One of the Ridgways, publishers, had also been subpoenaed with an accredited copy of Macirone's book; but it was not necessary to produce him as a witness, as Mr.Ball, the counsel for Macirone, _quoted_ passages from it, and thus made the entire book available as evidence for the defendant, a proceeding of which Serjeant Copley availed himself with telling effect.

He substantiated the facts stated in the _Quarterly_ article by passages quoted from Colonel Macirone's own "Memoirs." Before he had concluded his speech, it became obvious that the Jury had arrived at the conclusion to which he wished to lead them; but he went on to drive the conclusion home by a splendid peroration.

[Footnote: Given in Sir Theodore Martin's "Life of Lord Lyudhurst," p.

170.] The Jury intimated that they were all agreed; but the Judge, as a matter of precaution, proceeded to charge them on the evidence placed before them; and as soon as he had concluded, the Jury, without retiring from the box, at once returned their verdict for the defendant.
Although Mr.Murray had now a house in the country, he was almost invariably to be found at Albemarle Street.

We find, in one of his letters to Blackwood, dated Wimbledon, May 22, 1819, the following: "I have been unwell with bile and rheumatism, and have come to a little place here, which I have bought lately, for a few days to recruit." The following description of a reception at Mr.Murray's is taken from the "Autobiography" of Mrs.Bray, the novelist.