HOUSE OF LORDS

...it must be clearly proved that, at the time of committing the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing was wrong; or, if he did know it, that he did not know what he was doing was wrong.

The King has subjects enough in those parts not only to defend themselves from any attack of French and Indians, but they are so crumbled into little governments and so disunited in their interests that they have hitherto afforded but little assistance to each other.... It is almost incredible that the Governor of New York, in the middle of above 40,000 English ... should say, as he does, that he has only the companies in the King’s pay that he can rely on for the defense of the frontier.

...it must be clearly proved that, at the time of committing the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing was wrong; or, if he did know it, that he did not know what he was doing was wrong.

The King has subjects enough in those parts not only to defend themselves from any attack of French and Indians, but they are so crumbled into little governments and so disunited in their interests that they have hitherto afforded but little assistance to each other.... It is almost incredible that the Governor of New York, in the middle of above 40,000 English ... should say, as he does, that he has only the companies in the King’s pay that he can rely on for the defense of the frontier.