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Neighbour
Really I don't know how the Law stands - You
must go and ask Mr Latitat -
Housekeeper
I will - But he lives a good way
off — and I have got scent of the Fellow — & if
I don't have him taken up now, I shan't be your
know when to meet with him —
Neighbour
Oh I would go & get a warrant loose no time then but lay hold of him <add> You know <add>I don't can't like
if whether it is a hanging matter or no by the Law,
but you know
people are always pardon never more then transported for
Stealing, especially if the prosecutor begs them
off.
Housekeeper Why then I think I'll can go
a Villain! so kind as I had always been to
him!
Neighbour — Do let's hear how it was — I'll go
along with you.
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LARCENY Domestic
the rich from their connections with the
Magistracy may have a certain degree
of access, & from which the poor are
excluded, a punishment as such of that severity a case
is looked upon as the act of Tyranny of
a inferior over a superior: whereas
when they favor all alike as here, &
where the proceedings in every stage
are carried on in the face of all [man men kind]
It is only a rigorous exaction
of Justice by an equal against upon an
equal — Punishment indirect true
that it if it apt to be looked upon as reason hard in for one
man to prosecute another for a trivial
theft it is not more because one the first is rich &
the other other poor, because one is the first is Master
& the other Servant + + more than it would be if the cases were inverted. but because
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