Excerpt from Speeches of Lord Erskine, Vol. 3: While at the Bar King, and tosubvert the rule and government Of the kingdom, and to depose the King from his royal state and government Of the kingdom, and to bring and put the King to death - maliciously and traitorously, and with force, did among them selves, and together with other false traitors, con spire, compass, and imagine, to excite insurrection, rebellion, and war, against the King, and to sub vert the legislature, rule, and government Of the kingdom, and to depose the King from the royal state and government Of the kingdom, and to bring and put our said lord the King to death. This is the whole charge. But as it is an Offence which has its seat in the heart, the treason being complete by the unconsummated intention, it is enacted by positive statute, and was indeed the ancient practice upon the general principles Of English law, that he who is accused Of this crime, which consists in the invisible Operations Of the mind, should have it distinctly disclosed to him upon the same records, what acts the Crown intends to establish, upon the trial, as indicative Of the treason; which acts do not constitute the crime, but are charged upon the record as the means employed by the prisoner to accomplish the intention against the King's life, which is the treason under the first branch Of the statute. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.