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 the Magistrates not relishing the publication of facts so little to their praise, seized on me, and after deliberating how they should frighten me, ordered my books to be burnt publicly by the hangman, and banished me from the town. I went to Edinburgh, and, relying on the uprightness of my cause, raised a Process against them before the Court of Session: and after establishing my assertions against Kidnapping, by-numerous evidences, that impartial Court, which administers justice to the poor, and screens them completely from any overbearing of the rich, fined those tyrannical Magistrates in One Hundred Pounds Sterling, and also the expenses of the Suit.