JONES, Sir William [1746-1794].

An Inquiry Into The Legal Mode Of Suppressing Riots. With A Constitutional Plan Of Future Defence. Published in July 1780.To which is now added A Speech on the Nomination of Candidates to represent the County of Middlesex, 9th Sept. 1780, &c.

      London: Printed for C.Dilly, 1782. - 8vo. pp. 75. with half-title. disbound. Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged. An argument against martial law and in favour of the ?Posse Comitatus? or group of citizens recruited by the county sheriff to deal with civil unrest. The appended Speech includes some discussion of the war with America, to which Jones was vehemently opposed: ".The war with our colonies.began with injustice, was pursued with malignity, and must end, if it be long protracted, in destruction: the principles on which it was begun, and by which it has been feebly but insolently vindicated, are no less irrational in themselves than repugnant to the first elements of our constitution; and the bringing of those principles into fashion has been the most envenomed fruit of this miserable contest.". (pp. 50-51) Not in Adams or Sabin.