The New Hampshire Gazette

The Court of Common Pleas closed its adjourned sitting in this town on Saturday morning last. During this term, twenty verdicts were rendered. Judging from the vast number of people collected to hear the trial of it on Friday last, we should think that the libel suit against the editor of this paper created the most interest of any case during the term. This action was entered in May 1830, and from that to the present time; we have been compelled to dance attendance at every session of the Court. It has been tried three times. On the first trial the Jury could not agree. On the second trial, November term, 1832, we obtained a verdict-which was suspended until July, 1833, the law term, in consequence of exceptions taken to the charge of the Court. At that time the verdict was sustained, and we obtained an execution. At November, 1833, a writ of review was sued out, and the action was continued until last May term—and then postponed until the adjourned term. On the third trial, the Jury disagreed as on the first, and of course the action is in order for trial at the next November term at Plymouth. This, as every one knows, is a political suit—originally intended to break us down, and as a certain leading federalist who advised to the prosecution expressed it, to "drive" us "from the town." In this they have not yet succeeded -how long it will take them we cannot tell.

That the expense of prosecuting this suit is borne by the plaintiff on the record we do not believe, and we have strong reasons for disbelieving it.

In a pecuniary point of view, it would no doubt have been better for us had the case ended on the first trial, even had it gone against us, or there is no pretence, that the damage would have been any thing equal to what the cost has been to each party since that time. What the cost has been, we are at this time unable to determine, but every one at all acquainted with the blessings that result from a law suit, must know, that the expenses of TEN terms of court are not paid with a song—especially when a number of the most able counsel to be found are engaged in it. Well, more or less, it is several hundred dollars, and as yet we have fortunately been enabled to face up the expense of the defence single handed, and if the plaintiff has paid up his bills, we have no doubt a purse has been raised for that purpose by those who led him into the scrape. Haverhill Rep.