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JAMES THOMPSON CALLENDER, 823

and also that he ean prove, by the said William B, Giles, that the
President of the United States has avowed, in conversation with
him, » sentiment to this effect, that he thought the executive de-
partment of the United States onght to be vested with power to
direct and control the publie will. .

That he believed he shall be able to prove, by General Blackburn,
that he did receive an address from John Adams, President of the
United States, in answer to the field officers of Bath County, in
which the said President does ayow that there was a party in Vir-
ginia whieh deserved to be humbled inte dust and ashes before the
indignant frowns of their injured, insulted, and offended country.
That he is advised and believes that it is material to his defense
against the indictment aforesaid, that he should procure authentic
copies of sundry answers made by the President of the United
States to addresses from the inhabitants of the United States, in
various parta thereof, which authentic copies he cannot procure,
so a8 to be in readiness for trial during the present term. That he
is advised and doth believe, that a eertain book, entitled “An Essay
on Canon and Feudal Law,” or entitled in words to that purport,
ascribed to the President of the United States, and of which he be-
lieves the President is the author, is material to his defense, and
that he cannot procure a copy of the same, and evidence that the
said President is the author thereof, without being allowed several
weeks, and perhaps months, for the purpose. That he is told by
the counsel who mean to appear for him, that they cannot possibly
be prepared to investigate the evidence relating to the several
eharges in the indictment, even if all the persona and documents
wanted were upon the spot.

The Courr granted a postponement till the ensuing
Monday.
June 2.
Mr. Hay asked a postponement for a few houra until it
sould be ascertained whether Mr, Giles would attend or
not. The badness of the weather on the preceding day, it
was suggested, had probably prevented his arrival in town
as early as might otherwise have been expected.
June 3.
A motion for a postponement until November was re-
newed by Mr. Hay. He said that Mr. Giles had not arrived,
and that he did not then expect him. Mr. Giles would,
probably, presume that the indictment was either tried or
continued to the day to which he was summoned, and aa
he had not come on that day he could not be expected at

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