Note 131 — DEFENCE. (continued 4)
Reading edition
22 St. Tr. 523.—So late as 1820, the chief justice punished an editor with a fine of £500, for publishing an account of a trial for high treason. See 33 St. Tr. 1564, also 22 St. Tr. 298; 2 Campbell, Justices, 363, 371 et al.