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Vengeance fired by national resentment against press control
A pointed critique addresses Lord Mansfield over press licensing and punitive debt practices. The author condemns curtailment of freedom, accuses princes of vengeance and resentment, and laments the imprisonment of insolvent debtors while calling for a Ciceronian pen to describe the abuses and injustices in the King's Bench and related legal mechanisms.
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Lord Mansfield
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