re 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 further 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 L350, 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 since taken up, since their rescue by the prisoner, and
boasted of the robbery he had just committed; that in the clothes
and sleeping apartment of the robber the articles stolen from Lord
Mauleverer were found; and that the purse containing the notes for L300,
the only thing the prisoner could probably have obtained time to carry
off with him, on the morning on which the cave was entered by the
policemen, was found on his person on the day on which he had attempted
the rescue of his comrades, and had been apprehended in that attempt.
He stated, moreover, that the dress found in the cavern, and sworn to
by one witness he should produce as belonging to the prisoner, answered
exactly to the description of the clothes worn by the principal robber,
and sworn to by Lord Mauleverer, his servant, and the postilions.
In like manner the colour of one of the horses found in the cavern
corresponded with that rode by the highwayman. On these circumstantial
proofs, aided by the immediate testimony of the king's evidence (that
witness whom he should produce) he rested a case which could, he
averred, leave no doubt on the minds of an impartial jury. Such, briefly
and plainly alleged, made the substance of the details entered into
by the learned counsel, who then proceeded to call his witnesses. The
evidence of Lord Mauleverer (who was staying at Mauleverer Park, which
was within a few miles of--) was short and clear (it was noticed as
a singular circumstance, that at the end of the evidence