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which be sought la reitover was eertainly small, but
he felt himself bouud to befog the action. and
indeed the public were indebted to him. for so
doing, because it was only by these means that
the inhabitants of the liondred could be taught to
discharge their duty in preserving the public ware.
Nothing could be morreaay than to put down dist
turhances of the description which way the subject
of the sown. if the teapectable port of the inha-
bitants of a parish. would only associate together for
that .pn,rpose, those who were most riotous would be
must ca.ily intimidated. Failing ill this•duty, the
only effectual way of teaching the hundred to feel
their own. interest in the preservation of the peace.
was to bring stich action.. ludrrrlt these was no
other mode of cumpentating the Plaintiff fur the
injury he had rinstaitted, the Legislature having
provided by the 37th of the lair flog, that the
action must he brought against the hundred. it
was en set of patriatisin for every man under such
circumstances to bring the case before the public;
and he entertained nu doubt that action* of this
description wotkld be attended with the moat bene-
ficial effects.

Mr. ttigty, the Maintifrs shopman, and other
witnesses, proved that a snub of about one thousand
persons awieinbled before the Plaintiff', house, oil
the night of the 49th of November, and bloke its
windows, though the house was illsiniinated with
twelve Sivabe,,six. Tie mob said it was a shabby
exhibition—that the Plaintiff was a King's mail,
anti therefore broke his windows to the number of
six panes, which ronouliteil to 21. Its.
Mr. Srrjeant Osist.ow, for the Defendant, ob-
served, that the principal pact of the speech of his
Learned Friend on the other side, mast consumed
in making apologies for bringing this action, to re-
cover the miserable sum of 2/. I 1,. He cossfesaed
that there was certainly some nerd of apology fur it,
considering th it the case did not in fact come within
the statute. The action, indeed, seemed to have
been brought to vindicate the Plaintiff% taste,
from the aspersion of the mob, who said that hue
illumination was shabby ; but surely the hundred
were not to be answerable for imputations upon
the Plaintiff's taste. The mob ceitainly had dime
uo more than correct his taste, and there was no
proof of any intention to commit a felonious act.
These actions were frequently brought to assert a
man's) rank and dignity, thinking that they were
personages or too much importuner to be Ire eked
over in silence. Ile remembered an extraortlioary
instance of this. Oil an occa.iun of a general illu-
mination, a Gentleman wishing to signalize hi.
opinions in onposition to the popular feeling, thought
',toper to abstain from illuminating. The snob,
however, took no notice of his bons.% Provoked
at their indifference, he was determined to sheer
his importance, sod he accordingly rodent.' his black
footmen to assist bun in breaking his oau wimluwa,
which lie did; but it being very soon discovered
that the windows were broke from within-sale, the
imposition was detected. Now in this cur, if the
Jury should be of opinion that the windows of the
Plaintiff were broken from the inside, they must be
satisfied that the case was pretty like thz one to
which he had adverted, slid consequently, that the
Defendant was entitled to a verdict.

Mr. Hymn Woos charged tie Jun•. that if they
believed the evidence for thr Plaintiff, the case was
clearly within the statute, and Wee Plaintiff was en-
titled to M veiditt.

The Jury found fur the Plaintiff—Damages,
21. 11s.

WOODRIIIP •. TUC SAME.

This was a sander 'Action by another inhabits:A
of Rothrthilhe, to recover the sum of 18s.
amount of his glazier's bill fur repairing windows
broken by a mob oa the 13th of November last.
There was nothing interesti,g in the circumstances
of the Clue. The frets were clearly made out, end
the Jury, under the Learned Judge's directions,
found their verdict for the Plsintitt—Dansuges, 18s.