Excerpt from The Beauties of Erskine: Consisting of Selections From His Prose and PoetrySpeech for Captain Baillie, in the Court of King's Bench, November 24, 1778.My Lord, - I am likewise of counsel for the author of this supposed libel: and if the matter for consideration had been merely a question of private wrong, in which the interests of society were no farther concerned than in the protection of the innocent, I should have thought mysel...
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