Note 790 — Chapter XII

See College's case in State Trials, viii. 549, and Hawles's remarks on it, 723; Ralph, 626. It is one of the worst pieces of judicial iniquity that we find in the whole collection. The written instructions he had given to his counsel before the trial were taken away from him, in order to learn the grounds of his defence. North and Jones, the judges before whom he was tried, afforded him no protection. But besides this, even if the witnesses had been credible, it does not appear to me that the facts amounted to treason. Roger North outdoes himself in his justification of the proceedings on this trial. Examen, p. 587. What would this man have been in power, when he writes thus in a sort of proscription twenty years after the revolution! But in justice it should be observed that his portraits of North and Jones (Id. 512 and 517) are excellent specimens of his inimitable talent for Dutch painting.