JB/035/212/001

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31 May 1808

Psalmanazar has shown us how protection and support
was obtained by invented relations of imaginary adventures
in distant and almost unfrequented countries. Poulter alias Baxter
disclosed a variety of ways in which money was obtained
on false pretences, without any and either aid either from the learning
or the power of the law.

Seldom for the recordation <add>of for the instructive</add> But the of a recorder – an appropriate
here in question – dooms to oblivion the history of the false
pretences by which erroneous verdicts have been obtained from
Juries: and as for remorse, no such sentiment sensation was
none I yet know to take its abode in any such
learned bosom.

In cases of the greatest importance, those to wit in
which public security the security of the public against depredation is at stake on one side, and
the life of the individual on the other, the
of Advocates are on the defendants side of the cause altogether.
Of this exclusion the rational cause is what it neither the rational and proper nor the
actual final cause seem very easy to ascertain disentangle determine.
The class of felon-clients is not very rich in fees:
the time necessary to allow to both sides of the cause the
same assistance rhetorical allotment of rhetorical could not conveniently be spared to
a branch of business comparatively so unprofitable,
or the sympathy of the occasional and inexperienced unlearned Judge, so much
more easily excited in favour of the present individual than
in favour of the invisible public, may have indicated
the silence of the Advocate as the only effectual
and in that character as a warrantable preservation against
the effect deception apprehended from the fallacies with
which the judicial discernment of the Jury would be liable to be besieged asserted by his delusive eloquence.

Identifier: | JB/035/212/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 35.
Date_1	1808-05-31	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	035	Main Headings	constitutional code; evidence; procedure code
Folio number	212	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e5
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals		Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	10805
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