She was accused of trying to bribe the jury into making false statements.

The Minister no doubt would claim that the public has already expressed its opinion by deserting the trains. As we have said before, this is scarcely a half-truth. By and large, where there has been a decline the public has deserted the out-dated trains; ….

[…] to take away […] one third part of the annual and similar collections for the sick poor of the Asylum and Dispensary, on the pretext that they preaced the Gospel to the poor.

Some kind of writer. He didn't have to make a living; he had means.