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[Finnley J. <thr...@lo...>]

Ay? Any reason . . . why . . . sentence . . . should not be
pronounced?" From 1818 to 1820 {417} Gourlay had been having things "to
say," had been giving good and sufficient reasons
why sentence should not be pronounced! The question is repeated:
"Robert Gourlay stand
up! Have you anything to say?" The court waits,

Chief Justice Powell, bewigged and wearing his grandest manner, all
unconscious that the

scene is to go down to history with blot of ignominy against
_his_ name, not Gourlay's. Gourlay's face twitches, and he breaks into
shrieks of maniacal laughter. The petty persecutions of a provincial
tyranny have driven a man,
who is true patriot, out of his mind. As Gourlay drops out of Canada's
story here,
it may be added that the English government later pronounced the whole
trial an outrage, and Gourlay was invited back to Canada. If at this
stage a