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Silence in the court! Charles Darnay had yesterday pleaded Not

Guilty to an indictment denouncing him (with infinite jingle and

jangle) for that he was a false traitor to our serene,

illustrious, excellent, and so forth, prince, our Lord the King,

by reason of his having, on divers occasions, and by divers means

and ways, assisted Lewis, the French King, in his wars against

our said serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth; that was

to say, by coming and going, between the dominions of our said

serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth, and those of the

said French Lewis, and wickedly, falsely, traitorously, and

otherwise evil-adverbiously, revealing to the said French Lewis

what forces our said serene, illustrious, excellent, and so

forth, had in preparation to send to Canada and North America.