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26 May 1808
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Towards an individual, or a class or persons, in any
way compared, by religion, by political party, by profession
by rank in life — sympathy or antipathy may in the
bosom of any such occasional judge have been productive
of a sinister fear which the public eye might have
had force influence enough to controul and frustrate.render impotent <add>overpower overbear </add>

In the days of Wilkes and liberty suppose a cause
on the event of which the mass bulk of Wilkes property was
at stake, and with it the probability of his re-occupying
a seat in Parliament. — and has the right charity
on his side. Among In the Jury is a man whose mind
by direction to the Court, or by purer considerations, has
been worked corrupted up into a state of virulent antipathy towards
John Wilkes. To accomplish the ruin of this so
wicked a man hateful and mischievous a member and disturber of society would though it were at the of would in the eyes of one juryman be
a most grateful acceptable task, and perhaps even a meritorious
work, though for once at the expence of manifestjustice. The
part he takes being secured from the fictive eye, our juryman too
committs this injustice. But the justice of the cause being
by he supposition manifestly on the other side, this same
partial Judge, tried to stood alone, like the permanent Judge acting too under an
obligation of finding reasons in justification of the first
he was taking, and these reasons standing in front, consigned to paper, destined and
all over the country to meet the public eye, would
have thought better than to venture on any such injustice.

(a)Howsoever it might be any where due the supposition our
not be charged with any thing like extravagance, in a country in
which, for the gratification of sympathy by saving from a violent death
or a criminal where the law of the country, such as it is, has devoted
to that punishment, Jurymen are continually declaring upon oath us
since what they see not to be true and this under the eyes of approving Judges.

Identifier: | JB/035/144/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 35.
Date_1	1808-05-26	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	035	Main Headings	constitutional code; evidence; procedure code
Folio number	144	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals		Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	10737
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