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1817 Decr 13 Liberty of the Press Reason
78 Art.1 Reasons
18
From the publicity
of the accusation
government desire
such an opportunity of
defending itself in
it would not have
even the accusation
conveyed privately
from hand to hand

Though by While from the liberty thus proposed to be allowed guilt
on the part of the rulers functionary has every thing to ( lose and to fear
in has every much thing to gain.

1. When a charge is then made public, the functionary
being apprised of it, has in his hands full knowledge
of his the nature of it and of the which in the
supposition of his innocence will be but must conducive to the
rendering itclearing his character of the imputation manifest. Whereas when the possibility
of making the charge public will sly is taken away, men will
be the more industrious in gaining private circulation to it
in which case the in the continual course of things, the
guilt charged will become greater and greater than
the guilt really incurred: a man's character may
then have been destroyed and infamy in various classes
inflicted a line content knowing it and for want of
its having been in his power to defend himself under from it. 19
Such private accusations
are more
likely to be exagerrated
than public
ones: being
by the sense of oppression,
and d exempt
from the check of
shame

But there is such a slab of things every anything
that which thus may be Public a functionary can be reded
is commited on own this supposition the
having done his utmost to change the law from bad
state into a better. 20
Under the restriction
in question no harm
that can befall the
reputation of a public
man are to
un, unless he
has done his utmost
to remove it

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Identifier: | JB/106/245/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 106.
Date_1	1817-12-13	Marginal Summary Numbering	18-20
Box	106	Main Headings	liberty of the press
Folio number	245	Info in main headings field	liberty of the press
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 / d9 / e8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	<…>co
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	34833
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