JB/037/049/001

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

(4.)

Under a limited monarchy, the quantity of punishment
capable of being applied not being so completely unlimited,
the quantity of mercy for which with its due reproach and undue praise
there is room, not quite so great. Room for it, however, always
exists, and is always occupied in enormous superabundance. The
unofficial intercessor is mostly kept out by the official arbiter
who, with the language and deportment of obsequiousness, on pretence
of responsibility, dictates, on each occasion to the vice God which of two courses
what course his next to divine pleasure shall take.

In England, while men are condemned to death by
hundreds, they are executed death is inflicted on them by units: the difference between the
unit and the hundred has for its cause the purposes above-mentioned.

In practice the privilege of thus abandoning men
to destruction, or saving them from it, at pleasure is shared
among functionaries in rank, office, number and proportion, –
all indeterminate, or at best hidden from the eyes of all
but the few who share among them a sinister interest in
the abuse of it: a Judge or Lawyer of one class or denomination
on at one occasion, time, of another on another. Along with,
and above them all, stands the Arch-functionary, who numbers
among his titles that of Keeper of the King's Conscience:
a man out of whose mind, by the indiscriminate offence defence of right & wrong
(with no other difference than the predilection naturally
conceived, for the best customer), every thing that, in any
other mind, has ever been designated understood by the name of
Conscience has, long before his taking that exacted conscience,
into his keeping, — been obliterated.

every feeling but that
of the most compleatly
sordid selfishness

The principal
has not recd a
bribe — secus perhaps
some underling.

Identifier: | JB/037/049/001 "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	049	Info in main headings field	first lines
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c4
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	11264
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