The Sun.
London, England, 1808-12-07 00:00:00

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,ll,consequette.of this intiothtioti from the Lotto
CH' IE.F JUSTfcE, the Learned pou-nsel on both sides
con terred privately ao,:iet hex: • ' . ,
The LORD CHIEF JUSTSCF. -said, " I 5110tIld have
no ditlicully in tcjiing you what I mini: Should' be
.done,; and one thing I will say nov.--.----Mr. DwNceir
,has conceived that if e t
the Defendant wero ac ,
quit
the Plaintiff 'of' what be has charged him with, it '
would seem as if he adulitied that, he himSelt had
hiTri,guilty of petjury. . 19 ' toy view of the thing,
no:st,..-.:h tonsequence, Would tbllow. I think it is
very possibile that each of these Gentlemen- might
swear what he.
,is, supposed to have done, the
that he had made:khown his opinion, and 'the othet
that he had: not made what 'he calls a comenun icatidn
of his opinion, without being guilty of any thing file
wilful and corrupt perjury." ,
Mr. DAUNCEY observed to his Lordship;he had
stated that,-;3nd if he would jUSE permit him for a
moment----

LORD CHIEF JUSTICE.---" Your charge' is t hat of
wilful and corrupt perjury, as stated in the .deciara-
firm. Did nobody ask Mi. Williams:, at the' Seg.
sions, 'when the question arose, whether he was
aware what Mr. Beatley's opinion was ?"
Mr. Serjeant SHEPHERD, and also Mr. DAUNCEt,
replied, that no such question' had been put to Mr,
Williams, at the Sessions.
LORD CHIEF JUSTICE._ •-" Every tody the brew

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Mr. DAusrcay.—" The question was not what,
Mr.
~Wilhants knew, but what Mr. Bea'ziey :had
communicated to him." . .
After some further consultation among the Coun-
sel, Mr. DAuNcEY-sail, " I believe, on the part of
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my friend the Learned. Serpant, I can now state that
to which he will accede
,on his part, and that which
will be sufficient on mine. Mr: Williams is ready
to declare he made this charge a:--,:iiiist i:%".. Beazley,
on the supposition that Mr. Leailey had intended to
'impute to him the same, crime which he has now
imputed to .Mr. Beazley.' He •says lie made the
charge on that,supposition ; but as M. Beazley does
not mean to impute, that to Mr. Williams, Mr. 'Wil-
liams, by me, states, that if- that had been at first
so Understood .by flint, he would not havelnade it,
and does not.now make it t and, explained, as it is
now, he is sorry,he has made it." i -
LORD Cillb, JparlCE.—," It is very proper wend'
_this cause in this NVay. -I should have had some dif-
Iciai btn:in licalsiticme:
ficulty perhaps. in telling you what my impression of
the matter was, if it had come to a conclusion. The
Jury would hardly, have found that Mr.' Bvaziey, -in
what he bad said, had committed wilful and corrupt
'perjury, which, on the part of the Defendant, Int,,q
have been proved, and which, on the part or Beaz-
ley, is positive:y defiled. 1 think it is most proba- .
.ble, that Mr. Beazley did not in words comMuni-
cat(' it, but it is clear from, the evidence„ it 'was as
well known then what Mr. Beazley's opinion. teas,
as itis now ; and that Alr. Beazk'y should wilfully
have cominitted 'perjury -when he kne,:, there-were
four or fiVe persons in Court ready to-contradiCt him,
is what. one can hardly believe; and there was no ,
interest which could possibly induce h:w to take such
an oath. On Om other. hand, Williams, I suppose,
was very strongly itnpressed with what Mr. Beazley
had sworn not being literally true, and therefore he
o
was guilty of perjury. Supposing-the
fa
-that Mr. Beazley had not literally•com.
m
his opinion 'to 'Mr. NVilltas,' Mr. Wil-
toltzll-Iteielg'isdi he t
very naturally be under thamLimpression.
Mr. Williams tor his intemperate behaviour
when he met Mr. Beazley subsequently on another
business. At 'the same time, Williams did not
charge him
,With this in any company except among
those persons', all of whom knew what passed at
the tune--all of whom were present, except Hill,
who was a new Su'rv'eyor, and who, I dare say,
knew it as•• well, as, the rest ; and therefore he did not '
make. this imputatlon in public company, or in the
company of strangers, where it might be Misunder-
stood, Ido not think that either of thetnhave been,
guilty of any thing that the law 'calls 'perjury, or
that any thing That has passed ought at all w atied
their characters." , . ,
Mr.'Serjeant SHEPFTER4..7--tc Mr: Beailey's oh-
jetSt is obtained, by what your Lordship has now
said."

LORD CHIEF JUSTICE.--" I suppose the Jury is
.of the same opinion." • •
The Jury declared they were perfeCtry of the same
opinion.