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Je tox, Sackville 1th Earl of
Ihavet, de fendant.

THE

WHOLE PROCEEDINGS

UPON AN

INFORMATION

EXHIBITED EX OFFICIO BY

THE KING'S ATTORNEY-GENERAL,

AGAINST

THE RIGHT HON SACKVILLE EARL OF THANET,
ROBERT FERGUSSON, ESQUIRE,

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
with the Notes of two other Short-Hand Writers.

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

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Speech of Mr. FERGUSSON, upon the fame occafion
Affidavit of ditto

Defultory Conversation upon the point, whether the
Punishment be difcretionary or. fpecific

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Address of the Attorney-General, upon the Defendants
being again brought up for Judgment on the 10th June 143
Speech of Mr. Juftice GROSE

Sentence

Some Obfervations

GUSSON

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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.
JOHN TEMPEST, of Town Boro', Efq.
JOHN OSBOURNE, of South Boro', Efq.

WILLIAM LEIGHTON, of Charlton, Efq.

WILLIAM GOODHEW, of St. Paul's, Deptford, Efq.

WILLIAM SAVARY, of Greenwich, Efq.

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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.
Solicitor, Mr. BONNEY.

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

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