He recurred to the bad old example of Lord Ellenborough in devoting most of his time to answering my arguments.

Lord Coleridge remarked in the Court of Queen's Bench that such a task was not for the judge, but for the counsel on the other side of the case.

I wish his lordship had read a lesson to Justice North on that subject before he presided at our trial.
There is only one passage of his summing-up that I wish to criticise fully.

It contains his statement of the Law of Blasphemy.

But as he made a very different statement four days later on at our second trial, I prefer to wait until, by placing these discrepant utterances together, I can give the reader a fair idea of Justice North's authority as a legal oracle.
The jury retired at five o'clock.