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That as That among the Revisions, the ablest
pens and those of which the production
pens and those which find the greatest number of
readers are indefatigable in the cause ofnational destruction ruin
has already been remarked. But there is
a single Magazine effectsinfluence of which may rivalmatch
that of all the others put together. It prints 5,000,
and sells perhaps 4,000. not much of Though
not yet three years old, the number of copies printed of it every month it prints already 5,000
amount already to five thousand Much beyond example in every branch of instructioninformation
as well as entertainment it leaves all other publications
of the same class far behind. But the grandan object
of it isit never-loses sight of -to represent the government of the country as
a nuisance ripe for the exterpation: and from this passive
objects in their own nature the most remote from politics
are made to receive a tinge. Chemistry, Mechanics,
Astronomy Music - every thing is tainted with this reason:
Biography, of which there is a constant abundance,
of course is full of it. By its immediate influence
this publication seldom will seldom (it is true) descend to so low a level, [+] [+] as that of the great mass of the people, for whose reading the Police Gazette is principally designed: but the minds of those to whom they look up and on whom they depend - their Masters and Employers, will if it goes on as it has begun, be in- a fair way to be formed by it. for as to liber
The Sedition Act may be regarded as a second
Magna Charter, preserving against a attacks still more
formidable enemydestructive that security which the first kind
formed. (I say security: for as to liberty the word
is so replete with poison and ambiguity and poison
as to be scarce fit for use: - it is as if the same
word a arsenic where were sold at the Grocer's
under the same name with Sugar.) The Sedition
Act has silenced the mob of inflammatory tongues: but howsoever
necessary, and when considered apart from prejudice -
exempt from real danger, it can not be deemed to have been a measure of the strongest
and most alarming kind. Excellent as far as it goes,
it goes after all but half way. To The war ofvirulence pens
remainsof of
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