Mr. BROUGHAM again protested against the statements which Mr. Cobbett was making, observing that he understood Mr. Cobbett intended to produce, no evidence.

Mr. COBBETT maintained, that the interruptions of the learned Counsel were not justifiable.

and how criminal, then, must ber, and the second shortly he be, if he really had crushed afterwards, in which he stated, a lawyer in the egg (Loud that he (Mr. Cobbett) had done laughing, in which the Court him no harm, and yet but a few and the Jury cordially partici- days elapsed when Cleary made pated). He should be really an affidavit before his Lordship 'sorry to commit such a crime, that he had suffered an injury to although so frequently and so a certain extent for which he severely provoked by Cleary; (Mr. Cobbett) was held to bail. for this personage had published several libels upon him before his return from America, in the composition of which libels his faithful agent, Jackson, refused to say that he did not assist. One of those libels, which was "the principal, was addressed to Major Cartwright, as the pub lication purported, by the Major's consent. Cleary, indeed, boasted that he had four or five "times killed him (Mr. C.) with his pen while in America; and prove. the first communication which Mr. COBBETT observed, that The received from that literary he was not stating any thing but warrior upon his return to Eng-that which was quite notorious. land, was a challenge to fight a duel, threatening him with a stamp of cowardice if he refused to attend to the challenge, but complacently adding, that if he himself were too old to meet Mr. COBBETT said, that he the challenger, that challenger would put the cases to which he would meet his eldest son, for had alluded hypothetically, for whom he professed 'a great re-the consideration of the Jury, gard. which the Judge' admitted, as

The JUDGE said, that it was his duty to tell the defendant that he was not at liberty to state that which he did not mean to

The JUDGE remarked then, that the notoriety precluded the necessity of the statement.

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After some further controver

Mr. BROUGHAM observed, that the Counsel for the plaintiff had there would be no end to this put many cases hypothetically, latitude if the defendant were to which he had not attempted allowed to proceed. to adduce any evidence. Mr. The Judge said that if the de-Brougham, however, contending fendant did not mean to adduce that he was entitled to comment evidence to these statements, upon hypothetical cases. they must be thrown out of the this position was not admitted consideration of the Jury. by the Court.

But

Mr. COBBETT proceeded, and, under the shelter of supposition,

Mr. COBBETT said that Cleary had sent him two challenges, the first on the 28th of Septem-recited all the misconduct with

mon report, he would say that that gentleman possessed great merits, although the learned Counsel shewed such a disposi tion to abuse him.

which he charged Cleary, sure of his private letters: So Wright and Jackson. He men- indeed he had always told his tioned that he had released children. For whatever foolish Wright from a prison, fed and letters he might have written, clothed him, and considering he felt confident that he had him as a creature of his own, never written any thing which communicated confidentially for could justify any one in saying several years. He regarded him that William Cobbett was not as grateful; although, finding an honest man. But, when he him supple, he ought not to have said this, he meant the series of trusted him. In the course of his letters; all, and every part his connexion with him, how-of every one. The learned ever, he wrote to him probably Counsel had shown his wish to 2000 letters upon the most con- dwell upon the letter read at fidential matters with regard to Covent Garden hustings as a bis family and business, and upon proof in his conception, that he turning him off when he had (Mr. C.) was not consistent in good reason to suspect him, this his principles or opinions of men; man retained all those letters, but notwithstanding this letter, instead of giving them up as be- written when he knew nothing came an honest man. To Jack-of Mr. Hunt, except from comson he was introduced by Lord Cochrane. To him also he gave that confidence which his unsuspecting nature was but too liable to grant. Yet this man, to whom he never gave any of- Mr. BROUGHAM denied, that fence, was found to use his own he had said a word about Mr. Register for the purpose of pnb- Hunt; he should indeed be lishing attacks upon his charac-ashamed to abuse any man in ter, and to league with his Mr. Hunt's situation. known enemies, Cleary, Wright, Place and Adams, with a view to injure him. Of Molineux, who was also a member of this con- Mr. COBBETT admitted that spiracy, he should only declare, Mr. Hunt was not named in the as he could most solemnly, that way of reprobation; but it was he never wrote the order to the impossible to mistake the learned stationers, to which that witness gentleman's allusion, or the deposed. What then was to inferences which he wished to be thought of the turpitude of have drawn. Adverting to the this corps, or what security could learned gentleman's allusion to there be for any man or his fa- his supposed versatility of opimily, if such breach of confidence nion, he admitted that he had as that of which Wright stood changed, but it was generally convicted could possibly be sanc- from good to better, or at least tioned? But he cared not a from bad to good-while the farthing about this man's expo-learned gentleman's chopping

The JUDGE said, that he did not hear the learned Gentleman mention Mr. Hunt.

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Mr. BROUGHAM-I must make the same observation as I have made before. If Mr. Cobbett has any evidence to prove this, I have no objection to his arguing upon it.

The CHIEF JUSTICE observed, the defendant should confine himself to what had been proved, or what he intended to prove.

about was quite of a different tion of damages; the impudescription, as appeared from dence, the audacity of such a his renunciation of his written man as the plaintiff asking for pledge in favour of Radical Re-damages, was unparalleled. The form, which he had lodged in plaintiff had begun the attack; the hands of that faithful gentle- he had poured forth pamphlet man, Mr. F. Place (one of his after pamphlet against him (the own witnesses this very day!) defendant), to which he had who thought proper to give it made, by the by, no reply. to the public. What was the sense of this talk about inconsistency? Which of the Jury had not changed their opinion of things, and especially of men? Which of them had not had a erk, or a servant, whom they had once praised, and afterwards found worthy of reprobation? Othello praised Iago in the middle of the play, but, at last, he called him," cursed, Mr. COBBETT proceeded.damned, Iago!" just as he The plaintiff had taken him to (the defendant) did with regard the Judge's chambers. He (the to Wright. But what evil ge- defendant) did not impute to nias, what malignant spright, the Judge that he had acted uncould have instigated the hon. fairly; Judges were but men; and learned gentleman to adopt they were obliged to believe this cant about inconsistency! men on their oaths; but this Him, whose shocking incon- was a very extraordinary prosistency, whose change from ceeding. The Jury knew that, good to bad, had been so com- according to the new law, or pletely exposed by the vene- according to the modern interTable Major, and who, in pre-pretation of the law, when a tending that his wretched client man now-a-days was prosewas connected with the Major, cuted for a seditious libel, he really appeared to be actuated might be brought before a Jusby motives somewhat vindic-tice of the Peace, who, accordtive, seeming resolved, in ing to an oath made before repayment for the lash laid him, might bind the party over on his shoulders by the Ma-till the time of trial, and mean jor, to fasten his client on time to keep the peace. That the Major's back for the re- was tight enough in all conmainder of his life! This was science; yet that was for an à conspiracy as foul as any they offence against the State; ahad heard of lately, although gainst the peace of our Lord not so important as to the par- the King, his crown and digties against whom it was di-nity." But now it appeared that rected. Now, as to the ques-there was a law somewhere,

The CHIEF JUSTICE.-This is not stated in evidence.

Mr. BROUGHAM.Mr. Cleary made the usual affidavit of debt,

and if he had been learned in Cleary had gone to a Judge to the law, he might have been swear that he apprehended that able to fish it out for them, he should quit the country. Was that, if a paper were written ever act so malicious or base? It against a man, which he chose was then spread the next day, to call a libel, he might go be-through all the respectable news fore a Judge, and swear that papers, thatCobbett was arrested he had sustained injury from that for debt by Cleary. publication, though he had the moment before declared that he had received no damage at all, and at the same time swear, that the person who had written the paper was going to Mr. COBBETT.-It might be leave the country; it was law, presumed, from the circum→ that on the strength of these stances of the case, that it must declarations the writer might be have got abroad. It did, in fact, carried to a lock-up house till get abroad; it was published he gave security to answer for in the country papers, and, it as if for a bona fide debt. This among the rest, in the Hampi was the first time he (the de-shire Parson's Paper, where it fendant) had ever heard of such was read by his(the defendant's) à law, and he believed it never wife, at Botley. Talk of carryhad been law in England; that ing war into the bosom of private at least for an hundred years families! Could any act like this such a thing had been never be ascribed to William Cobbett heard of. Jackson would not in the long course of his public swear that he did not know that life? And he, the mild Mr. he (the defendant) had issued the prospectus of a Daily Paper; that he had, in conjunction with his son, taken a house in the Strand for that purpose; and that he was living with his family at Botley. All this was malicious-reptiles the most well known to every one who crawling were the most venomread the newspapers; and no ous. He begged the Jury to man did or could suppose that look at the whole transaction he had come across the Atlantic, honestly, from the beginning to and would then immediately go the end; that they would not back again. His intention of be made the instruments of staying here, and his plans of robbing him and his family,' business, were as notorious as though he would rather that the Queen's going to St. Paul's should on Wednesday se'nnight; his office was as notorious, at least, as St. Clement's church in the Strand. Yet; knowing all this,

Cleary, came to be protected against the furious William Cobbett! Feebleness was often taken for mildness, but they should recollect that the feeblest animals were often, the most

be the case than buckle to the learned gentlenian or his client.---He begged they would not give their sanction to the basest treachery ever

known; he begged them to blish, and the effect they have think once again of the coun-produced. Never was there so tenances of the witnesses before much assertion and so little proof their decision; afterwards, no such an accumulation of cridoubt, they would be glad to minating remarks, and such a forget them for ever (a laugh.) variety of even specious eviHe begged them to mark with dence! If we take away from reprobation this abominable sys-this mountain of accusation all tem of espionage, this spy sys- the circumstances that have tem, to shew the natural ab-been misrepresented, all the horrence of Englishmen at what minutia that have been exagWas base, and to let their deci-gerated, what do we leave it sion stamp the infamy of those bat an inflated mass of the who had been guilty of such most palpable falsehoods and a breach of private confidence. glaring perjuries that ever were The Chief Justice summed up heaped together by power, inthe evidence, and charged the stigated by unmitigated malig Jury nity, and assisted by unbounded wealth?

The Jury retired for about three quarters of an hour, and then brought in their verdict: -Damages, FORTY SHIL

LINGS.

In the midst of the many painful circumstances connected with this unparalleled proceeding, there is one on which I may congratulate the country: it has produced a degree of excitement throughout the com

HER MAJESTY's ANSWERS munity of the most virtuous and

TO ADDRESSES.

ennobling kind;-it has called forth the most generous senti

FROM THE INHABITANTS OF THE PA-ments and the most disinterest

RISH OF ST. MARY, ISLINGTON,

My cordial thanks are due to the inhabitants of the parish of St. Mary, Islington, for this loyal and affectionate address.

ed efforts. All the great principles, a regard for which most elevates the human character, are on the side of my advocates. Truth, justice, humanity, If my adversaries had felt and that which they never fail any regard for a free govern- to accompany-liberty, are marment, they would never have shalled in the same ranks against set aside all the forms of the falsehood, cruelty, and oppresconstitution, and trampled on all sion. The best principles of the rights of individuals, for human nature are conflicting the purpose of gratifying the against the worst; it is not a purposes of power or minister-mixed question, in which there ing to the appetite of revenge.

My enemies have now done their worst, and we are at liberty to contemplate the case they have attempted to esta

is any obscuration of the wrong, or any ambiguity with respect to the right: it is not a question of casuistry, which may con found the simple and puzzle the