The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-07-08 00:00:00

'RAWL SCITON V. Silt V aueorrr AND V PLWC.

Mr. SCANI.IrrT observed, that he had hoped that the
defence would base been waved in this case es io
these which had just preceded it, especially as the
evidence, which was the same es had been °Bitted for
the first case, had been so unsuccessful. The argument,
as he anticipated, could be no other than bad be..
cued then, and he considered as very little better
than the story of " 7%is is the horse shot Jack
bolt." Mr. Lane 's friends were to be charged with
causing their own windows to be broken, because the
' mob which they hired had provoked the °:b.., molt to
rn: emit such and such outrages. The Defendants' plea,
'herd/ire, would run thus: that if the friends eat Mr.
Lamb had not hired penile to keep the peace, it
tenuld not have been broken; and a similar series
would bring them by due process to the posiiion that
if there had been no contest there "instil base been
see riot (though of that he was not quite sate), anal
if there had been no election there could have been
on contest, a conclusion which the Jury must think
very absurd, and which resembled the aerie% that he
had before alluded to, foaming a chain of Ingic from
" 'beam with the crimpled born," to " this is the
haute that Jack built." Ile was sorry that be was
obliged to go through the evidence again, as he had
hoped from the failure of the first defence that the
time of the Court might have been saved in the other
. Ile called evidence to prove the riot.
Mr. BLACESURN insisted no it that the tint was
provoked by a mob hired by Mr. Lamb's Committee,
the hiring, and in part the paying, of which he
would pledge himself to prove. This was an illegal
act, even if it was done with the vie i• wh'.ll nad
been assigned to it by the l'lsintiff. If they 'pleura
to Hasckins's Pleas of Ike Cromn, they would find
that persons were positively forbidden by law to
hire guardians for their nose protection in passing
the King's highway ; they are bound to apply In the
civil power in eases of danger. But this was a most
extraordinary selection of rotate preservers, which
comprised a great number of the "nuttiest pegilisis,
including Cribb, Caleb Baldwin, and others, to.
litesveli .k r wit. atl toe rialiins oho could be mot.
I tem'. 110 was not silly enough to atte.npt any
thing of reasoning like the hi•:ory of the Horse
11:41 Jock built. But be did wit think it so.
reasonable to suppose that such a mob, having been
cheated out of the money which they were prousised,
, and basing actually committed riotous damage in the
lipase where they had assembled on that account,
. which he should prove to them, might in their wrath
I go used df oviliab the windows of those who hail, ac-
cording to their ideas, imposed on them—be gimlet
Mr. Lamb's Committee, of which he o 'told prove
Earl Sefton to have been a member. lie called the
saute evidence as before.

The Lotto CUM Justice put it to the Defend.
ant's Couasel, whether tney ought not, in fair.
nesa to 'Aguirre* other voider,' n, or begin with
sown other part of the former, as they could not hope
to prose the connection by 1111' alma COS, 40 which
11911 (Ailed in the first cas►. lle asked them if, upon
their honour, they coul.l produce direct evidence of
Lail S.•fton's connection with Mr. Lamb's mob ; be.
cause if they could sot, he appealed to them if it
would be &corns, to dolaio be Court upon this par.
Uvular cam—They pledged themselves that they
roads! e‘tablialo the connection; they would not bay
by direct evidence, but there were various links Ise.
cessary to form a chain of evidence, which oltinsately
might produce clear conviction.—Mr. ll:Acker/Ire,
its the course of his address, protested against the use
11 of the names which had been selected for carrying on
she prosecutions. Jury were, no doubt, aware
that the names of the Derelicts's*, were early matter of
form, end that any others would hove done as well ;
he was persuaded, that those comes were selected by
the Plaintiffs, Mr. Lamb's friends, for no other per.
pose than to connect the caste of Reform with those
riots which bad actually been provoked and •ecated
by a mob hired by themselves.
G. W. Wailer was then called, and his evidence
clearly established the hiring of the mob by Mr.
Lamb's friends, bat in the opinion of tho Court did
nothing to prove the connection between the mob
and Ea►l Sefton, or Fart Sefton and the Committee ;
indeed the Plaintiff's evidence declared that Mr.
Lomas had no Committee.
The Cams Justice directed the Jary to god for
the Plaintiff. Wane.— Damages 441. Gs. %I.
Lord Sefton at by Ike aide of the Judges, Mr.
Macdonald anon the King's Counsel.

COURT OF COMMON rt.r.As, Jrll.l.
LvirT a. Tl4llsuratrn Or t.owooms•
This was an action sgainst the prroomt Sheriff' for
sn illegal entry and trespass. The Plaintiff,
Levy, was the father of Lewis Levy, one of the Isar-
ties concerned with Moseley ‘•rwolfe entl Kinnear,
and with them convicted of the conspiracy, sod'aeo.
tented to pay a flue of 511001. Tie Sheriffs oht4iiied
a writ of Lenora Fociasontl with it preeeetleil tu Lewes
fivers boort", to levy on his goods fn, the amount of ,
the line. here they found the Plaintiff i,, poses inn,
soder s warrant of attorney, ohich, he aad, he held
in his hands since 1814, at .Lich lime it nes
lensed by his son. Ile at that 'inte advanced to Lewis
Levy the tom of .S(X/I. to set him going in business,
land took the nervosa of attorney es s security, bvt
did list put it in force till the lame pro...cation was
instituted against hiss-ft, when he entered into pos-
session to Ferule himself. Th. Sheriff., I•.•,rrwer,
not w ithst:ndttsg this repreSentstiort, pr,,eired,l
to
levy, and the Ilaisttia brunet the present action.—
Tao only queetion now was, as in the I gshity of the
warrant, and whether it was a bone fide tr"oisst 'inn.
The Jury, after retiring fur turas tune) found a
Tertlict for the Drltud3ats.