The whole legislative authority would be in the King.

"That issue, gentlemen," he said, "I leave to God and to your consciences." [400] It was dark before the jury retired to consider of their verdict.

The night was a night of intense anxiety.

Some letters are extant which were despatched during that period of suspense, and which have therefore an interest of a peculiar kind.

"It is very late," wrote the Papal Nuncio; "and the decision is not yet known.