The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1815-08-30

Gentlemen, my part is done yours is a
bout to commence you have heard this
CRIME, its origin, its progress, its aggravatons,
ITS novelty amongst us. Go and tell your
Children and your country whether or not it
is to be made precedent. Oh how awful
is your responsibility l do not doubt that
you will discharge yourselves OF it as Becomes
your characters. lam sure, indeed, that you
Will mourn with me over the almost solitary
defect IN our otherwise mat; bless system OF
Jurisprudence which leaves the perpetrators
of such an injury as this, subject to no amerce-
ment but that of money. / think you. will
lament the.faiiore Of che great Cicero CT our
age to bring such an offence within the cog
niaance of a criminal jurisdiction /; it was
Il subject suited to his legislative mind, wor-
Thy OF his feeling ,heart, worthy of his inmor-
tai eioquence. I cannot, my lord, even re-
mOtely al ude to Lord Erakinc, without graft
lying myself by saying OF him that by the ra re
union OF all that was learned ia law; with all
that was lucid in eloquence, by. the singular
combination of all shat was pure in morals,
with all that was profound in wisdom, he has
stamped upon every action of his FIFE the bleu-
ded authority OF a great mind and an I'M
questionable conviction. ] think, gentlemen,
you will regret the failure of such man in
such an object. The merciless murderer may
have manliness to plead /; the highway rob-
Der may have want to palliate, yet they are
both objects of criminal infection bu. the
murderer Of connubai bliss, who commits his
crime i'll secrecy but the robber of dome site
JOYS, whose very wealth, as in this case NAV
be his instrument, heis suffered TO calculate
on the internal fame which a superauous ex-
penditure may purchase. The law, however,
Is 50. and we must only adopt the remeds is
affords us. In your adjudication of that rem
edy, lido not ask too muclh when ( ask the
full extent ofyour capability ; how poor even
so is the wretched remuneration for an injury
which nothing can repair for loss which
nothing can alleviate do You think that
mine could recompence my client for the
forfeiture OF her who was Gearer than life 20
him
oh had she been bur fr7te!
Though HedUen had made him sucd anoth-
er 7yorld
Of one entire and 1erfect CArysolite,
ned not exchange her .forit.
put 1t to any one of you. what would you
take to stand in his situation What would
you take to have your prospects blasted. your
profession desioiled, your peace ruined, your
children parentess9 Believe me, gentlemen,
fit was not forthose children, he would not
come here to-day to seek such remuneration !;
II 1t was not that by your verdict, you NAV
prevent those little innocent, defrauded
| wretches from wandering beggars as well as
orphans upon the face CT this earth. Oh,
KNOW Heed not ask TINS verdict from YOUR
mercy, need not extort it from your compass
sion.. will receive it from your justice, do
I conJure you, not rs fathers, but as husbands,
not as husbands, but as citizens, not as citizens,
but as men, not as men, but as christans-by
aliyour obligations, public, private, moral and
religious-by the hearth profaned by the
house desoated, by the canons Of the living
God fnuily spurned. Save, oh save, your fire.
sides from the contagion, your country from
the crime, and perhaps thousands yet unborn
from the shame. and sin, and sorrow of this
example.
At the conclusion of a brilliant and unex-
celled display of eloquence, burst of Joyous
and approving exultation arose in the court,
well merited by the able advocate: who had
affected the jury even to tears; throughout
the delivery of tins powerful appeal to
their Judgment their feelings and their JUS
+, tice. -'-
Lord Norbury charged the jury to find
a verdict for the plaintiff, bat recommended
moderation i'll the damages. @
The jury retired for few minutes and
found for the plaintiff-Damases FIVE thousand
pounds.