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of this chance that the country press probably stands indebted
for the precarious and scanty measure of liberty
it has hitherto possessed. That Juries have
not in as yet ever afforded any to the publishers
of pretended libels any uniform security is but
too true: now and then they have acquitted;
oftener they have convicted: so that as yet legal security or any
thing like legal security for the most useful and sincerest
labourer in this branch of the service of
his country in this line does not exist in England.
What then is the advantage they afford?
it is this. While prosecutions for libels are no
more numerous frequent than they have Juries will go
in as they have done, acquitting now and then
convicting much more frequently. Should the
frequency of class might be
opened throughout the country, their passions
might be roused, and enlisted in the defence of public freedom: till at last by a general
coincidence of sentiment they might be full led into
the habit of doing thus, too late what they ought
to have done from the first, and give find but one
verdict of not guilty for every prosecution that came before them.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	035	Main Headings	constitutional code; evidence; procedure code
Folio number	091	Info in main headings field
Image	004	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::floyd & co [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur young
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	10684
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