' O 4 ITHE RATIONAL REGISTER 2 7'CIESD.II" NIGHT'S GAZETTE. DUBLIN CASTLE, DEC. 49. The Marquis Wellesley, alto eninarked at Holyhead, at ten o'clock a.m. the eflth instant, an ived at the harbour of Howth, at five o'clock the same evening; and this day his Lordship, upon entering Dublin. was received by the Lord Mayor. Alder men, Sheriff; and Commons of the city of Dublin. His Lordship. attended by a squadron of dragoons, proceeded to the Cagle, and the Council having assembled at two o'clock. was introduced in form to his Exceilency Earl Talbot, who re ceived him sitting under the canopy of state in this Present.* Chamber. from whence a procession was made in the usual suite to the Council Chamber. The Council sitting. his Lordship's commission being read, and the oaths administered to him, his Lordship was invested with the collar of the Most Illustrious Order of St. Patrick, and received the sword of state from the Earl Talbot. Hi► Excellency afterwards repaired to the Presence Chamber, arid received the compliments of the nobility and other persons of distinction, upon this safe arrival, and ta►ing upon bun the Government of Ireland. FOREIGN OFFICE. JAN. 1. The King has been pleased to appoint Thomas Fonblanque. Esq. to be his Majesty's Consul at Konigsberg. Memel, and Pillar. and all udier ports and places in the province of East Prussia. The King has also been pleased to appoint Samuel Om Ma:shall. Esq. to be his Mejeity's Consul at Calais. other ports and places in the Depatnuents of the North, the Straits of Calais, and the Solllllle. The King has also beim pleased to appoint Langford Hand, Esq. to be his Majesty's Consul at Ostend. The King has also been pleased to approve of Don Antonio Salinas to be Consul at Malta, kw the King of the Spasm. BANKRUPTCIES ENLARGED. J. D. Beaumont, Maidstone, Kent, upholstery, from Jan. to Jan. Is. J. Ciunie, Camberwell, baker, from Dec. 11 to Feb. 2. BA N KRU PTS. T. Graves. Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, butcher. Solicitor. Mr. Crott, Chancery Lane. .1. White. Bletchingley. Surrey, farmer. flaw Messrs. Welchrnan and Co. Stamford Street. T. Abbey, Pocklington, Yorkshire, ironmonger. Sol. Mr Evans, Ha ton Garden. G. Nude. Grantham, Lincolnshire, builder. Sols. Means. Stocker and Co. New Boswell Court. R. Abbey. Alne, Yorkshire. miller. Soh. Messrs. Frame and Co. Temple. T. Clark, Hammersmith, many scrivener. Sol. Mr. Isaac son, Lung Acre. DIVIDENDS. Jan. 16. J. Tillotson. Watley. Yorkshire, cotton spinner—lg. P. Jane, and W. Appleton. Liverpool. saddlers—ft. R. frulprir. Bridgewater. Somerset, draper r -Ig. T. Merrick, Frith SWIM. Soho. mercliant--ft, T. Austin. J. Gregory. and J. Hue% Bath, haberdashers— R. Ashby, Poultry. engraver—ft. H. H. Whitntarsb, Wingharn. Kent. mobster —ft , . J. Hooper. Tooley Street, chymiso...66. J. Wilson. Macclestietd, bookseller —ft. T. Sargent. Millbank Row. Warminster. timber and stone merchant—ft, D. Fowler a nd A. Annie, Gracechurch Street. merchants--ft. T. BiJdick, St. limey, Cornwall. corn factor—A, S. Mace, Norwich. groat-22, IL Masters, Coven. try, tailor-14, T. Ward. Sterner. York. maltster-2Y, C. Bayly. Abingdon, Berks. linen draper—Feb. g. H. Atkinson. Bread Street Hill, ironmonger —t. I. Node, Beech Street. button and trimming seller—S. J. Bend. Montagu Place. underwriter—in, G. Laing, Commercial Sale Rooms. Mincing Lane. merchant. CERTIFICATES to be granted Jan. 111. J. Horsfield, Bolton. Lar.cashire, grocer—J. Bracewell, Bram• ly. Yorkshire. innkeeper—D. Adcock. Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. druggist—B. Wadham. Poole. grocer—T. Cha rters. Manchester, tailor—S. Buttner, Oxford Street. woollen draper. LAW INTELLIGENCE, COURT OF KING'S BENCH. IFIBLINZSD•Y, J•tl. V. Sittings at Guildhall before Ski Lord Chief Justice. LIBEL IN THE JOHN BULL rite KING U. INN:AVON. uNACKNLI, AND AaaowxYlr N. This was au istiousiatious exhibited order the wiction of the Cowl of King's Bench against the three defendaws, charging them with the publication of a libel, rett.ctiug on INC eh:a-deter of the Countess of Jersey. Mr. Stearn stated the case. He wild the Earl of Jersey wits the prime...tor. The defendants were the printer awl proprietor* of the John Ball ace/simper. He was to be told neither of tue defeaulmits was the author of the libel COM plaiutd of. The probability was, that the author would never be kn o wn to the public. If he should unexpectedly have the good fortune :..• be received• into the society of gen tlemen, the discovery of Ni.. name Must indeed, exclude tutu. There was nothing in the matter or composition of the I.bel to induce 'Posterity to seek sill She author, and no doubt, he world remain 'tokenise; but Otiose who lead ilwasselves to the malice of such sistouyistioni writers *Wald become liable to public lattice. Mihiciuus libel was es crime Ike must ollensive to mankind. II Ilse author of she libel in this cave foetid have hems discovered, his advice %timid have been to worudon the prosecution newest the ddendaiits; but loussmuch us they rotted it advantageous to conceal his name, it was titling they should answer its all the couse. sequences civil sod ctiibtual. He ant sure blue Jury would edam that the defendants ought to be responsible for the °lichee cunitiotted in their uewspaper. in all the extrava gance and nialieaity of the pew, in all the acrimony applied to public Characters, no man had been Wood ,a v out of deeo shin, we lost to the feelin,s'of society, us to bring a female chataeter beim e the public, and eudeavour to blast private character, for the purpuse cat promoting the inter. St ill poll. twat parties. But it seems, said Mr. Scailett, au outliner aits tit last beets foiled capable ill' writing fur the purpose of t serving wets au object. It seems he professed a [Smogs Its. calunimat• all those who visited her lisle Mistiest). He: thinks, probably, be serves some ',eject reconcileable to ISIS own eomcwoce by that specie-, oh summit, but does he re elect that those win live under toe same aiouarchy may tore as i 6666 tar plan of attack. mid it' tiny did so, what would be the state of society I—Could a man, to serve the cause of oily one of the Royal Fiorito., consider himself holly at liberty to attack alt those supposed to stand it. the way cab his object 1 If such con dett was adopted it would not agree with Ilse gamut opinion of austiluod. The author of the libel also thought that lie was ill liberty to traduce the character of owls, women, mud children, for the purpose of putting an end to all respect for the wife of the Sovereign.— tie no/Light lb to abuse the }tippet Perooll, and to level the shafts of malice at every imlividuol who spewed the least respect tor her Majesty. Its that view he held out his intim. tiou trs'autarli. every *wean who had the respect to leave her moue at her Majesty's dwelling. Severe indeed would be the he*, said Mr. Scarlet.. and t would it be to every Otivesament, if the private character ill persons who paid seipert to tilustrium reek, were to be considered liable to the attack of writer wit, undertook to support a par ticular oatject. The Countess of Jersey s name be had never hetod worationed without respert,ous its Ilse habit of vs. smog her late Majesty. upon which the author thought dt to polluting the libel in question. Nothing could more tle.terst the feeling of a lady than to become the subject of public diwussion. It sous part of the privileges w a female to itudiaw bons the public eye— " Their very virtues love the shade." Mr. Scariest then read the libel, %WWI. commenced in these words—o We have recets,d communientions swim' the Countess of Jersey, some of a hick shall glum tone to time amuse our rude.* Every • must have seen we had a kindness for Lady Jersey, and that we had spared her ; but tut, foolish outbid' of forty has Riede herseit so oiti:solve by toils% up the (lobe of the of Hereon', w bets every our ihid drop p ed, toot die torte. herself uu our notice, of wuich with the Weston.. of Heay. is, she shall have enough." The libel despised the lineal cat pussecutiou. and imputed idle talk to Lady Jersey, aho was said to be displeased with the person who kid Lord tirey the Juke Bell declaring that those who took in the Bali shook' never be &Admitted to her parties. It *set oil to say, that the cooduct of Lady Jet Pry to the {twee (termed the modest' Attention) compelled her to go astroad, and that she had been received with aitsgust and coldness is society. Lord Jersey would nut ult.)* his Countess to become a tenant of the Mho ill Como, or the permit' alai bred Bergioni."—This was toe ua.ure of tile libel, which the learueil Counsel called upon toe Jut), to consider a must uojustiliable ettack uu the N.sble Lady, olio had been go tool, wandered. The tarsi who. ist was 'lntones Wright, clerk to the alloy ney for the prosecution, woo deposed that he purchased the delta ysllco. , tui uuig the Impel of the Ist cat Juiie last, at No. .11, Jouirinies•court, Eleet.street. Oa the door, Ise sits the names bloickell and Arrow smite." This hove had the ap peorauce of a private house. lie did not know either of toe defendant*. NV lien he purchased the paper be hoard some mews at woo k. Tae o floras Haas produced the copy of an albnavit, signed at the stautigeffice, pussuaut to a late Act of emolument, fur the remanent of printers and pub lishers. to the said ma/davit the defendants &wished them selves as printer and prop s leteof of lie John Bali, priuted tit No, 9, Dyeembuildiugs. Inc Sulattor-6eoetal. fur the defendants, then submitted that the paper purchased by W right, in Johnonewcoutt could nut be received as evidence, nod the spsestiou arose, obi:thee there was any proof tutu the defendants were pub fishers of the libel. Litotes toe provisions of the Art alluded to, adiJovits are requsied to be made by the wooer, pros prietur, and publitmer, and if tiny public:dont %loch is the subject of pussiolition Or lotion, coirespowls with the des descriptioit in the alb tai it, the parties are held Isable....ln this case it was orgo,d, that the Jury had lio newspaper before them publish...A mod coosequeutly these was no piiiiir that the defend:lista were publishers. — Weaver, Whine name Was nut oil the dour, was entirely Uhl at' the question. Mr. beerlett admitted the difficulty occasioned by the ab. sescr of proof that the paper was published sa sliihrbOtele court, but cuisteadeil tom mere Mist elabila II to go to the Jury, iwomitech tit IL Dui for tutus to decide w nether two sot the defendants, attache! , ant Arroosaiith, whose Inning stood on the door, were publishei% The Lord Chief Justice considered this it question of some importance, as It was the Mot %%hien hail twee. lied under the Act, bud Illerelint acceded that it ought to go to the J ery. ne Sulicitur•General ua% then heard for the defendants. —He cubteutted that the &hefted libel vias not an attack on private Chbluctcti but discussion respettlag the cuitittitt ut _._J %- :. Lady Jersey, who was a partiauu daring a contest which agitated the whole country. The Lord Chief Justice lo his charge to the Jury, said, as far as mpected two of the defesidmits, Shin:ken owl Arrow. smith, they had two questions to consider. The first was, whether it was proved to their satisfoction, that both those persuos were publishers of the paper. If they should be of 01 they were DM, no further anew ion could passe ; but it they thought. from the evidence bud berme shear. they could reasonably conclude that those two p►rsons were pub lishers, they would then have to consiikr whether the pub lication be a libel. With respect toThossas Wearer he was intitled to an acquittal. It is fur you who have heard the paragraph is gamine to judge whether it is out obviously menial to hold op Lady Jersey to contempt and ridicule: if it is so intewled, it is that suit of criminal plash, anon know iii law ►y the designatioo of libel. Gentlemen of the Jury, it is my duty, upon that p • of the case, to staple to you 11w upsilon which I personally entertain. You will Clef • clse y ou r own discretion, sod either negative or Whim wy judgment ns you may think gond :—say opinion is do. tioctly that the publication le a Wel Gesitleamen in the Jury, (owe inure reveal yuerotteuttoit to the ditleirence hem,. she toe questious in the case. T hr chief, and iudred ahassst tue only doubtful poise is—ore you s;.tiviied teat the dews'. itrinta are the putp•ishera ul She "paper I The Jar), utter alms' a quarter of an hour's coa•ideration, said, that they Arid the publicestbot to be o libel t but upuu the ground of neteetive proof as Iv the ptuperty, they Amid the defendants—Not Guilty. Mr. Scaliest begged that bbl Lordship (the Chief Justice) would certify that the cause bud beets tined uplift probable grunod, as such testrticate N.* important to toe waiter of costs. The 1 ord Chief Justice said it was it ease in which he should not hesitate to certify. THILIRODAIf. JAN. 3. (Before the Lord Chief Justice and a Special ✓ury.) GRIM CON. •LADIOC O. 0011”0". • • • The plaintiff, a Surgeon in the 31th regiment, serving in the East ladies, brought his action against the defendant, Captain of a Regality' of Cavalry in the same country. to recover •compensatiou iu damages fur Cr' sal conversation with his wife. The Solicitor-Gemini stated the case.—As far back as 1813, a marriage took place between the plaintiff and his wife. She was a lady of grew beauty, nod the daughter tit centlersau iw Ike.vasty of Yosk. At the ti.ur of the marriage the plaintiff resided in this country, a m t had no in trusion of gating abroad. The lady was about 2 4 sir 25 The plsiwlitt might be thirty. They had during five years nue child. Towards the rut of 1814. Mr. and Mil,. *Lidice went to the East Indies, with the 34th regiment. While they relearned in that country they had too other children. They lived happily, the plaintiff being a fond domestic huff. baud.—los 1820 they were at Madras, and their 'wog. at chill bad a severe illness, occasioned by the climate. They were consequently Maimed to mod hint home to En4land Captain Chapeau, et the bast India CUlNtillai ' S ta . ryiee, eat throat Madras. sad being related to gis. Alailice, an arrangrateat was made to send her bane with her children its that ship. it was aka arranged tis.it she was to reside, on her return to England, with her mother in Yortithire...-She aecordiugly went on board, and sailed on the voyage home. The defendant, Captain Johnson, is - us a passenger ou board the Slop, and, on every occasion, he bhewed a marked at teuuou to Mrs. Aladice. It did no appear that he %US kaUMUIU the plaiiitilf. There was no evide..ce to prove any criminal intercourse between the parties on board tile ship, but it would no doubt strike the Jury, when they had all the facts befure them, that an intimacy consmenced iii the vestal which led to the plaisititi 'it dishonour. On the arrival of the ship at Southutopton, Captain Johnson accompanied Mrs. Aladice to town. She went fast to the house of Mr. Ste venson, biotite, of Captain Chapman, and float thence to lodgings taken for her at lurans-street. She was thrte fte qurntly visited by Capt. Johnson, w Ito temained with her to a late hour. Mr. Stevens made arrangements fur Min , . Ala dire to go to York-hire. She was acrordingls sent orby the coach to York. About it mile (tom the Inn Captain Jtraamal got imit the conch wilt) h. r, saymg he MilsatilliA to St uttund. At Yolk he left her, It the srivant he was obliged to go back to Laludia, having kit his moue) behind. Mrs. Aladice theta went to W "why, to her niothrr and its tars, aud iu April following she determined to retain to Lou. don with her two swiess. Our tit them Lilaahrth Naltier. was at that time aiddiebsed by a gentleman 'hoard Metcalfe. lie proposed she should come to town and proceed with Mat and her twit sisters to France. Site accoriliii_ly came in wan, and wrnt 10 Mier tit B • nos p t tit Certain J.. 1 visited her halt nut boor atm het ai rival, and wit. introduced to tier Watt rs. tin Visit. New Ireton's. Amoe it fort:livid after her arrival at Brewton a lettcr nu. feceivrd front the plaintif f in Indio, stating hit intents'''. to r. turn to Logland. A few tiny. 'Atte her sister went into the return and toui.d her in tears, and Captain 'Johnson iu peat contusion. Mr. Metcal.e having palmed tickets for the Opera on the night the King went, legated Mrs. Aisidit e and her sisters to go.— Alta Aftdice declined list invitation, Mid Mr. Metcalfe went with the two sisters. Doting their absence Mrs. Alutlice remained alone with Captain Johnson all 'he evening. Tins look place On the 13th of May laid, autistic soon altered her intention of g • g to lettuce with her sitters. Sae wished tie go alone. Accordingly towards the latter end of May she proceeded alone to Rover. She was met at the inn door by Capt. J. who %tent w ith bee to Calais. In the mettatone man Inge had taken place between her sister ancl3lr.Nlet • :site. who were at Lite. She resided iii France till the month of September, where rise received trequeut visits horn Clptiliti Jokossm. In the sat-e moods of September she returned to England, and she again took lodgings iu Brampton-low.- - In Octolter the plaintiff shrived in England, mid wits re• cleaved by his wife, not as he had mice been, but under consireiot and coldness. In comeguente of the et tlection of w hat her aSection had berm, she fell unto a lit ut tears. Mt. Aladice attributed this sensibility to her at. tection, and a report which had been spread of its death. He coritinued to reside with her a fortight, never sot pectitig any Impropriety On het part. it happeued, how ever. that Mrs. Manlier felt that she was pregnant by Captai Johnson, and that it was imssible to cony e. ll it ont o het husband. It was a case tip p ut o s the whoie niti fled to ample d swages. Witnesses writ then called, who eotirely supported the statement of the Solicitor General. Atte' au able charge from th e Lord Chief Justice, Ott July found a verdict tor the plai iiii 11.--Damages t ,latt. 4. LIBELS ON HEK LATE MAJEST Y, THIS &MG V. WEAVeIt AND °Thiene. This was an indictment against the defendants, W iiiii , • Shaekell, and Atrowsuntli, fur the publication of critam REDUCTION Of RENTS. The Marquis of Londonderry has abated his rents 20 per cent. to his tenants in beleolessitire. His Grace the Duke of Bedford has made a liberal re duction in his rents at S ibbingtim, Huntingdonshire, and lois other manure. Eta Fitzwilliain and the Rev. Mr, Freeman (of Alwaarm) hate also reduced him rents. Sir George Leeds at his last audit, returned his tenants 20 per cent., and in some cases considerably more.—A.l Sir George's farms h ve been within the last six years relet on leases at very considerable abatements On their former rentals. The Duke of Somerset, at his late autlit•day at Hui beach, returned 20 per cent. to his numerous tenantry in that neighbourhood. At the last receipt of tithes in the parish of Stoke. next Guildford, lie rector (Rev. Geo. %Vest) returned 20 per cent, on account of ihe depression iii agrapulture. Mrs. Btilwer Lytton, of Knebworth.park, Herts, ha=, with the kindest liberality, pro-twined her Michaelmas rent-day until the 14th at February, and ordered Mr. Richardson, her steward, to ri.turn from 10 to 25 per cent. to all her tenants who have taken their halm* within the last five years, alt hough All leased. Lord Dacre has postponed the audit oh his Kentish tenantry ee..til February, and intimated to them that at lila! I , ru I he shal n.iuce their rents 20 per cent. The It v. lii H. 11 to Dudley, Burt. has returned 15 per c. in. hi i.is lessees, out of the tithes of the Rector) on . 11 %Hingham, 17 . ...5rit, tor the present year. The tetiaiiir) .11 Gily'n estates, Essex, have tit. st of tit, in had 10 ner Celli. abated on their tents. On Christmas.day, all the labourers in the em ploy ot the Euri of Warwick, with their wives, to toe otimbtx of upwards ot 100, were regaled at the castle with an excellent and substantial dinner of roast beef, Pluto-puthling, isc. and a copious supply ale from his lordships cellars; and on the fol lowing day their children, amounting to more than 100, weic entertained in the same hospitable man. Ler. Oil Frit]. y. th.: Lail and Countess and family lett the castle tar town. His Majesty's bed-carriage Was sent down expressiy tar the acconunodation ot Lady Warwick, who suit remains in a delicate state ot health. The party proceeded by easy stages to fire nietropoli , .. field ot ripe barley, sown in the month of Au gu,t, was cut down on Thursday at Furebank, the neighbourhood of Dundee. The person who tommuoteates the fact expects " cheap whisky," as the result of this successful experiment to raise two curls in one ear. ~~ ~ I