A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1783, Volume 33Thomas Bayly Howell T. C. Hansard for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1826 - Trials |
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Page 73
... panel , to the consideration of Mr. Jeffrey , who will address you for him . As to the criminality of the speech at the public meeting , much eloquence has been em- ployed , and some points , both in fact and in law , have been strained ...
... panel , to the consideration of Mr. Jeffrey , who will address you for him . As to the criminality of the speech at the public meeting , much eloquence has been em- ployed , and some points , both in fact and in law , have been strained ...
Page 81
... panel's speech . Is it sedition to take notice , even by allusion , of such a public grievance ? Is this sedition ? Against whom is it sedition ? against the King ? against the Lords ? against the Commons ? against any branch of the ...
... panel's speech . Is it sedition to take notice , even by allusion , of such a public grievance ? Is this sedition ? Against whom is it sedition ? against the King ? against the Lords ? against the Commons ? against any branch of the ...
Page 83
... panel should have so expressed himself , or is it proved that he used the words imputed to him ? You see the rest of the speech does not appear in the same mutilated form with the passage given by Mr. Finnie . There is reason to believe ...
... panel should have so expressed himself , or is it proved that he used the words imputed to him ? You see the rest of the speech does not appear in the same mutilated form with the passage given by Mr. Finnie . There is reason to believe ...
Page 87
... panel would apply against speeches relative to petitions conf- plaining of any other public abuses , if the distresses of the people should be never so great - abuses against which no remedy could be looked for but by petitioning the ...
... panel would apply against speeches relative to petitions conf- plaining of any other public abuses , if the distresses of the people should be never so great - abuses against which no remedy could be looked for but by petitioning the ...
Page 169
... panel , with the most perfect satisfaction . Mr. Drummond . - A very difficult task has devolved itself upon me , that of answering one of the ablest arguments which I ever had oc- casion to hear ; and I have this impression so strongly ...
... panel , with the most perfect satisfaction . Mr. Drummond . - A very difficult task has devolved itself upon me , that of answering one of the ablest arguments which I ever had oc- casion to hear ; and I have this impression so strongly ...
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act of parliament administered alleged annual parliaments Arthur Thistlewood Baird bind the person bind to commit Brunt called Cato-street charge circumstances clause commit treason counsel Court crime criminal Crown declarant diet doubt duty endeavours evidence expressions fact felony Glasgow guilty heard high treason indictment Ings intending to bind James John judge jury Kilmarnock learned friend legislature levying libel lord advocate Lord Chief Justice Lord Justice Lord Justice Clerk lordships M'Laren means meeting ment mentioned ministers minor proposition murder oath or engagement objection obligation offence opinion overt act panel particular party persons taking petit treason physical strength pleaded present prince regent prisoner proved public prosecutor punishment purporting or intending purpose question recollect relevancy remember Scotland sedition speech statute suppose taken thing Thistlewood Tidd tion told traitors trial tried universal suffrage verdict William William Davidson witness words