At the Easter Sessions for Bristol in the year 1682 the Grand Jury presented this and the four following publications as being "infamous, scandalous, and seditious"; and the Court thereupon ordered that at its rising these libels be publicly burnt by the Beadle or Common Executioner.[233] A copy is preserved in the British Museum Library. 279. The Impartial Protestant Mercury, N^o 96. From Tuesday March 21 to Friday, March 24. 1681/2. A copy is preserved in the British Museum Library. 280. The sad and lamentable cry of oppression and cruelty in the City of Bristol. 1682. The editor has not met with a copy of this work. 281. More sad and lamentable news from Bristol. 1682. The editor has not met with a copy of this work. 282. The devouring informers of Bristol &c. Being an additional account of some late proceedings of those ravenous beasts of prey, against Dissenting Protestants. Bristol. April 22. 1682. A copy of this tract is preserved in the British Museum Library. It is in quarto, and contains four pages. 283. Smith's Currant Intelligence, or an impartial account of transactions both forraign and domestick. Published from Tuesday, March 23 to Saturday March 27. (1680). For publishing this newspaper, a copy of which is preserved in the Library of the British Museum, a prosecution was instituted against John Smith of Queen Street, in the County of Middlesex, Printer. The information charges that the defendant being a pernicious person, and contriving and maliciously intending to excite discord and scandal between the King and his people and the nobles of the kingdom, did on the twenty seventh day of March, in the thirty second year of the reign of King Charles the Second, in the parish of St. Giles in the Fields, Co: Midd:, publish and cause to be published a certain false, scandalous, and malicious libel intituled _Smith's Currant Intelligence, or an impartial account of transactions both forraign and domestick_ containing among other things as follows:--_The Project for carrying and recarrying of Letters from place to place throughout all the Cities of London and Westminster, for a penny a Letter, so often mentioned in the Intelligences, is, as Dr. Oates says, a farther branch of the Popish Plot; for that he is credibly informed, it is the most dextrous Invention of Mr. Henry Nevill alias Pain, who is notoriously known to be a great asserter of the Catholick cause, and shrewdly suspected to be a promoter of this way of Treasonable Correspondencies; And it is to be feared, as that good Invention of Pipes hath wholly destroyed the Trade of Tankard Bearer, so this silly Invention will only serve to ruine the poor Porters._[234] 284.