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invariably in General Orders, with the Comments of the Commander
on them, to every Regiment: But what checks are provided for the conduct
of a Company's civil servant? What shall efficiently control exaction & To level
function
no Check

tyranny if he be capable of such? What shall keep down his ill-will to
the Jury System, his Jealousy of the partial eclipse which his autocracy
in the province must suffer? his habitual insolence of office? the white
man's, — the rich man's — the civil servant's feelings towards the black —
the poor — the "low"man? Nothing but the feeble, formal, — "regular channel"
control of official superiors, distant many degrees of latitude or longitude
perhaps — & all belonging to the same corps with the supposed offender.
There is no vicinage of his equals — no community to stand in awe of —
no one independant of his direct authority, or indirect influence! — Yes! Justice denied
by factitious
Corps.

the Tribunals are "open" — open to the poverty-blasted-ignorant-timid-
blackman — who ventures to wage such a war with the great man of his
District: — "open" — but with every stage loaded with, costs, stamps, & law
taxation, greater in proportion to the extreme indigence of our well ground
Eastern subject, than those of England, & more remote, more inaccessible
than even our Courts.

If no better checks than all this be provided, the attempt to put
natives on Juries will utterly fail — I know of but one company's Judge
in India, to whom I would commit such a charge with full confidence —
Courtenay Smith (the brother of the Rev<hi rend="superscript">d Sidney Smith) but he is of the "Liberal
"faction" — & not in favor with his brethren.— What then is to be done to
prevent this excellently meant measure from miscarrying? — There is but
one efficacious remedy & to that must we come at last in India, as at
home, Publicity! shame & intimidation are its offspring, & bodies or classes of




Identifier: | JB/010/160/004
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Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

010

Main Headings

Folio number

160

Info in main headings field

british india - jury system - suggestion by col. young

Image

004

Titles

Category

collectanea

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

c1 / c2 / c3 / c4

Penner

richard doane

Watermarks

j whatman turkey mill 1824

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

jonathan blenman

Corrections

jeremy bentham

Paper Produced in Year

1824

Notes public

ID Number

3596

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