* * * * * _Sir Joseph Jekyl._ [Sidenote: No innovation at the Revolution.] "If the Doctor instructed his counsel to insinuate that there was _any innovation in the Constitution wrought by the Revolution, it is an addition to his crime. The Revolution did not introduce any innovation; it was a restoration of the ancient fundamental Constitution of the kingdom_, and giving it its proper force and energy." * * * * * The Solicitor-General, Sir Robert Eyre, distinguishes expressly the case of the Revolution, and its principles, from a proceeding at pleasure, on the part of the people, to change their ancient Constitution, and to frame a new government for themselves. He distinguishes it with the same care from the principles of regicide and republicanism, and the sorts of resistance condemned by the doctrines of the Church of England, and which ought to be condemned by the doctrines of all churches professing Christianity. * * * * * _Mr. Solicitor-General, Sir Robert Eyre._ [Sidenote: Revolution no precedent for voluntary cancelling allegiance.] [Sidenote: Revolution not like the case of Charles the First.] "The resistance at the Revolution, which was founded in _unavoidable necessity_, could be no defence to a man that was attacked _for asserting that the people might cancel their allegiance at pleasure, or dethrone and murder their sovereign by a judiciary sentence_. For it can never be inferred, from the lawfulness of resistance at a time when _a total subversion of the government both in Church and State was intended_, that a people may take up arms and _call their sovereign to account at pleasure_; and therefore, since _the Revolution could be of no service in giving the least color for asserting any such wicked principle_, the Doctor could never intend to put it into the mouths of those new preachers and new politicians for a defence,--unless it be his opinion that the resistance at the Revolution can bear any parallel with _the execrable murder of the royal martyr, so justly detested by the whole nation_." [Sidenote: Sacheverell's doctrine intended to bring an odium on the Revolution.] [Sidenote: True defence of the Revolution an absolute necessity.]