Never had the Jacobite pamphleteers been so savagely scurrilous as during this unfortunate summer.

The police was consequently more active than ever in seeking for the dens from which so much treason proceeded.

With great difficulty and after long search the most important of all the unlicensed presses was discovered.

This press belonged to a Jacobite named William Anderton, whose intrepidity and fanaticism marked him out as fit to be employed on services from which prudent men and scrupulous men shrink.

During two years he had been watched by the agents of the government; but where he exercised his craft was an impenetrable mystery.