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when I faw a confiderable degree of guilt, I have preffed the judgement of juries to go along with me in enforcing the fanctions of religion and morality by the heavy penalties of the law; and I have found juries co-operate with me in trying how far the immorality of a libertine age would be corrected, by letting all parties know, that they beft confulted their own intereft by difcharging thofe duties they owed to God and fociety.

"Caufes of this kind have very different complexions. Caufes have come before me, where I have thought it incumbent on juries to difcharge plaintiffs with fmall damages. Caufes of this kind have come before me, where I have thought the very caufe of action failed, and therefore the plaintiff has been nonfuited. There have also been caufes of this fort where juries have given very large damages.

"This caufe has about it a character and complexion different from all I ever witneffed, different from all I have heard of in the hiftory of the jurifprudence of this country. It is emphatically an unfortunate caufe.

"If I had found the defendant making ufe of the friendship of the plaintiff, entering his houfe, and obtaining the confidence of his wife; if I had found him ufing the liberty of accefs as the means of feduction, I fhould have thought no damages put on the record too high for the plaintiff to receive at your hands. But this is not that cafe. To the plaintiff no imputation on earth belongs. He appears to have acted with the honour belonging to the moft illuftrious houfe of which he is fo important a member. But at the moment he received this Lady's hand, he did not receive her affections. She was never feduced from VOL. XXXVI.

his arms, because her affections were engaged from the beginning, and irredeemably fixed upon another.To the defendant, for a great part. of the time, I can impute no blame at all; he did that which was difficult for a young man; he feems to have bridled his paflion for a confiderable time; he retired with his friends, young men, branches of honourable families, to the country, to fee whether abfence might not wean his affections. Unfortunately for both, the abfence was not of very long continuance; he returned to town-they faw each other. The half-extinguished flame was again lighted up, and the unfortunate confequence followed which you have heard.

"It is for you, on this occafion, to afcertain the damages. The action complains of the lofs of the comfort and fociety a man ought to receive in the married ftate. Unfortunately for the plaintiff, this comfort and fociety hardly ever began-but ftill he has a right to expect fome damages. I fhould give damages, not merely nominal damages, but damages not to a very large amount. Thefe damages will fhew the fenfe you have of the immorality, for that is not to be defended. You will not give great damages which fhall prefs a young man, who, it is clear, at one time of his life had weaned him!elf from the unfortunate fnare the beauty and perfections of this lady had got him into. On these confiderations I fhall leave the cause in your hands: -You will decide it better on your own fuggeftions than on any observations I can make to you."

The jury immediately found a verdict for the plaintiff.-Damages one thousand pounds.

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Account of the quantity of corn imported into Great Britain, from foreign countries, with the amount of the duties collected thereon, in the year 1794.

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Account of the quantity of corn imported into Great Britain, from Ireland, Guernsey, Jersey, and Isle of Man, with the amount of the duties collected thereon, in the year 1794.

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Account of the quantity of British corn exported from Great Britain to foreign parts, with the amount of the bounties paid thereon in the year

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