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1817 June 9. 1
J.B. to Jurymen
Liberty versus slavery
1817 March
Morn debate
Eldon's intimation of the eventual necessity of abolishing Jury-Trial in State cases.]
Letters to the Jurymen of England. in libel laws
shewing that in no case comprehended in the field
of libel law might a verdict of Guilty case to be
found ought any Juryman to concurr in a
verdict of Guilty: and in particular in the case
of state-libels and [that of libels called] blasphemies.
Friends and Fellow Countrymen
You have heard me — some of you — not long
ago since on the subject of Parliamentary Reform,
hear me now on the subject of libel law, hear me on that subject since for all in the
character of Counsel for all defendants pr defendants
in a prosecution for on the ground of libel, and without a retaining fee
and frenzy suppose not that hear me, and suffer yourselves not
to be persuaded that my pleading will be the less sincere
for its not having been called forth by any retaining
fee. Now were indeed I a fee gathering lawyer of the fee-eating fee-devouring tribe it would not
be in my power to do any clients justice: and this you
should see before I conclude I take my leave of you
(I will My endeavours shall be to make myself understood
as far as I dare. But what I am sure I can not
forget and what it concerns you all not to forget that is
this Country with its trusted Constitution here is now at liberty
Lord Sidmouth, Lord Castlereagh, Lord and there respective
successors: of more are all those singly
thought
More in June 1817
Per Letter, expressed
loss of Copy of the information
against him £30
5th Double fountain
1. To guiltiness, transgressor is suffering: 2. transgressor viz. of c determined
law: of a law by the observance of which a man may avoid punishment
3. No such law exists in any libel case: it being all in Common i.e. law 4. especially in state-libel
case. 5. From any such acquitting no mischief though it were universal. Then no Answer
proved by experience. 6 None was attempted to be marked in but will
claim, always lack for a justification: that being found needless and undue
when repeated, and without inconvenience 7. U.1.a pattern clearness to be reflected in all cases. 8.
Libel law not kept up
for any other purpose
than that of tyranny and
misrule. 8. Abominal
in a libel as a
breach of the power and on
that ground — a ground for
imprisonment. 9. Impossibility a
lawyer is under of
using this argument
non lawyers afraid
for fear of exposing ignorance,
10. him
force a determinative
test to
it would force government
to produce Statute law
as to them, or to acknowledge
the impossibility of
it.
11. J.B. glad he has
in these times.
12. No Perjury in
concuring in a verdict
of not Guilty. he
not.
13. Under Corn Law
1. Not knowable who the
legislators were
2 None of them competent
or part of lawful legal process
3. Nor an appropriate
aptitude
4. Blackstone's misrepresentations —
see Appendix
5: Bonaparte
quay Codifier.
14 Jurymen why these
addressed — they the only
in whose immediate
power action
Parl. Reform was the facility
of checking abuse.
Honourable, as they be
Privy Councillors may,
— these originally
Lords of the Treasury
any three in like manner
these last in the character of of Mr Crossland and his Successors: all these respectively are
Masters: that sort of Master of which the is a Slave.
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