Hence the impression upon this ground also was against us; and we had yet had no adequate opportunity of doing it away.

A clamour was also raised, where we thought it least likely to have originated.

They (the planters) it was said, had produced persons in elevated life and of the highest character as witnesses; whereas we had been obliged to take up with those of the lowest condition.

This idea was circulated directly after the introduction of Isaac Parker, before mentioned; a simple mariner; and who was now contrasted with the admirals on the other side of the question.
This outcry was not only ungenerous, but unconstitutional.

It is the glory of the English law, that it has no scale of veracity, which it adapts to persons, according to the station, which they may be found to occupy in life.