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be restored as it is called, that is property to
that amount made a present of to the descendants
of those to whose lands were at that had been at that remote time
period subjected to confiscation.

Nobody can have a more rooted horror of
the persecutions which

The tyranny cruel tyrannical character of the laws out of which
those confiscations took their rise is altogether
out of the question. It is a The confiscations A hundred
years have elapsed and a number of generations
have elapsed since those confiscations took place:
and long, very long, ago must all hope of restitution
of been extinct in the breasts of the decendents
of the original sufferers, if any such
hopes to thus effect could ever have been entertained.
No reason subsists at present, t nor
for a great many years has subsisted, for
giving property to that amount property to so large an amount at the expence
of the state property is that amount to the persons
into whose lap this unexpected prize in
the revolution lottery has fallen rather than to any
other individuals.

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Consistency has so Nor has greater regard been
paid to consistency in this donation than to
the true principles of justice. Immoveables Lands have
been given, moveables have been retained —
Which is worth most, a thousand pounds worth
of land or a thousand pounds worth of money?
Why is the represen be that generous to bestow on the
representative descendant of the landownder a bounty from when the representative Why open
of the money'd man is utterly excluded?
Why open to the representative of the landowner a
purse which is so perfectly shut against the money'd
men? Pecuniary losses may be difficult to
liquidate: yes in many most instances: perhaps impossible:
but what shall we say of those in
which the claim may happen to be clear? And
in will the filiation of the indigent descendents of land then
the once proprietors of land be always clear
from difficulty?

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	032	Main Headings	civil code
Folio number	004	Info in main headings field	civil
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::floyd & co [britannia with shield emblem]]]
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