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imprisonment, and had been sentenced to 

 another, I should beg leave to withdraw 

 my prosecution, as my wish was certainly 

 to punish, but not to persecute ; and, 

 as the law had been enforced, and the 

 liberty of the subject vindicated, I was 

 quite satisfied. 



The third followed my example, and 

 the sergeant was removed from the 

 dock. 



My friend was almost bursting with 

 rage at what he called our pusillanimity, 

 while I had won golden opinions from 

 the court and Recorder. The latter, rising, 

 complimented me very highly, saying, 

 he had never witnessed in the whole of 

 his legal career such an act of well- 

 timed forbearance, expressed with such 

 earnest and kind consideration, and 

 begged to know my name, that he might 

 append it to a note he should make 

 of so praiseworthy and uncommon an 

 occurrence. 



