1822 Nov 10 Tripoli. Securities against Misrule 30 Preliminary Explanations ?.

Remedy Publicity III. Suffrages Newspapers

Newspapers suppose two: taking different sides of the question in each case: one

suppose the side of the suffering people; the other the side of the /an

oppressing/ Sovereign and his misrule: Here the case is rendered more

complicated; but the nature of it. Motions the tenor of them in every instance

visible and permanent: outward suffrages, expressed or not expressed i.e. with

or without tenor - but in both cases, /at any/ invisible and evanescent. Of

these suffrages some are on the side of one of the motions, others on that of

the other.

Greater is the efficiency of this one sort of written instrument than that of

all other written instruments put together. On this or that question pamphlets

and books - works small and great may be written in any number, each of them of

any bulk in use. But by no one of them is any regular cognizance taken of the

several occurrences as they take place: for by any publication suppose any such

regularity and constancy of notice /attention/ kept up, it becomes the very

thing here in question - a Newspaper.