Proceedings in an action for debt, between the Right Honourable Charles James Fox, plaintiff, and John Horne Tooke, Esq. defendant / published by the defendant.
- Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812.
- Date:
- 1792
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Proceedings in an action for debt, between the Right Honourable Charles James Fox, plaintiff, and John Horne Tooke, Esq. defendant / published by the defendant. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![f 10 ] although Mr. Fitzgerald was not. I am very forry to have flopped the gentleman in his addrefs; but it is rather too much for perfons to be baited in this manner, and accufed of fuch charges, when one knows of one’s own perfonal knowledge, that they had no more to do in this, whether it was good or bad, than any man in any part of his majef- ty’s dominions. Lord Kenyon. Certainly not. Defendant. There can be no doubt at all but that your lordfhip will at all times find fome one, in your own court, willing and ready to get up to recommend himfelf to your favour by a fpeech in your defence; and I fliould have been much furprized if it had not been the cafe now. I am not forry for it: for Mr. Garrow has given me time to breathe a little. Lord Kenyon. I want no defence. What has been faid againft me, rather deferves my compaffion. I do not carry about me any recollection of it, or any of its circumflances. Mr. Garrow. I certainly did not mean to make a de- fence for your lordfhip. Defendant. I cannot fay that I carry about me any thing in confequence of it: I carry about me fomething lefs, by all the money which it took out of my pocket. But mofl certainly the faCt did fo pafs as I have Hated it: although your lordfhip’s recolleCtion does not ferve you. Mr. Gar- row indeed has rifen up to interrupt me and to deny it. I heard him with much pleafure: for I wanted breath. But I do not think that, upon cool recolleCtion of this proceed- ing, the Court will be much pleafed with its own conduCl in fuffering this interruption, and liflening with fo much complaifance to this irregular hearfay evidence. I believe there are gentlemen here prefent, who can recolleCt that when they get up in a court of juflice, they do not meet with quite fo much indulgence as he has met with. But he has been permitted at the fame time to go beyond his evi- dence, to caft a refle&ion upon my eloquence. Mr. Garrow. Very far from it. Nothing was farther from my thoughts. Defendant. I beg your pardon, Sir, it was faid with a fneer ; and to infinnate to the Jury, that I was attempting by artful words to miflead them : for that is the meaning and purpofe of Eloquence in this court. I have on the con- trary fpoken in as plain terms as the language w'ill afford. I nave not ufed a fingle fentence, or a Angle word, which the jury do not underlland as well as the Judge or yourlelf. I repeat it then again. I fay I had nearly thirty witnefles, attending at my expence, to punifh Rioters for whom this Clerk of the Court was Attorney, waiting for three days*](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22434884_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
