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[ 56 ] Yet, Heaven be praised, it is now become so well understood, and its deceit shines so glaringly out of the veil that has so artfully been spread over it, that another Dialogue, and another prosecution, like a late one, will in all probability so severely hamper the criminal Judges, in their own sophistry, as either to compel them to leave Juries to judge of law and fact, in matters of libel, as in all other, agreeably to their right so to do, or that the business will be taken up by Parliament, for the honour of God and conscience, truth and common reason; otherwise the constrained surrender of English liberty, in this one instance, may lead to the surrender of many more, until in the end there may be none to surrender. It is a subject of importance, and the protection of one liberty may, by the fame rule, lead to the protection of every other, which make the English character throughout the world unrivalled. NEW