The forema, as we understand, stated that a part of the jury vished to return a conditional verdict. Mr. Justice Abbott said, he would receive any verdict from the whole of the jury, but he could not receive any thing offered by a part of them. all other delusions, it will be found out at last, and then good bye to petitioning. In the literal acceptation of the term, nothing is or can be so ridiculous. The right of petitioning! Bravo! John Buil, bravo! You have the right of petitioning, have you? And your ancestors obtained it for you, did The usual question was then put-whether, the they? And Hampden bled for the right of petitionjury found the defendant guilty or not guilty? Toing, did he? And Sydney was beheaded, and Ruswhich the foreman answered Guilty-and the ver-sel, for the right of petitioning. And your ancesdict was recorded. At a late hour in the day, Mr. Chitty said, he was instructed to tell his lordship that the verdict was not legal-three of the jury having dissented from it at the time. One of them he understood wished to present to his lordship on behalf of himself and two of his fellows, a paper relating to the verdict, when they came into court, but he had not an opportunity of delivering it. Mr. Justice Abbott said that no objection was made at the time, the question was put, and the answer of Guilty was given in a tone that must have been heard throughout the court. No paper had been tendered to him--and in answer to a question from the foreman, he stated that he could only re ceive a verdict from the whole of the jury, he could receive no communication from a part of them. The defendant said, as an Englishman, he would protest against the verdict, as illegal-But four of the jury appeared in court--and, if a mistake had been made, his cause ought not to be prejudiced by it. Mr Justice Abbott said his cause would sustain no prejudice; but that this was not the place for discussing the question. The King v. Thomas Jonathan Wooller. This was a second information against the defendant, for printing and publishing a libel in the "Black Dwarf,” No 3, of February the 12th: it was charged on the record to be a scandalous, malicious and seditious libel, of and concerning the right of petition, of and concerning King John, Charles I. James II. William III. &c. tors sent Charles to the block, and drove James to, for the right of petitioning, did they? And you possess the right, Johnny, do you? And are charged sixty millions a year for it, are you? Well, you may call it one of your dearest rights, for you have paid dear enough for it, in all conscience. But you are a good sort of a fellow: and being no judge of the value of diamonds, it is the same to you whether you have glass or French paste. It must glisten a little to please your imagination; and you are pleased as the poor Indian who gives his gold for his treasure for a bauble. But the savage is the better off of the two; for though he gets but bauble, it is something at least; but you, John, have got nothing for your liberty, you have had every pocket picked into the bargain. a "But you have the right of petitioning, you say. Yes, you have indeed; and you petition away with a vengeance. You see those whom you petition have a voracious appetite for such kind of food. They swallow them as fast as the serpent of Moses swalloved all the other serpents. Only you have fed them a little too fast, and having to pick out of so many, they are now become a little nice. They would have the politest epithets bestowed upon them; and if you will flatter their vanity, and rely upon their wisdom, faith, you may use your right of petitioning as frequently as you please. You will a-sist trade by it. Lawyers will find parchment dearer, and the tailors will get it cheaper to make measures with. "But in reality, Master Bull, you estimate all this boasted right a little too highly. Are you not aware that you only have it in common with the The Attorney General stated the nature of the free burgesses of the Mogul, and the independent libel: he admitted that it was ludicrous in its form, slaves of the Dey of Algiers? They say they are but it was, perhaps, the more injurious and dan- very sorry too; and that your petition ought to lay gerous on that account. He censured in strong on the table for consideration; and that a proper terms the endeavors here made to draw down contime ought to be taken for such consideration. But tempt upon one of the most valuable rights of En-then they, poor souls! are so busied for your good. glishmen, settled at what he should ever call the throughout the session, that the proper time never glorious Revolution of 1688, and he went through comes, and your grievances are never redressed. the various paragraphs, pointing out such parts as It is sometimes histed, that they are only temporain his opinion were peculiarly offensive. He took ry, and will cure themselves: and there is no doubt occasion to inform the jury that the defendant had of that: only be patient for half a century, and if a singular facility of composition; for, being a printhe grievances do not die away, why you will; and ter, he frequently had no need of manuscript, but printed from the dictation of his mind as he proceeded. The defendant, as in the former case, admitted the facts of authorship, printing and publishing; and Mr. Steill proved that he sold about 750 copies of this number of the Black Dwarf. The libel was then read in the following terms: that is the same thing. Now you see, that while you possess the right of petitioning, and they possess the right of neglecting your pe itions, it is just the same thing as if you had no right at all. "This is the best side of the question. This is the view of the case when your petitions are deemed to be fit to be received; for you see that your right of petitioning is confined to a peculiar mode of expression. If your pockets are picked, you must "The people of this country have heard a great not pray the house of commons to hang a minister deal about the right of petition; notwithstanding a you must civilly ask them to be so kind as not thousand proofs of its inefficacy, they seem as fond to let him do it again. If your valuable constituof it as ever. But some tub must be thrown out to tion is injured, or totally destroyed, you must the whale. There must be found some way or only ask for its renovation in the most mild and other to dissipate the well grounded discontent gentlemanly terms. The house must not be inthat so universally prevails; and, like a breakwater, sulted! Oh no! the house must not be insulted the right of petitioning is thrust forward to stop Although every body knows that the house of comthe current of popular dissatisfaction. All this is mons, collectively taken, speaks neither the voice very well: but what purpose will it answer? Like of the people, nor attends to the wishes of the peo Income of, and charge upon the corsolidated fund, in the quarters ending 5th July, 1816 and 1817, for Great Britain. 1816. INCOME. 1817. £10,064,992 £9,339,499. CHADOE 1816. 1817. ple; although every body knows that a majority of The terms imply this-the right of petition is Ditto £13,233.814 £13,120,000. DEFICIENCY. 1817 Ireland is not yet ascertained. £3,168,822 3,780,501 But on the 18th of July, 3 per cent consols were at 83 1.8! American 6 per cents in London, July 16, 104. bill for continuing the suspension of the habeas On the 7th of July the prince regent signed the corpus act. and dull sale. for several years one of the heads of the opposition; funds. Mr. Wooller, in his defence, stated, that when Mad. Lavallette was recently been in London, inhe wrote the above production, he had not the slightest expectation that it would be a source of cog. to sell the stocks that she held in the British serious enquiry in a court of justice. He did not A fever of the most malignant description preimagine that the ministerial jealousy of the freedom vails amongst the inhabitants of the city of Cork. of the press would be quite so contemptible as to A number of houses for the reception of the sick notice it. It was meant merely as a joke, and must had been opened in various parts of the city. be considered as the farce to the tragedy of the last information. In the sentiments, however, he isted at Huddersfield. A serious riot or insurrection appears to have exheartily concurred, and if urged seriously, he should have supported them seriously. He went over the various parts of libel that were con By a decree of Alexander they are exempt from A number of Scots have emigrated to Poland. military conscription. sidered particularly objectionable, arguing that Much lamentation is made in England about the the whole was grounded upon historical and incon-neglect and ruin of churches, The fault is in their trovertible facts. As to the passage regarding ecclesiastical system, forcing that which ought to "enforcing" the redress of grievances, and, indeed, be a free-will offering. the whole of that portion of the letter, he insisted The duke of Northumberland has left a revenue of property valued at 30,000. Among the articles Certain jewellers in London were lately robbed that it meant nothing more than the moral force the prince regent, and a speech from him on SaParliament was prorogued, after an address to which sound doctrines must ever enjoy: that, though in the time of king John or Charles I. the force of turday the 12th of July. arms might be necessary; in the present day, when to his eldest son of 80,000 pounds per annum, and all men were comparatively so well educated and to each of the younger children he has bequeathed enlightened, the force of reason was much stronger 100,000 pounds in cash. and more satisfactory. Such was the fair meaning to be put upon the whole libel, which was dictated on the spur of the moment, at a time when the house of commons was rejecting an immense numIn the court of king's bench, Mr. Cook, an Ameriber of petitions, in favor of parliamentary reform. The attorney general replied; after which Mr. from Sierra Leone, in Africa, obtained a verdict of can merchant, formerly residing about 90 miles Justice Abbott summed up, going minutely over nearly every paragraph of the publication, and de-19,000 pounds damages against col. Maxwell, late claring it as his decided opinion that it was libel-overnor of Sierra Leone, for destroying his factory by fire, and carrying off his moveable property, unlous; that however, was a question, the decision of der the pretence of the plaintiff being engaged in which by law rested with the jury only. was a diamond necklace valued at 10,2801. dict of £1000 damages for false imprisonment. A letter from the younger Watson to his father, is The Gazette of last night (says a London paper of July 17) contains a proclamation, ordering that the calling out of the militia in Great Britain, for the purpose of being trained and exercised in the present year, be suspended; and consequently no training or exercising of such militia is to take place this. [There is meaning in this). Count Flahault, one of Napoleon's aids in the bat. tle of Waterloo, has married a daughter of lord | tory. This happy dispensation of Providence can- A fellow in England, for a considerable wager, had commenced a walk of 500 miles backwards, to be performed in 20 days. He performed 2 miles in the first hour. The British parliament. Was prorogued on the 12th of July, on which occa. sion the prince regent "red the following specch from the throne." "My lords and gentlemen— Europe have been suffering in the course of the The lord chancellor then read the commissions Crim, con, cases make a great display in the London papers, happening among the "nobility, gentry and clergy"-precious sets of people. "I cannot close this session of parliament with out renewing my expressions of deep regret at the continuance of his majesty's lamented indisposition. The diligence with which you have applied yourselves to the consideration of the different subjects which I recommended to your attention at the commencement of the session, demands my warmest acknowledgments; and I have no doubt that the favorable change which has happily taken place in Criminal offenders-By the statement of criminal our internal situation, is to be mainly ascribed to the salutary measures which you have adopted for offenders in England and Wales, lately published, preserving the public tranquility, and to your stea-it appears that 47,522 persons have been committed dy adherence to those principles by which the con- to goal for criminal offences during the last 7 years, stitution, resources, and credit of the country have of whom 4,120 received sentence of death (536 of been too successfully exerted in some parts of the whom were executed)-257 transported for life: country to alienate the affections of his majesty's 533 for 14 years: 4,543 for 7 years imprisoned for subjects, and stimulate them to acts of violence and 5 years, 4: do 4 years, 2: do 3 years, 54: do 2 years ~ insurrection, I have had the satisfaction of receiving and above 1 year, 1,374: 1 year and above 6 months, the most decisive proofs of the loyalty and public spi-and under, 13,518: whipped and fined, 1,154. rit of the great body of the people; and the patience The most important item of intelligence from with which they have sustained the most severe temporary distress cannot be too highly commend. France is, that the crops were so flattering as to ed. I am fully sensible of the confidence which you have reduce the price of corn one half, in some of have manifested towards me by the extraordinary the departments. The archbishops' sees are to be restored in France powers which you have placed in my hands; the necessity which has called for them is to me a matter-some additional bishopricks are to be establishof deep regret: and you may rely on my making a ed-and archbishops, if not bishops are to be placed temperate, but effectual use of them, for the protec- in the chamber of peers. tion and security of his majesty's loyal subjects. Gentlemen of the house of commons. FRANCE. Gens. Domage and Belair; and the marchioness Lavalette, have been arrested in France. The population of Paris, by a late census, amouuts to 715,595, independent of the garrison. There are 27,371 houses, and 217,352 families. "I thank you for the supplies which you have granted to me, and for the laborios investigation which, at my recommendation, you have made into On the anniversary of Louis XVIII's return to the state of the income and expenditures of the country. It has given me sincere pleasure to find the capital, his majesty reviewed 13 legions of the that you have been enabled to provide for every Parisian national guard upon the Bouvelard Chubranch of the public service without any addition martin, The streets through which he passed were to the burdens of the people. The state of public lined with military, and the white flag and other credit affords a decissive proof of the wisdom and appropriate emblems were displayed from their expediency, under all the present circumstances, of windows. The number of men under arms were those financial arrangements which you have adopt-estimated at 36,000. The city was illuminated at ed. I have every reason to believe that the defi-night. ciency in the revenue is, in a great degree, to be ascribed to the unfavorable state of the last season; and I look forward with sanguine expectaton to its gradual improvement. "My lords and gentlemen, It is said in the Paris papers that the French emigrants that have reached the United States "do not amount to a less number than 30,000." People do not think what thirty thousand is. I have a right to know something of this matter; and venture an "The measures which were in progress at the opinion that three thousand have not arrived here, commencement of the session for the issue of a new in ships and vessels, since the first return of Louis; silver coinage have been carried into execution in nor do I believe that any have crossed the ocean in the manner which has given universal satisfaction; balloons. Vessels from France very seldom have and to complete the system which has been sanction-more than 10 to 20 passengers-I am certain that ed by parliament, a gold coinage of a new denomina- they have not averaged 20: this would give us fif tion has been provided for the convenience of the teen hundred vessels from France in the period A steam boat, on a principle that makes explopublic. I continue to receive from foreign powers stated!! More on this subject hereafter. the strongest assurance of their friendly disposition towards this country, and of their desire to pre-sion impossible, is said to have been invented in serve the general tranquility. The prospect of an abundant harvest throughout a considerable part of the continent is in the highest degree satisfac France. Several arrests were recently made at Bordeaux. 5 per cent. consuls 66 1-10, July 12. France is said not only to have solicited the with- The emperor of Russia, on the 7th of May, by drawing of the allied troops, but to have requested decree, established at St. Petersburg, an Imperial England to pay them, being unable to do it her- Commercial Bank: self! The great occasion-No less than ten new theatrical pieces are in readiness to appear on the several stages in Paris, great and small, immediately after the accouchement of the duchess de Berri. One of them is called Is't a girl or a boy? [What a job it would be, if the expected baby should be still born! But, I suppose it would be high treason, in France, to imagine it.] The dutchess of Berri and the queen of Spain are running a race to have a young Bourbon. The papers say it is doubtful which of them will be the first in the straw. 1. Thirty millions of roubles, of the capital of the crown, are placed at the disposal of the bank. 2. The bank is allowed to take money-1st, on interest-21, in deposit. 3. The bank gives loans on Russian goods, according to the principles of the discount office, and accepts bills, taking the per centage according to the course of commercial operations. 4. Half the directors to consist of public officers, and half merchants. 5. The bank to be opened on the 1st of January, 1818. TURKEY. The integrity of the loans intrusted to the bank French Hospitals.—From a report made to the go-are guaranteed by the imperial word. vernor general of hospitals in Paris, on the state of Several ships of war were launched on the 20th. those establishments, from 1803 to 1814, it appears and 25th of May at Casan, a city on the Wolga, that these hospitals are divided into two classes, which empties into the Caspian sea. called hopitaux and hospices; the former ten in We have a rumor that a war was expected between number, being for the sick; and the latter of which Russia and Sweden; and that the Russian troops there are nine, affording provision for infants, and about to leave France would be landed in Sweden. incurables, who are destitute. The hotel Dieu, the most ancient hospital, contains 1200 beds. In the Constantinople, June 10.-On the 2d of this month hospice de l'Accouchement, in 1814, were delivered the ceremony peculiar to the East took place of 27,000 females, of whom 24,000 confessed they were shaving, for the first time. the hair of the head of unmarried. From 1804 to 1814, were admitted in the crown prince Schchzade Abdulbamid, who is to the hospice de l'Allaitrement or foundling hospi-four years of age, after which he was invested with a tal, 23,458 boys and 22,463 girls, total 45,921 chil-turban. A part of the hair was sent as an offering dren, of whom only 4130 were legitimate. During to the Kiable (the holy house at Mecca.) the ten years 355,000 sick were admitted into the A few days ago, several large transports arrived Hopitaux, and 59,000 poor persons into the hospices. from Egypt with rice, coffee, and other producOf the maniacs there are more women than men. tions of that country, which have dispelled the ap-Among the younger females, love has been the prehensions of scarcity that were entertained by the most common cause of insanity; and among the inhabitants of this capital. others, jealousy, or domestic discord. Among the younger males, it is the too speedy developement AFRICA. An African chief near Sierra Leone, who has of their passions; and among the older, the derange-long been in the pay of the British to assist them ment of their affairs, that has crased them. The in suppressing the slave trade, has lately protected calamities of the revolution have been another cause two vessels engaged in it, and compelled a Briof madness, and it is observed that the men were tish brig, in self-defence, to fire upon his town; by mad with aristocracy and the women with de- which many of his people were killed. It is feared mocracy; excessive grief occasioning lunacy in the that in revenge for this Captain Campbell and his former, and ideas of independence and equality in party, on an expedition into the interior, will be the latter!-London paper. cut off. SPAIN. The editor of a London paper says, that from certain American papers he had received, a war between the United States and Spain appeared probable. This is a mistake that he might easily fall into for a cursory view of our gazettes-but the editor strangely observes, "if it be true that the United States are really attached to the cause of freedom they will be more inclined to aid than to attack Spain." Freedom and Spain! Ferdinand and "moderation and forbearance" in the same paragraph! WEST INDIES. The deaths at Havana, principally of malignant fevers, from the 19th to the 31st of July, inclusive, were 215, or 15 a day!-in a population of 80,000. Christophe, king of Hayti, has adopted the Lancasterian system of education in his dominions, and has established schools deriving their support from government, and promulgating instruction in the rudiments of primary education without expence to individuals. A decree has been passed for the sale of the estates which have become the property of the pubGen.Lacey is removed to Majorca; it being thought lic. They are to be disposed of free of all incumunsafe to keep him at Barcelona, for fear of the peo-brances, and the ancient names are to be changed, ple. His fate is sealed. that "the remembrance of their tyrants may cease." By accounts from Spain, it appears that the grand finance plan, projected by the minister Garay, is not to be carried into execution till January 1818. This delay originates in the opposition of the nobles and high churchmen, who will be most affected by its being put into execution; and in the mean time, it is expected the minister himself will lose his place. RUSSIA. FLORIDA. " We have two proclamations from Amelia. One addressed by "citizen Gregor McGregor," to his soldiers, thanking them for their exemplary conduct and good discipline, and holding out the hope of soon planting the "green cross of Florida, on the proud walls of St. Augustine." The other headed "Gregor McGregor, General," &c. declares the whole of Florida in a state of The emperor has sent to England four young blockade, beginning at the south side of the Russians for the purpose of being instructed in the island of Amelia and extending to the Perdido. new method of teaching, that they may be placed His proclamation shall be preserved for further at the head of seminaries. reference. Many rumors are put afloat about the United been made to fitch from us the merits of both; it States negociating for the Floridas. We know becomes, therefore, the duty of every American, nothing of its certainty. The transfer of this coun- who has the honor and interest of his country at try is a matter to be expected, and much to be deheart, to watch over them with the most scrupulous sired by us, for the settlements adjacent, &c. care. All was quiet at Amelia. Com. Taylor had sail- I have searched the files of the navy office, and ed on a cruise, A French brig detained had been I have obtained a copy of a communication made to liberated, after the condemnation of a part of her the Secretary of the Navy on this subject, near cargo. There was a report that the Gov. of St. nine years since, which is another lesson to us to Angustine was advancing against Amelia at the examine our own pretensions to the merits of dishead of 5 or 600 men. It is also said that Com. covery, before we yield them to other nations, Aury, with 4 sail, had sailed from Matagorda to as- however "stupendous "they may at first sight apsist McGregor. pear. I send it to you for publication, with the hope, that the editors of papers who have publish MEXICO. Mina appears to stand his ground and gathered the English account, will also publish this. much strength. We may probably have a dashing account of him. He is as cautious as he is brave. "SPANISH" AMERICA, &C. Three Portuguese Indiamen are said to be captured off Lisbon, by Buenos Ayrean privateers. An agent for Venezuela is said to be in London, where he offers very liberal terms for officers and men to assist in establishing the independence of his country, and is said to be very successful in obtaining them. Morillo, who commands for Ferdinand in Venezuela, is spoken of at London by those who served with him in Spain, as a brute. There is no doubt but that he is a savage. It is reported that a fleet of merchantmen from Havana, for Cadiz, having separated from their convoy, have been captured by a squadron of Independent privateers. It will be well to be on our guard lest our invention of steam boats and steam batteries should share the fate of Godfrey's quadrant and the chain cable.. AN AMERICAN. NAVY YARD, NEW YORK, 28th July, 1808 Sir-The bomb ketch Vesuvius was yesterday hove up on ways, and although not without some difficulty, (owing to the preparations, &c. not being of sufficient magnitude for so large a vessel) the experiment has nevertheless convinced me, that our largest frigates, or indeed even ships of the line, might be taken out of the water on a similar principle, to be coppered, or receive any other repairs, less than a fourth the expence of heaving down, with proportionate facility, and without any risk whatever. I consider that permanent ways may be constructWe have some news from Margaretta; the fate of ed here, that will, if properly executed, last fifty the island is not yet determined. In the first bat-years, to take up a 74 gun ship, for four or not extle, Morillo, by superior force kept the field, and ceeding five thousand dollars; and I am so convin finished the terrible conflict by murdering all the ced of the correctness of the principle of this mawounded patriots. In New Grenada it seems as chine, as well as its great utility, that I am now though it were his standing order, to put to death getting a model executed, which I intend forwardevery patriot that falls into his hands who can reading to you for your consideration. and write. These are deadly sins, in the royal catachism. National Character. FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER. With great respect, I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient humble servant, JOHN RODGERS. The Hon. Robert Smith, Secretary of the Navy. CHRONICLE. Washington, August 30, 1817. The President, while at Fort Niagara was waited MESSES. GALES and SEATON:--Observing in your upon by a deputation from the British officers at paper of the 29th,* an account of the hauling up a Fort George, saying that if it would concur with British 74 to repair, and it having excited great his wishes they would do themselves the honor to astonishment in the minds of masty, that so enormous wait upon him. To this be replied, that anxious to a weight could have been taken out of the water finish his tour of observation, he could not accept by a combination of the pully, lever and inclined of their courtesy. He remained only an hour at plane, but more particularly because this is claimed Niagara. When he approached Malden, the British as an English discovery, I consider it a duty I owe were prepared to salute him, but on reaching the to my country to claim it as a genuine American river he landed at the Spring Wells, and was esinvention. In the year 1803, the ketch Vesuvius corted into the city by the citizens en masse, which was run on shore on the Bahama Bank, and injured was illuminated in the evening, &c. He was to her bottom very much. The peculiar construction leave Detroit on the 15th, and would be accom. of this vessel made it impossible to heave her out, panied by Gen. Brown and Gov. Cass as far as as the great quantity and weight of materials in her Chilicothe. He expected to reach Washington by would have surk her in the operation: it, therefore, the 18th September. There is something pleasant saluted, and was about to proceed to Montreal. became necessary to haul her up or condemn her. in the attentions of our late enemy. The experiment was made and succeeded; it was! Gen. Scott, with his lady, has just visited the repeated on the Adams frigate, at the navy-yard falls of Niagara, the battle ground adjacent, &c. here, and was equaily successful. In the first in- He had arrived at Sacket's Harbor, where he was stance, only sixty men and one capstern were employed; and in the other, only the means and the men belonging to the yard, which did not exceed 150, and which were at the time deemed sufficient to bave hauled up a ship of the line. I consider our ingenuity as a national property; I consider our naval reputation equally so; efforts have repeated: *See Last No. of the WEEKLY REGISTER, page 11' Facilty of travelling-A party of gentlemen from Boston lodged in this town on Friday night last, saving performed the following tour, viz: From Boston, via Albany, to Saratoga Springs, thence by land to Buffalo, thence down the river and the whole length of lake Ontario, stopping at Oswego, Sackett's Harbor, &c. thence down the St. Lawrence, stopping at Ogdensburg and Montreal to Quebec, |