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All Communications (post paid) are requested to be sent to Dorchester Gaol, until a further Address to some House or Shop be given.-Orders, with remittances, or references for payment, will be punctually attended to. Country Agents will find the most liberal Terms for prompt Payment. No. 29. Vol. 6.] LONDON, Friday, Dec. 13, 1822. [PRICE 6d. PUBLIC ROBBERY MADE LEGAL BY CHIEF JUSTICE ABBOTT. MOST of my readers will have read with indignation the result of my action against the Sheriff, to obtain damages for his not selling the property, he had three years before seized and carried away from my premises, on account of my fines. Near seventy thousand publications of different prices were taken away, and after having had them detained, I know not where, without sale for three years, and after being detained in prison in consequence of that seizure and detention, a conscientious jury of Christians gave me one shilling damages! This was a jury of villains. Here are their names: George Kenning, Tothill Street, Linen-draper. William Hall, King Street, Wine Merchant. -Henry Watson, Parliament Street, Upholsterer. Robert Mann, Parliament Street, Linen-draper. John Varley, Broadway, Grocer. George Buckham, Little Abingdon Street, Coal Merchant. They pronounced my action good by giving me a verdict, and yet robbed me of the damages I had actually sustained. This is Christian law administered by a Christian Judge! I attribute much of the result of this action to the conduct of Mr. Cooper, the Sheriff's Counsel and Advocate, and I will shew, that a greater prostitution of professional character was never made by the most corrupt lawyer that ever wore a wig in Westminster Hall. If Mr. Cooper had instructions from Mr. Parkins to set up such a defence as he did, then I do not know which is the more corrupt fellow Printed and Published by R. CARLILE, 55, Fleet Street. of the two. I had no alternative but to bring this action against Mr. Parkins. I wrote to him immediately on the death of his colleague Rothwell, and advised him to take some decisive step with regard to that property, as I should have no alternative but to proceed against him by action if he did not, and stated at the time, that, doubtless, it would be amusing to the government to see me bringing actions against him, for acts which they had directed, and in which he had participated no further than to allow his name to be used as an instrument of robbery, without any objection on his part. Mr. Parkins has repeatedly sent me word that he would do every thing he could to assist me in the recovery of that property: but I now find he is a mere thing of words (and these he makes a wretched use of). If I had recovered damages equal to those I have sustained, Mr. Parkins could have recovered again from the under-sheriff and agents of his colleague, Rothwell. I have always viewed this as a friendly action at law between me and Mr. Parkins. It was one which I had no alternative but to bring, and the consequence of which he might have thrown upon our mutua! enemies. Instead of meeting it as such, what does he do? Why he makes himself a partner in all the robbery and villainy practised upon me, by his colleague and the government, and defends himself accordingly. Since this is become the case, I would have him throw aside his mask of patriotism, and his prattle about justice, and stand upon his mettle as a corrupt fellow and a supporter of the abuses of the government. I have given him credit for utility in his attacks upon the Bridge Street Gang, but I now think he is a very fit member for them, perhaps his opposition was of that species which seeks to obtain employment and not to overthrow. He may now rely on it that I will renew actions against him in earnest, until he gives me a good account of the property of which he has assisted to rob me. To unmask hypocrites is my profession, and I believe this is as foul and contemptible a one as any in the country. Though I have endeavoured to avoid giving this man the slightest offence, with an idea that he may have been disposed to act a honest part towards me in his character of Sheriff, my fingers have often itched to lash him, when I have seen what a fool he has made himself in the public papers. I always looked upon him as a disgrace to the Shrievalty of London, for, though he has a back broad enough, he has not intellectual capacity for the office of a FellowshipPorter. But to return to Mr. Cooper and the action. The case for the plaintiff was very properly stated, with the exception, that the reports of the papers do not say it was set forth that I was then a prisoner, in consequence of the Sheriff not having proceeded to sell the property at the proper time and place. My remaining a prisoner after the three years for which I was sentenced, was a matter to enhance the damages, and should have been distinctly stated: and I will have damages proportioned before I drop the matter. Every days' imprisonment is a ground for action. ground for action. I have suffered a wrong, and have a clear law on my side, which I will enforce sooner or later. Mr. Cooper put two sentences into the mouth of the Judge and the Jury which they gladly caught hold of as an excuse to deprive me of damages. He said, that malice was not proved against Mr. Parkins, and that to sustain the action it ought to have been proved; and he further said, that I might have forced a sale, and by neglecting to do it, I had been privy to whatever damages I had sustained, and had no ground to come there and seek a remedy. Both of these expressions were as villainous from Mr. Cooper towards me, as they were both void in law and truth. It was not necessary to prove malice to sustain such an action; it was quite sufficient that negligence was proved on the part of the Sheriff, and that I had sustained damages from that negligence. Damages sustained by A. from the negligence of B. is ground for an action in any Court of Law in this country; and if Mr. Cooper does not know that, I now tell him so; and if he wants cases, he will find hundreds and thousands of them in the books of Reports. Negligence I charge upon Mr. Parkins. He ought to be made to pay for allowing his name to be fixed to such a transaction; and if ever one man was actuated by malice towards another, the dead Robber Rothwell was actuated by malice towards me. He advised Mrs. Carlile to desert me, and not to give herself any more trouble about me after I was in Prison, and threatened her with prosecution if she attempted to open a shop in my line. If this man was not a corrupt, worthless, and malicious villain, there never was such a character. Upon the next point, that I had been privy to the neglect to sell, the defence is equally fallacious and infamous, and from Mr. Cooper it was villainous. The property was |