It is of infinite importance to the public that the acts of magistrates should not only be substantially good, but also that they should be decorous. - Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

I cannot help observing, that many of those who have written in support of our ancient system of jurisprudence, the growth of the wisdom of man for so many ages, are not as they are alleged by some to be men writing from their closets without any knowledge of the affairs of life, but persons mixing with the mass of society, and capable of receiving practical experience of the soundness of the maxims they inculcate.

The legislature have anxiously provided for those most useful and deserving body of men, the seamen and marines of this country.

We are all desirous to sit as long as we can, but necessity justifies that which it compels; the strength of man is not adequate to this. Lord Mansfield, as little inclined to give way as any man, did give way at a certain hour in the case of Lord Pomfret.