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April 1809
Press. Ch. 2. Libel Law as it ought
§. Minor advantages
1.
Two minor effects.
1. Amusement to people
assault & disgrace
of Ministers an exhibition:
people the
Spectators. p. 1.
2.
Persons at whose
expence the amusement
is given few: participators
many. p. 1.
3.
Emblem a pugilistic
contest. Pugilists few
and those voluntary,
paid by money and
reputation: suffering
in their own estimate
overbalanced —
Spectators a throng.
p. 1.
4.
2. Improving mental
exercise to contestants
and spectators.
1. In the combatants —
viz. sub-rulers their
assailants & defenders
aptitude is encreased:
while by the terror
of ql contest unfit
sub-rulers are excluded.
p. 2.
5.
By spectators, aptitude
for forming correct
judgments is gained
by experience. p. 2.
6.
Confer Treasury libel
prosecution — as small
at, giving themselves
not talent nor information
but vengeance.
p. 3.
7
Cock throwing
the emblem. p. 3.
8
Minor compared with
the other good effects;
these are major compared
with the ill
effects. p. 3.
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