A printed paper was also delivered to the members, entitled, 'considerations on the embargo,' which enumerated many dangerous consequences likely to be produced by an embargo on provisions, and suggested that it was no better than a wicked scheme for private profit, with other reflections, for which the paper was deemed a libel, and the author committed to prison.

Nor is this scandalous libel written with more confidence and insolence than it is dispersed.

I beg leave to move, therefore, that the house do censure this paper as "a malicious and scandalous libel, highly and injuriously reflecting upon a just and wise act of his majesty's government, and also upon the proceedings of both houses of senate; and tending to create jealousies in the minds of the people."

Sir Robert WALPOLE then spoke to this effect:Sir, whether the question be proper or not, it seems very unnecessary to debate; because, however it be answered, it cannot be of great importance: the man has already confessed himself the author of the libel, and may, therefore, be punished without farther examination.

But let the honourable gentleman recollect, that the chief excellence of raillery is politeness, to which he has surely paid little regard, in supposing that what has been unanimously condemned as a libel, has one of those who censured it for its author.

Having thus cleared myself, sir, from this aspersion, I declare it as my opinion, that every gentleman in the house can safely purge himself in the same manner; for I cannot conceive that any of them can have written a libel like this.

Sir William YONGE then spoke to this effect:Sir, I am pleased with finding that the malice and indecency of this libel, has raised in the house a just resentment, and that the wretch, who, with a confidence so steady, and such appearance of satisfaction in his countenance, confesses, or rather proclaims himself the author, is treated as he deserves.

The printer of the daily news is surely the proper object of your indignation, who inserted this libel in his paper, without the fondness of an author, and without the temptation of a bribe; a bribe, by the help of which it is usual to circulate scurrility.

The ATTORNEY GENERAL then spoke to the following effect:Sir, whence so much tenderness can arise for an offender of this kind, I am at a loss to discover, nor am I able to conceive any argument that can be produced for exempting from punishment the printer of a paper, which has been already determined, by the vote of the house, to be a scandalous libel, tending to promote sedition.

It was objected to, for the same reason as the question about the author's being in the gallery, because the answer might tend to accuse himself; and he being withdrawn, a debate of the same nature ensued, and the question being put whether he should be asked, if he be the person that printed the daily paper shown to him, which paper the house the day before resolved to contain a malicious and scandalous libel, etc.

I've a good mind to sue you for libel and shut up your shop.

"What is it, Joe?" "Mother," he said, "that fellow Marrin was in threatening to sue me for libel.

THE WINTER OFFENSIVE N.B.Having regard to the eccentricities of the Law of Libel it must be distinctly understood that the following does not refer to the distinguished officer, Lieut.

If nought else could atone For waggish libel, I swear on bible, I would have spared him for thy sake alone, Man Friday!

This was indignantly censored as a libel, but he excused himself on the plea that "evil" was the only possible rhyme to be found for "weevil," and declared that his very last intention had been to be personal or to cast the least reflection on the lovable disposition of Mnemosyne, so we forgave him with a caution.

But now, now, when all of them, from the Queen downwards, have declared that this charge has been a libel, when even the miscreants themselves have told against themselves, when the very judge has gone back from the word in which he was so confident, shall my mother,and my mother only,think that I am a wretched, miserable, nameless outcast, with a poor nameless, fatherless baby?

In 1756 he was made editor of the "Critical Review," a post which resulted in a fine of £100 and three months' imprisonment for a libel on Admiral Knowles.

An action for libel, however it may be decided, has at least the one inevitable result of perpetuating it.

'Tis a libel, I assure you," returned Mr. Morris, this time laughing outright with the amusement he could no longer conceal.

LIBELS, actions for them, iii. 64; dead, on the, iii. 15; England and America, in, i. 116, n. 1; Fox's Libel Bill, iii. 16, n. 1; juries, judges of the law, iii. 16, n. 1; refuse to convict, i. 116, n. 1; pulpit, from the, iii. 58; severe law against libels, i. 124, n. 1. LIBERTY, all boys love it, iii. 383; clamours for it, i. 131, n. 1; iii. 201, n, 1; conscience, of, ii. 249; iv.

Ruth McAneny Loud, Agnes Adams Wales & Eileen Evans (A); 1Apr74; R577189. R577190. Handbook of libel.

After that he was permitted to take what he wanted, and "the author" was informed of his libel on the infantile stomach.

He was responsible for certain wrongs committed by her after marriage, such as libel and slander, and judgment could be recovered against him.

'One free-shooting case, one thundering libel case, and a bank smash.

The Tribal Heralda thin weekly, with a patent insideconnects the red nose and the breakdown with an innuendo which, to the outsider, is clumsy libel.

<Slander, defame, asperse, calumniate, traduce, vilify, malign, libel, backbite>.

Ethel lost her temper, and then her firmness, while bursting into tears she taxed Barnes with cruelty for uttering stories to his cousin's disadvantage and for pursuing with constant slander one of the very best of men.

The friar replied, "This report of her death shall change slander into pity; that is some good, but that is not all the good I hope for.

Leonato replied, "She died, my lord, but while her slander lived."

"More will be gained for Christianity by friendly intercourse with Mohammedans than by slander; above all Christians who live in the East must not, as is too often the case, give cause to one Turk to say to another who suspects him of lying or deceit: 'Do you take me for a Christian?' ("putasne me Christianum esse").

And how, lastly, can those say that they believe that, who will lie, and slander, and have recourse to base intrigues, in order to defend that truth, and that Church, of which the Lord himself has said that he has founded it upon a rock, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it?

And this isn't a novel, girls; it's mostly suspicion and slander.

Would your Highness consent to see poor Carlo, or to command him to be brought hither, his simple tale would give the lie to every foul slander they have dared to say against him.

"I care nothing," he is reported to have said, "for the criticism, but I am not indifferent to the slander.

They slander me.

The finger of slander may now at you point, That finger will soon lose the strength of its joint; And those who now plead for the rights of the slave, Will soon be acknowledged the good and the brave.

In cases of libel or slander, the truth of the allegation might be pleaded in justification.

What, think you, would your great King Constantine Say to your daring slander?

AN INTRUDER INTO FAVOUR Is one that builds his reputation on others' infamy, for slander is most commonly his morning prayer.

But what would you, when "brabbling women slander and scandalize their neighbours, for which their poore husbands are often brought into chargeable and vexatious suits and cast in great damages"?

NEWELL, MARTIN L. The law of slander and libel in civil and criminal cases.

R89819, 1Feb52, Mason H. Newell (A) NEWELL, MASON H. The law of slander and libel in civil and criminal cases.

"I love a friend that's frank and just, To whom a tale I can entrust, But when a man's to slander given, From such a friend protect me heaven.

Krishna hears of the slander and at once decides to search for the missing man, recover the jewel and thus silence his accuser for ever.

The upshot, then, is that the slander is ended, the jewel is regained and in the process Krishna acquires two further wives.

I have no mind to avenge myself for these outrages, as I might, and as Pope Sixtus V. did when he sent to the galleys certain Cordeliers for having dared to slander him in their sermons.

If it be a written imputation, it is libel and not slander.

I say to you: "Do not trade with Smith, he is not a good person to deal with," or, "Do not take employment with him, he will treat you cruelly"; and in either case, unless I can be convicted of slander, he has no remedy against me if I am acting alone.

Libel, and slander, legislation relating to; against government; modern statute abolishing law.

Sins, the province of the church courts; distinction of from crime; legislation against common under James I. Slander, made criminal act at common law by Westminster I; and libel, legislation relating to; of women made a crime.