JB/169/177/002

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Willing to Ambitious of contributing all the assistance
that can be lent to it by one in my
humble sphere, I will beg your permission to
state the objections I have heard against it
with such answers as occur to me, adding
proposing with great diffidence one further
auxiliary expedients which appear to me to accord flow with
the same principles, and bid fair to be conducive
to the same degree.

I have 1st. The regulation however well
meant will not answer the purpose is not adequate to its object. When The
market being already so amply stocked with poisons
so many trials of this kind are being already extant
what further mischief can be done by new
ones? While indecency in all its forms courts offers itself
on all sides the wanton or imprudent what difference
does it make whether it happened between Stiles
and Nokes or between Dec & Roe – in Jan 1780 or in 1790 or in January or in Feb. May or in July
under a Sycamore tree or under a tree?
It may be observed in the same view that an attempt
of this kind to wash away literary obscurity is an attempt to cleanse the
pagean stable – That we have magazines that
contain nothing else – that half our points
are in this strain – that the most admired
compositions of authors among the antients are infected with this
poison, and that by translations they it have been
naturalized

Identifier: | JB/169/177/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 169.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	169	Main Headings
Folio number	177	Info in main headings field	indecent trials - suppression
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / / / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [lion with crown motif]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	56997
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