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 ON THE

PRECEDING DIALOGUE,

AND THE CASE OF THE

DEAN OF SAINT ASAPH.

BY M. DAWES, Esq.

HEN Mr. ERSKINE moved the Court for a new trial, on the ground of misdirection to the Jury, at Shrewsbury, whereby they were left to themselves on the subject of the defendant's intentions, in publishing the preceding Dialogue, the ingenious and just manner in which he exposed the sophistry of Mr. Bearcroft, and Mr. Justice Buller's arguments, so alarmed Lord Mansfield, and appeared so powerfully to shake the doctrine long laid down by his Lordship, that he regretted