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penal statutes; and, therefore, I think with you, that unless it could be

proved in a very simple manner, that it was requisite for the public

safety to institute proceedings against the queen--her sins or

indiscretions should have been allowed to remain in the obscurity of her

private circle

I have attended the trial several ti--and for a legislative, too technical Broughareater talent than was expected; but he

is too sharp; he seeain a triumph, than to

establish truth I do not like the tone of his proceedings, while I

cannot sufficiently admire his dexterity The style of Dener lineaments of sincerity As for their

opponents, I really cannot endure the Attorney-General as an orator; his

whole mind consists, as it were, of a number of little hands and

claws--each of which holds soht as well expect to get an idea of the for at the fallen leaves, the fruit, the seeds, and the blosso like a comprehensive view of a subject, from an intellect so

constituted as that of Sir Robert Gifford He is a re abilities, and seems never to have read a book of travels

in his life The Solicitor-General is somewhat better; but he is one of

those who think a certain artificial gravity requisite to professional

consequence; and which renders him somewhat obtuse in the tact of

propriety