The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-06-29 00:00:00

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
H. G.

Crawford-street. PO rtman -square,

June 21.

Tut Eta° v. lIUNT.—We mentioned on Saturday,
that this trial had that day been put off to the Sit-
tings after the next Term, in consequence of the
nett-attendance of a sufficient number of Special Ju-
rors; and the ne.w Solicitor-General, Mr. GARROW,
declining to pray a Wahl° supply such deficiency
from the list of Common Jurors. Adverting to this
extraordinary unprecedented circumstance, Mr.
HUNT, in the Examiner of yesterday, has the follow-
ing pertinent remarks :-4° It (the trial) is thus de-
layed for months by the intervening of the long vaca-
tion ; and as the circumstance is justly regarded as a
confession of weakness and timidity on the part of
the Prosecution, there is a possibility that it may not
1 some on at all. It waled be extrem.ly curious,
should this he the case, inasmuch as four assaults of i
Idle kind will then have passed by us with only an
angry sort of scrape as they went; but whatever
may be the result, our Readers, by this time, will
us the credit of believing, that we are prepared for
all reverses, and ready to suffer any thing obnoxious
rather than the diminution of our own se; f-respect and 1
their good opinion. Ther•• are two lights, in which
the origiu of the delay may be viewed ;—some regard
'lt as a preconcerted movement of the Prosecutors to ;
idrop the business altogether, upon a pretence which
they knew would be afforded them , while others
think that they intended to proceed to the test, but j
soddenly drew back on finding the Jury unsuitable. j
Either cause is a likely one ' • but here let the Reader ;
admire the advantages which the Crown reserves to lt- 1
self in every part of its dispute with a subject ;--the
Jury are first struck in a way that need not be told
now-a-days ;—the Defendant is then to consider it
a lucky thing, if lie can contrive to be suffered to
prove the truth of what he has said, while the Crown
calls for nothing but revenge ;—in the third place, he
is put to a large and certain expense, even if found
innocent, while the Crown, for dignity's sake, pays
not a farthing, though it has brought the expense
upon him;—and lastly, after having thus assured it•
self of inflicting some sort of punishment, it may
throw up its information, and walk off from the con.
test, because it does not like the looks of the Jury I
If any thing were wanting to prove the glorious utility
of that institution, and its native hardihood in flourish.
ing amidst corruption, it would be this remark-
able dread of it on the part of those who are
conscious of being in the wrong, notwithstand-
ing all other advantages are on their side.
That consciousness is, in fact, the main cause'
of the circumstance, whatever may be its contingent 1
ones ; and we put put it to oar Readers, whether a
bitterer satire could be passed on the Prosecutor,
than what his own Advocate insinuates, by being
afraid of the arbitration of the first twelve men be
can procure ? The other reasons are various, but all
referring to this feeling ; and among them, is the
proper aspect of resolution which we have maintained
to the last,—the en willingness to trust such a question
at all to the decision of men who might be unbiassed,
—and last, though not least, the know talents and ye..
polarity of our Counsel, Mr. BROUGHAM, whose large
and luminous intelligence has lately risen with such,
triumphant contrast before the petty dullness of Minis.'
tors, and taken that high ground in the public estimation
and gratitude, from which it is destined, unless we
are ignorant of all the features of greatness, to be-
come one of the revivifying lights of this natioo.—
With this sincere piece of respect to our Counsel,
and with an imaginary shake of the hands for all who
interest themselves in our welfare, we take oar leave
of the present subject till winter, should our oppo-
nents then chuse to revive it,—wishing them, in,the
mean time, as a large. proof of our charity, justritalf
the comfortable feelings we should have had, if all
that they attempted against us bad already taken
place.
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