This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1775 edition. Excerpt: ... My purpose at present is to give some examples of the very different reception, which every shadow of evidence, and every circumstance, hearsay or conjecture, produced on the fide which you espoused, met with from your Lordship. It is not merely withaview to the Douglas cause that these things are now ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1775 edition. Excerpt: ... My purpose at present is to give some examples of the very different reception, which every shadow of evidence, and every circumstance, hearsay or conjecture, produced on the fide which you espoused, met with from your Lordship. It is not merely withaview to the Douglas cause that these things are now to be stated; for I shall here have occasion to lay open a train of conduct, and amodeof reasoning adopted by your Lordship of the most dangerous nature, and tending to subvert the established laws and rules of evidence, --that great bulwark of the Lives and Properties of British subjects. The decisive importance, which in the Douglas cause, your Lord/hip's talents bestowed on the strange, absurd, and incredible deposition of Pierre Menager, surgeon, must, with all who are acquainted with the circumstances of the case, produce the fame sort of reflections, as your endeavours to diminish the importance of the clear and acknowledged forgeries. Upon the day of the final decision, you stated the testimony of Menager in such a manner, as was well calculated, I own to gain credit to it for that day at least; and I am not surprised, that, when so stated, it should have made a strong temporary impression on such of your hearers as either had not read and considered the whole evidence in the cause, or who could not instantly bring to their recollection the great outlines of that evidence; But as 1 am confident that the argument founded by your Lordship upon the depositions of this man, cannot stand the test of examination, I must therefore beg leave to discuss this matter a little more accurately than your Lordship thought proper to do on the day of the decision. That That the real import, pfMenager's testimony and of the observations upon it, may be.
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