how it would be a weakness in the government to break down in this attempt to practise for popularity on the lowest national antipathies and fears, and therefore mr. attorney-general had made the most of it; how, nevertheless, it rested upon nothing, save that vile and infamous character of evidence too often disfiguring such cases, and of which the state trials of this country were full. but, there my lord interposed (with as grave a face as if it had not been true), saying that he could not sit upon that bench and suffer those allusions.