★ Keep up to date with the latest news - subscribe to the Transcribe Bentham newsletter; Find a new page to transcribe in our list of Untranscribed Manuscripts
C
Offences against the Coin
For all this is does not follow that scalding to
death for this offence would succeed as well in England
as it seems to do in France In moral where moral sentiments
are vitiated and repressed by the of the
government and the spirit of the Catholic religion and
where the practice is armed with the full compliament
of power a spy of the police for his standing salary or even
every now and then on of the people at large for an
occasional reward would make little of delivering up
a coiner — — — to die in boiling hot oil or by any other
death. nor would the desciples of and
have any great objection: but in England
where the sentiments of the people are at liberty to assume
their natural bent where the police is feeble and half
armed, and where the execution of the Laws depend in
a great degree in the voluntarily assistance of the people
a man would scarcely be found to betray a coiner to
Identifier: | JB/073/031/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 73.
|
|||
---|---|---|---|
not numbered |
|||
073 |
law in general |
||
031 |
offences against the coin |
||
001 |
|||
copy/fair copy sheet |
4 |
||
recto |
f45 / f46 / f47 / f48 |
||
[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]] |
|||
23871 |
|||