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Rh honest man in the kingdom is excluded. This glorious privilege may be a security to the King, as well as a resource to his people. Had there been no star-chamber, there would have been no rebellion against Charles the First. The constant censure and admonition of the press would have corrected his conduct, prevented a civil war, and saved him from an ignominious death.—I am no friend to the doctrine of precedents exclusive of right; though lawyers often tell us, that whatever has been once done, may lawfully be done again.

conclude this preface with a quotation, applicable to the subject, from a foreign writer, whose Essay on the English Constitution I beg leave to recommend to the public, as a performance deep, solid, and ingenious.

" short, whoever considers what it is, that constitutes the moving principle of what we call great affairs, and the invincible sensibility of man to the opinion of his fellow-creatures, will not hesitate to affirm that, if it were possible for the liberty of the press to exist in a despotic government,