They might have even found somebody who said it was thrust upon him, and that, he was induced to read it, not knowing its character.

Gentlemen, they have not attempted to prove that any special publicity was given to it outside the circle of the people who approved it.

They have not even shown there was an advertisement of it in any Christian or religious paper.
They have not even told you that any extravagant display was made of it; and I undertake to say that you might never have known of it if the prosecution had not advertised it.

How can all this be construed as a breach of the peace?
Our Indictment says we have done all this, to the great displeasure of Almighty God, and to the danger of our Lady the Queen, her crown and dignity.
You must bear that in mind.

The law-books say again and again that a blasphemous libel is punished, not because it throws obloquy on the deity--the protection of whom would be absurd-- but because it tends to a breach of the peace.