ALMON, JOHN English political pamphleteer and publisher, was born at Liverpool on Dec. 27, 1737, and died on Dec. 12, 1805. He came to London in 1758 at a time when the Whig opposition, hampered and harassed by the Government to an extent that threatened the total suppression of independent opinion, needed a channel of publicity, which they found in Almon. He was already known by The Conduct of a late Noble Commander (Lord George Sackville) ; Examined (1759) ; a Review of his late Majesty's Reign (176o) ; A Review of Mr. Pitt's Administration (1761) ; and a number of letters on political subjects. The review of Pitt's administration secured for Almon the friendship of Earl Temple, to whom it was dedicated. In 1763 he opened a bookseller's shop in Piccadilly, chiefly for the publication and sale of political pamphlets. In 1765 the attorney general moved to have him tried for the publication of the pam phlet entitled Juries and Libels, but the prosecution failed; and in 1770, for merely selling a copy of the London Museum con taining Junius's celebrated "Letter to the King," he was sentenced by Lord Mansfield to pay a fine of ten marks and give security for his good behaviour. It was this trial that called forth the letter to Lord Mansfield, one of the bitterest of the Junius series. In 1774 Almon commenced the publication of his Parliamentary Register, a monthly report of the debates in Parliament, and he also issued an abstract of the debates from 1742, when Richard Chandler's Reports ceased, to 1774. He became proprietor in 1784 of the General Advertiser, in the management of which he lost his fortune and was declared insolvent. To these calamities was added an imprisonment for libel. Almon had to leave the country, but of ter some years in France he returned and resumed business, publishing among other works an edition of Junius. His last publication was an edition of Wilkes's correspondence, with a memoir 0805).