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1830 Nov. 24th
J.B. to France against Death§. VI. Attachment Causes
I. Sinister Interest
II. Aristocrats

Under a Matchless Constitution death punishment is
a punishment of which, commonly speaking, a man of the higher
orders considers himself the lower orders as exposed to: himself,
not. Crimes of predatory indigence may be termed the
acts by which he considers them as exposed to it. In England,
felony, fel, felons, are terms of which those
acts are presented to his view. Originally the idea
with which the term felony stood associated
was that of a compound punishment of which
death constituted a part. It thence came to
denote the crime to which that punishment
was applied. This was formed
by a sort of line of separation, drawn by
the hand of law, and the population of the
country divided by it into as it were into two
castes: as in the case of Whites & Blacks.

Under Matchless Constitution, which to various ignominious
punishments at the head of which stands death, they devote
the members of the inferior caste, the higher orders have so managed
as to have given to one another not only licence but
power to commit acts of maleficence, exactly the same in
nature and effect as those which they punish in the lower
orders as above.

In various works I have for near these thirty years been
endeavouring to impress on men's mind's this state of
things. Details belong not to the present purpose.

Under no other government perhaps is this line of
separate distinction so curiously, artificially, and effectually
drawn as under Matchless Constitution – this partition with
so much more the it affords to aristocratical
pride there is perhaps no country in which
it has place.

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Date_1	1831-11-08	Marginal Summary Numbering	7-8
Box	004	Main Headings	lord brougham displayed
Folio number	488	Info in main headings field	bankruptcy court bill observations continued
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	street & co 1830
Marginals	george bentham	Paper Producer	antonio alcala galiano
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1830
Notes public		ID Number	2409
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