§ Mr. Denman ,in his place, charged Mr. Kenrick, one of his majesty's justices of Great Session in Wales, a justice of the peace for Surrey, and recorder of Dover, " that he preferred before a neighbouring magistrate a charge of felony against a poor man named John Franks, without any sufficient proof of the same; on which charge the said John Franks was committed to prison, where he remained till he was discharged at the .sessions by the verdict of a jury, acquitting him instantly on the same evidence which had been adduced by Mr. Kenrick as the ground of his commitment:—That, during the imprisonment of the said John Franks, Mr. Kenrick made repeated offers to procure a lenient sentence to be passed upon him, provided he would plead guilty to the charge; and applied to the clerk of the Peace, and the chairman of sessions, to permit him to withdraw the prosecution, alleging Franks's good characteras a reason for wishing to do so:—That shortly afterwards, in answer to some public animadversion on his own conduct, he wrote and published a libellous letter against the said John Franks, calumniating his character, and imputing to him crimes of which he was not guilty."
A copy of the charge was ordered to be communicated to Mr. Kenrick, and Mr. Denman gave notice, that he would move to-morrow for the attendance of Henry Peters, esq. Mr. H. Drummond, Edward Arnold, John Franks, and Esther Franks, as witnesses, in Franks's case, against Mr. Kenrick.