ABSTRACT
The Court was moved on the Behalf of the Paper Manufacture; which it was said would be considerably injured by that general Prohibition published in our Journal of the 9th Instant. It was suggested by a learned Council that, If so be, that how, a Book was perfectly inoffensive, it might be permitted to be suffered to be read. And besides that how a Book might have some Degree of Merit, without having sufficient to entitle it to the high Honour of the Recommendation of the Court. Why therefore then, it would be better to qualifie the generality of the Words of the Clause of the Prohibition; and to confine it then to this, that how, if so be, a Book be condemned by the Court, why therefore then, in that Case, nobody should be permitted to read it.
