The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1811-05-03

against common stfumpet IL % great an OF /,
fence against AN honest woman MIR. Fin I
nerty WAS proceeding TO srragn the mode a
dopted by Lord Castiereagh for vind,cating |
his character, when he was stopped by the |
Court and reprimanded. He continued Lord |
Castieresgh is ANXIOUS for his character, & SO am
i for mine
Is he to escape, and am to be lbelled with |
i'''pu'iiy 81 nave never spoke against the |
ruth. but nave opposed oppression ;-there is |
nay crime. have advocated reform--thc !
principle which gave Chatham immortality, and |
h,s SON power: which has given Wbitbresd,
Sheridan, and Burdett, the confidence of the ma
| tion---~hich makes that nation look up TO the
Prince tor measures, IN which trust and hope
he may not d,sappoint them. have advocated
innocence. and in so doing have transgressed
"a law which no human beng can ascertain.-I
No man can charge me with sinister view in so
dong l trust shall hear no accusation of
- base lucre' made against me, 1t was a. |
g4inst another individual in this Court a.
s,range accusation to come from him, torsooth,
suho necey OPENS ms mouth urithout ace. know
prejuo &c Is excited against those who attack
men IN power but do not they sometimes de-
serve 1t DO you not remember how James,
Cokes and that wicked Bacon, then Attorney
General, conspired against an innocent mdivdu-
, al! Do you not remember the monster JEFF
| ferries But, thank God, the record of his pun
ishment has accompanied the record of his
| guilt; let il be sacred admonitiOn to all who
sent favor of Court to the pure and bcauteous
! perrsnencY of virtue Yet what WAS Jefferes
/ to---ABut, my, Lords. check myself, Lord
Kenyon says. hbelier has no right 70 complain
when ibeed as sound doctrine as ever he
promulgated. You will not deny II, my Lords
if so, then you will not punish me, for you cannot
punish the censor of him who has wasted the
treasure of the people. and the blood of his
species. When this man was. sending out the
greatest expedition which ever ssiied from Eng
md
ing me. Better would 1t have been ifhe had
been sending Bark to the fine sOldiery he sent
to perish, whom Saw dying for want of it,
But why did so to Walcheren Simply at the
request of Sir Home Popham whose letter
have in my hand, requesting me to give a mar
ra!ive of the expedition. Castleresgh pre-
vented me and, besides my personal injuries,
occssioned me pecuniary loss of near 600. The
attorney General chose TO say was unfit
Unfit !"--th's phrase is something in the
style OF Sterne's inuerdo any man may fill 1t
up AS he pieases. Why unfit ? defy tie
Attorney General to answer me in any other
way, than that he wanted TO prejudice the public
mind against me-"
The Court--Why, you are hardly uttering a
syllable which is not libelous. We shall GER
= family remand you.
Mr.. Fiunerty SAID that Mr.. Gilbert Wakefield
! hea. for three hours without interruption /;
but if they would hear him, he must IF
course desist Being allowed TO proceed, he
made some remarks ON the modes of Furnishing
j ibels Mr. Her;n, of the Sun newspaper, who
e had libelied Lord ST Vincent, only sen,enc-
n ed to six months imprisonment, and was then
: discharged without bail Bagdon, too, had Ii
belled the same splendid and honest charac-
D r, & met but only the same punishment Mr..
Fnnerty trusted, as he had made the Middlesex
| Magistrates his enemies, that the Court would
! not send him to Cold Bath Field Prison; he
would rather be treated as Bonaparte had dis
, ed of Palm. Than fhithar The 1T
he hoped, would always recoilect the maxim of
Blackstone, that next TO the Satisfaction of JUS
tice, Judge ought to look to the satisfaction of
the pubic. He declared he had intention to
write LIBEL hut how was uneducsteG indi-
vidual to understand science which had divi-
ded the most learned Judges Even the Noble
and Learned Judge on the Bench and the AT.
torney General differed as TO what was libel
i in Mr.. Perry's lac case; and surely the law of
p libel was one to which the maxim ig1srdnfid Le-
: gis non e*easat did not apply 1t the record of
severe punishment upon the defendAat We're
handed down to posterity, accompanied wnh
the slightest biographical sketch oflord Castle
. reagh, would not the reader exclsim, "whst must
c have been the state of those la under which an
: individual was punished for complaining o. OPP
!; PRECISION - the Eye of England, interested IN
l. every thing whi6 On was done by that Court, es-
! peciaily with what related to the law OF libel
and tie freedom ofthe press and pre-eminent-
ly, the eye anog heart Of the defendants native
were turned with the greatest anxiety to the re-
y snlt of that days judgment Having been ali
- his life in the habit of speaking the sentiments
f? of free man, he should only have incurred iii
contempt of the Court, had he abandoned tia;
n language now; and he would rather meet the
y severest punishment which it was in the power
of the Court to infict, than labor under the deg
IS radiation vi being thought an hyPocrre The
e whole of the case Be fore the Court
e they would recollect the nature of the provoca
! ton; they would read the libel, anu would con
i slider whether, if that true, the defendant
deserved punishment OF not He would say lit
= tie about his sufierngs on account of the pre-
II sent prosecution----his expeBces, his loss OF
d time, the whole of his subsistence, depending,
as it did, upon his daily exertions. ----He hoped
d he should support his punishment with firm
d Eess and though he were to be confined in the
i dungeon OF Dionysius, he would not exchange
II characters with Lord Castlereagb He re
= tanned his conviction that every part ofthe sup
L pesed libel being proved, as he offered to do it,
/ it was justifiable
= MIR. Attorney General commended, that the de
y PENDANT had enhanced mis- guilt by his outrageous
'rl conduct this day. He had EbelIed every body,
- from their Loi dships on the Bench down to the
" MIddlesex agistrates. And who this in
dvIdusl? Why, who had been the Editor
y Of an Irish paper, called tae Pyess, and who had
y been convicted in Ireland of libel in that pa
= per- (Here Lord Peterborough interposed, as
Mr.. Attorney was going into irrelevant matter !