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matters of State and of public acts of the government. As it is published by the authority of the crown, it is the usual way of notifying such acts to the public and therefore is entitled to credit in respect to such matters. It is a high misdemeanour to publish anything, as from royal authority, which is not so. The gazette is evidence of the kings proclamations even the articles of War, printed by the Kings printer, are good evidence of those articles. Addresses of the subject in bodies or otherwise to the king & his answers are considered as matters of State, when published in the gazette and are proved by it prima facie in the king's court in Westminster Hall. The gazette is said to be an authoritative mean of proving all acts relating to the king and the State. Justice Buller asserts that every thing, which relates to the king, as king of Great Britain. It is in its nature public, and that a gazette which contains any thing done by his majesty, in his character of king or which has passed through his Majesty's hands is admissible evidence in a court of Law, to prove such thing without