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 it wants all that can be couched under the term ſpecific, and may be ſaid rather to include every thing than ſpecify any thing.

The teſtimony of the above gentlemen, with all poſſible deference and ſubmiſſion to the better judgment of the Court, I muſt beg leave to remark, was in my humble opinion totally irrelevant and deſultory: and carrying no tendency to reſolve the point in queſtion, occupied that time which would have ſaved the neceſſity of mutilating the defence.

Of the remaining witneſſes: for the Plaintiffs, many, to my certain knowledge, were directly or indirectly their ſervants, and I cannot forbear digreſſing to expreſs my regret, that your Lordſhip did not hear the unjuſtifiable and cowardly epithets they made uſe of (in a tone too low to be heard, but by thoſe who, like myſelf, were very near them) to interrupt and derange my ideas. This behaviour, ſo extremely indecorous in a court of juſtice, and evincing a doubt of the equity of their pretenſions, added to the bias which is natural in their ſituations, may ſerve to ſhew your