Page:Statement of facts relating to the trespass on the printing press in the possession of Mr. William Lyon Mackenzie, in June, 1826.djvu/35

 The original of the Affidavit which follows, may be seen by any person, in my posession.

SAMUEL P. JARVIS.

YORK, January, 1858.

Samuel P. Jarvis, Charles Richardson, John Lyons, and James King, Esquires; Peter M'Dougall, Merchant; Henry Sherwood, Charles Heward, and Charles Baby, Gentlemen; severally make Oath and say, that they were the Defendants in the action of Trespass, brought by William Lyon Mackenzie, for an injury done to his Press and Types, in which a Verdict of £625 was rendered for the Plaintiff;—that the act complained of, was committed without much time for reflection, and without any deliberate concert;—that it proceeded from the impulse of their own minds, under a strong feeling of indignation, for very cruel, false, and scandalous attacks then lately made in the Colonial Advocate, upon some of the Defendants, or their Relations or Friends.—And, lastly, these Deponents say, that the charges and insinuations made in some of the Public Newspapers, that the Defendants were incited and persuaded to do the act complained of, either by the Government, or by any members of the Government, or by any Magistrate, or that they had communicated their intentions to, or consulted with any other person or persons who were not then actually assembled and met together; or, that the same was made with their approbation, are wholly and utterly untrue.

SAMUEL P. JARVIS,

HENRY SHERWOOD,

JAMES KING,

C. R. HEWARD,

CHARLES BABY,

PETER M'DOUGALL,

JOHN LYONS,

CHA'S RICHARDSON.