Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-09-03
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were all crowded, and the throne {. = wv
susl and prodigious, that the chjrf ;, .+'
was obliged to order the avenues to +. sr r'
ed, it being with the most exueme dF s1' y
that even the prisoners could coru;,S'
get into the body of the court.
At length trey appeared, and the .,o
ney. general ra,ed Judgment agaias, Wm
Goblet, I. c. Hausard, John Eudd, r1
Richard Bagshaw. '''
Mr.. Justice Crosse FIRST addressed H.
prisoner, Goblet: lie signiGed to him ,s
ne was convicted of most foul and wilt
libes-A libel, the tendency Of which W.
TO create dislike of their duy In Tie l,,J
militia OF the country, and disgust to On,
services in the foreigners employed therein
and through them TO bring disgrace On h.
government, and 10 para!ize the eneycis@
the state. The learned judge observed
that the opportunity and season that the de.
fendant had selected were these when an
enemy, the most tcrocious, was at the very
monaent threatening our shores an energ
whose military government had laid bros.
,rate the surrounding states, and who mas.
ed his way with spoti&tion and plumber
vet this was the enemy who was stated BY
the prisoner to use his soldiers better than
the soldiers of this country were used, and
whose government was compared with The
government OF this country, and ASSERTED
by him 20 afford more comforts and pro.c.
tion to its sold'ery than were afforded to The
soldiers Of this countrv. The maionancg
Of this poison was therefore considerably
increased by the time and the season wha
it was spread throughout the nation De.
PENDANT had fair, patient, and impartial
trial, he had the fullest opportunity 0! Re.
moving from the minds Of the jury any
doubts that they might entertain, il any
doubts they could have, of the guilty aal
drle,erious libel that be was charged viii
But the defendant neither did nor coaltZ'
cupate himself in their eyes, and they de-
cided upon him with proofs most conV1c'
ing of the foulness ard wickedDess Of f'
guilt. II it could not be imputed! to him
that his objects were only to distract the
government and to embarrass the state, then
it could not be denied that objects, il no!@
dangerous, at least as base, could hot be'f,,
moved from his intentions, nanel;, thAol
wiring lbeIs for the degenerate purposes
Of base and unworthy lucre and Proh'---'
This then, itself, was an offence OF The Gser
est die, and such as the courl was lmP'Ir
ously called upon to visit with he"''
hand.
1t was much to be lamcntcd that m''
who had the experience Of the deISno"n'
should, after all that passes in HE, 50 T01
SANITY before his eyes, grow worse a'c
he increases in years, increase in n'a''5":.
1t was also lamen,abie that the nu"tIS',
examples made of libelIefs had 10 en' INV.
upon him; but that knowing the la'"' Wv
sequence of such conduct, he still P''iI w.
veres in spreading the poison OF 'n0'' ';a.
structive malignancy through the "%'' n.
A check must be put to such miscA''' h.
state must be governed, the army Fus, son
traduced when they are laborln8 IN co'" 70
with the whole of our military system g.,
support the dignity and protect the 'a a,..,
Of the empire, and the military system. w. IN
not be moved TO disgust of the ssrS''s va.
which they are employed. For 'hess ~ to
sons the court holds itself calico uPo" a.d
exert its authority this day. The Ica'" ;sn
Judge then adver,ed to the libel no" ,hso
the most prevailing features OF IT. a'u ms mass
in an emphatic manner proceeded 10 p"
the following
SENTENCE OF WIN. CoBBETI'
I" The sentence Of the court is, t',"' mn
William Cobbett, do pay fine to Tux, ,:. I ma.
of loooL that you be imprisoned IN "'1 70 rvo
iestv's gaol of Newgate Tor the space %, mi.
years; that, at the expiration OF 'o"s Lt,p
cd, you enter INTO recognizancesc ~ :, RI,
the peace for seven years, yourself !" emf,
sum of 3OOOl. and two suretles ID u. b: