The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Boston [Mass.]) 1770-1772, 1772-01-02
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Asd MP Trelawney de
Aad mxR Trelawney die {?
Then forfy tbcnfaad Coniih bays,
Shall knOsv the reajSn IOby.
An old Englih Ballad.
NesssaaAess,sRe N fome of my laR numbers
%IsSsS - my Countrymen may re-
1!69 nember, ] endesvoOred to
~ @N lay before them what aP'
sS9STX peared to be law in the Gale
n 's'YsEYSA@ Of Libes. | now come to
r . -, ,uilon, and after having briefly APP
,.he matter, | ihal leave the impartial
E ' ,so determite, whether the piece iign-
4 y, rims Servoh is in lstO Libel or not.
uI6dering tht affair, lhaIl not enter
o 'sy emarks with refpe6f to the Civil
my Al orefent lfhall conhne myfelfto my
lumber, and &c how Mneias is refPeet-
our Connie Law, for it is in court
y mmon Law Oily he can be tried. Here
P,Id premie tat fhall not enter into
. IS arguments lat might be beneficial,
10y ,hieh had | hed as his counfeller, l
CO have infiife@u ;Guch as thele for in
We. that he aHeAnothing in the matter ;
NV laws down aea, which meme can call
,bsnovs. and then 4ries. ButJny province
s iy,,.-examinc this RE, elSarb and EsyioEjgy,
and 20 determine tbEbols merit Of it on the
foot of Lssv and yseh If thefe cannot uf-
tify him, | will giveim up; if they do, ]
.h;nL II nv duty as lcitizen and as a man
20 yindicaie and fuppd him. In the tirit place
Iwould remove difllty in the way, and
consa the falG,y and plurdity of an option
prevalent of late amS Tome good people,
that Alucizs can be dended on the PTincI.
pies of natural ccnfciSe, natural Law and
every maxim of a freSonftitution, but not
in Court of Ccmmd Law. his is an al
fertion big with mich, and which as an
EnpEHmdn from my q reient. For Hea'
ven's fake my countryIn, where are we Is
there, can there be, IS fchiim in our 60
yerrment l. the genial plan, the outlines
Of our conf.itution fTeAnd founded on &C.
rsrous principles, and the fame time are
the laws, the regulatid on which our lie,
our elfate, and proper depend, arbitrary
and crue : This is an triton that believe
was never known befo in Engllih hIitory,
and hope in God nef will be again. II
renders every focal cortxior, every thing
that endears, or renderlxiHence valuable,
ahfolutely precarious and lngsus at once into
the condition of Turkey Rufia, where the
Syincibks Of their confiitaon were originally
free, yet the fxsrfion is q dreadful to pc re-
Acted on without horror
But | would tell thefe In;lemen tina, il is
not from the private raIftT a court ofrecord
the arguments to wndice Mucius are to
be fetched. 1.-THE bjeeio with refpe6t to
the process :, infornstiofis overuled, the
next fiep will be to eet-rnhe that point sof
lazy. whether paper CAME called libel
that contains nothing but 4 truth. Surely
no gentleman at the bar wO acts on princi-
pie, and underffands tie geiis and the ma
ture of common law, will ehtate about de-
Tending this article. htherguments in my
Iaff number, drawn from e rTG(oH of the
Law,as well as exprs6 AdjFicaiions are un-
deniably true, and if they az not, let the de-
FEET be pointed out, this is clear point, and
this my countrymen is trlh which ihou!d
Be the lait that is given uP%hlie one blei-
hng after another is wrenchd from US by
The hand of power. lfthlsS the cafe that