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Indirect
Wanton or malicious mischief done to property
Avarice The violent passions, such as lust
revenge and avarice are by no means the
only sources of delinquency. In Hanging the thoughtless
and unfeeling the love of novelty and experiment
displays itself in mischief. I hope
there is no other country in Europe in which
the protection given afforded against injuries of
this class is so scanty and precarious as in England.
Against provision mischief done by numbers
injuries of this sort whatever remedy is given
by the law is of little value In these cases Against such injuries partly from the
expence annexed to the mode of litigation, partly
from the want of a power to apprehend offenders
upon the spot, the whatever remedy happens to be it is but in few cases that the
held out is of little value. If a mans property remedy which is give pretended remedy can be of any real use.
is to be destroyed the best thing that can happen
to him is that the mischief shall have been done
by a multitude mob of persons. A multitude of persons.
What remedy has To put cite two instances out of a
thousand what remedy has a farmer for the destruction
demolition of his hedges, or the innkeeper for the demolition
of his furniture? In a few scattered instances The
terms
(a) In travelling in England In the inns in England I have frequently beheld not without indignation, a looking-
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