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 Contrasts in English Criminal Law. fellow, and it is not for the honor of the court to suffer you to go on." Penn : " I have asked but one question, and you have not answered me, though the rights and privileges of every Englishman be concerned in it." Recorder: " If I should suffer you to ask

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malities of the law for the purpose of destroying him. He. maintained his rights with great spirit and courage, but was re fused; when, bursting out with long-sup pressed wrath, he exclaimed : — "Oh, Lord, sir, what strange judges are you, that you will neither allow me to have

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questions till to-morrow morning, you would be never the wiser." Penn : " That is according as the answers are." (2 State Trials, p. 610.) Upon the trial of John Lilburnc for high treason, the prisoner contended for the ap pointment of counsel, alleging that the court went about to ensnare him, and to take advantage of his ignorance of the for-

counsel to help me to plead, nor suffer me myself to speak for my own life! Is this your law and justice?" He then appealed to the jury, denouncing the cruelty and injustice of the court in denying him the privileges of an Englishman when upon trial for his life. Justice Jermin then told the jury that "it was expected by the court that some