...be required or direñed, before the court or judge before whom fuch indiftment or information fliall be tried, to find the defendant or defendants guilty, merely on the proof of the publication by fuch defendant or defendants of the paper charged to be a libel, and of the fenfe afcribed to the fame...

...the w&ok Matter B 3 put put in I flue; arid mall not be required or direfted, by the Court or Judge, to find the Defendant or Defendants Guilty, merely on the Proof of the Publication of the Paper charged to be a 1 ibel, and of the Senfe afcribed to the fame in the Indictment or Information....

...Jury Bill of 1791, (continueJ.) of the fame, that on every fuch trial, the jury fworn to try the iffue may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty, upon the whole matter put in iffue upon fuch indictment or information, and (hall not be required or din-Hal, by the court or judge...

...required or directed, by the f< court or judge before whom fuch in» *' di&meht or information fhall be tried, " to find the defendant or defendants ** Guilty, merely on the proof of the pub" lication, and of the fenfe afcrib.ed to it <* in the indictment or information." IF juries had...

...the same, That, on every such trial, the Jury " sworn to try the issue, may give a general ver" diet of Guilty or Not guilty upon the whole matter " put...the Court " or Judge before whom such indictment or infor" rnation shall be tried, to find the defendant or de" fendants guilty, merely on the proof of...

...in Cases of Libel." This statute enacts and declares, that onerrry trial for this offence, the Jury may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty, upon the whole matter, and shall not be required to find the defendant guilt)', merely on proof of publication, but may enter...

...»." But ODTJORT- the Jcgiflature, by a declaratory aftb, removed all doubt of the right of juries to give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter at ifiue c. Inftance of IN Scotland, no fuch diftinction betwixt libels and other "f^rded'in °ffenc06...

...assembled, and by the authority of the same, that, on every such trial, the jury sworn to try the issue may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty...information; and shall not be required or directed, the court or judge before whom such indictment or information shall be tried, to find the defendant...

...declares and en" acts, that on every trial of an indictment or information for a " libel, the jury may give a general verdict of guilty or not " guilty, upon the whole matter in issue, and shall not be requir" ed or directed, by the Judge, to find the delinquent guilty, " merely...

...the whole matter in issue ;" enacts, that f on every such trial, the jury, sworn to try tie issue, may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty,...required or directed by the court or judge, before whom the indictment, &c. shall be tried, to find the defendant guilty, merely on the proof of the publication...