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any of them, but the affidavit was made to get them imprison’d in revenge of a charge made against him by them of assault on them, in an attempt made by him to exercise Jurisdiction over Bearers and other Men of Orissa resident in Calcutta. The Conviction of Mowjeram had been at a former Sessions argued by Mr. Burroughs to be wrong because the bearers had been admitted to swear they did not owe the Money, and the Conviction was founded on their Evidence.
Sir William Jones was strongly of Opinion that the
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