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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1817 Excerpt: ... shall meet with a complete acquittal. All that I now say is, that standing in the situation in which I do, and ably assisted as I am, I have never brought any indictment against any man for any offence; I never opened in my life a bundle of papers which were laid before me, containing the case of a proposed criminal, without an awful feeling upon my own mind of the delicacy and the extent of that duty which depended upon the exercise of my understanding, and carefullyconsulting my conscience upon the subject. If you differ with ine upon this occasion, I should at least hope,--if it is possible we can differ upon the subject,--that you will not think I have brought any improper or oppressive prosecution before you; at least, it I am guilty of seditiously perverting the duties of my office in this man's case, I shall look back with some consolation, that in the precisely similar one of his associate, Skir-i ving, I have received the best support which comes home to a man's conscience, the unanimous verdict of a jury of my country. Something was said of my being a placeman and a pensioner. I am a placeman, it is true; I have been for ten years in two high official situations; neither of them at any time sinecures, but which, from the exertions and artifices of this man and his associates, has of late been rendered to me peculiarly laborious, painful, and severe. To the charge of being a placeman, I therefore plead guilty. That as such I am unpopular in the British convention, I have not a doubt. Even the boy Calder exulted to-day in giving his evidence, that lie was not a placeman. Absurd as the imputation is, and unworthy of my notice, I cannot forbear saying that I should feel myself mean indeed in my, own eyes, if, by accepting the situation I now bold, my...
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