APPENDIX to the CHRONICLE. 
Mackintosh) to gratify the curio- 
sity so visible in the audience. For 
the points to be argued were’ no- 
thing more than the fact of publi- 
cations; and the intention and ten- 
dency ofthe same; and if it should 
occur to my learned friend, he con- 
tinued, from the instruction of his 
client, that the legal proceedings of 
the first court of justice in this 
country shall be made the vehicle 
of slander, or means of aggravating 
that offence, and giving greater 
weight and extension to the libel 
1 prosecute,—lI think I should ill 
discharge my duty, if [ did not 
press it to the consideration of the 
court in inflicting that punishment 
—that where the proceedings of a 
court of justice were made the ve- 
hicle of that mischief they were in- 
tended to repress, the punishment 
inflicted should mark, not only to 
France, but to all the nations of 
Europe, and to the world, that a 
British court of justice will not, 
with impunity, allow its proceed- 
ings to become the means of such 
extended defamation. Gentlemen, 
I say so, because from this consi- 
deration I am much led to suppose 
that even the expectation that has 
been excited by my learned friend 
will be disappointed. But, to be 
sure, the disappointment or grati- 
fication of curiosity is no part of 
our business; our business is nei- 
ther to satisfy nor disappoint cu- 
riosity; our business is to satisfy 
justice, and to take care, as far as 
we can, that the law shall not be 
disappointed. And with that view 
I am desirous of stating to you, 
not only what this present pro- 
secution is, but what this prosecu- 
tion is not. This is not the prose- 
cution of a publication, which may 
be laying before the world an his- 
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scenes. 
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torical narration of events which 
may have taken place in a neigh- 
bouring country, where those events 
may, or may not, be accompanied 
with circumstances, with just re- 
flections on the conduct and cha- 
racters of, the persons w ho. may 
have been the actors in the different 
This is not a prosecution 
meaning to bring to punishment 
the author of a narration of his- 
torical truth, which should not be 
complained of when written in the 
spirit of history, though it may give 
pain to others—if it be written with 
an honest zeal, though even with 
some degree of freedom approach- 
ing to licentiousness. Nor is it a 
prosecution for a piece of flippancy, 
of insolence, or impudence, on those 
who are the subjects of it, and on 
which account it might be treated 
with contempt. But it is the case 
of a prosecution bringing into no- 
tice a publication, which, as it seems 
to me, must be considered originally, 
and from the first, as a libel and de- 
famation—that has defamation for its 
sole object, or at least for its best ob- 
ject, and its general object. The 
farther object of it, I think I shall 
satisfy you, is to excite the subjects 
of that magistrate whom our coun- 
try recognizes, and with whom our 
country is at peace, to excite the sub- 
jects of that country to rebel against 
their chief magistrate, de facto, and 
farther to excite them to his assassi- 
nation and to his murder. 
Gentlemen, that being the gene- 
ral object and character, which I 
ascribe to- the publication I prose- 
cute, I have to state to you, more 
particularly, that it is charged by this 
prosecution as having been published 
with the intention of traducing and 
defaming Napoleon Bonaparte; who 
is stated, as he is known to be, the 
first 
