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,—journals, for the most part, under the immediate patronage and direction of the minister. It has been computed that about 1000l. a year will buy up a paper; the editor of which, for this consideration, is bound in a contract to calumniate indiscriminately the whole nation, viz. the Friends of Liberty, by the name of Levellers; and the King, Lords, and Commons, and all the friends of the minister, by the name of Patriots and honest men.

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Entry taken from A Political Dictionary, by Charles Pigott, 1795.

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