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Mr. Hickey. I had rather read my own Defence. You do not seem to understand my Council.
My News Papers have been arbitrarily stop’d at the Public Post Office.
I was taken by above two Hundred Constables and Peons and without any ceremony dragged to a stinking Prison, under the same roof with Thieves and Murderers.
Mr. D’Costa and Mr. Fowke could have procured bail to any amount, but only very small sums were demanded.
[Then he read the Gaz. Extra, or nearly that]
Sir Elijah Impey Lord Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and Super-Intendant of the Sudder Dewanny Adaulut.