...which the court would never resort, while it felt a possibility of acting upon its old principles. What a crowd of blessings rush upon one's mind that...might be bestowed upon the country in the event of such a change ! Of all monarchs, indeed, since the Revolution, the successor of George the Third will...

...construed from the following passage, which had been copied into their paper from the Examiner: — " What a crowd of blessings rush upon one's mind, that...the finest opportunity of becoming nobly popular." This was interpreted to mean, that the reigning sovereign and his life were the barriers that stood...

...miss the sense of it at a single reading. It was in these words—" What a crowd of blessings rush on one's mind that might be bestowed upon the country in the event of a total change of system." So far the publication was political, and, therefore, though he could not agree with the defendants...

...Chronicle" of the 2nd October last, as set forth in the record, might be read. It was read, and is as follows : " What a crowd of blessings rush upon one's mind, that might be bcítowed upon the country, in the event of a total change of svsirm! Of all monarchs, indeed, since...

...in summing up to the jury, observed, " The first sentence admits of an innocent interpretation—' What a crowd of blessings rush upon one's mind, that...country, in the event of a total change of system.' The fair meaning of the expression, 'change of system/ I think, is a change of political system, not...

...following hU memory ' enor ai >d effect : " What a crowd of blessings rush upon one'a mind that 1« ¡adieu might be bestowed upon the country in the event of a total change of system? Me. Of all monarchs indeed since the revolution, the succession of George the est in the welfare of...

...betrayed him into the prosecution of such apparently innocent paragraphs as that which follows:—"What a crowd of blessings rush upon one's mind that might be bestowed in the event of a total change of system! Of all monarchs, indeed, since the Revolution, the successor...

...it. (g) The defendant was charged with having published a libel to the following tenor and effect : " What a crowd of blessings rush upon one's mind, that...the finest opportunity of becoming nobly popular." Lord Ellenborough, CJ, in addressing the jury, stated, that the first sentence of this passage would...

...information against the defendants for publishing in an article in the Morning Chronicle these words: " What a crowd " of blessings rush upon one's mind that...the finest opportunity of becoming nobly " popular." But the defendants were acquitted. In the King v. Harrison the attorney general filed an information...

...to print troublesome statements. In 1810 there appeared in The Examiner the following paragraph :— What a crowd of blessings rush upon one's mind that...the finest opportunity of becoming nobly popular. Being printed whilst George the Third was on the throne, this was declared to be a seditious libel;...