The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-04-15 00:00:00

infermi. if tht plai rt. ,fu..s in; to the path.
Frame the ...Vence of Meier artwriglit, it was clear
that Mr.. tram bad nor tit Os, tor ...I his undo entar&-
ina : and net he had liven cores:tool to sit tibwn spool,
toot'l Trinity Term, 1.419. The Jure mind be aware,
that that part of a resesnaper called the leading MOOCH.
W. 41 S. poogett to cumin she sentimenta of the e.:11 tr :
bat that how. in other owes were th:. opinions ..ti
osiTidnal writer*. He WeiC h.re anProgr a Ca.,. "lad
%loon he Itilieffed to rbaraeten of aultoptity. Ise sitowd
:or 'lean` Moab! not h- hurt ly the coloopari . Ile
1-0041 refill- to the time of Homer, Achille., awl ARA-
I 'earn's:, at whielt peroo t titer? liven • railer. called
I itersyte,. No*, it The 04y1,• semulaliseu Aesiii;es
er Agamemnon, tioas:of it not be oinjano to say. that he-
reo.e Houser bad represented Thersytes to beep swell
'near expreo.lan3, that he hail been pull,/ of Intel i To
...try on the illoo4ration, loe supposed that The Neer
/';sire paper might be considered as the Siege of Troy.
It the tlainta conceives! fiat the leter win lucre *amen-
t.ou, ur ~.tippose.l it to he A 111:11.111a it would be India%
woes a i.lislet so( Justice, anis calling uposi the der) to
nevisie. w Oslo. ignnr:.nt of facts. He would pm it to the
Jure to say, whether they belieoed it to he no. He
thologiot it pousohle, as Hr. Stouldart and the lather de-
t-nuants might he opposed to different (losses of
foreiter<, and that those Reformers issinist be su.nrtitnes
treated with asperity in that paper. Hut riot if an its-
utritlual, who had been held up as lose who al ucel all
tenosisind. as well as every thing human and divine.
how been wade to niter those expressions complained of,
*herr would be Ole injury to the party complaining, it
ol,st indifi.lial had been shown to hr unwotthy of credit i
It then the editor of a paper shimitl state il.at Heary
Hunt *Aid so sisal so, would it nut wake a tuattrial
terencr that. as though he is..d written it as 1115 on 1.1 opi-
nion Ito the latter whioli is charted as libellous, it had
Corso said tl..st the plaintiff had been addicted to nnna-
total propensities hot that was a most extravagant
construction of the tern.. If the Jury should feel con-
strained to give damage. to the ph lf, they would re-
. fleet that the parties, Hunt and Cleary, hmi hems en-
g tired in a runtroversy, anal all that the defendants had
&ale was, to state that Air. Hunt hail chosen to say so

and soot Ale. Cleary. The witness Wright knew *bat
t':e letter that had been represented to he a forgery had
Men proved in have been written by Mr. rolohett, and
that thereby little credit WAS due to Mr. Hunt's asser-
tion. As to the construction ',Lucca upon the words
Irief meamaistress• it was most extravagant. In the re-
st rd, however. this load been averred to imply that the,
I !...intilf prostituted his person in a must abominable,
aid detestable atwitter. Now, what was the fair import
an this elves-ion ? Why, a gentietualt of polished
comrtly manner would say, he keeps a tuistress—be is
patrosised lay the holies who permit certain liberties.
Cleary knew the meaning; he ttioderatool that nothing
tot an unnatural propensity was attributed to him. The
werpretation of the term kept-mananistress ',tight be
eo astrned among men of faallion, as implying that he was
a lucky fellow—este lifon•!•t it tunterViirtanet that he
le us able to possess privileges with the fair sex, and to pay
nothing for his atiousiomeod. Now a kept woman was one
. who tired with a man in an unmarried state; as a bept
r to implied tow who was kept he a woman ; the term
e kept man, would perhaps he somewhat atilloigoloas,
had not the word mistress hero added. It i: acre
possible that Bettor Stotblart conld have permitted a
sander, of SAS foul, so atrocious a maitre as that isillitltrd
to have voluntarily been inserted, then he wood.' say,
that too heave ilaninea rwaiii nut lie given ; but lie de-
illiNi that Midi was his lineation, or that sunk ssAll the
interpretation. As to the allusion that lie lived on the
wages of his cress proatitution, that enrrely allnoled to
his political connexion with Sir Francis Bartlett, to
a hid; Mr. lltint was opposed. In support of his opi-
won, the Learned loomawl referred to a play of Bean.
aunt awl Fletcher's. called Tin ecatum v thr rotintry.
Amangat the Drama/is Persona.. there nap that of Sac- I
pjacin, the Keeper of tile Male Stews. Now trout this,
perhaps, the Learned I 'otonsel might infer, that it meant
a place of resort for the gratification of the most abomi-
nable propensities ; but if they turned to the Drama it-
self, it would he hound that lice young men were pro-
vided for ladies of rank and fashion. In defending the
present case, he was, in fart, vindicating the character
of Mr. Cleary. Ile was in‘trurted to say, that no sits-
picion was esrr tootertain.si by the drfettaants of the ir-
reproachable conduct of that Gentleman. The present
action was not brought fur the salve of damages, but in
the hope of plunging a dagger in the bosom of Dr. Stod-
dart. Ile knew that that Gentleman would be ashamed
to impute such propensities to any Mall. He a (dd ap-
peal to them, whether the construction he had placed
upon the passages complained of were correct. Mr.
Cleary knew they at ere. lie alio an:it ipate.l that that
wnalti be their ojoiosion, anal that they would give a vet:-
diet fur the defendants.

The LEARNE DJui lc r , in proceeding to sum up the evi-
dence to the Jury. said, they must look to the particular
words of the declaration, which charged the defendant
with imputinz to the plaintiff the commission of an un-
natural, illegal, and !locatable practice, and that he WAS
supported and mainfainerl by the prostitutirm of his
person. Now, takinv the whole declaration, his Lord-
ship was of opinion, that unless the Jury were fully sa-
tisfied that sods was the intention of the rh•fcniiants,
they were entitled to a verdict. It hail been rirgeti in I
w=omen', that independent of his assertion, the plain-
tiff had been charged with forgery, and that therefore
he claimed a verdict ; hot as the declaration was trained,
he was clearly of opinion that such was not the law npon
the ease ; he stated to the Jury his opinion at this stage
of the proceedings, in order that he might, if wrong, be
corrected in soother plaee. The use of the expression, as
intending to convey that the plaintiff ha,l received favours
from any particular Lady, and that he was also receiving
pe tuaiary assivance from her, might or might mat be a
j ;it was ri,c, him -vet, introduced into the deciara-
t'on, and the Jury had not to consider it; the only tines-
tion before them was, whether the expression cuuiil be
construed to mean that which was charged, namely, that
our. tdeary had hero gritty of the unnatural practires
stated in the declaration. Now, on the first view of the
passage, it certainly appeared very obscure, and might
possibly hear inch a ronstruction ; but if, on further
ronsioleration, the contrary shrntld appear, and that the
intention was merely to charge Cleary with being kept
by a mistress, the detc:olants would be entitled to their
serdirt.—They had all, no doubt read the famous novel
of Toni Joie., in which there was a character name.,
Lady liellastrin, with whom the hero was said to have
been serptainted in this way, so that the existence or
probable existence of such a character was not to he
doolned. The expression " kept man" would have been
perfectly decisive, and the introduction of !he word
mistress" was the only point on which a doubt exis•ed ;
the h-tier altogether was written in a coarse and
fzvie, and it would be entirely for them to consider the
meaning of the expression, on which alone their verdict
could depend. These were the only observations which
his Lordship considered it neces.are to for the
imrpuse of illustrating the ease. If the Jury were 41f
opinion that the plaintiff was entitled to their verdict,
the nest considerathin milld he the uainiint of da-
mages they would give. The paper in apestion, Ter
New limps, had certainly received most extensive
patronage, and it was men ;:nown that 'ho-e persons
calling themselves Radical Reformers, or 1'1,111'1411.x that
doctrine, were treated with some severity by the Editor,
and were certainly not tavenrites with 11:m. His
Loraispip that proceeded to state the nature of the