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ought Judgment to be arrested in either of tlisse
Informations."
The other Judges concurring, the Court pro-
ceeded to pronounce its Judgment.
Mt. Justice GROSE addtessed the Defendant
nearly -as follows :
Albin M'Lrod, you are now to receive the sen-
terre 'of this Court, convicted on two Informations,
charging you with having published two different
Libels—one of which was to traduce a Magistrate,
high in Office, a Peepsof the Realm, a Privy Coun-
cillor and Lord Chancellor .of Ireland—a person of
the highest Rank in Office, and not less exalted in
Merit, in the estimation of those to whom his learn-
ing, his diligence and his abilities, and attachment
to his Country were known. A charafter so deserv-
ing of resped, it was difficult
,for you, with all
the venom of your pen to tarnish ; and it appears,
from the Verdid of the Jury, who have found you
guilty of the whole Charge in the Information, tha t
your malice
,was levelled, not only against his Re-
putation, ,but also against his Life. It is true that
iii your Address to the Jury, you pertinaciously
denied that was your intention. How just that
Defence was, how far your Publication and Ad-
dress to the Jury agree with one another, was
left to the Jury to form their judgment.--without
hesitation, that Jury pronounced.you guilty." Guilty
of intending to excite persons as evil-disposed as
yourself, either to murder the Earl of Clare, or to'
do him some bodily harm. In truth, lam alluding
to a well-known fad. ; the History of that Country,
and the nature of the contest in which it was then
,
engaged, left no doubt in the Minds of the Jury, of
the sanguinary intentions of him who could publish
such a Libel.
"The other publication was a Libel on an Aa of
the Legislature,, made on the exigency of the late •
Rebellion in Ireland, past for the protection of His
Majesty's faithful subjeas, by which provision was
made for the Trials of some Men by Martial Law.
—There was a -necessity for such provisions,
and that -is what every humane man laments,
and yet what every wise man must at the same
time admire, and even rejoice at the firmness of the
Legislature that adopted it, a measure which was
then apparently necessary, and the prudence of
which has been proved by experience. This mea-
sure you thought fit to denominate a scheme of
cruel, =just, unnatural, unconstitutional and wic-
ked policy, and to represent the Army which pro-
teded the lives and the properties of the People vf
Ireland, as a Body employed to overturn the Con-
stitution and subvert the Law ; by which you held
out to the People, that -Martial Law was not the
Law of right, but .of power, and that it was the
last at in the bloody tragedy of Despotism which no
generous people wOnld like, to sit out. On this
information you were found Guilty, as most un-
doubtedly you were guilty : of your crime, there-
fore, there remains no doubt in'either of the publi-
cations—of, one of which you avow yourself the
Author, the cool and deliberate Author in your
closet ; and of the other, the Publisher. In truth,
much of aggravation, but nothing of mitigation,
appears; not any point on which the Court can rest
its lenitk.; for we cannot but know that these
Publications come from an Offender, who was then,
and is even now, suffering, and justly suffering im-
prisonment. for a former Libel..
" There are two purposes intended by the punish-
ment of an offender: One is example to others—
The next, to correa d e individual. 'lf the latter
should be hopeless, from its having failed of its
intended effed, it is our duty to pronounce
Such a judgment as may deter others from like
offences. The Court having taken the whole of
your case into consideration, and having looked
carefully it all the circumstances, Cloth order and
adjudge, on the first information, containing the
Libel against the Earl of Crate, that you, Allan
M'Leod having been sentenced in 'Hilary Term,
1801, for a certain seditious Libel, for one year ;
and having been also sentenced by the
,Lords Spiri-
tual arid Temporal, in parliament assembled, for a
breach of the privileges of that HOLUM, to pay a _fine
of tool. and to be imprisoned in Newgate for six
months, and- further until such fine be paid ; be,
for the offence of which you have been convi&ed,
for a Libel against the Earl of Clare,-further im-
prisoned in Newgate for eighteen calendar months, to
commence from the expiration of your imprisonment
by order of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in
Parliament assembled, and that you be now com-
mitted in execution of this your sentence by this.
Court :--and as to the second informati4n, this
Court cloth order and adjudge, that you, the said
Allan M'Leod, having- this day received 'the sen-
tence of this Court, tobe imprisoned for r 8 Calen-
dar Months,- to be computed as in tiut sentence is
mentioned---for the offence stated in this last Pro-
secution, be further imprisoned in Newgate for 18
Calendar Months, to commence at the determina-
tion of your imprisonment for which you have this
day received the 'sentence of this Court,. and that at
the expiration of this last sentence, you do find
Security for your good behaviour for Seven Years,
yourself in racial. anal two Sureties in tool. each,
and that you be further imprisoned until such surety
be found."
The Defendant said; the Cour?had passed. Sen-
tence of Death on him. He was then conducted to

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