“Tickler: I hate novelties. Is the prosecution mania about to subside, think you? Now-a-days, every word is said to be actionable. You cannot open your mouth, or put pen to paper, without feeing a libel-lawyer. An Edinburgh Whig, and really some of the London ones seem no better, is an animal without a skin. [The Whigs] have entered into a cowardly compact to prosecute every syllable that shall ever be written against any one of their degraded and slanderous selves.” LibelLitigationWhigs Book:Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 11, Issue 63: 1822-04 Source: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 11, Issue 63: 1822-04
