tinued to range about amongst the whole Bench. He will have the goodness to recollect, that it was bare justice to the rest of the Bishops to name the party. He will also recollect, that if the bail had been named, as is generally the case, and always in an affair of importance, there could have been nothing for rumour to have worked on.

The Old Times tell us that Mr. DYER said, that it was contrary to all rule to give up the names of the bail. We know that we

trust that this is true; for, on this turns the whole of the question as far as the Government is concerned. We never believed, for one moment, that Mr. PEEL would not do, in this case, that which it was his duty to do. But we must, at the same time assert for ourselves, that we firmly believe that all impartial persons will agree with us, that our exertions in this case, have been of the greatest importance to the public.

[FROM THE NEW TIMES."] "We briefly adverted, a few days daily read the names of bail; ago, to the disgraceful conduct of and we have never heard of such a Diguitary of the Irish Church, a rule as this before. The Old One sentiment of abhorrence acTimes tells us upon its own au-tuates every mind on the subject; thority, that the bail are both and Government have shown thempersons exercising Mechanical selves on this, as on all other.ocTrades. But the Old Times does casions, faithful representatives of not name the bail, even yet. We mark their sense of the severe inthe national feeling. Anxious to had letters sent to us, yesterday, jury sustained by the cause of reexplaining the circumstances un-ligion and morals, they nevertheder which these tradesmen be- less could only act as the law came bail. But these letters are directs; but every measure preanonymous; and we would ad- scribed by the law has been and vise the parties themselves to will be pursued with undeviating come forth and explain those cir- strictness. As soon as the matter eumstances in point. They, how-came to the knowledge of the ever, will do as they please about this matter.

not after the chief criminal had Home Department, (which was been admitted to bail), the particulars were officially submitted to the consideration of the Crown Lawyers; and in conformity with their professional advice, the most speedy and effectual means were adopted, both in Ireland and England, for proceeding at once in the The See of Clogher, therefore, will temporal and ecelesiastical Courts. not long bear the stain with which it is at present defiled. If conscience does not prompt a voluntary re

In the meanwhile, let us do, as far as we can, justice to the Government, and particularly to Mr. PEEL. In another part of our paper we have inserted an article from the New Times, which we cannot but look upon as demiofficial, and on which we shall have further to remark another time. But, in the meanwhile, we are very glad to observe (what we always supposed to be the case)signation of the pastoral charge, that the knowledge of the matter did not reach Mr. PEEL until after the chief criminal had been admitted to bail. We hope and

recourse will be had to the solemn, of Episcopal deprivation, which must but happily very unusual process be pronounced by the Metropolitan, usually taking to his assist

MR. WOOLER.

ance six or seven other Bishops. No instance of this infliction has *occurred, we believe, since the reign of William III.; but it is certain that the Church retains the on Friday last, the 26th, after his

power of removing a Prelate from his See for scandalous excesses, whence any great public infamy doth arise; and that the present is a case which calls aloud for the exercise of that power no one can

doubt.

THIS Gentleman was liberated

imprisonment of Fifteen Months in Warwick Castle. It is no less pleasing to us to hear Mr. Wooler's statement of the attention and civility with which he has been treated by the Magistrates and by the Officers of the Gaol during his imprisonment, and of the reception with which he was about to be honoured at Birmingham on his release; circumstances which are equally complimentary to Mr. Wooler as to those in whose custody he has been and his countrymen at Birmingham.

COBBETT'S.
PARLIAMENTARY
REGISTER.

"Independently of this, the Attorney-General will officially prosecute the parties at the Middlesex Sessions, either to trial, or if they evade that, to outlawry, with all its consequent penalties and disabilities. More the law does not permit for, black as the moral turpitude of the conduct deposed to, it still amounts only to a bailable offence; and we all know that by the Common Law, and by the Habeas Corpus Act, it is deemed a violation of the liberty of the subject, in any Magistrate, to refuse or delay to bail a person bailable. I SHALL immediately collect In the present instance, the together all the Commentaries wealthier individual found bail that have been published in immediately; and if the other The Statesman, during the Sesshould tender bail at any time be- sion, under the head of "Profore the Sessions, it must be accepted. The Magistrate demanded ceedings in Parliament." These, much more than ordinary, though we together with a List of the Acts fear much less than effectual bail ; been passed, stating but it must be remembered that substance of each, will, the Bill of Rights strictly forbids I think, form the best sort of the taking of excessive bail. It is Parliamentary Register that can to be regretted that a villain should be. I shall go back to the beginever shelter himself under the protection of such salutary enactments; but they are too closely interwoven with our liberties to admit a doubt of their general utility, even though in a particular instance they may operate to produce a defeazance of that entire and exemplary justice which the case demands,"

that
briefly

ning of the Session; and shall, besides the Acts, give the substance, at least, of all the most important Papers laid before Parliament during the Session.The Book will form a pretty thick Octavo Volume, and the Price will be Seven Shillings.

WM. COBBETT.

VOL. 43.-No. 6.] LONDON, SATURDAY, August 10, 1822. - [Price 6d. Published every Saturday Morning, at Six o'clock.

HAMPSHIRE PARSONS.

On the present prospects with regard to their temporalities; and on the affair of the Right Reverend Father in God and the Soldier of the Guards, more particularly as that affair is illustrated by the trial of Byrne in Ireland, in 1811.

Printed and published by C. CLEMENT, No. 183, Fleet-street.

Father in God and the Soldier of years and a half, leaving a wife the Guards and to show you how and four small children to beg or the Father in God's piety was il-starve! Strange sight to behold! lustrated on the trial of poor Six-Acts passed, printers held to Byrne in Ireland, in 1811. You bail before they enter on their are the properest persons in the business; presses all registered world for me to address myself to and licensed; the price and bulk upon this occasion; for, if I ex- of pamphlets regulated by law; cept your brethren of Lancashire, bail for the peace and good beI know not your equals in the haviour even before the charge of whole Kingdom, as foes to Reform libel proved; John Hayes put and to Freedom of the Press. into prison for ten weeks for want

And now, first of all, what have of bail, only because he informed

his townsmen that I was arrived at Liverpool in good health; the Yeo

you gained by all your hostility to freedom? You succeeded in putting a stop to the free circulation manry and Magistrates of Manof the Register in 1817. You chester thanked by Sidmouth: all and others like you succeeded in these things; and when every your works against those whom danger to you and the THING you charged with “sedition and seemed to be got completely over, blasphemy." The dungeons have up rise dangers ten thousand groaned; they have witnessed times greater than ever, and, in the suffering indescribable. But, very Parliament itself, the queswhat have you gained? Strange tion is mooted, when and how the sight to behold! Mr. CARLILE, attack on your temporalities is to his wife and sister safe in dun- commence! geons, fined enormously, himself sentenced to bail for life. JoSEPH SWANN imprisoned by the You shall be told of that as long Justices of Cheshire for four as I live, or, at least, if any of

Before I go any further, let me call you back to March 1817.

you be left where you now are. perhaps, they might, and, as the

We were then assembled at Winchester to address the Regent on the breaking of the glass of his coach in the Park. The whole

of that pretty affair will come out

yet. You had got your Address,

tithes were really what you meant, I had no objection to their pledging themselves to support the tithes; and, to this effect I moved an amendment.

The noise, the bawling, the.

which was rejected by the people; spitting, the hooting, the bellowbut, carried up by the sheriff, ing, the uproar that you made WILLIS, who is now called FLEM-upon this occasion the people of ING. The particulars of the scan- Hampshire will never forget. I dalous proceedings of that day remonstrated with you, told you are recorded in the Register, that you stood in your own light, where they will long live to re-for that the tithes were really the cord the character and conduct things in danger; and that you, of Hampshire Parsons. But, above all men, ought to be for a one thing happened which now reform, that measure, and that steps forward for particular no-measure adopted immediately, be tice. Your Address called on the ing absolutely necessary to preMeeting to pledge themselves to serve to you any portion of that the support of our "Holy Reli-fat which had been sticking to gion." To this I objected, be- your ribs for so many years. I cause many of the persons pre- told you distinctly, that, by that sent were Dissenters; and could

day four years you would discover, that you had now been cutting your own throats. That four years ended in March 1821; and, if you did not make the discovery by that time, you must have been blind indeed.