He has been whipped from Aldgate to Tyburn.

He ought to be whipped from Tyburn back to Aldgate." The question was put.

Twenty-three peers voted for reversing the judgment; thirty-five for affirming it, [396] This decision produced a great sensation, and not without reason.

A question was now raised which might justly excite the anxiety of every man in the kingdom.

That question was whether the highest tribunal, the tribunal on which, in the last resort, depended the most precious interests of every English subject, was at liberty to decide judicial questions on other than judicial grounds, and to withhold from a suitor what was admitted to be his legal right, on account of the depravity of his moral character.