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Mar 1809 Part III
Press. Ch.2. Compulsory Means

§.1. Code desirable.

1
"Give us our rights"
in the application
meant, a disputable
claim —

Give us our laws —
an indispensable one.
p.1 —

2.
Give us our laws yt
knowing we may
obey: without knowledge,
no obedience.
p.1

3
This claim or petition
which would not be
considered as disrespectful
under the most
absolute government.
By Bonaparte it has
been anticipated.
p.1

3(a)
Bonaparte's Codes never
read by J.B. Expectation
not sanguine:
invitation to give reasons
not having been
accepted. p.2

4.
Bonaparte is neither
a dupe nor an accomplice
with lawyers.
p.2

4*
punctually, censure
freely. J.B.'s Feasment
motto: not
changed by Revolutions &c
p.2

5.
All that time tho'
slow a progress though
slow in the trap of
improvement, except
as to the influence of
the Crown, forced into
encrease by exterior
causes viz. wars with
their expence p.2

6.
— and by means of which
the thinking part of
people will without
commotion or danger of
it obtain their deliverance
from the yoke of
their natural enemies, as
soon as they have learnt
to know them. p.3.

7.
If give us our laws is
endurable under the absolute,
how much more indisputable
a claim under
a free government. p.3.

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§.2. Modus operandi.

1.
Means employable by
Jurymen for obtaining
a Code of Libel law

Till a Code is enacted
convict no man as a
libeller against Government —
p.3

2.
Eligibility of this remedy
it is —
1. Lawful
2. Innoxious —
3. Efficient as to producing
the law —
4. Efficient without
the law. p.3

3.
1. As to its lawfulness —
The right of Juries to
acquit in case of libel
has been declared by
Parliament (32.G.3.1.60)
p.4

4.
What is more it is
contrary to morality &
religion to convict — viz —
as being contrary to
oath 1. to government
— a man guilty of
having violated a law
when no law exists.
p.4

5
2. So to convict a man
of 20 offences when
but 19 have been
proved. p.4

6
3. So to expose a man
to punishment for
having disclosed useful
neither p.4.

7
So to convict a man
of malitious publication
even when the imputation
or facts of it
be only rash much
more if he had reason
to believe it true.
p.4.

8
Innoawiseness —
The noxiousness ascribed
to government
libels is bit imaginary
disproved by experience.
p.5

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§.2. Modus operandi.

9
Ex. gr. never was a
Libel more venomous
artful, or more extensively
circulated than
Junius's Letters against
George 3d p.5.

10
Seldom a King so popular
as he has been
notwithstanding. p.5.

11 —
Next to Junius in
malignity, & more persevering
the Morng
Chronicle p.5

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Date_1	1809-03	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-3, 3a, 4, 4*, 5-7, 1-11
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