... their duty to lay the result of their enquiries with candour and impartiality before your Majesty, and even the Public, when theirviews are laudable to your Royal interest, and the Good of their ... defence, and for much of the eighteenth century the roleof the jury was only to determine the fact of publication and the identity of the subject.It was the judge who decided whether the act ... Hermes, messenger of the Gods, and the all-seeing eye with the motto ‘nunquam dormio’ (I never sleep).Titles such as the ‘Sun’, the ‘Star’, the ‘Comet’ and the ‘Lantern’ sug-gested the enlightening...