The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-09-04

the government, and to paralize ,he ener-
gies OF the state. The learned Judge OBJ
served. that the opportunity and the sea
son that the defendant had selected were
those when an enemy, the most ferocious
was at the very moment threatening our
! shores; an enemy whose military govern
ment had laid PROSTATE the surrounding
States, and who marked his way with
spol'ation and plunder; yet 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 Govern
ment was compared with the Government
OF tins country, and asserted by him to af :.
ford more Comfort and protection To its
soidiery than were afforded to the soldiers
or ms country. The malignancy of this
poison was therefore considerably increas
ed by the time and season when it was
spread throughout tine Lation Defendant
mad ta'r. patient and impartial trial, he
hsa me f'iirst opportunity of removing
from the minds of the Jury any doubts chat
they migh entertain, if any doubts thew
could have of the guilty and deleterious Ii
Del that he Was charged with. But the
defendant neither did nor COULD exculpate
| himself IN their eyes, and they decided
upon him with proofs most convincing of
the fonlness and wiCkedness of his guilt
| II II could not be imputed to him that his
uDJscts were only to distract the Cows r.,
! ment and tembarrass the State, then il
Could not be denied that objects, if not as
dangerous, at least as base, could not be
removed trnm his Intentions namely. that
OF writing libeis for the degenerate Dur
poses OF base and unworthy lucre and pro
mt his then, itself. was an offence of the
| deepest die. and such as the court was inn
| Periously called upon to visit with heavy
hand.
1t was much TO be iamented that a man
| who had the experience of the defendant.
should. after all that passes in life. so con
| stantiv before his eyes, grow worse, and as
he increases in years, Increase in maljeni,v
| 1t was also lamentable that the numer,n :
examples made of libellers had no efftc, up
| on nm but that knowing the fatal conse
qnence OF such Conduct, he still perseveres
i" spreading the poison OF most tiestruc il e
maiignan-y Though the nation. Acheck mu..
De put to such mischief the state must he
governed, the army must be satisfied rh.,
their feiiow-citizens are satisfied wi then,
'ne foreigners in our service mus, no, be ira.
duced' wherein they are labonring in com
! mon with the whole of our mill ary stem
to support the dignity and protect he safety
OF the empire, and the mill airy system mu.
pot be moved to a disgust IF the service in
winch they are employed. For ,he.e rea
sons the court holds itself called upon 10 y
ert ITS authority this day. The learned iuog,
then adver.ed to the libel, noticing the N %,
prevailing features of it, and then in an EN-
phatic manner proceeded to pass the follow
ing:
SENTENCE ON WIZ CoBBETT
The sentence of the court is, that Won
! VIM. Cobbett. do pay fine to The king O
LOCO. that You be imprisoned in his Males
tvs goal of Newga for the space of two
years that at the expiration of chat period
you enter into recugnizance to keen the
peace fer seven years yourself in the sum
OF 3,Oool and two sure les in the sum Of
oeo. each. And further, that you be i'm :.
prisoned TIL that reccgnizance be entered
/ INTO, and that hne paid
HIS lordship hen proceeded to pass the
sentence Of the court on the o,her three pri
soners II Hansard to be imprisoned II
the KING Bench prison three months, and t.
give security 10 keep the peacc-himself in
1901. and Two securities in 2O0l each.
| Budd and Bagshaw were . ntepcad each
| 10 two months Imprisonment in the same
place.