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Examiner. April 2d. 1820.

"The King v John Cahuac. — This was an information filed
"by the Attorney General against the defendant,a pamphlet seller,
"residing at 53 Blackman street, in the Borough, for publishing,
"on the 3d of September last, a seditious libel contained in the
"Republican, being a letter addressed to the Prince Regent, concerning
"the Manchester massacre. The defendant read a written
"defence to the Jury, in which he urged his innocence of any
"intention to publish the libel as charged in the declaration. He
"had merely sold the pamphlet in question in the general way
"of his business as a bookseller; he sold pamphlets on all questions,
"whether opposed to or favourable to government. He complained
"that he should be have been selected for prosecution as the mere vendor of
"the libel, when the author of it was known, and had gone unpunished:
" and instanced the cases of Mr. Hobhouse and Sir
"Francis Burdett, in both of which the publishers of the alleged
"libels were not prosecuted. In the one, Mr Stodart, the
"Bookseller, was discharged by the House of Commons, and in the
"other Mr Brooks, who had sent the libellous letter, for which
"Sir Francis was prosecuted, to the newspapers, was a witness
"for the prosecution. Professing himself hostile to the principles
"contained in the alleged libel, he threw himself on the consideration
of the Jury.

"The Chief Baron charged the Jury that the libel was a
most atrocious one, and under his Lordships direction they found
"the Defendant — Guilty.

Identifier: | JB/137/052/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 137.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	137	Main Headings	radicalism not dangerous
Folio number	052	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	examiner, april 2d 1820
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] i&m 1818]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1818
Notes public		ID Number	46769
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