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TO _THE liniTOR or _THE _SCOTSMAN . SIR , —The Eilitor of tlie _Quarterly Kcviow _lia'i _not rrcfivrd _liiilf the

... _tclla a _lie ! _He _next _accuses her of liccdridiisness and _impiety , and by way of _showing his _own _horror of these _crimes , _lit _; _gives _ui _tlie _following amiable _picture _of _himself _. Wliilr _we write this , we _still rK _. i : ? iiii ...

Published: Saturday 08 November 1817
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 587 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

The _instability of human fortune and prospects has _been strikingly _exemp _lified in the sad event which ..

... _since his _conviction , witii the utmost _fortitude and _composure . _He _entered _into no conversation respecting tlie _crimes of which _hihad _been found guilty , alleging tliat this was a _nn-ltrr resting entirely between God and his own soul . One ...

Published: Saturday 15 November 1817
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2151 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

0 _Sunday next , _in _consequence of the much lamented _death ol' the _Princess CHAHLOTTI _: of WALES ,

... _belonging to tlie Marquis of Q _. _I _; EI : NSBI ; HHY . lie coiilchsril _having tnkcn one turnip , wliich _constituting the crime , lie was ; , _ciitcni _: _cil to p . _iy a fine of 20 s . willi 10 s . _expenses . It is _honed _tlie above conviction _will ...

Published: Saturday 15 November 1817
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 624 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

_secure the _exercise of tlie _Liberty _of the _Press , _consecrated by tlic Charter , by giving to tlio publlic

... _Police , if _the author is accused of a _simple _misdemeanour ; and b y the Court of Assize _, and a Jury , il _guilty of a crime wliicli carries with it an infamous or penal _infliction . A provision _of tlie law of 1 S 1 ' 5 , which _denies to _the accused ...

Published: Saturday 29 November 1817
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2050 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SWITZERLAND—STATE OF THE PRESS

... _decree of tlie _Government _, and _the publisher ordered to leave the _canton within _eight _: days _.- Wherein consisted his crime ? in NO . X . of his . Journal , there is _an _article on _tlie adoration of the _Virgin , which we _liiivc already _read' ...

Published: Saturday 29 November 1817
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1127 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

HIGH COURT OP JUSTICIARY

... _severely the system which _; tlie prisoner at the bar had adopted , of tutoring _youth to the _gallows , and commented on the crime as an _extremely dark _feature in his _case . After an impressive admonition I ' rom the LORO JusTicE-Ci . ritK , tlie Court ...

Published: Saturday 29 November 1817
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 422 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

IT is a trite maxim , but not on that account the less true , that those inflictions which seem

... _Prosecutor and the Judges , _that the Jury _should not look to _precedent _^—that it was nothing to the _purpose how many crimes or offences had hitherto _. escaped _punishment , —but _that the sole question was , whether the arraigned party before them ...

Published: Saturday 27 December 1817
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2007 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

_. an _honourable _, epoch in the _history , of the _Courts of _Westunistcr . It will . not belong

... were not innocent of _intention ? _It is _the- _province of Jurors to search for the intention , which makes tlie body of the crime , for it is a _maxim of . law , Actus nw ft reum msi mcns sii _rsa .. We . cannot add any thing to Mr _HOSE'S own _luminous ...

Published: Saturday 27 December 1817
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 637 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

HIGH _COURT-OF _JUSTICIARY

... High Court of Justiciary _proceeded to the trial of . _Williain-M ' _-Ward , _n' / insWillianI Ward , ' accuscd _. ' pf _the crime ofRajie , or an . _assauJ . t ' tocb _^ _mi . t ' . a ' . rap _' e _, _committed in . ' tli _? _parisli ot Kippon , and county ...

Published: Saturday 27 December 1817
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1174 | Page: 7 | Tags: none