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High Treason
It is evident from the very nature of this crime as including in it almost
every other but mixed in various & undeterminable proportions, that the
aestimate of it can be no other [wise] than very vague & unsatisfying. But
it is sufficient for every practical purpose to know the quantity that the it's mischief is
greater than that of any other crime, without knowing precisely how great
it is which is impossible to be known [done] in any one instance, & is never will be
the same in any two. As it is a crime only in virtue of it's including
those other crimes, the mischief of every one of which is capable of a separate role matter
it is evident, that after him supposing their number curtail the way of offering it's mischief would
be, after making having made the estimate of each one, multiplying it by the number of times it is
committed and adding those products together, we shall have the same total of its makers original
mischief. It is not right to throw off all regard to precision because we cannot
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Treason to endevor to cause Laws to be altered / not merely to disobey them, by force.
High Treason cause, of War commence when a certain number of Lords & Commoners are in the Field.
One description of Rebellion may be the forming a design to persist maintain himself in the disobedience
of the Laws in general or any one Law in particular by force.
To redress a pretended grievance throughout the Kingdom.
It is a maxim pretty generally observed throughout Jurisprudence, not to treat an Act as a crime—
where the matter of right can seriously be made a doubt of. But unhappily this cannot be the case
in Treason.
The Provisions in the Gunpowder Act which forbid the keeping of any one person of more than 50 weight of Gun —
powder + + 12 G. 3. C may be considered in affect howsoever they were designed as being ausilitory young powerful ones to the Laws against Rebellion: as may
those in the Highway " " 7 G. 3. 42 and Turnpike # # 7 G. 3. 40 Acts in an iferior degree which prohibiting the carrying of hand of more than
a certain weight establish an exception in favour of such Artillery and Ammunition as many be carried only
" for the service of his Majesty: Artillery indeed is implicitly licensed for any one under the description
" of any single piece of Metal."
That Philosophy, that knowledge of the constitution, & intelligence of the true ends of Government become
universal among those that think, unless it be perhaps in some small angle of the northern extremities of the
united kingdom, & more certainly in a Cell or two at Oxford, is/as a standing antidote to all these disorders: for
those that do not think, never stir worth any unless madden'd by that kind of lawless oppression, —
which they now have not felt forsome Ages nor are ever likely to feel again.
TREASON.
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