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    mostly a proof of , it is utterly absurd and mischievous to incapacitate him from giving evidence in a court of law . . It seems by the report * that several of the jury joined in the cry o ^

    * turn him out , when William M'Pherson declared his unbelief . It is a proof that they were far less fitted for jurymen than Julian Hibbert was for aft evidence . Their conduct was most disgraceful to them . This boasted * trial by jury seems , in many cases , to be very like * trial by party . Like Charles Phillips , they would rather justice should be left undone , than that an individual personally obnoxious to them should be

    instrumental m doing it . Mr . Alderman Brown addressed Mr . Phillips , * The public , Mr * Phillips , owe you much for the course you have pursued . ' Mr . Alderman Brown doubtless is a highly respeotable person : ' like Bel the idol , * eating much meat . '

    But the judge , the recorder , sitting in the seat of judgment , and approving the interference of the spectators with the course of justice , and clapping them on the back ! Go it , good people all , as has been done by church and king mobs before now ! You are a * British assembly ; ' therefore show your zeal for the Supreme Being by your want of charity to one of his creatures ! Hunt him out of the pale of society as fast as possible . The recorder had a predecessor who was commonly called by the name of Black Jack / He did many things , but none more extraordinary than this .

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    r Rustic Simplicity . —According to the 4 Times' police report , a poor countryman made a complaint before the Lord Mayor that he had been robbed . It seemed that he came up to London with a few pounds in his pocket , and a cheat in a public-house , after persuading him to give half his money for a watch , decamped . Then , first suspecting his companion , the poor fellow went into a watch-maker ' s to inquire the value of the watch , which was only a few shillings . A cab man at the door condoled with him , saying , he had once been served so himself . He then showed

    him 2 l public-house , where he said he would find the cheat , but advised him to leave his remaining money in his custody , lest that also should be stolen from him . He complied , and it seems Jhat the cab-man also had disappeared when he again came out of the public-house . The Lord Mayor laughed at this . The simplicity of the poor countryman seemed to be a matter of astonishment to him . A philosopher would

    have looked deeper . The occurrence is a proof that mankind are not all depraved . It is a proof that there are places in England where con fidence still exists between pnan and man , and where cheating in pecuniary transactions is of tare occurrence . Till such habits shall become a conspicuous characteristic of the mass of the community , there will not be much general happiness . Trickery is an evidence of poverty . People who are well off will not take the trouble to perform it , saying

    nothing of the instinctive love of truth , which is the characteristic of people undebauched by vice . Junius Redi \ ivu 8 .

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    Lady Hewiey * Trust . —On Monday , the 23 d Dec . the vice chancellor decided that the present administrators of this trust should be removed from their office on account of their holding Unitarian opinions .

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    &ft Notes on the Newspapers .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1834, page 86, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2629/page/88/