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Elements of Packing Part I. Ch. 11.

§§.1

1.
Tribunals substitulate
in libel law cases with
advantage to a Jury —
so constituted & directed —
I. A Star Chamber —
constituted as formerly —
The fundamental libel
law cases were all
determined there. p.1.

2.
Advantage of Star Chamber —
it was composed
solely of persons in high
situations — great characters.
p 2.

3.
J.B. If for argument
sake he could choose his
Judges would prefer a
Star Chamber to a Jury
so constituted & directed —
with a correspondent
sentence awaiting him.

4.
Great characters of
the libelling whom
Cobbett & Johnson were
convicted —
1. Ld Hardwick
2. Ld Redesdale
3. Judge Osborne
4. Marsden —

Item, tho' thro' magnanimity
not charged
as libelled —
5. Ld Hobart
6. Ld Westmoreland —
7. Ld Cambden —
8.Dr Addington
p.3

5.
Supposing him to
have libelled them all
& thereupon prosecuted
J.B. would prefer them
all for his sole Judges
to a Jury so constituted
& directed. p.3

6.
Reason — By the circumstance
of their
judging without a
Jury & in their own
cause the attention
of the public eye wod
be pointed on them &
in some degree operate
as a check. p.4

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7.
II. A single Judge sans
Jury, even though
the Judge was Ellenboro'

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Cause of preference
individual responsibility
for the virtue of which
se Scotch Reform. p.5

9.
Not that conviction
would be less certain, but
the punishment might
be rendered less severe:
rendered so by the
consideration that in
the odium he would
have no sharers. p.5

10
By saying to the
convict "You have been
convicted by a Jury"
the Judge addressing
his discourse in intention
to bystanders bespeaks
their recognition of the
justice of the sentence.
p.6.

11.
Odium is thus
turned off in part
upon the Jury: the
darkness of whose
operations screens
them from it. p.6

11(a)
Perceval in R.v.Cobbett
Who is he &c &c not
entirely unknown
then: better since —
A. He is not a Perceval
securing £32,000 a
year in a mode
more oppressive than
any tax — and making
it their own
interest as it has
been endeavour to
destroy whatsoever
remains undestroyed
of the liberty of the
press —

Quis homo est &c
Two for one
impunity for the other
punishment: one
with a right to plunder
the other with to
be plundered, & if
they complain punished.

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11(a)
6. Then one use of a
Special Jury.

To a Jury of the old
stamp Perceval wod
not have represented
question between
guilty & not guilty
turning upon do
between No-family
& family thus "violating
their feelings".
p.8

12.
Better for a Libeller J.B.
to be tried by Ellenboro'
than by a Jury directed
by do

Tears friends &c might
move do if alone — secus
if with a Jury — "You
have been tried by a Jury"
— Go and write Libels
if you can in close custody
&c — p.6*

12(a)
Quotation from R.v.Cobbett
Perceval's conclusion —
of what family is this
Censor &c ? p.6*

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