Whereupon, the Senate withdrew to their legislative apartment.
Friday, February 8.
The Court opened precisely at twelve o’clock.
Present: The Managers, and the House of Representatives, in Committee of the Whole; and Mr. Chase, attended by his counsel, Messrs. Martin, Harper, Hopkinson, and Key.
The crier having, agreeably to a prescribed form, notified all those concerned to come forward and make good the charges exhibited against Samuel Chase,
Mr. Randolph, the leading Manager, requested that the witnesses on the part of the prosecution might be called, to ascertain who were present.
They were accordingly called, to the number of twenty-four.
Present: Alexander James Dallas, William Lewis, William Rawle, William S. Biddle, Edward Tilghman, George Reed, John Montgomery, John Stephen, John Thompson Mason, Samuel H. Smith, John Taylor, George Hay, William Wirt, and John Heath.
Absent: James Lea, John Crow, Risdon Bishop, Aquila Hall, Philip Stewart, Thomas Hall, Philip N. Nicholas, John Harvie, Meriwether Jones, and James Pleasants.
Mr. Randolph observed that various considerations, which it was unnecessary to detail, induced him, on behalf of the Managers, to move a postponement of the trial till to-morrow, when they hoped to be prepared to proceed with it.