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Limerick. ... Yesterday came on to be tried in the city Court, before the Hon. Baron HAMILTON and a special Jury, a Cause wherein the King at the prosecution of Lieutenant PEACOCKE, was Plaintiff, and Mr. Andrew WATSON, Printer of the Limerick Chronicle, Defendant, for a supposed Libel, alledged to have been published in said Paper in August 1787.—The trial lasted four hours, when the Judge gave a most impartial charge to the Jury, and in a few minutes the[y] honourably acquitted Mr. WATSON.—This was not merely the cause of a private Citizen, it was the cause of the Public. Counsel for the Plaintiff, Messrs. DWYER, SANKEY, STACKPOLE, MONSELL, O'CALLAGAHAN, PATERSON, CASEY. Agent Mr. FINUCANE. Counsel for the Defendant, Messrs. HACKET, LLOYD, DUHIG, D;ESTERRE, GRADY, MARSDEN, LYSAGHT. Agent Mr. LYSAGHT. Names of the JURY.
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