Be it remembered, that _Richard Bradly_, Esq: Attorney General of Our Sovereign Lord the King, for the Province of _New-York_, who for Our said Lord the King in this Part prosecutes, in his own proper Person comes here into the Court of our said Lord the King, and for our said Lord the King gives the Court here to understand and be informed, That _John Peter Zenger_, late of the City of _New-York_, Printer, (being a seditious Person; and a frequent Printer and Publisher of false News and seditious Libels, and wickedly and maliciously devising the Government of Our said Lord the King of this His Majesty’s Province of _New-York_, under the Administration of His Excellency _William Cosby_, Esq; Captain General and Governour, in Chief of the said Province, to traduce, scandalize and vilify, and His Excellency the said Governour, and the Ministers and Officers of Our said Lord, the King of and for the said Province to bring into Suspicion and the ill Opinion of the Subjects of Our said Lord the King residing within the Province) the Twenty eighth Day of _January_, in the seventh Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord _George_ the second, by the Grace of God of _Great-Britain_, _France_ and _Ireland_, King Defender of the Faith, &c. at the City of _New-York, did falsly, seditiously and scandalously_ print and publish, and cause to be printed and published, a certain _false, malicious, seditious scandalous_ Libel, entitled _The New-York Weekly Journal, containing the freshest Advices, foreign and domestick_; In the present edition, these passages read as follows: As there was but one printer in the Province of New York who printed a public newspaper, I was in hopes that if I undertook to publish another I might make it worth my while. I soon found my hopes were not groundless. My first paper was printed on November 5, 1733; and I continued printing and publishing them, I thought to the satisfaction of everybody, till the January following, when the Chief Justice was pleased to animadvert upon the doctrine of libels in a long “charge” given in that term to the grand jury. Afterwards, on the third Tuesday of October, 1734, he was again pleased to charge the grand jury in the following words: “Gentlemen, I shall conclude....” Be it remembered that Richard Bradley, Attorney General of the king for the Province of New York, who prosecutes for the king in this part, in his own proper person comes here into the Court of the king, and for the king gives the Court here to understand and be informed: