The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-05-26 00:00:00

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vations of Mr. Lovell have a reference. I now pro.
coed to close the case of my Client
• . it cannot be
necessary in a British Court of Justice,t
to urge one
word of reply to the argument, that moat make every
human mind shudder. Perhaps the awful times in
which we live, he may think it may justify hirs• in
some one possible case, that a person may exercise
his own judgment, and take justice into his os
hands; but I cannot help lamenting, that any oos
can he found capable of perverting such a doctrine
into a means of justification in his own unhappy con.
science, .iu making the most amiable and rirutou; .f
mankind outpace to such a theory. Whet, :Or.
Goldsmith first broached that doctrine, it sal
noticed In the House of Lords by one of the greatm
ornaments of the country, Lord Grey, who cool
not avoid feeling that the character of his counter
was stained by it ; and it was mentioned there, and
treated by all persons, on all sides, who took past in
the discussion, Kith the same degree of indignation,
that that Noble Lord expressed upon the occasion.
Then I ask you, whether Mr. Leven, the Militia;
could do asy thing else than state, in his observations
upon that sehject, his abhorrence of such a doctrine,
and his indignation at such as man, who pollutedthe
public press by giving that theory publicity. It
Mr. Lovell has been the first to strike the blow aid
provoke hostility—Bloc illar lacrgmac in the phrase
which the Defendant uses himself. Let Mr. Garrow
state that Mr. Lovell libelled him, by being. no friend
to the doctrine of-assassination, yet it is rrowedaid
acknowledged, and must in, some degidelijustited
by you.
Laid' Et.tessonouan.—Mr. Scarlett, are the
Continuum of the Jury,. and am I, to sit here to
adjust the balance of infamy that has taken pince pit
the respective libels of these two individuals. When
you avow that your Client did libel the Defendant,
for proposing the assassination of Louis the X Villth.
is it possible that the damages ere not mitigated to
nothing 2 Can you expect serious damages, when
you doge Mr. Goldsmith with proposing the horrid
I crime of assassinating Louis the XVHIth.? I hare
!!heard you with thakattention which your statement
deserves but yoti will recollect a case, in which the
present Plaintiff was the Defendant, lately at Guild-
hall, and I left the case to the Jury, and told them
to give him-the value of his character; they accord-
ingly gave the Plaintiff One Shilling. Are not, then,
the damage's, under the circumstaoces of. this case,
limited to nothing ?
Mr. G A tiltOilf•—My Lord, I was, unfortunately,
Counsel for the Plsintiff in that-case, which your
Lordship has alluded to,.asid I Mid* your Lordship
is mistaken in regard to the amount of the.damagts I
obtained, for the Jury only gave me a Farthing.
Mr. F.tItLETT.—I would not have entered into
that part of the case, unless I had felt-that that was
the impression likely to arise in your Lordship's
mind. Thi's case does not, however, precisely fall
within the principle of that one. If this libel o.
Mr. Lovell's, in which he charges Goldstnin
with advocating the doctrine of assasi.natiott,
been something arising from himself, and that cold:I
not be justified by other means, the case might hare
been otherwise.

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Lord ELLENBOROUGII.—If you .go on, You Ito so
with the chance of the damages you may vet, or :I
nou•suit ;.perhapS what I might suggest migl7t redeem
you from one of these predicaments.
• • Mr. ScAttLerr.—My Lord, the reprobation of the
thegry in question was not peculiar to the STATE,-
MA7, for ill the other Papers took the matter op at
, the time. •
Lor(LELtatiropiotron • 1
-7-.Eseli of them then were,
or may be Beak 'with aijtistice . requires, when they
i come before a Itiry. In that other case Mr. Lovell
,came as the Defendant, and there were only nominal
damages against him ; you will exercise your discre-
! tion in this matter, but after the subject has been
: blazoned forth to the world, and has occupied sere-
! ral hours; the knowledge and good sense of as
1. English Jury will limit the damages to that amount
which the.real circumstances of the case call for.
I Mr. SCARLETT.—I should have no objection to
[adopt Tour Lordship's suggestion, provided Mr. I.n•
vellhail au.thorised me to withdraw his action urn
'the subject, and that the Couusel for Mr. Goldsmith
be authorised toladopt such a mode of najustmen'.
Mr, GARROW.-11 enter into no compromise, htic
I will do whatever your Lordship recommends in
'this action.
Mr. Sc IRLIST.—Mr.LoveII thought, he was dole;
his duty in publishing what he did ; but lam to un-
derstand, that that is the ground and foundation of
what your Lordship recommends. ..
Lei( Eturononoucit.—lt might be my wish that
there was an esid of all these causes ; I cannot hear
stated Any thing as to the malignity of parties in this
case ; perhaps it would be for the interest of theM
parties to put themselves out of the cipmtce of elu
cidation, by coming into something of A cOrilPro.
• mist.. , ,
Mr.likoomwrr..--My Lord, Vibe one party' in.
:Ist utiini.,". tike'%foth of what he has said,. I i i not
I see how pint Lordship's proposal can be accent-
plished.
hir.GANtoqr.--Your Lordship will easilY belie":
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