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A CURIOUS LIBEL. 
of our loyal subjects resident in the said town of-- as were so 
inclined should celebrate the event of our coronation by dining to¬ 
gether in an inn called the-Inn of that place, on Thursday 
the 28th day of June last, being the day of our coronation, a paper 
or writing Avas publicly exhibited on the 26th day of the said 
month, bearing that the persons Avho Avere expected to be present 
at the said public dinner were to be residenters in the said toAvn, 
and such of them as Avere Avilling to join the party at said dinner 
Avere invited to subscribe their names to the said paper, that the 
landlord of the inn might have an idea hoAV many Avere likely to be 
present: That the said paper or Avriting Avas exhibited to the pursuer 
after the names of some other persons had been put thereto, and he, 
being desirous to join his fellow-toAAmsmen in publicly expressing 
his loyalty and attachment to our person in the manner proposed, 
subscribed his own name to the said paper, and applied for and ob¬ 
tained the names of several other persons thereto, as an intimation 
that he and they Avere to be present at said dinner : That after the 
pursuer’s name had been so subscribed, the names of eleA^en other 
persons Avere added to the said paper, and the Avhole names thereat 
Avere twenty-five in number : That after the pursuer had so sub¬ 
scribed his name, he Avas absent from- until the evening of 
the said day of our coronation, Avhen he returned thither, intending 
to be present at said dinner party; but upon his return, a letter 
signed by G. H., the keeper of the said inn Avhere the said dinner 
Avas held, and addressed to the pursuer, was delivered to him, and 
Avhich letter, hereAvith to be produced, was in the folloAving terms: 
—Dear Sir, I have been called on to-day, and am desired to state, 
that you cannot be admitted to the dinner party this evening. I 
have thought it best to send you this note, in order that you may 
not commit yourself and me by appearing.—Your’s truly.” (Signed) 
“ G. H.” (Addressed)—“ To be opened by himself only—Mr. 
A. B., V.S.,-That the said letter Avas Avritten and caused 
to be delivered to the pursuer by, or by the directions and through 
the influence or instrmnentality of C. D., tenant in-, one of our 
justices of the peace for the said county of-, defender, Avho 
having conceived a groundless malice, hatred, and ill-Avill against 
the pursuer, did therefrom falsely state or represent to, or by false 
and groundless insinuations and inuendoes, Avilfully and intention¬ 
ally cause it to be understood and believed by the said G. H. that 
the pursuer was a person of a disreputable character, unfit and un- 
Avorthy to associate Avith his felloAV-townsmen, and improper to be 
admitted to the said public dinner party; and the defender, in 
violation of his duty as one of the conservators of the peace under 
our commission, and as a peaceable subject, did, through the Avords 
Avritten in the said letter, and causing the same to be delivered to 
