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Penalty should be severe against rehearsing any thing
which shall be, or shall be intended to be, to a man's prejudice
or reproach in the open Highway or in any —
House for the sake of sale or reward at any public —
meeting - a public meeting being defined to be a meeting
to which persons are invited by description and not
by name - except holden for constitutional purposes, —
which to be defined. viz: to consider of the choice of —
that person into any office or public Trust. In this —
instance alone it is necessary, and the party has an
opportunity of defending himself, which he has not in the others.
The same against stiching up any paper with such contents
in any open place or building of public resort.
So for publishing in any pamphlet under a Shilling
price - except Magazines & Stampt News-Papers.
The reason of these prohibitions is to prevent accusations
being circulated among the mere populace by such a channel:
where a man has no adequate means of defending
himself - where defence if it be heard at all which it never
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is half so readily as accusation, may come too late: the mere
populace before whom it is in vain to plead: who may
knock a man on the head, or possess themselves with an
ineradicable antipathy, before the defence can come in.
So far Election Squibs: the party at whom they are levelled
to have a power to apprehend the circulators and
carry them to the Head Magistrate of the town or in
the Country to a Justice and oblige them to find Bail for
appearance to an Action or Indictment: giving at the same
time a Recognizance to prosecute at the earliest opportunity
the Court having power to indulge with time: the Penal
Sum of which for a Candidate for Parliament not to be less
than £2000. for that Sum almost it might be worth the
while sometimes of such an one to sacrifice for the sake
stifling a well founded accusation.
The Romans let lose the licenee of accusation against
Generals in the act of Triumph
A severe penalty against any person circulating any
paper wherein the name and abode of a printer is not
SCANDAL Remedies
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expected except by accident it be torn off.
And the like upon any person presenting a paper without
the name and place of his abode — The name being
the name he usually goes by in that place - requiring
his true name would not answer the purpose in all
cases: because a man might assume a false one &
go into a place with a view of setting up an office —
for the purpose of such a clandestine trade.
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