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NOTORIETY Non-public: EXCLUSION from DEB
v. Comm. 1. 175. probe
Instead of a House of Commons & of Lords, We have 2 Houses of Lords. 2 Divans two secret inquisitions two Venetian Senates Every thing provision in the Law which expressly regards the subject, this point conspires to make that Inscitia Respublicae ut alienae, which is the Characteristic of a free subjugated enslaved nation, a habit of duty, by excluding
every light that should correct it. It is the spirit of the people, nourishing & nourished by the
general spirit of the Jurisprudentical constitutional System that in an imperfect degree imperfectly & irregularly supplies them:
Augustus &c
That patriot Eloquence by the narrow circle drawn around it, was shorn of more than half it's glories. I hope the Parallelism coincidence [of situation] is not : ominous it is not ominous, for it has subsisted
for a long series of years without introducing that System of arbitrary [& unaccountable power] to which
it seems adapted: adjusted & for the introducing establishing of which it was once adopted: for a person tho' strong may
be surmounted kept under by predominant more potent the force of antidotes: [which the Soil of this country bears in so much vigor
and abundance. The unthinking multitude which like a Dog turns at upon the Staff which strikes it, & looks not upon at the hand from which it came. Tis not of the present race of Legislators we are to complain, but of their forefathers and of the Law, which they established in a situation and unlike with views very different from those of the sub which govern these
While the People are thus thrust off at arm's length, [no] Acts of Beneficence and wisdom
will form are spent in union with the multitude a presumption so strong of good intentions to the State dispositions towards them as this very
circumstance will to the contrary: For this is a circumstance which is obvious & open to the observation
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of every one: whereas they numb the number of those who join to a discernment to perceive the merit of a beneficial
Law issuing from a ministry to join the candor of acknowledging to acknowledge are comparatively but a few. Men just learn when it is impossible to be concealed, that they have been employing themselves in sacrificing their personal privileges at the Altar of Public good, which with all that Secresy mystery which accompanies the Orgies of conspiring caballing despotism.
NOTOR:Y Exclus. from DEBATES
It is remarkable that it was one of the
[first Qu]
regulations introduced by Augustus
in consequence of the Monarchical establishment
upon his settling final settlement of the Roman Constitution
into an absolutist Monarchy,
to prohibit the publication of the
Acts Transactions of the Senate — Auctor fuit
& natiarum rerum says one ea Suetonius 36 in
quius ne acta Senatus a publicareator.
consult a Commentator on this subject for
the sense of "Acta"
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A strange sort of intercourse traffic has this <add>is this which now</add> for some time has been carried on for some time been between Governors & People. The one giving with an ungracious reserve what was not hoped for & scarce thought of, the other receiving with correspondent jealousy & distrust the most valuable Benefits & unlooked for benefits with a demeanour which speaks nothing but injuries May these Protestations, [viz: against exclusion] of from by one who never feels himself so happy whose joyful favorite theme as
as when he is giving a loose to [his] gratitude for the signal benefits received [by him] in
sort with common with his fellow-subjects at their hands, be accepted received with a condescension corresponding
to the innocence integrity of his intention design. Their Eyes are not enough open to each others merit.
He knows what is due &c ...
But it is not true that the language of respect [in this country is not] the language of prostration indiscriminate panegyric.
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