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Juries
Beaufory

If any more more further argument can be wanting
in proof can be of the unfitness of this species of tribunal,
a more conclusive one can not be had could not be wished for than
what is afforded by the most professed and elaborate
argument I have been able to meet with
in favor of it.— A new branch is proposed
to be added to the Excise System: and the one of the two great
grievances in that system being the want of a
trial by Jury, great efforts are made by an
honourable gentleman, though on the ministerial
side to add in that instance an optional
clause, giving the defendant in a prosecution
for smuggling the option of a trial in that mode.

Three objections are made to the summary mode
of procedure in use in cases of Excise: 1 the reward
given to the informer: 2. the insufficiency alledged shortness of
the notice given to to the Defendant by the summons: and the
uncertainty whether it in each case whether in any given case it has
answered its end: If These three considerations is
composed the ground and the sole ground doubly configured
for changing the trial before single commonplace Judges under

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	035	Main Headings	constitutional code; evidence; procedure code
Folio number	074	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1 / d2 / d3 / d4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::floyd & co [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur young
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	10667
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