cause this dirty occupation is not sufficiently profitable? Shall he say, I have violated the ear of modesty in my writings, I have ridiculed the ordinances of our holy religion, I have blasphemed Here some of the Jury got up, and Lord Kenyon desired Mr. Garrow to stop, for that more was evidently unnecessary. He then said," that it was their duty to consider "whether the author of such works as they had "heard read, and described, had a right to call for "damages. "With what face," continued his Lordship, " can "this fellow find fault with the publication of the Defendant, when it appears that the passage here "libelled attaches to him merely as Anthony Pas66 quin, a name which he has prefixed to writings of "the most infamous nature. It appears to me, that "the author of the Baviad has acted a very meri"torious part in exposing this man; and I do most 46 earnestly wish and hope that some method will ere "long be fallen upon, to prevent all such unprincipled "and mercenary wretches from going about un "bridled in society, to the great annoyance and "disquietude of the public." The Jury, without a moment's hesitation, nonsuited the Plaintiff. The other actions, FORTY IN NUMBER, were all determined by this one. FINTS. Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. |