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from a committee (chofen, it is to be fup- 

 pofed, with judgment and impartiality, fror.i 

 among themfelves) to a jury ; or, in other 

 words — to manccuvre and chance. 



It is far from my intention to fay any thing 

 in flronger language than the fubjefc re- 

 quires ; but it ftrikes me clearly, and I flat- 

 ter myfelf that I am not influenced by any 

 principle of difrefpedt either to the laws of 

 my country, or to the makers of them, that 

 it would be more judicious in Parliament to 

 refer to the dice-box, than to a jury in a 

 court of afijze : for in one cafe chance alone 

 is concerned ; in the other, chance and m.i- 

 nceuvre may operate jointly. 



In the cafe of Pickering the houfes were 

 within a point of lofing the game : Sir Tho- 

 mas Davenport died, and Mr. B. (their two 

 leading counfel) was put under arrcft the dav 

 before the trial was to have come on ; and 

 thc\r agents, finguine as they had heretofore 

 been, novvr on thoic acciJefjts happening, gave 

 themfelves up to defpair. But, by chance, or 

 by manceuvre, the trial was poftponed. The 

 houfes now came into court fully prepared, 

 while the land, by a train of ill luck or bad 

 G 4 manage- 



