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1825 Sept. 1.
Penal Code

In the every country perhaps as yet known,
the practice of the judicatories is more or less
tainted with this combination of tyranny
& subornation of mendacity, offences against
the authority of the Sovereign, and do. against
the person on authority of the Judge, are among
the cases most apt to call forth the exercise
of it. Another occasion is that of an offence
which consists in the utterance of
opinions to which, under the notion of their
being false or mischievous, or both, the Sovereign
or of his own authority the Judge,
has taken upon him to attach punishment.
Of punishment in any shape on any occasion
– is it int he nature to produce change
even reversal of opinion and that so instantaneous?
Impossible. Of all those who have
been so lavish in the indulgence of this
tyranny, is there so much as one that
will dare to stand forth and declare that
in any one of the instances in which
he is has produced such apparent conversion,
that conversion has been real.

What it has for it's object is the causing
the people at large, and more especially the
audience, upon the ground of the extorted assertion,
to believe that to be true, which is not
so, and of which, if he has a grain of discernment,
the Judge can not but be assured that
it is not so. And at the same time present to
the eyes of the audience and the public the Judge in
the character of a good and wise and able functionary
by whose virtues
the miracle
has been wrought.

Identifier: | JB/068/297/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 68.
Date_1	1825-09-01	Marginal Summary Numbering	5
Box	068	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	297	Info in main headings field	penal code
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks
Marginals	george bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	22492
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