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Who do ye think paid for the printing of this paper ? '' `` I suppose it would likely be King George , '' said I. `` But it happens it was me ! '' he cried . `` Not but it was printed by and for themselves , for the Grants and the Erskines , and yon thief of the black midnight , Simon Fraser . But could _ I _ win to get a copy ? No ! I was to go blindfold to my defence ; I was to hear the charges for the first time in court alongst the jury . ''