Do you know how to write?
_A_.

Enough to write my name.
"I was then directed to subscribe my name to the examination, which I did, and went away." In October, intelligence came of the "excommunication" of the book and its author by the "Great Church" at Constantinople.

They assigned the publicity which the "Defense" had obtained in Turkey as the reason for this act; and this was doubtless the reason why the synodical accusation was sent extensively to be read in the Greek churches of the East.
The case went to trial, and was decided against Dr.King in three successive courts, the last of which was the Areopagus, or highest court of appeal.

This was in April, 1846.

In this latter court, he was well defended by two Greek lawyers, and permission was granted him, at his request, to address the court.