A complete collection of state trials and proceedings for high treason and other crimes and misdemeanors from the earliest period to the year 1783, with notes and other illustrations Volume 22 - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1817 Excerpt: ...and observed, that as the promoter had been permitted to digress from the proper business of his reply to the relation of a fact which had not been before the Court, he hoped that he might be allowed to make an observation also on the same subject. The vice-chancellor answered: To be sure. Had I known what Dr. Kipling had been going to say, I should have stopped him. Mr. Frend then related the whole of the transaction with Mr. Marsh, appealing to a letter which Dr. Kipling had received from Mr. Marsh, and which he declared should soon be in possession of the public; concluding the whole of this point with observing, that it was evident nothing conciliatory was ever intended; for if it had been, when they found it rejected by Mr. Frend merely as it should seem for want of authority in the proposer, this authority would have been iven to Mr. Marsh, and the negociation woutd have been resumed. But no such thing was done.f It appears from the protest, that Mr. Kilvington's evidence only was objected to on account of veracity; that of the other two, on different accounts: and the reader will keep in mind, that the objections are founded on the civil law, the law of the court, to which the promoter, and his partner the vice-chancellor, seemed to have paid no attention. Frend. t The copy of the letter which Mr. Marsh wrote to Dr. Kipling, on Monday the 6th of May, is in Mr. Frond's possession, but as it is of considerable length, a part of it only, containing those circumstances, is here inserted, which relate to the point in question: " I perfectly well remembered that I had called upon you about two months before, to inquire if no method could be devised of averting the evil which threatened Mr, Frend; As to the promoter's maintaining that the ecclesiastica...

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