to produce them, and I quoted on this point a case in which the East India Company succeeded.

Ava:

My protest was countenanced neither by Judge nor Counsel,

and I then handed in

for

second

the Court's written authority, expressive of my readiness

&

crept in

to give

information in my power.

In neither of the Public Prints, publishing the Evidence,

am I

0

correctly reported, and the Register's version is grossly distorted

for the purpose of personal attack.

But conviction of the

error

necessary especially in the

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face of the complimentary terms

Evidence by the

applied to my

Chief Justice and Counsel for the

prisoner in answer to

a serious

expostulation from myself in the withers case.

As regards the result of the trial I consider it to turn entirely

on

the difference of legal opinion

between the Attorney General and

the Chief Justice - the former arguing - that the Acts of Parliament were

sufficiently comprehensive to make the acts of the Sheriff

however indirect and incomplete

come under the term Misdemeanor, the latter...

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