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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition. 1 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: November 29, 1860., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: November 29, 1860., [Electronic resource], An opinion from Missouri. (search)
omentous importance to the liberty of the press in Great Britain. It led, eventually, to Fox's bill, brought forward and passed into a law twenty-two years after, viz: in 1791. By this law, in all prosecutions for libel, the jury are made judges of the law as well as the fact which before they were not. The following account of this famous trial is taken from Woodfall's Junius, American edition, Philadelphia, 1836, note to page 168, 1st volume. (The letter to the King was published 19th December, 1769.) "Yesterday morning, (June 13th, 1770,) about nine o'clock, came on, before Lord Mansfield, in the Court of King's Bench, at Gundhall, the trial of Mr. Woodfall, the original printer of Junius' letter in the Public Advertiser of December 19. Only seven of the special jury attended, viz: William Bond, foreman; Peter Cazalet, Alexander Peter Allen, Frederick Commerell, Herman Meyer, John Thomas and Barrington Buggin. Upon which the following five were taken out of the Dox, viz: