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 ¬mentous subject because it is so dangerously misunderstood. — They who hold high the popu- lar institutions of the country are supposed of late to be adverse to the monarchy, whereas they are its only supporters : — a revolution, and of a very different character from the last, might be the probable consequence of any attempt to bear down the trial by jury or the li- berty of the press; and whilst they remain undisturbed, and in full action, the multitude so unjustly suspected will not only be obedient, but government itself may be often saved from the fatal consequences of ignorant misrule. What spectacle indeed can be more sublime than to see a blind system of jealous and arbitrary dominion carried on through the profligate and corrupting agency of spies in every part of the kingdom, receive as it were a death- blow from twelve honest men, indifferently chosen out of the undistinguished mass of our people ! ¬ Another striking feature in the criminal law ¬of ¬