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270 which it was more called forth than in the present. Mercy, Gentlemen, is dear, very dear to us all; but it is the deadliest injury we can inflict on mankind, when it is bought at the expense of justice."

The learned Gentleman then, after a few farther prefatory observations, proceeded to state how, on the night of last, Lord Mauleverer was stopped and robbed by three men masked, of a sum of money amounting to above three hundred and fifty pounds, a diamond snuff-box, rings, watch, and a case of most valuable jewels,—how Lord Mauleverer, in endeavouring to defend himself, had passed a bullet through the clothes of one of the robbers,—how, it would be proved, that the garments of the Prisoner, found in a cave in Oxfordshire, and positively sworn to by a witness he should produce, exhibited a rent similar to such a one as a bullet would produce,—how, moreover, it would be positively sworn to by the same witness, that the Prisoner Lovett had come to the cavern with two accomplices not yet taken up, since their rescue by the Prisoner, and boasted of the robbery he had just committed; that