JB/037/047/001

Click Here To Edit 1821. May 2d
First Lines Penal Law.

(2.)

It is for the accommodation of Tyrants, and
that, whichsoever course they take, in whichsoever shape
they do mischief to the public — in which way soever
they afford gratification to their own passions and sinister
interest, they may receive the tribute of praise.

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If, for the advancement of personal interest, or for
the gratification of present passion passion at the expence of
lasting personal interest, punishment is applied, justice
is the word: if, for the advancement of personal interest
in that same quarter, or for the gratification of this or that
obsequious companion official servant, interfering gratuitously or for a
price, punishment is forborne to be applied, mercy is
the word: in the one case, insult is offered to the public
in one shape; in the other case, to the other.+In the one
case
+In the one case, it is on
the score of wisdom
that the praise so sure
to be bestowed is bestowed —
in the other case, on
the score of humanity,
benevolence, charity,
clemency, what you
please: clemency is a
name given to supposed
or alleged beneficence
when exercised by
the exclusion of punishment
and seated on a
throne.

The greater the aggregate quantity of punishment ordained
by law, the greater is the quantity of mercy capable of being
exercised by particular prerogative, in opposition to, and at
the expense of, the general appointment tenor of the law. Accordingly, where
mercy is most heard of, be make sure be assured there is most tyranny.
The making a ground room for the exercising of tyranny under the
mask of clemency — + is one purpose for
which punishment
without limit or measure,
is by law established. + For For the making a ground of for the praise of benevolence
to be applied to breasts in — a situation in which no
such virtue ever existed, or, consistently with human nature,
ever can exist, is another purpose and thus providing malevolence
and tyranny with a mask, is another purpose.

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Identifier: | JB/037/047/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 37.
Date_1	1821-05-02	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	047	Info in main headings field	first lines
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections	richard doane	Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	11262
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