Excerpt from Report of the Proceedings on an Information Filed Ex Officio, by His Majesty's Attorney General, Against John Hunt, and Leigh Hunt, Proprietors of the Examiner: For Publishing an Article on Military Punishment, Which Originally Appeared in Drakard's Stamford News; Tried in the Court of King's Bench at Westminister, on Friday, February 22, 1811, Before the Right Honourable Lord Ellenborough, Chief Justice, &C. And Then they give you the authority from which they de rive the information - London newspapers - So that you see they have collected from all the London newspapers - and perhaps you are to learn that there are sixty published every week - all the instances of military punishment, and pre sented them to the public indignation, in a mass, through the medium of this libel.-now 'to pause for a moment here - Do you recollect the number of troops in our ser vice -in the Local Militia there are I am not sure whether the original militia amount to more than -l f they amount to b0,000, that would be men, besides all the regulars engaged in our line. Now is it fair to pick out all the punishments recorded in all the newspapers you can find, without presenting at the same time to public observation the number of persons who are subject to the military code ls it the course of proceeding that would 'be followed by a man who had noimproper object in view? I should say, even on the statement, that it would not - but this is only the introduction to the libel - this is-hear how he proceeds The Attorney General said what was very true these aggressors have certainly not been dealt with as Buonaparte would have treated his red fractory troops. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.