The Government prosecuted several newspaper proprietors and printers for publishing these letters, and more especially that addressed to the king. Among others who were brought to trial were Woodfall himself; John Almon, of the _London Museum_; Miller, of the _London Evening Post_; Baldwin, of the _St. James's Chronicle_; Say, of the _Gazetteer_, and Robinson, of the _Independent Chronicle_. Almon was, however, the only one who was punished. The jury consisted of Government employes, carefully selected, and of course brought in a verdict adverse to him. Almon was fined and ordered to find substantial bail for his future good behavior. The _Public Advertiser_ was a joint-stock concern, chiefly in the hands of the booksellers, among whom we find names which are still famous in Paternoster Row, such as Longman, Cadell, Rivington, and Strahan. Woodfall's ledger supplies us with the following information as to the expenses of getting it up, some of the items being sufficiently curious: L s. d. Paid translating foreign news, etc., 100 0 0 Foreign newspapers, 14 0 0 Foy, at 2s. a day, 31 4 0 Lloyd's coffee house for post news 12 0 0 Home news, as per receipts and incidents, 282 4 11-1/2 List of sheriffs, 10 6 Plantation, Irish, and Scotch news, 50 0 0 Portsmouth letter, 8 5 0 Stocks, 3 3 0 Porterage to the stamp office, 10 8 0 Recorder's clerk, 1 1 0 Sir John Fielding, 50 0 0 Delivering papers fifty-two weeks, at L1 4s. per week, 62 8 0 Clerk, and to collect debts, 30 0 0 Setting up extra advertisements, 31 10 0 A person to go daily to fetch in advertisements, getting evening papers, etc., 15 15 0 Morning and evening papers, 26 8 9-1/2 Price of hay and straw, Whitechapel, 1 6 0 Mr. Green for port entries, 31 10 0 Law charges, Mr. Holloway, 6 7 5 Bad debts, 18 3 6 ---------- L796 15 2 The sale was about three thousand a day, and the shareholders received L80 per share clear profit. The newspapers of those days paid the managers of theatres for accounts of their plays, as witness the following entries: L s. d. Playhouses, 100 0 0 Drury Lane advertisements, 64 8 6 Covent Garden 66 11 0 --------- L230 19 6