The Virginia Gazette

LONDON.

July 6. Yesterday was try'd before the Court of King's Bench, a Cause, in which the Hon. E-- W--, Esq; was Plaintiff, and two Attorneys Defendants. These Men were concerned in forming and carrying into Execution one of the blackest Conspiracies that ever was hatched against the Character of a Gentleman long distinguished for the most unblemished Probity and inviolable Honour. They were Accomplices with P-n and K-e, two infamous Vagrants, who, in Order to extort from this Gentleman a large Sum of Money, entered into a Prosecution against him for a Crime of the most enormous Kind, at which Nature shudders, and from which Mr. W-- was honourably acquitted. P-n made his Escape from New Prison, and N-- and K-- have fled, A-- is now ordered into Custody, and his Bail surrendered him in Court. All the Defendants were found guilty, and indeed it is difficult to conceive a Punishment sufficiently severe for so execrable a Plot. The Courage and Industry of Mr. W--nn in prosecuting those flagrant Villains cannot be enough admired: He has exposed his Character a second Time to the Scrutiny of the Publick, and the Cloud of Calumny thrown over his Innocence till dispelled the more, and he remains in the full Possession of his Reputation in Spite of the lying Malice of these abandoned Profligates; nor can it be told without Indignation that A--, though in the Presence of the Court, and a Gentleman whose Character he endeavoured to blast, behaved with the greatest Impudence, and a shameless Front peculiar to himself.