The Sun. — 1868-06-19 (London, England)

ZIA 4-02.., Al•Aff. „ , - .-3 .a.-01....t4. . ;-..,,,, .. K.-77,4f,,,, • . -0--1--,,10-IN, .' cA.,;3/4. :—, --A I -it, ..... .. ( cf, ...,t...-41: It 1.- .:,r/-:* o* 0t.4 ." .:.,t.. I , I''.2-----7:-.'-r--- - • ---: ,---- -.0.1,„ 4.i •f ~ • ' 411-..A' -" CPO -,-PlrY ---' ' 's t; ' n -, , „5.-_,.--......_,.... )i-3 - Panictliat 1. e ,-4 al il 1g: 1 .-_,-,..*G..._ —-, i, ---.-- em '=•,,T.,' - 1-' .--,-"- . 1 - -11)Wss i:y ; E' ".....„ . .... - ...____.\.. ce 12. : 11'.-- '.... 174/ --• ... citi11,),,,, ---..'. 't_,,,1,F.,,, ___,o .- A ' . ''.-' 4' '-' —^ ' V I'll 7 . ' r.-',-ZS--" If, rp 30- . --' . I.ll:Cti r• .....- ,Z ~,,--,-t.t.--_,... .---- ' ' _ - I'm addressing the jury for the [-aid he agreed with Mr. Serjeant was not a question of the liberty of the ss ie. The liberty of the press was one thing, and the license of private slander another ; and although there were the strongest reasons why the liberty of the press should be fenced round with protection, there was no earthly reason for a general and unrestrained licenseof speech. The issue was not the guilt or innocence of Risk Allah, upon all or any of the charges, but whether the acknowledged and proved circumstances at the time of the Brussels trial were such as to justify the co: ment:3 icli the writer of the Telegraph made in the account he gave of it. It was all very well to present Risk Allah through an able and powerful counsel to the jury to give an account, under the necessary and diffi cult limits of a cross-examination, of all the facts that then appeared, as well as all the former proceedings of his life, and another thing to say what Was the state of facts present to the writer in the Telegraph, and 111)011 which the comments in the paper Proceeded. The facts which were before the writers in the Telegraph were fairly represented in the article. They had refused the apology dictated by Risk Allah, because they wel e not bound to publish what they did not like. The plaintiff, since be 1 ad been in England, had been getting on in the worldby suffering misfortunes, for which he received compensation ; and if this gentleman's life was made up of romantic circumstances, it was not too much to ask the jury to pause before they believed him, Mr. Coleridge said he now came to the still stranger part of the case, the death of poor Readly, and his contention was, not that Risk Allah murdered him, but that all the circumstances of the case would have warranted a conviction from the circumstantial evidence which was brought against him, but from which innocent men have not escaped, as in the instance of Mr. Barber, who after being convicted, had been honourably restored to the rolls of that court, and the more recent case of Dr. Smethurst. The learned counsel minutely analysed the circumstances connected with Readly's death, and, referring to the evidence of the experts on the suicide, he observed that their evidence could not be relied on, because the body had been removed from its original position before the authorities saw it, although these circumstances fell very far short in bringing home to the minds of men now, when all the circumstances were known, the guilt of the plaintiff. They must look at the case in the way the writer and all mankind did in 1866 and 18G7, and when they had done that, he thought he was warranted in saying that a man in former days would have met his fate on less.conclueive evidence. The learned counsel next referred to the frauds and forgeries of Ozman Effendi, after which the court adjourned.