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Chapter XIV: A Letter from Candor to the Public Advertiser, on some late

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interesting Trials, and other Points of civil Liberty. Second Edition. Price 1s.

XV. The Trial of Mr. William Owen (_never before printed_) Bookseller, near Temple Bar, who was charged with the Publication of a Libel against the Government in 1751, of which he was acquitted by a Jury of free-born Englishmen, Citizens of London. The principal Speakers in this Trial for the Crown, were, Sir Dudley Rider, Attorney-General, afterwards the _famous_ Chief Justice of that Name, and Mr. William Murray, Sollicitor-General, now Lord Mansfield and Chief Justice of the King's Bench. For the Defendant, Mr. Ford, since dead; and Mr. Pratt, now Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas: Whose Speeches are all printed as nearly _verbatim_ as possible.--To which is prefixed, the whole of the remarkable Trial of John Peter Zenger of New York, Printer, (which for some Time has been very Scarce) who was also charged with printing and publishing a Libel against the Government; of which he was acquitted by an honest, independent Jury. With a Narrative of his Case. Price only 1s. (Zenger's Trial alone was formerly sold for 1s. 6d.)

XVI. The State of the Nation; with regard to its Income, Expenditure, and unfunded Debt. Fifth Edition. Price 1s.

XVII. The BUDGET. Eleventh Edition. Price 1s.

XVIII. The Right of Appeal to Juries in Causes of Excise asserted. Second Edit. Price 1s.

XIX. The Rights of the Colonies, asserted and proved. By James Otis, Esq; of Boston in New England, Second Edit. Price 2s.

XX. An Account of the late Right Hon. Henry Bilson Legge. With Original Papers. Price 1s.

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Transcriber's Notes:

Passages in italics are indicated by _underscores_. Small caps have been replaced with Title cased text.

Obsolete spellings of words (e.g., impolitick, antient, assylum, can'st, etc.) have been retained; ct ligatures are represented as ct, and long s as modern round s.

Typesetting error on page 30: comlpain changed to complain. Typesetting error on page 39: POSTCRIPT changed to POSTSCRIPT.

On page 20, the last word of the three-sentence Latin passage was not italicized in the original, so the last word was not marked as italicized.

Catchwords have been deleted. (Catchwords were used on each page of very old books to indicate the first word of the following page.)

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