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the Court to eicincle any cireoinftanees of mitiia-
tion that might appear in the cafe.
Lord ELLISBnanu a N.,••" Mr Goldburne moil be
committed, and be brought up to receive the judg-
ment of the Court on Monday nett"

reseuaev 10.
THE ZING tl. EDWAID OOLD■tllNe, 130
This perfon being brought up to receive the Sen-
tence of the Court, Mr. fullice Game, in pronounc-
ing judgment, adcheffed the Defendant in the fol.
lowing terms—
You, Edward Goldburne, have been profecuted
upon three indiements, charging you with publifh-
ing libels againit different perfons, which charges,
although they might have been contained in one re.
cord, yet the parties have chofen feierally to prole-
cute upon the libels againft themfelves refpeeitely,
and upon Such profecutions you have been found
guilty. This is the only one isf the many inconveni-
ences which mull inevitably refult from writing the
malicious libel complained of; a libel againft th-lre
Gentlemen, with whom, from your peculiar fitua-
urn and connection, we &mild have molt naturally
fuppored you would have cultivated friendfhip and
etteem. Upon the perufal of the libel, to what can
we impute its origin ? lam lorry to fay fo, but it
mutt have arifen from deep-rooted malice. ion have
vilified Mrs. Bird, by terming her a pupil of Satan,
and .a hamelefs bat titan. Mr. Bird is flandered, by
your imputing to him that he purchafed unfound
bodes, and then fold them to ignorant unwary young
men, under a warranty. Betide, this, he is ridiculed
for his provincial dialed ; and laaly, both of them
are Riled wide-walling pegs, and a demoniac
pair. Yon reprefent Lieutenant Colonel Dories
as affeCting a mathematical knowledge, to which be
had no pretenfi"ns : his drefs, and his mode of dan-
cing are likewife touched upon, and,in the conclufion,
he is Paid to he " too old to learn, too obßinate to
mend." The libel for which you have been prof*.
euted by John Anßey Abney, terms him " a num.
hull, and a rude unpolithed bear:"—Tht tendency
of the libel is too obvious to admit of a doubt. In
mitigation of your offence, affidavits have been pro-
duced, which cannot fail to receive the attention erf
the Court. At the time you wrote the libel, you had
too little forefight to difeover how many enemies fuels
a publication might create, and how few friends your
fatire would produce, and into what difficulties it
might involve you. The libel contains Inch a piettro
of inveterate malice, as we could Scarcely have
thought even men in advanced years, much leis
boys, would have beta able to lay before the world.
The Lady had act injured you by felling yon unfound
bodes, or had encouraged you at the men-table, by
ipplanding the libels upon the eharaeers of others. On
examining your affidavits, which Rand uncontradie-
ed by the Profeentors, and confidering your extreme
youth, we cannot but think the Profecutora have bees
much to blame. Although it is a neeeffary part of
our public diary, in this place, to pima delhetitilso,
we cannot at the fame time avoid cenfuring the Its.
warrantable and harfh conduct of thole who, convey
font with the trays of the world, firfl led you, .bp
flattering your flanderous publications, to commit as
offence againß the laws of the country, and dam
brongbt you before this Court, to render you Moombr
Isle to thole laws. Attending to every circumllooml
in you cafe, to the condne of the Profecntors, and
to the time you have already been confined, we do
order and adjudge, that for the libel againft Mr. and
Mrs. Bird, you forfeit the film of jol. ; for that again*
Lieutenant Colonel Dorien, tot. ; and that you fur-
ther pay to his Majefty tot. for the libel againa Cap.
fain Abney ; and that you be imprifoned till the fet
vend fines be paid.
The Defendant immediately difcharged the fevetal
fine', and retired.