On Monday, February 19, after travelling by the night train from Plymouth, where I had delivered three lectures the day before, I applied before Justices Manisty and Matthew, who granted me a rule _nisi_.

But on the Saturday Sir Hardinge Giffard moved that the rule should be taken out of its order in the Crown Paper, and argued on the following Tuesday.

Seeing that the Court was determined to assist him, I acquiesced in the motion rather than waste my time in futile obstruction.

On Tuesday, February 27, Sir Hardinge Giffard duly appeared, supported by two junior counsel, Mr.Poland and Mr.F.Lewis.
The judges, as on the previous Saturday, were Baron Huddleston and Mr.
Justice North.

The former displayed the intensest bigotry and prejudice, and the latter all that flippant insolence which he subsequently displayed at my trial, and which appears to be an inseparable part of his character.