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tr conspiraey ralee'lese rate of rages; being as utterer of
conterkit mosey, tattering the same to be counterfeit;
kaonintly aid deaignedly obtaining mosey. gouda, erases or
merchrmilisee, bille, bonds or other securities for money, by
false plirteacts; keeping a carnsacia gaming house, • com-
mas bawdy bonne, or a common sad disorderly
biome; wilful sad corrupt perjary, or of soboreation of per.
jury;" for all whorh, on the fins day of the present month
of August, the Judge could only have imptisoued without
hard labour; he may now order hard labour during the tenn
of
the impritionnleal. I believe you will hail this as a great
and mighty improvement is the law of tke coonvy.
is There are some other provisions which I will state, to-
rsos* this stay be • good opportunity's, promulgate them to
the (wows at large, as there are so many of you, Gentlemen,
now awembkd. In the case of measlaughter, the Judges
could only sentence to one year's iinprirosinsent. Some per.
sans, in giving am account of what I have said (for I have
takes the liberty of vacationing these laws at each of the
circuit towns where I have addreawd the Jury), have made
a little blood. r; they have made me say that enalicions
nian,laughter before was wily punishable by a year's impri-
onansent. 1 sever could have spokes so inconsistently;
there is no each thing. blanslasaglitre, properly so called,
was only subject to • year's imprisonment; now it Is trans-
portation for life, or to hard labour for fourtera yeses. It
will be of great inspuetauce that that shall be kaowis. There
was • case of infinite eaciensity which the law could aot reach
till this Act passed—persons keeping belaiod, out of view,
. .

sod advisiug children he rob their entployers—tbes could sot
be got at ; but persons sow advising c►ildren to rob their
employers way be transported fur fuurieen years, or kept to
bard labour fur three years, thosgh the principal felon *ball
sot have been apprehended or discovered. 1 thought it
might he tearful, as easy of you are acting Magistrates, sod
there Is a great part of the estuary now awiensbled
" Gentlemen of the City of Gloucester and Comity of the
name City, the observations which 1 have stride to the Gen•
*lenses of t►e Grand Jury of the Comity, will apply equally
to your ease, 1 congratulate you that yule have but one carte,
I believe, to be brought before you, and 1 will rot detain
you from the exercise of your duties."

The calendar for the county contained the names
of 36 prisoner., whose cues were gone through by
four o'clock on Saturday afternoon. The follow-
ing received sentence of death :
Samuel Barrett, for stealing three gelding'', the property
of Mr. Richard Hooper, of the perish of Si. George; Moses
Sweet, fur breakilig into the dwelliag-large of Janes Ball,
of Olverton, sad stealing *heating • quantity of wearing op-
pare! sod other articles; Juba Lloyd, fur breaking into the
dwelling horse of G. Phillips, of Stoke Gifford, and stealing
Overcoat s psi, of sheets, sod other articles; W. Gordon
alias George Long, fur borglariously breaking into the dwel-
ling house of E. Pickard, of Stroud, with intent to commit •
felony thereto; and Edward Jones, fur breaking into the
Muse of G. Marconi, of Tidealiaas. aid Mealtime therefrom a
quantity of mosey in silver, and two gold riots.

There was but little business to do in the Nisi
Prins Court, the list containing only 14 causes.
The following, which was tried on Friday, excited
great interest, and hawing caused much conversation
at Cheltenham, the Court was crowded at an early
hour by fashionabler from that town, anxious to hear
the proceedings.
DEFAMATION.

11111 REV. JAMS STOVIN, D.D. AND st.sAxoa MI

wing V. LADY IMUCISURiIIi.

This case was appointed to be tried by a Special
Jury. but only four of the gentlemen styes mowed
thereon appeared ; four others were 6ned.Sl. each;
the absence of the remaining sixteen being account-
ed fore they were excused, and Mr. Puller prayed
as tales.

Mr. Caoss opened the pleadings, and Mr. PUL-
LER, in laying the case before the jury, stated, that
considering who the Plaintiffs and Defendant were,
and the place from whence the case came, he was
not surprised that it had excited considerable inte.
rest. There was no one, he observed, slot even
Lady Shockbergh herself, who appeared before
them this day with greater regret than Dr. Siovin
and his wife; and glad would they have been if by
any possibility they could have avoided coming into
a Court of Justice in order to vindicate their charac-
ter. The jury must all be aware how valuable life
was with, and how utterly valueless it was without,
character, and he thought before he had proceeded
far in stating the circumstances of this case, they
would be of opinion that if this recourse had not
been had, Dr. Siovin and those nearly and dearly
connected with him must have passed the remainder
of their lives under the imputation of • crime that
would banish them from society ; and, though happy
in the other blessings of life, those would have been
worth nothing when the family were stripped of their
character. Juries were generally assembled in such
cases to consider what damages some individual had
sustained by another imputing to him want of skill
in his profession, but they seldom were called on in
cases ►tripped of all those circumstances, and where
the injury the Plaintiff had to complain of was
simply and purelyof this kind, where the Defendant
could do the Plaintiff no harm in any of the ad.
vantages of life he possessed, except by rendering
all those advantages wholly barren and ustless
to him with the imputation that revs on his
family from the charges thus made. He meat
be a man of extraordinary philosophy of d
who would be content to go about (.is Doctor
Siorin was obliged to do on account of ill-health)
into places where such • report would be particu-
larly likely to injure him. He was a gentleman in
possession of a large fortune, and Recto► of Ros-
•ington, in the county of York, and hail been a
Magistrate of that county for many years, but from
being subject to the gout he was obliged to be very
often at Bath and other watering places. Mr. Pul-
ler then detailed the circumstances which gave rise
to the slander charged against Lady Shuckburgh,
as detailed in the evidence of Mrs. Marshall; and
that with respect to site assertion, that Mrs. Hunt
had refused to dine with Captain and Mrs. Ingle-
field, because she would not meet the Swell's, the
Learned Counsel observed, that Captain WO held,
understanding that such assertion had bern made
by the Defendant, called upon Mrs. Hunt upon the
subject; that Mrs. Hunt, at the request of Captain
Inglefirld, waited upon the Defeniant, and
mended her authority fur the assertion ; that the
Defendant at first denied having used such lau-
guege, but being reminded by a gentleman pre►ear
that she had stated the same fact to Into, the De-
fendant then said that she must have heard it Irons
somebody else. To rebut this the Learned Coun-
sel stated that he should call Mrs. Hunt. also wee
then in attendance. and who would prove, tbat so
far from having ever given grounds for such
men',ehe had newer been invited either by Captain
or Mrs. Inglefield to meet the Sunnis. Mr.itsuller
then enumerated other instunces of the circulativ;ii
of the slander by the Defendaut. and concloded.a
very eloquent address by Aiding that the Platutifts
had denied on oath the imputation against them. by
affidavits made with a view to an application to the
Court of King's Bench for a criminal information,
and he ca!!ed upon the Jury to give suoh damages