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Rh complaisance to Lord Mansfield.—You Barristers are too apt to be civil to my Lord chief justice, at the expense of your clients.

2°. Junius did never say, that Lord Mansfield had destroyed the liberty of the press. That his Lordship has laboured to destroy, that his doctrine is an attack upon the liberty of the press,—that it is an invasion of the right of juries," are the propositions maintained by Junius. His opponents never answer him in point; for they never meet him fairly upon his own ground.

3°. Lord Mansfield's policy, in endeavouring to screen his unconstitutional doctrines behind an act of the legislature, is easily understood.—Let every Englishman stand upon his guard;—the right of juries to return a general verdict, in all cases whatsoever, is a part of our constitution. It stands in no need of a bill, either enacting or declaratory, to confirm it.

4°. regard to the Grosvenor cause, it is pleasant to observe, that the doctrine attributed by Junius to Lord Mansfield is admitted by Zeno, and directly defended. The