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10.4.

evidence, and not to bind

yourselas by the trammels of the professional pedants

who made the rules which obtain in the Old Bailey.

You have done word :- for, in your natural inexperience of their working, and misled by a partisan opinion you will have introduced prestrie . tions which those pedants dreamed not of, and carried

Lof their crotchets to an Eectremity they never hoped to reach.

And all Call

el for what?

The discouragement and alienation of men like Mr

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May, myself, and others, who have always had the disposition to help your with what we knew, and believe, and have heard, but who are now incapacitakd

as to much, and

nd disgusted. as to the rest of the Inquiries still remaining before you,

by your own decisions, against which we have already

protested, and a

Cagainst whichs now renew my

• renew my protest. tevery

It is not

one be

assured toutainly not.

every public officer who, against a person so powerfully

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