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By the 9.G.2.c.30 It says by that subject one enlists himself
in foreign service, or engaged to go abroad with intent to enlist
himself, as likewise he who enlists feeling procures him
to be enlisted, Besides this it has the iniginuity of being retrospective or engaged him to go abroad for that purpose
is made guilty of Felony without Benefit
of Clergy
The sense of it however being drowned in the words, it
was thought necessary 20 years later to enact it over again
in the
of the same The former,however as usual;
29.G.2.c.17 is being preserved.
By the latter <add>first nothing being said about</add> the salatitious punishments, they
were suffer'd to remain — By the latter they were are
saved — but as the saving relates only to Offence
against that very Statute only in which it is inserted, it
depends upon the Prosecutor whither it shall have
any effect. If he chuses to have the Wife &
Children beggars he has nothing to do but to prosecute
upon the first.
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The provision [as to the consider the substance of it] has this inconvenience
that it prob if it should be judged proper to
sufficient or favourite ally favour an Ally in this particular it cannot be done
without by connivance: an open and authentic declaration
must be made at least in the case of
officers of the insidious preference <add>particularity</add> under the signation of the Sovereign
Private Assurances maybe given and the dispositions
of Government may be inferred from circumstances:
& may act perhapseventually with inferinon
consequence of such differencesassurances and such in
But it is an idea not pleasing men seduced into a situation
of having their lives dependent upon the breath
and we know the fate of Sr Walter Raleigh. into by considerations which purge [away] the guilt, much surer than through examples from Punishment
To obviate this who at least to palliate it
might be better if instead of the it's having made a
constant & permanent regulation, powers were <add>given</add>
to the Crown to under due restrictions as to the interval
between publication & commencement if as
to choice of penalties, to establish such a pro-hibition
at any time by Proclamation with for a contrivance
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to be therein expressed: asand you exercise before Proclamation
to arrest any man by name upon
Path of suspicion, and to confine him for such a
length of time (a fortnight for instance)as should
be deemed sufficient for the publishing of thepassing of the Proclamation of
Proclamation & its commencement for the instance before it Publication & commencement.
By this means If it should happen that
[+] Ambassador as is for want of proof
two nations whereof one only is meant to be
favored in this behalf, are endeavouringseeking to enlist
at the same time the Agents for their favoured
or if taken up might be identified by concert with that but
the by nothing ex only to to probability the generally with
nation might be excepted in the Search: &if a Proclamation
were thought necessary to stifle the operations
of the other discountenanced nation means might be found by particular
prohibition suspecting the latter enforced by the legitimate
penalties to compass that effect: while the
The statute immediately preceding the last of these might is an example of a power given to issue Proclamations for a similar purpose. v.29.G.2 c.16
interests of the favourite nation might be realised, by
making their its agents the objects in common with
all those of other nations the rest of a prohibition which being sanctioned
by penalties not warranted should be [but]a fraction
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Pulman - to account for the distinction made
in disfavour of the other, that alone might might be the only one mentioned
in the recital as having by it's activity called
occasionally on for the the prohibition.
Satisfactory for the French to be marked with a Fleur de Lys, for infamy & not to the Kingdom.
By some such expedients as these, it should seem
this often necessary deceit might be from
detection being but from by foreign Ambassadors from not of the Law; at least what
is the main point, as being and perhaps the only alternative one
they might with a better grace dissemble their
behalf of it.
As to the Punishment, the most effectual warrantable & one for such
an offence seems to be Infamy in cases where
the national turn of sentiment favours the in national affections are in consonance with the - Law he
I mean where that of France, is(or of while pain
that nation continues its present close connection with
our natural rival) is the service listed contracted for.
Under this idea, convicts might be brandedmarked in
the method of the lesser stigmatization with a bran
flower deface to cover their whole forehead:
expedient which at the same time that it arrests
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