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Police Bill

§.1. [ ] [Police Gazette]. p.1.

Over and above the street use, a collateral of the Police Gazette,
as stated in the Bill, a collateral use, which though
use but collateral, is still more important, perhaps, than was
the direct one, might be – the employing the
it as an engine instrument, (and a more efficient
and or at the same time a more gentle one lies not
within the sphere of possibility or even of imagination) for the propagation and maintenance of social sentiments dispositions and dispositions affections, and the
preservation of tranquillity and good order harmony among
the mass great body of the people. The species of intelligence
or more to the circulation of which it is confined,
is the of itself in every line of it a perpetual lesson or morality
and of submission to the Laws: and by the turn that under able and suitable management might be given to it, this natural aptitude to the conveyance of wholesome instruction might be much comprized abundantly improved. But though
besides this, though precluded from the circulation of every thing
else that can bear the denomination of intelligence
or news, it will need not be, nor ought it
to be, specially precluded (and if not specially
it will not be made constructively precluded)
from conveying useful instruction
and exhortation of the moral and political
trend cast in such of whatever forms may present
themselves as best adapted to the to this most important purpose:
a purpose to which the united faculties of a part of a cluster of the very ablest pens the
country could be made to afford, would not be unworthily
devoted:⊞2 ⊞2 a few men thus employed might save them as many Regiments. The necessary degree of factitious circulation, which by the
provisions in the Bill it is proposed to give,
to this great and quiet anger most powerful yet most gentle instrument of good government,
would of itself be several times as great
as


Identifier: | JB/149/044/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 149.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

not numbered

Box

149

Main Headings

Folio number

044

Info in main headings field

Image

002

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

d9

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

g&ep 1794

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

fr3

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1794

Notes public

ID Number

49898

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