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JULY 2 , 1796 . A Cause was tried in the Court of King ' s Bench , this day , between the Proprietors of a Newspapercalled the Telegraph , plaintiffs , and the Proprietors of the Morning Post , defendants . It was proved , that in the month of February last , the defendants had contrived to forward to the office of the Telegraph , from Canterbury , a spurious French newspaper , containing a pretended . renewal of the armistice and preliminaries of Peace between Ihe Emperor and the French Rethus to true
public . The Proprietors of the Telegraph being imposed on give as a translation of this false fabricated intelligence , and thereby sustaining much discredit with the public , and a diminution in the sale of their paper , brought the present action against the defendants as authors of such discredit , & c . & c . The case being made out , the Jury gave a verdict with iool . damages . —N . B . The forged paper was printed in London . The Frenchman who was arrested a few days ago , turns out to be one Pasque , and not M . Pache , the quondam Mayor of Pavia , as was erroneously stated in the
papers . EDINQBURGII , July 2 . On Thursday se ' nnig ht the election of sixteen Peers to represent the Peerage of Scotland , came on at the Palace of Holyrood-House , when the following were chosen : Marquis of Tweedale ; Earls of Errol , Cassilis , Strathmore , Dumfries , Elgin , Dalhonse , Northesk , Aboyne , Breadaibane , Stair , and Glasgow ; Lords Cathcart , Somerville , Torpichen , and Napier . The Earl of Lauderdale protested against this return and in his protest alledged
that he ought to have been returned , and that the returning officer ought not to have received any votes for the Earl of Errol . The Scots Peers who voted for the re-election of Lord Lauderdale ( besideshimself ) were the Duke of Leeds , ( Viscount Dunblane , ) the Marquisses of Tweedle and Abercorn , the Earls of Breadaibane and Stair , and Lord Sempill . The independent conduct of Lord Sempill , on this occasion , cannot but , in rational estimationadd fresh honour to a namealready endeared by injury to the
, , Patriot bieast . —In the course of this speech he said : "My Lords , I have erer disapproved of the war in which we have the misfortune ' to be engaged , not only because I hold it to be unjust and ruinous by the unprecedented extravagance of its expenditure , but that it endangers , immediately , the political existence of the country . The system of internal Government is , in my opinion , subversive of liberty , as the war is destructive of our commerce and national importance ; and , I fea ' r , that if it be much longer continued , it will not Constitution free
suffer even the forms of the Constitution to remain—a once so , so long admired , and which your Lordships have all sworn to defend : I cannot , therefore , consistently v-Uc for any Peer , who has not opposed , to the utmost of bis potxer , the War and the System of Terror , ' ¦ ' My Lords , I vote for the Earl of Lauderdale only . " MONOI'OLY . Doubts having arisen whether there is any Satute in force against the Mono-Extract
polization of farms , a Correspodent wishes us to insert the following , from 25 Henry VIII . c 13 . It represents " The custom of engrossing great numbers of sheep in one man's hands , for that end keeping many farms in the same hands , as a practice which has been but within a few years " past ; putting such lands as they can get to pasture and not to tillage , whereby they not only pulled down churches and towns , and enhanced the old rates of rents , or else brought them lo such excessive fines , that no poor man is able to meddle with them , but also have enhanced the prices of all manner of corn , cattle , wool , pigs , geese , hens , chickens , eggs , S : c . by ¦ reason . whereof , a marvellous multitude of people be not able to provide meat ,
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JULY 2 , 1796 . A Cause was tried in the Court of King ' s Bench , this day , between the Proprietors of a Newspapercalled the Telegraph , plaintiffs , and the Proprietors of the Morning Post , defendants . It was proved , that in the month of February last , the defendants had contrived to forward to the office of the Telegraph , from Canterbury , a spurious French newspaper , containing a pretended . renewal of the armistice and preliminaries of Peace between Ihe Emperor and the French Rethus to true
public . The Proprietors of the Telegraph being imposed on give as a translation of this false fabricated intelligence , and thereby sustaining much discredit with the public , and a diminution in the sale of their paper , brought the present action against the defendants as authors of such discredit , & c . & c . The case being made out , the Jury gave a verdict with iool . damages . —N . B . The forged paper was printed in London . The Frenchman who was arrested a few days ago , turns out to be one Pasque , and not M . Pache , the quondam Mayor of Pavia , as was erroneously stated in the
papers . EDINQBURGII , July 2 . On Thursday se ' nnig ht the election of sixteen Peers to represent the Peerage of Scotland , came on at the Palace of Holyrood-House , when the following were chosen : Marquis of Tweedale ; Earls of Errol , Cassilis , Strathmore , Dumfries , Elgin , Dalhonse , Northesk , Aboyne , Breadaibane , Stair , and Glasgow ; Lords Cathcart , Somerville , Torpichen , and Napier . The Earl of Lauderdale protested against this return and in his protest alledged
that he ought to have been returned , and that the returning officer ought not to have received any votes for the Earl of Errol . The Scots Peers who voted for the re-election of Lord Lauderdale ( besideshimself ) were the Duke of Leeds , ( Viscount Dunblane , ) the Marquisses of Tweedle and Abercorn , the Earls of Breadaibane and Stair , and Lord Sempill . The independent conduct of Lord Sempill , on this occasion , cannot but , in rational estimationadd fresh honour to a namealready endeared by injury to the
, , Patriot bieast . —In the course of this speech he said : "My Lords , I have erer disapproved of the war in which we have the misfortune ' to be engaged , not only because I hold it to be unjust and ruinous by the unprecedented extravagance of its expenditure , but that it endangers , immediately , the political existence of the country . The system of internal Government is , in my opinion , subversive of liberty , as the war is destructive of our commerce and national importance ; and , I fea ' r , that if it be much longer continued , it will not Constitution free
suffer even the forms of the Constitution to remain—a once so , so long admired , and which your Lordships have all sworn to defend : I cannot , therefore , consistently v-Uc for any Peer , who has not opposed , to the utmost of bis potxer , the War and the System of Terror , ' ¦ ' My Lords , I vote for the Earl of Lauderdale only . " MONOI'OLY . Doubts having arisen whether there is any Satute in force against the Mono-Extract
polization of farms , a Correspodent wishes us to insert the following , from 25 Henry VIII . c 13 . It represents " The custom of engrossing great numbers of sheep in one man's hands , for that end keeping many farms in the same hands , as a practice which has been but within a few years " past ; putting such lands as they can get to pasture and not to tillage , whereby they not only pulled down churches and towns , and enhanced the old rates of rents , or else brought them lo such excessive fines , that no poor man is able to meddle with them , but also have enhanced the prices of all manner of corn , cattle , wool , pigs , geese , hens , chickens , eggs , S : c . by ¦ reason . whereof , a marvellous multitude of people be not able to provide meat ,