ABSTRACT
TAKING IN, for having lately published a Poem called The Trial of Selim the Persian;1 by which Title his Majesty’s good Subjects were induced to believe, that a certain great Character was notoriously and scurrilously abused; and many of them were deceived into buying the said Poem, from the same worthy Motive, which leads them to encourage the Works of other modern Authors: But to their great Surprize, as well as Concern, they found no Satire contained in the said Poem; and so they were TAKEN IN, to their great Deceit and Prejudice, contrary to the Form of the said Statute, &c. Thomas Scandal, Esq; (sworn). I bought the Poem of the Defendant, imagining it to have been a
A Point of Law now arose, whether this Fact was within the Statute; which having been very learnedly spoke to on both Sides, the Court delivered their Opinion as follows:
I am clearly of Opinion that this Case is neither within the Meaning, nor within the Words of the Statute.
