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accused of magic Protestantism, magic or witchcraft, or fugitives
from lettres de cachet, to the Court of France. The
French government would hardly give undertake
to give up Catholics priests to suffer hanging in
Great Britain. It would be more natural as
well as more expedient that the contracting
parties stipulation should confine itself to those
offences which under a man bespeak a disposition
as do bespeak a disposition equally dangerous
to any country in which the offender
may get footing. I Local Laws which are
the offspring of local prejudice would remain
bounded as at present confined by the limits of the country
which gave them birth: and so that upon the whole
the better title a law had to general adoption
the better chance it would [those laws would
have the best chance of being generally assisted
which best deserved to be so.] those laws which
had he best claim to foreign assistance would
stand the best chance of meeting with it.
But of this more particularly hereafter.
Be this as it may every no government
as well as every any more than an individual can do otherwise than suppose itself to be
in
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