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12 July 1810
Fallacies

I Generalia
Ch. Ins employ most

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He will contend
that every thing
that can be done
for the security of
the press against
arbitrary power has
been done when
the fate of an
author is made
to depend on the
hardest stomach
of twelve Jurymen
whom the Judge
may have packed
for him if he pleases

He will make the people believe if possible that
every thing has for the liberty of the press and the
preservation of the constitution which depends upon
that liberty every thing has been done which ought
or with beneficial results consequences can be done, when the fate
of every man who writes is thus left to depend on
the inscrutable will of twelve men, packed if it
be the pleasure of the Judge by the Judge under
whose direction they are to speak, or subdued by
any one of them whose stomach armed excited by a
sufficient stimulus in the shape of sinister interest
prejudice or passion has strength enough for the
task:

and seems

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He will certify
that in that state
of things liberty
of the press is at
its perfection:
that every thing
beyond is Utopianism,
Jacobinism &c:
and to repel all
endeavours to meliorate
it he will
exhaust the whole
quiver of fallacies.

He will give his certificate to the public
that when libel law is brought to this pass it has
been raised to the pinnacle of perfection: and that
any thing better than than the most compleat finished uncertainty
or between safety and punishment rai is
theory, speculation, romance, utopianism and
jacobinism and so forth: and sooner than that
any any real security and legal liberty should for the first time
be given to the press he would as freely as any
man learned London gentleman upon the other side taken up in hand the whole quiver
of fallacies and exhaust it upon the alarming
and fatal measure draught Bill by which real the state of things properly called liberty should
be substituted to the empty name of it.

Identifier: | JB/104/343/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 104.
Date_1	1810-07-12	Marginal Summary Numbering	19-20
Box	104	Main Headings	fallacies
Folio number	343	Info in main headings field	fallacies
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e11
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	peregrine bingham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	34314
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