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Retract, therefore, my Lord, your opinion respecting the power of Judges in libellous cases. Even age can never look more amiable than in amending its errors. As it is almost the only speck that dims the lustre of your admired talents, wipe it off in time, my Lord, and you shall go down to the grave in all the dazzling splendor that shines upon superior talents, when possessed by a man so renowned for justice and integrity as you Lordship.
Agree on this subject with your learned and most worthy brother, Willes, and avoid the maxims of a ——; who, owing to his temerity and your Lordship's timidity, has made a far greater encroachment on the power of juries, than ever you have done. He is labouring, perhaps, to be appointed as your successor, my Lord; and his enterprising mind well merits it. His talents may be traced from D—— to Dean Shipley. If the laurel proved fatal to the Captain's neck, it then first flourished on the Judge's brow. And should you, therefore, not recede from your doctrine of libels, there is not a more able successor to be found even
