Excerpt from The Pennsylvania State Trials, Vol. 1: Containing the Impeachment, Trial, and Acquittal of Francis Hopkinson, and John Nicholson, Esquires; The Former Being Judge of the Court of Admiralty, and the Latter, the Comptroller-General of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania The documents herein puhlljhed ha've heen regular {y compared with authentic copies laid hcfore the Se nate, who/e permijz'on to copy them the Editor had ohtained during the interval from the 23d of March to the adjournment in April. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.