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Because we believe, that by a seasonable exertion of the
laws, as they at preseut exist, the Press cannot be abused to
any bad purpose, without incurring a suitable punishment.
Because en cultural of the power of punishment now
sewed is the Courts of Law, with leaped to cases of Libel,
appears to us, therefore, to be uanecessary.
Because the offence of publishing a Libel is, more than
any oiler that is known to Our law, undefined sod %median'.
Puhlica Was which at one lime may be coundered innocent
mid crew laudable, may at another, according to circuits-
stances,aud the di 'crew. views of Public Accusers, of Judges,
and of Juries, be thought deserving of punishment; and
thus the author or publisher of any writing, dictated by the
purest itileutiuos, ea a matter of public interest, without any
example to warn, any disposition to isistrod, or any astho•
rity to guide hiss, may expose himself to the penalty of bring
" baiiislitil trim the Visited kingdom, mod all oilier parts of
his Majesty's dominions, for such term as the Court, in which
such coot ictiou shall take place, shall order; or be trans-
ported to such place as shall be appoiated by his Majesty fur
the traosportatiou of offenders, fur any term sot exceeding
seven years."
Be the fear of being subjected to the punishownt of
a common fetus, thus suspended over the bead of soy person
who may hare been owe districted of publishing a libel, to
which mare inadvertence may subject him, and against which
nu degree of comities can offered km complete security, must
„Necessarily &terbium front the fearless exercise of the right,
which has bitiwrto been the proud prerogative of Eaglisbaseo,
of freely discussing public measures, and eadeavouriag to
warn his cuoutrymeo against the dmigerous escroacheneuts
of power.
Because this Bill, therefore, so immitsistent with the policy
of our law, amid with the practice of our ancestors, spprars to
us to be a 9111111.1 dasge►ous Massimo of the just freedom of
the Press, and to be subversive, In one of their mails defences,
of the rights cud liberties which were secured to us by pro-
gressive struggles through a bog succession of ages, sad at
length asserted, declared, and, as we had fondly hoped, Brody
established for ever by tbe.ftevolotion of 16/03.
GREY. JERSEY.

AUGUSTUS FREDERICK.
ERSKINE. YARBOROUGH.
THANEF. LANSDOWN.
ALBEMARLE. COWPER.
KING. LAUDERDALF..
AUCKLAND. BOSSLYN.
YASSALL HOLLAND. CLIFTON (DARNLEY).

PRO r EST

AGAINST THE SILL TOR

JVfIJCVS ow TRI

PEACE TO SEIZE •ND DETAIN AIRS A, kr.

Because the right of haring areas fur their defence, sulfas
hie to their condition and degree, is secured to British sub.
jeer by the ancient laws of these realms, is declared to be
au by the Bill of Rights, and is, in the vowels of Mr. Justice
Blackstone, " a public alkorassee of the natural right of
rrsistaisce sod self.preserratioss, when the sanctions of so.

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cies), and laws are fumed insufficient to restrain the violence
of oppri moon."
Because no sufficient evidsnee has been laid before the
House to prove that arms and weapons of various sorts
•have, in various parts of the Kingdom, been collected and
ale kept for purposes disngerous to she public peace." We
doubt the fact, and %le Merest the remedy. If arms have
really been Itemised fur such illegal purposes, the persona
engaged its these criminal designs, will have had ample un-
ticc, before this Bill can pass, to remove them to places of
concealment. Whilst this power, therefore, is likely to he
in • peat degree inefficient with respect to U. professed ob-
ject, it is liable to be must imperiously and vexatiously used,
its cases where arms may have beets provided said kept fur
the legitimate purposes of seltilefessee.
Bennie in former periods of leech greater danger to the
Crouse and Constitution of these realm., when conspiracies
by the adherents of the House of Stuart were known to he
directed against bulb; wheu perpetuities were =Alex foe
rebellion with the assistance of Ensure; when men of the
highest rusk, station, and influence in both Kingdoms were
deeply engaged in these &signet nayobaring two formidable
rebellions in 1715 and 1745, no such power was granted to the
Crocus; yet the new line of succession was defended, and
our free Constitution successfully maintained against all
these daggers. The principles of the Revolution had been
Sr Grotty inspriuted in the hearts and minds of our an-
ceders to allow thus on the spar of any emergency, how-
ever alarming, to hazard: flat existence of a right which they
had so recently asserted.
Because this law is, in its very Retort, peculiarly liable to
abuse. !merest, credulity, nialeveleuer, revenge, party
violence, and iieliscreet zeal, may, equally with a reuse of
ditty, cuuutribute to call it into aflame ' • and the powers given
for its lion, of breaking, either by day Sr night. into
any louse or place where infurnsatiese may have been re-
ceived that arias are kept for illegal purposes, must unavoid-
ably expose the pergolas mid property of his %tejevites sub-
jects to injury and violence, which cannot be sufficiently
guarded against by the provisions made he the Bill for that
purpoite. This is to a mere apprehinsion. Experience
pewee that such effects may be expected front it. In Ire-
land, it is well known, nothing more cousributed to irritate
the people, and to peovoke acts of private resentment and
revenge, than the abuses which took place, and particularly
Ike iuYtNs which were offered to women, in the exercise of a
sineilaFpowec.

Because we further object to the enactments of this lam,
as part of a system which, ill a season of unexampled dis-
tress sod misery, rejecting every prupotiti ssss fur coneilia-
lion ow concestiun, rest/ mu furor alone fur the tiippretsiiin
of the prevailing discontents, and it calculated to give ail-
weight to au opinion, already tun generally enter-
tained. that Parliament is more yearly to premise against
the peopk, and to enact taws fur their restraint, then to
attend to their jowl complaints, and to shoed them dud
protection which they have a right to claim against every
species of injustice and uppreasion.
GREY. Y A R BOROUG Fl.
THAN F.T. AUGUSTUS FREDERICK.
ERSK IN E. COWPER.
ROSILY N.
CLIFTON (DARNLEY).

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