JB/047/125/001

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1 Oct 1806
Evidence

The Colossal grievance may perhaps be also at its maximum:
but observe note well what that maximum is. The great body
of the people put under doomed to a perpetual outlawry: the poor and
him that hath none to help him it bound hand and foot, and
delivered into over the power put under the yoke of the oppressor: the property of the every creditor
offered to sold to the every debtor at a fixt price: 800 debtors in a year found
that is trade weak wicked enough to accept listen be seduced stain their lips with falshood and
reap the profit of injustice inequity at the invitation of the Judge: the
last rag stripped from the shivering back back of shivering wretchedness
the artificial Law by under in which this semblance of wisdom is made
to the head rapacious imbecillity is protected from such hides itself
shelter from the eye of scrutiny: wretches starving by thousands that
the flavour of the cordial, which salutes the lips of the titled upstart,
may be the richer and more exquisite.

All this fastened down fastened upon the shoulders of the people and if possible made perpetual
by the very bulk and immensity of the system or procedure. Of the machinery
by the force of which it has been manufactured and
put together: the fortress of discourse fortified not only against the
hand of reform but against the very eye of observation scrutiny, by the most
impenetrable of all barriers, which libraries of nonsense in the form of jurisprudence.

Apply to the grievance, viewed in these its too correct dimensions, apply
the remedy of the Committee: the fees, not abolished, but consolidated:
the outlawry not reversed, but perpetuated: "the administration
"of Justice under the Common Law of England (is Equity
included?) to be cleared, and so cleared in that way cleared of the two only engines of
delay which we are told can be imparted to it, and so left:
which done, every thing will be as it should be.

Identifier: | JB/047/125/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 47.
Date_1	1806-10	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	047	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	125	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	14993
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