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and therefore he fhould not proceed further^ 

 nor would the linen-draper appear again at the 

 office. 



I now thought myfelf on the eve of liberty, 

 when that active magijlratey Mr. Flood, whq 

 had no concern at all in the bufinefs, being 

 merely a fpcdtator, infifted that I Ihould be fully 

 "committed; he maintained that if my former 

 convidiion was jufi:, (a point on which even yet 

 lawyers are by no means unanimous,) then the 

 prefent cafe muft be felony ; he further diredled 

 that the linen-draper fhould draw up his cafej, 

 and lay it before Mr. Sylvefter, for his opinion ; 

 in the mean while I was remanded for another 

 hearing. The next day Mr. Bond fat at the 

 office; I was brought up, and Mr. Sylvefler's 

 opinion upon the nev/ ftatcment, which the 

 linen-draper had made out to lay before him, 

 ■was, that the tranfacflion was felonious, of courfe 

 I was fully committed for trial. 



My trial is yet recent in the memory of all 

 the world ; how my obtaining the fhirt as rela- 

 ted, and as it appeared in evidence, could be a 

 theft, I leave to that world to judge; but fo it 

 ■was called, and the jury by their Jecond verdidl 

 found me guilty. 



As zvtx^ one who knew my cafe, thought it 

 (10 fay no worfe of it; extremely hard, I with 

 the more confidence applied to my friends^ who 



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