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How the evidence that had been warped and wrested from the young

lady, whose anguish in giving it they had witnessed, came to

nothing, involving the mere little innocent gallantries and

politenesses likely to pass between any young gentleman and young

lady so thrown together;--with the exception of that reference to

George Washington, which was altogether too extravagant and

impossible to be regarded in any other light than as a monstrous

joke. How it would be a weakness in the government to break down

in this attempt to practise for popularity on the lowest national

antipathies and fears, and therefore Mr. Attorney-General had

made the most of it; how, nevertheless, it rested upon nothing,

save that vile and infamous character of evidence too often

disfiguring such cases, and of which the State Trials of this

country were full. But, there my Lord interposed (with as grave a

face as if it had not been true), saying that he could not sit

upon that Bench and suffer those allusions.