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Immoral Writings should seem no less the Object of the Magistrate's Attention. Tho' These may not shake the Principles, yet they inevitably corrupt the Manners of a Nation.
Personal Defamation, or Calumny thrown on private Characters, is another Evil, which seems rising at present with unheard-of Aggravations. Two flagrant Instances of This Enormity the Writer will pass unnoticed, lest he should seem to insult over the Exiled or the Dead.[1]
- ↑ In these two Kinds of modern Profligacy, immoral Writings, and personal Calumny, there is one professed Author, now said to be living in this Kingdom with Impunity; who, in a better policed State would ere this have felt the full Weight of that public Punishment and Infamy which is due to an Enemy of Mankind. This Man, supposed to be one C——, first writ a Volume of execrable Memoirs, for the Corruption of Youth and Innocence: Since That, a Reverie, or Dream, which Hunger and Malice probably conspired to suggest; replete with the most impudent Falsehoods, and injurious Calumnies on Individuals, for the Entertainment of base and envious Minds.
