and rent the air with their
shouts, which even the soldiers repeated.[40]

[Footnote 40: See 2 Campbell's Justices, 95.]

Two of the Judges--Sir John Powell and Sir Richard Holloway--stood out
for law and justice, declaring such a petition to the King was not a
libel. They were presently thrust from their offices.

* * * * *

Gentlemen of the Jury, the Stuarts soon filled up the measure of their
time as of their iniquity, and were hustled from the throne of
England. But, alas, I shall presently remind you of some examples of
this tyranny in New England itself. Now I shall cite a few similar
cases of oppression which happened in the reign of the last King of
New England.

I just now spoke of Edmund Thurlow, showing what his character was and
by what means he gained his various offices, ministerial and judicial.
I will next show you one instance more of the evil which comes from
putting in office such men as are nothing but steps whereon despotism
mounts up to its bad eminence.

10. On the 8th of June, 1775,--it will be eighty years on the first
anniversary of Judge Curtis's charge to the grand-jury,--John Horne,
better known by his subsequent name John Horne Tooke, formerly a
clergyman but then a scholarly man devoting himself to letters and
politics--published the following notice in the _Morning Chronicle and
London Advertiser_, as well as other newspapers:--

"King's-Arms Tavern, Cornhill, June 7, 1775. At a special
meeting this day of several members of the Constitutional
Society, during an adjournment, a gentleman proposed that a
subscription should be immediately entered into by such of
the members present who might approve the purpose, for
raising the sum of L100, to be applied to the relief of the
widows, orphans, and aged parents of our beloved American
fellow-subjects, who, faithful to the character of
Englishmen, preferring death to slavery, were for that
reason only inhumanly murdered by the king's troops at or
near Lexington and Concord, in the province of
Massachusetts, on the 19th of last April; which sum being
immediately collected, it was thereupon resolved that Mr.
Horne do pay to-morrow into the hands of Mess. Brownes and
Collinson, on account of Dr. Franklin, the said sum of
100_l._ and that Dr. Franklin be requested to apply the same
to the above-mentioned purpose."

At that