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This importunate person is with you?
George Pinnock, sir.
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I hope I will be allowed to
remind you of the place for me,
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at the Admiralty.
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You will not be forgotten.
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I will use my influence with Hill
to get him to give over Samuel.
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So Melville wills and Garrow acts.
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What can I do?
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Nothing.
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Your son... Take him.
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I've come for my son.
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Let it be known that the candidates
for the seat of Westminster
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are Sir Cecil Wray
and Sir Charles Fox.
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I hereby declare this
place of voting now open.
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ALL: Fox, Fox, Fox, Fox, Fox!
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GRUNTS AND SCREAMS
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KNOCK AT THE DOOR
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Sarah?
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Mr Garrow, forgive me.
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I know there are things to contrive.
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I would take that burden from you
and from Lady Sarah if you wish it.
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For the laying to rest.
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Sarah's not at home.
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She may not be so for some time.
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But I will see to those matters.
I would take it...
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I will see to it.
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Thank you.
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Then I shall be about my business.
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Oh, see who comes.
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A man who would rule the world
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if only he could stay out of
the courts long enough.
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Oh, God. What now?
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Who gave you this?
Who gave you this?
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Cannot the man have one
day without incident?
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MELVILLE CHUCKLES
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Scuppered by the foy
madness of a woman in the...
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Sir, there is such wickedness
as hell cannot conceive
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in this vile place.
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Sir, I am the man
to find a barrister
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to represent your case in court.
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But you must help me with answers.
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I walked from Ludgate Hill
to Covent Garden
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where constables obstructed
my effort to vote for Mr Fox.
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And blows were exchanged?
To my discredit...
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yes.
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Whereupon I was taken in. And were to be
charged with the breaking of the peace.
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I was told it would be so.
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But as I stood before the magistrate
I heard the charge as murder.
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Such was the haste of that
dialogue that I only now know,
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because you tell me, who it is
I am said to have murdered!
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Mr Joseph Casson. Who you neither
knew, saw, nor struck down that day?
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Never!
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On my oath.
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Well, if that is so
we shall bring it out.
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And I hope we shall have
the best man to argue it.
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I have money.
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Oh! I fear money alone may not lay
hold of this man's interest, sir.
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I may have to recruit Mr Southouse,
God rest his soul, to our cause.
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Good day, sir.
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Ah, Sir Arthur, how splendid!
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My Lord Melville.
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I noted you with a
messenger just now.
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Not troubling news, I hope?
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It need not detain us, my Lord.
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But, please.
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You know well your troubles are mine.
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All too often, perhaps.
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THEY SNIGGER
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The news was of my son.
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(I fear the boy is
abducted by its mother.)
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The boy is abducted by its mother?!
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My Lord, please.
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Should you not now scurry away
and take care of that trouble?
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It will, I think, keep.
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At least until we have
discussed other matters.
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I am here, as arranged,
to learn news of my new post.
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I gave Prime Minister Pitt a
true appraisal of your qualities.
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And I trust you will not
be disappointed with
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Second Under Secretary to his
Ministry for Harbours and Landings.
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Harbours and Landings?
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By far the most
prestigious position on,
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ahem, the Yorkshire coastline.
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You expected more?
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My Lord, I feel... for the service
I gave I am owed more than that!
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Owed, sir?
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Yes, sir. Owed, sir.
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Then I must put plain what I
have long wished to report.
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Gentlemen, look upon Sir Arthur Hill,
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whose extravagant self-pity is
out-weighed only by his vanity.
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And his vanity is often bested by
an ignorance of the most crude
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political skill.
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He is of no use.
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None at all.
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My Lord. Good day, sir.
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Go now and see to your
ridiculous wife and her paramour.
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MELVILLE LAUGHS
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It is a murder, Mr Garrow,
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of a gentleman struck down on voting
day for the Westminster seat...
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Mr Pinnock...
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You will see here that, although
constables were sent in
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to keep the peace at election
that day, that they themselves
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lay into the crowd of voters
with their batons.
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Mr Pinnock, did I not
make myself plain?
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I did not ask for your service
in preparing this brief.
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Indeed, I have not asked
for the brief at all.
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I see your humour, Mr Garrow,
and accept that you did not.
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But I thought you knew...
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Mr Southouse did.
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You will explain yourself.
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He had me set the case aside and
mark the date of its beginning.
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He spoke of it...
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as a nonsense that you might
enjoy being appalled by.
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Come on!
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PEOPLE SHOUT
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We begin, Miss Casson.
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Garrow, I...
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knew you a good servant to Mr Fox
and his kind, but I thought
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the sad business of Mr Southouse
would have kept you from this place.
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It seems it is Mr Southouse
himself who will not let me.
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Mr Silvester?
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My Lord, gentlemen.
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Amid the noise and clamour of an
election for that very important seat
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of Westminster, a great body of
men, friends and supporters
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of that radical Mr Fox,
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did attack local constables sent
to keep the peace.
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PEOPLE MURMUR
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I will show by evidence
that this fellow Nicholson
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did knock the aged and innocent
Joseph Casson to the ground...
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PEOPLE MURMUR
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rained down violent
blows upon his head
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and, in doing so, took his life.
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I call the witness, Thomas Davy.
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I came upon a sight
of great spectacle.
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Supporters of Mr Fox and Sir Cecil
Wray crying out for and against.
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The butchers, as tradition demands,
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clacking together their
marrowbones and cleavers.
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And the whole scene...
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Mr Davy!
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Might you leave off
these dazzling depictions
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to those of the press paid to do it?
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LAUGHTER
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The matter here is murder.
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I ask your pardon, my Lord.
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Indeed, the mood then did darken.
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As Fox's ruffians, armed
with bludgeons, sought to
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satisfy their violent appetites.
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And in the ensuing melee,
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you saw Joseph Casson
struck and fall?
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I saw this man, as clear as you
see him now, with arm raised high.
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And I saw the man I know now to be
Joseph Casson fallen to the ground.
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LOUD MURMURS
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I see here, in the margin
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of the magistrate's record of your
statement, there is a note added.
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Added by a very fine attorney.
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Tell me if it is, as he puts it
here, that you are the man,
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"Who passes his days
abusing with fine language"
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"those gentlemen associated
with Mr Fox"
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"and did once throw dirt at
the person of Mr Fox himself."
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Do you question my honour, sir?
Were you not also paid, sir,
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paid to rally against all
those who stood for Mr Fox?
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In fact, is not your performance here
a continuation of that employment?
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How dare you that?
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Who but a Fox man
such as you, sir,
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would defend this other Fox man?
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Mr Davy, we are not
voting here today.
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We are about a man's life.
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Do you claim you saw the blow struck,
sir, that murdered Mr Casson?
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I saw the tableau of that
tragic death most vivid.
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Answer the question, Mr Davy.
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Did you see this "Fox man"
strike Joseph Casson?
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I will confess it.
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I did not.
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LOUD MURMURS
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You cannot say that this
man struck the blow.
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Your prejudice is clear.
This prosecution is fantastical.
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Now, gentlemen...
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Uh, Mr Garrow...
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Where is Lady Sarah?
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To answer plainly, I do not know.
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I wish most sincerely that I did.
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You would have me believe you played
no part in her abduction of my son?
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I know nothing of this, sir.
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Nothing.
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But if it be true...
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I know nothing of where
she or they might be.
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Believe me.
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And you will believe this.
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Your sour inamorata has once
again sabotaged my career
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and my prospects.
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Such scandal in the
hands of Lord Melville
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is a poison to my endeavour.
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Are you not Faust to his devil, sir?
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No, sir!
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And even if Sarah is run
off to France with the boy,
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I will pursue her.
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And I will bring an end to this.
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Sir Sampson Wright, there is
a problem at the Bailey,
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with the witness. Find another.
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Go, too.
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I call Joshua Gilmore.
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I do not see this man
on the indictment.
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With your permission, my Lord.
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The man I would call
is a new discovery.
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I will allow it.
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Mr Silvester, continue.
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Mr Gilmore, you were at the
Covent Garden on May the 10th
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and saw the fracas involving
this man Nicholson?
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I did, sir.
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And saw Joseph Casson struck by
that man in the blood red coat,
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Hubert Nicholson, with a large stick
with a nub to the end of it.
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Are you sure that that man was
the man struck the deceased?
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I'm sure of it. Upon my word,
upon my honour and upon my oath.
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ASSENTING MURMURS
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Sir, you appear nowhere in the coroner
or magistrate's account of this matter.
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Why did you not go before the
coroner to report any of this?
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My reason was this, sir.
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I, er, came up to the Bailey
yesterday about a little
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business I have of my own
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and saw from the notices displayed
that this matter was to be tried.
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You came here by chance yesterday?
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Yes, sir. I see.
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Do you not agree, although
I myself believe every
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breath of your testimony,
that for the gentlemen of the jury,
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there might be some small
room for speculation?
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That the first you heard
of this business was today
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in some small coffee
house off Silver Street?
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Where certain officers of the law gave
you this speech to learn by heart?
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They would scapegoat this
man and corrupt this court.
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I have objection, my Lord.
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Once again, he all but
lectures the jurymen.
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Mr Silvester, whilst I
abhor Mr Garrow's habit
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of gossiping with my jury,
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I feel I can only agree
with his concerns.
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I've heard enough.
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Gentlemen, even supposing you can
possibly credit the witnesses
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examined for the prosecution,
you will find nowhere, I regret,
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a reliable account so to connect
Nicholson to the death of Casson.
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But it is for you to determine whether
you will not acquit the prisoner.
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My Lord, we find not guilty.
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PEOPLE GASP
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Court shall rise.
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KNOCK AT THE DOOR
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Miss Casson.
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Mr Garrow.
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Forgive my calling at your home.
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But I am occupied by a question
and have need of your help.
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I regret I am unable to give it.
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Being concerned at
present with other things.
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I confess I was bewildered by what I saw
pass for justice in court yesterday.
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Madam, justice was hardly present,
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and little of what you
saw was concerned with
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the death of your dear father.
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I saw the trial was,
in great part, politics.
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And I am at most naive in
matters political but...
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Madam, forgive me, but for the sake
of your own peace,
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you might let go of
the cold mechanisms
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of your father's passing and...
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allow instead the fonder memories
of his living to replace them.
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If you ask that of me,
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then you do not understand
grief at all, sir.
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Madam, I promise I do.
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You enter a room...
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expecting him there and he is not.
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You smile at some small thing and
anticipate recounting it to him
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but you cannot.
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You chase a painful idea...
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around in your head that,
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"If only I had done or not done this
or that thing..."
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"..he would still be
standing beside me now."
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But you cannot.
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And he is not.
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It seems...
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you have the shape of my grief.
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I wonder, then, how you refuse
a service which might,
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in some degree, abate it.
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Is it not your profession?
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It is.
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But forgive me, I am taken up
by a disquietude of spirit
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and by my own sorrows.
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I fear you will discover
that this inaction
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shall only compound your distress.
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Miss Casson.
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You say you are occupied
by a question?
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A simple one.
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If Mr Nicholson did not kill my
father, I would know who did.
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It is far from orthodox, Pinnock,
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and I am sure that your
uncle Mr Southouse would
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protest at this being your first
lesson in the business of attorney.
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However, a double crime
has been committed.
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One against a free man who
wished only to vote.
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The other, the murder
of a decent man.
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We will act for Miss Casson, first
as investigator, then as prosecutor.
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We will find the guilty party
by first finding witnesses to
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the events at Covent Garden.
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Mrs Jacob of St. Martin's Lane.
Mr Abbott, Beadle of St. Paul's.
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William Foskett of Beech Street.
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Mr Nicholson gave up
this information.
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And you would trust
Mr Nicholson impartial?
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I spoke to Foskett and Abbott and
they both, to my ear, sound true.
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Yet they were invisible
in Nicholson's defence.
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Well, both claim they were
turned away from the magistrates
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by police constables.
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Ha! I see you are well suited to
espying things well hidden, sir.
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Perhaps we will exchange roles.
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I would have you find Lady Sarah.
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I will see to it.
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And I will see the man who
commands these constables.
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Sir Sampson Wright
passes his regrets, sir.
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He is detained with matters of...
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VIOLIN PLAYS
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Mr Garrow.
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I see you would be Nero, sir, as
London burns with your injustices.
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And I see you are vexed, sir.
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Is your objection to my playing?
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Or to some small matter of law?
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Here listed, are my objections.
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You, sir, are directed to protect
the free citizens of this society
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and yet you made war against
a gathering of its people.
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You, sir, are a mechanism of justice
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and yet when a man was
killed in your unjust war,
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you twisted your efforts
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so an innocent man
would hang for it.
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You, sir, are charged with
safeguarding a frail democracy
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and yet, because you fear that Mr
Fox will win the Westminster seat,
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and from there challenge this
illegitimate government, you had
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your men steal the right to do so
from those who would vote for him.
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Hm.
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You do not deny this last?
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Or any of it.
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And do the heavens shake?
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No.
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But you've made your brave
liberal speech. Bravo.
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Although I fear the world outside
this window is not changed.
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Have you no deeds in you
or just more clacking?
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HE RESUMES PLAYING
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Indeed, no more clacking!
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Mr Garrow.
He will regret this provocation!
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Mr Garrow, I've got
news on the other matter.
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Concerning Sarah? Yes.
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So soon, how?
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Sir Arthur Hill cast a
wide net for information.
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So I merely diverted the
fish into me own hands.
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And is she in this country still?
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She is. You'll find
her at this place.
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William.
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Sarah.
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I'd thought you in France.
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Sir Arthur is wild at
you for this outrage.
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And also finds himself out of favour
which angers him still more.
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William. I... I fear that he will...
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bring this anger to your door.
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I have acted wrongly, Sarah.
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We have both acted on
inescapable need.
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Yours to be bound by principle.
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And mine to be with my son.
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We have tried always to
change our circumstance,
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by law, by pleas, by threats.
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Yet I cannot turn and
walk away from here.
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I would so have you stay.
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You would scarce believe how empty
our small rooms are without you.
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My small bed is too
large and too desolate.
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I cannot look back at
what I have left behind.
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Mr Jenner, William Jenner, reported,
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"And there came a
head constable with
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silver-tipped bludgeon
striking most violently."
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The military fellow, Garston?
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Captain Garston, "The general cry
was very strong that Mr Casson"
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"was knocked down by a constable."
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"This man, a long-faced fellow,
with a scar... here, was very busy"
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"and struck away very violently."
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As the Fox supporters waited
to gain entry to the vote,
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the constables on the
steps did push 'em back,
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raining blows on all who
made to come forward.
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You would have given
such evidence had you
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not been prevented
by the magistrate?
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I would. And told the court
I saw what man it was
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struck down the old fellow Casson.
You saw who struck the blow?
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The fellow made a blow at me.
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He wore a two-curled wig.
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There was about him
something devilish,
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and just here, a vivid scar.
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Will you help us identify him?
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Constable, I am William Garrow,
barrister. What is your name?
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I know you, sir.
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I'm Richard Lucas.
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Constable Lucas. As a free citizen,
I make here an arrest...
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Damn you, barrister! ..
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For charges of the
murder of Joseph Casson!
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THEY SHOUT OVER EACH OTHER
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Let him have his say.
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I will not stop him.
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You seek to bring charges,
sir, against this constable?
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I do. And act on behalf of Miss Emeline
Casson, daughter of a murdered father.
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For which murder
I charge Richard Lucas.
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Order is given,
the charge be examined.
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I thought myself dead
and visited by a vision.
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Guardian angel, perhaps.
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I fear you have need of one, William.
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What brought you back?
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William...
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I have thought
on what I comprehend of my husband.
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His weakness is power.
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That is what we must feed.
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And, by some fashion, convince him
to give up Samuel voluntarily,
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we must bargain him into agreement.
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00:33:35,521 --> 00:33:38,439
What goods have we to sell, Sarah?
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00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:41,920
His hunger for power has put him
the wrong side of Lord Melville.
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00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:47,279
He now stands in great need
of influence.
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00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:49,679
We must exploit that need.
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00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:54,320
Perhaps Melville is the goods.
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00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:01,719
Think on this, that Melville did
expose an unguarded flank.
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00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:06,319
He was most keen I should not explore
his interests in the colonies.
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00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:07,439
Why?
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We will search Lord Melville's
pockets...
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and we will find his transgression.
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Mr Garrow.
What is this rough treatment?
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Sir, I am no fist-fighting man,
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but neither am I a man
whose obligations
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can be deflected by
blows or threats.
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Admirable spirit.
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I trust a hot head will not cloud
your attempts to prosecute Mr Lucas?
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It will not.
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And rest assured that I aim an axe
not at the branch but at the tree.
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Mr Garrow.
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My Lord. Gentlemen.
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Another jury on another day,
in this court...
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has made judgment already that the
supposed guardians of the peace...
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did falsely accuse an
innocent of murder.
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MURMURING
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This jury will judge
if it be true or not...
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that this constable,
a peace officer,
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a man in whose hands the
good order of society is held,
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did commit the act that brought
the death of Joseph Casson.
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If this be true,
as I will seek to prove, gentlemen,
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there must be great concern to limit
the power of those
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who command this constabulary,
this standing army...
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who act against the good of all,
and for their own ends.
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My Lord, I call Mrs Jacob.
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Did you see a patrol of constables
strike with cudgels
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those gathered at Covent Garden
on May 10th?
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I did, sir. And did you see who
struck Joseph Casson?
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I did. That fellow, Lucas.
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And struck him where, Mrs Jacob?
On the left side, on the temple.
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00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:30,079
Madam, how many do you judge crowded
outside the election place at this time?
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Close to 100 constables
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and 500 to vote for Fox or for Wray.
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00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:39,119
And, betwixt yourself
and the tragic moment,
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a tableau of shifting, animated
life, full of noise and haste.
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00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:46,639
I saw what I saw, sir.
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00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:50,439
You seem of great conviction to not
even question your own certainty.
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I have questioned my memory of the
event... Ah, you have questioned it?
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You have doubted it was Mr Lucas
you saw?
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That is not what I meant, sir.
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I think the jury have heard you.
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Mrs Jacob, for clarity.
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Have you doubt that it was Lucas you saw
make the blow that killed Joseph Casson?
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I have not.
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Thank you.
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00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:18,920
My Lord, I would question
the defendant, Richard Lucas.
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00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:21,520
Very well.
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00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:25,879
Mr Lucas. Before your present post
as constable,
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00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:27,560
you were a soldiering man?
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I was, for ten years.
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00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:34,000
Served in the American War
under Sir Hector Monroe,
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fighting for the East India Company.
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Now you are captain of constables
in your own patrol?
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Yes.
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And during your years as a soldier,
did you often disobey a command?
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Never, sir.
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You think that impertinent of me?
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I do! It's against all I know.
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The chain of command is a strength.
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It is the heart and power
of the regiment.
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00:37:56,880 --> 00:38:00,519
And of a patrol?
I do not follow you, sir.
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Your patrol.
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00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:04,680
Instructed in its duties by whom?
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Given orders by who, sir?
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00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:14,759
Chief Magistrate Sir Sampson Wright.
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MURMURING
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00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:19,720
My Lord, I call Sir Sampson Wright.
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00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:28,679
Did you command constables
from the Tower Hamlets to go to
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Covent Garden election
ballot on May 10th?
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I did.
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00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:34,640
They were to...
And did it not fall to you
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to brief them on the
detail of their task?
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My Lord. Yet again, we follow a line
of such tremendous irrelevance.
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00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:42,399
Mr Garrow, what is your purpose here?
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My Lord, it is my intention to show
that the death of Joseph Casson
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came in the course of another
criminal act,
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that of perverting
the democratic process.
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And therefore?
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00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:57,799
My Lord, where an accomplice is
involved, it matters not
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if this accomplice struck no blow or
was not close by the scene.
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00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:06,159
And you wish to extend the charge to
other constables?
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00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:08,439
Not to other constables, my Lord.
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00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:10,960
MURMURING
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Mr Garrow, Mr Silvester, I will see
you in my chambers. We adjourn!
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Explain yourself, Mr Garrow.
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If Sampson Wright sent the
constables into Covent Garden
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00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:25,720
with the express
intention of preventing
500
00:39:25,721 --> 00:39:27,879
supporters of Mr Fox
from casting their vote,
501
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:31,599
then he set in motion a crime that
led to the death of Joseph Casson.
502
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:33,759
And if you prove that to
have been his aim,
503
00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:37,559
you would make a case to prosecute
the chief magistrate?
504
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:41,239
I would, my Lord.
Charged with constructive murder.
505
00:39:41,240 --> 00:39:45,839
I hardly believe this. Sampson Wright!
Peer of His Majesty's Government?
506
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:49,639
What we consider in this place,
Mr Silvester, is a man's deeds,
507
00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:51,239
not his title.
508
00:39:51,240 --> 00:39:56,039
My Lord, surely you cannot
give this idea light?
509
00:39:56,040 --> 00:40:00,680
Cannot? Mr Silvester,
you are not yet made judge.
510
00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:05,799
I will allow that you
follow this line.
511
00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:09,720
You may have your duel
with Sampson Wright.
512
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:15,080
We will adjourn until tomorrow.
513
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:29,519
Sarah? Have you informed Mr Pinnock
that you have eyes on his position?
514
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:33,959
William, all of these papers chart the
business of Lord Melville's Admiralty.
515
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:37,599
They record the flow of goods and the
funds for purchase of those goods.
516
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:41,359
Somewhere here, we will find Lord
Melville's transgressions exposed.
517
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:43,239
And how are you so sure?
518
00:40:43,240 --> 00:40:45,959
Because he's a politician,
and they're unable to handle
519
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:48,639
the public purse without emptying
some into their own.
520
00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:50,999
I had not known that you esteemed
them so high.
521
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,360
You forget, sir, I married one.
522
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:58,079
George...
An exceptional thing, Mr Garrow.
523
00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:00,000
The fellow you prosecute, Mr Lucas.
524
00:41:00,001 --> 00:41:04,000
He's asked to speak with you this
hour in his cell, at Bow Street.
525
00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:29,480
Mr Garrow.
526
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:46,399
Is it not custom for a man charged
as you are, sir,
527
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:50,519
to seek out the barrister for him,
rather than the man opposed?
528
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:53,199
There'll be time
enough for Mr Silvester's counsel.
529
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:55,839
He will tell it, I shall not hang.
530
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:58,480
I will tell it, I know I shall.
531
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:01,760
That will end our business.
532
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:06,320
But I wish to hear, in plain
words, your business.
533
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:12,159
You must know you will put no
noose around Sampson Wright's neck.
534
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:13,320
Why not?
535
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:19,320
There is no man, and surely a constable
must agree, who stands above the law.
536
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:24,840
As a man with little time left to
him, I welcome your straightness.
537
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:31,720
Then give me some
straight speaking in return, sir.
538
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:35,640
Are you minded to defend
Sampson Wright?
539
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:39,919
What you said in the courtroom
was more than true.
540
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:44,040
What applies to a regiment, applies
also to a patrol of constables.
541
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:48,960
A man must follow orders...
542
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:52,839
and hold his tongue.
543
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:54,240
But?
544
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:58,039
There is a "but" at the back of
your tongue, sir.
545
00:42:58,040 --> 00:42:59,800
You would do well to speak out.
546
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:16,999
All manner of merchandise.
547
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:20,879
Indigo dye, saltpetre, tea, opium.
548
00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:23,919
Nothing damning carries
Lord Melville's signature on it.
549
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:26,839
Nothing to stain his character.
550
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:28,800
He takes great caution...
Except this.
551
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:36,040
Relating to speculation in land...
552
00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:39,320
in Trinidad.
553
00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:49,359
We mustered at the Wood Street Hotel
to have the names called over.
554
00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:53,760
The 30 I captained, any recruiting
sergeant would turn away.
555
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:56,679
Many fresh from a Newgate cell.
556
00:43:56,680 --> 00:44:00,560
Most held a constable's bludgeon
in his hand for the first time.
557
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:06,680
And all the while, the clamour
outside tightening our nerves.
558
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:09,360
We waited on instruction.
559
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:14,599
Instruction from Sampson Wright?
The same.
560
00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:19,000
He took it on himself. He was Henry
at Agincourt, such was his oratory.
561
00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:24,720
He called the day the last to save
the soul of a nation.
562
00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:29,600
Fox was the enemy. Fox was a devil.
563
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:35,719
His supporters would have us
live like Frenchmen in our own land.
564
00:44:35,720 --> 00:44:38,279
We must swing out with fervour.
565
00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:40,120
And they were won
over by all of this?
566
00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:42,840
They were.
567
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:46,039
Every one of them.
568
00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:48,320
And God forgive me,
I was the same.
569
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:56,759
My blood and nerves filled up
by the glory of battle recalled.
570
00:44:56,760 --> 00:44:59,599
30,000 of us
571
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:02,040
against Washington's raw troops.
572
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:06,039
British ships in New York Harbour,
573
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:09,440
shaking the ground beneath your feet
with cannon fire.
574
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:12,280
Farmhouses burning.
575
00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:17,479
Shattered men screaming
in the blind, choking smoke.
576
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:21,200
And above all of this,
the one purpose.
577
00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:27,199
To seek out and put down your enemy.
578
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:30,760
Those men at Covent Garden were
not your enemy, sir.
579
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:33,840
As the fog dispersed,
I saw they were not.
580
00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:39,320
They were men like Joseph Casson.
581
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:44,600
He was under my cudgel before
I could hold back this...
582
00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:47,560
drummed up anger.
583
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:51,220
Mr Lucas, unless I am
sufficient as your confessor,
584
00:45:51,221 --> 00:45:53,639
you would do well to
testify this in court.
585
00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:57,839
And Sampson Wright will be revealed.
586
00:45:57,840 --> 00:46:00,960
Unless, of course, it is some other
arrangement that you seek?
587
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:03,280
A pardon?
588
00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:07,120
I fear there's no pardon
to be had for me from this.
589
00:46:07,121 --> 00:46:09,840
No, sir. Not in this life.
590
00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:13,879
Then the next one?
591
00:46:13,880 --> 00:46:15,600
I am not the judge of that.
592
00:46:22,720 --> 00:46:25,159
Then I will say my piece...
593
00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:26,840
in this one.
594
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:50,839
Mr Lucas is to be moved.
595
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:52,960
I have had word he is for Newgate.
596
00:46:56,640 --> 00:46:59,919
I believe, unless his philosophy
is entirely altered,
597
00:46:59,920 --> 00:47:02,559
Sir Arthur will wrench this
evidence from your hand.
598
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:04,359
Indeed, this will do it.
599
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:06,679
Well hidden, in plainest sight.
600
00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:08,400
But no less explosive for that.
601
00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:11,840
I shall take my leave.
602
00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:18,000
And I shall take this to the man
who will best use it.
603
00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:48,680
I am to have your child.
604
00:48:45,160 --> 00:48:47,399
Comedy or a tragedy?
Sir Arthur.
605
00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:50,919
I had a three-shilling ticket to
a box at Sadler's Wells.
606
00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:53,400
This performance is
worth foregoing that.
607
00:48:53,401 --> 00:48:55,879
But is it a tragedy of
vaulting ambition denied,
608
00:48:55,880 --> 00:48:59,959
or a comedy full of
fools and mismatched love?
609
00:48:59,960 --> 00:49:03,639
I suppose you as weary of this extended
skirmish we conduct, as I am myself.
610
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:08,639
So be it. If I hurry I still make
the second half. Good evening, sir.
611
00:49:08,640 --> 00:49:12,240
But you will miss the opportunity
to avenge Lord Melville.
612
00:49:22,640 --> 00:49:25,799
If you have the means, I would
have you share it, sir.
613
00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:27,719
I will.
614
00:49:27,720 --> 00:49:30,440
There is a price on it.
615
00:49:38,360 --> 00:49:40,320
No sharp words for me this fine day,
sir?
616
00:49:41,720 --> 00:49:44,959
There will be opportunity to converse
with me from the witness stand, sir.
617
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:47,199
Mr Garrow,
618
00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:51,040
I am unsure whether to admire your
optimism or mock it.
619
00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:03,479
Mr Fox.
620
00:50:03,480 --> 00:50:05,879
What could bring you here this day?
621
00:50:05,880 --> 00:50:07,920
Why, YOU do, sir.
622
00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:12,040
You do.
623
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:25,839
George?
624
00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:27,480
Thank you.
625
00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:40,999
There is a matter I've
struggled much with.
626
00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:43,360
I hand this to you, for my client.
627
00:50:44,640 --> 00:50:49,240
I fear Mr Lucas will not be
with us today.
628
00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:21,159
We cannot continue.
My Lord Buller, this is a barbarity!
629
00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:24,999
Consequent upon the death in confinement
of the accused, Richard Lucas...
630
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:27,120
You will not silence anyone
with this treachery, sir!
631
00:51:27,121 --> 00:51:29,239
I have here a man's statement!
632
00:51:29,240 --> 00:51:32,959
I am required to dismiss
the gentlemen of the jury...
633
00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:35,799
"I, Richard Lucas, fearing I will
not survive this night
634
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:38,959
and that my death will cheat both
jury and hangman's noose..."
635
00:51:38,960 --> 00:51:42,839
and bring this trial to its end.
Jury is dismissed!
636
00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:45,399
"..Will have it known by what agency
the men of my patrol were"
637
00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:48,279
"sent to lay violence upon
those minded to"
638
00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:51,720
"vote against the Government
and to Mr Charles Fox."
639
00:51:52,720 --> 00:51:54,239
CHANTING: Fox, Fox, Fox, Fox!
640
00:51:54,240 --> 00:51:56,760
"Chief Magistrate Sir
Sampson Wright, by his
641
00:51:56,761 --> 00:51:59,279
own impassioned appeal
to our baser selves
642
00:51:59,280 --> 00:52:01,879
"and demands for blood,
643
00:52:01,880 --> 00:52:05,439
"did stoke up the fury of those
constables
644
00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:10,479
"and did so fierce set my own
savagery that I did strike out"
645
00:52:10,480 --> 00:52:15,320
"and take the life of the innocent
Joseph Casson."
646
00:52:19,520 --> 00:52:22,320
"May God have mercy on my soul."
647
00:52:39,560 --> 00:52:41,640
They fear us, Mr Garrow.
648
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:47,879
We kick at the tent poles.
649
00:52:47,880 --> 00:52:51,480
We do not fit and we will not
change...
650
00:52:53,040 --> 00:52:55,440
and so we irk them.
651
00:52:57,440 --> 00:53:00,399
Our enemies, our detractors.
652
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:03,999
My apologies to you, sir. You did
not come here to see a trial lost.
653
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:06,919
No, I came to support
a man who toils
654
00:53:06,920 --> 00:53:10,680
because he recognises a fellow
innocent unless shown otherwise.
655
00:53:12,120 --> 00:53:14,680
And because he aches for change.
656
00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:19,399
And you have not lost.
657
00:53:19,400 --> 00:53:22,000
Your prey has only gone to ground.
658
00:53:24,280 --> 00:53:27,360
We will flush him out,
and others like him.
659
00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:32,840
And I hope that your conscience
will be my light...
660
00:53:34,160 --> 00:53:38,680
and that my influence can be yours.
661
00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:59,119
By God, sir! I have no more time for
your whining!
662
00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:01,559
Did I not speak my mind plain
enough?
663
00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:04,479
My Lord, such is my humour today
664
00:54:04,480 --> 00:54:08,280
I might suffer the very worst of your
bombardments and yet smile.
665
00:54:10,600 --> 00:54:11,799
See? Like so.
666
00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:15,959
Now I fear you are mad from your
continuing wife troubles, no doubt.
667
00:54:15,960 --> 00:54:19,120
Not mad, sir, but elevated,
by a secret revealed.
668
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:23,319
And expressed in just three
plain words.
669
00:54:23,320 --> 00:54:25,879
Aye, sir. Mister. William. Garrow.
670
00:54:25,880 --> 00:54:30,079
No, sir. He is the source, but the
secret lies in three more words.
671
00:54:30,080 --> 00:54:33,080
The Trinidad Treasury.
672
00:54:35,240 --> 00:54:36,799
Ah, my Lord Melville.
673
00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:41,319
I see the cogs in your noggin turning
fit to smoke on their pins.
674
00:54:41,320 --> 00:54:43,759
Sir Arthur.
675
00:54:43,760 --> 00:54:45,920
Did I not say, since
last we spoke, that I
676
00:54:45,921 --> 00:54:48,079
have been with the Prime
Minister once again?
677
00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:50,639
See the pitiful architect left
now among his ruins.
678
00:54:50,640 --> 00:54:53,719
And he did ask after you.
679
00:54:53,720 --> 00:54:57,999
I fear, sir, I have you so in my grip I
might command you strip to your skin
680
00:54:58,000 --> 00:55:00,919
and climb the chandeliers
like a baboon.
681
00:55:00,920 --> 00:55:03,479
And we spoke most warmly
of you. Indeed...
682
00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:08,879
Shut up your mouth! And listen now to
this, you addled bag of stench.
683
00:55:08,880 --> 00:55:12,439
You burnt all bridges with me
when last we met.
684
00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:16,559
In front of those cronies who,
you shall see,
685
00:55:16,560 --> 00:55:18,839
will turn their backs
on you most instantly.
686
00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:23,759
Sir Arthur, I ask you first to think how
we might contrive to resolve this...
687
00:55:23,760 --> 00:55:26,039
circumstance.
688
00:55:26,040 --> 00:55:30,240
Oh, but I have. And I think such
sport deserves an audience.
689
00:55:34,640 --> 00:55:36,320
Do you not find?
690
00:55:44,600 --> 00:55:48,640
Now, these fine fellows carry
a notice of impeachment...
691
00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:52,240
with your name upon it.
692
00:55:53,800 --> 00:55:56,400
For misappropriation of
Treasury funds.
693
00:56:02,320 --> 00:56:03,880
Make way there!
694
00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:09,640
Make way for yesterday's man!
695
00:56:30,800 --> 00:56:32,680
Sarah. William.
696
00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:38,719
You did journey well here?
697
00:56:38,720 --> 00:56:42,799
Yes. Fair well. Though I took the
road through Knightsbridge village,
698
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:44,879
which, as ever,
is in such poor condition.
699
00:56:44,880 --> 00:56:47,360
It betters, for convenience, the way
by Vauxhall.
700
00:56:52,160 --> 00:56:55,000
And here is the document.
That seals the thing.
701
00:57:01,200 --> 00:57:03,000
Farewell then.
702
00:57:08,040 --> 00:57:09,679
Fine boy, Samuel.
703
00:57:09,680 --> 00:57:14,800
And recall what I have said about not
following your "new father" into law!
704
00:57:53,000 --> 00:57:56,760
I cannot believe this trial of ours
is now ended.
705
00:57:58,480 --> 00:58:02,160
And I cannot yet believe what
we together have started.
706
00:58:50,440 --> 00:58:53,479
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