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The two advocates of the college, who spoke 

 next, were silent upon the subject of Dr. Stan- 

 ger's engagement. But their deficiency on this 

 point was fully supplied by the youngest counsel, 

 Mr. Warren. He was the son of one of his em- 

 ployers, and consequently possessed the most 

 ample opportunities of being acquainted with 

 their real motives and views, and as he had 

 evidently been retained in the present cause, 

 for reasons unconnected with his general fame, 

 he must have been strongly disposed to requite 

 the favour he had received, by doing what he 

 knew would be most agreeable to them. He 

 therefore did not inform the court, as Mr. 

 Erskine had done, that he was not instructed 

 to make any insinuation against the character 

 of Dr. Stanger, but boldly and explicitly 

 charged that gentleman, with " a violation of 

 something, less formal, but not less sacred, than 

 an oath." The court now exerted their au- 

 thority, and prevented his proceeding further 

 in this strain*. But, my Lord, had the dagger, 



* My authority for saying, that Mr. Warren was in- 

 terrupted in this part of his speech, is the following con- 

 versation between Lord Kenyon and Mr. Christian, one of 

 Dr. Stanger's counsel, which took place two days after, 

 while the latter was replying to the arguments against the 

 issuing of the mandamus. 



Mr. Christian. " An argument was pressed the other day 



