As portions of the general subject of proscription, mention may be properly made, in this place, of two

tageously read, from tbeso Miinifrti^ wliat tho80 diBtiiiguialicd lawyei'h wore nipalile of iluinp;, judicially, when tliey wore witliiu closed and closely guarded doors ; what tliey, then, regarded as olleuces hefore the law ; the nioihods which they adopted, in their inijuisitorial process ; and what their judgments were and what penalties they inllicted..

With these instiances of the capabilities of those two men before us, we have been enabled to umlorstand, more clearly than ever before, some of actions of the Chief .Instice and of the Ambassador which, previously, had needed ailditicjnal explanation.

1 I.M <)/ Pi-isniim ill llir I'ilij Hull, AV/r y„rl,; July 12, 1770, and I.i^l Pi-imiiicrs ill till- New (Imil, among the pa|>er8 of the Committee -- UiMiirUiil Miiiiiiirrijih, etc. : MitiilhiuenHs Pu/im, .\xxiv., 4!in.

- It will be remembered that the njiiiiimis of it.s victims, on rpiestious of Law, of Legislation, and of Political Economy, wei-e regardetl aa matters of oflence, even where no <"•( which was obnoxious had been ch.Trged against them ; and that, for those <.;»'iiiVi(w, only, in many instances, those viclims wrTe subjecti'd to punishini'nt. It will be remembered, also, that the Icad.'rs of the liidielliou a.ssumed the right of determining when and in what manner religious services sluuild be conducted by the (Ihurches, in the Colonies, and those for whom Churches anil individuals should and should not offer their prayers to Almighty God. In Cimnecticiit, every Kjiiscopalian Church, except one, was closed, because the Clergy would not sidunit to the requirements concerning their prayers to CJod ; and in that single exception, the courageous preacher maintained his relations with his Master, notwithstanding the opposition ; and the cowards did not seriously disturb him.