Godwin, William Letters to the Morning Chronicle on trials for seditious libel, writing as Mucius (1  February  1793) (8  February  1793) (26  March  1793) (30  March  1793) Morning Chronicle

Open letters protesting at the erosion of civil liberties and free speech, occasioned in particular by the trial of Daniel Crichton at the Quarter Sessions, Clerkenwell on 8 January 1793, who was heard to say at the Tower of London, while drunk, 'Damn the King; we have no King in Scotland, and we will soon have no King in England.' Crichton was sentenced to three months imprisonment and Godwin protested at a 'reign of despotism', The second letter is an attack on John Reeves, chairman of the Society for protecting Liberty and Property against Republicans and Levellers, for his role in helping to ferment popular hatred of Thomas Paine, whose trial Godwin had attended. The third letter is addressed to the attorney general, Sir Archibald Macdonald, and the fourth to jurors. They are all republished in Political and Philosophical Writings , vol. 2.