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into the mouth of Mr. DYER, as" meanor, and that it was con having been uttered at his Police trary to all rule to give up the Office in Marlborough-street, on" names of the bail.-Mr.. Alley Monday last. Mr. Alley, a law" returned the Magistrate thanks, yer, had, it appears, taken occa-" and said bail was certainly sion to ask the Magistrate and his "obliged to be taken, as, if not, people, in this public manner," the Magistrate was subject to whether he had been one of the" action for false imprisonment. bail for the Bishop. This he did "Mr. Wingfield, who was soliin consequence of its having been" citor for the Bishop of Clogher, insinuated, he said, that he had" said nothing could be faîreri been one of the bail. Mr. DYER" than the learned counsel's con declared, it appears, that Mr." duct, and the remarks contained Alley was not one of the bail; " in the paper in his opinion were and then follows in the Old Times" most unjustifiable. Several genaforesaid the following passage, "tlemen also expressed themwell worthy, I think, of your at selves in the same terms; one of tention: “The Magistrate said," them termed Cobbett a "whole"what had been stated in the sale dealer in lies."-We think

paper was certainly false, and" it necessary for the information "whoever had written it must" of our readers to state, that the "have been actuated by malice," persons now standing in the "which could be attributed to no" situation of bail for the Bishop “other cause than the general de-" of Clogher are not attornies, or “sire of certain parties to over-" in any way connected with the "throw the established authorities" law, but both are exercising "of the country, and they no แ mechanical trades." "doubt laid hold of this lament"able transaction as a handle by "which they might, were it pos"sible, effect their wish. At all "times the conduct of Mr. Alley "had been upright and respect"able. Before this subject was

I have already shown my reasons for disagreeing with Mr. DYER and Mr. Alley about the obligation to take bail at all in this case; and have shown, I think, sufficiently, how this bail differs in amount from the bail insisted upon in other cases. will here just add, that it is curious enough, that the new and severe

doctrine about bail was not long | Magistrate has the power to hold ago conjured up, and that too by the accused party to bail until the a parson. I should really like to trial, not only to answer the know whether the Bishop were a charge, but to keep the peace and Magistrate. This would make the be of good behaviour in the mean thing complete. He is down in time; and, though the man may the Red Book as a Commissioner be acquitted of the libel; though of the Board of Education; and the Grand Jury may throw out the I really wonder that he did not Bill, still, if the bounden party bring himself off by saying that have broken the peace, in the he was giving the Soldier a les-mean time, or has been guilty of son! Considering the parson and any other sort of bad behaviour, magistrate are now so often united he forfeits the recognisances, ta in the same person, and especially ken from him in a case where he in Ireland, it would be almost a had committed no offence at all! wonder if he were not a magis- These are the laws of bail that we trate; or, rather, if he be not; for live under; and yet there are men he is, as yet, all that he was. To who have the press in their hands, return, however, the new inter- and who live immediately under pretation of the law of bail; that these laws, who have had the

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baseness, the inexpressible baseness, to endeavour to smother up this affair of the Bishop and the Soldier.

is to say, of the severity of it, we owe to the church, amongst other things that we owe it. It was Parson Hay that first demanded bail on a charge of libel. The I have said enough upon Mr. legality of this was questioned; DYER's and Mr. Alley's doctrine as well it might after the solemn about bail; but I have now to decision in the case of Wilkes; notice this publication of the but, when Six-Acts came to be Trading Company, as it relates passed, it was declared to be law to the motives imputed to those, to hold men to bail on a charge who prevented this affair from of libel previous to conviction. being smothered up by the press. So that if any man goes and I do not impute these words to swears before a Magistrate, that Mr. DYER, because, I find them another has written, printed or in a paper which only says that published, a thing that that Magis- which answers its own purposes. trate may think to be a libel, that But, see, Sir, what words this:

paper puts into the mouth of one cribe it merely to his friend the of your Police Magistrates. Here Old Times, and is it not, Sir, most is a Bishop of the Church of shockingly foolish? Is it not England, detected with a Private childish beyond compare? To Soldier of the Foot Guards; here have made it complete it should is a paper, making an exposure have come from the mouth of the of the thing. Here is a paper. Bishop himself, he belonging to a preventing the thing from being body, which have been ringing smothered up; and here is this this charge in our ears for the beastly and vile old rotten Times full third part of a century. Let Newspaper telling the public, that any enormity take place, no matter Mr. DYER, one of your Magis- what. Let Mary Anne Clarkė trates, who receives a salary from figure away; let Majocchi, Sacthe Government, for carrying on chini, and Demon, be produced Justice of Peace work; here is from Cotton Garden. Let the the Times Newspaper telling the press comment upon the transacpublic that this Magistrate said, tion, and out bolts the charge, that that the writer in question "must we make it a handle to overthrow "have been actuated by malice, the constituted authorities of the "which could be attributed to no country! Thus, to speak of the "other cause than the general Bishop and the Soldier, is to en"desire of certain parties to deavour to overthrow the esta"overthrow the established autho- blished authorities of the coun"ritics of the country, and that, try. Nothing is said about the "no doubt, they laid hold of this overthrowing these established "lamentable transaction as a authorities by the hands of those "handle by which they might, who give importance to Mrs. Clarkes, to Italian witnesses, and

who are the actors in exploits like that of the Bishop; all these are loyal people. They are no malcontents. They do not wish to overthrow the established authorities of the country. Oh dear

were it possible, effect their "wish."-I pass over the mutual, and, I dare say, merited compliments of Messrs. Dyer and Alley; but, this accusation of wanting to overturn, the established authorities, I really cannot brook with any degree of patience. I do not no! It is not the poor murderer know that Mr. Dyer made the ac- that is to blame; it is they that decusation; I must therefore as-tect him, expose him, and would,

malicious dogs, bring him to the part of this Register, noticed the gallows if they could! difference in the conduct of cerThis whining accusation is, tain parties in this case and in however, become threadbare. It that of the unfortunate and inis fairly worn out. By dint of jured Queen; but I must here steady perseverance I have taught again observe, how natural, how this whole nation (with the help plain, how short the case and the of your Bill) that, when a man proceedings in the case of the cries out against attempts to over- Bishop. In the case of the throw the established authorities Queen, the witnesses had to be of the country, he means to say, hunted up; rumour was the founthat attempts are making to dis-dation; then a Commission was turb him in the quiet enjoyment sent to Milan to collect evidence. of what he derives from those Then the witnesses had to be established authorities. It is the brought at an enormous expense; old hacknied charge that did very and that pretty concern of Cotton well when wheat was fifteen shil- Garden had to be resorted to, and lings a bushel; when the Farmers a guard on the water as well as of Northamptonshire rode hun by land to take care of the fordred pound hunters, and dressed tress. The House of Lords had themselves in scarlet coats and to sit nearly all the summer, and, jockey caps, and when the Banker though it brought in the Bill, it Attornies had their bales of finally threw it out! paper- money afloat; this about the established authorities fee gets the examinations before did very well then; but, thanks Mr. DYER. The witnesses are to your immortal Bill, this cry all living in the parish of St. now sounds like the ten times James most likely, and one eventold tale of an ideot: the game is gone; and the cry has become

ridiculous.

cry

In the case before us, a shilling

ing's trial in the House of Lords settles the business. This would have been the right way, Sir, take my word for it. It will not be done half so well in any other way, and in this way the Govern

Let me now, Sir, in conclusion, express my surprise, that no Bill of Pains and Penalties against ment would have gained, disthe Bishop has been brought into graceful as was the crime that it Parliament. I have, in another would have had to punish. This

would have been much better | Commons has not said here what than those proceedings, the in- he means. He has said that "the tention to enter upon which is "matter came to the knowledge announced to us by old Doc-" of the Home Department, not tors' Commons. As the thing is " after the chief criminal had been it must be seen by every one, and" admitted to bail." But he clearly every person belonging to the Go- does not mean this. Between not vernment must feel, that it is a and after he has left out the word heavy blow. The blow might till; which makes all the differ have been parried; but, to do ence. Yet to show you how active that, the villanous press, in the the public mind is, I have heard first place, has gone precisely the several persons remark upon this, wrong way to work. To attempt and express their opinion that it to smother was to make the thing is no mistake at all, and conseten thousand times worse than it quently that the knowledge reached naturally was as far as regarded your department before the bail that which this foolish fellow (of had been taken. Most sincerely the Old Times newspaper I mean) do I say, that I should be excalls the established authorities of tremely sorry to find this opinion the country. If I had been in to be well-founded. I take the your place, I would have lost no contrary to be the meaning of old time; not even a single hour, in Doctors' Commons, and also to convincing the public that I dis-be the fact. Yet it would appear approved of the attempts of those somewhat strange, that the affair infamous newspapers. The baser should have happened on Friday they are the more necessary this evening, at dusk; that the people was; for public suspicion was should have pelted and purnmelled sure to be uncommonly active. a Bishop at that time in the evenTherefore, no time should have ing; that a Bishop should be in a been lost; and, of this opinion Watch-house dungeon all Friday you will be, I am certain, before night; that he, and a private solthis affair is over. The New dier along with him, should be Times does, indeed, inform the taken to one of the Police Offices public, that you heard nothing of the abominable transaction until after the chief criminal had been admitted to bail. Old Doctors'

on the Saturday; that St. James's. parish should be all in a hubbub; that the examination of seven witnesses should be going on for some