The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-08-19 00:00:00

• THg STATMS MAN.

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hfur.UlVOAn, Joie t9.—Yesterday came on
to be tried before the Right lion. the Loan Cistror
j the l'risoner, Joseph Lengthen, attn..
neu;ile liert gond charged on .ttree several indict.
meets: the first, for uttering a certalurforgA deed
of assignment, with intent to defraud, knowing
it to be forgot ; the second, for subornation of
perjury, by procuring a eltness to swear to ttia
due execution of it; and the third, fur a conspi-
racy to damp' nun.janies Grady, by procuring 3
to be had against him, on a
verdict si Isla w rully
certain trial in ejectment, on which trial the said
forged deed was exhibitesl.
The facts attending this nefarious and wicked
plot were shortly these :—The Prisoner, acting ;:v
attorney fur one Maurice Finegan, and 1)69.7
also concerned wills, antlitsi it
aerise: for for,ted(vo
crign:
(IL;t;sr:lel ihtisusssoen the
in ii,
(ed, cider,
anrder to defend Finegan
against ass ejectment brought by said Grady' fur
the recovery or certain Lauds, called A rdbuckan,
in this county, and !tied at the last .tssiaci, eon_
trice that a certain deed of assignment of:said
lands, between. Geuige Russell the elder .and
George Russell the younger, really executed in
the year leitit, shortly before the trial in eject-
ment, should bear date and animas to be executed
in the mouth of March, 18e2, fur the purpose of
ili•fe.sting a least made by.ttizurge Russell the
elder to said Grady ; and establishing a lease
mule he George Rime!! the younger tuTitiegan ;
sort' a deed of •astigtuutott appearing to be etc_
cited id- 1/02; depriving George the 'elder of the
'loner or -Mating said lease to Grady—said
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signment, if really executed in 1301, bein
to the to
This ast.igtinient being sn anttsdsteil, anti/sir.
' cal the Prisoner next etintriked that it should see,,,
to be dilly witnessed, and accordingly had the
name of Peter Sl‘Gawley affixed to it as a witness,
;NO tine Richard it lathews witnessed it, the former
or nhom being %Nitta] Jo he deal, Mathews at.
tettiktel on the trio) in ejectment, and proved that
•the Raid assigittneut was Italy executed in his pre-
sence, nod in. the pr. settee of the aid 111‘Goo ley,
on the day (17th March, 180-2) when it bore
date, to which, and other false swearing on said
trial, it appeared he was urged and suborned by
the prisoner. The indictment for the conspiracy
‘rai also fully cstab!is:tcd. It was contended by
lice isnuer's Counsel, that the tilere antedating
the dyed was nut a forgery, ati.l that the produe.
pion of it by the Prisoner, as attorney, on the
trial, was nut an. uttering and publishing it %%Rh-
in the statute. These points were, however, ruled
against the Prisoner, and the case being must
eleArle and plainly established, a most respectable
Jury, without hesitation, convicted the Prisoner
on all the indictments.

The Learned JUDGE expatiated much ion the
' enormity of the Prisoner's °leaves, dangerous to
society, a..ldegratling to his profession, end which
every man must fed strikes at the comforts and
wellbeing of society. Duohts basin.: ari.en as
tt to the leugih of time fur %filch the risoer r.,eld
he transported, the I.yeartird .I(tlge b•,steinooki re.
glomming the sentence on the iiiiactments for it.
taring the itsrowritt
_mile subornation er per.
jury, till the opiuion of the Judges be ha.l try tho
construction of tlic,itatnte, • intending, as his
Lordship expressed, to pe:onsance the .severest
jndgtnesst the law livid warrant; and,*on the
third indictment, directed that the Prisotiefs[tould
be imprisuucd tme year, 411 d Om tillers pitbitcly
pillory].
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