[1] _Modern State Trials_: Revised and Illustrated, with Essays and Notes. By WILLIAM C. TOWNSEND, Esq., M.A., Q.C., Recorder of Macclesfield. In 2 vols. 8vo. Longman & Co. 1850. [2] Lord Campbell has made considerable use of Mr Townsend's collection, and publicly acknowledged his obligations, in his _Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Lord Chief-Justices_. It is not impossible that we may, before long, present our readers with an extended examination of these two important works of the new Lord Chief-Justice of the Queen's Bench. [3] Introduction, vol. i., p. 7, 8. [4] Introduction, p. ix. [5] Townsend, vol. i. pp. 1, 2. [6] 4 Black. Com., pp. 81-2. [7] Townsend, vol i., p. 54. [8] Ibid. vol. i., p. 45. [9] "I thought _he was crying_," said one of the witnesses!--p. 23. [10] Stat. 7 Anne, c. 21, § 11. [11] Townsend, vol. i. p. 71. [12] Hall's Pleas of the Crown, part I., c. 14. [13] Townsend, p. 95. [14] 1 Townsend, pp. 99-100; and see the argument reported at length in Regina _v._ Frost, 9 Carr and Payne, 165-187. Of these fifteen Judges, only six are still on the Bench--Barons Parke, Alderson, Rolfe; and Justices Patteson, Coleridge, and Maule--nine having disappeared during the last ten years. It will be observed that the three chiefs of the Courts were of one way of thinking, viz. that there _had_ been a good delivery of the list of witnesses, in point of law. [15] 9 Carr and Payne, pp. 175-176. [16] _Souvenirs de la Vie Militaire en Afrique._ Par M. PIERRE DE CASTELLANE. Paris: 1850. [17] To ask the _aman_ is to implore mercy; to give it is to grant pardon. [18] In Africa, during the great heat, these _cabans_ or short cloaks are often worn, to keep off the rays of the sun. [19] The Arabs called General Changarnier the _Changarli_, the _Changarlo_. _Changar_ is an Arab word, signifying to quell or crush. _Ma changarch alina_; do not strike me down--do not crush me. [20] Sons of Turks by Arab women. [21] This missionary, originally a Jew, had become a Calvinist at Bâle, then had joined the Church of England, and had finally turned missionary, in consideration of a handsome recompence. He drove a great trade in Bibles, which he sold to the Tunis shopkeepers. The leaves of the sacred volume served to envelope Mussulman butter and soap. The Caïd's book, published at Carlsruhe, made a noise, was prohibited, and, thanks to the prohibition, had immense success.--Note by M. de Castellane. [22] _Blackwood's Magazine_, Vol. LXV., p. 20. [23] A band of irregular horsemen. [24] The Arab term for men of high family.