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Rh The Attorney General.—"In this case, my Lords, I propose to move the judgment of the Court upon these defendants on Monday next." The day was afterwards, on the suggestion of Mr. Dennan, to which the Attorney General acceded, changed to Wednesday, and on that day the defendants were ordered by the Court to attend.

The King V. George Edmonds, for a libel. This defendant, on Monday, requested that the case should go over until the day on which the other matter against him was to be heard. The learned Serjeant, he dared to say, would not object, as the present was a thing of minor consideration.

Mr. Serjeant Vaughan.—"Oh, quite minor! This, my Lord, is only a libel on the Magistrates of a County; the other in upon the Government at large: quite minor! It may come on as the defendant pleases."

And thus closes the record of the Political Agitation of the decade ending in 1821.