[109] We may add—for his tory principles, and for the loss of America to the British crown.—Ed.
[110] Saunders was very ingenious; but in the invention of charges to serve the turn of tyranny he has his match in some of our American lawyers.—Ed.
[111] This is not the William Jones mentioned in the life of Lord North, but a person of a different character, one Edward Jones.—Ed.
[112] So we have lately seen five inhabitants of Philadelphia prosecuted for a riot, for aiding to give effect to a statute of that state abolishing negro slavery.—Ed.
[113] The editions of these Reports by the late Serjeant Williams, and by the present most learned judges, Mr. Justice Patteson and Mr. Justice Vaughan Williams, illustrated by admirable notes, may be said to embody the whole common law of England, scattered about, I must confess, rather immethodically.
[114] The name is spelt no fewer than eight different ways—“Jeffries,” “Jefferies,” “Jefferys,” “Jeffereys,” “Jefferyes,” “Jeffrys,” “Jeffryes,” and “Jeffreys,” and he himself spelt it differently at different times of his life; but the last spelling is that which is found in his patent of peerage, and which he always used afterwards.
[115] “Le roy s’avisera,” the royal veto to a bill passed by the two houses.
[116] Roger L’Estrange was a noted pamphleteer, one of the oracles of the high church and Tory party, and the founder of the first English newspaper.—Ed.
[117] See the account of this trial in the life of North, Lord Guilford, ante, p. 210.
[118] See ante, p. 220.