The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-04-06 00:00:00

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LENT ASSIZES.

KINGSTON. APRIL S.

M samelly bear. she Cneri wows eremarreir
•IM meMeas Mr croft-rearm ef brasher &he oriei et Tam.
Moray. hark( Mee imimaird ea %aerate. Mai is amid be
thrlll,4 that •erreei rake Mare tits dem. Preeterir et rim
o'clort, as Mr. Jr.tire rota'. rakers has tees. the Piimort
was pot to the has. charred with Oa wallet swam or Hy
Cog. • spear-ItePper to Mr. Trweer. of Em en. Mr. G
Mr. Ile • sod Ms.
tires mid he Cosmos SCILISAMIT mg Mr. Coftwoon wets
Coomml for the Primarr.

1 Pbe vtiti.l;77letblr elMiire retired ea ettemmienthil relieve",
OW ONO prmthwitt pan of 1. hick es Albedo/ the Primmer,
was the et Melee ere Mr. Nee, who Mated, that es Me arm-
km the murder Wee pomeolormleb• beard the Priem*r hi lib
Imo beam movieemmel eelbell het molter Aft Wee
WA. ell Ili% Cr head me et oho mieow, re iwittl:rrtt t .
teme. ,iiimerve4 the Prlermerso Mee• wet, mad the Primmer
4.
6„,„„„0,0„,„...,,,,,. es Vfog OW how Iltgabilt.
bellbel,e4ll ylabalk wise Mart Mot • bulk with
-.hie! the Primmer ward to tr.^ me pigh;pl op. otelmee with
blood, emir tbe rpm where the formiter Imo emeroblett. Ito W.
MM. ee beley efieweiWllleell by the COMMON SSII.II RT.
WWI IWe or three haters brim rodered, be stoad wo swear
to either of the hither ever beam he the poreemtue of the Pri-
_ . .

Awoke, eileuassaace of suspicious snooks stated maims the
Prosser, Namely. that the death of the young mon had been
occasioned by stroactsint'on, and Hint the tam of toe hind
Isrrhisf was what I. ter.ned a reef hut, door in she tam nf
shat is railed a SpeusitA wineltets.asil that the Prissier hosing
beat a seaman was likely in hove Ilea the knot in ',sestina.
Snowiest' were also prnsfseed which sera toned sear the
fatal spot, and they enrteteno4ed with suss Noon to Prisoner's
toosessios. A cousidirrable member of witoesms were lifelyibl
toward to rose these faces, and the ease for the prosecution
baguet timid.
The Leaned Just told the Primer shat it wu MR liar la
ask'. his &hose.
. _ _

The Primate shoo handed in a subsea &law of eisasetter.
eh* kallh. tbstylelg the murder, sod artionog that he hod a
real mpert far the sofas Notate 'waft ma wheat death was
the .abject .1 she torro,nt engem,.
Setrrol respectable prune.. were rolled, ebbe pre the Prl-
...oer no roweling clars.,elet for boweolyr eetwirty,wwd mildness
of iemorr.

O.r ..11;.t4ce PA MK thee sesessed op the ~toner. obiris et-
cussed Ot. Lordship Orar Iwo been. awl the Jury after a Jon
ColNAlllailigle fetus ed a verdict of Net Goodly.
• The Prh...Wr defies the 'their of the aria did sal belts, the
lea., sissioass et fear sr soessisess. He is a welWookleg
y weal Masi, 11.110 23 limas, ace.
Mr. Je-tite IS tried caladosi noes is the Nisi Prise
CAW, awl the Mollie/. are expected td eud us Wedssoday seat.

LANCASTER, Maftcs 19.
NISI PRIUS.L-LIREL.
Nino 1. TAYLOR.

TMs tau an iodoctoseat against the D•foodent,
John Edward 'Taylor. of Mitnehesier, for pabliablog
• libel against Jolla Greenwood, Eq. lioroogbroore
of Manch►ster.

The Defendant appeared personally In Coed to
conduct his defence, •nd he was permitted to call
witnoases to prove that the allegations alleged to be
libellous wet. Ire*.

Mr ticmitorr stated the case very briefly on the
pert of the prosecution. He said Chet some alien-
sterstanding (which he did not eaplaio) existed be-
tween the Defendant and Mr. Greenwood, sod that
the libelinga miter of which the Prosecutor com-
plained was contaioed in a letter, written by the
Defends,' , and sett by his direction to the Prose.
color, and which, among other sinter, contalood
the following words:—" you have proved yoermif
a liar, a scoegdrel, end a slandereret." The hand.
writing of the Detention, sod the sending of the
letter having beer proved, the letter was read : it woe
to this following elect :

ant.—Your eN brier gives up the Dame of the auditor ef the
anadenres report you bale propegaiall respecting me. eninprh
sac lo ees•iiier yam as the fabricates of the report in goersii.e,
end to tell yaw, shot as you have had the basesess l• Miasmal,
character, • Wheat Meted had the weallosers oro jeerers your MO
duct —as yore have treated sty repeated applicathy letter. to
obtain lib replanatine, with elleireeptenes yaw have
awl she pendant, endeavour of my fr iend, Wr. Primes, la awe weal
of she groaates es which y on mode the awer tittes,w kb lesiavarkins
sate tioadentios thee year engird asseiliamn—lbat yea Mee
' proved ywor.elf • liar. a senuedrel, sad a slanderer g and
I shall adopt every steam of wok* politic the noising I tow.
as at year armlet' std I shall take the earliest eppartraity
at tellies yea, to your face, stud l think of yita.-1 am. Ac.
JOHN EDWARD TAYLOR.

This finished the case is the pert of the Presses.
lion.

'f he Defendant, after making a technical objectlea
to the indictment, which was oret.soled, addressed
the Jery in a speech of coesiderable ability. The
defeats was amply this. that the allegations costsl•.
id in the nleo•ire terms applied to Mr. Greeewood

IMO true. We shall state the circumstances of this
case at briefly as possible. In the month of July last,
a Meeting of the Commissioners of the Police of Maw.
chest's was held to appoint Assessors for theme's's('
year. At this Meeting a paper was laid upon the ,
table, containing the names of a number of persons
proposed as proper to fill this office. In the list was
Inscribed the name of the Defendant, John Edward
Taylor. Mr. Greenwood, the Prosecutor of this
indictment, who is a Commissioner of the Police,
attended epos this occasion : when the name of Mr.
Taylor was mentioned, he mid," I heard some Gen•
demon object to Mr. Taylor." No observation being
made by snyperson In the room, he repested his ten's'''.
Mr. Gill. another of the Commissiwiers,sald, " Who
is this Mr. Taylor?" Mr. Greenwood replied,thet
" he is one of those Iteformets, who go op and down
the country making speeches; and that he use the
setts*r of a hand-hill which was the cease of the
Manchester Eschange hying set on five." These ob-
servations of Mr. Greenwood being reported to Mr.
Taylor, he wrote several letters to the Proe.cstor,
c 'ached in respectful terms, requesting to know
the authority upon which he bed charged him
with tieing the author of that placard. To throe
letters no answer lilt returned, and en attempt of
Mr. Taylor's friend, to obtain an esnlenation from
Mr. Gseens end was equally onsecerssfol, sell be, on
i this occasion, insinusteal, that Mr. Taylor employed

himself in going op and down the crientry exciting
di,ulection. In consequence of this refuel to ex-
plain, the Defendant wrote the Lefler in question,
and which. 'nether with the other letters, was pat
into itret bawls of Mr. Cowdroy. printer, of Malt.
dotter, for public iaspocd.s. Defoodsot proted

the (whole of el.i• the metel einveeleble
Witt Mae% except that Kr. Greflefao •cl iii.••••ftes) to
have used the guild, fog weed. '• I ansks that
ha was the *other," &c. and did sof
...o.rietely so.
serf ft.

After hearing Mr. Scaatrtr, in rer,"y, Rarow
WOOD charged the Jiity. Ile s.irt, millet eon.
billed is the letter wet clearly :loot; the peb-
!kyles of it had been proved, toil the Dote,itiane
bad failed in Proving that the Prolocutor dereired
the appellations be had applied to hint in the letter
10 quegtion; bet in law the tieti of a libel would
sot Justify its pohlication: the condition of society
Would be ietoterable, and breeches of the peace
would be perpereallr accerr'rig, if every foible sod
crime of every indiridewl ewg'►t be published its ail
'the Illewspepties throeghiret iteitingdorn.
The Dettredant requested 'hit the letters which had
be►u read to the Court might be handed to the Jury.
This application was refused.
The Jury retired about 11 o'clock le the forenoon,
and did .not agree in their verdict until 1 I o'clock at
night, whew it.. Jury regorged, at the iedge's lodg-
ings, a verdict of—Not Gladly
Thu.. our Cot respoodeol rework., " Jurymen are no looter
ardwasata, but take the triode tri.lh sod (a► enln.. ifet.. lb. it
criv-ideralloo is their verdicts. Vier etireul r .h.. ti.•ert the
fro some. What ! it tit (heath-) to he rortodered
as as olovitliroa IMMO% sod proecnbol IIsOCISdOS us public
orearenta?"

MARCH 31.

Thomas Brovehion, James Simplon. John Col.
lips, William Husky, Kam Stadelast, Saraat
Brown, and Mary Bo!gale, were ■rraignal nn a
charge of riotously assembling together, and also for
an &smelt en the rentable. This was • prosecution
arising out of the late unhappy disierbances io Lan-
cashire, respecting an increase of wages, and the
Defendants were charged with having ',weed a per-
ms who bad been taken into cestn.ly and committed
to prisms. The Defendants pleaded guilty, sod Ser.
joust Caoss, on behalf of the lovniecation, rectos.
eseoded them to the mercy of that Court.
The Cuter BARON addressed the Defendants itt
the most impressive terms, in which he forcibly dwelt
on the incalculable evils which arose from tumultuous
assemblages, partimderly in the oendenty it had to
introduce • military Government, the secretary
effect of whirls weeld be the subversion of oar li-
bmoies.

The Defeedeoti very all disolaarpod ew Stitt cwt[
recognizance', ie appear wheal called upon to receive
jodgwelet, which would Inver ho the sass so long ad
they behaved well.