged at
York. this was agreed to. Mr. PAlmondr again spli-
nted 4 another day, as he expected his attorney to
arrive every hour.
aff. CLARItt and Mr. Sergeant VAUGHAN, as Counsel
for Mr. Spurrier, said they could not consent to any
farther delay, u the defendant had put it off at the last
Assizes.

The JeDGE saki he had no discretion.
Mr. jEmomou.—" Mc Lord, I du nut feel competent,
king without my papers and documents, to defend my-

The knie, in answer, sail, if his objection was
against the attiking of the Jury, his objection could
sot be admitted. Some of the Jury had been in attensl-
akee for tbe last two days, one of when) he knew was
from York

Eumonos.-.--1t is not, my Lord ; I request, then,
•
614 wee uour to collect myself and papers.
Serjeant Vaussnau —The civil causes have already I
lastnl longer than at any previous Assizes ; and, in re-1
gstil to the public business. 1 cannot consent to any
wore detly.
The Jceog.—" I suggest, for the character of your
dicta. Serjeint Vaughan, that the defendant should be
ailoubd the time be asks ?"
SeviteatVettoessr.—Certainly, my Lord.
The Jam.—Mr. Edmonds, a cause will now be
called, which sslll last one hour, wises you mast be
ready.
forsouns.-I.lly Lord, I am content.
dye ulna P. G. SAGO, A BOOESELLOR 14 ninnittenau.
.sdr,,llaettan opened the case, which was similar to
that of Mr. Osborne's trial, and pointing ourtherCLurch
• " au ulcerous concretion." The libel also stated,
Old the people ought to watch the machinations of the
bible Societies, sad every thing supported by Gotern- '
me*. Talk of miracles, why have they ceased, when
Si) see ten thousand priests stamping about the country,
fled with the Holy Ghost. Think of this twerp-
lusaey, he.
%inlet VACOWAN said, he was called upon in his duty
rO preeecate as Counsel, but he would not compromise
that duty althoogh he should not make any comments
upon the libel which his Learned Friend had read ; and
he also trusted that the Counsel for the defendant would
ruaduct himself in that judicious manner which he had
14 eminently done on the previous day. It certainly n as
necessary. if the author could be found, to bring him to
justice i but be would not admit, for a single moment,
that the /Wisher had no right to answer for the con-
tests of the work which he had given to the public. He
would set, therefore, occupy any more of their time, but
"leleae that it was a most Infamous libel a the Church.
A man of the name of Harding, proved buying the
poblication No. 12, of the Block Book, at the defending's

shop, in Bull street, ; he was *erred by •
female, and the book was exposed in the window. • .
Croirexaniined by Mr. DIVIDIAN.--Nie did not pur-
chase it of his own accord ; ha was ordered to buy it.
lie bad not seen the defendant in his shop for a week or
a fortnight. O. Kaig was on the door. He had steal
the defendant In the shop, but he could not tell for a
mouth. He did nut Lnuw nun of the Haute of

W. Payne, examined by Serjeant VAVORAN.—Ragg
kept a bouksefler's sbop ; and the ihikit
of Ragg was evi:r the dour.

Crosi-examined by 3:r. DuNsras.—.Never saw Ragg
at work at lace-making In the shop. He could not swear
that he hail seen the delentkint fora fortnight in the
shop, before the work in orestipti was purchased.
John Arnold, solicitor At BirmingLatn, examined by
Serjeant V A I:1i fl•N.—The defendant was a truant of his,
and had only quitted the premises on Saturday last.
This was the eAst ; anti the Clerk of the Court read the
libel.

Mr. DRNMAN stated, on his outset, a legal objection to
one pan of the indictment, respecting the Catechism,
which be had made yesterday
This occasioned some arguments hetween the Counsel
and his Lordship, who said he would tale a note of his
objection, in case he should move for a mew trial. If
the Catechism was not the Ecclesiastical laN of the
law of the r ountry, then 31r. Denhani's objection would
be good ; but lie (Judge Best) Nought the Catechism
was ;he law of the land.

Mr. MeNwas in a very eloquent speech said that his
Learned Friend had not pruned that the Prayer Book
did contain any formula fur the ordination of Priests.—
Mr. None's three trials. he believed, had occasioned great
arguments upon this subject. The Jury ought to recol.
legit they were not called upon to decide as Censors of the
Press; and to feel the alarm of putting tkow
lers, a doctrine which had been lately promulgated as
necessary. The Book was a foolish or.e, and had it not
been for the dramatic effect of his Learned Friend,
who had given such points to it in the Court, in the
hands of a common person it weld(' base been pained
over without any consequence. The Learned Counsel
was descanting' on the merits of the Common Paver
Book, when he was interrupted by
The JUDGE, who observed, that. upon rears:data, he'
was sure the Learoed Counsel would refrain from OA a
mode of argument, as it did nut Itt•long to the pidgin
discussion. •

Mr. DENtlit:4 eras avert, to tlitCOSPions of I'lol sort in

a Court of Justice, but it via% a ditty he owed his client
thus to have stated•his arguments. 'flirty was no proof
of the defendant ern pub:i,hicK the Rork in quertion,
as flit book had been sold by a t-mnb•, and that per-
son tot even known to have biro iu the servite of the
thlretalant.

Ills Lordship mode a very nninrated charge to the
Jury, and stated to thew. tlim if 'such an attack hid
been made neon the various sects, he should tell them it

the Clutch of england, which bad been established and
revoguireil for hundreds of years. •lie was a friend to
calm and dispassionate dicugsion, bnt ti,is was a most
flagrant attack upon the form of Chri.tian rel:g ion.
The Jury immediately pronounced Wm Guilty.
Mr. Edmonds was now called upon to proceed he
again made several objections ; but Itii Lordship said be
could not listen to them.

-
Mr. EDMONDi—" Well, My Lora, then I must of
course leave myself in your hauls, anJ the lientlainico
of the Jury."
The trial is noir going on.

The total of the Hank capital in the several
States, districts, and territories of the United States,
as far as limos'' At the Treasury, it appears, from Mr.
Sceretary Crawford's Report, was, in NIL upwards of
ninety millions of dollars; iu whirl' bring misled the
capital of the Batik of the United States (!4.15.000,000),
makes a grand total of one hundred and tiventy•live toil-
liotts.—(Arat. Intel.)
GENF.RAI. Kostenesto.—The late report of the
" American Society for Colonizing the Free Peo-
ple of Colour," states a fact highly honourable to this
eminent but unfortunate patriot and hero, and which we
premium is not generally known to the people of this
country. It is, that " tiefieral Kosciusko losipleathed a
fund, exceesliiig twenty thousand dollar., in the hands
of Mr. Jetferson (ste President of the United States), to
be laid out in the purchase of young female stares, uho
are to be educated and emancipated." It is added, in
the report, " that biennia John H. Cocke, of Virginia,
has, at the request of Mr. Jefferson, undertaken the ad-
ministration to this trust, in the hope, in which Mr. J.
concurs, that the dithcnlth s opposed to the wish's of the
testator, under the existing laws of Virginia, may bet
obviated, in accordance with the terms of his will, by In-
corporating the tangent with the funds of the Agoer leas —,
Society, under the sanction and controul of a Coureoi;
Parity.
fin SzAsam.--alost of our fruit-trees are now
in blossom, and the shade-trees begin to put forth.
The market is supplied with almost every kind of vcgp-
tables. linen peas made their first appearance on Satur-
day list, at three dollars a peck.—Aiparagus has been
at market for a week past. The forward state of ergs-
! Mimi, from the uncommon warm weather for the last
three weeks, it is feared will suffer, ahould-ogevere frost
ensue, which is not improbable.—(Clortroft Pir6.510)
It was determined in Mr. Mellish's Cobunitted
room, on Wednesday evening last, that utiles. was
I considerable diminution of Mr.Whitbread's majority toe 4
place on the following day, Mr. Mellish should tesigi
the contest as hopeless. In (infer to effect the ois.fret
they had in view, the greatest possible exertions ~err
made by Mr. Mellish's friends, and a great sariety of
persons, whose votes, to say the least of them, were of
a very doubtful complexion, were !wimp'st to the poll
in favour of Mr. Mellish. Amongst these were the
Aluinnen of the East India Company, at Poplar ; the
Ferrymen, at the Horseferry, Lambed, ; and certain per-
sons, Trustees of the Poor of St. Bride's. The attempt,
however, thus made to turn the majority in favour of
' Mr. Mellish completely failed, as all these votes, to the
number of 102, after a warns discussion haweili Mr.
Bowen, as Counsel for Mr. Mellish, and Mr. Clarkson
and Mr. Martineausas the Agipts fur Mr. Bong and Mr.
Whitbread, were finally retected by the Aria. This
decisive blow, at once tertmooteal the coldest in favour
d Mr. Whitbread.
The battle between Bennyworth, the Essex champion,
and Joshua nudges, takes place on 'furs !ay ties! ; the
)utter is at present the feruurite.

BRIGHTON, AlalaCU ii.

On Wetinevriay, yesterday, and to-day, his Majesty
took lengthened promenades' in the Pavilion gardens,
surveyed the progress of the orimerous workmen on the
inipruvements, and appeared remarkably cheerful:
these gardens, Irons the desirably low enclosing fetter,
are open to the view of the surrounding house*, the oc-
envois of which had the pirasnre of beholding their
King in the several promenades. enjoying his salutary
walks nuder the must fatunrable auspices of re-esta-
blished health, buoyant spirits, anti heavenly weather
At entail and select circle of nobility, with for royal
band in attendance, have enlivened the Palate every
etet:ing threuxismit the week.
lady anti Sir William Kepple, returned
to the I'4ore early in the week. Uoluvel Thornton
arrived an Thur. lay. 1.1,e Lord Lienteoatit of this
county. the Earl of • gereirinnt, is again at the Lodge,
and paid his respects to his Majesty soon after his return.
The Prince et Hesse Homburg, and the Austrian Am-
bassador, Prince Esyrhaly, it is said, will
.1A expected
at tlte Palace on Monday.
The interior of 9se regal edifice is under the embel•
lishittents of the arti-ts opon a wore extended scale than
for some mouths past—the splendour which the grand
suite of apartments eshilsits at this time, is almost be-
yowl description. It appears. that his Majesty dues
I not intend to remove to them during Isis present airy
with us, and uhich, Ile have the happiness to learn,
wallet include a sueetetsion of it eeks.
After his promenade in the gardens yesterday, his
Illajety.tirolc exercise can horseback, but not in public,
and returned to diituer eery much refreshed by his ride.

TEE Q t 'CEA'.

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Letters have been received in Korn from her Majesty
the Queen of lnN i wad, dated Hoene, the 11th ult. Her
Majeaty romplains of not having received any messenger
from tioveristrartst announcing the demise of our late
latucc:ed Sovereign. Her Melesty states, that the fano-
veriars Minister awl British loose% sail all peasant con-
nected with Ilse British Government, treat her with great
indipity; they continue to call her Prioress l'aro'ile of
'Britaswirk. lier llajestc also rap dissatisfaction
•at the emoluet of the Bowan l iinernment ; the had alums
a guard allowed her as Princestut 11" ales,but that has been
refused her since she because Queen, beeaune the British
Government has not acknowledged her natter that title.
Her Majesty expresses a great a ish to leave Buchinghata
House for her Palace ; site desires that the servants of
the late Duke of Kent, or those in the servire of his
Royal Highness the Priute Leopold, may be employed
fur her in preference tee any other ; and her bfajesty
also desires, in the event of the refusal of Government
to ri,„i her a Palace, that a house may be taken for her
near Dover. Her Majesty was to leave Home on Monday
nest, to prs•ceed irons thence to Pe ;,re, from Pesaro to
England. without delay. Her Majesty way be expected
to arrive in a month or live weeks.

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The following is a copy of a letter from the Secretary!
of State's OtSce, in Rome, to the Queen of England's
Chamberlain, slated Feb. !Ids, 1?111:
The Cardinal Secretary of taste received yesterday
evening the request, to cause &guard to be placed at the
door of the snentiovevl palate.: and likewise was made
known to him, that a cAtegorital autwer was expected!
upon this subject.
.11te obvtvations which the above!
slid rasslinal made yesterday twartsing,.berbally, when
you, by orders yott bast received,' called at his apart.:
melte, not liaviur penalise- him to answer directly to i
al Personage %sib did• hiws the honour to write
to l ss nruo
, kniodeakte isiar att, viersatieg !•wt L
e ty
the same the following :--
, " His Holiness's Government cannot grant the guard
to asy Lady the Comstess Uldi. Nu geiiill is given to
priest, permit's; and, *hen ores nerd Princes travel
Draapeito, under a private name. thsv do not mein
this distinction. Tin re is actually at itome no instance
of this. The Paled tiovettsment did not fail it praying
this honour to the Prins ess of Wales during her stay ib
this Capitall oil a former occasion. The Rosysl Person.
kowevcr, who is now come to Rome, is nut announced
as the Princess of Wale, but as Quern of England, and
fee this tioe•gslisrsi is requested. Hitt as no constunnicao
thin has been made ill his Holiness's Government by the
Government of Isis Slajesty the King of England and
Hanover, upon the change that has taken place; Ivor
upon the r.sook of the !aid /loyal Person, the Papal Go-
vernment does not know that the Quern of England is
in House, and, in consequence, cannot grant a guard to
the same. Whenever the Government of his Holiness
may receive from that of his Majesty the King of Eng-
land and. Hanover, the moral nottticAtiom upon the
clump that has Liken place with the ituvst Person in
question, he will consider it an imperious duty to pay to
the Queen of England all the hormones due to her.
(Signed) ' C. CARDINAL CONIALTI."

Yesterday the Duke of York ettended Divine
Sunk* at the Chapel Royal.
Married, at. New York, on the 3d of March last,
by the lee. Mr. thildsucith, Abraham H. Luyster, Esq.
merchant of that city, to Miss Mary Hohinsoa, only
daughter ut the late Captain Rohl ttttt n, and niece to
Thomas Ueorge Western, Esq. of Castle-street, Holborn,
and White-lounge, Hampstead,
On Thursday evening a General Assembly of
the Royal Acadctuiciatis errs held at their apartments in
tionserset-liuuse, when Sir Thomas Lawrence, Knt., *as
duly netted President of the Hotal Academy, is the
Down of the late Benjamin U est, Req.
tito 1811, Hussars., now at Cork, had no le
titan tour candidates for seats in Parliament—Colonel
Hughes .14 s been retnrtied fur thauthani t Limstenant-
Cofanel 141enients, and Lieutenant Nesbit aloud for the
county o4Leitrim; and t;splaiu U'Urarly for the county
of Limerick. It could be rather a novel thing to see so
many Members of Parliament in one tarps.
On Thursday last Earl Grey passed through
Newcustle-upon-Tyoe, on his any to Hayrick. Us ar-
riving near Morpeth he Isla met by a large concourse
of people, who took the hover, trout Isis carriage, and
drew him int.) that town to Mrs. Siinderland's, the
Queen's, tiead ion, where his Lordship alighted for a
few minutes. He was afterwatds drawn through the
Irwin iu the same manner, emickt the loudest acclama-
tions. A large light blue kg beaded the procession,
sod a great souniker of bootees exhibited blue Bags at
the windows, if CUSKtifilAttlq of Mr. liiMbloll.ll suc-
cessful contest at Durham. His Lordship swatted a
plentiful supply of ate, to mode the populace utter his
departure.

A rumour 13 afloat that another election for the
City Of l'hikhester is at hand, Alr. Heskissun vacating
his seat by the acceptance of a hilt ether.
Irawicti, Meaca 30.—0 n WeJoe-Iday se'nnipbt the
Pcrtitiely of the Pull in this town tras 'adjourned till alter
the Assites, the votes struck elf being, froin the num-
bers 01 Mews. Haldintand anal Leonard 41); front those
of Slessrs. Cricket: and Round 27.

GALWAY AIIIIIZES.—Tiventy-six persons were
wird on Thurulay sad ►riday tor Ribbossistn, aJI vf
wham were foutui guilty. Four of this nusiber were
seuteneeti to be trdusported fur serer' years—the rest
are not ren!enced.