JB/011/201/004

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J.B. To Sir Peel - Corrected Brouillon

Another thing is, that if not the very existence,
at any rate. a great portion of the profits of the Equity Courts
would have to give way. As to official men, so far as concerns
money, some addition to their present emolument
might perhaps if coupled with ease, Satisfy all but a few.
But, such are the sweets of power, when the Court of Session
was split in two, President Campbel gave up all in a huff,
rather than sit down again with half. Very different is the
case with professional men. Neither for attornies nor for
counsel could you come to Parliament, and ask for pensions
in compensation for loss of business.

The question therefore is whether for this share in
the universal security for their estates, more particularly their
landed estates, the Cabinet and the Great Landholders in both
Houses — Tories and Whigs together — would be content to forego
the advantage, afforded by the support given of course by Lawyers,
to abuse, in every shape without exception, in which, and at
the expence of the subject many, the ruling few see a source
of continuing profit to themselves. If then these same ruling
few have confidence enough in their own strength, to regard
it as sufficient without the support of the lawyers for the protection
of the subject many, the lawyers might bawl till they were
hoarse, and would get nothing but scorn: for, the rest of the
ruling few being by supposition against them, so would the
people be to a man.

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Identifier: | JB/011/201/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 11.
Date_1	1826-08-19	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	011	Main Headings	law amendment
Folio number	201	Info in main headings field	letter i corrected brouillon
Image	004	Titles	on mr humphrys's proposed property code / offer in relation to it
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	w weatherley 1825
Marginals		Paper Producer	fr2
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1825
Notes public	[[notes_public::"fair copy sent to mr peel's house, endorsement private 19 aug 1826" [note in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	3898
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