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1826 Dec 20
J.B. to Peel on JurorsCh. Jury Packing(2)

I have not made communication of the matter to any
third person, nor shall I untill I have learnt what course will be most agreeable to yourself

The track you see has not been published: and perhaps
may not be for some little time. But, should you even
undertake for bringing the matter on for the purpose of amendment
the demand for the appearance of the pamphlet will not in my view of the matter entitle
reward. I state this, to preserve myself from the misfortune of forfeiting,
by the appearance of hard heartedness and a breach of faith, any favourable
conception it may have happened to you to entertain of me.

Pursuing the course which I took the the liberty of pursuing
on a former occasion and which it seems to me you
did not disapprove, I shall take on this occasion as
on that take regard silence for, as meant to perform save time,
and perform the function of an answer. Mean time, I am
I with all respect
Sir Yours
Jeremy Bentham

A case which can not but present itself to my view
as capable of realisation is that of your its being your
wish to abolish packing, and that of your advisers or some
of them to establish it: if, instead of establishing it, there be
any one of them whose wish it is to abolish it, you will
see that in the case appropriate relative intellectual is not in this case, a necessary
accompaniment to relative moral aptitude, even
even to official situations. Of the individual character of
your principal adviser, I have no knowledge whatsoever, supposing
then, that packing is an improper practice, my pointing your
attention to him, on this occasion, can not with any propriety
be considered as mine to convey meant to convey an imputation on the individual, or charg be
designated by any such appellative as calumny. It is to
the situation above that I look on this occasion. I have, for more
than 60 years, been in the habit of observing the conduct of Judges. I
have been in convivial habits with some of those regarded who were as preeminent
on the popular side. I never observed met with any one, whose manifest
desire it was not – to
give to his power every
possible extent: and, for so
doing as is here the practice
of packing is one of the so efficient
an instrument, that a more
efficient one is hardly to be found.

Identifier: | JB/011/227/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 11.
Date_1	1826-12-20	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	011	Main Headings	law amendment
Folio number	227	Info in main headings field	jb to peel on juries
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e2
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	3924
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