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graph of the prospectus he rendered 
thus ;—‘* We shall not extend this 
prospeétus any farther ; we would 
rather promise little, and perform 
much, than the contrary. We shall 
add only one word, to say, that the 
materials which we shall employ for 
the construction of the edifice we 
are raising to the glory of Bona- 
parte, shall be worthy of the temple.” 
Lord Ellenberough doubted the 
application of the inuendoes ; but 
which might be inferred from the 
context. 
Defence.—Mr. Mackintosh ad- 
dressed the jury.—I beg leave, on 
the part of the unfortunate gentle- 
man who is the defendant, to begin 
by making a few remarks on the 
speech of my friend the attorney 
general. Whatever my talents may 
be, in his opinion, I am incapable 
of lending them to the passions of 
any client, nor will I make this 
court subservient to political pur- 
poses. Although feeling strongly 
the momentous occurrences that 
deeply interest the quiet, the liberty, 
nay, the safety of mankind, I shail 
restrain those feelings with an equal 
regard for sincerity and for pru- 
dence. But whatever risk there 
may be in discussing a subject so 
surrounded with invidious topics, I 
hold myself exonerated from their 
consequences, because unsought for 
by me, they being dragged into this 
court, and forced upon us by the 
prosecutor. Here | find them, and 
here it is my duty to deal with them 
as the interests of M. Peltier seem 
to require. I will not betray his 
confidence, nor that zealousness in 
his cause which he has a right to 
expect. 
Gentlemen of the jary, the real 
prosecutor in this cause rules the 
greatest empire the civilized world 
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1803. 
ever saw, while my client is a poor 
proscribed emigrant: for when the 
revolution, which had driven from 
France the magistrates, the priests, 
and proprietors of land, relaxed in 
its severities; many among these 
suffering royalists deemed the com- 
pliances required of them incom- 
patible with their consciences, with 
their dearest attachments, and their 
most sacred duties. Among these 
is M. Peltier. Consider, gentlemen, 
that if we ourselves were, by any 
unforeseen revolution (I trust and 
hope such an event will never hap- 
pen) but if such an event were to 
place us ina state of dependence and 
destitution, in a foreign land, we 
should not wish to be judged too 
unfavourably. This man, having 
from his youth devoted himself to 
literary employments, exerted his 
talents in the same line here, and 
produced a variety of works. After 
the peace, he abstained from all se- 
rious politics, and contented himself 
with the publication of this obscure 
journal before you, which, if the 
jealousy of power could ever be at 
rest, appeared under circumstances 
the least calculated to give disquiet. 
It could not be read here, for it was 
not in the language of the country. 
It could not be read in France, for 
we do not understand that the police 
is supine or negligent in the execu- 
tion of the prohibition against the 
adinission of periodical papers from 
England. Under these circum- 
stances, this work was issued, for 
the purpose of amusing and con- 
soling the fellow-sufferers of M. 
Peltier, by occasional rcfleétions on 
the factions which divide, and the 
disturbances which agitate, the land. 
from which they are exiled. It was 
intended as a consolation and amuse- 
ment to them to whom no consola- 
tion 
