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318 ACTS RELATING Part III. Sect. ll. TO THE Commas. 31:; As to the governors, it could not, I think, With refpeé‘t to thofc of the third clafs, be faid, that the duty of their llation would. thefe again are diltinguilhahle into fuch not excufe them, in lomc degree at leaft, informations, relations of matter of fact, even among the molt violent malecontents; or expreflions of opinion, as had been communicated by the governors of the re- or that the refpec‘t habitually paid to that flation would not protefl: them from the fpeé'tive colonies, and fuch as had been communicated by private perfons. \Vith fate of inferior informants ; and as to 0- dium, they fhould not have accepted their refpefl: to the latter, it might be alledged, - and it {hould feem with jufiice, that to make them public would be to facritice the informants to the fury of a people not very trults, under any other terms than that of being ready to bear f0 much ofit as was ineident to the difcharge of their duty. With raped}. to the fecond clafs of docu-- backward to take revenge, nor very delio ments, I with it may be pollible to produce cate in the mode oftaking it; that the conuany juflifiable reafons for withholding him. i'equence, in regard to the informant, I am fure I know of none; and it feemed would be the deflrufiion of a. number of perfons, for what, with rearpefi to this no aufpicious omen of the charafler of the new parliament, that it fhould be dilpofed country at leaf't, could not but be deemed a nation in the meafiires of the minifiry. Garbled and caflrated documents, are no documents at all. The end ofjudieial ex* An obvious expedient is to leave the names in blank; but this would not hold good in thofc cafes where the nature of the intelligence is fufiieient to betray the perfon who has furnilhed it. amination is, if neceifary, t0 cenfure; and what chance can there be of cenfurc refult- ing from informations, which thofe who would 7 As an..-' m-‘-.__ . to acquiefee implicitly, and without exami- merit; and in regard to the public that no information would ever be given in future *. |
