1822 Nov. 10 Tripoli. Securities against Misrule 3o Preliminary Explanations

?. Remedy Publicity III. Suffrages Newspapers How to conduct

Particulars of the mass of literary capital to be provided antecedently to the

commencement of the publication of a work of this sort.

Antecedently to the setting up of any such Newspapers, 1. it would be highly

advisable to have a stock more or less [...?] of French Newspapers to serve as

source out of /by/ which heads of information would be brought to view, and

might be selected. Of all newspapers the English are by far the most

instructive: next to them those of the Anglo-American United States. In

comparison of these The French are worth but little: the newspapers of all other

nations put together, nothing at all. A public document which it is hoped will

accompany the paper will serve to show the prodigious number of articles of this

sort that are every year published in England.

2 Also the [...?] revenue derived from them: always remembered that this is

among the worst of all sources of revenue: more especially so would it be, in

any country in which Newspapers are set up for the first time. The reason is

that to an extent more or less considerable every tax operates as a prohibition:

a prohibition applied to the sort of article taxed: and in the instance in

question, though a bounty would not be necessary nor therefore useful, a bounty

would be less mischievous than a prohibition

Suppose a dozen boys receiving at the School in question their education, the

most useful and thence the highest occupation which the best head among them

could be put to would be that of conducting a Newspaper on his return to his own

country. The Master might choose for this purpose the most promising and he

might be trained to it, even at the School itself before his return.

Antecedently to the setting up as above, a stock of matter should be prepared

and kept in readiness: trying various topics for the purpose of observing and

learning which of them excited the strongest interest. As the publication went

on various articles of [...?...?] - advertisements in particular would of course

be sent in by those whose tastes were pleased or their interests as it seemed to

them served. As this miscellaneous and more highly interesting matter by degrees

came in, the less interesting matter belonging to the original stock, would give

way to it It is of the utmost consequence - that on no appointed day whatsoever

any failure of the appearance of the paper should take place: and by the

preparatory such in question all such failure might effectually be prevented.