XL] CONCLUSION. 



sufi'ering punishment, severe in itself, and deemed 

 infamous by the law of the land. Your humble Peti- 

 tioner is fully convinced that, if your Majesty were 

 now to read those words, taking into consideration all 

 these circumstances, your Majesty would see in them 

 nothing that ought not to have proceeded from the 

 heart or the pen of an Enghshman ; and, that 

 your Majesty would be able to discover in these 

 words nothing that ought to be deemed seditious or 

 libellous. 



188. That, hovv^ever, for having written and caused 

 to be published these words, your humble Petitioner 

 was prosecuted by an ex officio information ; that he 

 was harassed with this prosecution for nearly a year ; 

 that he was then brought to trial ; and that he was 

 then sentenced, first, to be imprisoned for two years 

 in the jail of Newgate ; second, to pay a thou- 

 sand pounds sterling at the end of the two years; 

 and, third, to be held m bonds of three thousand 

 pounds himself, with two sureties in a thousand 

 pounds each, to the end of seven years after the ex- 

 piration of the two years of imprisonment. 



189. That, after the verdict had been given against 

 your Petitioner, he had just had time to return to his 

 alarmed family at seventy miles distance from London, 

 when he was brought back by a judge's warrant to 

 give bail for his a'ppearance to receive his sentence', 

 that, having appeared on the first day of term according 

 to the command of the warrant, he wa? at once com- 



