Speech for the Defendant, in the Prosecution of the Queen V. Moxon, for the Publication of Shelley's Works Delivered in the Court of Queen's Bench, June 23, 1841, and Revised (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Speech for the Defendant, in the Prosecution of the Queen V. Moxon, for the Publication of Shelley's Works: Delivered in the Court of Queen's Bench, June 23, 1841, and Revised

In the month Of April 1840, an indictment was preferred against Mr. Henry Hetherington, a book seller in the Strand, at the instance of the Attorney General, for selling certain numbers of a work entitled Haslam's Letters to the Clergy of all Denominations, sold each at the price of one penny, and charging them as libels on the Old Testament. The cause came on to be tried before Lord Denman in the Court Of Queen's Bench on 8th December, 1840, when the defence was conducted.

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