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 Commons on the 13th, on account of some passage in that piece, he printed another epistle addressed to Mr Lenthal, charging the speaker with an embezzlement of 60,000 pounds of the publick money. Whereupon an accusation against him being presented to that house, by Colonel King and Dr Bastwick, on the 12th of July, he was put into the custody of the serjeant at arms on the 19th. While he was under the care of that officer, he published a third epistle to a friend, dated July the 25th, upon which he was committed to Newgate on the 9th of August, and orders were given for his trial at the Old-Bailey on a charge of seditious practices; but in the interim, printing a state of his case, addressed to the world and his jury, no bill was found against him , and he was discharged from the prison by an order of the House of Commons, October