The Statesman.
London, England, 1824-01-29 00:00:00

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In the first place we would direct our attention to the
expediency of prohibiting a publication of the proceedings
of the Court.We will suppose there are 1000 persons present
at the trial; and that, before the trial is over, half of them
quit the Court. What shall prevent this half from pro-
mulgating orally to an equal number of persons
every thing that has passed—and these again from
communicating to another equal number what they
have just heard, and so on •ntil the matter has be-
come as notorious as the publication by a newspaper can
possibly make it? Is there any law that can put a
padlock on the tongue, and prevent the auditors from
making known every minutia of the trial? And if the
Court cannot stop the tongues ofpindivid oats from speaking
of its proceedings, of what possible utility can it be to
impose silence on the press ? May not the evidence given
on the trial, if there be danger to the prisoner or the
Crown in giving it publicity, be spread as wide, nay,
wider than by means of the press? The publication, it
may be, is of a very limited circulation ; but, according to
this doctrine, the printing of ten or twenty, or any small
number of newspapers that shall contain any account• of
the proceedings of the Court, contrary to its order,
shall amount to an offence that is to call down the ven-
geance of the Court, whilst five thousand tongues, set in
motion, that circulate the same information through the

Tue ARIIT.—On Thursday afternoon (22d inst.) about
100 Irish recruits arrived to join the 94th Regiment. It is
now considerably more than complete, consisting of op-
oards of 800 men. The regiment is formed into eight
companies. eight)-three rank and file each. They have
been inspected by the Commander-in-Chief for Scotland,
and other field-officers. They are expected to leave town
in about a month for Edinburgh. Neither the appoint-
ment of officers nor serjeants is yet complete. The regi-
ment will be ready to take the field in six months; and a
year will complete their training. On their departure the
rem.rittder of the 65th regiment will arrive from the me•
tropolis to replace them. The shopkeepers in the vicinity
of the Barracks are much bendtted. by the quartering of
the new corps; and are doing murebpsiness than, at any
time since the car.—(Glasgow Chrwgcle.)
We are informed that the person alluded to In the Mansion.
bowie report of yesterday, as having seduced a young wo-
mannow In St. Sepulchre's workhouse, has not for several
years past been a member of the ()takers' tloolety.—(Marrs-
in paper.)

lead, shall
.move harmlessly and inoffensively,and excite no
displeasure. In slitter, whatever way the subject is con-
sidered on the score of expediency, we mast admit the
folly of the prohibition,
We would next consider the question as it tegards the
subject. On this point there cannot surely, in a country
where liberty is so well understuol, he two dissentient
voices. By the constitution, of the realm every man has
a right to be tried by his peers. if a man offend
against any known and well defined law, let him be
tried by a Jury of his country. Let him be brought
face to face, before his accusors. Let him know for what
he is to he brought to the Bar of Justice. Let his offence
be well defined. Let no ambiguity be charged against him.
Above all, let not any person, be his rank or station ever
so high, set himself up as his accuser aid his Judge. In
the case before us, who makes the law ?—The Senate?
The Parliament ? The Wittinagtmote of England ? The
three estates of the Realm—the Commons, the Loris, t
he
King ?—No, no! the Judge of the Court.—Who accuses?
Who prosecutes? The Judge..--Who tries? The Jnflge.
Who condemns ? The Judge.---Who punishes? The
Jedge.—AHD ALL THIS IN gNGLAND: —lf such be the law
of the land; if the subject can be thus accused—prosecuted
—tried, condemned, punished—shall we, can we, say of it
Ego perpetual. But it way not be. The Law, which is
called the perfection of reason, knows not of summary pro-
ceedings, where the liberty of the subject is concerned;
theft, murder, and other outrageous crinies, that require
the instant security of his person, to the end that he may
not elude or escape justice, always excepted. But to im-
prison his person, to set a fine on his bead, for violating
the dictum, for acting contrary to the will and pleasure of
a Judge,and that nil' emanating from an undefined source,
may not, cannot, be consonant to the principles of juris-
prudence, bottomed and a,nctioned by the accumulated
wisdom of free England. Libery, the birth-right of En-
glishmen, is n a to vanish before the mandate of a
Judge, acting, we say again, tinder no defined or definable
law. The sic villa, slat pro rationc, may be a motto befi
tiog a Bourbon ur the great Autocrat of the North, or arty
other Legitimate of the South. It once prevailed in this
country, ander a line of Kings, happily now extiect. But
the tyrannical fiat that incarcerated man within the walls
of a dungeon, and left him a prey to the heartless merry of
his accuser and his Judge, his ceased to have operation
under the :tiller sway of a Brunswick. The King himself,
armed- and fenced, and "hedged" around with all his
power, cannot issue his command to arrest, and imprison,
or to line, the lowest peasant of the land, with impunity ;
for a right of action will immediately accrue, not against
the Sovereign, indeed, who gave, but against the officer
who executed the mandate ; and shall it be said, then
that those who execute the laws and hold
their authority direct from his shall wield
this omnipotent engine? Shall the servant he greater
than the master ? Shall he who acts as vicegerent be
greater than him from whom he derives his power ?
Let as now consider the important question, as it affects
the liberty of the press. We will never become the advo-
cates of that licentious and undefined freedom of the press,
which spent' with private character. Let the insidious
assassin, that aims a blow at his neighbour's fair fame be
punished : let the dark cilumny that breaks in upon the e
peace and social joys of domestic life 'be repressed ;—let At the Annlvereardy .weetine of the Antiquirian Society
Woft' is town, on e .esday se'nnigait, an interesting
.pa-
the obscene exhibitions which corrupt the tided, and :no-
rats of our youth, and offend the cheek of modesty, be ter by Mr. W. Chapman .sus read to th • meettne, gime
an ,recount of the antiquities and curiosities discovered in
blotted out and disappear.—But in all other respects, we digging the canal from Carlisle to the West sea, under that
and. cgon
will never cease to advocate the rights of the preps, anti to the
(miinsesot
vienrtyereostnin oLpeaariti c:tf,st
st
fs
etnttilleumnaien:atiodnirerceiti;tl
as among the first, the right to publish the proceedings of the Solway Frith, beyond 'trough, of a sobterramous fe-
Collets of Public Justice. The law of England kno s not • rest of oak,
embede in a stiff blue clay.n
o anfd
th lying from
how to administer its statutes and its ortlinanees pith, to to feet below the four latiee in
Wall, which pissed over it. The trees, which were of
closed doors. The Judges of the inquisition may sit in judge large dimensions, were all lying towards the north; the
went on their victims, and the auto da fc may 'eight up stumps of were in their natural position.—And tic at
its fires for their sacrifice; but, in England, publicity is
the life and soul of liberty. Whilst it exists, Judges most Is more oar es rt ;tete raksathol el; thee s
asrvro od
stin these
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treat
oak, ablioug, b it is evident ityli it it omit h eve lain tber•
respect popular opinion. Destroy its inflaenee, and whet some thousatid years, as the period of its growth west have
will be the consequence? Establish but for once, that no
public Journalist shall give an account of what passes in a been long ;interior to the building of the Roman Wall
it will follow that what is ordered
Court of Justice, anti uroses of embankment &c. along with other words
te, pferectly son, d as
embankments
o
e wed that it it as used o tto
piece of it was exhibited and presented to the Society. The
to he done to-day, may be ordered to he done to-morrow I antiquities consisted principally of a rudely carved bored
and the inroad once made,no one can know whither it wilt fore, snpposed to be a Bacchus, and a small coin, bohuh
lead.ln 61'10 may lead to the utter subversion of the right founidt nebar
blii
re otti4rilat .21 Lk! saes wne.ares
solt h t literefsr.anutteiiii,
litto :f tes
to publish at all, except under the sanction of a lieerse, on
red eerytheyrn howl, Chapman;
in the station at Near-etill.
emanating either from the Sovereign or the Judges. We the first sink[g of the eolliery.and which was long iv the
admit that it would be a long time ere the re ,ple of possessi t! a hate Hornby, Esq.—Arica:stir
Chronicle.
England would submit to such a rule. But we are arguing
ROYAL SOCIETY or EDINIMROII.—At a Meeting on Monday,
an abstract question, and deprecating the consequences of Mr. Adie exhibited a very neat experiment, dernonstra:ine
permitting the first inroad, on the principles by whirl, wendedpoio of wa.er in the synthetical way. It ea',
one of the most vital parts of English liberty has bit; erto on h late discovery of Professor Duberei! et. e,t,
been cherished and secured. We say therefore, broadly, p scoringnu t t
di t
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that if once our Cotters of Just' co prohibit the publica- gr
e tiger filled with two parts of hydrogen gas, and one tart
tion of what passes wi!liin its walls, and fine and imprison of oxi gen gas; he
inverted it in a mercurial trough;
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an Englishman for the disobedience of that prohibition, then took a small ball of the prepared platinur,
a dangerous precedent may be established, which m..y sterttectul
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lead step by step to the total abolition of the right to put.- gaseottsy.fiuide, come kind of absorption w
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Halt any of the proceedings of the Court ; and the abo- we will not pretend to expl iin, and the mercury, ea,r!this
the ball on its surface, ascended to the top of the tube.
lition of this right may be followed by the abolition of the
experiment is quite ilex ;and we assure our enperimentinit
right to be present, and terminate in the. erection of a friends, that to.-y will net find it ttilliealt te tfied by the
e.ut
r
Judicature with closed doors. description, and they will be very mach grati
results, of whirls sir should be glad to hear a satisfactory
theory.—Sdiaborgh Literary Gazette.
• Y.sterday [lmmo,: it was discovered that one of
the
prisoners confined in our County tweed James
hKay,t
had put a period to his existence by cutting his troa
with a cleap-knife. The deceased, who was sentenced te
three months imprisonment for vagrencv, complained of
indisposition on Saturday, and was admitted into the
Hospital, where medical assistance was afforded lite:
Early yesterday morning he complained of has+ g a eer'll.
pain in his side, and said he wished he c
ould of
some tea was given him by the nurse; he appemit
composed, and quietly laid himself on the lied. In abet
h•ilf an hour afterwards he e as found cold and lifeless;
on examining his body several incisions were found in
neck, which had completely severed the windpipe
between his legs was discovered the fatal instrument's`
which he accomplished the deed. Although three sick
were in the ward with the deceased, and awake the
wb
time, they were imeonscicus of what was occurring.
cause is assigned for the perpetration of the art.
Coroner's Inquest wilt be held on the body this day (271'
—(hlaidstone Journal.)

DIAL, January 2R.--Wind W.—Came down from the
River and remain, the outward hound as before, the William
Imshington, Stighrtae, and the Royal Charlotte.—The weaCier
has been squally throughout the day.
PORTSMOUTH. January 28.—Wind N.W.—Arrived the Cyn-
thia, Lidater, from Zante, in distress.—A large ship has just
been brought up in St. ll:Aril's Roads, supposed to he the Don.
Company's ship alacqueen, for China.—Sailed the New mess-
ing, Jones, for L.:ndon.
PLYMOUTH. January 27.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Kinners.
ly Castle, Couch, from Norfolk, in 36 days.
FALMOUTH. January 27.—Wind W.—Put back the Good
Intent. Tonkin, for Terceira.
Liventroos., January 27.--Arrived the Mary and SUM.
Couthy ; Two Friends, Smith, and Amethyst, I3ussey, from
Savannah. sailed 2d J anus ry.—Fidelity. English, fro:a Phila.
delphia ; Ilebe, from the Mediterranean ; Caroline,
Ditatay. from Jamaica ; and Julia. Rateson. from Seville.—Toe
Jane, from Demerara, was seen 23d instant, lying to of Cape
Clear.

The Cossack, Topping, for Sierra Leone. was on share oa
the Red Niagara near Liverpool, on Tuesday.
'End Islam, Biggins, from Liverpool to Barbadoes, was Ina
on Blackwater Bank, near Wexford on Sunday atria.—Crew
saved.