the costs by between $70 and $80, and the judgment accordingly.
debt was lessened. The Defendant was during this period undergoing his sentence of imprisonment, and had also another previous judgment for debt entered up against him.
By one of the principal merchants here, which being put in force exhausted the whole amount of his assets in the Colony, leaving nothing to satisfy the judgment debt. The attorney for Colonel Caine waited until the Defendant's sentence of imprisonment had expired, and then arrested him for the libel costs.
It will be seen from this statement of facts that the Government had no locus standi whatever throughout the transaction, and could not have interfered even if they would.
Since the fact of relating to Mr. Farrant's imprisonment, I would beg leave to observe that I could have foreseen my adversary's misrepresentations, I should have been glad to anticipate them by such an explanation as I now furnish, and thus have saved the delay caused by a reference to the Court having taken the earliest opportunity of...