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 ¬been the opinion of Parliament, when by the Statute of the 48th of the King, they gave to the justices of the King's Bench and to them only, a power to issue warrants after information filed in that court, and such must be the opinion of every man living, lawyer or no lawyer, who has read the speech of Earl Grey in the House of Lords, which, even as it is published, may range with the -most invincible arguments ever delivered from the bench or at the bar, and his opponents may well say with iEschines in doing justice to Demosthenes — What would you have said if you had heard hint ! ¬This power, nevertheless, still remains in Eng- land, and probably will for some time continue : but common sense, and the spirit of English freedom, will, in the end, be triumphant. ¬I ought not, however, to conclude this ab- stract consideration of fixed magistracy without a just homage to the judges of Armata. — I found, from all inquiries, that they were re- markable, like our own, for their integrity and ¬learning ; ¬