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Suborn Witness

,—on state trials, is to procure false witnesses to swear away the lives and property of innocent individuals who wish for a reform in Parliament. A real Statesman-like Minister will always have a store of such witnesses by him, to use them when wanted.

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

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Suborn Witness