The trial of P.W. Duffin and Thomas Lloyd, a citizen of the United States America, and an officer in the late American Army, for a libel in the Fleet-prison

the defendants were their own advocates and one of them in consequence of his spirited and able attack upon what he termed the unconstitutional practices of the Courts of Judicature, drew upon himself some severe strictures from the Honourable Tho. Erskine, counsel for Tho. Paine : and his speech was also alluded to by the Hon. Mr. Jenkinson, in the House of Commons, in proof of the necessity of the strong measures which government has recently taken