JB/058/049/001

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10 June 1804
Procedure

In a country not much noticed in the rest of Europe an experiment
has lately been made by which the utility of this natural
arrangement, and by consequence consequently the mischievousness and injustice
of all the other established systems has been demonstrated in the most placed in the clearest point
of view striking manner: demonstrated – not by reasoning but sentimental common
places, or prejudice consigned to aphorisms – but as the
utility of useful measures all experiments of legislation ought to be demonstrated by figures.

Before this An idea had before been suggested stated, than which, upon the a more
unpromising one fact upon it, nothing a more absurd infantine and childish one could not could easily
be have been imagined. Offices were to be established under the name of
Reconciliation Offices. Their business function was to be to prevail
upon suitors – that is upon those adversaries that would otherwise have otherwise
become suitors – to make up their differences, and shake hands. Not
to decide that would have been to the Reconciliation Office
– the workshop for manufacturing a golden age – would in that
case have been nothing more b or better than a Conscience Court
of Justice. Not to decide – but to hear – perhaps to question
and ordinarily to make few speeches: – to hear any thing and
to do nothing.

The scantiness of the remedy had it the arrangement any thing of the power
of a remedy will claim our notice may be mentioned after further on noticed presently: but even to
the extent of it its inefficacy and its mischievousness stare
us in the face. For to what purposes good purpose both a here men talk on a matter
in which nothing can be done? to what good purpose hear grievances complaints,
which there is no power to redress.

But to be useless is in such a case to be mischievous. In
a Court of justice – vexation for expence and delay in miserable
abundance: – but at the end of it something is done which
under the worst system, oftener than otherwise may be wear without
impropriety, the name of justice. In a Reconciliation Office you have
vexation, expence and delay, all gratis to no power to do justice,⊞ ⊞ the vexation, expence and
delay produced by dangling
at the Reconciliation Office
and all this superadded by
way of introduction to the vexation
delay and expence which
is to come afterwards in a
Court of Justice. The injustice vexation expence and delay off the office may be less than that of the Court: it naturally will be so, the mischief is so much less: but still so much prove unballanced it is not the less, thus mischief.

Identifier: | JB/058/049/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 58.
Date_1	1804-06-10	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-4
Box	058	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	049	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	18718
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