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to Calibers', and taking from his person a silver wach and seals,.
3v. or 44. in etyma purse, end other articles.
Rove the evidence for the pretrecution, it appeared that the attack
wean Climeme was made by three persona, under eircum.
!farce similar to those detailed in the limiter case. It was poi.
•1•0111 dial the prisenee'vet one of the men who attacked
{he prtroititat4 and a steel purse. found in the prisoner's posses.
Om at the time of his apprzl.ension, was identified by the pease-
firm so the purse taken from turn 410 the right of the robbery.
The prisoner. in his defence, protested his innecence and wild
th it the purse whi h had heal produced was purchased by In in
Dohlen. In the 'mune of Log winter.
Tee Jury inenediteelv protimmeed the
PO*. 10411C1 Paws—Patrick 11•fility, it now &poems. in the most
estisraetory manner, that yen are one of a daring gang, who go
about 11l the neighbourhood of lanebetter, cart. g depreda-
tions. have been tried this morning. with three others, for •
tobtirry, committed ler very aggravated &intimat e:tem.
YOU then had the good (seism to escape, in consequence of • do-
• teet to the evidence ; but I believe *bele ran be but little doubt
that von are a Rudy MM. You certainly were out on the night of
the Titi .Aril, and it is pridtal.to that you were engaged in the
robbery of APWilliants on the let of May following. I shall
tot pass sentence opon you at present, because it is very pro-
bable that. in the discharge of my very painful. but bounden
duty. It rosy It•• necessary to leave both you and you/ conipaLioa
to esceution.

CIVIL SIDF.
J014r5 AND ANOTlllill V. VORWOOD
Dlr. PAne Opened die pleadings.
Mr. Sean erten sited the vise. The plc. stiff. Mr. Joliet', was
a respectable merchant, residing in Liverpool, and had been com-
pelled to revert to the present action in consequence of a wanton
libel winch had been published by the defendant. OW the character
of his (the laintiffni) wife. For the motive of the defendant it
would be difficult to account, and as lie had not AtietWrieti a juatifi.
cation on the record, it must be taken for granted that the libel was
as untrue as it was malicious. The public bail of lute yi ant been
much entertained by the extreme ectivity which had bent displayed '
in reporting the proceedings of every Court in which justice lied
been either administered or abused. lif that he did not complain;
it was only I..ir that the public should be supplied with every /4111
of information which afforded them amusement, and certain it was,
that it was now inare-ly po.sible for a :Magistrate, or any other
public authority, to make a single observation which was not
immediately communicated to the public. The misfortune,
howcner, was, that those communications were often mede
by a set of persons wha paid but little regard to the feel-
Mr of others, awl who made the amusement of the reader
the chief object of their labour. Indeed, to so great an extent
was the practice now carried, that a permit wishing to injure
the reputation of his heinblamir had now nothing more to do then to
repair toe police office, sad take care to introduce the name of Ifs
person whom be wished to injure in a proceeding with which that
haute had properly nothing to do, and he would he sure to find the
is hole account in the newspaper cf the folios' ng day. Were the
h
truth always strictly adhered to in these report. there would not,
perhaps, be mach reason m complain; but unfortunately the plain
truth was generally not ornamental, and it became memory to
adopt a little fiction In order to set off the story. Mr. Forwood, at
leant, bad adopted that method; for he had thought proper to
-inter' in a respectable Liverpool newspaper, called The Ablate,
a statement which purported to be a repent of a proceeding at the
laverponl police office, but which the plaintiffffs now complained
of as a false malicious libel. The statement wee as follows:
" Refractory Servant.--Rachel Rankin was brought up from
11r:dowel!, charged wi h having left the service of her rewire', tile,
June, broker, Syningfield.s reel, who attended at the office and
preferred that charge against her. The prisoner complained of the
urge she had received in being put into prison on that charge, and
stated that she had left the house in the afternoon in consequence
of her miattets striking bee. . The charge wan inamedistely•elts.
minced."
Now he (Mr. e.) was certain that every lady who then heard him
would consider it a gram libel on her character, if she were accused
of striking her servant, because it was foreign 13 the character of
every well.educated lady to raise her hand for the purpose of strik-
ing any person. Ale. Jones had thought an, and had rightly Con-
ceived the publication in queotion to bee libel. lie (Mr. S.) should
show the intendant to have been the author of the libel, by calling
tile edi•or of the newspaper as a while's*. IVhat plea would be re-
sorted to by the defendant's Cours..l he could not imagine. The
defendant might, if he had phased, hare put a justification en the
record, and be proving that the proceediega at the police office hail
been such as his statement had represented them, would have en-
titled himself to their verdict. Bur that course Nei not been adopt-
ed, and the defendant had chosen to rely entirely on the ingenuity
of the Learned Counsel who defended him. 11 any apology had
been offered, or any desire manifest it on the part at the defendant
to retract the offensive assertion Of the libel, they 'meld not hare
been tnnthled with the present action; but the defendant had
clemen to let the cause go on to trial, and they would therefore now
deal with him as they thought he deserved.
Thos. Bean. examined by Mr. PARK—I em the proprietor of
the:ll6km newspaper, in which the statement in question appeared.
I received front the defendant the manuscript now produced. It
wee published In the AfieMs. The illtdoe has a good circulation,
c moldering it is a new newspaper,
4'room-examined —A newspaper gradually gets intmlreulation.
1 was at first in the Court. and. helms obliged to go over to the In.
solvent Debtor's Coon, I requested the defendant to take • note
of what Occurred in my absence; at my return he gave me the ma.
cuscript. 1 made tome alteration in the manuscript. nib I put the
head to it. There was an action byonght against me Me thie libel.
paid the mete of that action, and it was dropped. Mr. Tarim
the attorney in the peesent action, was the attorney in the
action
against nie. Ale. Jones. the plaintiff, told me that he had not seen
tale libel until it was pointed out to him by Mr. Taylor. I believe
Boatel Rankin brought an action spinet Mr. and Mrs. Jones.
The libel was then put in and read.
Matthew Taylor examined—l am the plaintiff's attorney. The
plaintiff lived in Springfield-street at the nice of the publication
of the libel.
(,tossexamintel.—l communicated to the plaintiff the paregraph
in vocative. An action was cemmtneed against Mr. Ileue, and
discontinued on his giving up the author. The girl brought an
action against Mrs. fortes for false imprisonment. I Lacy Mr.
Jones before, but had never been employed by hint.
Mr. Sergeant Canso addressed the Jury for the defendant. The
testimony of the Last witness suffielently explained bow
eds action
had got into l'ourt. He (Mr. Sergeant Cross) recollect a writer
who always advised his readers not to look into newspaper'', be-
cause
ycauseif
inbreedingtey were
their in them, then they displayed a foolieh
own rube; in
them, they need net give theeteelves the trouble of linking, be.
cause they would be sure to have some el—d geed-natured friend
who would not fail to bring them the Intelligence. (A laugh.) In
the puttee, ease, Mr. Taylor, the attorney. had been the good.
natured friend, and certainly had profited by his good suture;
feu alebtough a cording to his own statement. he had never
been employed by the plaintiff before, yet he had been
employed by him in three 'adore vice he had etunittled on
rte fortunate communization. lie knew not how to address
them seriously •om the subject of such a libel. The first
stunt of-the &Aeration ninth imputed to the defendant the publi-
cation of the libel in a newspaper, had entirely failed and the only
moor ef rublicalen had been in the production of that menu-
'scrip: which the di (evident hail given to Mr. Bean. The question
teen was. whether the defendant bed published a scandalous libel
against the plaintiff and his wife, with the intent to degrade her;
and whether. In fie, that libel It'd had the effect which the plAn-
tiff in his declaration had eo movingly assigned to it : "By means
weitraof the said plaintiff 113 d been greatly injured In her fame
sod re; utation, anal been brought into great diogrice amongst her
neighbour., ;poi other subjects of our Lord the King; inomnucb
that sever.l of the said neighbours then suspected and believed,
sad do still suspect and believe. that she did ill-use anal strike her
mineral., end is a person of tyrannical disposition." (A laugh.)
How had such effect been produced ? Had any harm at all enter d
to Mrs Jaen. ? Would it curt have been known to her. if the
good-natured attorney had tint taken pains to point It nail ? Cer-
tainly not. Rut was the publication a libel at all? Ills Learned
Friend had to hi them that it was false. but what said the withess ?
lth hy, that the gel had actually brought an action, and recovered
See pont& Camases. If seen actions were encouraced, nothing
tint accoutred Snl-Ch eat of Justice could tie relinned witted? reh-
siarertg the reprieptes of newspapers liable to a p'ersecut'ion for
hive). He truated that the Jury would disappoint the plaintiff in
this action, by r.turnieg a verdict for the defendant.
Mr. II tree H arnica, in summing up the case, stated it as his
opinion hat the statement in question was libellant', but said that
to awarding damages the Jury ought to take into consideration the
carcumetsnees of the case.
The Joey. after a short ennenbatiott, found a verdict for the
pltantstf—llmotages One Shilling.
Mr. herneant Canis applied to the Learned Judge to certify, to
deprive the plaintiff of coda.
Mr. Baron 11 ute.oca—Can 1 do that under the 4341 of
Ellseeeth 2
OIL POSA OCK —Certainly. my Lord.
Mr. Baron /I ULLOCI—Then. if 1 an, I certainly feel disposed
endow.

Two ARetv.—Lit et rnant-Colonel Riddell was splendidly
entertain-el by Colonel tiauntlitt and the Akers of the
SO (Wiltshire) Rtgimcnt of Foot, quartered in Linnlon-
drop, on his taking leave of them, to asylum the command
of the Devitt of the 99th Regiment of Infantry, to which
he has recently been appointed by his Royal Highness the
Duke of York. The Officers of die Royal Artillery and
Engineers, with a number of private Gentlemen,. were in-
vited to meet their gallant fellow-citizen, the Lieutenant-
Colonel, on this flattering occasion.
A eetious accident betel Mr. Manly, manager of the
Nottingham, Herby. and Stamford company of comedians,
ou the evening, of this day week. He had taken his station
oo the side of the stage. during the performance of the
nautical piece of The Pilot, and while in the act of firing
oda Roman candle', the force of the explosion caused it to
recoil, when it struck him on the face. The injury he re-
ceived was such as to deprive him for the present of the
sight of both of his eyes. Hopes, however, are held out
by the suraetn who attends him that the organic powers
are not li-starred, and although violent inflammation has
ensued, he will yet tiltimatt ly recover from the effects of
-this sad dittaater.—Nollingitudi Ileraa

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