The state of the action brought by William Fletcher against William Vassall, for defaming him: tried in the Superior Court at Boston, August term,...

"IN the Examination of the Case, which is published at the Desire of some Gentlemen that attended the Trial, the Reader will find, that in the Year 1749, Mr. Vassall seems to have taken a Resolution to be my Ruin; and to accomplish this vile and wicked End to have made it his Practice for above two Years following, to say in all Companies such Things of as had a direct Tendency to blast my Character and Reputation, and is destroy my Trade and Business, without having even the Shadow of Truth to support what he said, or any other Provocation thn my censuring his Conduct in delivering to one Andrew Hall a promissary Note of considerable Value, which be the said Vassall ought to have delivered to me, as plainly appears by the Rule of Court in that Case annex'd hereto, and by doing of which I was wrong'd of the same, besides being arred in the Law with the said Hall for above three Years on Account