The Sun.
London, England, 1808-06-17 00:00:00

w r A bad ver fuilk
iii,!ied a bad ttitarnpie,,andif the Jary, by 'their soo.'
that day, should shut out the public from the
right nt discussing' the verdict of a Jury, they. would
do wore harm to the administration of justice,.than
it wai po.4;ible the reniart:s of the Defendant Coultf,
do throughont the periot) of his exi4tence.
. The ArroitNE.Y-GENea. made a very argu-
nientatit e reply, when - -.z

Instite GROSE, proceeded to sun) up. Hesaict
the,,'4 i
~„risliture, in cases of libel; had left the.law and,
the 15u1 to the decision of t heJmy ; that is,. they Were,
to sly Whether the matter ch.irged against the De-
feniantS had been published by them, and if .50;,'
t.ltether the publication was libellous ; iti shoo, the
whole was to be left to-the, consideration of the:
Jury. The same a,:t, how,wer,,aut horises
,the
to direst the. Jury iu their inquiry ; and upon that
authority he had no hesinition in saving; that the'
ptittlication in question :was a libel, and one soap*
parent, that he should think required very little illo-
tration from-hint. But they were told'.that the Writer,
had no such intentions as those ascribedto blur,
and that he only meant to exercise•his right of dis-
cussing- the grounds of. that decision the Jury had
come to, without maligning the condua either of
Judge or Jury, or attributing to theta any corrupt in-
fluence. If they "should be of that opinion, then mast
they acquit the Defendants; but, on the contrary, if,
upon mature consi .tration, they are of opiiiion the,
publication was written with an intent to vilify the'
administration of Justice, and to -bring the Trial by
Jury into contempt, then must they tintt the Delend'.
ants guilty. If it was nct,.,ant as a. pultlic discussion,
the fats on both sides shohld'have been set forth, or
the propriety of the verdict should not have hem
questioned. In short, if the Jury ,were opillitni
the stri..tures, alluded to were a, fair and honest Lh67
mission of Tads and their reStilis,-the Defetitipts,
were itot guilty ; but if written 'to throw .1 stigna
on the Judge an.l Juty, then they were
and the Defendants must be found guilty. ,
The Jury retindd for a quarter of an hour, :gm'
found the Defendants dmilty. • '
Some individuals' in the Court began bissirig,.all'a
the °that Was direaesi fa take thenlinto custody,
nut they were notidiscovered.

Wednesday morning, ,at i t o'clock, an Inquest
was held before the same Coroner, at the Sw3ll,
the corner of Church-street; Lambeth, on au; body.
of MissJemitna Prosser, about ten years of age, the
daughter of a respectable tradesman in the Strand,
who lost her lite by falling from a barge into the
Thames about four o'clock on Sunday evening hot-.
She lad just returned from boarding school, 1114
was on a visit at the house of Mr. Davies, in North-
umberland-street. The deceased went in cornpflnY,
with Miss Ann Davies on board a barge at the enl
of the street, it tieing a tine evening and the
high up. As they walked along the gunwale of
the
vessel, Miss D. who was foremost, suddenly,aSs
her companion, and upon looking into the water
she could discern her clothes, though her face 1"el
not visible. She gave an alarm, but ihe body 'hi
sever ll
sunk befOre- a boat cu'uld'reach the spot.
persons reivatedly endeavoured With dregs to re-
cover the body; but it was not found until betweett
ten and eleven o'clock. on Monday night, whet'
Thomas Dutfin, n waterman, going to assist anothr,f
in launching a boat, saw the body lying party
shore, and partly immersed in water, opposite La or
bet h Paiace.--L-Verdict Accidental Death. •

The three last Capital Prizes ever. drawn, Werl
sold in Shares at SWIFT and Co's. Offices, No. 114
Poultry, and N 042, Charing-Cross; viz. No. 0031'
a 20,0001. No. 6;895, t °riot. No. 8,4 1 7,:a I°°l)'
They also sold in. Shares tour others, nialtitlg ,
the whole seven Capital Prizes in' the last Loiter):
only. -Tickets and Shares for the State Lot tery. Vbic.
begins the gillii of this month, and contain''''
Prizes of Twenty Thousand Pounds ! ! ! 33'
on sale at the above Offices. ' .