The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-09-17 00:00:00

TI 1 E STATESMAN.

f•nrlant Bat CI.III appoir•il owl es phi nod the
11nutetinn, and thPit, indef.& th• Ilefontliat rifirrwl
In pay IN. 851 184. BO 11111 r, lottl freutlelently
vathhPlel the letter of tiovrartirm, be ass boattd at

Ins. In pry the prime roll nf•rh. Inotll.
Witnesses pureed the ahnve f.cu. and Clark
proved that ho could hese bartered the (nods for
awry than the invoked salvo, and that they bad bees

sold wader •aloe.
Mr. Attonnae-Gt•rcuar. propvr►d In pot in eei•
dente a state of account* between lite Drfendoint
and
Clark, in order to show that the Defendant had
largo claims upon Clark, and that the realittancee
wore gametal, and not specifically referred to any
goods of the Plaintiff's. Tho evidence was objected
to, sod refused.
Mr. Jostire tJ*yr.zY remarked, that it WWI in eel.
dericr that the Plaintiff offered in take 855. Ms., and
that it was not usual in Courts of Joatico to go for

0111fI.
Mr. Setjeent CRollll.vhinitied that. sine* they were
obliged In come to a Covet •f ~dice, they had a
tight to claim all they Inst thtnieh the (teed of the
Defendant.— Vetdirt for 031. 71.

VVEAILITONV V TO4TRICIL.
Mr. Strjeant !JULIA/Cc stated this nu. It was
An scrips to reenter the value of the ship James, for.
'felted in conserprenc• of an Metal shipment of goo.
liewder by the Defendant. This ship was to pill
lion Liverpool for Pernambuco, in the Brazils, and
she Digendant got a late qesniity of gunpowder
skipped, in crates and iiescrs, in order to be eon.
veseri in that part of the world. This was in July,
1818. Goopooder could not be ?sported without
an order of the Privy Council ; besides, in May.
ISIS, there had been a Royal Prorlarnation, pro.
hibitioe the exportation of Poch an article in South
America. The ship had in consequence been forfeited
by the verdict of a Jury in the Court of Eactiequer.
The Defeudsnt, upon being sued there, felt it pre•
dent to enter into as arrangement ; but in this scion
he refused to enter into any arrangement. Ilia at-
tempt now would be to represent one Curzon as the
real shipper of the contraband goods. Carson was
to go to South America, as agent for the Defendant
in this speculative, bet the goods erre the De-
feeds nt's.
Evidence was given at great length of the whole
transaction, end it was abundantly proved, th•t the
Defendant was acting with Curzon, in making op
the gunpowder is crates for crockeries, and in casks
with hams : a letter hoot the Defendant to Curzon,
recommending secrecy respecting the seeds (gun-
powder), and isponoting a hope that Curzon would
get his passage for 201., instead of 301., on accuent
I of Iris intimacy with Comet, the Captain, was ShO
gresioced•
The value of the ship was proved to be 14001., and
the profits of two voyages which she might have made
to South Anietica were calculated at flt/01. The
Gatefle ass put in evidence to prove the Procla-
mation, but Mr. Altorne)•Gerseral objected to 11,1
sod his Lordship reserved that point for the De-
fondant.
Mr. Areoaurt•Gcmcst tr. addressed tire Jery at
some length, and with great energy, for the De-
fendant. There'll no evidence to make Patrick the
shipper ; on the contrary, Curzon was ills shipper of
the goods. Why was not Cassel, Ike Capfuls, rail.
ed, or why was this action brought when he was net
of the way ? Ile count at once prove the real ship-
per ; but if the Plaiatilfs or their Captain had been
privy to this treasattion, they could not recover
that they were so, at !teat that the Captain was,
they might infer from she fact that their ship was not
restored to them. Those who knew the bemenity
and compassion which the Attorney-Geoeral show.
ed in tin such eases, would believe that there meat
have been clear evidence of a guilty patticipatiost
white the Pathless fur the restoration of the ship went
',reset).
Mr. Jerks BATLEY sutsstrd up with much pa.
Bence and care. If Patrick was partner in the ship.
ping of the goods, he was liable. With respect to
what had bees said of the Teresal to restore the
ship, that refusal might have proceeded from sus-
picion, and suspicion was not a foundation for the
proceedings of a Court of Justice. They were sot
without evidence to lifer the participation of the
Plaintilfs.
Verdict for the Plaintiff—Damages One Thousand
Five Ileadred Pounds.

TUESDAY, <<rT• 4.

Mr. ATTORNIT-GENERAL (Scarlet!) having yes.
today hurried into. Coen without his gown and
wig, eprilogised to Isis Lordship, and espressed
a hope that the time would come when these mum.
series would be throw. away. In precise accord•
mice with this prediction, all the Cornet who still
remained appeared this morning in Court without
any professional badges. • At the conclusion of the
first trial, Mr. Atturney.General retired; et the
conclosies of the seat, Mr. &desist Cross; at the
conclusion of the third, Messrs. Littledele,
and Voseables ; mad Messrs. Williams and Park were
left to conteed epos the lest cane in the list.
RIGBY P. CKOISLIY.
Mr. WILLIAMS said, that whatever the Jury might
think of either or bosh of the parties, it would be
matter of womised utisfaction that this was the last
cause at the punt Assists. It was properly the
last, for it was the most tridieg. The sum claimed
was about 31. It had been submitted to arbitrators.
bet the arbitrator proving furious partisans, they did
eel help to settle the dills/fence. Even after the ac.
OOPS had bees brought, the Plaints" world have al-
lowed it to sleep, but the Defendant got it enteretl'
by proviso. They would by their verdict show that
the Defendant hail as well be quiet.
Whimsies were called, who proved the admission
of the debt, and a promise to pay in 1818.
Mr. PARE set •p • on•oll. by a trespass committed
by the Plalosirs cow, and called two witnesses, who
swore that they had been present in November,
1816, when she Plaintiff agreed to remit the deist,
and the Defendant the trespass.
Mr. Jessica BAYLIT was of opinion that, pePti if
the agreement set, folly proved, it could oat be op.
pissed to the resent action without a release; but
left the ease to the Jury upon tie evidence. Verdict
for the Plaintiff—Dameges 31. Is.
Theo, at twelve o'clock, terminated she laneashire
Assists and the Northern Circuit. Among the con.
limn of Gottestes stumbled at Lsocotor se this

occasion, the wets of the IGth of August at !:
cheery formed the principal o-pic of in lion and
dieceeion. We now feel fell) qualified to state, not
only the prevailing, hut the onsnimnes, opinion upon
that distressing sathjett. The Meeting on the II
of Aegast they viewed. hn•rver. a. precisely similar
in Ps character and ohject to the Meeting in Smith-
field. They were 'vivified that there 'Meel not the
slightee ititonlion or preparation to break the peace;
esti they regarded it as morally certain, that the
crowd would have dispersed in peace and order.—
Most orrequivncelly, therefore, did they disapprove
of any interference on the part of the Magistrate', to
arrest any person even hi means of the civil power;
the Plnilin!, WPM. of the Yeomanry Caseley they con.
dunned in unqualified term', but they weed evi-
-1 'lion that their commission emended only to the sr-
rest of the leaders. The conduct of the cavalry in
seising the colours, and in riding and cutting their
way through the crowd, I. by every one reprobated
as wanton and both 00000 cruelty. Little doubt
Seemed to be ontertaiqed hot the prosecution of Mr.
hunt and others (or conspiracy originated in the mid.
conduct of the Magierates and Yeomanry ; sod every
one admitted, the their conviction upon the fullest
levidenre and the fairest trial, world not form a tittle
of jaatilirstioe or mese for the bloodshed of the 16th
of Angust.
We are surprised that in the diveossiont goon this
subject, ne allertion has ever been mode to the yin.
lent, and we believe from recollection, military st.
meat bf the Blenheim at Manchester. At that
time, the suspension of the Haloes. Corpus let loose
upon the people the Ignorant and vindictive passions
of local *mistral's, and the sehaetteeot indemeity
prevented any correction or toenteraction of the na.
grant abases which had been committed. Prudent
and humans shepherds would never think of guiding
or colieeting their sheep by any dogs that had onre
tested Hoed. The Manchester Magistrates had tint
oily the precedent, bet the experience, of military
arrests. Inflented by local prejudices arid party feel-
lags, animated by the example set by the Lord
Ma) or of Load°e in ting Harrison, and in.
,strutted by their own esperlence and recollection,
they molted to arrest every speaker at tha late
Meeting, and alderogh the eel poser might be sef.
aciest. they thought the military more sore. Hence
IM unprecedented, otsparalleled, inexclasaMte events
of the 16th. That the unaccoentsble proceedings of
the Grand Jury have not screened the Magistrates or
the Yeomanry is certain. We have ',ported fully
the trial of Corrigan for mustier. The history of Isis
fate before the Coroner's Jury, before the Grand
Jury, and before the Crown Jury, Is curious and
important. Cor,igao had sot the good foresee to be
screened by the Coroner's Jury, and the Crown Jury
coevitted him of manslaughter.