The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

May 16. At a late cabinet council a great law Sage, whose abilities are universally allowed, however his politics may be condemned, concluded a long speech with words to this effect: "Above all things let me exhort your Lordship not to think of prosecuting the press. Its own licentiousness advances the views of Government infinitely better than all the fulminations of your power. It is become so gross as to be universally despised, and nothing can be ever formidable which is an object of contempt: This is not all: the licentiousness of the press screens the very errors of Government; for it attacks you so often without cause, that the people disbelieve it wholly where there is even a real ground for accusation."