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1826 July 9
London Petition for Judicial Reform and against Eldon 4

With this example
before us we should
not be surprized if
under the guidance of
the Code of laws which
the French people are
so happy in the possession
of Judges in such adequate numbers are content
to use those which have
for a retribute
so indirect not to say
minute, they were would be
if the experiment was
made to bestow
the same dignified
labour without pecuniary
recompense to any amount
in any shape.

Were we even persuaded
of this, the example
of one say imposed
Judges serving
as such under the name
of Magistrates would
suffice to compel
such persuasion from
the imputation of extravagance.

We are at the
same time of the

We are assured at the
same time and are prepared
to prove that
on the part of these French
Judges Magistrates the field of judicature
of judicial competency — is at the same
time much more extensive
than that of an
just mentioned English
one.

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We are aware on
the other hand of the inestimable
advantage of
having to act under a
Code of real law determined
in every word
of it instead of in comparison with a fictitious
Code or body of law
fictitious in the
most extensive part of
it purely fictitious the
Judge not having it in
his power to read aloud
as required at his hand
but left to conjecture
what after the
act is done by him
will be thought of the
propriety of it by he
knows not who.

Steering his course is
the man whose
lot is in his hands are have been
reduced to stones thrown
on the surface of a
boundless ocean which
by those also ought
to supply it the use
of the only appropriate
compass is denied.

We are aware and
duly sensible
what that whole or entire
law and receives exacts the
force of law is left
to be reached by imaginative
wandering through
many hundreds of orders
not accessible but at
an expence of hundred
of pounds how much
greater than in France a country where the whole of a Judge
rule of action is contained
in an 8vo volume purchasable
at the price of
a few shillings.

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Whatsoever be the number
of persons who in
that country are able
as well as willing to
give up their whole
time for next to no
pecuniary recompense
we can and doubt
entertain as do we
believe that to the Your Honourable
House will entertain it will be matter of
no doubt that in
England there are men
in still greater number
by whom the same
utility is professed.

For these added to
other reasons we neither
expect nor desire that
the retribution here attached
for judicial service
should be
to the appointed
retribution should
be exposed from that which
is made has place in France.

All we contend for
is that when we pray
for Judges in adequate
number each remunerated
by pecuniary
enrichment in not much
more than adequate
quantity, we may
not be and suprized
by the observation
that no person who
seems fit to serve would
with the the
of and indignation
receive the proposal
of serving for such
a price.

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We are duly sensible
and ready to articulate
that no person who
could get so
as now got would consent
to serve at a less
price if he were offered
that in withholding such
consent he could receive
such greater
price.

We are sensible that
whosoever were agreed
of receiving the greater
would refuse the less
But if the present price
paid was ten times
as great as they are
we can not in any
such certainty say
reason for being afforded
that of so
power no greater than
a taste of what so
had at present
was to be hired
this of the previous
price would no find
acceptance at the hand
of person at least as
competent fit for the
duty as those by whom
the present price was
received.

Wealth
has been heaped upon
— not only
for the sake of the
engagement, but
for the sake of the recent
advantage
yielded produced by the
which the display of it
begat. But the cloud
is now dissipated: the
talisman is broken. We have been that when the direct rule of : has in fact had too that the pretended direct rule is the reverse of the real: the less a man is
the easier it is to control him: the more
the more difficult.

Identifier: | JB/081/002/003 "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	003	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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