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Is it that in the case of the witness where it is refused the power would be
more exposed to abuse or exposed to greater abuse than in the case where it is granted?
The reverse is manifestly true. The direct contrary is the truth. With the witness the particular defendant the plaintiff
no general dispute is at law: with the witness he has no such symptom or cause of
quarrel: the credit of the to be by being arrested in the character of a
party may a man is subjected to an imputation that may be
more or less prejudicial to his reputation of solvency by being
arrested in the mere character of a witness a man's credit is subject
to no such imputation. The case of two adversaries one
of them having a pecuniary claim, large or small upon the
other, is an extremely common one, the case of a man
having upon another a claim depending upon the testimony of
a witness about to expatriate of his own accord, or in a situation to have made worth his while to expatriate, is though
not too rare to be worth guarding against providing against, comparatively an extremely
rare one.

At the In the case of the Dutchess of Kingston for who was convicted of Bigamy, it came
out in evidence that at so small expence as for £20 a year
a witness whose testimony was necessary to the conviction,
had been kept out of the way for some time. The conviction
would not have taken place, or a nor therefore the prosecution
been so much as instituted – could the prospect of the prevailed over extorted from the perniciousness of the day the continuance of that slander so miserable a pittance.

"In the 8th year of William 3 a bill of indictment for high
"treason was found against Sir John Fenwick† † Christian, p.59 on Evidence p. 1792, p.58; but before he was brought
"to trial, one of the witnesses disappe upon whose evidence before the Grand
"Jury the bill was found, disappeared, so that Sir John Fenwick must
"necessarily have been acquitted in any court of law. But a Bill
"of Attainder was passed. ..
"Indeed (p.62.) it is a lamentable reflection that the æra of our liberty
"the splendid page of our history, should be so soon be stained by such a black instance
"of tyranny and persecutions."

Identifier: | JB/047/062/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 47.
Date_1	1804-05-12	Marginal Summary Numbering	2
Box	047	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	062	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d4 / e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	14930
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