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4 Juries

Beaufry I allow the honourable gentleman and only fear
has not allowing it me . It is bad , not that the
persons entrusted with the collection of the Revenue
should be nominated by the Crown , but that this
office of finance should proportionatly be coupled
with judicature . Another argument I will help
to against this tribunal : that the tribunals
of which a Jury forms a part have a public to
guard their probity , and this by — tribunal none.
Thus it stands upon principle : which says experience ?
With all these such gross and palpable faults is the
administration of justice then administered less
important than that administered by Juries ? It is
most notoriously and beyond all comparison more
so. Was the most corrupt tribunal of the prominent
kind ever charged with half the one partiality
which on in this as will as so many other heads branches
of law is so notorious on the part of Juries ? Who
ever heard of an unjust conviction given by Commissioners
of Excise ? if yet such a thing had been but
suspected is it possible that the whole metropolis town and
the whole notion would not have wrung with it?
How happens this ? in the first plan because they
have no temptation either of interest or prejudice to
act otherwise than justly : in the next plan , because
having their conduct to be the object of
suspicion they put a guard upon it accordingly.
I say repeat it : they have no temptation to

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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	004	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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