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29 Nov. 1812
Evidence

Those Men, to whom in the Cabinet an in both Houses it belongs to determine
between war and peace, engaged by in support of war
by immense profits masses of emolument, the gift and receipt of which have all the character and
effect of bribery, without except the punishment and the
shame; – Bounties given upon war – given by them to one
another and to themselves; – by ruling men in the
Cabinet – by ruling men in both Houses with whom the determination rests – bounties so vast in the amount –
bribes so safe in the receipt; – and still is it to be
a question, whence it is that, unless to recommence
immediately, wars never can cease?

But peace is – to make peace – does it not require
two parties? – Undoubtedly. What may therefore
or may not be in their power is – to put an end to the
war, – what can not but be in their power – what is
at all times in their power, is – to put an end to
the sinister interest.

Of the money emolument they reaped from the continuance of war,
and increased by the extension of the war every extension given to it, suppose no more than a part,
though it were but one tenth part, or a twentieth part, received from the hand
of this or that foreign power from Russia for example, or from
Sweden which at the time happened to have an interest
in our giving continuance in the continuance of that scourge on our part – Russia
or Sweden for example – What suppose any such incident to transpire, what an outcry, and,
what were the law supposed to take its effect, (which in that
case case, to at the charge of such great characters in such high situations in all probability it would not), how penal the consequence!
But, is the value of money or the force with
which it operates in the character of a sinister motive – in the
character of a cause of mischief – is it diminished by the absence
of all doing whatever danger would, in another case, be attached
to the receipts of it?

Identifier: | JB/047/372/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 47.
Date_1	1812-11-29	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	047	Main Headings	rationale of judicial evidence
Folio number	372	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3 / d29*** / f155***
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	john dickinson & c<…> 1809
Marginals		Paper Producer	a. levy
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1809
Notes public		ID Number	15240
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