Remarks on the explanation, by Dr. Priestley, respecting the intercepted letters of his friend and disciple, John H. Stone. To which is added a certificate of civism for Joseph Priestley Jun / By Peter Porcupine [i.e. W. Cobbett].

  • William Cobbett
Date:
1799
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Credit: Remarks on the explanation, by Dr. Priestley, respecting the intercepted letters of his friend and disciple, John H. Stone. To which is added a certificate of civism for Joseph Priestley Jun / By Peter Porcupine [i.e. W. Cobbett]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    58 poffibly admit of any other conftruClion. Now, then, Do&or, liften to a true, unfoph i flic ate d ♦ tale; and when you have heard to the end, hide your head for ever 3 go to Kennebeck, a flume a feigned name, and take fheiter under the fame roof with your fecreted pupil. John H. Stone, the writer of the infamous Inter- cepted Letters, went to France at an early period of the revolution. He had a brother named William,, a coal-merchant in London, On the 29th of Janu- ary, 1796, this brother William was tried for High Treafon before Lord Kenyon, in Weflmin- fter Hall, and the following is the fubftance of the printed report of that trial. c The prifoner, William Stone, was charged c with two fpecies of treafon; the firft, with com- * paffing and imagining the king’s death ; and the / fecond, with confpiring with John H. Stone, * his brother, and with a perfon named William f Jackson. It was given in evidence, that the * French government had employed John H. £ Stone and Jackfon, to gain fuch intelligence of c the fit nation of Great Britain and Ireland as- f might enable them to judge of the expediency ‘ of an invafion. The connection between thefe c two perfons and William Stone, the prifoner, c was placed beyond the poilibility of a doubt. ‘ The former was his brother, already become a ‘ domiciliated Frenchman, and whom he knew to * be in the confidence and intereft of the French
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