The Act upon this point was very clearly defined by Mr. Bennett, an eminent solicitor, in a case tried at the Duke of Cornwall Hotel, Plymouth, which entirely turned on the fact that _suspicion_ alone in the policeman’s mind justified his action, and that, further, he was not bound, when called on, to give the reasons of this suspicion. Footnote 28: Blackstone, Book iii. Footnote 29: M. Le Cour says that in Paris false accusations, by anonymous letters and otherwise, amount to several hundreds a week. In the case at Plymouth already alluded to, Inspector Annis of Plymouth being asked by Mr. Rooker, a magistrate, “Have you ever got anonymous letters accusing women?” replied, “We get lots of them.” Footnote 30: On the occasion of the trial of a young girl under these Acts in a certain town of Kent, a full bench of magistrates was assembled. She was condemned to a month’s imprisonment, and on leaving the court remarked, “I did find it rather hard that the gentleman on the bench who gave the casting vote for my imprisonment had paid me five shillings the day before to go with him!” Footnote 31: Creasy’s _Constitution_, pp. 225 and 227. Footnote 32: De Lolme, p. 171. Footnote 33: Blackstone, Book iii. p. 378. Footnote 34: Blackstone, Book iii. p. 379. Footnote 35: See Appendix A, p. 179. Footnote 36: Lieber in his work on Civil Liberty remarks that lawyers have rarely been the promoters of reform in the laws: he excepts “the immortal Sir Samuel Romilly” and a few others. Footnote 37: It is thus worded in the Charter of Henry III. Footnote 38: _English Constitution_, p. 204. Footnote 39: Blackstone, vol. i. p. 145. Footnote 40: Blackstone, Book iv. chap. 20. Footnote 41: