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[Wednesday] March 3.

Mr. Burroughs, Advocate for the Defendants.
Although I know that if the Damages were One Hundredth Part of the Sum demanded by the Plaint, they would bring down ruin on the Defendants, yet I rise without fear, relying on the impartiality of the Court, and I do not like Sir Paul Jodrell by his Advocate, desire the Court to lay aside prejudices, for I am sure the Court who are placed in the situation of British Judges who will always determine “secundum Allegata et Probata”, and also in the high Trust of Jurors. Mr. Davies had as
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