from the feat of juftice declare he defired to hear of ne cafe that was determined above 50 years ago. Or, if any Chief Juftice fhould, by folemn but unneceffary givings out from the Bench, endeavour to blast the repute of Juries with mankind, by pronouncing that the trial by jury would be the very worst of all, were it not for the controuling power of judges, by the award of new trials and the reconfideration of verdicts, and that, indeed, it could never have fubfifted had it not been for fuch controll, by reafon of the want of capacity in jurors, and the changes of the times. Or, if any Chief Justice should arrogate to himself at Nifi Prius, the feparate provinces of Judge, Council and Jury, by cutting fhort the one, and impofing his own fenfe of things upon the other, and if, upon any occafion, a verdict contrary thereto, was perfifted in to the laft, fhould imperiously and unconftitutionally demand of the jurors their reasons for the fame? TO THE THIRD EDITION, TO WHICH All the Pages mentioned refer. In page 8, inftead of the line, from 27 to 33, read T the following. HAN the common, regular information, which, by virtue of a ftatute palled foon after the revolution, can not now be filed, for any trefpafs or mifdemeanor, without exprefs order of the King's Bench, and the Informers entering into a recognizance to pay cofts to the Defendant if acquitted upon the trial, or if such informer do not proceed within a year, or procure a Noli Profequi. The Attorney General, however, informing ex officio never pays any cofts: fo that he may harrafs the peace of any man in the realm. Inftead of the last line in page 48, and the first line in page 49, read the following: And yet, as I take it, although the Privy Council, as a board, have conftantly exercifed this power, no fingle Privy Counsellor, nor any number of Privy Counsellors not met in Council as a Board, can pretend to fuch a Power. Be this as it may, the being a Privy Counsellor or Secretary of State, does not make a man a Juftice of Peace, and more authority or jurifdiction no Secretary ever claimed. To render him fo, it has, &c. At the bottom of page 100 add the following: He does not wish to have his fubjects addrefs him, in the language of Divinity, as most adorable, or to have them vow a whole life of devotion to him. |