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1777. Sessions. [Monday] Dec. 22.

any such Instigators, which there is great reason to suspect there were.
The Prisoner seem’d to me to be much affected during the Trial, but to be bold and even impudent during the Speech Impey made. Mr. William Chambers, who was the prosecutor of this Indictment, and was brother to Mr. Justice Chambers, and was Principal Interpreter to the Court, stood near the Prisoner, during Impey’s Speech, and he afterward told me that what the Prisoner said was very impudent, and that he entirely denied the Justice of the Sentence, because he said he kill’d the Man justly for insulting him.