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1820 March 23 ulto
Almost all this Sheet employed in Warwick R. v. Edmonds &c
R. v. Edmonds &c
19.
3. From Ld Kenyon again
"Gross libel to say subjects
"are oppressed" —
Suppose they are oppressed:
never shall
any one say so, if Kenyon,
Ellenborough, or
any man in their
place can stop his
mouth.
The more intolerable
the oppression, the greater
the offence and punishment.
20.
Per Kings Bench Law
be oppression ever so
cruel and universal,
to assert its existence
is punishable.
21.
Suppose there be to issue
a proclamation
for the purpose of expressing
hatred and
contempt towards subjects,
could he have
chosen apter terms.
22. By oppression, no
displeasure for aducible
greater than that
produced in Kenyon
&c by complaint of it.
23.
The more excruciating
the oppression, and flagitious
the conduct,
of the oppressor, the
more flagitious the
crime of indicating
it, and excruciating
the punishment provided:
the more corrupt
and tyrannical the government,
the more
flagitious the crime of
shewing it to be so.
24.
How can this be otherwise? —
the more excruciating
the oppression
can the displeasure
excited in the breasts
of the oppressed and
their sympathizers fail
of being proportionable
the of the emotion
so produced to the
in the individual,
proportionably clear? But
the greater this displeasure,
the greater
the injury to the beings
in question, real
and fictitious, thence
the demand for punishment:
the more
flagitious the oppressor,
the more severely
visitable the oppressed
for shewing him to
be what he is —
25.
Contradiction in
terms. to profess acting
on the principle
of the Indictment and
the ensuing Statute,
and not to punish
any writer by whom
the propriety of any
part of the rule of
action or of the conduct
of any Member
of the Government
is called in question
Say what you will
what you say has
that tendency or it
has none.
26.
Discontent &c are
names of degrees of
disapprobation and
displeasure — from
the slightest emotion
to the highest onadness:
of no one degree
can any description
be given in words,
by which it shall be
distinguishable from
any other.
27.
In different breasts
different degrees of
displeasure from
the same libels, each
undistinguishable
from every other
How far short of
madness was the
displeasure produced
in Kenyon, Ellenborough,
by any
endeavour towards
obtaining relief from
Government oppression?
Torture 28.
For want of proof,
a member of Government
causes men
in multitudes to
expire in torture,
the more excruciating
should be the
punishment for talking
of it.
Torture 29.
Such is libel law
at Algiers &c, and at
Mentz: at Westminster
in B.K. thanks to
and Raymond:
to Kenyon, Ellenborough,
and so many
other worthy successors
of Jefferies
Will men
of such expression by
displeasure? disapprobation them
they must of
the . Will
they of one
example of displeasure?
Let them then say
what of it
they will in of
what they will not
allow. let them of those degree
a description.
as shall rule it
possible at least for
a man to know what
degree he may express
without being punished,
and what
he can not express
without being visited.
Let them in a word
construct and make
known a thermometer an instrument
by which, as by a
thermometer the degree
of physical calorie
the favourable to the health
of the body natural the degree
of mental calorie favourable
to the health of the body
politic shall be indicated.
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