Public Register Or Freemans Journal, The (Newspaper) - July 9, 1765, Dublin, Dublin VOL II Freeman's U R Numb 88 t Or Journal From SATURDAY JULY the 6th to TUESDAY JULY the 9th Of Freedom of That the fame is Iroin Publick Liberty S I R WITHOUT Freedom of Thought there can be no fuch Thing as j and no fuch Thing as publick Liberty without at Which is the Bight of every Man as far as by it he does not hurt and control the Right of another and this is the only Check it ought to the only Bounds it ought to know This Privilege is fo to fiee Government that the Security of Property and the of Speech always go together and in Countries where a Man cannot call his Tongue his own he can call any Thing elfe his own Whoever would overthrow the the Nation begin fay the of Speech j a Thing terrible to lick Traitors This Secret was fo well known to the Courl of King I that Ins wicked procured a tion to forbid the People to talk of Parliaments which Traitors had laid To the undoubted Right of the Subject his legal was called and as Sedition Nay People were forbid to talk of in their milies For the had combined the to cook up Tyranny and Truth and the Law While the late King when Duke of Tirk went avowedly to Men were fined and un- done for faying lint he was a And i hat King H might live more a there was an Aft of Parliament made declaring it to fay that he was one That Men ought to well of their Governors is true while Governors to be well but to do publick without bearing of it is only the and Felicity of Tyranny A free People will be that they aie lo by their Freedom of Speech The of Government is nothing elfe but the Attendance of the of the People upon the and Affairs of the People And as it is the Part and of the People for Sake alone all lick Matters aie or ought to be to fee ther they be well or ill fo it is the nd ought to be the of all Magistrates have their Deeds openly and publickly Only the wicked Governors of Men dread what is laid of them Audivit TIBERIUS tur pet cfl 1 he public was true elfe he had not felt it bitter Freedom of Speech is ever the Symptom as we'll as the of good Government In old Rome was left to the judgment and of the People who exa- mined I IK publick Proceedings with and who them with fuch Equity arid that in the Space of three hundred not five publick Indeed ever Commons proceeded to Great Ones had been i he Guilt only dreads Liberty of which drags it of its linking Holes and its and Horror to Valerius and other virtuous and or the Re- train Commonwealth had nothing to fear from Liberty of Speech Their virtuous the more it was examined the it brightened and gained by Enquiry When in particular waj upon fome flight Grounds of the he who was tUc firll of did not the People for examining his Conduct but approved his innocence in a Speech to them he gave fuch to them and fuch Popularity to that they him a new Name agnomen tjl f to de- that he was their and But Things afterwards took another Turn with the Lofa of its Liberty alCo its Freedom of Speech then Men's Words began to be j then began the Race of ba- indeed undei the righteous of Titus Trajan but encouraged and en- inched under the vile Pallas and Cleander The belt Princes have ever encouraged and freedom of Speech they knew that upright would defend and that ait upright Men would defend them Tacitus of the Reigns of fome of the above-mentioned fays with Rara temporum felicitate ubi velis et qua A Time when you might think as you would and what you thought The fame was the Opinion and Practice of the wife and virtuous Timoleon the Deliverer of the great of Slavery He being by Dementtus a popular Orator in a full Alterably of the People of veral committed by him white he was Ge- gave no other than He was obliged to the Gods for granting him a he had often to them namely That hs might live to fee the enjoy the Liberty of Speech which they he of And that gieat Commander M Marcellus who won more Battles than any Raman Captain of his Age being by the while he was now a fourth Time of having done them Indignities and Wrongs contrary to the League role from his Seat in the as1 foon as the Charge him was opened and as a private Man into the Place where the were wont to make their Defence gave free ty to the to impeach Which when they he and they went out of the Court together to attend the of Nor did he the or towards his but acquitted received their City into his Protection Had he been guilty he would neither have fuch Temper nor Courage 1 doubt not but old Spencer and his Son who were the chief and Betrayers of Edward II would have been very glad to have flopped the Mouths of all the ned Men in They dreaded lo be called tors they were Traitors And I dare fiy Queen Elizabeth's who no Reproaches feared none public is overthrown by public When they are they ought to be publickly known that may be publickly commended but if they be or pernicious they ought to be publickly ex- in order to be publickly To that King was a pnd a Tyrant was only fo far to him as it vas true or him and if the Earl of had not to be im- peached he need not have feared a of If our Directors and rheir Confederates be not fuch Knaves as the thinb let them prove to all the World that the World thinks and rhat they aie guilty of none of Villages all the World lays to their Charge Others too who would be thought to Have no Part of their Guilt before they are thought cent that they did all in their to prevent that Guilt and to check their Proceedings Freedom of Speech is the great Bulwark of they and the And it is the Terror of Traitors and and a Banier them Jt excellent and encourages Men of fine Genius Tacitus us that the Roman Commonwealth bretl great and numerous Authors who with But it was great Wirs were no more had the Place of Equality which is the Soul of Liberty and de- public Courage 1 he Minds of terrified by Power degenerated into all the arid thodt of Abject Sycophancy and blind fion grew the only Mea ia ot and indeed of Men not open their Mouths but to Pliny fhe Dread of ny had inch Effect that the Senate the great Raman latt and Hence our and are broken anU funk for And of his d the Works at his he makes an Apology lor eight of them not Written with the fome Vigour which to be found in the tor that eight were written hi the Heign When the ot writing was crumped by Fear All the or One intended t be have been loud in n plants Freedom of Speech and the of much they were at Enmity with Truth There is a famous of thh w He tells us hat having in big Annals to and to interior Sycophants in Court of 2 US on every worthy Roman to be fo many Re- panted at They therefore complain ol the Book to the Senate which W now only the Machine o condemned it to le But his did not prevent its being it was more fought after at the of who hope to eZ b Terror of their he of iw the of Jj Rmn Credit to their did ever any Government who get anJ Speech therefore being of fuch infinite to the Preservation of every one who ov Liberty ought to encourage of Speech S I R To the PRINTER THOUGH the human heart by being long inured to may in a great become callous to the ot yet the of men not altogether the voice of that faithful monitor With all their artifices to footh the anxiety their guilty they are perpetually haunted gloomy and with external are inwardly with the gnawing of that worm dielh not Their ot ii loll with innocence and even in their dreams their guilty imagination is olten and buly in tormenting what place or or power h equal to this or Can atone for it- atone for internal and Nor can they with efforts arrive at a of to the hatred or of their The of have difcove'red concern at having their conduct to public view and as much as they hated good men have been really about their approbation and Even in this world therefore that of all Guilt the the of one's tp in- is not without its Nay we in- the bread of fuch a parricide we at the fight of the hell within it and be as far exterior grandeur and elevation however high as we be the High on a throne of which far the ORMUS and of Or where the with hand Showers on and gold It is indeed agreeable to the idea of God and a dence hat the be tormented with the con- of their enormities and never tafte of though ever and that innocence however or threatened be attended with t And if our apd the of are proportionate to the nature of what can equal the of man who to be an enemy to his country Whatever air of gaiety a fume to Jus mental thera are certain in which will force an and whenever flic does wijl in the following Irain And art thou then for the gf projecting the Doll thou put thy private in Ae the public weal Art laying a for the of to thy grandeur or rather thy real Haft thou no bowels of com- no gratitude to thy Wilt
