A COMPLETE COLLECTION OF State Trials AND PROCEEDINGS FOR HIGH TREASON AND OTHER FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE YEAR 1783, WITH NOTES AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS: COMPILED BY T. B. HOWELL, Esq. F.R. S. F.S.A. INCLUDING, IN ADDITION TO THE WHOLE OF THE MATTER CONTAINED IN THE FOLIO EDITION OF HARGRAVE, UPWARDS OF TWO HUNDRED CASES NEVER BEFORE COLLECTED; TO WHICH IS SUBJOINED A TABLE OF PARALLEL REFERENCE, RENDERING THIS EDITION APPLICABLE TO THOSE BOOKS OF AUTHORITY IN IN TWENTY-ONE VOLUMES. VOL. XX. 12-17 GEORGE III.......1772-1777. LONDON: Printed by T. C. Hansard, Peterborough-Court, Fleet-Street : FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN; J. M. RICHARDSON; 1816. ADVERTISEMENT. IN this Volume the Cases reported in the last Folio Edition of the State Trials are brought to a termination; the Case of Horne, p. 651, being the last contained in that Collection. After which commences the New Series of Proceedings, continuing that Edition to the present time. In order to render the present Work more applicable to those Law Books in which references are made to the Folio Edition, a TABLE of PARALLEL Reference, exhibiting at first sight the Pages in the present Edition corresponding with those of the Folio ones, is now in compilation, and will be published with the next Volume. FEB. 1814. ΤΟ VOLUME XX. REIGN OF KING GEORGE THE THIRD. 549. Proceedings in an Action by Mr. ANTHONY FABRIGAS, against 550. The Case of the Island of Grenada; in relation to the Payment of Four and one-half in the Hundred of Goods exported therefrom; 552. Proceedings against JOHN HORNE, Clerk, on an Information in the King's-Bench by the Attorney-General, for a Libel, A. D. 1777 651 COMMENCEMENT OF THE NEW SERIES. 553. The Trial of JOHN ALMON, Bookseller, upon an Information, filed Ex-Officio, by William De Grey, esq. his Majesty's Attor- ney-General, for selling Junius's Letter to the King, A. D. 1770... 803 554. The Trial of JOHN MILLER, Printer, before Lord Mansfield, and a Special Jury of Citizens of Lordon, at Guildhall, for re- printing Junius's Letter to the King, in the London Evening Post, |