In which libel, among other things therein contained, are these words, “Your appearance in print at last gives a pleasure to many, although most wish you had come fairly into the open field, and not appeared behind entrenchments made of the supposed laws against libeling, and of what other men had said and done before. These entrenchments, gentlemen, may soon be shown to you and to all men to be weak, and to have neither law nor reason for their foundation, and so cannot long stand in your stead. Therefore you had much better as yet leave them, and come to what the people of this City and Province (_the City and Province of New York meaning_) think are the points in question. They (_the people of the City and Province of New York meaning_) think, as matters now stand, that their liberties and properties are precarious, and that slavery is like to be entailed on them and their posterity if some past things be not amended, and this they collect from many past proceedings.” (_Meaning many of the past proceedings of His Excellency, the Governor, and of the ministers and officers of the king, of and for the said Province._) And the Attorney General likewise gives the Court here to understand and be informed: That the said John Peter Zenger afterwards, to wit on the eighth day of April, did falsely, seditiously and scandalously print and publish another false, malicious, seditious, and scandalous libel entitled _The New York Weekly Journal_. In which libel, among other things therein contained, are these words, “One of our neighbors (_one of the inhabitants of New Jersey meaning_) being in company and observing the strangers (_some of the inhabitants of New York meaning_) full of complaints, endeavored to persuade them to remove into Jersey. To which it was replied, that would be leaping out of the frying pan into the fire; for, says he, we both are under the same Governor (_His Excellency the said Governor meaning_), and your Assembly have shown with a vengeance what is to be expected from them. One that was then moving to Pennsylvania (_meaning one that was then removing from New York with intent to reside at Pennsylvania_), to which place it is reported that several considerable men are removing (_from New York meaning_), expressed in terms very moving much concern for the circumstances of New York (_the bad circumstances of the Province and people of New York meaning_), and seemed to think them very much owing to the influence that some men (whom he called tools) had in the administration (_meaning the administration of government of the said Province of New York_). He said he was now going from them, and was not to be hurt by any measures they should take, but could not help having some concern for the welfare of his countrymen, and should be glad to hear that the Assembly (_meaning the General Assembly of the Province of New York_) would exert themselves as became them by showing that they