The lives of the four men who had just been absolved were again attacked by means of the most absurd and odious proceeding known to our old law, the appeal of murder.

This attack too failed.

Every artifice of chicane was at length exhausted; and nothing was left to the disappointed sect and the disappointed faction except to calumniate those whom it had been found impossible to murder.

In a succession of libels Spencer Cowper was held up to the execration of the public.

But the public did him justice.