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INFORMATION ex Officio.
I know not what will be satisfaction of Englishmen to who it may as yet be new at hearing the state of the Law,
a point that now comes in turn to be considered.
'tis a truth which Not that I believe it is absolutely unknown to any one into whose hands this book has any chance
of coming , that to a certain degree his fortune exposed without refuge to sentiments of an Officer who is a
the immediate and unresisting instrument of ministerial Will, but what peculiar and the
Law (that is i.e. the practice of these Officers themselves which in the behalf as it seems, makes [the Law]
has furnished for their purpose gratifying them, is not quite so much known as it deserves to be
of Information to the Crown<lb/. like those bodies whose unwielding strength
stands, in the way of their own
It falls by the unwillingness of it's own strength
The power of the Attorney General to file Information ex Officio to the knowledge of every one has been of late much
of by some who have happened to be the objects of it, (so apt are men to be decided in the of a power begs it and for that very reason perhaps been
by others: who observing the extreme difficulties which have been experienced
tho' with it's assistance in punishing those the utterance of publications those
justifiable in condemning : wishing to see suppression are not to be wonder'd at if they have not been solicitous for
deflection from that a power which when entire has been found inadequate to it's end.
If it is directed of these accompaniments whose
declared end is seems to be abuse & which can have no
other & which wage equal war against innocence whose
& against guilt; & which can only be adapted for the
former purpose, when there are other
methods for pursuing exclusively the
latter
It has been in consequence, canvassed, defended, & for from these causes, <add> as it should seem, conformed.
But wherefore is all this expense endured —
Why are offices kept on foot, to which swallow
up alive both criminal & pursuer?
The truth is, there is no reason to think
they imagined any thing about the matter:
Costs were not given, on any occasion
to either side party whether King or Subject by the Common Law, nor is
this article a exception taken from out of a general
Rule, but an unheeded remnant of a general rule not brought
raised to it's present narrowness by ample
& numerous exceptions. & this reason is like many others in a Book
in which many ingenious reasons are substituted
for the of barbarian instinct, where the matter would punish them & many
miserable ones whom no better are to be
had; & out of which (sooner than from any one or more shall find) any more he may
learn to make a reason for any one
thing as well as for any other.
if there are is any attempt recorded
in the Parliamentary annals to introduce bring</add.
the Justice is to <add> and the Law in this point
into evidence, where this vapid reason
was put forward in the room of the
more substantial ones [which were kept] behind<lb?> the Author would have done well to have
informed us of it.
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