_Lord Brougham and Horne Tooke._--In Lord Brougham's _Statesmen of the Time
of George III._, he says of Mr. Horne Tooke:
"Thus he (H. T.) would hold that the law of libel was unjust and
absurd, because _libel_ means a little book."
Can any of the readers of "N. & Q." say on what occasion Tooke maintained
this strange doctrine, or where his Lordship obtained his information that
Tooke did maintain it?