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p. 41, 1. 8 from the bottom, for the read they.

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p. 64, 1. 31, for consistency read constancy.

p. 128, lines 32 & 34, for Strafford read Stafford.

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p. 368, for note 1 read note.

p. 752, 1. 3, from the bottom, for a table? read a table.

p. 803, lines 34 & 35, after Prime Serjeant, insert James Fitzgerald, Mr. Solicitor General.

lines 36 & 37, dele Mr. Solicitor General, James Fitzgerald.

p. 1276, lines 7, 8, 36, & 41, for Strafford read Stafford.

p. 1278, l. 14 from the bottom, for Strafford read Stafford.

p. 1302, l. 6 from bottom, for with read within.

STATE TRIALS,

&c. &c.

605. The Trial of JOHN HORNE TOOKE,† Clerk, for High Treason, before the Court holden under a Special Commission of Oyer and Terminer, at the Sessions House in the Old Bailey, on Monday 17th, Tuesday 18th, Wednesday 19th, Thursday 20th, Friday 21st, and Satur-. day 22nd, of November: 35 GEORGE III. A. D. 1794.‡

[The preliminary proceedings will be found in the preceding Volume of this Collection, pp. 199, et seq., and pp. 1385, et seq.] Sessions House, in the Old-Bailey, Monday, November the 17th, 1794.

PRESENT,

Lord Chief Justice Eyre, Lord Chief Baron Macdonald, Mr. Baron Hotham, Mr. Justice Grose, Mr. Justice Lawrence; and others, his Majesty's Justices, &c.

Taken in short-hand, by Joseph Gurney. See his Trial for a Seditious Libel, antè, Vol. 20, p. 651.

Counsel for the Crown.—Mr. Attorney General [Sir John Scott, afterwards Lord Chancellor Eldon]; Mr. Solicitor General [Sir John Mitford, afterwards Lord Redesdale and Lord Chancellor of Ireland]; Mr. Serjeant Adair; Mr. Bearcroft; Mr. Bower; Mr. Law [afterwards Lord Ellenborough and Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench]; Mr. Garrow [afterwards, successively, Solicitor General, Attorney General, and a Baron of the Exchequer]; Mr. Wood [afterwards a Baron of the Exchequer]; Hon. Spencer

in various departments of government, he soon discovered the views, connexions, and pursuits of his guest; but, instead of upIn "Memoirs of John Horne Tooke, in braiding him with his treachery, and disterspersed with original documents; by Alex- missing him with contempt, as most other ander Stephens, esq. of the Honourable So- men in his situation would have done, he deciety of the Middle Temple," I find the fol-termined to foil him, if possible, at his own lowing narrative; which, as it is stated to procecd from "Information obtained by means of one of the persons chiefly interested on the present occasion," is not improper to be here inserted:

Among the immense number of spies and informers now employed, were several of a higher order, some of whom were solely actuated by zeal; while others, who would have spurned the idea of pecuniary gratifications, were influenced solely by the hopes of offices and appointments. One of the latter had for some time attached himself to Mr. Tooke, and was a frequent visitor at Wimbledon. His station and character were calculated to shield him from suspicion, but his host, who was too acute to be so easily duped, soon saw through the flimsy veil of his pretended discontent. As he had many personal friends, VOL. XXV.

weapons.

"It was always a maxim with Mr. Tooke, in the war of politics, to turn the enemy's cannon on themselves; and no one was ever more ready to exclaim:

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