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of this chance that the country <add>press</add> probably stands indebted<lb/> for the precarious and scanty measure of liberty<lb/> it has hitherto possessed. That Juries have<lb/> not <del>in</del> as yet ever afforded <del>any</del> to the publishers<lb/> of pretended libels any uniform security is but<lb/> too true: now <add>and</add> then they have acquitted; <lb/> oftener they have convicted: so that <add>as yet legal</add> security or any<lb/> thing like <add>legal</add> security for the most useful and sincerest<lb/> <sic>labourer</sic> in <del>this branch of</del> the service of<lb/> his country in this line does not exist in England.<lb/> What then is the advantage they afford?<lb/> it is this. While prosecutions for libels are no<lb/> more numerous <add>frequent</add> than they have Juries will go<lb/> in as they have done, acquitting now and then<lb/> convicting much more frequently. Should the<lb/> frequency of class might be<lb/> opened throughout the country, their passions<lb/> might be roused, and enlisted in the <sic>defence</sic> of public freedom: till at last by a general<lb/> coincidence of sentiment they might be <add>full</add> led into<lb/> the habit of doing thus, <del>too</del> late what they ought<lb/> to have done from the first, and <add>find</add> | <p>of this chance that the country <add>press</add> probably stands indebted<lb/> for the precarious and scanty measure of liberty<lb/> it has hitherto possessed. That Juries have<lb/> not <del>in</del> as yet ever afforded <del>any</del> to the publishers<lb/> of pretended libels any uniform security is but<lb/> too true: now <add>and</add> then they have acquitted; <lb/> oftener they have convicted: so that <add>as yet legal</add> security or any<lb/> thing like <add>legal</add> security for the most useful and sincerest<lb/> <sic>labourer</sic> in <del>this branch of</del> the service of<lb/> his country in this line does not exist in England.<lb/> What then is the advantage they afford?<lb/> it is this. While prosecutions for libels are no<lb/> more numerous <add>frequent</add> than they have Juries will go<lb/> in as they have done, acquitting now and then<lb/> convicting much more frequently. Should the<lb/> frequency of class might be<lb/> opened throughout the country, their passions<lb/> might be roused, and enlisted in the <sic>defence</sic> of public freedom: till at last by a general<lb/> coincidence of sentiment they might be <add>full</add> led into<lb/> the habit of doing thus, <del>too</del> late what they ought<lb/> to have done from the first, and give <add>find</add> but one<lb/> verdict of not guilty for every prosecution that came before them. </p> | ||
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of this chance that the country press probably stands indebted
for the precarious and scanty measure of liberty
it has hitherto possessed. That Juries have
not in as yet ever afforded any to the publishers
of pretended libels any uniform security is but
too true: now and then they have acquitted;
oftener they have convicted: so that as yet legal security or any
thing like legal security for the most useful and sincerest
labourer in this branch of the service of
his country in this line does not exist in England.
What then is the advantage they afford?
it is this. While prosecutions for libels are no
more numerous frequent than they have Juries will go
in as they have done, acquitting now and then
convicting much more frequently. Should the
frequency of class might be
opened throughout the country, their passions
might be roused, and enlisted in the defence of public freedom: till at last by a general
coincidence of sentiment they might be full led into
the habit of doing thus, too late what they ought
to have done from the first, and give find but one
verdict of not guilty for every prosecution that came before them.
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jeremy bentham |
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