The Quebec gazette = La gazette de Québec, 1 janvier 1778, Cahier 1

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accufed the King\u2019s troops of murder, but that he did not mean to take advantage of a trifling fubterfuge; he did now make the charge; that he had before deemed the affair at Lexington a murder, did then, and would to-morrow call it by no other name.He told the Jury, that, like certain people mentioned in hiffory, who drefled up their victims for flaughter, fo the Attorney General had drefled him up in the charaQer of a wild beaft,, and wanted them to worry him ; that his aim was to fhut him out from fociety, and lock him up like a mad dog; but that he defied his malice, and feared not the Judges, as he was well aware they would not venture to punifh him as they might wifh, even if the Jury were.to deliver him over to their mercy, but that he was prepared to mect more than they dared to inflict in the prefent caufe.He recapitulated the fteps taken by the Attorney General with the Printers, blaming them all as unjuft and incquitable.With regard to the Attorney General\u2019s complaint about the quantity of libels daily publifhed, he begged him to put himfelf in the balance againft him, and confider which had been moit tibelled ?For his part, no man had been more fo; his picture had been ftuck up in the print-thops, with the words \u2018\u201c \u2018l\u2019he Atheift Parfon,\u201d fubfcribed in capitals.He had been made the fubjeét of ballads, 4nd the fingers had borne the figure of a fpruce Parlon in miniature, on a ftick, with a libel, on which was written, \u2018\u201c T'he Atheift and Macaroni Parfon.\u201d His very cloaths had furnifhed wit for the theatre, and he had even once been prefent, and feen himfelf burnt in efhigy.After having urged 2 million of arguments refpecting the nature of the trial, he proceeded with an equal degree of elaborate argument to juftify every part of the advertifement, and to prove it no libel.He inttanced the murder ¢f Glenco, as a proof that the King\u2019s troops had once committed murder, and dwelt upon that affair for a long time.He offered forme few legal authorities, and quoted many parts of the State Trials in fupport of them.In the courfe of his fpcech he took occation to pay Lord Camden, Mr.Dunning, and Mr.Burke feveral compliments, and adverted more than once to Mr.Wilkes (who fat on the Bench clofe by Lord Mansfield).In his attack on the Attorney General, he fhewed no fort of refpeét to perfon or place ; at one time he declared the Houfe of Commons to be the moft corrupt body in any ftate, and faid they were the Minifter's houfe, who fat between his two brazen pillars, the Attorney and Solicitor General, like Jachin and Boaz, to ruard the Treafury Bench.After throwing out a thoufand harth things apainft the former officer, he declared he imputed all his foibles to his fituation that he knew him in his private capacity to have a frne manly heart, and notwithitanding he had faid he did not know him, he dehed him not to refpect him.In fome parts of his harangue he was exceedingly pointed and mafterly ; in others exceedingly laughable; but he introduced fuch a variety of matter, and a great part of 1t was fo extrancous to the fubject, that both the Jury and the audience feemed heartily glad when his fpeech was ended.As foon as Mr.Horne had finifhed his fpeech, he defired the crier to call Lord George Germaine and Gencral Gage, but neither of them, though fubpænaed, attended.He then defired the Attorney General to be fworn, but the Court defired him hrit to {tate the queft.on he meant to afk, as the Attorney General had a night to demur to being fworn.Mr.Horne then propofed fome queftions relative to the origin of the cauie, and the conduct of it, which Mr.Attorney faid were too impertinent for him to anfwer; he would not therfore be fworn.Alderman Oliver was then called, and fworn as a witnefs for the Defendant.The A derman proved that the advertifement in quel- tion was fo far founded in fact, that a meeting of the Conftitutional Society w.s *held, as therein defcribed, that the fubfcription alfo Was rai\u2018td, and the money paid to Mr.Horne.Mr.Lacy, clerk to Henton, Brown, and Co.proved that Mr.Horne pad the money into their fhop on Dr.Franklin's account.Lieutenant Gough was examined refpecting an affidavit made by him about the affair at Lexington, and publifhed in one of the Publick Advertifers, produced by the Defendant.He acknowledged it to be his affidavit, and fwore to its contents, giving at the fame \u201cla caufe prefente.v \u2014 Fin du procès de Mr HornE pour un Libelle.: L s'avoua l\u2019auteur de l\u2019avertiflement en queltion, il foutint que ce n'ctoit point un libelle, et expofa le motif \u2018qui l\u2019avoit SEA publier cet avertiffement, qui'étoit telui de s\u2019oppofer à l\u2019oppteflion ; qu\u2019il avoit toujours afi par le même principe, qu'il avoit publié un avertilfement et avoit fait pouifuivre les meurtriers dans les champs de St.George en 1768, qui étoient aui des foldats.Qu'il n\u2019avoit point, comme l\u2019avertiffement étoit exprime, fait aucune accufation, mi chargé les troupes du Roi de meurtre, mais qu\u2019il n\u2019avoit aucune intention de profiter de quelque fubterfuge frivole, qu'il les accufoit maintenant; qu\u2019il avoit auparavant regardé l'affaire de Lexington comme un meurtre, qu'il la regardoit encore telle, et qu\u2019il ne l'apelleroit pas le lendemain autrement, Il dit aux Jurés, que, femblable à un certain peuple dont I'hiftoire fait mention, qui ajuftoit fes victimes pour les immoler, l'Avocat-général l\u2019avoit orné d'un caraëtére de bête fauvage, et les prioit enfuite de le déchirer ; que fon but étoit de le chafier de la fociété, et de le faire regarder comme .un chien enragé ; mais qu'il défioit fa malice, et qu\u2019il ne craignoit pas que les Juges, comme il le prévoioit fûrement, vouluflent le punir comme ils pourroient le fouhaiter, quand bien même les Jurés le livreroient à leur merci, mais qu\u2019il étoit préparé à fouffrir plus qu\u2019ils n\u2019ofoient infliger dans Il récapitula les démarches qu\u2019avoit pris l\u2019Avo- cat-general avec les Imprimeurs, et les blima comme injuftes et inéquitables.Quant à la plainte qu\u2019avoit fait l'Avocat-général au fujet des libelles que l\u2019on publioit journellement, il lui demanda à fe mettre en balance contre lui, et à confiderer, qui avoit efluié plus de libelles ?Que de fon côté perfonne n\u2019en avoit elffuié plus que lui, que l'on avoit expofé fon portrait dans les Imprimeries, avec ces mots \u2019 Le Miniftre Athé,\u2018\u201c qui étoient écrits au bas en lettres majufcules.Qu'on l\u2019avoit fait le fujet des chanfons, que les chanteurs avoient porté, au bout d\u2019un bâton en mignature, la reffemblance d\u2019un, miniftre accommodé et ajufté, avec un libelle, fur lequel étoit écrit \u201d\u201d Le Miniftre Macäronie et Athé,\u2018< Que fes habits avoient fervis de rilée fur le théatre, et qu\u2019il avoit été même une fois préfent et qu'il s\u2019étoit vu brule en ef\u2026figie.Après avoir pouflé un million d\u2019argumens concernant la nature du procès, il procéda avec une Exactitude et une affiduité égale à juftifier chaque article de l\u2019aver- tiflement, et à prouver que ce n\u2019etoit point un libelle.Il rapella le meurtre de Glenco, comme un éxcmple et ute pretive que les troupes du Roi avoient commis une fois un meurtre; et il infifta longtems fur cette matiere.Il fit voir quelques autorités légalesy et cita plufieurs endroits des caufes de l\u2019etât en confirmation et en fuport d\u2019icelles.Dans le cours de fon difcours il prit occafion de fane pluficurs complimens au Lord Camden, Mr.Dunning, et Mr.Burke, et il parla plufieurs fois de Mr.Wilkes (qui étoit aflis fur le banc près du Lord Mansheld).Dans l'attaque qu\u2019il fit contre l'Avocat-général, il ne montra aucun refpe&t pour la perfonne ni pour la place; il declara à un endroit que la Chambre des Communes ctoit le corps le plus corrumpu qu\u2019il y eut dans aucun étät, et il dit que c'etoit la chambre du miniftre, qui fe tenoit entre les deux piliers de bronze, l\u2019Avocat et le Soliciteur-général, comme Jachin et Boaz, pour garder le banc de lp tréforerie.Après avoir laché milles chofes de defagréables contre ce prémier, il déclara qu\u2019il ojoofooja nfoofo ofoofoolootoofco}oofoofaoëc ofo ofo ok ok of ofé imputoit tous fes foibles a fa fituation ; qu\u2019il le connoitfoit en par= ticulier pour avoir un cœur mâle, et que quoiqu'il eut dit qu\u2019il ne le connoifloit pas, il le défioit de ne pas le refpe@er.Dans quelques parties de fon difcours il fut tres piquant et habile, ét dans d'autres extremement riible ; mais 11 y fit entrer une fi grande variété de fujets, dont une grande partie étoit étrangere à la caufe, que les Jures et les auditeurs paroifloient extrêmement contents lorfqu\u2019il finit fon difcours:; 5.Auflitôt que Mr.Horne eut finit, il dit au crieur d\u2019apeller le Lord George Germaine et le Général Gage, mais ils ne parurent pas quoiqu'afhgnés.Il demanda alors que l\u2019on prit le ferment de l\u2019Avocat général ; mais la cour le pria auparavant d\u2019établir la que(- tion qu\u2019il vouloit faire, parceque l\u2019Avocat-général avoit droit d\u2019hés fiter à prêter ferment.Mr.Horne propofa alors plufieurs queftions qui avoient raport à l\u2019origine de Ja caufe, et la conduite d'icelle, fur quoi Mr.l'Avocat-général dit qu\u2019elles étoient ttop impertinentes pour qu\u2019il y repondit; et qu\u2019il fie vouloit point en conféquence prêter ferment.I.'on apella enfuite I'Echevin Oliver qui fit ferment en qualité dd témoin pour le Défendeur ; il prouya que l'avertiffement étoit fi bien fondé, que l\u2019affemblee de la fociété conftitutionglle s\u2019étoit tenues comme 11 y eft mentionne, que la foufcription avoit eu lieu et que l'argent en avoit été paié a Mr.Horne.- { TS UE u 4, - + gas ee Se 4 - Ing onc point.turned hnding Mr.Horne GUILTY.- Rimes viva voce account of the altiom.Whence it clearly apheared that the Rebels were armed ready to réceive the King's troops, an that the latter heard the alarm guns iiring, whilft they were on tier march.; oo so ~The Attorney General replied to Mr.Horne, and declared that fuch new and uncommon matter häd fallen from the Defendant, that had he not been inclined to have replied he found it neceffary.Mr.Attorney ebferved that the Defendant, from what he had thrown out, feemed rather to have wifhed to be ftopped, in order to have givea birth to a popular tumult, than to have ainted either at dif- proving the charge, or evincing the innocence of his own intention.He denied moft of Mr.Horne\u2019s affertions refpecting the profecution of the Printers, and \u2018the condu& of the prefent fuit.He afcribed its delay folely to the Defendant, and anfwered fuch part of Mr.Horne\u2019s fpeech as went to the fubjeét before the Court ; afferting, that the advertifement charged in the information was moft clearly a-grofs and - feditious libel, deferving every epithet he had beftowed on it, and to'd the Jury that if he had failed in proof, the Defendant had fupplied the defe&, for that the whole of the defence went to an admiffion and aggravation of the libel.Before ke fat down, the Attorney General fpoke to the other pars of Mr.Horne\u2019s fpeech, which he declared \u2018was wholly made up of thé abufe of the Judge, abufe of the Jury, abufe of himfelf, and .bufe of the Matter of the Crown Office, the .Solicitor of the Treafury, and cven of the Sheriff's Officers.Lord Mansfield remarked, that of all cafes that he had ever known, this lay in the fmalleft compafs.That there were but two points for the confideration of the Jury; the proof of the p blication; and \u2014{-\u20ac\u20ac the proof of the charge in the information.The difficulty of the firft was removed, for that was fully admitted by the Defendant 5 with regard to the fecond, they would take out the paper, read the À advertifement, and judge for themfelves.His Lordfhip lamented the prefent unhappy war, and enlarged a little on the nature of the charge made againft the King\u2019s troops in the advertifement : particularly explaining the application of the phrafle well beloved.He faid the Jury would readily fee why he pafled over a great deal which had been faid on the occafion, and which ought not to have been faid, but that he could not let them, or the audience, go away without enabling them to contradi& any mifrepreferitation refpect- His Lordfhip then explained his conduct on the trial of one of the Printers, and, after perfe&tly clearing his own condu&@, and fhewed, by quoting the trial of Lord Lovat, when he himfelf, while Solicitor General, a&ing as Counfel for the\u201d Houfe of Commons, replicd, although the prifoner called ng wit- nefles, that the cuftom was not true.\" +1 4 ~The Jury at half after four withdrew for a fhort time, and re- [The above is a very hafty fketch of this important trial, and-as ~ fuch we prefent it to our readers.We have purpofely omitted moft of the refleétions on a high character, with which the Defen- - dant larded his fpeech, becayfe we thought it neither decent nor \u201c warrantable for us to copy them into our paper.] +} \" To the PRINTER.§ IR, 7 N the prefent dearth of politics and news, the following flory will Lelp | to fill up a column of your Paper and may perhaps divert fome of your Readers.I leave them to guefs at the moral of it, for a moral to st there certainly is, er the writer would not have been fo minutely particular in every circumflance.OME years ago there was a certain Judge before whom a caufe was tried at a Country Affize, and when the Counfel rofe up to open his brief, one of the Jury prevented his going on by afking leave of his HONOR to ftep out of Court juft to make water: upon which, faid the Judge, (very figniticantly ftroking his chin) ¢ I'll tell thee what, Man\u2014I[ remember a ¢afe in the old-year books fimular to this, where a Jury-man was under -the like diftrefs, and he applied to the Judge of A ffize for the like purpofe.\u2014The Judge.of Af- | \"du Docteue Franklin.\u2026 lion à un tumulte populaire, que d\u2019avoir tendu foit à défaprouver\u201d \u2014 aux officiers du Sheriff, 777 RSA - -par-le Defendeur, -que quant au : 3 a T1 |.de la phrafe bien aimés.11 dit aux.Jurés qu\u2019ils verroient aifément \u2019oùul\u2019audience, aller fans \u201cles rendre _en étât de contr fize, after countelling with the Gentlemen of the Bar, was of opinion that the man might go out of Court for a minute or two, attended by a proper officer\u2014( Here the fury man betrayed fymptoms of uneafinefs )\u2014 1 remember too, continued the Judge, where a Jury-man was under.the like fituation, and he hkewife applied to the Judge of Niff prius - for leave to.go out.\u2014 The Judge of Nifi prius, upon recolleting the former precedent, was of opinion the man might go out of Court for a minute or two, attended by'a proper officer.\u2014 (TIere the Furyman .began to make wry faces )\u2014 Afterwards, continued the Judge, when my Lord Coke was Chief Juftice (I find'it recorded in the long guinte of Edward the IVth) and the whole four Judges were fitting\u2014friend doft thou hear what I fay\u2014 (call filence crier:\u2014 what impudent fellow is that yonder without a Wig\u2014 How durft you come into this Court withovsa Wig, Sirrah ?\u2014 Who are you ?\u2014 Turn him out\u2014 I won\u2019t, while I have the honour of futing here, fee the Court made Bear-garden)\u20141 fay when all the four Judges were fittinz, there wasa Jury man in the {ane diftrefs, and he applied for \\cave to go out, -when the whole Court, after folemn argument at the Bar, and mature deliberation upon the Bench, unanimoufly and feriatim delivered it as their firm opinion that the man might go out of Court for a minute or two, attended by a proper officer\u2014 open the Bar there \u2014 But remember you are not to \u2014\u2014.\"\" Here the Jury-man could hold no longer\u2014Pleafe your Honor, faid he, I will not give you the trouble to cite any more authorities,\u2014for | have bep\u2014d my breeches already.7 - A \\carned co.nmentator in a note fubjoin'd to the original manu- sw.w Ca ge * Mr.Lacy, commis d\u2019'Henton, Brown et Compagnie, protivd : que Mr.Horne avoit paié dans leur boutique I'argent tyr Je compte: - J À 4 wr L'on\u2019 éxamima auffi.le Lieutenant Gough au\u201cfujet d'un-affidavit ~~ 7 qu'il avoit fait raport à l\u2019affaire\u2018de Lexington, etqui avoit éte publie : © dans un des \u2018Avertifieurs Publics, produit par le Defendeur.11 - - ; reconnut fon affidavit ct jura la vérité du contenu, en dorinant en i} méme tems de vive voix la relation de cette aétion ; d\u2019où l\u2019on vit.=~ J ~ clairément que les rebelles \u20acwient armés tous préts a recevoir les - i te _ troupes du Roi; et que ces derniers avoient eitendu les-canons, : : -ZR - > H étant encore en marche.UT Rasa 5 PN = 4d BR / L'Avocat-géneral répliqua à Mr.Horne, et déclara qu\u2019un fujet OUTRE -4 fi nouveau et extraordinaire provenoit du Defendeur, que s\u2019il n'avoit 000 RE pas ed envie de repliquer, .il le trouvoit nécellaire! \"Mr.l\u2019Avocat=\" = Wg général obferva que le Défendeur, de ce qu\u2019il avoit dit, fembioie |: ; plutôt avoir défiré-d\u2019être arrêté et-interrompu, afin dé donner occa- = © © J'atcufation, foit à montrer l\u2019innocence de fon \u2018attention: 1} nix\"- - = _ la\u2018plus grande sr fl Le .Cia folunvenrt nine de.tein nox: toutes lès affaires dé la as qui éroit\u2019 derniefement eatrd Gaal &: Mu mani \u201d prémier de.Mai dernier Tom aveitis par ges Préfenies, queteux qui; ont.pégligés j juiqu: ihe dt'venif s'arrsnger \u2018avec led Exérutedry; moths quite) pe le faffént avantie rs de Jamvief?:- « Bfbchain, tous ceux qui y mranqueront peuvent s'sitendre que Fea mettra entre Les ss mad \u2026 d'un-Avocat leurs comptes (ans-d\u2019autre arertiffement.Tes, - Québets le 36 Decembre, #77: N VHERE: ng 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