ADVERTISEMENT.

IN this Volume the Cases reported in the last Folio Edition of the State Trials are brought to a termination; the Case of Horne, p. 651, being the last contained in that Collection. After which commences the New Series of Proceedings, continuing that Edition to the present time.

In order to render the present Work more applicable to those Law Books in which references are made to the Folio Edition, a TABLE of PARALLEL REFERENCE, exhibiting at first sight the Pages in the present Edition corresponding with those of the Folio ones, is now in compilation, and will be published with the next Volume.

FEB. 1814.

TO

VOLUME XX.

REIGN OF KING GEORGE THE THIRD.

548. THE Case of JAMES SOMMERSETT, a Negro, on a Habeas

Corpus, A. D. 1771-1772

ADDENDA to this Case

1

1369

549. Proceedings in an Action by Mr. ANTHONY FABRIGAS, against

Lieutenant-General MOSTYN, Governor of Minorca, for False

Imprisonment and Banishment, A. p. 1773-1774...

550. The Case of the Island of Grenada; in relation to the Payment of

Four and one-half in the Hundred of Goods exported therefrom;

between ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, esq. Plaintiff, and WIL-

LIAM HALL, esq. Defendant, A. D. 1774.....

ADDENDA to this Case

551. The Trial of ELIZABETH, calling herself Duchess Dowager of

KINGSTON, for Bigamy, A. D. 1776 .......

82

239

1587

355

552. Proceedings against JOHN HORNE, Clerk, on an Information in

the King's-Bench by the Attorney-General, for a Libel, A. D. 1777 651

ADDENDA to this Case

** This is the concluding Article of the Folio Edition.

1389

COMMENCEMENT OF THE NEW SERIES.

553. The Trial of JOHN ALMON, Bookseller, upon an Information,

filed Ex-Officio, by William De Grey, esq. his Majesty's Attor-

ney-General, for selling Junius's Letter to the King, A. D. 1770... 803

554. The Trial of JOHN MILLER, Printer, before Lord Mansfield,

and a Special Jury of Citizens of London, at Guildhall, for re

printing Junius's Letter to the King, in the London Evening Post,

of the 19th of December, 1769, A. D. 1770......

870

555. The Case of HENRY SAMPSON WOODFALL, on an Infor-

mation, filed by the Attorney-General, for publishing Junius's

Letter to the King, A. D. 1770 .....

Page

895

556. The Trial of Maha Rajah NUNDOCOMAR, Bahader, for Forgery.

At Calcutta, in the Province of Bengal, A. D. 1775. 924

557. The Trial of JOSEPH FOWKE, FRANCIS FOWKE, Maha

Rajah NUNDOCOMAR, and ROY RADA CHURN, for a

Conspiracy against Warren Hastings, esq. Governor-General of

the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal. At Calcutta or Fort

William in Bengal aforesaid, a. D. 1775 ̊ .....

... 1078

558. The Trial of JOSEPH FOWKE, Maha Rajah NUNDOCOMAR,

and ROY RADA CHURN, for a Conspiracy against Richard

Barwell, esq. one of the Members of the Supreme Council for the

Province of Bengal. At Calcutta or Fort William, in Bengal

aforesaid, A. D. 1775 ...

559. The Trials on the Informations which, in pursuance of an Order of

the House of Commons, were filed by his Majesty's Attorney

General against RICHARD SMITH and THOMAS BRAND

HOLLIS, esqrs. for having been Guilty of notorious Bribery,

and thereby procuring themselves to be elected and returned

Burgesses to serve in Parliament for the Borough of Hindon,

A. D. 1776

560. The Trial of an Action brought by STEPHEN SAYRE, esq.

against the Right Hon. WILLIAM HENRY Earl of ROCH-

FORD, one of his Majesty's most Hon. Privy Council, and

theretofore one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, for

False Imprisonment, A. D. 1776..........

1186

1226

..... 1286

561. The Trial of JAMES HILL, otherwise JAMES HINDE, other-

wise JAMES ACTZEN or AITKEN, (known also by the

name of John the Painter) for feloniously, wilfully, and malici-

ously setting Fire to the Rope House in his Majesty's Dock Yard

at Portsmouth, A. D. 1777

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