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 N � I I'I. 7'erre. Fiiius. Zy have wicked ones aga;n; for which reafon be very glad to fee this matter egulated, that per... Ions may no longer be fubje& to accufitions in th$ dark and clandeftine manner, and that the road to degrees may lie equally open to all who de/rve them. The teafort that is commonly urg'd, in jufifi.. eation ot: this praiee of condemning a ma without trying him, is very e. xq,aifite i for,/y they, if the W[on [ufpeuded fhould know who did him that ill office, he would in all likelihood bear malice aga!nfl: lim, and watch for an opportunity to revenge hm-- I[: perhaps fo indeed; but why ther6fore are not all profecutions carried on in the fame fnug man- ner? or why fhould milebier eniac more in one cage finn another ? For my part, I thcufd bear ten times more malice again a man who acculed me wrong- fully (as many 'men have been) of horq-fleling, or robbing on the highway, than agaivf any one who accofed me of fpeaking dif?eliec?tfully of rome in the univerfity, or of drinking 1ome fanatical heattb. Several worthy gentlemen of' the molt ple.ntiful �,qates have been accufed ot very h. inous crmes, l' fuch as murder, rapes, and the ke, and uon a flit trial have been acquitted3 yet I never heard of any dreadful confequences upon this ai:count, as that the accur$ or tle withefits, in fuch cas, had their brains beat out, or their lunzs vink'd for it: xhercas it; to prevent atl danger of �uch quences, the Oxvouo method was to be taken, and the acujd was not to know his accu/3., nor have the liberty to invalidate what arrj ,aciry flould pieaft to alledge againR him, el:her pon his word or his oath, I leave the rege.t or !on-regent mailers of Oxvo to conrider the con- ecucnces. E z

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