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EG.768.028
1-8 Nov 1768:13,21 (1/15)
Judicial Article. A Summary of the Trial of Donald Maclane
for the murder of Mr. William Allen the Younger.
. . .[ 2 columns describing trial. Verdict: not guilty.]
Mr. Wilkes, who was all the time at the Red-Lion Inn,
opposite to the Court, was taken away to town the moment the
prisoner was acquitted; and he set off without one huzza, or
any other mark of popular admiration. ---Indeed, every body
wondered why he was brought down. . . alas, such is the
venality of the times, all regard for public virtue is lost,
and the insensible Town of Guildford neither scattered roses
in his way, nor hailed him with songs of triumph as the
Deliverer of his Country. . . Your news-papers says that
bells were rung on his account. Don't believe it, Mr.
Printer. . .
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