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MONDAY. JANUARY 3, 1E29.

FOR THE SUN.

A SEIG,EtT DIALOGUE

B E TW E E N
808 RESTLESS AND TONI EASY.

EASY----Iley, Bob, what do you look so fright-
ened at ?

ItesTLEss-1 have been reading the new Acts
e.f Parliament ; they are enough to make one's
hair stand on end,
E-,--How so ?

whoever attends political meetings
willke severely punished.
L"=l3.less my heart ! Are we to have no more
County Meetings, nor Elections, nor Petitions ?
It--Oh yes ; as many of these as ever. But
no assemblies for altering the State.
B--Then the State won't be altered. Are
folks to be punished who stay away from such
assemblies ?
R—Certainly not.

E—Do you then stay away, end you'll not be
punished for going. Have you any thing else to
he trigioen'd at ?
R—A great deal. Whoever attends unlawful
drillings will be punished too. -
you attend them ?
R--The new Law will keep me away.
E—So much the better. Then it won't punish
pin forgoing. Any thing else?
R—Aye truly ; enough to terrify any freeborn
Englishman. Whoever keeps unlawful arms,
will be punished. flow am Ito escape' such a
tyrannical law ?
E—By not keeping any.

R—Then again—kvboever is convicted of pub-
lishing a second libel, will be transported. 1 sup-
pose you'll tell tne that can be avoided also,

L--Nothing more readily. By not publishing
afirst.

'R
—That's true to be sure, But then, we are
deterred from publishing one libel by the fear of
punishment for another.

E--All the better; since that very fear saves
you not only from the punishment of the second
olf.,ice, hut of the first also.

11—But it is very hard to hare the general li-
berly so restricted.

E--Pray doh't call it the general liberty ; quiet
people disclaim it, and had rather be ‘rithout it.
Call it %dial it really is ; the particular liberty of
those who desire asnarchy and contusion.
ll—Yes, but while the new laws hinder such
people, they are a restraint upon ali others into
the bargain,

E-1 cannot understand bow. You say you do
not want to attend illegal meetings, carry illegal
arms, or publish illegal writings ; where then is
the hardship of being forbidden doing what- you
never desired to do ?

11—Why, in being forbidden. Besides, who
knows but at some time or other I might desire
it.
E—Then, Bob, you would be precisely one of
those turbulent spirits, for whom the new laws
are intended. Do you think the existing laws
against murder and rubbery any hardship upon
you ? •
R—No, 'surely.
E—Would they, if their severity were en-
creased ?

R—l tell you again, no.—l am neither robber
lor inurderer.

E—Be not rebel nor blasphemer either, and
you will have as little reason to dread the new
laws as the old ones. What would you say of a
law against your jumping out of the garret-Win-
dow, instead of walking out at the street•door
or against your riding into the Thames, instead
of over London-Bridge ?
• R—Nay, Tom, this is talking idly.—Such a
law were nothing to me. Parliament may forbid
my breaking my neck or drowning myself- as
strongly as it pleases, while I have no notion of
doing the one or the other.

[PRICE SEVENPENCE.

E—Any more than you have of overturning the
State and making a Revolution, •
however, all restraint upon one's
actions is tyranny.
E—VVsoug again, Bob. Tyranny is the exer-
cise of that power which -makes a man do what
he wishes to leave undone ; nor, which prevents
his doll% what he wishes to do. Front your oWn
staement it is clear that the new laws will neither
force you to commit sedition or blasphemy, nor
punish you for not committing them.
Et —WO, after, all, no law can prevent my
doing what I
chose.

E--Perhaps not, for the first time. But it can
punish yon for indulging the choice. Newgare,
too, and Botany Bay, can prevent its repetition.
11—Botany Bay for a freeborn Englishman •
L—Don't_ be angry. Englishmen who assume
!be freedom of robbing and cheating, ate sent
flintier, and none grnmble.at their expulsion ex-
cept robbers and cheaters.

" It—Which is us much as to say that none will
gro in hie at the so-me pirnishment for rebellion and
bla•Phetny, except rebels and hlasspherners,
E—Precistly.
It—What ! Do you put such JitTerent crimes
on the same scale ot criminality ?-
E—Nut -14.undiedth putt

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