The Sun.
London, England, 1826-10-24 00:00:00

was not qualified to decide such an important cage. A
Special Jury must be summoned—magistrates, clerks,
and constables ; . publishers, printers, and reporters ;
solicitors, attornies, keepers of records, clerks of the
peace, &c. are summoned on the occasion, and obliged
to wait in Court for two successive days. The Jury,
with that good sense, ' and discrimination,, and ind -
pendence, which distinguish in general a London
Jury from all Others, immediately returned verdicts
for the defendants, and. read a proper lesson to those
litigious persons who for the sake of private pique, or
some petty quarrel, may think proper to bring twenty
or thirty individuals from their necessary vocations.
We probably should not have alluded to the case at
all had not imputation been thrown out against the
Jury, and language been made use of which would
lead some to suppose that the time is approaching
when no injured man can trust to their decisions, and
when the favourite toast of « Erskine, and Trial by
Jury!' shall De' regarded as an almanaek out of date.
We have no such dismal forebodings ; on the ,contrary
the verdicts of several London Juries lately have con-
vinced us more and more of the excellence of such an

institution. They have repeatedly shown that pure
justice was their object, and that they were not to be
influenced by the dictates of a Judge, or by any of
those absurd technicalities of law which still disgrace
our statute book. Instead of blame they deserve great
praise, and the Press ought to be the last to arraign
their conduct. We trust that they will long pursue
such a course, and other Juries will follow their
example more than they have hitherto done. If petty
and vexatious trials were less encouraged, worthless

:Atomics would be in less request. We -should not so
often hear ,of them- inciting vain hot-headed fools to
bring actions, and then advising them to comprontise
the matter for a sum of money. just sufficient to pay
them for their villainy.---Morning Herald.
It is evident that attempts are making to revive some
of the most impudent and disgraceful of the Joint
Stock schemes that appeared to have expired under
the load of their own infamy, and the public execra-
tion. We see that shares in sonic of them are quoted
again at a premium that were recently at a discount.
—What does this look like ? Does it not show 'that

the indefatigable gamblers' who, created by their
tricks, the " bubble fever," and plundered those of
their money whom they.had deprived of their senses,
are once more arranging new frauds, because they
have not been visited with the punishment which their
former iniquities deserved ? If a set of provin-
cial black-legs at a horse-race, or a country fair,
should be caught in the act of picking the pockets of
honest, broad-faced, open-mouthed farmers—if the,
mail-lour should be found upon them--if they should
at first expect the painful and ignominious reward of
their labours—but the persons who were robbed, be-.
ing influenced by some extraordinary weakness of dis-
position, should neither oblige them to disgorge their
plunder, nor duck them in a horse-pond, nor com-
mit them to the parish-cage, would it be at all won-
derful if they returned again to their infamous voca-
tion, and turned every pocket at the horse-race or the
fair inside out, that had before escaped their depreda-
tiOns ? Nobody could be surprised at such a circum-
stance, or think that the foolish people who let them
escape in the first instanCe, deserved any better return
for their mistaken indulgence ; such impunity only
operates as a vicious encouragement. It makes male-
factors more audacious, and the public more exposed.
Thingti have mow come to such a pass that it is clear
au end cannot be put to those net'arious thingS until
some examples are made. The professed gamblers
are compelled to seek the darkness of the night, and
entrench themselves in dens fortified and barricadoed,
ftn• the purpose of despoiling their infatuated dupes
without the unpleasant interruptions of the police ; but
it is otherwise with the Joint Stock schemers, they still
go abroad by day, exercise their frauds in public, make
the corrupt portion. of the press the most effective part
of their machinery of delusion, and set the laws that
ought .to guard property and morals at defiance.—
Under such circumstances, great credit is certainly
due to Mr. Clarke, who has exerted so much saga-
city and perseverance in exploring several of those
schemes, and exhibiting instances of the depravity` of
contrivers and directors; which otherwise might never
have come to light. We trust he will proceed, and
that others, capable of so truly patriotic a task, will be
incited to do their country service, by rooting out
more of the villainy of those things, and making their
exposure so complute.as to insure their extermination.
Some of the persons who have juggled people out of
their property now aired to be enthusiasts, who pre-
tend to have been deceiVed by their own warm imagi-
nations. But if they were merely Quixotes, and not
sharpers, they would have the honesty to return the
money of those whom they have deluded by their
glowing accounts of magnificent and enriching enter-
prizeFL instead, however, of manifesting my symp-
tom of cornsno» honesty; by making such restitution,
they grow furious acid play the bully,: whenever the
return of the money is spoken of. But they are, after
all, only dastards, who affect desperation in the alarm
of being forced to refund what they have so dishonest-
-0 obtained. A stca4y and persevering pursuit, with
to hue and cry of public opinion at their heels, will
take them, like other animals of
.prey, when hotly
endeavour to facilitate their escape by drop-
ing their plundcr.---10/.

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THE ALL/NO.I'ON SMUGGLERBO--It has been
well known to the inhabitants of this party of the
County, that a most formidable gang of smugglers has
long existed in the neighbourhood of Allington ; and
it was generally supposed that the various gangs which
have so often put the Preventive men at defiance, were
organized and prepared for action at this spot. How-
ever, it is, we believe, for a time at least broken up,
by the apprehension of George ltansley, the Captain
(as he was called) of the gang, and some of his asso-
dates, On Tuesday morning, between four and five
o'clock, a body of the Preventive Service, consisting of
about 120 men, well armed, marched up from the
coast to the heights of Allington, surrounded the
ham% of Ransley, and took with him seven others
into custody .; they were handcuffed together, and
marched away towards the coast in the midst of their
escort, who had their saleet; drawn. We have not
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heard wlAt particular offence he and his companions
are charged ia,
but report, says he has been engaged
in many of the desperate conflicts which have so often
taken place upon our shores. 'file names of the prl-
'On Saturday
""etB we hear Arc—George It ansley, GOV), Giles,
,
t" BaYleYa; and thg two Wyors.—Kentish Gazelle.
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