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tbam, author of ihe Life ef Thomas
tin*-, for » libel, atlrdgrd m be contained in that
work»’iPrrthe character of Misti ess Bonneville, a
Ffep|ti woman, . ; ,
Counsel fuj1 the prosecution; Messrs. Golden
|n<t Sampson; for the defendant, Messrs. Rose,
©r ffip, left)' B. O^den.
The follow mg are the passages charged asliUI
Inus. ; -
Paine brought with him from Puri*, and fiorn
heir’tiusb.rnd, in whose bouse he hail lived, Marga
ret Hraeier Bnnneville, and tier three sons; Lewis,
Benjamin, and Thomas. Thomas has the features,
countenance, and temper of l’eine. Madam Bun"
newile arrived at Baltimore a few days after her pa
ramoor. Life, p. 225-7.
jli making his arrangements for a permsnfnt
residence amongst* us, he contemplated the abm
donment nf Madam* Bonneville, whom he had se
ducerffrom her husband in, Puri*, and brought a
mongst strangers ! Resides Ids estate at New
Rorhelle, |ie had a small house and a few barren
acres at Bordentown, New Jerse y- 'I his little pro
perty, which he afterwards sold for seven hundred
oud fifty dollars, he proposed to give to her, and In
settle her upon it us a school mistress, tut she re
solutely and successfully resitted his unfeeling pro
j**ct. for a long tinro hr represented her as the
wife of his friend, a republics printer in Paris, with
whom he had f.pardetd, and who, disliking lire new
order of tilings iindyr the first consul, was everyday
expected tpfmigrate (o ihe United State*. Those
wJho- be)tev*n *»im tnongui well «f that kjencss in
which his friend's wife and her children had found
refuge,, but tiis cruel treatment Id her soon dissipat
ed the delusion, unri conviuci'd all who knew him,
that to theenme of seduction,J*e was adding that
of inhumanity.” Life, 25i.
Noft&Bfe Befory hi., return to the city, Madame
.Bonnevifff paid him a visit, and arrived just at ran
dle-fight. She tuid him she had an order whit h 'Jie
wished, him to siyi, for clothing for herself and tnu
children, ,wlio were all, in las t, nearly naked. She
presented ths order. Psin* said, I'll put it in my
pocket aijrl mw?it in tbe morning. No, said she,
you roust sign it to night; 1 want to return and get
the things to-morrow. I cannot read in the night;
I'll keep it till morning. Then, said Madame lion
rievitier, with enme temper, if you won’t read it to
night, give it me brrk. Paine resisted all her im
portunities : lie kept the paper until the morning,
when he found, that instead of an order fur cloth
ing, it was a bond, duly drawn, for seven hundred
pounds. Quite enraged, he went to Mrs. Dean’s
,#0d told her the story, by whom, and by Mr. Cur
■ver, it is ipeRtioned to nie." Life, p. Qifj.
“ She [Mistress Bonneville] wished that he[Paine]
was dead, but Mrs. Meriden cannot say whether it
was to get possession of Ins property, or that he
might be rid of the pain with which lrc was tortur
ed, and which he impatiently bore. She was soon
gratified.” Life, p. opt).
The publication being admitted by the defendant,
the question of lihtl or no libel was brought imme
diately before the jury.
Mr. Sampson addressed the jury on the part of
the prosecution, and wcr.t the usual round ot doll
remark on its importance. Without a wish nnne
ressarily to injure the delicate feelings of this gi n
tlernan, we would observe, that wh“n ht is not
grave be is queer, and if nature had been ki: I to
htnl in voice and understanding, he would be witty,
but that when he is serious, and on ibis m elision
he Was, it is bis misfortune to excite an expet tati
‘ mfwhich he never gratifies. Kir. S. told the jury,
w^tb his accustomed ingenuity, that Mistress Bon
neville did not proserute for money, a circumstance
with «hic^ydj«y coo'd not have been acquainted,
had he not been so obliging as to inform them of it,
end he w.i» pleased to compare that lady, the depen
dant and ttiijic'iatp of the immoral and beastly, the
drunken nh<J%i.t5pbrroou3 Baltic, with the chaste
and lu roic Luc ret ia I
lie did not,however, carry the simile through and
liken Mr. Che-tiiam to Turqtiin, and for this it is
probable that oIr. C. is thankful. Cssur’s wife, he
remarked, was not to he suspected, and he might
.have added ghat no woman should be without cause.
Mistress Bonneville comes before you, gentlemen,
Said this droll man, like a fair, honest, virtuous,
Slid tpotlfsa woman as she is, and stirs for her re
pulatina.—She is a stranger m our land, came here
to instrurt ouj youth, pleased herself with the hope
of enjoying her days among freemen, mid did not
expect a ty rant. U^r husbant|ji* P tis ! Hu! whut
is he and what might he have hern ? Hr is a rmneo
ipan, and yti had he trimmed and shifted and iurn
-•d and fl ittered the emperor, he might have hien a
:<hik«., Poor Mistress Bonneville, didj no but know
how her lender heart is broken ! (I, gentlemen, 'line
He justice—if you regard yojir oaths, and sa>d Mr.
S.T believe-you do, you will convict this man. Who
*> nai imi u? puunsnen as lymor f—now
many libels? Who has escaped bis fury ? Here tin
court interrupted Mr. S. dethiring that it rot:Id not
permit tilts lirprire of attack. After mouthing not
a Imie iftjptrUuVtK* to the court, which was pro
bably noticed and repress**! by the Recorder, Mr.
| SVTfifrthe rb«T|«m-vhe indictment, at above sn
||fortb, made some hemming apologies for his poor
IB|I ciuSeri bis address with judiciously
^“^^‘'siing a hope that the detriidant would be con
iose opened tl/ccanse of the defendant in a
"te'j was admired by all woo heard it for
it*
and pefspi. uity, ahtl which* though our
limits do $:>t poruwi us to give more than an out
line tit tn«'trial, we regret it is not in nor power to
lay bafore the reader in the elegantdiruon in which
it whs dotted. Having stated in terms «>! appro!,a.
tinn w*h ahsacanuot icpcet the motives of Mr.
Chf.-thsm fiKC^vriting the Life of Paine, Mr. R.
iai4 there it#}*much troth to the adage—tell me
tlEs TOrnp»tnby*tak«ep and I will tell you what you
" arc—that
not retrain from begging the
oiLthe jurydo it. Mr. Samp
pirtifplpr(a
lat the lady sues for her reputati
' sun h.is'tn’'1
Rtiemen, {hat complains of the
rt*2 ■ A
* 1i*ss of
^lomld, Mr. R observed, have
^“'’lat cduld we think of
had a
'£>e ffi
of
. of a^span in
‘rnrit,
children bndei
>n of a mats vrKHIlilving raised In him
m 'J
III of MNCMrfut glory by writing against
self
' the earth, had waptunly tind wickcd
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l?4*m**i it, brvwni^pVw+Mfr^U
the King^rf Henvenf Yet my client had no wish to
meddle with the rhahicterof this woman. That|
which he has published was communicated to him
in a way which authorised him to rommonicate it
to the puMickv He had nothing of the malice
which is essential to a libel. He does hot know
Madame B. whom ha has never to this moment
seen. How then could he l.e actuatedby malice
towards her? It was merely to illustrate the cha
raeter of Paine, by staling his connexions with
oer, that she was introduced into the work at all.
Vve all remember the late Philosophical President
Jefferson, who in his notes on Virginia particular
izes the murder of Logan’s family by Cresap.—
Here Mr. R. cited the narrative ol the murder, and
repeated a part of Logan’s celebrated speech. Mr.
Martin, Mr. It. continued, pubiickly addressed se
ver ■! letters to Mr. Jefferson, in which he denied
the truth ot his statement respecting Cresap. In
the appendix of a recent edition uf the Notes. Mr.
Jefferson investigates the complaint of Mr. Martin,
and blames hint for stepping at once into the news
papers, without having previously and privately
enquired on what grounds the author had related
'he puthettrk Story. If Cresap was slandered,
Logan, not Mr. Jefferson, was the slanderer, for
Logan, in the delirious eloquence which he lias left
us, Muted the circumstances of the murder to oth
ers, who had communicated lliPtn to Mr. Jefferson
in a manner which jus tided that gentleman in the
propagation of them in the form in which they
; re n .w found. So of Madame B. If she be li
belied, those who communicated the fans to Mr.
Ciieetlram, so as to warrant Ins statement of them,
are the lit t-llers She ought therefore to have
calteri upon Mr. Chcetham’s informants, and, if
u,«,e were ground !»r complaint, tn have made
i'/’i/n answerable. Yet when Mr. Emmet wrnle
l" tl.e detenu,rnt, and po nted out to him mi the be
hall n| Madame R. what he considered as eriors
ol tact, Mr. C. readily consented to correct them
< n the authority ol Mr. Emmet. Did this show
malice ? \> hat more could i,e expected ? And here
it was concluded, that the matter was at rest. The
required alterations were made in the work; new
sheets were printed at considerable expmee, and
the old ones expunged from it. Wbat then has
dragged this settlement irom oblivion? Who ad
vised '.he pruserutton ? Has Deism no band in it?
\\ ould to God we rould tiring the m in into court
who has prompted Madame |J. to this prosecution,
and who advised Paine on his death-bed not to
acknowledge Ins Saviour, lest Christians should
triumph ! Here Mr. R. was interrupted by Mr.
Gulden on the allegation that Mr. II. was going
beyond the matter at issue. Mr. R continued.
I bmk you this cause would have been brought tn
to this court, it Deism was not the basis of it?
i he object ol the prosecution is undoubtedly to
suppress a work winch—[Mr. R. paid some com
plwnents tu the work, winch the reader must ex
cuse us for not repeating ] But we are told ol
the unfeehiigness of bringing un innocent female
before the puhlirk in an odious light. Yes, ano
ther Cleopatra is to be tntrouced upon the stage ;
to grace a rieistical triumph. And who is Ma
dame It? \\ nuld to God her son was here to tes- j
tify that he reproached her with living with a
m.tn who bad broken up the tranquility ol his
fathers house! Here Mr. Colden again interrupt
ed Mr. R. on the ground that this part ol his o
petting was irrelevant, there being no testimony to
support it. The court, reserving the question,
d cided that Mr. R. might proceed. Who is
Mariam H. tor I will again, said Mr. R. ask the
question? To this enquiry, Mr. Gulden again ob*
leeted, as extr .neons.-What then was Paine,
the household deity ol Madam R ? A man devoid
id moraliiv. a drunkard, end a blasphemer of our
Saviour? Was this an Altar tor a mother to
teach her children to kneel at? Mr. R. conclu
ded with . sserting that the only discoverable
malice was in the proserut'rn, with repeating that
the object of it was to suppress w work which had
alarmed the Deists,’and with maintaining, that as
the defendant had published nothing respecting Ma
dam B, which had not bun communicated to him,
which he did not believe to be true, and had reason
able ground Air his heltel, he was nut guilty uf a
libel.
Win.Carver being sworn, testified, that he had
told Mr. Cheetham, that Tom. Buoeville has “ the
features,countenance, and temper oi Paine that
Mistress B. had told him that Paine bad induced
her to roirie to this country ; that Paine had told
him, when speaking harshly ol Mistress B. that she
was not married to Bonneville, whom she called
her husband; and the Note in the Lite, p. 049, re
specting the Bond, having been shown to him, lie
testified that it was men tin tod to him by Paine,
and that it was stated in the Life as communicated
by him to the defendant. To this Mr. Cnlden ob
jected as not being legal evidence of the fact, and
rni ivi into an frla* orate argument in support oi
tiis objpe linn. 1 he court. The question of malice
i* toe uly «ne for the jury to try. This was ad
mitted by Mr. Golden. Thecnurt. The testimony
is theiefore admissible to show the bona fide inten
tion nt Mr. Cbeetham in relating the fact*. An
Historian or Biographer must have his fai ls from
somebody or Iroin something ; he rHnnnt be sup
posed to have knowledge 0I them himseff. 1 he
ta ts may be false in themselves in respect to Ma
dam B. and yet Mi. Cheetham may have believed
them to he true, and have had reasonable grounds
for I is belief. It this should lie made out Mad .m
B. may be mnne-nt and Mr. C. not guilty. Mr.
Carver pinceeded. His Letter, mrluiledin the Lite,
being shown to him, He arknowlrdged that he
was the writer ol it, and that he plved it in
the hands of the defendant when he was writing the
life. He sent it to Paine in 1806', three years he
fart his death. Mistress Bonneville saw it, and
threatened a prosecution ; he offered to furnish her
money for the purpose, hut no prosecution was
commenced. From this letter Mr. Gridin read the
following extracts to the jury. •• 1 have olten won
dered that a French Woman and three children
should leave France and all her connections to fol
low 1 bonus Paine to America, Suppose 1 weie
11 go to my native country, England, and take ano
ther man S wile and three children ol his, and leave
my wife and tamily in this country ; what wnild.
be the natural conclusion in the minds of the pro-’
pie, hut that there w«3 some criminal connexion
etweeii the woman and myself? You have oltej*,
told me that the Frrni h woman above alluded td*
bae never received one letter from her husband dur
ing the four years she hat been in this country.—
I | . IJ,-. .. _ | I—MM ■ II I
I#w come* tbis to p*«. Pvrh»pi you can explain
the m»Ur." Life, p. 222*3.
:*1 fame according to order, and found yaofBff
ticu^a^^yngagfd with the French woman and her
two boyi; whether the boys ate yours 1 leave you
to judge ; but tbe oldest son of the woman, an in
telligent youth, I suppose about 14 or 15 years of
age, has frequently told me and others, that you
were the complete min of their famify, and he des
pised you; and said that your rbararter, at present,
was not so well known in America as Frace. Life,
p. 266.
•* You freqnenily I oast of what you have done
for the woman above alluded to; that she and her
family have cost you two thousand dollars ; and
since you came the last time to York you havebeen
bountiful to her, and given her one hundred dollars
per time. This may be all right. She may have
rendered you former and present services, such as
are not in my power to perform.” Life, p. 266 7.
Mr. Carver was asked if he ever sate any meretri
cious or improper connexion between Madam B.
and Paine ? He never did. Paine lived at Carver's
and Mistress B. oltrn came to see him. At one
period they lived together at Paine’s farm, at New
Rochelle.
Mrs. Ryder testified that Paine lived at their
house, where Mistress B. ratne freqoentlv to see
him. Tom. Bonneville’s eyes were like Pano-’s—
She never saw any thing improper between Paine
and her. She knew nothing herself against Madam
Mrs. Dean testified es to the fiend. She had
heard the defendant and Carver talk about it, who
asked her if she had not heard something concern
ing it ? She said she had heard such a thing. What
had slip heard? Why inch a thing. Do you know
Mr. Cheetbam ? She had never seen him in her
me , sue um diii Know mm !—Upon your oath
wliat do you knnw about the Bond? I have heard
xiic/i a thing ! She lived in the neighbourhood of
I’aine at New Rochelle and hud heard such a thing.
Mr. Carver was culled in and ashed whether the
witness had not in his presence related to Mr.
( heethani what is stated in ihe note respecting the
Bond, to which he answered in the affirmative.*
The Rev. John Foster testified that he was well
icqnainted with Paine and Mistress B. to whom
Paine allowed §2 a week, and that he had borrow
ed §50 of the witness towards the payment of the
weekly allowance. In answer to the question, whe
ther Mistiess B. ever said any thing to the witness
about Paines seducing her from Paris, he answered
that she had told him that 9lie never would have
lelt her country but lor his promises, and that Paine
was under the most sacred of obligations to support
her and her children, hut especially Torn.
Dr. Manley test!fT d that Madame B, had ex
pressed a wish that Paine was dead. This branch
of the mdictmeut was afterwards abandoned.
Peter Underhill, West Chester, testified that lie
knew Paine and Mistress B. and had had dealings
with the former, end that he onre observed to Mis
tress B. that loot. Bonneville was very like Paine,
to which she replied that be was Paine’s shild
[child]. The counsel for the prosecution called in
Mr. Somerville, ol West Chester, to impeach the
credibility of Underhill. Somerville testified that if
lie must speak as to Ins own knowledge he must say
trom a single transaction which he had with him,
that his character was good, but if from the report
°! some persons, in the country (here he was stop
pi d, such report being inadmissible as evidence.)—
Daniel Pel ton was also called in to impeach the
credibility of Underhill, but he knew nothing him
self against the witness.
John Berry testified in rektin to the Bond, that
Puine had told him the circumstances as stated in
the Lite, and that be had communicated the facts to
Mr. Cheetbum,
! Here the testimony for the defence was closed,
the recorder having decided, with the concurrence
[ and approbation of Mr. Golden, district attorney,
that as the question ol nic/ice was the only one be
lore the jury, it was uuiiteesssry (and assuredly it
was not the wish ol the defendant, however strong
or weak he was on tins point,) to go into an exami
nation of the character ol madame B. which might
as the court had already remarked, be irreproaeba1
! lr, andyet the defendant not he guilty.
fhomas Addis Emmet, E«q. was introduced to
prove, from conversation which he had had with
Mr. Bonneville, that Mistress B. bud left France
with the consent of her husband, but his testimony
was objected to as irrelevant, and the objection was
sanctioned by the court, the character of MHires
U. not being before the jury.
Yet tl the court and the bar were enchanted by
the sudden appearance ol female figures, Mrs. Ed
gar, Mrs. Ludlow, Mrs. Turnbull and a Mis.
i noinpson were, contrary to the decision of the
court, actually sworn and testified to the character
ol Mistress B. Some ot the ladies had known her
te. o years, (Paine has been dead one year) and one
of them said, I think, four. Mistress B. had taught
the children id some of these highly respectable la*
dies the French language, and they all agreed that
her conduct was “ scrupulously corrert.” Mr. F.d
gai, Mr. Few, and a Mr. Doyer corroborated the
testimony of (he ladies. Mr. Doyer had known
Mrs. B. six months, Mr. Few two years, hut Mr.
Edgar did not say how long he had had the honour
of being acquainted with the dependant and as
sociate of the detestable and impious Paine. Mr.
Fulton, was also sworn, hut he knew nothing of
"Misties B. since she left Paris.
Mere ti e counsel for the prosecution, having in
the tare of the decision ol the court let in their
witnesses as to the character of Mntress B. rested
* The Defendant was introduced by Mr. Carver
to Mrs. Dean by name tor the purpose,, as she had
hren previously apprized, of hearingVhat she had
to say us to the bond, in corroboratijr. <n Carver’s
iniorination, and Mr. C. took down in writing in
the presence of Carver and Mr. Ileury C. South
wirk, who happened to be present, toe words of
Mrs. Dean, aud afterwards read ihem to her. Mrs.
Dean told Mr. Cheetham that Paine himself related
to her in a great passion all the circumstances as
stated in the Note concerning th? bond. Mr. Cheet
ham has within the last two mouths been at the
bouse ol Mrs. Dean at New Rochelle, saw her, and
^conversed with her as Mr. C. on the pending trial,
and ’.s ronvinred that she is as well acquainted
wjth his person as any body in the city. He does
not however assert that somebody on the pait ol
>he prosecution had been tampering with her. Her
husband has an unsettled account with Paine's es
tate.
KoiMpg in tbisUafroftWasseonli
Itave beeu more fair, though I hy go means tnUndl
to say more legal, for 6if this 1 do not pretend to,
judge, than to have addurrd the:.testimony nt the
defendant at to the character olbjfistresa B, which'
in opposition to the pronounced opinmu of the court*1
was now very unueressanly made a point. For if
Mistress B. were to be benefited, to the - injury of
the defendant, hy a display and parade ol a two
years character, drawn from the lranscierit and cir
cumspect visits which she had made to teach.
French, justice required (for that which in svirK
cases is equal is justice) that the defendant should
base been permitted to prove—what he could have
proved, and of which the respectable ladies, whose
children Mistress B. had taught French, knew no*
thing.
Mr. Griff, n, in behalf of thcdifendant,commenced
an animated address to the Jury hy couipl ruentipa.
the woi k from winch the passages charged lu be li
bellous were taken. He disclaimed ult concern iti
the question, whether the charges against Madam
B. were rn fact true nr false. He rested this defence
on the position, that at the time if the publication
tht defendant believed them true, and had reas n<tb!(
ground for such belief. Mr. G. insisted that the
rielend nt had probable grounds, deiived from ihg
very situation ot Madame B. to believe that she had
been seduced by Paine. She was in the state of
separation fruru her husband. She was ostensibly
the aggressor in the separation ; her hosuand had
not left her, but she had le It bim. Tie separation
war not for a few weeks, or months. When the
defendant wrote it had continued nearly eight
years, and during all the lime there had been no vi*
si.de connexion hi tween this Husband and wile.
Here Mr. G. was interrupted by Mr. Co!d< n, who
contended, that as the prosecution had mu been
mi rmei mui an explanation tfi tne private
motives for the separation between herself ant her
husband, the defendant's counsel ou^hl nor to be al
lowed to draw any inference lr.*,n this circumstance.
The court coincided in tins opinion.
Mr. G. then addressed himself to the court and
hoped that their decision would not preclude him
from entering into another most important ground
of the deicnce. He slated it to he abundantly in
evidence that at the time of the publication the"de
fendant was informed and believed, that during ma
dam U's eight years residence tn this country, she
had been involved in circumstances of mysterious
intimacy with a wretch abhorred of man and ac
cursed ot God ; that from some motive unknown to
the defendant she had placed herself under the pro
tection of the reprobate Paine; that she had even
dedicated children to him, to acqu're iroui bis ex
ample the accomplishments of intoxication ard
blasphemy, to imbibe in tender youth his political
•nd religious principles, and under his superintend
anre to be early graduated in the college of perdition.
If, said Rlr. G. a woman frequents a brothel,
she must expect that the world will call her a pros
titute. She may indeed go there from the most
sanctified motives; her object may be reformation ;
charity may lead her there ; she may go as the An
gel of mercy to whisper in the ears of dying peni
tence the accents ol forgiveness aud consolation, hut
she cannot injustice blame those, who ignorant of
the reasons for her mysterious conduct, impute it to
the worst of motives.
To what motive, said Mr. G. could the defend
ant have attributed the intimate association of Ma
dame B. with Paine? Could he imagine jh'at she
was attached to Paine because she loved Ins politi
cal and religious principles? The very thought
would have been the worst ot libels on Madame B.
I he defendant thrn could not but conclude that she
associated with Paine because she hart fallen a vic
tim to his seduction. Even chanty led to this con
clusion. It was apparently more favourable to Ma
dame B, to suppose that she was infatuated with the
person of P..ine, than attached to anv thing else ap
pci taining to him ; h r loathsome as bis person was,
it was pure as snow compared with his principles,
and lust itself would whiten mto virtue compared
with that political and religious prostitution which
could induce a mothci to devote herself and children
to communion and iellowship with Pafne.
Mr. G. admitted that the evidence exhibited by
the ladies during the trial of the character of Ma
dame B. might repel the imputation of criminality
in her connection with Paine, but-this evidence was
not before the defendant when he wrote ; he could
only judge from appearances, and these mysterious
appearances, as Mr. G. contended, afforded a cir
cumstance from which on irresistible argument
might be drawn to the jury, that the defendant was
not actuated by malice. The c ourt however observ
ed, that theit decision would preclude any remarks
to tbe jury on this topick. Thus cut off from the
most interesting branch of the defence, Mr. G. pas
»tu uom melDinnsKK ciroumstacues tnecaseio
ibe consideration of the communications which had
been made to the defendant respecting Madame B.
and he showed trom the testimony of Messrs. Car
ver, Berry, Underhill, Foster, Dr. Manley, and
others, that the substance of tbe animadversions in
the Life on the character and conduct of Mistress
B. had, in fact, been communicated to the defend
ant, who believed them to be true, and had reason
able grounds for the belief.
Mr. Ogden closed the defence with a speech full
of energy and argument, and we believe, of demon
stration to all who heard him, that the defendant
was not, in the little be had said of Mistress B. ac
tuated hy malice. In addition to the arguments
pressed by Mr. Griffin, many were advanced hy Mr,
O. with great ingenuity and force. In writing the
Life of the veriest wretch that ever polluted the
earth, it was not possible to believe, said Mr. Og
den, that Mr. Cheetham would have noticed the
woman hut for the facts which had been mentioned
to him by the witnesses, and which he was warran
ted to believe when he published the work. On the
difficulties and just privileges of a biographer* he
expatiated with all the experience of an author, and
the acuteness of a civilian. But to follow him
throughout bis excellent address would be largely to
extend a notice of the trial which is perhaps alrea
dy too long.
Mr. Sampson addressed the jury on the part of
the prosecution, with aeal if not with capacity.—
His object was however, it seemsd to nje, Jess a
defence of the woman than a scurrilous attack on
the defendant, and so ardent was he in tbe pursuit of
it, that Mr. Cheetham, after exhibiting no .trifling
share of patience, rose and observed to the jrourt,
that be had “ no wish unduly to limit the range of
the ingenious counsel’s declamation, blit he sub
mitted, whether Mr. Sampson ought s be permit