1822 Dec. 17 Tripoli. Securities against Misrule 7o Preliminary Explanations

?.2 Remedy Publicity Unofficial where inferior

[...?] Newspaper as specific

Happily the disease such as it is, is in a particular degree the disease of

infancy: sooner or later, the body politic, if not killed by it, outgrows it.

Every addition made to the number of readers, is an addition made to the number

of persons capable of reading books on political subjects, and in that character

becoming Members of Sub-Committees of this unofficial Judicatory: through these

means it makes an addition to the number of persons to /by/ whom discourse on

that subject in public or at any rate /the worst/ in private may heard from the

lips of the fellowship /fraternity/ of readers, and in that character

constituting an addition to the number of Sub-Committee men as above. Every

addition made to the number of persons becoming inhabitants of /collected

together/ towns: in contradistinction to the being inhabitants of the country:

dispersed at /separated from one another by/ distances more or less

considerable, becomes an addition to the number of readers of politics as above,

or at worst /the least/ to the number of hearers of political discourse