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WORKS OF REFERENCE.

[For the convenience of those who may desire further information on the sub-
ject of Slander and Libel, we subjoin the following list of publications, to which
reference may be made.]

TREATISE ON LIBEL. By Sir Thomas Mallett, Judge of the Queen's Bench,
England. (Referred to by Finnerty when brought up for judgment.)
AN ESSAY ON THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS, chiefly as it respects personal
slander. By Bishop Hayter.

[In Marvin's Legal Bibliography, a treatise with a precisely similar title
is attributed to John Asgill. I know not if it is the same work ]
"ANOTHER LETTER TO MR. ALMON ON MATTERS OF LIBEL."—" The
position that it is not material whether the libel be true or false, or
whether the person that made it be of good or ill fame, is a proposition of
truth and the provision of a sanctuary for weak and wicked men, who
may be employed as ministers or judges."

THE PEOPLE. Dedicated to Sir Francis Burdett, Bart. By an unlettered
Printed for the Author, and sold by M. Jones, 5 Newgate Street,
1811.

man.

London.
[This work professes to contain an analysis of Pitt's system, and to
show the great danger of the theory with regard to libels. To trace
that theory to its origin, and that it is directly contrary to the re-
formed religion and the New Testament.]

LAW OF LIBEL (ON THE), with strictures on the self-styled Constitutional
Society. By John Hunt. 8vo. London. 1823.

ERSKINE'S SPEECH in the case of the King v. Williams, for publishing
Paine's Age of Reason; with Mr. Kyd's reply and Lord Kenyon's charge
to the Jury.—Trials, vol. xviii, N. Y. State Library.

THE ENGLISHMAN'S RIGHT; or, a Dialogue between a Barrister at Law and
a Juryman, concerning the antiquity, use, power, and duty of Jurors, by
the Law of England. Extract in appendix to trial of John Lambert for
libel.-Trials, vol. xv, N. Y. State Library.

JURYMAN'S TOUCHSTONE (THE); or, A full refutation of Lord Mansfield's
opinion in Crown Libels. 8vo. London, 1784.

A LETTER ON LIBELS AND WARRANTS. (Referred to, I Biographical
Anecdotes, by Almon, p. 226.)

MASSEY'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND. Vol. 2. As to Dowdeswell's Bill to make juries judges of the law in libel cases.

SPEECH OF SIR ROBERT PEEL, in vindication of the House of Commons claim to publish its proceedings. London, 1837.

A LETTER TO LORD LANGDALE on the recent proceedings of the House of Commons on the subject of privilege. By Thomas Pemberton, M. P. 2d ed. London, 1837.

By

OBSERVATIONS ON THE RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF JURIES in trials for
Libels, with remarks on the origin and nature of the Law of Libels.
J. Towers. 8vo. Dublin, 1785.

FREE SPEECH. An oration by Daniel Webster, A. D. 1814.

LECTURE ON THE LAW OF LIBEL. By James T. Brady, Esq.

AN APOLOGY FOR THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS. By the Rev. Mr. Robert Hall. London, 1821.

BOLLAN ON THE RIGHT OF EVERY MAN TO THINK AND SPEAK FREELY. (Referred to Quincy's Massachusetts Reports, p. 270.)

OF SLANDER AND FLATTERY. A sermon by Jeremy Taylor.

ERSKINE'S SPEECHES on subjects connected with the Liberty of the Press. "DISCUSSION OF THE LAW OF LIBEL as at present received, in which its authenticity is examined; with incidental observations on the legal effect of Precedent and Authority." Pamphlet. London, 1785. Ascribed to J. W. Adair.

SKENE ON CRIMES. 25th chapter of title 2-Of Famous Libels and Seditious Speeches.

TRACT ON LIBEL. By Lord Bacon. Mentioned in the memoirs of T. Hollis, p. 169.

[It is referred to in a note to T. Holt White's edition of Milton's Areopagitica, and the annotator adds: “My inquiries after this posthumous publication have been fruitless." Query. If the same tract as one entitled "Certain observations upon a Libel. By Lord Bacon, A. D. 1592," to be found in several editions of Bacon's works.] LORD SIDMOUTH'S CIRCULAR respecting libels. EARL GRAY'S SPEECH on the above circular.

House of Lords, 1817.

TINDAL'S CONTINUATION of Rapin's History of England as to Pulteney's Bill to prohibit the circulation of unlicensed newspapers.

DOMESTIC ANNALS OF SCOTLAND. By Chambers. Vol. 1, p. 126.

DODSLEY'S ANNUAL REGISTER. A. D. 1792.

MR. STAMMER'S PAMPHLET on the case of Rex v. D'Israeli.

[I have been unable to find a copy. It is referred to 1 Townsend's Modern State Trials, 260.]

BACON'S ABRIDGMENT, tit. Slander, Courts Ecclesiastical.

SHEPPARD'S ABRIDGMENT, tit. Libel.

BLUE LAWS OF CONNECTICUT.

OTTO THESAURUS. Vols. 3, 4.

COOTE'S ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS, tit. Defamation.

BURN'S ECCLESIASTICAL LAW, tit. Defamation.

QUINCY'S MASSACHUSETTS REPORTS, A. D. 1761 to A. D. 1777. See pages: 260, 267, 270, 278, 309—Charge as to law of libel.

Page 245-As to right of the court to commit for libel.

Page 561-Discussion on the right of juries to judge of law and fact. ESSAI HISTORIQUE SUR LA LIBERTÉ d'ecrere chez les ancienes et au moyen age, sur la liberté de la press, &c., &c. Par G. Peignot.

ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, supplement; art. Liberty of the Press.

JACOB'S LAW DICTIONARY, titles Justification, Court of Piepowders, Copia Libelli Deliberanda, Scandal.

VINER'S ABRIDGMENT, tit. Good Behaviour.

MCDOUGALL'S CASE, 3 Documentary History of New York, 534; cited 10 Abbott's Practice Reports, 170; and see Id. p. 169.

FREEDOM OF WIT AND HUMOR. By Lord Shaftesbury, A. D. 1709.

CONSIDERATIONS ON THE LAW OF LIBEL as relating to publications on the subject of religion. By John Search. Ridgway, 1833.

[This pamphlet is referred to 11 London Law Magazine, 444. John Search is a fictitious name.]

THE CRAFTSMAN, No. 281, vol. viii, p. 213.

[Contains the reasons why the Commons would not agree to the clause which revived the old printing act, delivered at a conference with the Lords, 1695.]

A DIGEST OF THE LAW CONCERNING LIBELS, containing all the resolutions in the books on the subject, and many MS. cases, &c., by a gentleman of the Inner Temple. 4to. London, 1765. To which is added a supplement containing considerable additions, by John Rayner, 1770.

REASONS AGAINST THE INTENDED BILL for laying restraint on the Liberty of the Press. London, 1792.

ESSAY ON THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS. Richmond, 1803.

LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW. April, 1865. Libel and freedom of the Press.

EDINBURG REVIEW. Review of George on Libel. Abuses of the Press,

vol. 22. Review of Holt on Libel, 2d edition, vol. 27. French Law of libel, vol. 32. Libels on Christianity, vol. 58.

WESTMINSTER REVIEW. Review of Mence on Libel, vol. 3.

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