Admiralty Influence against me.—Appointment of Mr. Lavie as
Prosecutor.—The Trial.—Crane, the Hackney
Coachman.—Indecision of his Evidence.—Lord Ellenborough’s
Charge, and unjustifiable Assumptions.—Report of the Trial
falsified; or rather made up for the Occasion.—Evidence,
how got up.—Proved to be positive Perjury.—This confirmed
by subsequent Affidavits of respectable Tradesmen.—Another
Charge in Store for me, had not this succeeded.—The chief
Witness’s Conviction.—His subsequent Transportation and
Liberation.—Affidavits of my Servants, Thomas Dewman, Mary
Turpin, and Sarah Bust.—My second Affidavit.—Appeal from
my Conviction refused.—Expulsion from the House.—Minority
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