l'ARON DOLLAND AND THE PRESS.
IN areviove: ce'etans we 1 a•-e an aeco t.f the trial at Ta r' ••'•'l i,t a vettl•et with Had. dam:tees against CI.. ■•f ::,tn (ea-eV/ere for it !Wel on Mr. PETER !:vo-lruu. We It po that, after tan Kati-lied lied that r. mee•ewite'econstituemesae., :.•i• ‘•, :ie:' itt " bettorily splendour" at. u!,:e in Isis " ehr)salis" state; lee; leeet tai t 'ee) to their in- „eill,lettee lit Pm -n:-. 13ourntvicIt.. reeiceed by the defendants, exion e.,,,itts:on, long may .he II•01111 u.,.!'iiiue! Our yesent purpose .1n,t lies Boturtrieten, fir less to • v. oLct ; hot ive wetthl darer attention h it:1i, if correctly rteeeted, seems to it in the Throe, Baron ROLLAND it it as ttry serviceable, • 1' terems who ..vould other-
• 1-ine him- ; ;v.\ :; for e hat he we, eet. Rut the ,t eottule this tip;';.-...11 with this
I ; private cl o-.:.•!er, nor to r s c, en• a time. till I:, • day of trial there were ,ete grounds erl. justify the course t hey had taken.” peeeeded to (hetet a verdict in favour thernst'l yes, the above quoted re- .o.e.'etieruth'e, set when taken in con- had just been given, they appear Is it possible that Baron 1101.LAND a„,; a "private individual," her; n etce ;eel lisgreve " by the Bath sneak of his doings ;Is a bookseller at i) tesee the me; , ‘!: 2 Othello at the S nrry Theatre,
is his owe natio.: 6,- -o ieeerating as a lecturer opposed to
the a'eeiii,e, of ,L;vz.r. ha I it lie in one of the Scotch chug-hits as a miei•te, : and wae at the time of the publication of the libel, a ea ielidate eeemt a barough iu Park:orient. The
hattititile ;eel becn stritge:n.:; 'Far notoriety in every way within his reach ; and itatiiiae eet!'d be more wile of the une-k than to en- deavoer to impress the ury with the melon that PETER BORTH- wICK was a per!: at of re'.iring habits, desirous of "blushing un- seen," and uowillivel+ dragged into notice by the press.
If Baron Iltneevep's notions of what constitutes the utility of the press are eureee,—it' ies 'conductors perform their duty when they strive to keep in check parsons who would behave " in a way Rat bcaoficial to the state,"—then assuredly the Bath Guardian was justilie:1 in the ietetupt to expose the past career and actual coot; titan of Mr. BOSTHWiCK to the electors of Evesham ; though,
in doing so, it may have gone beyond the limits of strict law.
The contulation of the defendants.must be, that they have suc- ceeded in preventing Mr.Boternwicx from doing any mischief in Parliament, or out of it. Most effectually have they " kept him iu cheek." The party which has secured his services has the satisfitetion of seeing the benches on both sides of the House de- serted when their pr ICteit rises to speak. Some of the Tories have affeeted to doubt the identity of the Member fur Evesham with the individual whose career was exposed at Taunton; but the evidence on that point was everwbelming, and indeed the plaintiff's counsel admitted that the Bath Guardian had nut mistaken its man. I.
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