text:  What was their effect upon the assembled judges--those experienced and authoritative expositors of the law of the land? Why after nearly two months' time taken to consider and ponder over the various points which had been started--after anxious consideration and communication one with another--they re-appeared in the House of Lords on the 2d of September; and led by one who will be on all hands admitted to be one of the most experienced gifted profoundly learned and perfectly impartial and independent lawyers that ever presided over a court of justice--Sir Nicholas Tindal--SEVEN out of _nine_ of the judges expressed a clear unhesitating opinion that the third and eleventh questions should be answered in the negative--viz