Attorney-General’s) brothers and sisters, and honoured him more

than his (Mr. Attorney-General’s) father and mother. That, he

called with confidence on the jury to come and do likewise. That,

the evidence of these two witnesses, coupled with the documents

of their discovering that would be produced, would show the

prisoner to have been furnished with lists of his Majesty’s forces,

and of their disposition and preparation, both by sea and land, and

would leave no doubt that he had habitually conveyed such

information to a hostile power. That, these lists could not be

proved to be in the prisoner’s handwriting; but that it was all the

same; that, indeed, it was rather the better for the prosecution, as

showing the prisoner to be artful in his precautions. That, the

proof would go back five years, and would show the prisoner

already engaged in these pernicious missions within a few weeks

before the date of the very first action fought between the British

troops and the Americans. That, for these reasons, the jury, being

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a loyal jury (as he knew they were), and being a responsible jury

(as they knew they were), must positively find the prisoner Guilty,

and make an end of him, whether they liked it or not. That, they

never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they never

could tolerate the