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plaintiff, and imputed to him a certain abomina• '
ble crime ; th it in Augaß following a bill of in-
diFtment was preferred againd the plaintiff, at
Dover, for the fame, hut which bill was thrown
• cut by the Grand Jury ; that the plaintiff, very
properly, did not continue the aftion, which he
had commenced, until chi• profecntion was termi-
nated. Ile now th night it was incumbent upon
him to vindicate his charaSer. The Learned Ser.
jeant then, very forcibly, commented upon the
atrocity of fuch accufations, and obferved, that it '
is lets cruel to deprive a man of his exifience, than
to impute to him a charge of In diabolical a na ore.
Several witnefres were then called in fupport of
the anion, and it was clearly proved that the de-
fendant had made ufe of language tending to in-
jure the plaintiff's clunaCter.
Mr. GARROW, on the part of the defendant,
made a very energetic tied impaflioned addrefs to
the Jnry. He Paid it was notorir ns that a fit of
abandoned wretches had infeged Margate about
this time ; that, horn certain circurnitances, the
plaintiff bad become an objca of furpicion to the
defendant, and that he only rencated what he had
heard of the plaintiff, but without any malevolent
or malicious intention.
The Loeb CHM "Lucre obrerved, in his very,
aide charge to the Jury, that if a man calumniated
another, not believing w hat he cud, particularly
where the charge was of fu let ions a nature, that
na damaoes could be exceCive ; hot if the defen-
dant was only endeavouring to root out a vice, at
that time too prey rle nt, and had aced indifcractly,
the Jon would fay what he fbould pay for thie
n:re inchfcreion. The Jury, after deliberating,
f air .1 a vet zia for the plaintiff, with One Shilling
Damages
came:: sotr, BFInRE SIR RrAOMONT HOTHAM.
BAN X r s.—Dailicl Anchor and John Jones
were tried and conviacd upon an indianono
charging them with uttering counterfeit Bank
not., At Ca:eel bury. fy the evidence it appeared
that tile Clc::.s of the Bank of England were in
the conflato and daily habit of taking forged Ile
and zl. notes : and the fabrication of them was fir
exact, that it was impofliblo for any but the In-
fpeaor to detect fuch as were couuterfeit from
real ones
Sar.‘p-STFALINCL—Berjamin Elaekford and
WWI Powell, two younat men, but old offendero
pat ticularly the latter, who has been the chief of
a derpet ate gang' in tl:is county for many years,
were tried and found gaiity on a c ipital charge
fist flieeo-flealino, at loNt i!hara.—Mr. Jentiirsos, i f
Lew;ft.tm, 1i,tv:.12; 101 l feveial (beep at different
times, :tooheel to forte tenons to watch tor the
thieved, by their means the cart in which they car-
ried ataly the !loco aiive Was traced to the haufe
of a Mrs. P.o lons. n:'d the two prifoners and her
fon were aloaelari.; of. The two erifoners effated
a refeue, and got aoor. Tilt thiid man, Parfons,
received f,o.tcriec of death two years fence, and it
was not till the month of April lag they were
met with.
HIGHWAY ROSISRY.—William Cuwfe, a fol.
diet., was tried for robbing °fixer Clarke, a poll.
boy, and taking from his perfon two tl. Bank
Notts, the property of his mailer, George Motley,
together with half a guinea in gold, and nine fhil-
linos and fixpence in filver, the property of the laid
Oliver Clark. The profecutor, on his return with
his honks from a job he had been out with, was
. flopped by the prifoner,then inhisfoldier's clothes,
near ten at night. who, in a very peremptory
way, demanded his money. He gave him the
whole he had, and the in iforaer left him to purfue
his :;atts aey. Ile ofade his lots knoom as loon as
he cenlef —a partnit was onfol alter him, and he
was taken in a night-hough, With the monies about
Limos hich the pi, Cecil; or had previonflydefcribed
as well as his p:r'cn. The loan:ter, in his defence,
laid he received the money he Oal about. him fiorti
his Drum-Major, and that he h id wiitten to him
to attend, hut he did not Ile him in Court. he
denied having any know ledae of the profecutor or
the robber yo—G:lilzy—Death.
Foectar AND FRAUD.—Charles Almond was
next put to site b.ir,on an indiOnient for affuming
the name and charaOler of one Henry Jones, a fet:
rnan,era itled to certain prize-money, withintent to
receive the faid prize-money. This was an indiel-
meet for an offence that we are afraid is but too
common, to the great iajury of our brave tars,
who, v hen they have prize-money to receive, are
but too apt :n make that and all the circumannees
fo risk as to give an opportunity to defigning
men to perfonate them. This was the cafe in the
prefent iediance,but it was too clumfily performed
to fucceed, as the deteelion arofe in the fira in-
Rance. The prifoner made a very ingenious de-
fence for himfell, but without effe&. The Lord
Chief Baron lammed up with his ufual precifion
and impartiality, commenting,as he proceeded,on
the law of the cafe, and the abfolute necelfity there
was of bolding out a terrible example to all of-
fenders in the way the prifoner was charged with
. offending, to deter others from ever attempting
to rob our brave feamen of the hard-earned pro.
duce of their loavery.—The Jury juft turned,
round, and found a s-erdisl of—Guilty.
I loast • ccara so.—lfaac Good, for sealing
ham Cranbrook a hay mare, the property of the
executors of Will;arn Winch, was. after a long
trial, icon.] Guilty ; and Widiarn jenuaway, for
realing a horfe Isom *Mottiep,harn, the property
of Ro!.r sr Dr:est-Ir, Ely. was acquitted.—At
Nall pall 11:., adjourned till ei:aht tn-morrow.

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