An Examination of the Trials for Sedition Which Have Hitherto Occurred in Scotland, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from An Examination of the Trials for Sedition Which Have Hitherto Occurred in Scotland, Vol. 1 Baron hume says, in his Commentaries, that there was no trial for sedition in Scotland between the years 1703 and 1793. This is true but the state ment might have been carried much further, be cause, SO far as I (who, however, am no antiquary) can discover, there was never any trial for pure sedi tion in Scotland till 1793. The acts in which sedition would now be held to exist had no doubt occurred with great frequency, and been punished with bloody severity. But I do not see that they had ever been prosecuted merely as seditious. They had been dealt with as Offences Of a different char acter - chic¿y as leasing-making and as treason and were tried on different principles and with a view to a different result from what proper sedition would have been. Trials for sedition are the reme dies of a somewhat orderly age. They can scarcely occur in times SO rude or so tyrannical as to exclude the idea that political intemperance may be a mere excess in the exercise of constitutional liberty. In the summary reasoning Of barbarous power, every Opposition to existing authority is high treason. It may be doubted whether even the word Sedi tion was known anciently as a legal term in our vol. I. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.