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...