Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-06-29

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nv. cheetham to TaEquin, and for this i
IL nrobable, Mr.. c. IS thankful. Caesafs
wis. ne said was not 60 be suspecteds and;
he might have added that 20 Monan sllo1ld'
Dc without good cause. Mrs: Bonhesilk
GENES before YOU, gentlemen, said this
droil man, ike a fair, houest, yirtaoos.
and spo,less woman as she 10, and sues for
her renurzriun: She IS stranger in cur
land. came here 20 instruct our YOUTH pleas
ed herseif with the hope of >ehjoyiuS her,
days among freenlen, and did not expect TO
meet q tyfant. Her husband Ia Paris Ha
what Is he, and what might he have been
He 10 ruined man, and yet had he trimmed
and &iked and turned and Aattered the
emperor, he might have been asduke. Poor
mistress Bonneville, did vo0 but know how
her tender heart is broken! 1t, gentlemen.
there be iustice-if yoafegard your oaths,
said Nit; S. I believt yuaf do, you will con-:
Iict this man. Who Is he! What has he
published ais editor? How many ltbels e-e
VIM has escaped has fury? Here the eours
interrupted Mr. S. declaring that it could
not permit this .lieeuce of attack. Alter
mounting not little impertineuce TO the
court, which was properly noticed and re-
pressed by the Recorder, Mr.. S. read the
charges IN the indictment, as above set
forth, made some becoming apologies for
his poor abilities, and closed his address
with judieiously expressing hope that the
the defendant would'be convicted.
Mr.. Rose opened the cause Of the de.
PENDANT in a speech which was admired by
all who heard it for its neatress and perspi-
Guilty, and which, though our limits do not
permit 10 to give more than an outline Of
the trial, we regret it 10 not in our power TO
Law before the reader in the elegant diction
(; in which it was clothed. Having stated III
terms of appreciation which we cannot re.
pea, the motives Of Mr.. Chee,ham for writ.
ing the Life of Paine, Mr.. r, said there is
50 much truth in the adage-- tell me the
company you keep aHd will tell you what
YOU are-that he could not refrsin from
begging the particular attention Of the jury
to IL. Mr:rSampson has told you thai the
lady sues for her reputation. A woman,
gentlemen, that complains Of the loss Of
reputation should, Mr.. Rose observed, have
had o reputation to lose. What could we
think Of the character of a mother, the wife
of man in Paris; who had placed herself
and children under the protection OF a man
who, having raised TO himself column OF
| Of the earth, had wansoniy and wiekedify
demolished it by waeing an inpious war
against the King Of Heaven: Yet my client
had 90 wish 70 NEEDLE with the character of
| this woman. Uhat which he has published
was communicated to him to communicate
it to. the public. He had nothing of the
malice which is essential to a libel. He
does not know madame B. whom he has
never to this moment seeh--How then could
he be actratcu by malice towards her -
II was merely to illustrate the character OF
Paine, by stating his conn., xions with her,
tha, she was introduced into the work at all.
We all remember The late philosophical
p-esiden. Jefferson, who in his Notes''on
Virginia particularizcs the murder of~Lo-
CAMS family by Cresap. Here MIR. cited
the narrative of the murder, and repeated
part of Logsn's celebrated speech. MIR.
Martin, Mr. X. continued, publicly adj
dressed several letters to Mr.. Jefferson, in
which he denied the truth of his statement
respecting Cresap. In the appendix of a
receu, addition of the Nut, $, Mr.. Jefferson
investigates the complaint of Mr.. Martin,
and bsamrs'him for stepping at once into
the newspapers, without having previously
and privately enqu.. ID onwha. grounds the
aa nor had related the pathetic story. IF
Cresap was slandered, Logan, not Mr.. JEFF
fersoa, was the slanderer, for Logan, in the
delicious eloqurnce which he has lefty Us,
stated che circumstances of the murder to
others, who had communicated them to
Mr. Jefferson, in a manner which justified
tia, gentleman in the propagation OF them
in the form IN which they are now found.
So OF Madam B. Il she be libeIled, those
who communicated the facts TO Mr.. Chees.
ham SOFAS 20 wsrrans HE statement Of them,
are NE libellrrs, She ough. therefore to
Rave 'eslled upon Mr.. Cher,hamS inform.
ants, and, II there were ground for com.
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