But their indignation was violently excited.

Their habits were not those which fit men for the discharge of judicial duties.

The debate turned almost entirely on matters to which no allusion ought to have been made.

Not a single peer ventured to affirm that the judgment was legal: but much was said about the odious character of the appellant, about the impudent accusation which he had brought against Catherine of Braganza, and about the evil consequences which might follow if so bad a man were capable of being a witness.

"There is only one way," said the Lord President, "in which I can consent to reverse the fellow's sentence.