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allowed the validity of a Challenge I made to him, on the 21st of March, in the very cause too, were all Members of the Court, or rather of this traiterous Assembly, they of course prejudged me, for they had long before declared themselves ready to swear to my guilt. This base stratagem was artfully planned by them in order to discredit my testimony hereafter, by levelling (what they imagine) a fatal blow against my reputation; but although I must suffer great hardships, by their barefaced violation of all the Rules of Justice and decorum, they have however fallen themselves, into the pit, they dug for me; for in fact they had no intention of trying me, on the 30th of May. They were fully satisfied of the too palpable injustice of keeping me locked up in a Dungeon, and they saw that the Public began to observe it, and to express themselves freely on the Subject, notwithstanding which they considered it prudent to continue me in prison with so infamous a charge hanging over