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• OqUiT OFawrs mem jUnnt 6.
i.... 11146 Siva 4101111 W, aids.
We lave. already Rand, bit theft perions had
beenitonOrifked on a Aiwa .peculation and cot.-
at -aes ktdement in the in-
terim IF India, in the .11ellinfrons of the Shama
Rajas The ansounteeterted from that Prince, an-
d* fare pretences, wet lispoo rupees, or fame what
shahisseeel• PAWN "..of the 1 Ith ult. we
Raped the arguments, and the motion of Mr. Das-
Lan in smell of juditnent.t mod the dedifion of the
Court was this day given on that application. Lord
Etsnunotovots, in pronouncing Isis opinion, Paid,
that ;be word wail was net at vi salad exclufive,
and be produced various authoritiei thew, that
neither in legal proceedings or in common par-
lance, it was necefarily eaclufive. He added, that
the equivocal meaning of the word ought to be ex-
plained by the clntest, and that by this tailrace,
at appeared evidently to have been ufed ezdufively.
The rule Njfii in tura of judgment, war, therefore,

idkbarged:
The ATTaIIItT Clutter., on the appearance of
the Defendants on the floor of the Court, prayed
their terabit's to Rive judgment, en which the Chief
Juaioe read the minutes of the trial at Guildhall, I
which have ben already detailed.
114/9m. Ikestes and .Tatenrovote then addref
ca the Comm in mitigation of punifhment on behalf
of W. ST ttttt I t sad Mr. STIFIIIIS. (the Conn-
ie!) on behalf of Mr. Aoaaw. They Paid, that the
A ejoined refikution, which would itielf amount
to a fine ofsapwards of io,oool. The mere expenses
of the trill, on the pert of the defence, amounted to
between fall aoool. and 50001. This vett fum
mutt
be.difebafged by the Defendant Mr. Stephens only,
Mt. Agnew having become bankrupt in consequence
of the misfortune Co well known of Mellis. Strange
and Co. of which be was a partner. It was oblervetl,
that the dial of a fine upon the latter would ea
pole him to the fate of a perp.ottal imprifnnment, and
that he had a wife awl four indigent children, whofe
fuliftionce depended upon his future exertions.
The ATT!SINtY GLIIIIILII. and Mr. ADAM replied
on behalf of the profecution. They enlarged on the
prodigies magnitude of the Dritilk empire in India,
and ea the ne.effity of convincing twenty millions of
Esiktrn fubjcas that a fevere example (held be
made of thole Cho degraded the honour of the na-
tional eharaaer by extortion wed peculation. They
Paid, that the Eaft India Company, in the prompt i-
tode of its jullice, had repaid to the Shamoa Rajah
the total amount of this exaftion, and that their
Lordihips would confider the fitnefs of the reflitu-
tioe to be made to the Company as the Proficutur.
and that any fine imputed Mould be applied to the
fame fund. difcretion in this particular WAS re-
ferred to their Lorelthips by the fiatute on which this
conviaion was founded.
Lord ELLISWBOtOUOII.-••••• L et the Defendants be
brought up the left Monday ( Monday tennight )
in
Term."

T.N.CHEQIIER CHAMBER.
tiAßwonD v. A3TLIY.—Th:s Wall a writ of error
from the King's tench. The verdia was for zoned.
in an *Moo for (lender ; the Plaintiff having faid of
the Defendant, who was a candidate to reprefent the
county of Novi.lk in Parliament, that he was an af-
fawn and had murdered his own father.
Mr. Nostra* moved a reverfal of the judgment
on a point of 'saw, which he admitted hail never yet
been di.linelly before any Court for judicial decifion.
The decliration alledged that the words were fir.,kcn
of the Defendant as a " candidate" for Parliament.
Ne infitted that esornever a person became a candi-
date. he net iirly dive tied hitnfelf of the 1114 Id of the
law, as pine :lug( his chat-after, bnt it became the
duty of every eiettor to pubidh all his faults and
vices, in i•td:r t know whether he was the man re-
quired by the 11;00 Writ, n.intely, the tuna " fir
and slitcreet" man to reprelent the county ; ti;at
whatever was laid of him could not he matter id le-
eornpewee to kiln, a. r candidate ; and that thet efnce
ttirsa)urigntent, sthich ease datria,ter lot that y,
mureverted.
Mr. ERIAI,4I was about to reply, but was tie: Ted

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