1820. Octr. 12 Spanish liberticide measures 13 §. 2 I. Press violation Reasons

against libel laws

Thus it is that by every endeavour on the part of a public functionary to

destroy or narrow this liberty two things are made probable not to say certain:

in his mind a consciousness of inaptitude on the part of himself or his

associates in the system or both, and a desire to seek /derive/ such a

gratification to himself from the /another’s/ sufferings of another: from the

sufferings of an individual by whose exertions service has been done to the

public /by whom the public has been served/: criminality and vindictiveness:

criminality, or at the least inaptitude: and the severer the punishment, and

taking all together the greater the force he employs or endeavours to employ for

this purpose, the deeper he affords reason to conclude has been or is intended

to be his guilt, or else the sharper his vindictiveness.