The works of the Rev. William Thom, late minister ... - waughfamily.ca

420 LETTERS, TRACTS, ijfc.but I fpeak of juftice : His words are more the groundof a procefs agiiinft him, than all the exprelhons withwhich the fludent hath been charged : He calls himan efprit forty that is, in the common ufe of the word,an unbeliever ; and he hath pointed out all the gentlemenof this city w^ho have fupported him, as abandonedand irreligious. The gentleman marked downthe expreflions jufl as they were uttered in court, andfliowed them to the reft of the bench : The judge whohad fpoke them tried to foften them, and to vindicatehimfeif,apology.but was thought to do himfelf harm by hisThis metaphyfician had, it feems, profecutedvifionary fpeculations with fo much avidity, thathe feemed to have loft all delicacy and fenfe of manners,and to have but a very ordinary fhare of commonfenfe left him. Hov/ever, the audience weregreatly relieved when they faw the tumult ended,without coming dire6l]y to blows.Chap. 41. By the tumult which had happened, theprocedure of the court was for fome time interrupted,but that tumult being happily appeafed, the bufmefswas refumed. And, iirft, the counfel protefted, thatthe defender's acquicfcing in the fentence ftiould notbe conftrued as a departure from the right he had toprofecute the college before the Court of Seflion forthe recovery of damages and expence. Then thejudge, who had contended for the alteration in ftyle,mentioned above, proceeded to be the executioner ofthe fentence. He was vifibly in great confunon ; hefpit •, he looked at the paper which contained his ownform of the fentence ; threw it down on the delk beforehim ; took up the other form of the fentence 5threw it down alfo, and took up his own again. Hecalled upon the defender, who ftood up, and he beganto tender the rebuke in the words he had formerlypropofed j but he was checked, and forced to conlinehimfelf to the form which the court had agreedupon. " I rebuke you," he faid, " for difrefpedful,