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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