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dared to put that upon justification, but he calls up. by birth : He says, " I cannot pass over another ins clvaitestance which put into 'OH man's head, the de.
on y ou take his character, although now a prisoner,
famous and cowardly attack of a. low and contemp. 's
"ign of attacking Mr. Lovell. lie goes on and says,
under your protection, and to say how you will ,!cal tilde being who disgraces the English press by being After having published this account, and a great
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with the man who has taken that liberty 'with his allowed obe the proprietor of a Newspaper. I nave , many others, the irritability of Bonaparte will not
character, tiled' he has (seen when he was in eon- been well acquainted. with the concerns of newspapers, I allow him to remain quiet, as he could not well deny
finement. In giving you the history at this case,
undeseli wir Editors for the lest fifteen cehrs, but I I them, and he has therefore thought groper to confirm
Ssib 'n eelyte'leett a *newspaper. iii the hands of imy statements, by making me hit accomplice, and
there is a circumstance of a nature so extmordinary;;
that i .rea iI y could have wished that an actionj of do ces
tti le tereatute, who can scarcely sign I entry thing I have said toncerniug him Ire thus cen-
t, tl my assertions mond be ikaken
had been brought by Mr. Goldsmith, and tee hiseiutate., eteto ,keele. his vehicle of treason ' hems ; cositieg en y i
has not done himself anlgood but has i
and sedition afloat, he is obliged to have recourse he . ,
been brought tto issue, the one a Plaintiff and
the other Defeudmit in the two reuses, to try atraint-trivirtterot, law Irtirfralinttie and ieili.' ittirtitiliclTY to Ay pallCa tons,•iMirirserATinT
which of the two it was that deserved to tion at so much per week, or so mucleperlloo words. epossess before." Here then he tipposes these publica-
ea„ maybe I floes to have been published' Under the authority of
—The turpitude of that•losv-bred beteg
be tolerated in a free country as the Editor of a
.Newspaper. There is soother topic which I may equalled by his crimes; he has been implicated in i Bonaparte, in order to avail himself of thotmeatecreet,
allude to, and I will do It 'freely; it appears from ; many disgracelul transactions; to name him would in Mr. Goldsmith's History. Ho nest goes on to
this libel, that Mr. Lovell had published something only be the means to draw such a poor, pitiful ob- ; say, " Never did a Government so identify itself 1
to the sTsivassti,t reflecting upon Mr. Goldem?th ; it jest from the cave of. obscurity into undeserved no- . with an individual. Governments in general pay
is true be had done so, hut I will explain it to- yea,. eiee ! That such a man is paid for attacking me ; very little attention to what individuals do or say,
: but Bonaparte's system is very diffesing from that of
must be-obvious to every body ; my only crime is,
and I will say that that publication is an example of
the use of the British press ; and if ,he'had not made itt the eyes of such a fellow, and in those of his no- ; all others. As to myself he may forte* writing ett
those comments to prtvvoke this resentifient, he would torious gang, that "attack his patron and benefactor, that of any other person, it matters not. I bring
have deserved all that Mr.) Goldsmith' has stated of , Bonaparte. I can, however, assure my Readers, that ; charges against him, he does not contradict them, but I
him. There are some parts of this libel Which will i all that such a reptile ate say of me will pot prevent as I have already observed he has confirmed them.— !
call upon me to adduce some proof to do away. the :my exposing the crimes of his patron and of his agents Butwhat appears so impudent in the degraded Journal.
impMssion that maratise•frttin it It is stated, that ' here." Now I come to another part', by which I ist (this you will observe connects Mr. Lovell with the
Mr. Lovell huts his actions recorded in the.: connect Mr. Lovell with this libel. The Defendant . matter in question), who has inserted these pretend- '
,Netvgate• Calendar,' that' is . to insinuate that :in it says, 66 The despicable creature in question has ed original documents is, that he attacks me for
Mr. Lovell has been'. guilty of that species of crime , thought proper to Acense me of prepershig the assas. , having served,- as it is said, the cause of Napoleon ;
that would carry a toots to Netegate. It must be_ ablation of Louis XVlif. to Bonaparte." There was., then why does he serve the cause of Napoleon,
come a matter of Prole. gomn.Yessrs ago Mr. !Avon in Mr. Lovell's Newspaper a dobulnent, purporting by writing in his favour now ? Why should an; Ho-
tta. engaged with a .kouse in the Manchester tvedeoe; to he written by Mr. Gold Smith hinffelfwhen he was glish Journalist be so much- irritated against me for
his brother, a man of considerable affluence, wars; in France, wherein Mr. Goldsmith is stated to have having done that which he does now ? etv to the Mi.
partner ; they had a dispute with a Mr. Webb to the i made an oiler to the French Governnfent of an extra- : terate being himself, the Proprietor of the Paper in
amount of Vitall. A dispute arose as to the posses:-; ordinary nature ; andamong other things, tsbe was, question, all I can say of him is, thee I scarcely
,:ion of this propene, and the house• of which Mre: that he would go to Varsovie, . where Louis i think it worth my while to notice him. •It would be ,
Lovell was a peruser had possession of it. They XVIII. was at the. ttime, u I the Codnt de-faille, sullying the columns of this Paper, aid it' would, be
thought fit to present a charge of felony, but the pretending that, tinder• the English character, but the commencement of an interminable and useless
Lord Mayor [interrupted) ' . he. cynid easily phi' access to his Open, It ! hostility between us, as he is too welt paid to be induc-
Lord El,Ltssnaour.o.-.We do. net enter into& Was given by IVIr. Leiell as P. paper pmcredieg from 'ed discontinue his attacks upon me. Already, so far
proof of the•gretmds of that acquittal, we do not govt the Defendant himself; and you still &idle esolise- : back as No. 7, I gave notice to a correspondent that
into that trial, but merely the naked all cation, I quent part of the, libel in question, hew hi-.terms Iwe should not insert an account sent us of several of
w w whether be as propertfor improperly accused
;-bur I that, and it was not • unnatural' to: suppose; that a I his trleitiaboat bills drawn ewelve years after datie, feet
I wentieterrupeyou in your statement. I man who could deliberitelYenter into the content- l which he had the relies arrested, but he was after.
Mr. icrter:ver.—Me Lord, lam only bound•to ?lotion of such an object as the assassination of any wards very glad to pay a sum of money to obtain a
prove that he' was tried and acquitted at the Old. individual, might also contemplate that that Govern- release from the parties not nine months ago." Gen.
Bailey ; the insinuation is, that he owed his acquit.' meat might have.some such object ju view. The De- , tiemen, that statement is utterly false, for the ell-
tat to a :Magistrate of the City of Louden ; theft..? fendant goes ou to state—" In reply tothisunfounded , cumstance alluded to is one which so far from 're-
corder, whotriud the cause, dismissed it immediately,, and malicious =caution, an accqution tvbich could fleeting disgrace upon Mr. Lovell, would be honour-
as it was it dispute about property, which could non' only proceed from one who unites the spite of the im. able to him, and 'highly creditable to his integrity.—
be
the subject of such 1 charge. 'ln The month Of potent eunuch with the venom of the crawling viper, " Of his trial at the Old Bailey for robbery, of
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Ape, last year, Mr. LewisOoldsinith, the Defendant,' let me in the first place ask, what has that enforce. ! which he was acquitted through the interest of the
who is Editor and Proprietor of the Antigallicas nate Prince ever done to me, that I should feel in- 1 late Mr. Alderman L , with whom lie had
Monitor and „dnticorsieon Chronicle, had published terested or inclined to deprive him of his life 2--- dealings, and also on account of. his having sent
a Paper which was to recommend a society, of which Secondly, the creature who conducts Bonaparte's : printed bills to Holland, and denunciations made to.!
he stated himself to be the projector and founder, newspaper ought to know, that no political agent, I the different authorities there against persons- wlgel
which had for its object the assassination of Boni. when sent on a mission, proposes any thing to a' deeltin British goods; this is the honest patriot— i
parte. This Paper had, through inadvertency, been Government, but instructions are given to him by, this is the friend of the people who would not accept
tears Tilted into some Morning Papers, and discussed the _Government he serves, and in fulfilling them, he' of Mr. Perceval's offer 'to sell his paper to Govern- i
et Parliament, n here it was treated as such a euestion acts according to the best of his judgment. I believe j gent, when it is well known he positively by letter.;
ought to be by all men of all parties. Mr. Lovell had that every person at all conversant in diplomacy I made proposals to his Majesty's Ministers to writei
male obscreatioret upon it in the same manneras those knows this very ordinary routine ; but is It to be I for, them, or at least to get some journeyman, to 1
great characters. lie had alluded to the Secret History supposed, that a Mien-draper can be converted into ; write la his paper. for them, but which proposals they.'
of the Cabinet of Bonaparte, published by Mr. Gold. 1 a Statesmene That one who has neither sense nor I treated a% they and the writer of them. deserved.— I
smith, who had himself made an extract, to which it / intelligence enough to form a common shopkeeper, Ireitie the cause of his.hatred to
-Ministers, nine I
would be proper to call your attention. In cense- I can possess the information and knewiedge necessary dice lacrynne. Ido not blame him for having simply'
(voice of these publications,• the libel now in ques- jto make a politician." Now, Gentlemen, I will i dohe this, it is much more to his credit to receive,'
tion was published, and it is a notice to Mr. Lovell' shei that Mr. Lovell was a linen.dreper, and there. I pay from his own Government than from Napoleonel
of the hostility which he, by his previous' asserts; fore I think I shall be able to shew that the libel in 1 These are the facts relative to this history."
tint., had provoked. It states,--" Daniel [oven,, question was applied to him. As for Mr, Geld-'I Mr. Lovell then thought k umcssary, for the pree,
the ATATE.4II tx-eThe incorruptible honest Daniel Lo- smith, I know not what he was, but It is evident 1 serration of his character as an Editor of a News-
Tell, in his Paper of last weeks epeeking of the. Coe- that biters considerable taleets, and that he la' not paper (end; as to which paper, thos.: who read it
rier, says, that that Journal has arrived at the cli. an. Englishman. When jtou connect this subject) :,have told me, that it is conducted with a considerable il
Max of profligacy ;—Daniel Lovell ,to, talk of pro. whiCh he has so treated, with the discussion iu the I.degree of literary merit), to put the• truth of die;
giiaay ! a mass whose
.action]' are. reem:ded in she, two House's of Parliament, it is impossible not to lliis upon record; and that if he; IltreLovell; wail
Newgate Wender. We may well say, ' 0. slime ,'see that the Editor of iii British Newspaper had-some! proved to be a person who received the pay orlloeee.
%there is thy blush' We do not wish to wage wee! motive to stimulate himp in bringing t is man to light. l•parte, you; a. British Jury, should find a verdict
with Billingsgate, Saint Giles's, or :New gate; but. c then goes on to. Say—" faille iSeafet.l.lirtory of' ' ainst him, condemning hiss to perpetual infamy.—',
a; we halm been provoked,. honest Daniel LoVell the Cdbinet of Pon Vitt-44' atited that Bonaparte had ..r, Goldsmith has not thoigi t. proper to put that•
shall have his full portion of our hostility." Had ! appointed an agent fe_go to Warsaw to prevail on justification upon record ; by his'plea he declinesite,
the first pert of this been the only libel aphid him I his Majesty, Louis typi., to abdicate, and when it lie has *entered to publish that, Which, if. tiOel
We should never hale' heard of this aetioa e but it waseefused with a dignity becoming a Bourbon and makes the Plaintiff, as an Editor, the most wicked'of '
has been stated, that he had, been acquitted upon an-I a King, Bonaparte sent initructions to this emissary mankind. If he, the Defendant, do not proie that
unjust charge, end •et it is
.stsidethathis actions were at Warsaw, which ',think proper to quote." Here he bid any foundation for his assertion, you 41
recorded in the Nowak. Calendar, which it:Tile:l is Mr. Goldsmith quoting the instructions of Bona. take that circumstance into your consideration,- and
that he deserved tot IS
e so,charfed; :fiow A *s to the parte to his agineat name. How did he learn you will say what damagesyon will give to thetlaiti.
aphleot of this libel
.yeti will 4d, .that the Dr..! who this agent weal Wei lie make that appear ? tiff for the injury he has sustained. lam not ine 1
fendant has come with a retailed . dipoulte of, You will hear that tn-daY, if not from his Paper, strutted to ask vindictive damages. The object of
'diesel( for it, wbieh I must fey` le Ae• ask. of perhaps from his Coutisel, when they allude to these Mr. Lovell is to put himself right With his 'country.;
attack which no Proprietor of a ilewipep4o him lastructions as to the Count de Lille. These in- you. will, therefore, give your sense of the libel by
eier.steeled he may be against any ash% said 6 . structions are, " Ist. The Pretender having refused ;which he has been and give him adequate
. . . .defamed,
theepublic prints, could allow to wit:tosodead !to accede to the deMand made' by the First Conshl, 'and proper damages ; that is all he asks at your
by him. This first •lliebel was, ier , ' the . you are required: to•lay your plans to carry him off hands. With respect to his conduct, if he have said
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month of August, and t
.oext was pigo !van Iby force, and if. be' Make toy resistance to kill him, any thing to the prejudice of Mr. Goldsmith that'll
the 15th-of September ;,it cominenCe* wilit tithe .Asit is eery'Possible, that in the event of a war are untrue, or have Made any commentary not justiel
of "Louis XVIII." COMB ethnic teeircumstluices I with' Engltind; a Frekivanny will he sent to Ha. fled by Mr. Goldsmith's own publications ; if be :
epeel, teem beyond a dreibt, .that the pffle n 0,, I nover, a' deeichment of troops will be sentedretsed hate asserted any thing that makes hint the basest of
laded teen- this libel is Mr. Lovell, and Mr. Lovell in habits Bourgeois, to assist you. Count Meg- 1 mankind; Mr. Goldsmith has an opportunity of makes-'
elate. He coisimeeees.lty_seXing, that " that illus. wits will be jotoriiled of it, who will instruct the I ins it be put upon record for justification ; if the
trious personage (leo+ XVIII. it appears) has re- Regency of Viru isiii not to send any troops after Defendant have 'not done that, Mr: Lovell, by one,
ceived sonic contemptible threatening letters, written you when you carry oft the Pretendant." Then he invites him to dolt, and when he does that, he will
no doubt teethe mere purpose of alarming-his Ma- goes on to give an account of dee instructions of the hate the. redress which he may seek for. Because
jeety," and then it goes on with giving peresesernent French Gmrernnient to their agent sent upon tbia; Me Lovell. when in confinement% Is said to haw,
advice, that they should send away all,Foreigners, extraordinary mission. Having finished this detail made an attack upon Mr. Goldsmith, you will nbt
and this is to 'beg that he Itimseltis areßuglishman, ef int/M al I
mo which I will not repent, as the Officer permit this Mr. Goldsmith to make this infinitely
but I have reason to believe, that he ie a Gerinatt of the Ceert,,,,wkki rend its' then he tiskes up this case, I more foul and base attack upon the character of att. '
- - and Sails, " .1t 4 WW:ll$67 to ascertain from i other man, in order to I • I bare
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• some years KS, Mr. Lovell stareshistitia with a biSise' in touis. XVIII. at h. i • •
e s now in thisfoentry, if his alluded to the publication of Mr. ,
Goldsmith to show
Abuschester, in which his brother was a portages. sad the y bin . - •
eptra-tA a person in. London, of the name of Welsh. alit pi's. Majesty has anyethineto allege against me, or who- j that it is the cause and origin of this transaction. It
rrY to the amulet! or WI. unknown
.to Mr. ',oven, who, on' titer his Majesty believes what has been so infamous- I was that publication which the subject of no-
emr made aeq mimed' with the circknstsuice, desired Mr. I asserted by Bonaparte's agents here, that I was ; tico and discussion in both Houses of Parliament.'''
Ward. a 'unmet la the hour e at Manchester, Weenie upie Lon-
y
dun. aid eocic.srOur to &stain pa,yment or security for the arm, in any way implicated in any kind of plot against his 1 I would give my Learned Friend, Mr. Garrow, an
or any part of it. When Mr. Ward arrived in Loudon, he went Majesty during
hisresidence I
. at Warsaw." What. opportunity to do that, which I have no doubt he
immediately to Mr: Webb's. who had • warehouse in Wading,
street, and found a s•oili et goods ou hand. Webb was shun', ever Mr. Lovell may have said against Mr. Gold- I. will do, for his Client, if he cani namely, to charge
from hntue, and Mr. Ward applied to the warehouseman to par- smith, let him have the'
merit
or demerit of it. The : Mr. Lovell a ith every species of attack Upon 3< r.
owe a quantity °ends, whietslie agreed to sell him to the
amount of MA and-the? wereidelivered to Mr. Lovell; ea as ; paper was published by ,the Freech Government. in i Goldemith which ho thinks fit, connected with the
swat of the Manchester house. On the f*Powiea: day, a Mr, , France, as signed by M. Golchimith himself, in' subject ; but he must state the whole of it. I would
Ungar& of Mantliester, called to' dt6and the goods which had ' Consequence of it- h • •
is eying published' the .
Secrpt Ills- ask, whether an Editor of a Newspaper, in discuss-
tore parchased at Wel;h's. sag lag they were his property, Witt - '
seat by him to be sold on consigament for his own account,-i-• th# Gali_iilet ef .11;;Maparte., It Perposted' to ing the Rebates in Parliament, could justify himself;
Mr. Lovell and Mr, Ward had reason to believe his assertinalle opted by' Mi. Goldsmith himself, in it " ' •
and
Was false, and refused to Comply with his rsivuist ;is godne.l ef red
een e an account of
quieter of which 'Alward and Webb went' before the LtimF cis mission to NVarstiw, and ' manner he did. The Defendant has said, " when I
blaior, and SWUM that Mewers. Lovell, A' lird. and his own wave- he states, that that affair had failed; end he cites the firstannounced to the le'
pu tc my project for estab-
hauettnan. had roliued W. warehouse of the goods and a war fernier letter which he ' ' he.
wrote to the t rench Mi. lishing,this society (mid I still glory in the reflection
rant was issued for their apprehensinti; th.iy aceordinrly di': 'ilt • " This
(titled heft ' - -- - '-diarged Ist Ty• was republished by Mr. Lovell. ad ' -t,I . - - first teee of it), I was full 'wire

_ the lard Nlavur, and were diset...._ out sirewoo
holy. The Sealela at the Nil Holley were near at hand. when
Webb and Lingard attended, and by falw swearing loidlrtrtie
Bill of Indietairot found against Mears. Lovell, Ward, and tbel
warehouseman, for robbing his warehouse of the goods iti,quere
lion. They aceordingly stood their trials at the Old Bailey; aneJ
aver the bashirmihad been opened by Mr. ii'dasn, the Recorder
late/posed and Mad, there did not appear In be the wiwittrotl
ground Ihr the charge of felony, and stopped On proceediugo,,
Li a Ann doe 'after Ile trial at the Old !Wen a proscenium
was comolloaeod *taloa Mewrs. Lovell and NN an l, and the ware-
heausentan, jaw a culloPiracY and. tit- trial -mar oil at flail&
hall when M. (barrow wps rinplo)ell b 7 tiff ilrfendAsus i *le.:
tr.k auk nas ealeaked by Webb and Linicvd.' and alter the ho.
sine. blew very ablv.dlieussed owtottioldes', JodgergiVis
ea* Ids Opiteisinj VOUS AM pfsdicsdkois,
"Ad the action we, Arad. .

is to lhis bc alludes, when he save he is acisu—sednef
being Bonaparte's agent upon this Mission. •
Whether or not 'there be any mann to infer that.
Mr. Goldsmith was thus acting properly or impre.
per,t is got important to this Ease, but certain it is
that these pu,tilications hare been narrated in this%
book of his? of.the Iliskry. of the Opines of Bona-
litirte, lit taannSr OA no. one but bimselt could
1110te (lobe for 'the, puipciie of reeittitiliendini assanii.3
;natio?) in.t4is country. This papek called.forth from !!
:Mr. Lovell isCh observations, ns .ti!ej naturally ex-
cited ki tbe7liiiai§ of ail lioatit and it is this

that I was the A projector it), _
of the prejudices which would dh That account. MI
raised against me. These prejudices cannot but
claim from me some sort of respect and attention, as
they mny truly be called amiable prejudices. That/
assassination is lawful in some particular instances, it
is to be hoped can be satisfactorily proved by reasonl
as Well as precedent. When a man, by the most via,
lent and perfidious acts, sets all law at defiance, and.
continue* to'cattren his conplt of deekstatiou and
perfidy,, in desplte a all tivslised +regulations ; he,,
in fact, outlaws hinweif, and self-dtfence dictates td
illurgninitlibi Arta ontratesas of delivering set.

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