Note 197 — Chapter XI · THE NEW GAOL.
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Lord Mansfield’s impartiality at the trial was the subject of general admiration. “He never shewed the slightest tinge of resentment or bias.” Yet with his house were destroyed not only much valuable property, but a mass of private journals and letters, which he had been collecting to form the basis of memoirs of his own times, and the loss of which was quite irreparable.