JB/011/229/001

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JB to Peel
Sir

As this letter has for its subject a matter which is
not only of prime importance but will through some
channel or other find its way into Parliament, it would
be affectation in me to speak of it as being of a nature
to be regarded by you with indifference. Yes, Sir: instead
being abolished, which as far as I can learn is the
general wish, the practice of packing Juries has been
established — established by Act of Parliament; passed in
conformity to the bill brought in by you. My fears
lead me to regard the of the Bill as
of this effect of it; the inclosed pages will show the grounds
of them: my hopes look the contrary way: the results
of this letter will substitute certainty to doubt and
anxiety.

If so it be that the effect of this Bill of yours is
in the particular in question contrary to your intention,
it cannot but be your desire to see an appropriate
amendment made in it; one form for which is proposed
by the hand by which the demand for it is
In this case it will be more agreeable to you, I should
suppose, to be the apparently spontaneous proposer of, the
amendment than to see it brought on the carpet by a
relatively hostile hand. I write this accordingly to say that
if it be agreable to you to bring the matter before Parliament

Identifier: | JB/011/229/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 11.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	011	Main Headings	law amendment
Folio number	229	Info in main headings field	jb to peel
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	george bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	3926
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