Je tox, Sackville 1th Earl of THE WHOLE PROCEEDINGS UPON AN INFORMATION EXHIBITED EX OFFICIO BY THE KING'S ATTORNEY-GENERAL, AGAINST THE RIGHT HON SACKVILLE EARL OF THANET, AND OTHERS, FOR A Riot and other Misdemeanours: Tried at the Bar of the Court of King's Bench, April 25, 1799. Taken in Short-Hand by WM. RAMSEY....The Evidence compared TO WHICH ARE ADDED, SOME OBSERVATIONS, BY ROBERT FERGUSSON, ON HIS OWN CASE, AND ON THE POINTS OF LAW ARISING UPON THE INFORMATION. London, Printed for By COOPER and WILSON, Wild-Court, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. Speech of Lord THANET, upon being brought up for judgment, 3d May Affidavit of ditto · - Page 133 136 137 138 139 Speech of Mr. FERGUSSON, upon the fame occafion Defultory Conversation upon the point, whether the Address of the Attorney-General, upon the Defendants Sentence Some Obfervations GUSSON - 144 follow upon his own Cafe, by ROBERT FER- JURY. JAMES LEIGH JOYNES, of Milton, near Gravefend, Esq. NICOLAS GILBEE, of Chalk and Denton, Efq, RICHARD CARE W, of Orpington, Esq. JOHN PLATT, of the fame place, Esq. JOHN LEADER, of Bexley, Efq. ISAAC RUTTON, of Ofpringe, Efq. JOHN BAX, of Silgrove Boro', Efq. WILLIAM LEIGHTON, of Charlton, Efq. WILLIAM GOODHEW, of St. Paul's, Deptford, Efq. WILLIAM SAVARY, of Greenwich, Efq. Mr. WEBB, Solicitor for the Affairs of His Majesty's Treasury, Counsel for the Earl of Thanet, Mr. Ferguson, and Mr. O'Brien, Mr. ERSKINE, Mr. GIBBS, Mr. BEST, and -Mr. M'INTOSH. Solicitor, Mr. LoWTON. Counsel for Mr. Browne, Mr. Rous. Solicitor, Mr. FOULKES. Counsel for Mr. Thompson, Mr. RAYNE. IN THE KING'S BENCH, THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1799. THE KING, VERSUS SACKVILLE EARL OF THANET, AND OTHERS. THE Information was opened by Mr. ABBOTT, and is as follows: KENT, to wit. Be it remembered, that Sir John Scott, Knight, Attorney General of our prefent Sovereign Lord the King, who for our faid Lord the King in this behalf profecuteth, in his proper perfon cometh here into the Court of our faid Lord the King, before the King himfelf at Weftminster, on Wednesday next after three weeks of the Holy Trinity in this fame term; and for our faid Lord the King giveth the Court here to understand and be informed, that heretofore, to wit, on Monday the twenty-first day of May, in the thirty-eighth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, now King of Great Britain, and fo forth, a fpecial feffion of oyer and terminer and gaol delivery was holden by adjournment in and for the county of Kent, at Maidstone, in the faid county, before Sir Francis Buller, Baronet, one of the Juftices of our faid Lord the King of his Court of Common Pleas, John Heath, Efquire, one other of the Juftices of our faid Lord the King of his Court of Common Pleas, Sir Soulden Lawrence, Knight, one of the Juftices of our faid Lord the King affigned to hold pleas before the King himself, Samuel Shepherd, Efquire, one of the Serjeants of our faid Lord the King learned in the law, and others their fellows Justices and Commiffioners of our faid Lord the King, affigned, by letters patent of our faid Lord the King under |