A Narrative of Facts, Relating to a Prosecution for High Treason: Including the Address to the Jury, Which the Court Refused to Hear; With Letters to ... Adair, the Honourable Thomas Erskine, and Vic - Hardcover

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Excerpt from A Narrative of Facts, Relating to a Prosecution for High Treason: Including the Address to the Jury, Which the Court Refused to Hear; With Letters to the Attorney General, Lord Chief Justice Eyre, Mr. Serjeant Adair, the Honourable Thomas Erskine, and Vicary Gibbs Esq.

W H I L E imprifoned in Newgate, though thoroughly perfuadcd I {hould never be tried, I yet thought it a very ferions duty to prepare for my Defence. It was accordingly written during my detention and being firft ready was firfi fent to the prefs. In point of order'howcver it was necefl'ary to be placed the lafi this is the reafon that the paging recommences with the Defence. It is likewifc necefiaty to add, that it mufi be read under the fuppofition that the trial had proceeded, the witncfl'cs had been heard, and that the pleadings of my counfel were finifhed for under this fuppofition it was written.

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