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London, England, 1809-08-19 00:00:00

WESTMEATH ASSIZES.

MULLINGAR, JULY 2g.—Yesietiay came on to be

tried before the Right Hon. the Lord Chief Justice,
the prisoner, JoseA ,Lenagkan, Attorney. .He stood
charged on three sevetal indieltuents : ethelirst, for.
uttering a certain forged deed Of assignnient, with
intent to defraud,
.isnowing it to.be. forged :, the se-

cond, for subornation of perjury, by procuring 'a

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witness to swear to the dueeexeeution of it : and:the

third, for a conspiracy to defraud one Jame; Grady,
by procuring a verdict unlawfully to be had against
him, on a certain ilia' in liedinent, on which trial

the saidforged deed was exhibited.
The ta6ts' attending this nefarious and willikd
plot were shortlythese:—T h e prisoner, a.6tingS%;

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attorney fOr oie Maurice Finegan—and being also
concerned with, and interested , for, one George
Russell the elder', and also. for George Russell, his
son-did, in order- to defend Finegan againSt an

eiettment brought by said Grady foi the_ recovery
of certain lands, called Ardbuckan, in this county,
and tried at the last assize, contrived that a cer-
tain deed o( kssignment of said lands, between
George Russell the elder and George Russell the
younger, really executed in the year 1809, shortly
before the trial in ejetiment, should bear date and
appear to be executed in the month of March 1802,'
for'the purpose of defeating a lease made by George
Russell the elder to said Grady, and establishing *
lease at ide by George Russell the younger to. Fi-
negan ; such deed of i:sSigitruent appearing to be
executed in 180 T, depriting- George the e.der of
the power of making said lease to Grady—said as-
sigutnent,
if really executed in 180.?, being prior to:
the lease of Grady. . .
This assignthent being so antedated, it appeared
the Prisoner next contrived that it should seem to be
duly witnessed, and accordingly had the name of
Peter M'Gawley affixed to it, as a witness, and '
One Richard Mathews witnessed the former of:
whom .being stated to be dead, M:ithews attended
on the trial in eje:Atrient,,'itud proved that the said
_assigrfnient was duly executed ill- his presence, and
in the presence of the said MaGiwley,un the dAy
(17th March, 1802),- when it bore date, to which,.
and other false s eaHrg on said trial, it appeared
he was urged and suborned by the Prisoner.
indictment tor ,the conspiracy was also fully esta-,
Wished. It was contended
.by the Prisoner's Coun,-
sel, that the mere antedwing the deed was not a for-
gery, .and that the procluclio-i of it.- by the Piisoner,
as attorney, Kas not uttering and publishing it
within the statute. These points ,were, noweve,ro
ruled against the 'prisoner, and the case bring most
cle%rly and plainly established, as well by otlrer
proofs as the Prisoner's own letters to said Russell,
a most respettable Jury, without hesitation, CO
viaed the Prisoner on all the intiictments,

The Learned JUDGE expatiated mud) en the enor-
mity of the Prisoner's offences, dangerous to society:-
and degrading to his prole;sion; and which every
man must feel strike at the comfort 3 and
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of society., Doubts having arisen as to the tenOt of •
time for which the Pris Oner could be transported,
the Learned Judge postponed pronouncing the sen-
tence on the indiaments for uttering . the -forgery,
and for subornation of perjury, till the,opidion of
the Judges be had on the constructiodof the statute,
intending, as his Lordship expressed, to pronounce
thQ • severest judgment the law wilt warrant and,
on the third indictment, directed that the Yia.o4o4.lhe
should he imprisoned one year, and three timei pub .
holy pilloried..

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Of the uncommon ifnpotOnde of this subject?, and
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Thursday morning, about three o'clock, the pre'
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well, was broken into throult a brick wall, and se"
veral articles *stolen.