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262 But return of invective was not thought a sufficient punishment. The Court of King's Bench was therefore moved against him, and he was obliged to return an answer to a charge of obscenity. It was urged, in his defence, that obscenity was criminal when it was in tended to promote the practice of vice; but that Mr. Savage had only introduced obscene Rh