Sidney,  TnAy^  my  lord,  I  do  as  little  intend


•  ii


Nothing,''  observes  Ralph,  "  was  ever
^aid  more  peitinently  than  this;  and  every
man  of  common  sense  must  perceive,  that  if  he
had  kept  to  these  two  propositions,  he  must
have  had  the  best  of  the  a^fument :  But  the
abrewd  chief- iustice,  who  saw  the  opening,
»nd  dreaded  the  consequence,  with  as  mudi
wickedness  as  artifice,  put  him  immediately  on
another  scent,  namely,  to  take  off  the  edibi-
lity of  lord  Howard's  evidence ;  and  thereby
bewildered  him,  under  the  pretence  of  shewing
him  a  nearer  way. — The  colonel,  with  all  his
cncumspectien,  was  now  over '-reached  t^  It
£attered  his  passions  to  ^pose  lord  Howard,
and  it  also  seemed  favourable  to  his  cause:
And  though  he  did  not  immediatery  forego  tiiat
part  of  his  defence  which  de|iended  on  i*eason
and  argument,,  he  was  at  last  wrangled  out  of
bis  meUiod ;  and,  by  being  in  a  manner  com-
pelliHi  to  call  his  witnesses  prenuiturely,  lost*
the  great  benefit  of  the  many  plain,.strong,  and
dear  inferences,  that  naturally  and  necessarily
fluu^ave  arisen  fitwa  it."


to  mis-apend  my  own  spirity  and  y  omr  time,  «a
ever  anv  man  that  came  before  you.  Now,
my  lord,  if  yov  will  make  a  eoncatenatioD  oC
one  thing,  a  rappoaition  upon-  supposition,  f
would  take  all  this  asunde^  and  shew,  if  non*
of  these  things  are  any  thing  in  themsdves,
they  can  be  nothing  jdnod  together.
JL  C,  f.  Take  your  own  method,  Mr^  Sid-
ney ;  but  I  sayr  if  you  are  aman  of  low  spirita
and  weak  body,  it  is  a  duty  incumbent  upon  dia
court,  to  exhort  you  not  to  spend  your  tima
upon  thingH  that  are  not  material.
