ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the concluding part of the lecture 'On Prosecutions for Pretended Treason' delivered on the anniversary of the arrest of the patriots. Queen Mary, on account of her religion and intolerance, has spoken of with a degree of severity which is certainly as much as she is entitled to; she had one merit, however, which ought not to be forgotten; she expressed, by public act, her detestation of making words Treason; repealed all the encroaching statutes that had been made; and again fixed the limits of Treason by the 25th Edward III. Since the French revolution, ministers who were not thinking fit to alter the law of Treason as often as they wished to extend the limits, have induced their judges to appeal to fictions and evasions.
