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Excerpt from The Trial of John Almon, Bookseller, Upon an Information, Filed Ex Officio, by William De Grey, Esq., His Majesty's Attoney-General: For Selling Junius's Letter to the K
B 2 intituledintituled The Londoiz Mufeum of Politics M fmzm mes, and Lifemtzire, in which faid Libel of and concerning our faid prefent Sovereign Lord the King and of his adminifiration of the government of this kingdom and alfo of and concerning the publick. Affairs of this kingdom and alfo of and concerning the principle officers and minifters of our faid Lord the King employed and entruf'ted by our faid Lord the cjking ln the conduct and management of the weighty and arduous affairs of this government and alfo of and concerning the Members of the prefent Houfe of Commons of this kingdom are contained (among? Other things) diverfe wicked fcahdalous feditio'us and malicious matters (that 15 to fay) in one part. There of according to the tenor followin ffilm'us' 5 Letter to the 9 (meanin Lord the King) When the complaints and powerful people are obferved to encreafe 1ri proportion to the wrongs they have fuffered; when, inf'tead of linking into fubmifiion, they are roufed to refifiance, the time will foon arrive at which every inferior confideration muff yield to lthe fecurity of the Sovereign, and to the general fafety of the fiate. There 1s a moment of dith culty and danger, at which ?attery and falfhood can no longer deceive, and fimplic1ty itfelf can no longer be milled. Let us fuppofe 1t arrived Let pofe a gracious, well-intentioned Prince, made fenfible at laft of the great duty he owes to d of his own difgraceful fituation round him afks and hefe circum atter of curious fpecu lation to confider, if an honef't man Were per approach his King, in' what terms ivould he addrefs himfelf to his Sovere1gn. Let.
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