I  camot  find  one  expression  in  the  colonel's
large  defence,  which  amounts  to  a  denial  of  hia
being  of  the  council  of  aix,  or  of  his  sendmg
Aaron  Smith,  or  of  any  thing  my  lord  Howara
aud  poaitifely  of  him.  And  we  may  allow  the
Mithor  80  mtich  upon  this  gpentleman's  veracity,
who  was  of  a  noble  fiuoaily,  though  gtoe  of
nrindples  like  the  Greeks,  tfiat  made  it  an
heroic  action  to  kill  kmgs  (iiien  called  tyrants)
4hat  be  would  not  vent  a  dnuot  lye  in  the  ftoe
of  the  court,  unlesa  hia  pleading  non  cuT  bene-
flounied  ao ;  aa  when  a  asan,  for  deby,  pleads
^mmett  /actum  to  a  band,  he  may  be  aid  to
^y  ha  hand  and  seal,  who  would  not  do  it
eipon  the  i|aestion  fan  tiie  foee  of  the  court  I
any,  allowmig  the  author  even  so  much,  yet  he
Is  a  falsaiy  in  saying  Mr.  Bidney  denied  what
he  did  not  deny ;  m  he  argued  indeed  very
^eutdy  against  the  credit  of  my  lord  Howard's
iestimoDy,  upon  topics  of  insprobability,  and
diiqparagemeBt  of  htub  See  here  now  an  au-
thor that  will  affirm  at  a  ventm^,  to  aarve  a  folae
Inra,  udmt  the  prisoner  would  not  do  to  wtsfft
WaUfo;  andifhehad.daBeao,aalotbaau*
ihar'a  foroe  of  argoment,  it  had  been  nothing
to  the  purpoae,  bc«anse  nprisoMr'sdMniliano
Irstimony  for  him.
