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'thing that could fall from the Court would tend to
es'eerturn the precedent of the seven Bishops ; hut
thil rase, his Lordship conceived, was very different
froM that. Before the examination of Lord sunder•
land, there was no evidence against them ; bur a
confession of signing, extorted frosts them, in the
presence of their Sovereign. In this ease, as he col-
Jetted from the statement of the Arroes t N.-GEN E.
RAs.. there was a strong presumption from the
wording of the libels themselves, that they were
transmitted to Mr. Cobbet for publication. On the
whole, his Lordship was of opinion, that there was
evidence suftelent to ro to the Jury.
The other Judges united in opinion, that it was
for the Jury to consider, whether the previiius cern-
muntcations with Mr. Cobbetr, to know whether it
would brag reeable whim to teceive commtaticet ions,
an. the subsequent delivers?, was not sufficient cri•
dente to convit the Defendant.
I'he libels were thee read by the Officers. In
different parts of them, as observed by the Attar-
ney.Gertera), they referred to other publications,
and Lie latter libel recognised those of an earlier
date, by apologising for an unintentional offence
offered, in one of them, to the author of a certain
paper, signed I.',lnt3r etas.
Tat: libels being read, Mr. GA R ROW begged per-
mission of the Court to ask Mr. Cobbet a few
questions.
Leave being granted, Mr. Cobhct was again
tolled, and said, in the lever he first received from
yeeeree, there was an inquiry made, whether it
would be agreeable to him to receive some useful
communicate,ns from Ireland ? desiring him, it it
were agreeable, to say so in the next number of the
Re!,,vier ; hut, in order that the people in the Post
Office in Dublin might not intercept his letters. he
was req'sestrd to give the hint, as if the correspoed-
eat lived at York, and to tell what house they should
be alre.led tn. He then proved the number of the
Begirt-r in which this hint was inserted. and the pa-
re graph was toad by the officer. It stated, that the
communications of their York Cerrespandent, would
be received at Mr. Budd's, bookseller. in Pall Mall.
In conseqiience of this, the different letters were
sent. On cross-examination, he said, the first
letter he received was, he believed. lest ; at least,
he did not keow that it was in existence. Lt was
sent to the Printer's, and oart of it was published in
the Revere ; the part that was not published was
only struck out with the pen, to shesv the Printers
that they were not to curtipcee it. He had not been
at the Printer's to search or it, but he b. heves, if it
was not dese-ot ed, it would have bees sent back to
him. The Pr eiters generally threw We waste-paper
into a large hoe, which, obeli full, is destroyed, or
disposed of in any menner they please.
Mr. Pewee submitted, that the printers shenld
be called, ard examined with respcst to their hav-
ing searched for the letters.
-Lord Lie RN RORC{:011 said, that as it was general
for the prnacre to tend bac!: the manu.cnpts which
were not thistleyed, and as Mr. Cobbet had found
the second and third, the natural inference was, that
the others Pere not in existence.
Mr. A D•M hoped the rloiirt would keep this
point in recolledion, if. hereafter, it should be the
su.ljed of investigation.
Mr. Justice Le 1.11. A rtC desired to know the form
en which th: y wished to put the question.
Mr. Ar A .1. "T. e short objoftion is, my Lord,
slat these is no evidence of the search for the letters
at the printer's."
To a question put by the Court, Mr. Cohliet an-
swered, the: it WA. usual for some printers, on
certain works, to file the manuscript after it was
composed. but with him it never was. -
'The appointment of Lord Redesdale to be one
of the Privy Council, was thin read, from Tne is
1 sd G and the Arrionsev-Getite A L informed
the Court, that the evidence on the past of the
Crown was here closed.
Mr. ADAM m ale a most able and eloquent de-
fence. nearly as follows :
" My Lords and Gentlemen of the Jury, as Cettn-
sel for the Defendant in this case, I have been called
upon. in the course of my duty, to snake those ob.
ji-dions which have (-lectured to me. In addressing
a tribunal like you, I am confident nethnig that has
passed can have raised a plei.l .ice in your minds
against this stranger ; as to neticnal prejudices. they
are entirely out of the question. Whether this or
that person has been libelled or not, or whether this
be a libel or not, or even whether it was published
er not, does not form any pert of my case. I
have to address you upon one of the mist interest-
ing cases that ever came before a Court and Jury ;
and I should ill discharge my duty, ii I did not en-
deavour to make some imps ession on your minds.
Mr. Justice Johnson is now nearly GO yeare
and has passed a long life with an unblemished cha-
ra.ler, in :he honourable exercise of those important
duties demanded of him from the high satiation
of pulsate trust and core: knee he has held, and
which he hes discliarged with integrity, fidelity, and
attachment ro lis King and Country. He has held
a must responsible situ 'non, of great difficulty.--
He was not called upon to assist occasionally, but
was the constant and permanent assistant and adviser
in the most important branches of the reveaue,
during all which time he held a seat in parliament,
until the time of the Union between the two king-
doms. I'he first Ad, after this measure, of the per-
sons who had the advising of His Majesty, was
to represent who were the most eligible to fill
the seat of josti.e is that country., and almost
before the seal re. Union was cool, the great seal
of the kingdom was put to their appointments,
and among the foremost, was Mr. Justice Johnson.
This is the charader of the person .1 have to defend
before you this day ; and when I contemplate the
man, worn down into a state of decrepitude, whose
whole time and attention have been devoted to the
support of the Government and Cesinitution of the
country, and the laws, in the administration of
which he has Fad so large a portion ; aSent
indeed would it be, to have it recorded of him,
that he had been guilty of so heinous an offence,
us sending into the world an anonymous and ma-
licious libel, to destroy the f,me and charader
of the representative of the King; to vilify the
lint jaw officer nil the Crown in that country; to
letHeig.,Qpinrthe honeur, cherader, and integrity, of
• ; to defame one of the mess
• a"e lids of the Government ; and, by the
of the publicalon, to excite a spi.
mong the people, and dissatisf sc.
- Majesty's Government, and the

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