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Printers puniſhed by the miniſtry in the ſupreme court without a trial by their equals—without any trial at all:

The remedy of the law for falſe impriſonment barred and defeated:

The plaintiff and his attorney, for their appeal to the law of the land, puniſhed by expences and impriſonment, and made, by forced engagements, to deſiſt from their legal claim:

A writing determined to be a libel by a court where it was not cognizable in the firſt inftance, contrary to law, becauſe all appeal is thereby cut off, and inferior courts and juries influenced by ſuch predetermination:

A person condemned in the ſaid court as the author of the ſuppoſed libel unheard without defence or trial:

Unjust treatment of petitions, by ſelecting only ſuch parts as might be wreſted to criminate the petitioner, and refuſing to hear thoſe which might procure him redreſs:

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