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them to pay every attention to His Lordship's notes; - pointing out to them that the case turned entirely upon the question, - a mixed one of law and fact, whether the defendant, under colour of his office as Sheriff, had intended to extort; - and reminding them that, from the manner in which the evidence had been elicited from unwilling or timid witnesses, the irrelevance of all that portion of it which related only to imputations on the conduct of His Excellency's Government with relation to my prosecution of the case, - and, above all, the wearisome way in which the taking of the evidence in general had been protracted and interrupted by a variety of causes, - it was to be feared that they had not appreciated as yet its consequence and effect with regard to the question at issue, or had been misled from the consideration of it to that of other and collateral matters more immediately possessing interest, however little connected with the case.
8 for the anxiety in which I rise and my surprise