The paper was instantly drawn up.

Many thousands of copies were struck off and brought to Speke's room, whence they were distributed over the whole country, and especially among the soldiers.

A milder government than that which then ruled England would have been moved to high resentment by such a provocation.

Strict search was made.

A subordinate agent who had been employed to circulate the address saved himself by giving up Johnson; and Johnson was not the man to save himself by giving up Speke.
An information was filed, and a conviction obtained without difficulty.
Julian Johnson, as he was popularly called, was sentenced to stand thrice in the pillory, and to be whipped from Newgate to Tyburn.