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1826 July 8
London Petition for Judicial Reform and against Eldon

What is under the
head we pray for
and even this is what
we rather pray than
hope for is — that the
money thus applied
may be raised by
taxes imposed in
other modes in such
sort that the burthen
so imposed may rest
indiscriminately on the
pr rich and press
and rest on the affluent
and the prosperous
and not press
exclusively on the shoulders
of the afflicted.

We beg leave to pray
that if the profit of these
Judges we
to be given up to
it may be effected by
a power of levying on
the whole community
a tax to any amount
for their own benefit
instead of being levied exclusively
on the its distressed
members and through
the medium of set
of underlings by whom
that the pro in such
manner that for every
sum put into the pocket
of those Judges a sum to
several times the amount
is forced out of the pockets
of the distressed suitors.

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We are fully assured
and at the command of
Your Honourable House
are prepared to prove that
for a mass of amount not exceeding £50
sterling a year and
composed of salary without
fees
that a French Judge
to the amount of many hundred
and not to say even thousands each
sitting in single solo judicature and sitting without a colleague
gives up each of them
the whole of his disposable time
to the duties of his
Office of that in itself
so highly respectable
and justly respected
office.

We are assured and
propose to prove that
deriving his means of
subsistence in various
proportions partly from
that small salary
partly from patrimony
all these Magistrate
behold and find
in this respect what
their office and their
own behaviour in the
exercise of it seems
to them added to that
small recompense in a
pecuniary shape inapt
compensation for a
course of labour to which
there is no remission.

We are assured and
confident of being able
to prove in so far as in
a subject of this sort
proof is in the nature of
it possible that as
those Judge so paid
respect and confidence is universal
confidence not less so
are sentiments universally
entertained.

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We see not why
what in the air of France England
there is that should
render the sentiments
of men in general
and of men of this
in particular less generous
or their desires
less moderate
than in France.

We can have that
which is known to every
one that the residing
of public services in
the law of judicature
is in this country at
once a matter of
and a matter a subject
matter of public
avowal and self important
practice on the
part of English Gentlemen
amounting in number
to hundreds and perhaps
not merely for its small
a pecuniary recompense
but without any such so
much as the smallest recompense at all
in that shape.

W

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We do not pray that
the the quantity in which
in that certain context
is produced or withheld
should be the measure
of the retribution allotted
in this.

For though we do not
see why in France among men
of cultivated minds
generosity or
and moderation in desires
should be more
prevalent than in
the country which has
for its so stiled representative
the Minister
of your Honourable House
yet do we see what
it is impossible
to see that said is the fact

In relation to this subject
labours therefore in turning ones mind
before and thoughts from all but
a small part of
what is desirable we
confirm that to that
which in our humble
judgement is not impossible:
to wit that
on condition of paying
some number of times
the necessary and sufficient
price for it we may
be admitted to a
portion of the benefits it
be not desired by judicature,
though so incontestably
required to be imparted by
prescribed by Justice.

Identifier: | JB/081/002/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 81.
Date_1	1826-07-09	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	081	Main Headings	petition for justice
Folio number	002	Info in main headings field	london petition for judicial reform and against eldon
Image	002	Titles
Category	rudiments sheet (brouillon)	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f3 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1824
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1824
Notes public		ID Number	25789
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