Secondly, this is the first trial, since the Libel Bill passed into a law, completely conducted upon the principles of that bill, and inay serve as the best illustration of the wise and excellent provisions of the law, as it now stands, with respect to libel: a law admirably calculated to remove obscurity, to defeat improper influence, to facilitate the ends of justice, by simplifying its operations, and to afford additional security for the full enjoyment of the most valuable privilege of Englishmen.

Impressed then with the view of this trial, as connected with great principles, and involving consequences the most important, both to the present age and to posterity, I have been anxious to render the following statement of the proceedings as full and correct as possible. Fidelity and accuracy are the only merits of a reporter; these I have carefully studied; it is not allowed to him who transmits the sentiments of others, to boast of his labours, or to claim the reward of public approbation: in this instance, I find myself sufficiently repaid, with the pleasing reflection that I have been called, in an age of prosecutions, to record one verdict gained to the cause of freedom.

We print the parts of the Address selected by the Attorney General from the Information itself, with the innuendoes, which run as follow :

"We" (meaning the society aforesaid) "feel "too much not to believe that deep and alarming abuses exist in the British government" (meaning

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His said Majesty's government of this kingdom); 66 yet we are at the same time fully sensible that our "situation is comfortable compared with that of the people of many European kingdoms, and that as "the times are, in some degree, moderate, they 66 ought to be free from riot and confusion. III. Yet we think there is sufficient cause to inquire into "the necessity of the payment of seventeen millions "of annual taxes, exclusive of poor rates, county "rates, expenses of collection, &c. &c. by seven "millions of people: we think that these expenses 66 may be reduced, without lessening the true dignity "of the nation" (meaning this kingdom) " or the "government" (meaning the government of this. kingdom)," and therefore wish for satisfaction in "this important matter. IV. We view with con

cern the frequency of wars" (meaning, amongst others, the wars of His said Majesty and his subjects with foreign powers); "we are persuaded that the "interests of the poor can never be promoted by "accession of territory, when bought at the expense of their labour and blood; and we must say, "in the language of a celebrated author, we who "are only the people, but who pay for wars with "our substance and our blood, will not cease to tell

kings or governments, that to them alone wars are "profitable; that the true and just conquests are "those which each makes at home by comforting the peasantry, by promoting agriculture and manufac"tories, by multiplying men and the other productions

"of nature; that then it is that kings may call them"selves the image of God, whose will is perpetually "directed to the creation of new beings; if they con"tinue to make us fight and kill one another in "uniform, we will continue to write and speak until "nations shall be cured of this folly. We are cer"tain our present heavy burdens" (meaning burdens of the subjects of this kingdom) " are owing, in a

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great measure, to cruel and impolitic wars" (meaning cruel and impolitic wars entered into by His said Majesty against foreign powers)," and there"fore we will do all on our part, as peaceable citi"zens, who have the good of the community at heart, to enlighten each other, and protest against "them. V. The present state of the representation "of the people" (meaning the representation of the people of this kingdom in the Parliament thereof) "calls for the particular attention of every man who "has humanity sufficient to feel for the honour and "happiness of his country, to the defects and cor"ruptions of which we are inclined to attribute un

necessary wars, &c. &c.. We think it a deplorable "case when the poor" (meaning the poor of this kingdom) "must support a corruption" (meaning corruption of the representation of the people of this kingdom in the Parliament thereof)" which is cal"culated to oppress them" (meaning the poor of this kingdom), "when the labourer must give his "money to afford the means of preventing him hav❝ing a voice in its disposal, when the lower classes

may say, We give you our money for which we "have toiled and sweat, and which would save our "families from cold and hunger, but we think it "more hard that there is nobody whom we have "delegated to see that it is not improperly and wickedly spent: we have none to watch over our interests, the rich only are represented: the form "of government" (meaning the government of this kingdom), "since the Revolution, is in somo" (meaning some) "respects changed for the worse,

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by the triennial and septennial acts" (meaning acts of the Parliament of this kingdom); "ive lost annual "Parliaments; besides which, the wholesome pro"visions for obligfno" (meaning obliging) privy ""counsellors to subscribe thair" (meaning their) "advice with their names, and against placemen and "pensioners sitting in Pailiament" (meaning the Parliament of this kingdom), "have been repealed. "It is said that the voice of the people is the consti"tutional control of Parliament" (meaning the Parliament of this kingdom); "but what is this but

saying that the representatives" (meaning the representatives of the people in the Parliament of this kingdom)" are naturally inclined to support wrong "measures, and that the people most" (meaning must)" be constantly assembling to oblige them to

do their duty. An equal and uncorrupt repre. "sentation" (meaning representation in the Parliament of this kingdom) "would, we are persuaded, “save us from heavy expenses, and deliver us from

many oppressions; we will therefore do our duty "to procure this reform, which appears to us of the "utmost importance. VI. In short, we see with "the most lively concern an army of placemen, pen❝sioners" (meaning persons holding places and pensions under the government of this kingdom), &c. fighting in the cause of corruption and prejudice, and spreading the contagion far and wide; a large and

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highly expensive military establishment" (meaning the military establishment of this kingdom), "though "we have a well-regulated militia; the increase of all "kinds of robberies, riots, executions, &c. though the "nation" (meaning this kingdom) "pays taxes equal "to the whole land retail" (meaning rental) "of the

kingdom, in order to have his property protected "and secured; and is also obliged to enter into se"parate associations against felonious depredations "-a criminal code of laws" (meaning the criminal code of laws of this kingdom) "sanguine and ineffi"cacious-a civil code" (meaning the civil code of laws of this kingdom) "so voluminous and myste"rious as to puzzle the best understandings; by "which means justice is denied to the poor" (meaning the poor of this kingdom), "on account of the ex

pense attending the obtaining it. Corporations" (meaning corporations of this kingdom) ❝ under "ministerial or party influence, swallowing up the

importance, and acting against the voice of the "people" (meaning the people of this kingdom); "penaltie" (meaning penalties)" inflicted on those