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take wasextremely painful to their feelings. They
must declare, in justia*to Mr. tVorkeian, that
.this was the only time' he had ever, subjected
himself to their disapprobation. At the bar he
was uniformly decorous towards the members of
hts prufessiois, and respectful towards the Court:
His practice was fair and liberal, and his conduct,
in every respect, so far as it had fallen under their
observatiou, was honourable and correct.
The Court then ordered Mr. NVorkinan to be im-
prisoned &lurk; eight hours, and lined twenty-live
dollars.
Satin after the ease of Mr. G rytnes was discussed.
It was strenuously contended, oil his part, that in-
terrogeories ought to be exhibited to him, that he
might have an opportunity of purging himself of
the alleged contempt of Court, upon oath.
Judge Lsuits--.. I conceive interrogatories to be
unnecessary, when the offence has ,peen committed
under the eyes of the Court. The Court knows then
every fact necessary to lie known, and the ausivcrs
of the party could be of no possible utility, except
in explaining his intentions ; but in the present case
the intention is not the thing to be considered. I
am willing to believe that the Attorney of the
United States did not intend u personal insult to
the Bench, but the act was nevertheless a contempt
of this Court. It is painful to me to exert the
powers of this Court, on skis ra•easion, for the pur-
pose of punishing one of its officers : but an exam-
ple is necessary to teach the peop:e of this country,
who bare sliewn themselves but too much disposed
to infringe it, the respect due to Courts of .• mime.
Your conduct, Sir, has been in the highest degree
indecorous and improper; your language, was rude
and insulting ; u scene similar to that of yesterday
has never, I believe, been exhibited in any Court
of Justice.
" Until that unfortunate transaction, it had been
my pride to preside over a Ear where the greetest
propriety of conduct and liberality of practice ex-
isted.

" It is not I assure you to gratify any personal
remiitment that the C-art now puni-lies you ; it is
only to preserve its dignity, aiirrto prevent the re-
currence of writes so disgraceful and humiliating.
the Court orders that you be committed to
prison, for the spree of eight hours, and that yon
do pay a tine of twenty-five dollurs."
Immediately after the occurrence in Court, on
Friday, Mr. Workman sent a ines.mge to Mr.
( byines, to demand of him the just satisfaictiou to
lie considered himself entitled. Mr. G. was
waited upon by the friend of the former, three se-
em al times in the course of Friday, and on Sour-
' day morning, to receive his answer, which he at
length gave on Saturday night, (being tho fourth
time or its !whir, required), uhodutely
and definitively, the meeting to which he was its-
cited. The next morning the following hand-bill
was posted up at the Exchange Coffee-house, and
other public places
" Philip Grymes, District-Attorney of the United
States, haviag refused to give me the satisfaction
due to a geotkman, after buying publicly insulted
me, I'ileclaee the said Philip (lryines to be a cow-
ard. JAMES %YORK 5( AN, Counsellor at Law."
" Fetw-Otleasis, Nor. s 7, tars "
On Monday. a paper appeared also on the part
of Mr. Gryines. It contained, first, the preceding
publication of Mr. Workman, aud immediately
after it was this remark :
" P. Gryines cannot stoop to make any other re-
ply to the lionouraide Judge Vt'erkman, thee that
which his friend Mr. P. D. F.,ley has doubtless
communicated to his liouour; to the public he owes
the following apology."
This apology consists of the copy of an in-
dictment for alleged high political offences,
which, indictment was found against Judge Work-
man at a time of general alarm, when mob mis-
conception and misrepresentation prevailed. hest
the judginc:it of some of our best citizens
was disturbed, if not biassed, by the upper.-
dtension of danger, and when Judge Wurktnan, iu
his official capacity, was opposing, as crintiary to
the Conetitution and the Laws, the measures deem-
ed by, many to be eeseotiul to the public safety. It
is a fact Otto. that all the witnesses who had been
eel:Mord against him, before the Grand Juries,
wereexamined,luit the part of the prosecutiou, as to
every matter with which he hel been charged,
when lie was tried before the District Court; and
that, without adducing any testimony, ur offering
any argument in his defence, he left the case as it
stood, to the Jury, who retired, tied immediately
brought in their siadiet—Not
Mr. Grymes colichnles his paper with the fol-
lowing obsertation :
" Airy Geieletnaii who may. feel himself in-
jnred by my observations in Court, on Friday last,
and alio has any thing like character to defend.
win tier 1 deserve the impotation of
rorardice. or not? P. Gavues.
" NeicDtlearei, Nue. ctii, 1•14."
No. I.—Proceedings hi the Superior Court of the Territory
of Orleans, Deemober 3, MO. •
Present, TLe How. Joint • Lewis.
This morning, a rule of Court was male (with-
not as y previous affidavit, motion, or notice), and
served npon James Workman, Emq. a Couusellor
and Attorney of the Court, ordering him " to *hew
cause, testa dee, why ha should not he excluded
from the Bar of this Court. for causing to be pnb-
!jibed, in The Orleans Gazette, of the 2d inst. a
manifest perversion of the observatious made by
the Court, its therein stated."
Mr. Workman immediately appeared in °beer.-
euce to this rule.
'flue Juocan then proceeded to state the particu-
lars or the alleged contempt. Ile read some pas-
sages from the Whited report ahove-mentioned, of
his observations nil the conduct of Mr. Gryrnee.
when he had ordered him to be imprisoned for the
occurrence which took place in the Court on the t .Ith
of Nov. lle declared that he had not made the
obeervutions attributed to him, in that report, re-
spectiog Mr. Gryines ; that they were calculated
to wound the feelings and injure the reputation of
that genteerneis,•and that to represent such remarks 1
as coining from the Court, was a high coutempt of
Court.
Mr. WORKMAN , asked whether the Court would
allow any witnesses to be examined ?
'flue Areottnes-Getirest. considered the ap-
pliesition as no sdalitioual insult to the Conrt.—..
Their outs declaration, a. to the correctness of
their opiuiona might not to Le controverted.
Mr. KEltn, se the friend of Mr. W. observed,