A
Plea
must be taken to be four dads entirely on the ( so-called ;) of Inctification, which must have been supposed by theiatury to have been proved by the guidance) thoseidone) on Cross Examinations,
of the Crown Witnesses themselves.
The Pleas of Dustifications
& as such poopted
so called, is Das such,
by the Corman, in spite of all
brows legal abigations,
amounted to this,
ving that the Libel pharged by
the
directed,
Information sea's dievoked: not against the Government, in the proper acceptation. the term, but against the recently Acting Colmials Berstary
of
Dr
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Bridges, who was alleged
to have usurped the functions of Government, and in the
courses of his usurp beon guilty of the mal practions charged in the passage of the "Friend of China which formed the gravamen of the charge of
nour ation to have
Libel.
his
I be imputation against
Dr. Bridges/
must have been
regarded by the Purigao poned.
Tury Right or wrong, therefore, the perdict concerns Dr. Bridges, not the Government, in the
ہو
ordinary acceptation of the
term.