Assizes after assizes the same thing happened, until at length wagers were held that no such bill would be found, and no one was found to accept them.

Well was it for them that they declined, for every one of the bills preferred was ignored.

Now, observe that in proceedings, as your lordships know; before grand jurors, not a tittle of evidence is heard for the prisoners; every witness is in favor of the indictment, or finding of the bill; but in all these instances the bills were flung out on the examination of evidence solely against the prisoner.

Even in the worst cases of murder, as certainly and plainly committed as the sun shines at noon day, monstrous to all, the bills were thrown out when half the witnesses for the prosecution remained to be examined.

(Hear, hear.) Some individuals swore against the prisoners, and though others tendered their evidence, the jury refused to hear them.