The Works of Sir William Jones

ter ; ;lor ought it iever to be forgotten that the great rule which Mould obferve from the petty juryman to the prince ise to look on the crime and example with the eye of -feverity but Art the criminal as far as pollible with the eye of compaffion fince it is the extremity of evil lays lord Bacon When mercy has no commerce with mifery;" yet it mit be added that mercy is due to the publ [...] In old times it was *fuel for all the articles of inquiry to be read at fome length as part of the tharge+ after a general exhortation by the judge; and ' if that mode had continued the latter part of this divitiai aa included in the limner Would have been &perfume; whence we may infer that the prefent farm of your oath is nut of the higlieft antignityc though the following member of it be cer [...] wi I 0 CI i'ictwv OtteCHARGE TO TUE CRAM) JURY 4 one fide can cftablifh the truths The refult of my reafoniog that you thould be perthaded as far as you have..knowledge that the aecufation is jolt and the bill true in owe As to mete form it i8 tact the intention of the law that you preeifcly 4fcertain the truth of it : for inliance the offence mutt be laid on a certain thy before the [...] MY LORD IT has tong been my with to addreIs the government of the Britifh doluinions in India on the adininifiration of jultice among thk: natives of MAIO and Balm; a fithjeCt of equal importance to the appellate juritili6lion from the provincial Courts and to the judicature of the Suprcnic Court at Calcutta; where the judges arc required by the Legitlaturc to decide co►troverfics between Hindu [...] The DLierma S. Vira or Sacred Code: of the Hindus confills of eightear books the lira of which would in any age or nation be thought a wonderful performance ; both the tura and fecond have excellent commentaries of great authority but the other fixteen are too cal-yr to need elucidation the works of Allm of rigwakya and mail of the others are in Husk but that of GaUtillil is in modulated p