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connexions and future profpects, are, perhaps, not perfectly impartial. It is, however, a subject, which fhould be generally understood by men of all ranks, and especially by thofe who are liable to ferve on juries; for the liberty of the prefs iso effentially connected with it, and with that liberty every other branch of public freedom.

As the writer of thefe Obfervations has read most of the pieces that have been publifhed relative to the law of libels, and perused almost every trial of this kind that has been published, he is not unacquainted with the language of the law upon that fubject, and could have expressed himself with a greater conformity to the tech

himself acquainted v of that important is not poffible for t to be too generally IN any incident that may be used, of thefe Observatio the gentlemen of Writer hopes it wil

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disrespectful to the members of that profeffion in general. For many of them he has a great perfonal esteem and regard. He confiders it as a very honourable profeffion; and he has a high sense of the worth of many of those who are engaged in it. He has not forgotten, that if the profeffion of the law has been difgraced by a JEFFERIES and a SCROGGS, it has also been adorned by a HALE, a SELDEN, a SOMERS, and a CAMden.

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