I cannot do better than quote a few passages from an open letter I addressed to his lordship soon after my release: "How were my feelings modified by your lordship's lofty bearing! I found myself in the presence of a judge who was a gentleman.

You treated me with impartiality, and a generous consideration for my misfortunes.

No one could doubt your sincerity when, in the midst of a legal illustration which might be construed as a reflection on my character, you suddenly checked yourself, and said, 'I mean no offence to Mr.Foote.
I should be unworthy of my position if I insulted anyone in his.' You were scrupulously, almost painfully, careful to say nothing that could assist the prosecution or wound my susceptibilities.
You appeared to tremble lest your own convictions should prejudice you, and the jury through you, against me and my fellow prisoner.

You listened with the deepest attention to my long address to the jury.

You discussed all my arguments that you considered essential in your summing-up; and you strengthened some of them, while deprecating others, with a logical force and beauty of expression which were at once my admiration and my despair.