106 Mr. Parkes' additional Obset-vatiojis 



" Can you, Gentlemen," said the Solicitor General, when ex- 

 plaining to the jury the manoeuvre of this very rapid heating of 

 the oil, " can you, Gentlemen, come to a conclusion, where the 

 properties of men are at stake, on experiments made by a de- 

 parture from the apparatus which is in use, and the substitution 

 of another, — the persons making them pursuing with zeal and 

 eagerness a particular object, and endeavouring to come to a 

 conclusion, inconsistent with the practical conclusion which 

 would be built upon the apparatus itself*?" And when the So- 

 licitor General said to Mr. Faraday, " If the size of the fire- 

 place should exceed, in the proportion of two to one, that in the 

 apparatus, might it not produce very different results ?" He 

 candidly answered, " certainlyf." 



Having mentioned the name of Mr. Faraday, it is but justice 

 to that gentleman to state, that he had the good sense and the 

 virtue to resist all solicitations to become one of the party. I 

 mean the party that associated for the purpose of writing this 

 particular book, that was intended, as I have before explained, 

 to divert the current of public opinion which certain individuals 

 found was setting in so powerfully against them. Whether 

 other chemists were solicited, I have not yet been able to learn. 



When adverting to the observations which the Solicitor-Gene- 

 ral made upon the variations in the apparatus, I ought not 

 to have omitted what he so forcibly expressed, respecting the 

 omission of the long leaden tube, which was attached to the 

 oil-vessel at Whitechapel. " You find," said he, when address- 

 ing the Jury, " you find attached to that apparatus, a pipe 

 sixteen feet long. This does not come by surprise upon these 

 gentlemen. Upon the last trial it was pointed out, — it was a 

 matter of observation, — it was a matter of argument ; — much 

 was said upon the subject — they had their attention drawn to 

 it ; how extraordinary — nay, how miraculous is it, then, that in 

 spite of all their experience, the length of the pipe has been 

 studiously omitted t." He added, " I rest upon that substan- 

 tial part of the case, the entire deviation from that apparatus 



* Mr. Gurney's Report, page 445. 



t Ibid, page 299. J Ibid, page 446. 



