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ERRATA.

4, line 7, for overthow, read overthrow.
7, line 38, for emport, read import.
for defendant, read defendants.
32, line 45, for insiduous, read insidious.
34, line 7, for keep, read keeping.

29, line 31,

36, line 23, for it is, read they are.

39, line 9, for two years ago, read more than five years ago. In the note at the bottom of page 40, for No. I. read No. I. to XI. Page 42, line 32, for his, read Dunn's.

53, line 19, for this man, read this man Dunn.

55, line 43, for A. read Q.

In the note at the bottom of page 61, for No. VIII. read No. XII.
Page 69, line 36, for twelth, read twelfth.

88, line 36, for Mr. Ridgway, read Mr. Ridgway, jun.
102, line 17, for Mr. Jones, read Mr. Thomas Jones.

AID AND ASSIST THE FRENCH, BEING THE KING's ENEMIES,

BY THOMAS WALKER.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J.JOHNSON, IN ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD.

1794.
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PREFAC E.

SINCE the events of the following narrative, Meffrs. Hardy, Tooke, Bonney, Kyd, Joyce, Holcroft, Thelwall, Richter and Baxter, have been indicted and acquitted of High Treafon. The offence laid to their charge was of the fame nature with that imputed to Meffrs. Jackson, Paul, Collier, myself, and others ; and the only difference of the two cafes, was, that in the one, a Confpiracy was the crime alledged; in the other, it was the means, by which the fuppofed crime of HighTreason was to have been effected.-Both these charges have fallen to the ground. The enquiry, I truft, will produce much good upon the public mind; and, fo far, will, compenfate the defendants for the anxiety, ill treatment, and injurious expence, which they have fuftained.

Whether there be in law any precife definition of what is called a Confpiracy, I have not yet been able to learn; but, from the practice

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