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[Page 16]
January 1808
which the Patent seems wisely to provide for.
28th - Here I demanded the public papers of the Prosecution which they refused.
29th - They now wrote to me for a military Guard for Mr Atkin's protection, and inclosed [enclosed] an Affidavit of his, made before them, signed by all their names, stating that he heard he was to be taken by a large body of armed men who had orders to carry into execution a warrant from the Judge Advocate, for exercising his lawful right of Challenge against the said Judge Advocate, and assigning his reasons for it, as he was directed to do by the Court, that he considered his life in danger from the unprincipled and atrocious Characters combined against him, under the direction of the infamous George Crossley, and that he therefore declined giving any bail and entreated the Court would be pleased to put him under the protection of a Military Guard, they being the only persons in whose hands he could consider himself secure.
30th - This Deposition, which refuses to give Bail, and the consequent demand of the Six Members, seems to have been made by preconcerted measures, in order to intimidate the Civil Power, which Power, for there was no other, is unlawfully called a Body of Armed Men of atrocious and unprincipled Character.
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