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1822 Decr. 13 Tripoli. Securities
1822 Decr. 13

Tripoli. Securities against Misrule

7o

Preliminary Explanations

?2 Remedy Publicity

Publ Opin Tribunal

?.3. Functions compared

of All the other classes the infuence [...?] into insignificance

These unofficial if equally well

informed of facts would be better

judges than the official functionaries,

viz as being more [...? ...? ...?] thought.

From a review of the above several functions or operations may be formed a deduction of no mean /small/ practical importance /use./ /moment/. This is the /[...?]/ prodigious importance /magnitude/ absolute and comparative of the situation /profession/ and functions of this President and leading member of so many Sub Committees of this not the less supreme and all-comprehensive /embracing/ because unofficial judicatory: the importance in an absolute and more particularly in a comparative point of view: comparison had with all other members of all other and whatsoever classes, as abovementioned

Next to him in the order of importance comes the author of this or that work of a publication on publications of works belonging to this or that department in the field of politics - of that vast field the whole of which lies with his domain and is every day coming under the survey of this unofficial functionary /all-embracing superintendent/.
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