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1822 Decr 10 Tripoli. Securities against
1822 Decr 10

Tripoli. Securities against Misrule

7o

Preliminary Explanations

?.2. Remedy Publicity

Publ. Opin. Tribunal

?.2 Members who

Ere any account can be rendered of the operations of this /the/ unofficial Judicatory, some individual or individuals must be brought to view as and for so many Members of this judicatory members by whom the several operations are performed.

At the head of them as being the most conspicuous, and as exercising the function in question in a manner the most conspicuous sits the Editor of a Newspaper in which the press howsoever legally handcuffed /[...?]/ /manacled/ otherwise is to the purpose of being capable of affording an example of this sort of judicature, practically free. Say for example an English Newspaper. An Anglo-American United States Newspaper is to this purpose legally as well as practically free, but, it being in Europe less known, the English Newspaper will be the more convenient standard /object/ of reference

But, of the unofficial judicatory, an English Newspaper Editor is but one member amongst millions. To shew in an [...?...?...?] so /in what way he is so/ it will be necessary to shew in what relation this one individual stands to the millions: in a word of what different classes and ranks, to so many different purposes this judicatory taken in its totality is composed. to shew the composition of the whole judicatory.
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