No respect was paid to these asseverations.

The solicitor-general Hawles, and lord chief-justice Treby, treated him with great severity in the prosecution and charge to the jury, by whom he was capitally convicted.

After his condemnation, the court-agents tampered with him to make further discoveries; and after his fate had been protracted by divers short reprieves, he was sent into banishment.

From the whole tenour of these discoveries and proceedings, it appears that James had actually meditated an invasion; that his partisans in England had made preparations for joining him on his arrival; that a few desperadoes of that faction had concerted a scheme against the life of king William; that in prosecuting the conspirators, the court had countenanced informers; that the judges had strained the law, wrested circumstances, and even deviated from the function of their office, to convict the prisoners; in a word, that the administration had used the same arbitrary and unfair practices against those unhappy people, which they themselves had in the late reigns numbered among the grievances of the kingdom.
{WILLIAM, 1688--1701.} THE ALLIES BURN THE MAGAZINE AT GIVET.
The warmth, however, manifested on this occasion may have been owing to national resentment of the purposed invasion.

Certain it is, the two houses of parliament and the people in general were animated with extraordinary indignation against France at this juncture.