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1826 Feb. 10
Moras Imprisonment J.B.s Remarks on it
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(1) Law requiring notice to be given of the day when political
subjects are to be discussed. I see nothing Taking by itself this clause in the law No mischievous
tendency strikes me as capable of being imputed to this
clause . As little do I see any done away with determining
good effect proceed itself to capable
of being Supposing the days of meeting
not fixed by any appointed permanent regulation, notice of
is the of any proposed incidental day of meeting
it. When the meeting In the case of a meeting, to which for the purpose of discussing subjects of
a political nature proposes the general without other
restrictions than that which is imposed by the obligation of
contributing to the necessarily attendant expences of local accommodation,
the day times of meeting will either be have been fixt by a
general pre-appointed regulation, or be have been left to be determined by
particular appointments: in the first case, it might seem there can
be no use in any such special notice given to any body,
at any rate there can be no use in requiring by any law
that any such notice shall be given: by the regulation of
the meeting the public at large all who take any
interest in the matter have at all times received
whatever information they can have need of:+ the whole of
the public in general, and of course in particular the ruling part of it
it.
+ N.B. Obviate the fraud
Note (a)
Thus it was in the case of the meeting London Robinhood meeting:
a meeting to at which a payment of a few to try their
strength some of the most celebrated Speakers and occasionally
to attend and exercise themselves: amongst others Edmund
Burke. President Whether by express appointment or by
usage, a Baker of the name of his name was Iacock Juras President
nearer sixty than fifty years ago I remember seeing him officiating
in that capacity. Howsoever it may have been as to hatred Neither under
the name of mob nor of under any other name were the whole great bulk of the
nations people
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