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intelligence ever contended with the minions of arbitrary power. The 

 indictment in which, in the year 1794 he was included with Home 

 Tooke, Thelwall, Hoi croft and other patriotic leaders, was framed upon 

 the atrocious doctrine of constructive treason, and supported in a speech 

 of nine hours in duration, by Sir John Scott, the Attorney General of 

 the day. The entire proceedings in the trial were marked by the base 

 subornation, and blood-thirsty subserviency to arbitrary rule, which 

 marked the proceedings of the sanguinary Jefferies, or the modern 

 courts of Portugal or Turkey. Indeed the diabolical attempt of the 

 Attorney General to pack the jury for the destruction of his victims, 

 was never fully disclosed to the public during even the thirty eight 

 years which have elapsed since the event, until the oration of Mr. 

 Thelwall at the grave of his compatriot Hardy, revealed this almost 

 unparalelled attempt at judicial murder. Yet so enslaved has been the 

 condition of this country, that this same Sir John Scott, has through a 

 long life been covered with the honours of the law, and amassed the 

 largest stores of wealth ever acquired by any professional adventurer. 

 It is consoling to reflect, that however the remnant of the life of this 

 tm wearied advocate of slavery may be passed, whatever storied urn or 

 animated bust may be raised to him, he must in vain look for so 

 honourable a resting-place, as the grave of the virtuous und persecuted 



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THE DURHAM EMBASSY. Lord Durham who had been dispatched 

 for the benefit of his health, to the Court of Russia, is at length returned 

 from that pleasant summer excursion. For what other purposes, than 

 to amuse his mind in consequence of the death of his daughter, this son 

 in law of the premier was sent within a few days after that evnet, and 

 with a retinue of six carriages, and twenty-two post horses, upon a 

 a missison to the Court of Russia, we are altogether at a loss to discover. 

 We perceive indeed from the German Papers that in the diplomatic 

 circles of the continent, his advent has been very generally considered as 

 the consequence of his domestic calamities, and the exertions to amuse 

 the Noble Lord, have accordingly displayed unusual splendour. He 

 would appear certainly to have effected no public object by his most 

 expensive mission, for we find no revocation of the savage outrages of 

 Russia, upon the unfortunate patriots of Poland, subjugated by the 

 whig subsidy of five millions and a half, but on the contrary, a military 

 tribunal is about to be established for the trial and execution by martial 

 law, of the yet unslaughtered remnant of that unfortunate band of 

 heroes. Nor would his ambassadorial labours appear to have influenced 

 in any manner the settlement of the affairs of Belgium and Holland, for 

 the flames of universal war, appear to be about to burst forth, notwith- 

 standing the six carriages, and the twenty-two post horses of my Lord 

 Durham. The expenses of this mission are said to amount to the sum of 

 fifty thousand pounds, but as the Noble Lord is possessed of a large 

 private fortune, we trust that the Reformed Parliament will "refuse the 

 supplies" for this palpable family job. 



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 *f%/j<THE ELECTIONS. Among the complicated, needless, and unintel- 

 ligible clauses in the Reform Bill, the registration of voters, apparently 

 a very simple process, cannot be completed before the llth December ; 

 the elections therefore cannot take place before the middle of winter 



